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Death death to the IDF. The audacity of people calling out war crimes.

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I think the best part of Murderbot is its staunch belief that it’s average at its job, and it only does better because it doesn’t have a working governor module

It’s always like, I’m just a SecUnit, the only reason I’m better is because humans somehow have worse judgement than me in my very narrow field of expertise, and I have the ability to process multiple things at once, and I don’t die when I get my shit wrecked. None of these are advantages over other bots, so I’m actually just average as far as skills go.

Meanwhile, Murderbot’s track record is something like ‘regularly takes out other SecUnits, regularly hacks fairly complicated systems, takes out multiple hostiles while saving and protecting clients/hostages, beat two Combat Bots in succession, and went toe to toe with a Combat SecBot while taking out two other SecUnits, rounding it off with inhabiting spaceships and crushing the incredibly difficult and malicious killware infecting them.’

That’s not even counting the guts, skill, and determination it takes to hack your own hardware/code which is fully capable of frying your brain in the first place

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Oh Murderbot, I love you completely platonically and if I was there you would not have to make eye contact with me <3

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What the fuck is this?

I mean, clearly it's an article. AND, it's a new trend. One that, I'm told, is very cool.

🙄

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Back on my bullshit

I work in HR (never, ever go into HR if you think you'd like to help people. You will not be helping people. No matter what it looks like.).

I'm not a huge fan of my company as they engage in as many cost-saving measures against the employees as possible (but let's keep making the big bucks for the shareholders. Can't let them down).

Open enrollment season is coming up, and the nonsense that SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) spews now includes an article on how the biggest challenge for employers is to get employees to care about enrolling in benefits.

There are gems such as these:

I'm sorry..."willing to spend less?" What a batshit insane way to pronounce "DON'T HAVE THE FUCKING FUNDS TO PAY THE INSANE COST OF BENEFITS TO THE INSURANCE COMPANIES."

And yeah - why wouldn't people target the benefits they're least likely to use in an effort to lower their benefit costs.

But employers needing "to ensure employees see the value of benefits." As though employees are dim no-nothings who need to have the "value of benefits" spelled out to them, otherwise, they'll miss out on breaking the bank to be covered.

It's the spin they put on these articles that enrage me. The issue is that wages are not enough to allow people to live. It has nothing to do with employees not being interested in their benefits.

I will forever HATE SHRM and the libel it consistently spreads about employees. Fucking bootlickers at SHRM are all about the good of the company.

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This is insane

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Three minutes to my next Zoom meeting. I could log on now, but how many minutes of small talk do I have in me? Do I really have 3 minutes. I don't believe I do.

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A couple job interview hacks from someone who has to give a job interview every single goddamn day: (disclaimer: this goes for my process and my company’s process, other companies and industries might be different)

1. There are a few things I check and a few questions I ask literally just to figure out if you can play the game and get along with others in a professional setting. Part of the job I interview for is talking to people, and we work in teams. So if you can’t “play the game” a tiny bit, it’s not going to work. Playing the game includes:

- Why do you want to work here? (just prove that you googled the company, tell me like 1 thing about us, I just want to know that you did SOME kind of preparation for this interview)

- Are you wearing professional clothing? I don’t need a suit just don’t show up in a ratty t-shirt and sweatpants.

- Are you able to speak respectfully and without dropping f-bombs all the time? Not because I’m offended but because I don’t want to be reported to HR if you wind up on my team.

- Can you follow simple directions in an interview?

2. Stop telling me protected information. I don’t want to know about what drugs or medications you’re on, I don’t want to know about you being sick, I don’t want to know if you’re planning to have children soon, I don’t want to know anything about your personal life other than “can you do the job?” 

3. When we ask, “What questions do you have for me?” here are my favorites I’ve heard: - What does the day-to-day look like for a member of your team?

- If one of your team members was not performing up to his usual standard, what steps would you take to correct that?

- What can I start doing now to accelerate my learning process in this job?

- What are some reservations you have about me as a candidate? (be ready for this emotionally….it will REALLY help you in the future, and I’ve had people save themselves from a No after this, but can be hard to hear)

- In your opinion, what skills and qualities does the ideal candidate for this job possess?

- What advice would you give to a new hire in this position/someone who wanted to break into this industry, as someone who has worked here for a while?

Those are just my tips off-the-cuff. I work in sales in marketing/SAAS, so these can be very different depending on the industry, but I wish the people I interview could read this before they show up. 

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from Falasteen Lawn at UW-Milwaukee

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Turns out the potassium nitrate I had as fertilizer for algae to feed my slut isn't fucking a nitrate salt at all and I am pissed

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I received an email from an individual who is interested in one of my company's open positions.

Within the body of cover letter, this individual shared that their father was a former employee of this company.

This person has a rather common last name. In fact, we have 10 former employees with that last name. The applicant didn't bother to provide us with their father's first name.

If you are going to name drop, you actually have to drop the entire name. That should be common sense, I fear.

But, what I really came here to say is that I am not a fan of nepotism. And having someone come to me with the expectation that who their parents are will give them an edge in their job search gives me the ick. I wouldn't hire this individual for anything simply for the fact that they expect that dropping their parent's name will open doors for them. I mean - people have to use all the advantages that they have. And maybe, if I were in their position, I'd name drop too. But I'm not. I haven't name dropped to get where I am. and I think we need to look at the merits of the individual rather than who their parents were.

(I came back to edit this with an additional thought that occurred to me. If I actually knew their parent. If I had a professional relationship with that parent, I think I would feel less ick. There'd still be some ick, but it would be less. It's the dropping in from out of the blue and expecting work your father did a decade ago to pave the way for you that is making me so irritated today.)

The whole vibe of the offer letter was off, and I am not interested. (Lucky for this applicant, it isn't my call. I have forwarded their nonsense to the hiring managers. I have the expectation that the hiring managers will not be interested. And if they are, well, what am I going to do about it? They're the ones who will have to work with this applicant. Fucking full of themselves.)

So, yeah. I don't like my role in recruiting. I'm growing less and less fond of the company that pays me. I don't like this shit hole of a country. I'm am getting closer and closer to saying fuck it and running away to live in the woods like a cryptid.

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Things I cannot say to my colleagues at work, Part Infinty

In answer to the question "Where is the laptop for our new hire?"

Well, Karen, I did tell you that, if you were set on the May 1 date of hire for this person, it was likely that IT would not be able to furnish her with a company-assigned laptop by May 1. There will be a delay because you fucking refused to listen to what I was telling you. This new hire not having a laptop when she arrived onsite today is a direct result of you insisting that she start on May 1. I will reach out to IT to inquire as to when they estimate the laptop for this person will arrive, but honestly, I hope they cannot get the laptop to you until next week, which is when I advised you to schedule this new hire's first day. Maybe next time you listen when I tell you that, while we can bring a new person on by a certain date, we do have to give IT enough time to set up a laptop so that it arrives on their first day.

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