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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • Yep… My first “career” job was for a mid sized company. In my onboarding they gave me my employee number but said “you’ll never need this, here you’re a name, not a number”. One time I emailed security saying I forgot my badge because it was with my lunch, and one of the founders called me up and gave me his prepackaged lunch because he said he usually doesn’t get through them all. When we closed a big deal, they called us all upstairs to have champagne during the workday. Our mission was unambiguously to help people

    Then we got acquired… They gave me my new employee ID and told me I’d be using it for everything. They just milked our contracts and refused wages until we all left

    And unfortunately, mid sized companies can give an equally good experience with much better pay and job security… But they’re being bought out to secure contracts and gutted at an insane rate.

    It’s late stage capitalism… If you want to keep growing but you’ve already destroyed your ability to complete, buy them out to take over their contracts



  • IDK if this would be viable with an H1 visa and I’ve seen many other options I’ll be looking into, but here’s what I normally tell people in this position: small businesses are built different

    They’re harder to find, they usually don’t pay amazingly, but they’re way more human. It’s not all run through spread sheets, you work for humans who get to know you and (can sometimes) actually be like a family…(If they say that phrase it’s a red flag though)

    It’s hit or miss, you likely would be working on legacy stuff or have to wear many hats… But it’s work where you know what you’re doing and who you’re doing it for





  • He bowed out when he let Hilary take the nomination. He said as much. Dude has been tired for a while now… Watching the conflict in his eyes while he was practically mouthing the words to Biden’s speeches was heart crushing

    If we had another Bernie, we’d rally behind them. That’s what Bernie wants, that’s what America wants, and the closest we have is AOC… Who is great, but at least a decade too young to take his place. Optics are what they are, no matter how stupid they may be… And the Democratic party really loves the idea of seniority and waiting your turn

    He’s back in the spotlight because he has to be. He has to be because he has too much integrity to say “fuck it” and just retire. He wants to, he deserves it, but his county needs him

    We need a leader for the transition to a better progressive party…I hope he can hang on to be that for us, because we don’t have a replacement






  • That’s fascinating, I assumed it would be the default business to business debt, where most companies would basically hold onto the money until they’re asked for it, and just make damn sure they’ve accounted for it

    I’m not a money guy, I just remember hearing some project managers talk about it and thought it was an interesting thing I’ve never considered, so there might be more to it

    Can you tell me a bit about the legality of it? Is it just a matter of balancing your books to avoid getting in trouble, or is it different for individuals than businesses, or am I missing some piece of context and jumped to the wrong conclusion?

    Just in general the motivation for you to do it that way for my own edification, I had no idea this kind of process existed