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SlickMahony 1 point ago +1 / -0

Funny, I was interviewing at a place around here, and on a lark I looked at their board and who should I see but Kathleen Sebelius. Didn't really put my all into that interview lol

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SlickMahony 2 points ago +3 / -1

I mean, even when you buy a house outside an HOA, it's still not really yours. As long as property taxes exist you never really own a home or the land it's built on.

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SlickMahony 1 point ago +1 / -0

Yeah. It's killing me trying to find my first house around here, HOAs everywhere or waaaay out in the boonies at 500k. Or a nice house on a nice lot... In a 55+ community lol

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SlickMahony 3 points ago +3 / -0

"End blind auditions to eliminate competency bias"

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SlickMahony 3 points ago +3 / -0

Congratulations! Just had my baby girl a few weeks ago, it is a wonder and joy to behold!

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SlickMahony 3 points ago +3 / -0

Fulton represent, damn right I had too much shit going on to care about any politics

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SlickMahony 2 points ago +2 / -0

You know when they put Universal in front of something it's going to be bullshit.

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SlickMahony 2 points ago +2 / -0

I think it's just cause there's a lot of community leadership for blacks. When your local Jesse Jackson tells you to vote Democrat you do because he said so, assuming he has your best interests at heart. Despite mounting evidence to the contrary you'll do it for state and local too, all the way down.

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SlickMahony 1 point ago +1 / -0

The power of pessimism. In a crisis the pessimist either has 'I told you so' or 'better safe than sorry', where the optimist has either 'you got lucky' or 'sorry'.

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SlickMahony 1 point ago +1 / -0

Jesus i wish I could see prices like that, it's 2.89 here for unleaded

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SlickMahony 2 points ago +2 / -0

I know, right? I work in a mid size organization and I would say 40-50% of the "developers" /"engineers" are Indian or Chinese, with very heavy accents. The sheer guff I get from these people when I ask them to repeat something is incredible, they treat me like I'm the stupid one for not being able to make out more than 1 word in 5 over the phone.

And then you try and explain even a moderately sophisticated technical solution and it's crickets and question marks because if it isn't iterative, inefficient garbage they can't understand it.

I need to find a new job lol

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SlickMahony 2 points ago +2 / -0

Right, and honestly, that basically becomes your job if you survive the slash and burn to promote/hire the H1Bs, in my experience.

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SlickMahony 5 points ago +5 / -0

25 is 1, 1 is none

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SlickMahony 23 points ago +23 / -0

It's a two pronged problem: there's the fact that as a young software engineer you no longer just compete domestically, but globally, and then there's the age issue. Many older engineers get let go/get forced into early retirement because companies want cheaper labor, and a 20 year old Indian with a degree mill diploma is cheaper than a 50yo experienced engineer. If youre not cut out for management or you don't want to manage and just want to be technical you're kind of in trouble starting age 30 because aside from large companies the technical track ends pretty early.

I laugh when I hear the Bill Gayes of the world say they can't find enough workers; there's a fair few, actually, you just don't want to pay for them.

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SlickMahony 1 point ago +1 / -0

I know my local city takes up to 15% from employees to fund the pension, but their pension is much more generous than outlined above (I believe)

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