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Awkward Davies posted:100 miles without accounting for traffic also. Yeah the only thing that makes my 40 mile commute manageable is that it's only 2 days a week I start at 5 in the morning. So for as much as it sucks to get up that early, I have a straight unimpeded shot to work, about 45 minutes. My trip home on the other hand, ohhhhhhh boy. If I have to pick the kids up from daycare then I'm looking at about 2 hours. Otherwise it's about an hour and a half at best, but often longer.
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Vasudus posted:I don't commute anymore. My first gig was a 25 mile commute each way at full highway speed. It was not really a big deal but I decided early that that amount of time was about the max I was willing to do barring desperation, and from that point made "short commute" a high priority item in my job searches. My next two jobs were both walking commutes, meaning I paid the price in significantly higher rent. I could have lived in one of the surrounding cities and taken the light rail in, a lot of people do that and our public transit system up here is one of the more functional ones, but man I have no regrets about how I prioritized. Walking to work, especially in view of the highway that's just jammed up like a parking lot every morning, is so nice. At this point a company would have to make my eyes pop out of my head with their offer if they wanted me to significantly compromise that standard. knox_harrington posted:I have a 70km commute each way, opposite direction to the traffic, I sit in my nice car and listen to a podcast for 40 minutes. The Swiss suck at driving but even dealing with the incompetence is no big deal. Yeah this is very similar to my first gig. To me there's a world of difference between the same amount of time in rush hour traffic and out of it; I feel like I could do this amount of time against traffic, but the same time with it would make me blow a gasket.
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Anonymous Robot posted:Maybe I’m biased living in the Boston area, but the amount of stress and psychological damage incurred by requiring a commute probably shaves a year or two off of your employees’ lifespans, before even considering the more tangible risks. In Boston the effect is doubled I think, Its had me start looking for remote or hybrid jobs on the latest job hunt.
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I used to drive from Boston out in to the suburbs, which was a reverse commute but still not ideal, especially coming back in to town in the evening. Now I have a great commute that is a 1 mile walk.
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knox_harrington posted:I have a 70km commute each way, opposite direction to the traffic, I sit in my nice car and listen to a podcast for 40 minutes. The Swiss suck at driving but even dealing with the incompetence is no big deal.
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Boris Galerkin posted:This is an actual real LinkedIn post that I found on Reddit with the name unredacted: Something something vendor lock-in
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Boris Galerkin posted:This is an actual real LinkedIn post that I found on Reddit with the name unredacted: Blubbery 2 Buxom sales
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:Please leave Corporate Megathread: I think you should leave
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I like the commuting competition. I have to commute 15000km, but I guess it's not so bad as it's covered by the company and I get to spend a week watching movies each way. Turns out Antarctica is a long way away. If I had to do it everyday I probably wouldn't get much work done.
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freddiestarfish posted:I like the commuting competition. Is this a real post? Going to Antarctica to work is on my bucket list. Do you have any writeups of how you did it and what advice you would give to someone else wanting to go? Like what are the career paths?
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Mantle posted:Is this a real post? Going to Antarctica to work is on my bucket list. Do you have any writeups of how you did it and what advice you would give to someone else wanting to go? Like what are the career paths? I'm on a fishing boat, so grab a rod and hope you don't get seasick. E. More seriously, if you're not into boat or mechanical stuff then I won't be much help.
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The Air Force had an Antarctica ribbon but the only way to get it was to be in the NY air guard and get on the plane that went there periodically
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Discendo Vox posted:Corporate Megathread: I think you should leave Mods??? And yes I did, boss and I had a good chat and hugged it out.
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Tnuctip posted:Mods??? If the crypto day trader hugged you, check your pockets. And make sure he hasn't installed a miner on your phone.
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Mantle posted:Is this a real post? Going to Antarctica to work is on my bucket list. Do you have any writeups of how you did it and what advice you would give to someone else wanting to go? Like what are the career paths? A coworker of mine did a stent in Antarctica as an instrumentation engineer. The last flight out got canceled due to weather and he had to spend the winter there. When he got back he found his wife had taken everything from their apartment and left and also that he couldn't sleep because even the smallest noise bothered him now. Also says he loved the trip.
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I'm doing my annual compliance trainings. All new this year is the old required audio bits are now videos, where they have an actor awkwardly stand there and poorly lipsync the words. Not only do the voices not even remotely match the actors, they're using different actors for the same voice between modules lmao
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I just took a security training that was a 20 minute fully produced story of a hacking attempt from the perspective of the hackers and our company's internal security staff shot like an ersatz episode of NCIS. Someone burnt a ton of money and on what could have been conveyed in a 4-slide deck. It was kinda surreal. And ended with "the next episode of what happens after the hack will be out soon".
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re: Antarctica -- here's a blog of a computer janitor who was deployed there for more than a year: https://brr.fyi/ Fairly informative and entertaining imo.
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Kevin Mitnick's biggest scam was getting people to pay him to lazily and hazily explain bog standard security attacks that are 20 years old in compliance videos.
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Motronic posted:I just took a security training that was a 20 minute fully produced story of a hacking attempt from the perspective of the hackers and our company's internal security staff shot like an ersatz episode of NCIS. Someone burnt a ton of money and on what could have been conveyed in a 4-slide deck. It was kinda surreal. I kind of love the idea of this at least
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Motronic posted:I just took a security training that was a 20 minute fully produced story of a hacking attempt from the perspective of the hackers and our company's internal security staff shot like an ersatz episode of NCIS. Someone burnt a ton of money and on what could have been conveyed in a 4-slide deck. It was kinda surreal. this seems way better than normal security training at least
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Lockback posted:Kevin Mitnick's biggest scam was getting people to pay him to lazily and hazily explain bog standard security attacks that are 20 years old in compliance videos. No more Free Kevin
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Lockback posted:Kevin Mitnick's biggest scam was getting people to pay him to lazily and hazily explain bog standard security attacks that are 20 years old in compliance videos.
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Nah. Social engineering has always been the most effective way of gaining access to secure places and computer systems
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A lot of the time that he was screaming at hackers to do it for him.
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Renegret posted:Not only do the voices not even remotely match the actors, they're using different actors for the same voice between modules lmao Elder Scrolls: Oblivion: Training Video
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The junk collector posted:A coworker of mine did a stent in Antarctica as an instrumentation engineer. The last flight out got canceled due to weather and he had to spend the winter there. When he got back he found his wife had taken everything from their apartment and left and also that he couldn't sleep because even the smallest noise bothered him now. Also says he loved the trip. That story was quite an emotional ride. I’m also so sorry I can’t stop myself, but the word is stint which you may already know.
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Inner Light posted:That story was quite an emotional ride. He could be moonlighting as a surgeon, you don’t know.
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Awkward Davies posted:He could be moonlighting as a surgeon, you don’t know.  A surgeon in Antarctica once operated on himself! Leo Rogozov had an appendicitis and there was no one else so he cut it out himself. There are photos if you want to Google it.
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Motronic posted:I just took a security training that was a 20 minute fully produced story of a hacking attempt from the perspective of the hackers and our company's internal security staff shot like an ersatz episode of NCIS. Someone burnt a ton of money and on what could have been conveyed in a 4-slide deck. It was kinda surreal. 100% chance that whoever approved this looked at it more than the 4 slide deck, in both relative and absolute relation.
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First fun of the day: Coming in and being told I have to join a contingency planning meeting. Ends up, our manufacturing-area cleaning staff might be going on strike next week. They're part of the SEIU, who are voting on a strike. I ask the obvious question from my perspective: "We have a side-letter with the SEIU that they'll maintain our GMP (that's the regulated manufacturing stuff) cleaning staff operating even in a strike, because of the legal aspects. Why are they striking too?" Answer was, of course: "The SEIU says they don't plan to honor that agreement. Count on your cleaners being gone starting next week. How many of your operators are trained on the cleaning process?" The answer is zero. It's why we pay a cleaning group; cleaning the labs takes about 90 man-hours per week. So, that was fun. More power to them for striking (I'm never going to hold that against the workers), but I do kind of wonder what the point of an individual function agreement is if the signed agreement is worth approximately the same as toilet paper. Next fun: I am assigned to a document revision team, and attended the first meeting for overhauling this document. The motherfuckers in charge assigned TWENTY PEOPLE to the team, from across the organization. I had my redlines done in like 3 minutes before the meeting, and we didn't even get through the two pages in the two-hour-long meeting with all the idiots taking every opportunity to babble into their microphones. Just... gently caress. Goddamn.
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Sundae posted:First fun of the day: Coming in and being told I have to join a contingency planning meeting. Ends up, our manufacturing-area cleaning staff might be going on strike next week. They're part of the SEIU, who are voting on a strike. I ask the obvious question from my perspective: "We have a side-letter with the SEIU that they'll maintain our GMP (that's the regulated manufacturing stuff) cleaning staff operating even in a strike, because of the legal aspects. Why are they striking too?" My uneducated guess is that the side letter is predicated on some additional conditions that aren't being met, and so now management gets to have a shocked Pikachu face moment. quote:Next fun: I am assigned to a document revision team, and attended the first meeting for overhauling this document. The motherfuckers in charge assigned TWENTY PEOPLE to the team, from across the organization. I had my redlines done in like 3 minutes before the meeting, and we didn't even get through the two pages in the two-hour-long meeting with all the idiots taking every opportunity to babble into their microphones. 
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Volmarias posted:My uneducated guess is that the side letter is predicated on some additional conditions that aren't being met, and so now management gets to have a shocked Pikachu face moment. Yeah that's probably accurate. I'm curious to find out what we didn't do (or what their contract-firm managers didn't do). Always a chance that we're hosed-once-removed and it's actually a dispute with their primary employer.
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Sundae posted:Yeah that's probably accurate. I'm curious to find out what we didn't do (or what their contract-firm managers didn't do). Always a chance that we're hosed-once-removed and it's actually a dispute with their primary employer. I prefer "grandfucked" for stuff like this. It expresses the likely situation better.
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I'm interviewing today, can someone give me some interview questions that might actually give the candidate an opportunity to show their value, other than the poo poo ones I got from hr. Please?!
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CancerCakes posted:I'm interviewing today, can someone give me some interview questions that might actually give the candidate an opportunity to show their value, other than the poo poo ones I got from hr. Please?! No. Now tell me about a time when you had a disagreement with a coworker.
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