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Cake day: October 23rd, 2023

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  • Beyond the title. The list of responsibilities needs to match the salary.

    The number of companies that mix and match responsibilities from different skillsets and expect below market rates is mind boggling.

    I started applying to jobs outside my skillset. If I matched 40% of the requirements and tailored my resume to the posting I got better matches.

    Landed a step down remote gig. Never stopped job hunting. Found a solid step up 6 months later. Jumped ship. I still kept shopping for a new gig. Stayed because they promoted me 3 times in a years.

    At will employment. That means they can drop you when they want but you can also leave when you want.


  • When I was hunting for a job after being furloughed a year into COVID I was getting lots of callbacks for interviews.

    After doing a few interviews and waiting until the job offer for compensation I got sick of all the clearly delusional people expecting a sysadmin to work for tier 1 support pay.

    I switched gears. First question I asked to each callback was the salary range. I wasn’t going to waste my time.

    It saved me loads of time on bullshit positions and the “wear all these hats” postings with skewed pay.

    I accidentally laughed and then apologized to one poor recruiter when she told me it was $15/hr.

    I ended up at a place about $10k/year less than my last job but it was 80% work from home instead of 100% on site.




  • Yeah this is the kind of shit I was looking forward to when I got into driving in the 2000s. But then car manufacturers started doing thier own non standard radios.

    Then the car mod communities made kits to for a dual bay fit.

    Then the corpos made radios required to service the car…

    No regulations to protect the consumers let them do what they want.

    The car part of the car should be completely independent of the entertainment part of the car. Fuckers.

    The line can get blurry when you talk about EVs but protections should still be possible.



  • Deadnaming is the act of calling a transgender or non-binary person by their birth name or other former forename (their ‘deadname’) after they have chosen a new name. Many transgender people change names as part of gender transition, and wish for their former name to be kept private.

    Wikipedia

    I just learned about this phrase and had to wonder why it would continue all night. Then I realized the likely hostile holidays with family and my heart sank… I feel so sorry for you. I hope you have someone to lean on. I’d bite the head off of anyone who deadnamed maliciously.