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I was talking to a co-worker (we are in the bay yearea but have none of the perks other companies offer other than high pay) who was bitching about the lack of free poo poo. I told him he should be lucky we even offer a shuttle. I came from the east coast where you'd get laughed the gently caress out of the state if you worked at a large corp there (like Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac, Northrup Grumman, etc) and complained about the lack of a shuttle. Some day those free shuttles will go away because investors will start questioning why google needs to subsidize 20/30 yo's living in the city lifestyles at the expense of their dividend and MAN I can't wait to read that bitchin at Google+
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we encountered this when we moved here. Only a handful of places would take our dog (Chow Chow/GSD mix). Even places that said 'we accept dogs' wouldn't take him because of breed (and he's 51lbs). We eventually found a complex. But those complexes are cuh-razy with the rent increases. Like, 14% a year (from $1,900 when we moved in to $2,600 when we moved out 2.5 years later). I wrote a script for CL that would search for places that allowed pets, and then eliminated all the lovely complexes in the area that are always advertising on CL and we got this kickass townhouse where the landlord was like 'lemme meet that dog' and 'ok he looks cool' and we don't pay any extra or nothing. He *was* actually trained by my wife at the local humaine society to be a support dog for the local hospital program they have Proof: my son giving him blocks to eat 
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Citizen Tayne posted:Hey guys, thanks for the security deposit chat, it reminded me to check Pennsylvania law and it turns out that my landlord is holding more of my money than he's allowed to hold. nice
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I work in an office where someone complained that someone elses perfume was bothering her. I can't even imagine what vitriol dogs would bring (from cat people). 'Bloo bloo, Jim can bring his dog but I can't bring any of my 4 cats'
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MALE SHOEGAZE posted:some people really wear offensive amounts of perfume quote:Olfactory fatigue, also known as odor fatigue or olfactory adaptation, is the temporary, normal inability to distinguish a particular odor after a prolonged exposure to that airborne compound.[1] For example, when entering a restaurant initially the odor of food is often perceived as being very strong, but after time the awareness of the odor normally fades to the point where the smell is not perceptible or is much weaker. After leaving the area of high odor, the sensitivity is restored with time. Perfume counters will often have containers of coffee beans which tend to "reset" olfaction. Anosmia is the permanent loss of the sense of smell, and is different from olfactory fatigue. It's also why my smelly dog doesn't stink to me
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I dunno, i think it sounds like a great idea. I don't have to hear them talking about how disruptive they are and how smart they are when trying to eat lunch or get a coffee. Also, the reason you have no common social place to meet up in SV is because SV is a commercial/subburban poo poo hole that involves driving ANYWHERE and nerds are both asocial and lazy.
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waddup ma t-words also, Clifford Stoll was proto-yospos. If YOSPOS had someone be the first, its him. poo poo, after the cuckoos egg he wrote a whole book (Silicon Snake Oil) basically telling everyone how lovely the internet was and to just go outside. But not like an 'I don't get how this works' thing. He was actually immersed in the internet, the culture at the time in 'cyberspace (just basically The Well)' and all that. There's a whole chapter talking about how 'Colossal Cave Adventure' was a colossal waste of time and that nerds should be spelunking for real. my english teacher made me read that for extra credit cause I finished our assigned book in a weekend (it was enders game, that was a the first 'good' assigned book i'd ever read) and I was all 'the internet is the future' and basically on my way to full internet evangelist. I hated the book at the time and disagreed with it until about halfway through when teenage me was like 'hey, YA! Why am I causing netsplits and looking for banks on datapac all the time when I could be going to parties my friends are throwing and drinking/smoking/skiing/biking'. What I'm saying is thanks Stoll for being a cool proto-yospos poster.
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vapid cutlery posted:i was not constructed to withstand heat fatty
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Maluco Marinero posted:1000x Programmer! here's what I don't get. If they are so good, why do they have to be here? I can understand if they're amazing car designers, they gotta work with those life sized clay models in the office. Or maybe even the worlds best sales guys (cause they gotta be on site), maybe even great management. But when you're hiring developers why do they need to be in your drat office? If india has such great programmers, open up an office there to hire your 1000 developers and keep immigration for one-offs. I will say, I often get off the 'developers' floor here at 'large financial firm' in the bay area and it's like stepping off the plane in Bangalore. Those guys are paid poo poo. The average for a software developer is ₹400,000. That's $6,600 a year and firms here (cause they're mostly contractors) pay them poo poo. It's all about makin the shittiest software for the cheapest dollar.
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I have  Big 4 experience so I get recruiters hitting me up all the time from the other Big 4 / Smaller firmsI usually reply with a template email that goes: StupidEmail posted:Hey! Thanks for the interest in my resume and my skills background. I looked at the profile* and it looks like I'd be a perfect match. Before we go too far I'd like to let you know that I have some expectations with this role being offered: So far only one has bitten but then they just ignored what I asked for and made a seriously low-ball offer that I turned down out of principle. * I haven't even looked at that stupid link you sent me. ** Not even close but you ask for a lot and see what you can get
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well, I have started including Wu Tang lyrics in my hacking scripts as easter eggs/hidden because I'm olds and like both Wu Tang and lovely kung fu movies.
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ADINSX posted:I used to write software for the Navy as a contractor (well, sub contractor). While out at FNMOC I attended the XO's briefing, sort of on a lark none of it really mattered to me but I was curious how they were using our software (poorly). otherwise known as a 'weather girl' I worked for a few tv networks fresh outta school. Sometimes the internet would fail and I'd have a hysterical weather girl yelling at me to get the internet working because she wouldn't be able to do the weather without it. Turns out they just look it up from theweatherchannel.ca and tell the chyron dude what to put where.
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Uber is a lovely company. Lyft on the other hand, they're ok.
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Wild EEPROM posted:I know the perfect guy to post in this thread. Whaaaaaaaaaaat? That's a shameful salary.
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what the poo poo? My company doesn't offer a free daycare.
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Jonny 290 posted:As the magic wizard beardos that every bank keeps close to their chests die off, so will COBOL a bit. is this you?  In 1991, technology writer Alsop wrote, “I predict that the last mainframe will be unplugged on 15 March 1996. In 2002, he admitted he was wrong." This is never going away:  and I'm making loving bank because of it, gently caress yeah
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daft punk railroad posted:i've said it before but back during my brief stint as a mainframe code janitor i kind of developed a genuine affinity for the ISPF editor boy are you in luck, they made one for windows: 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FYTc55nGEI take it over to GBS or something. all your american schools are poo poo anyway, designed to get idiots to way overpay for school. Enjoy your crippling debt for life while bragging you went to <<for profit school>>
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prefect posted:[moderate famous person] went to [school no one cares about but you]
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qirex posted:patent holding company RPX Corp. bought the company’s patents; and thats the death of anyone, ever, trying it again even if they changed the rules.
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:cities can be pretty good, environmentally. high population densities reduce emissions Lol. "Filling in all those swamps with in fill and putting up buildings full of lead paint is quite environmentally sound because..."
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Soricidus posted:we have a neat thing in my city, it's like uber but for taxis But then I'd be driven by a minority
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Jonny 290 posted:hipster rv parks. ironic dive bar on the corner, whole foods within walking distance. fast internet, laundry service, dispensary down the street. no joke, this would work in Austin. Have an 'community review board' like they have for co-ops so you have to interview before you can park your R.V. there (only the hipsters are allowed, not for real poors). also, all my Chinese friends are super racists, even to other chinese but especially to black people. Thanks US media!
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eschaton posted:on the other end of the Peninsula (Campbell) we have NIMBY idiots freaking out about 4+ story apartment buildings and plans for building 900 new housing units through 2020 just ruining their beautiful suburbia because "they didn't want to live in the city." Foster City is struggling with this. My friends bitch about the cost of a house there (lol 1.2 million for a two bedroom townhouse) but because the schools are so great here, and there was some undeveloped land everyone is building dense as gently caress housing (gotta get top dolla). So everyone is bitching because the schools are overcrowded because the only reason THEY bought was because the schools were good and their kids are getting bused out to shittier schools. Also, my wife was REALLY keen on buying a house on the penisula until we watched the only season of Holmes on Homes on netflix. Now she looks at the year the house was built and she goes 'what the gently caress, there's no way that home from 1943, asking 850,000, has anything good left, unless they gutted it but they're not going to sell to someone who asks to see permits'. Friend of mine just pulled out of a place near walnut creek because the inspector found all kinds of problems with the 1950s house plumbing and asbestos in the crawlspace, etc. They found another house on the same street, open house this past sunday, they toured on teusday, their agent told them the house already had three offers, one was an as-is offer (no inspection, no nothing) and another was $100,000 over asking price. We loving need zorin to cause that superquake + flooding + another dotbomb so I can afford a place for my family.
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atomicthumbs posted:You can eliminate steps 5-7 by using their scanned mail to steal their identities and underpay people in India to telecommute and make it seem like they never died and are simply very happy in their new apartment. Use the remaining amounts in their bank accounts to fund research on expert systems to accomplish this purpose, and eventually you will have autonomous AI collective highrise tombs pretending to be immortal and very satisfied tech bros this sounds like a PKD novel
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rjmccall posted:the as-is and cash-offers buying culture seems to be everywhere within thirty minutes of the south bay. thankfully when we were looking it hadn't gotten to SF yet. tactically low asking prices were/are the norm, so we still paid about $my_parents_house over the asking price (exactly matching another offer) and didn't have a ton of negotiating leverage, but the idea of buying a house as-is is just ridiculous to me. i guess worst case you estimate the cost of rebuilding from scratch and make a risk/reward judgment on that Holmes show, one of the houses basically had $150,000 worth of work done do it just to bring it up to code. Then you see places like Hoodwinked House. Now my wife only want to buy a place built within the last ten years but LOL I don't have $200,000 cash for a down payment on a house. prolly gonna rent for lyfe until we get fed up and move to concord or convince work to let me move to LA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iILCSKkPxfM Optimus_Rhyme fucked around with this message at 06:56 on Mar 21, 2015 |
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Elder Postsman posted:ftl is a really great game Truth
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qirex posted:remember these guys? basically, never hire Microsoft execs to do anything at your company but ESPECIALLY if they worked at EA (just ask Visa how thats going) edit: dang 
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Pinterest Mom posted:uber has disrupted the employee of the week program lol "driver partners" gotta keep that legal distinction
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As a Millennial I posted:they must have passed some law in the past few years because this poo poo is all over the pittsburgh suburbs, and here's one in Reading PA http://www.kunstler.com/eyesore_201111.html wtf america, why don't you have sidewalks ANYWHERE? Oh, cause you're fat and gross and don't walk anywhere
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Main Paineframe posted:if youre building a community away from the city for the sole purpose of not having to see poors except when you drive to your job in the city, sidewalks seem like one of those money-saving corners you can cut because everyone living there is expected to have a car anyway I guess dog owners just walk on the street and where are you supposed to stroll with your child? edit: LOL eat poo poo poors:   
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Enderzero posted:you drive to the mall and you stroll there like a good suburbanite. no not that mall, that one is the ethnic mall now well, I guess people who don't need no dang sidewalks are the same type who just let their dog out in their backyard for 'excercise'. Look at this amazing "community": https://www.google.com/maps/@42.985242,-78.691098,3a,75y,243.76h,84.77t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sGJImqJqeUk2Rqy54HO_KOA!2e0
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carry on then posted:lol found their website quote:Architecture Report – Craig Walling in Ed Russell’s absence presented a room addition submitted by never buy a home with an HOA. Townhouse, maybe, house, never.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FYTc55nGEI anyway, silicon valley was great and you should be discussing that, or the other poo poo going on in the valley and not trains you spergs.
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Nintendo Kid posted:max zorin was right
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Beast of Bourbon posted:not really clock in per se but you know what I mean. lol if you didn't just make poo poo up on time sheets: 48.6 hours on client A 2.4 hours "training" or when you're a manager and 'worked from home most of the week' 20 hours client A 12 hours client B 4 hours 'team building' 8 hours 'required CPE' eitherway the reality was always: 32 hours on SomethingAwful forums 8 hours making a spreadsheet 30 minutes on timesheet
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Lamont Cranston posted:yospos counts as professional development if someone gets YOSPOS certified as CISSP cpes I'll be set 4 lyfe.
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when working with HR be honest about your salary but tell them what you expect as a salary range, using your absolute, awesome, gently caress you got mine, money as the bottom of that range. If they give you some bullshit about how 'oh well we have a policy we can only do 20%' tell them you're not interested in the role then and thank them for their time then, cause that's made up bullshit. also, if HR comes back and makes an offer too low, just push back. If they keep pushing it ask for a call with HR and the hiring manager. At large enterprises HR is usually doing poo poo on their own and the actual hiring manager has no clue they might lose you as a candidate because you wanted $5,000 more a year. we had people here talk to us later tell us that HR wouldn't give them $3,000 more a year because the title of the job in the job description had a salary range cap. We were never told and were told that the guy wanted way more money than the position offered. To change the title in the job desc woulda taken two seconds: Software Engineer Optimus_Rhyme fucked around with this message at 23:31 on Apr 23, 2015 |
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qirex posted:hiring processes are frequently not sane HR's job is to screen candidates and save the company money They get a salary range and are told to keep it low, so they get told "the range is 100,000 to 115,000'. So they offer 100,000, and *MIGHT* be nice and offer 105,000. They generally get a 15% range they can play in, but their job is to gently caress you on salary. Also, salary is only one thing, you should look at total compensation. HR is like a car dealer "ok, we'll give you that 115,000 you wanted but we had to lower your bonus target from 10 to 5%" or other poo poo like that. You need to know what your total compensation is from salary, stock options, bonus targets, healthcare/dental and argue knowing exactly what you make. When I got this job we were going to have to be on COBRA for a month. As a family it was going to be about $2,500 for the month. So I asked for a $3,500 signing bonus to cover that. HR hummed and hawwed and I told them to talk to the hiring manager. Then I get a call later that day saying they spoke with the hiring manager and wanted to let me know that I had 60 days to file for cobra payments and that I might not even need to pay it. To which I replied that I have a 3 year old and my wife had had cancer. She then told me the signing bonus was approved for $3,500. See, she was trying to get me to say 'oh maybe I won't need the money' before telling me whether or not the signing bonus was approved. Always know that HR is only looking out for the company and not you.
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