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Nov 24, 2023 14:59
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Betjeman posted:I work for a mid sized tech company, 300 odd employees in the UK and Ireland, they got rid of 50% of their office space during covid and are currently negotiating reducing even further, I go into the office twice a year Almost exactly the same here, just it's UK/US/Romania/India. I went to my office for the first time in a year on Wednesday and there were about 10 of the ~150 UK staff present. What surprised me was none of them were junior people like first line support or whatever. They're saving money on office footprint having to increase, they're keeping employees happy, and they're massively broadening their talent catchment area. Now I think only one person in our team of 6 lives within commuting distance, everyone else is at least 2 hours away in other cities. I would not like home working if I had to be in a room with someone else, my wife included. Instead the only distraction I have to put up with is my dog's farts. PriorMarcus posted:What are some good working from home jobs? It's a very broad question and my flippant answer is anything where you don't have to physically be present. Beyond that it's more of a company culture thing with a trend where computer-related jobs may offer it more frequently.
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Nov 24, 2023 15:01
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I'm trying to accommodate the work thing by going in 2 days a week, running in and out so I get my workouts done, and only going in for a couple of hours a day (so from like lunchtime until I finish my afternoon calls). Apparently this is acceptable to the overlords so we'll see how long I can keep that up
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Nov 24, 2023 15:02
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Oh, we used to be 1000 back in the 2010s, hot swapping seats and variable shifts. All in one building. Now its 150 of us, only about 30 do the office thing. So yeah, they are looking to lease off the rest of it as its just big old empty rooms right now.
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Nov 24, 2023 15:05
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:I went to my office for the first time in a year on Wednesday and there were about 10 of the ~150 UK staff present. What surprised me was none of them were junior people like first line support or whatever. They're saving money on office footprint having to increase, they're keeping employees happy, and they're massively broadening their talent catchment area. Now I think only one person in our team of 6 lives within commuting distance, everyone else is at least 2 hours away in other cities. Same again, the regular office-goers are people whose home situation makes it easier to be there, and upper management. They did a survey early in 2022, polling people's interest in returning to the office, and got a resounding "no".
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Nov 24, 2023 15:11
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keep punching joe posted:If you have any skills wrangling data and doing tedious meetings with business school wanks then you can get a good gig in MI and resource planning. Which you can spin out into something better paid if you have any SQL / Power Query. Loads of remote work in the corporate sector doing background support stuff. I'm in MI and struggling to branch out at the moment. I'm very good at Excel and have a bit of VBA, a bit of SQL, a bit of Power Bi, enough to get along with all that stuff but not really enough to specialise in, which is where the better money seems to be! Like, I can write queries to pull reporting data out of SQL server but I don't have the years of experience that most places seem to want.
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Nov 24, 2023 15:23
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I gave up a WFH and took a paycut to stop being on call 24/7. I even turned down another job for the same pay because it was WFH but required quarterly trips across the country and I CBA.
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Nov 24, 2023 15:26
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Pistol_Pete posted:Like, I can write queries to pull reporting data out of SQL server but I don't have the years of experience that most places seem to want. Just lie.
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Nov 24, 2023 15:27
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Tesseraction posted:I gave up a WFH and took a paycut to stop being on call 24/7. I even turned down another job for the same pay because it was WFH but required quarterly trips across the country and I CBA. What was your on call schedule like? I do about 1 week per month, but they pay extra for it, and then overtime if I have to actually pick up the phone
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Nov 24, 2023 15:39
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My mum gets this National Catholic Reporter "magazine" in her email (she's not catholic) and I just noticed this article which some of you might be interested in: https://www.ncronline.org/vatican/vatican-news/group-trans-women-pope-and-his-message-inclusivity-are-welcome-change quote:For this group of trans women, the pope and his message of inclusivity are a welcome change
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Nov 24, 2023 15:42
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https://twitter.com/DachshundColin/status/1728046746138222681 I mean, loving hell
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Nov 24, 2023 15:54
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kecske posted:I'm the one guy who doesnt have an office job No I also don't and it continues to be baffling how many people seem to.
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Nov 24, 2023 15:55
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sebzilla posted:https://twitter.com/DachshundColin/status/1728046746138222681 David Mitchell: We used to make steel!
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Nov 24, 2023 15:57
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sebzilla posted:https://twitter.com/DachshundColin/status/1728046746138222681 Amazing stuff
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Nov 24, 2023 15:59
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Pistol_Pete posted:I'm in MI and struggling to branch out at the moment. I'm very good at Excel and have a bit of VBA, a bit of SQL, a bit of Power Bi, enough to get along with all that stuff but not really enough to specialise in, which is where the better money seems to be! Hey you’re me! Work for a university and coast until you can’t bear it anymore 
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Nov 24, 2023 16:01
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sebzilla posted:https://twitter.com/DachshundColin/status/1728046746138222681 Idiocracy levels of proudness about it too.
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Nov 24, 2023 16:05
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Looking forward to 'my father was a tool maker' showing us be can use a hammer properly
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Nov 24, 2023 16:08
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PriorMarcus posted:Just lie. Is that what I've been doing wrong?? I've heard that if you go to the doctor's and they ask how much pain you're in on a scale of 1-10, you have to lie about it because everyone else does and if you say 7, they'll assume it's really a 3 and send you away with a pack of Aspirin. Am I loving myself over by telling the truth on my CV 
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Nov 24, 2023 16:10
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DreddyMatt posted:What was your on call schedule like? 24/7/365 even on holiday I could get pings Was starting to live in fear of hearing my phone go off because it was either going to be trivial pebcak or colossal failure that would require hours of intervention and hauling arse to Cambridge. And the odds of it being the first or second were 50-50.
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Nov 24, 2023 16:10
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sebzilla posted:https://twitter.com/DachshundColin/status/1728046746138222681 Wtaf This is way more shocking than not knowing the price of bread or whatever. Freakish
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Nov 24, 2023 16:14
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Pistol_Pete posted:I've heard that if you go to the doctor's and they ask how much pain you're in on a scale of 1-10, you have to lie about it because everyone else does and if you say 7, they'll assume it's really a 3 and send you away with a pack of Aspirin. Having once had to lie on infected post-operation wounds for four weeks, my definition of "10" is a lot more accurate than most.
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Nov 24, 2023 16:15
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Pistol_Pete posted:Is that what I've been doing wrong?? Currently waiting on a course application that's live or die on them caring about about my actual relevant professional experience and references, and not on my lovely 20 year old transcript. I wonder how many people doctor those.
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Nov 24, 2023 16:16
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Pistol_Pete posted:Is that what I've been doing wrong?? The chances are you're sending a CV to a robot which itself has been instructed by HR automatically adding extra years onto the actual requirements for the job. Job applications are so dysfunctional that I have no idea how people get jobs. I've only ever managed to get them through entirely bypassing the normal application process.
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Nov 24, 2023 16:19
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sebzilla posted:https://twitter.com/DachshundColin/status/1728046746138222681
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Nov 24, 2023 16:20
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My favourite pain scale one was when Bernie had a heart attack in 2019 or 2020 and the paramedic asked how much pain he was in on a scale from one to ten and Sanders just instantly replied "That's a bullshit question. I just had a heart attack."
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Nov 24, 2023 16:20
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Tesseraction posted:24/7/365 even on holiday I could get pings gently caress that noise
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Nov 24, 2023 16:21
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Yes, so now I make less money but walk more often and am back to interacting with people I otherwise wouldn't. Even bumped into an old uni classmate which was a shock as this is nowhere near said uni.
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Nov 24, 2023 16:26
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I sometimes get jealous of some of the senior people at our company, but then I see them jumping into teams messages at stupid o'clock, and I know for a fact they're always contactable by phone if poo poo goes down. Then I feel pretty good at logging off at 5.30 no matter what
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Nov 24, 2023 16:30
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Pistol_Pete posted:Is that what I've been doing wrong?? Well, how are they going to know? If they call for references 99 times out of 100 (in a corporate setting) they're going to be calling someone in HR who will confirm the dates you've been employed and (maybe) whether or not you'd be allowed back. They're unlikely to be ringing your actual line manager and asking when you were working on Project X did you really lead the team to deliver it's targets on time or that you've completed 100 hours of SQL training?
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Nov 24, 2023 16:31
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The first tip to getting the good pain drugs is to be male. My wife has endometriosis and basically got told to deal with it. I sought some physio for mild back pain and got sent away with 100 codeine. And no physio.
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Nov 24, 2023 16:34
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Apropos I got reminded of this TF animation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g28IyE-4Zi8
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Nov 24, 2023 16:37
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Seems Sunak was actually asked to hit it like that? https://x.com/ionewells/status/1728072528906604766?s=46&t=ARI_L-v32Oind1-d9B3a3Q Craftspeople just do weird poo poo with hammers, I guess.
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Nov 24, 2023 17:02
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we used to be a real country https://news.sky.com/story/pilot-mi...=snt-sf-twitter
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Nov 24, 2023 17:02
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sebzilla posted:https://twitter.com/DachshundColin/status/1728046746138222681 Just realized why he's doing this. Prob his only experience with hammers ever is opening expensive seafood with. Edit: Ah gently caress. happyhippy fucked around with this message at 17:17 on Nov 24, 2023 |
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Nov 24, 2023 17:03
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Darth Walrus posted:Seems Sunak was actually asked to hit it like that? yeah https://twitter.com/PolitlcsUK/status/1728074997095170079 the very solid journos have investigated it and it was actually someone else who put that poo poo in Rishi's pants
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Nov 24, 2023 17:04
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I would definitely tell the prime minister to use a hammer like an idiot just to make him look like a pillock.
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Nov 24, 2023 17:07
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Regardless of whether he was actually doing it properly, it is terrible optics, and that's all that counts
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Nov 24, 2023 17:12
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Still poo poo, she's obviously told him to do that to prevent him from putting a ding in the face of the hammer, since if it's meant for hammering out precious metals any imprefections on the hammer will transfer on to your silver. Just use a different hammer, you're a billionare.
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Nov 24, 2023 17:16
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The worker obviously sabotaged Rishi and must be punished by King's law.
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Nov 24, 2023 17:18
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:The first tip to getting the good pain drugs is to be male. Being male isn’t a guarantee apparently. My brother recently had heart valve replacement surgery and was only given paracetamol for the first two days.
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Nov 24, 2023 17:35
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