Mantergeistmann
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Mantergeistmann
1d ago
So how does one go about getting a job at this sort of place? Asking for a friend.
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
More people need to make lengthy posts about their cool jobs in the vein of my previous post
My current job is fake and lame, but maybe I'll manage to get off my ass at some point and write a few words on the day in the life of a System Design Agent. Or, before that, a Technical Writer allowed to do exactly zero writing/editing.
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
I'd be okay with Mount Denali but there was no good reason to rename it to just Denali imo.
Wait, I always thought that it was changed to Mt. Denali, or Denali Mountain, or something.
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
Our recruiters (for an engineering focused org) are mostly women, and are incredibly bureaucratic about blocking resumes. Including in situations where managers have told someone "Hey, I think you'd be perfect, I'd like you to apply". Resume not only never makes it to the manager's desk (even if there are literally zero other candidates), but there is nothing the manager can do to lean on HR other than to re-post the position with changes.
I've seen it happen multiple times, including to people who should have set off all of HR's demographic desire bells. Our HR and their control is probably the biggest reason why I'm looking at other career prospects.
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
"Only Nixon can go to China" is adjacent to what you're asking, but not quite.
Mantergeistmann
8d ago
... as the generic term for a fizzy drink? If so, that's wonderfully contrarian.
Mantergeistmann
8d ago
elves never side with Morgoth
I mean, there was Maeglin, son of Eol, but he was also horribly tortured to encourage his betrayal, so I suppose that could be considered a bit of an extenuating circumstance.
Mantergeistmann
8d ago
The earliest known usage of "pop" is from 1812; in a letter to his wife, poet Robert Southey says the drink is "called pop because pop goes the cork when it is drawn, & pop you would go off too if you drank too much of it." The two words were later combined into "soda pop" in 1863
Mantergeistmann
9d ago
It wouldn't surprise me if TikTok had started pushing content suggesting it, but that's a pure guess.
Mantergeistmann
11d ago
One thing I don't see brought up is that maybe the best thing for Israel to do would be to sign the deal, get the hostages back, and then immediately just ignore the deal and spend the next couple of years killing every Hamas member on the face of the planet.
I mean, the current deal doesn't get all the hostages back. It merely sets up future negotiations over getting them returned. There's still several dozen (living and dead) remaining with Hamas for the near future, if not longer. Everyone calling this a "win for Israel" seems to be ignoring/accepting that.
Mantergeistmann
11d ago
I mean, during the US Civil War you had Union leaders talking about sending Northerners to take the land and houses of people in the South, but that didn't make it a campaign of genocide.
Mantergeistmann
13d ago
And, as far as throwing fuel on the fire, JK Rowling has weighed in:
The literary crowd that had a hell of a lot to say about Harvey Weinstein before he was convicted has been strangely muted in its response to multiple accusations against Neil Gaiman from young women who’d never met, yet — as with Weinstein — tell remarkably similar stories
My understanding is that the venn diagram of "people who hate Rowling for her trans views" and "Neil Gaiman superfans" is very close to a circle, so I'm expecting there to be either a lot of cognitive dissonance, deliberate head-in-the-sand, or crazy explainers as to why they're on the same side.
Mantergeistmann
15d ago
As Flintlocke's Guide to Azeroth once phrased it, "I mostly just picked my talents because the icons looked cool".
Mantergeistmann
16d ago
It’s like my hobby horse of black people in Medieval England
Were you the one who had a planned effortpost on that at some point?
Mantergeistmann
17d ago
I believe there were two types of attempts: the first via balloons, the second a seaplane launched from a submarine. But yes, neither method wound up causing any significant fires that I'm aware of, or indeed much damage beyond a few very unlucky casualties.
Mantergeistmann
19d ago
using depleted uranium rounds
My understanding is that the impact of that has been vastly overstated, usually by the same sorts of people who think the radiation from being near a nuclear power plant is worse than the radiation from being near a coal plant.
Mantergeistmann
21d ago
The latter. Although I'm still hoping someone/a tribe files a formal lawsuit based on a Land Acknowledgement, preferably incorporating the phrase "put up or shut up."
Mantergeistmann
22d ago
It seems arbitrary that we get to decide that all species must be preserved as they are now. Extinction and speciation are integral to how evolution functions. How can we justify trying to preserve the animal kingdom in aspic? Especially when the preservation mostly takes the form of preventing us from building anything.
It feels remarkably similar in some ways to First Nations: whatever land a given tribe/confederation occupied at the time of contact with Europeans becomes permanently and historically theirs--like a game of Civ ending at an arbitrary cutoff year, then that save state being imported to the expansion/sequel. Doesn't matter when a people took possession of a given tract of land, or who might have been there prior.
Mantergeistmann
22d ago
Only three figures/year? That could very well be worth it to keep their name out there for when they do want to hire. For a lot of places, that's chump change.
Mantergeistmann
22d ago
Are you sure it's a real position and not one of those "ghost job listings" I keep hearing about? If it had been a shorter amount of time, I'd assume they'd just written it to target one specific person as a formality, but if it's been posted for a while, then it certainly can't be that.
Mantergeistmann
24d ago
I mean, by that logic it isn't reasonable for a company to have a 1-year reimbursement requirement for paying costs for you to relocate, either.
Mantergeistmann
24d ago
That's exactly the way my company works. Presumably our HR departments are comparing notes and "working to industry best practices" and "benchmarking against the median of competitors".
Mantergeistmann
24d ago
Now, the odds of success are against you, but I find it far more disheartening to have the eventual mitigated success of the first two guys, rather than a potential start-up flame out.
Risk vs. Reward and all that, right? If I'm at a point in my life where I'm not responsible for others and have a bit of a safety net, the gamble is a great idea. If I'm the sole provider for others, well... maybe sticking with the safer route is better for me and those that rely on my income.
Mantergeistmann
24d ago
Employees have a sense of obligation to their employer, and vice versa. Fundamentally, they still perceive each other as members of the same tribe with a shared fate. They won't ignore their own self-interest, but they won't actively try to screw over the other just for some marginal short-run benefit.
That seems to be where line managers are incredibly important and influential. The differences I've seen (and felt) between "people are staying when they could leave for a slightly better offer because this manager is great to work for" and "people are leaving for a slightly worse offer because this manager is terrible" is... rather impressive.
Reminds me of a bit in Bill the Galactic Hero, where there's an infiltration of a seditious organization. When the big day comes, it turns out the entire org is infiltrators, except the leader... who was hired by the (now current) ruler to off his predecessor, but doesn't read the news and hadn't realized he was leading a revolution against his own boss.
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