Okay, this is actually the most unhinged LinkedIn post I have read.
They lived minutes from the office, literally, only 97 minutes away! Lazy chump.
Fuck off Lori
As a friendly reminder, people don’t owe businesses their labor.
Funny how Lori talks as if they own the business, but they’re just a recruiter.
What a work cuck
Candidate dodged a nuclear warhead.
How fucken dare you inquire about work culture norms and expectations. Get the fuck out of my office.
We don’t want anyone who would consider themselves even remotely on the same level as the leaders here. How dare you question us! Know your place!
i really do prefer working in an office but i need a reason. if you don’t need me there, why should i be there?
granted, i work with hardware which i need access to in order to do my work, but that’s a reason right there. if i’m having an algorithm day, why be in office?
I hate when people say “I’m a plumber and I have to go to work, why do you office people get to work from home”.
Don’t you remember how good traffic was 4 years ago? Do you drive to clients houses to invoice them or do it from the home office?
This is like people who work on overhead electrical cabling saying, “why do you people get to work on the ground?”
I have to work in person and I’m jealous of people who have jobs that they can work from home, but I despise traffic and the less people on the road the better for the environment and the less stressful for everyone who is on the road, so I’m all for everyone who can and wants to WFH being able to WFH. Everyone has different circumstances, and we shouldn’t all have to share the same misery just because.
i spent all of 2020 and 2021 stuck in traffic since my boss thought we “needed a presence on the worksite”. not that we didn’t, mind, because i needed to troubleshoot actual physical devices that could not be connected to the internet. still do.
What an asshole.
there’s a reason i don’t work there anymore.
Working in the office is more about control than anything. I’ve been WFH for 12 years now and it’s amazing because I can still do my work without some unnecessary middle manager breathing down my neck
Eh, I’ve seen collaboration tank due to full WFH. People don’t talk to each other, which means they aren’t asking each other questions or coordinating with others on projects. It also pushes managers to become a bottleneck as individual workers don’t form informal connections with each other to ask for help.
Also, people are a lot nastier to each other when they are outside of punching distance.
sure that’s nice but i usually work with an actual team where fast changes to hardware is needed. can’t really do that through github issues.
Those are fair points, but not my points. I’m working with people from all over the world and being in an office would bring zero benefit for me. aside from being on the road for two to three hours a day.
yeah that’s not useful. there are eobvious upsides to wfh in some areas so it should be used there. it would benefit everyone.
I almost got an in-office job recently that would have doubled my pay. I’d make that trade. But they went with someone with “more cross functional experience”, what ever that means.
It means “will do the same job for less money.”
Or they hired internally which was what they were going to do regardless.
I’m of two minds. If it’s a crappy recruiter, I open with a ludicrous salary request to compensate for the wasted time - if I get it, I retire 20 years early. If I don’t, no harm done.
In an interview situation, I’d lead them along. Let them get to an offer and then explain that I’m not available to stroke their ego. Waste their time some.
Every recruiter that has called me over the last three years when I tell them my salary requirements, they ask me if I’m serious, and they tell me that there’s no job in the world that would pay me that amount of money, and I’m like, I’m already working a job that pays me that amount of money within a few percentage points.
Why should I take a pay cut to come work for you? And they never have an answer.
More explicitly, I’m making mid-six figures, and they’ll call me up and offer me a job that pays like $60,000 a year, and I say, sorry, if you want me to come work for you, I’m gonna need mid-six figures, plus a little bit extra to make it worth my while, and they realize they have called the wrong person.
And it’s always some dipshit recruiter who is trying to hire me for a starter position in the field that I have 14 years of experience in.
To be fair, the reason they expect 60k to be reasonable is that 500k is absolutely not.
In this context, I think “mid- six figures” means about 150k.
I’ve found that a lot of recruiters who reach out are offering really mediocre jobs, and probably have one themselves. I had a recruiter email, text and call me within 2 hours for a role he had, which would be paid about half of what I’d been making when I was recently unemployed. Starting at 8:30am my time. When he told me what the role paid, I basically told him I’m not desperate, but he clearly is.
I think I’ve had one recruiter reach out in the last year about a role that isn’t at least a 30% pay cut, and that was one with a step up in responsibilities, with a small pay cut.
At first I was offended that they were even bothering to reach out for super entry level roles, when I’m clearly not at that level, but I think they’re just spraying and praying, and probably paid mainly based on how many people they get into jobs.
There’s a lot of offshore recruiters trying to make a win by spamming for every opportunity that opens.
My number for them for in person office work is 3-4x current gross. It hasn’t worked out for me yet but maybe one day!
My number for them for in person office work is 3-4x current gross. It hasn’t worked out for me yet but maybe one day!
I guess I’m overcharging at 6x…nah.
For me, it’s just a slightly more polite way to tell them where they can put their in-office requirement.
When you say mid-six figures do you mean ~$150k or ~$500k?
Last year, it was in the 200s, so I guess low-mid six figures is more accurate.
What profession are you in? I feel like I got into the wrong one.
MSP tech consultant for law firms, working on becoming an IT director or CTO though.
I do things from basic tech support all the way up to rolling out and deploying firm wide software.
I would say that I’m pretty good about not only dealing with new issues when they pop up, but also with establishing practices that can be repeated by other people, diarizing and cataloging the common issues that the companies I work for encounter, and minimizing the mental overhead of technology so they can get to the work of doing their business of protecting or attacking on behalf of their clients.
And that sounds like jargon tech-speak shit, but I do everything in my power to back it up with action and with logs that other people can read and follow, even if they’re not especially technical.
I started working for a mom-and-pop IT shop when I was in my early 20s, got my A+, started working for hospitals, and just ended up winding my way through the entire IT field. And the annoying thing is, is my whole life I wanted to be an engineer, lol, but I took IT jobs because I had bills to pay and I was good at it, so I just stayed with it.
These entitled motherfuckers…
I’ll just write down “No reason” then.
if you chose to be an employee versus a business owner
And this is how come I quit my deadend office job and started my own business. Fuck corporations.
registers as S-Corp
Employers also exist in a competitive marketplace: labor doesn’t need to choose a weak employer that won’t justify working conditions over a better employer.
Post needs text alternative.
Images of text break much that text alternatives do not. Losses due to image of text lacking alternative such as link:
- usability
- we can’t quote the text without pointless bullshit like retyping it or OCR
- text search is unavailable
- the system can’t
- reflow text to varied screen sizes
- vary presentation (size, contrast)
- vary modality (audio, braille)
- accessibility
- lacks semantic structure (tags for titles, heading levels, sections, paragraphs, lists, emphasis, code, links, accessibility features, etc)
- some users can’t read the image due to lack of alt text (markdown image description)
- users can’t adapt the text for dyslexia or vision impairments
- systems can’t read the text to them or send it to braille devices
- web connectivity
- we have to do failure-prone bullshit to find the original source
- we can’t explore wider context of the original message
- authenticity: we don’t know the image hasn’t been tampered
- searchability: the “text” isn’t indexable by search engine in a meaningful way
- fault tolerance: no text fallback if
- image breaks
- image host is geoblocked due to insane regulations.
Contrary to age & humble appearance, text is an advanced technology that provides all these capabilities absent from images.
- usability
Guess I haven’t been working for the last ten years or so since I wasn’t in an office.
