It’s completely despicable for any person in a company to be making 10x compared to the janitor.

Wait, didn’t he contribute like 100 lines of code to PayPal?

One thing at my last job that killed me was the security requirements for login. I would spend a week procrastinating and then be met with having to do multifactor verification to get access to the source code again. But it was this massive headache involving git credentials, the companies own “security” software, all wrapped inside of a virtual machine that needed additional steps, on top of the software just straight up not working randomly.

But I digress. The details aren’t too important as long as it’s understood it’s a headache.

This shit literally just stopped me from working. It was so much hassle between other emails to reply to and distractions that I would literally spend a day getting logged back in correctly, end my day. And then just lose all motivation to work for awhile after.

I am not meant for this type of environment. It literally makes my brain turn to mashed potatoes.

So, to actually respond to your comment. Sometimes the “small things” are fucking massive for me. Like the hardest hurdles to get over. Because I get so frustrated or bored with them that I just lose all interest.

Maybe I’m desperate for social interaction or maybe it’s just a hyper-focus trigger. I’ll spend hours of my time trying to help someone else when it’s something I am good and confident at doing.

I literally wish there was a position at a company for someone that just went around listening to people’s problems or complaints and then was able to offer solutions or optimizations.

This is probably autism kicking in a bit. But I need a new problem to solve each day and no job offers this. If I can’t hyper-focus a solution in a day or two. I just lose interest and stop caring.

Oh this thing is due in two weeks? Sounds like something that I don’t give a shit about.

I mean the way the article is written it literally sounds like bullshit.

“Oh they have this unwritten rule”

Really good journalism. The 14% unemployment is for ages 16-24. For comparison it’s 10% in the US.

Neither of which is very meaningful considering how most people are still going to school during that age. This isn’t the unemployment for people out of college and graduated. Which would be what the article is talking about. Bad to imply the statistic they used has anything to do with it.

Additionally, I wonder how much of that 4% difference is the 16-17 year olds in high school in America that have to work to support their family.

16-17 year olds being calculated in an unemployment statistic? Really? Am I old as fuck now or are these not children?

I know a lot of us normalized starting a below minimum wage job at 13 like I did. But I would hope others grow up and realize how fucked up that type of exploitation is.

My brain decided I can’t do that anymore. Worked in software for 10 years now and it’s just fucking gone. Can’t do the hyper-focus thing anymore.

It probably doesn’t help that my company is supporting a genocide in Gaza.

Oh, well, I got laid off a month ago anyway. Basically, spent the last year not doing work at my company so I guess I deserved it. But, really, the company deserves to be convicted of supporting war crimes; so I guess I did the moral thing.

I really hope the hyper-focus ability comes back. I can still do it with other things. Just not with job searching yet. Wondering when that will kick in.

Yep and when it’s small it really doesn’t seem like it needs doing.

You can quote me on this. Not only will this not work. They won’t even actually implement anything to a degree that would even be able to make a difference.

Source: Democrats saying things and not following through for my entire lifetime.

Is the meme 12 now? We’ve moved past 11 now? I was not told.

Our great grandparents armed themselves and took over the factory floors. We need some of that energy.

Not sure I would say it’s incompetent. There is a reason that ICE is offering signing bonuses for new hires while every major company is laying off it’s workforce and spending all their money on stock buybacks.

This isn’t stupidity. This is absolutely on purpose. They are building their Nazi military and using the threat of homelessness to get as many people as they can to join it.

Can we stop saying “Israel claims” unless we follow it up with “which is a blatant fucking lie with no basis in reality”

Likely it was being explained in the context of binary number representation as it is primarily important in computer architecture. If you’re not already familiar with that then it was probably confusing explained in that context.

I would say there are definitely some people that care as the industry becomes more and more exploited for its labor. But I have yet to meet a software developer that has connected their pro labor sentiment to real class solidarity.

Most complain about H1 people taking their jobs but blame the H1 people themselves and not the corporation that is exploiting their labor.

I try to explain to them that there is no labor movement in our industry that will be successful without H1 holders being on our side at the negotiating table.

It’s a really hard thing to get through to a lot of people.

It’s not a defense of religion. I don’t know why atheist Andy’s have a hard time understanding that THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT ARE RELIGIOUS.

So, instantly alienating religion and religious groups is just giving away a huge part of the population away to fascist propaganda. Religion can be used as a tool of anti fascist for leftist propaganda too though.

If you don’t understand that then you clearly have never spoken with any leftist from the black communities of the South. Religion is a fundamental unifying part of any movement of solidarity there.

It’s amazing how even the cut off quote you used didn’t say that. It’s a tool that can be used mate. Can you read?

Desktop 1: with random shit I’m not supposed to be doing but it’s more interesting to my ADHD brain than the other shit right now.

Desktop 2: Some random GitHub link and another instance of VScode so I can keyboard shortcut to that if someone comes to talk to me.

There are a lot of religious groups helping to protect people from ICE right now. Blindly saying to stop giving money to religious groups across the board is either malicious or naive. I assumed naive.

Why do you think the feds gave the ability for ICE to enter religious buildings that use to be protected?

Religion is a tool. It’s not good or bad in some fundamental way.

I guess I’m the other kind of brain. I tap Ctrl+l on cooldown. But the up arrow thing makes sense. But still doesn’t explain the alias if you’re not actually typing it often.

Religion is a tool used by Fascist. You don’t defeat Fascism by pretending one of its tools is the true problem. Religion can just as easily be a tool of anti fascist resistance movements. Removing that tool from leftist movements has been a vital flaw of many revolutions.

I am not religious. But saying we should abolish religion will just have the “Ms. Rachel” types of Christians with actual real moral compass (her stance on Gaza obviously being one) caught in crossfire.

There is no working class movement without embracing religion as a tool to form solidarity. Religion is not just all fundamentalist idiots.