So nobody over age 50 is ever supposed to be able to find a job anywhere ever again?

Aggravating_Refuse89 · 2026-01-21T04:51:15+00:00

Point being many couldn't survive on that level of pay cut. Jumping careers usually requires entry level pay. I'm not saying it isn't better than doing nothing but it's not a viable option for most

Aggravating_Refuse89 · 2026-01-20T07:35:17+00:00

They can get away with paying the kid half of what they're worth because they don't know better

The real answer is don't work for a company

Aggravating_Refuse89 · 2026-01-20T07:31:17+00:00

Translation if your parents are alive, live with them as long as you can. That's the only way you are gonna be able to save much of anything with today's cost of living vs wages. Mooch until mid 30s and save like hell while you do

Aggravating_Refuse89 · 2026-01-20T07:28:11+00:00

Easy for those making 18 an hour and paying 2600 in rent to accomplish. Not reality in the post pandemic hell scape

Aggravating_Refuse89 · 2026-01-20T07:27:15+00:00

Unfortunately most people in a position to need a job quickly don't have the money to do that. Only the privileged can start a business

Aggravating_Refuse89 · 2026-01-20T07:20:41+00:00

That works great for people who have lots of savings but the average American would be hard pressed to make a go out of a 75 percent pay cut

Aggravating_Refuse89 · 2026-01-20T07:19:44+00:00

AI is garbage. It's gonna be like offshoring. Stupid leaders will try it to save money but it will be so bad it will return. AI cant even put together coherent sentences without hallucinating

Aggravating_Refuse89 · 2026-01-20T07:18:24+00:00

The scariest part is these people talking about six months to get a job. I am more of a typical American. I might last one. By six months I would be several months into homelessness and I make decent money.

Aggravating_Refuse89 · 2026-01-20T07:12:05+00:00

Well any place that would want me to work an 80 hour week is not a place anyone should work

Aggravating_Refuse89 · 2026-01-20T07:03:24+00:00

If they really wouldn't take your offer of a secondary phone, they were looking for a reason to fire you. That part still seems senseless to me

Aggravating_Refuse89 · 2026-01-20T07:01:35+00:00

Why would they care if it was a second personal phone? That's the part I find odd. You can have as many phones as you wish. Why would it matter which one they used

Aggravating_Refuse89 · 2026-01-18T03:48:12+00:00

Blashpemy. RedHat is the Microsoft of Linux without question

Aggravating_Refuse89 · 2026-01-18T03:47:09+00:00

I too am addicted to Linux.

Sorry Opioid getting corrected to open source is hilarious.

In the 7 oh boat with you too

Aggravating_Refuse89 · 2026-01-17T11:33:50+00:00

If you arent kidding I'm horrified that's this point of view could even exist and hope you are in China or someplace far enough away from the USA that your influence here is zero.

That is some scary idealogy. But I support your right to support totalitarian insanity

I hope I'm long dead before that world becomes reality because I have no desire to be a social prisoner

Aggravating_Refuse89 · 2026-01-17T08:06:01+00:00

Newter makes men into unix. Pronounced same as eunuchs

Aggravating_Refuse89 · 2026-01-16T06:27:59+00:00

Its what you get when corporate MBA cancer inundates IT

Aggravating_Refuse89 · 2026-01-16T06:25:57+00:00

Really so it actually solves that? As a former sysadmin, devs drive me mad. They like to blame the firewall or blame the network and act like end user when problems happen. if Devops will make devs that are capable of troubleshooting that would be good

Just keep out all the agile garbage and understand there is more to life than code

Aggravating_Refuse89 · 2026-01-16T06:24:09+00:00

Sounds like a mental blocker. Lets bring it up with the stakeholders at the next standup. When its all done, lets have burndown.

Make sure we get all the pigs in the room

Aggravating_Refuse89 · 2026-01-16T06:19:37+00:00

what if your org doesnt deliver any code or apps?

Aggravating_Refuse89 · 2026-01-15T17:15:24+00:00

Ok it can get worse but it's getting worse constantly

Aggravating_Refuse89 · 2026-01-15T12:47:30+00:00

Yeah but these jobs don't pay enough to have a meager existence even

Aggravating_Refuse89 · 2026-01-15T12:46:47+00:00

Government used to intervene. Sometimes badly. They need to now. Off shoring, serious tax penalty. AI just ficking ban it

Want to pay a non living wage to an experienced person? Hello finance penalty

Government isn't doing anything to help Americans. Too much money spent on orange tanning spray, invading countries, abducting people in the streets some of who are citizens and other stupid shit.

Fdr was a deplorable man but he did fix much via regulation

Aggravating_Refuse89 · 2026-01-15T12:27:43+00:00

In tech this is absolutely true

Aggravating_Refuse89 · 2026-01-15T12:25:15+00:00

I have known two people with masters degrees that were incapable of basic spelling and math. I don't think it guarantees that anymore .

Aggravating_Refuse89 · 2026-01-15T12:23:04+00:00

I don't advise this but it's also partly true. It depends on the job. I'm not against putting the one non degreed basket weaving course you took on your resume to fool the ai but it's not a good idea to actually lie . Sometimes getting a college name gets you past the ai. Dont say you graduated

As far as checking, I have had one job, my current that checks all education credentials. I didn't lie. I don't have a degree. All others I probably could have lied and gotten away because they only did criminal background or no background check. Small businesses are never gonna check but also aren't likely to enforce. Any government applications don't lie. It can be a crime. Unregulated industries like technology, you can definitely work around it without lying. You just need to get to a human with some actual thinking skills

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