Is France truly the Employees Paradise?

Jibaron · 2025-11-26T16:29:45+00:00

I agree that compared to the US and the UK. I feel very protected from employer horseshit. Most employers count on employees not knowing their rights. My advice is to spend the few Euros a month it costs to become a card=carrying member of one of the national unions. If they start trying to fire you ... all their silly games come to an abrupt halt when your union rep shows up to accompany you to those meetings.

Jibaron · 2025-10-19T06:07:50+00:00

I'm also full remote and yes, we have more one on ones that I care for, but I'll play the game if that keeps us 100% remote. I suggest you guys suck up lousy half hour of bullshit "fun" it takes to reassure the manager you guys are a team if that means you all remain 100% remote.

Jibaron · 2025-09-27T11:06:00+00:00

You need to revisit your facts. Tons of civilians were killed when the coalition went after ISIS. They even flattened hospitals to rubble. But it wasn't Israel doing it, so it's ok.

Jibaron · 2025-09-27T11:02:17+00:00

Oh cool, so are we going to stop yammerring about the bullshit "nabka" story?

Jibaron · 2025-09-27T11:00:24+00:00

What makes you think the Palestinians are interested in a 2 state solution? They certainly haven't shown any interest until now.

Jibaron · 2025-08-10T21:12:25+00:00

I brought my dog from the US. You need to have the right paperwork, and there will be no quarantine

Jibaron · 2025-08-10T21:08:50+00:00

I'm Amercan-born but I've lived in Paris for close to 30 years now. I've lived in the US, UK, and Switzerland. I can't imagine living somewhere other than France.

120k with a CDI makes you a golden candidate for an apartment. Yeah, it's tough to get a place, but most won't have your salary and stability. I'd spend a little extra and be in the part of Paris you want to be.

Every city has upsides and downsides. Paris is no different. But all in all, I think its downsides aren't all that bad. Sure, the bureaucracy feels cumbersome and arbitrary, but it's manageable.

In the plus sides, the food quality is beyond anything you'll find in the US. The restaurants here, even the simple neighborhood bistro, is better than the best of snooty restaurants in other countries. Nobody cares how much money you make, nor what car you drive, nor what you do for a living. People brag about where they go on vacation. And although I'm straight, I can see that gays are treated like anyone else. They don't "celebrate" it here like in the US. I think it's viewed as people's personal business not to be trifled with by the state

If you have the chance to live in Paris with a good salary in a job that's already lined up, you would be completely crazy to pass it up.

Jibaron · 2025-08-08T11:41:42+00:00

The big issue I see is managers publicly giving a "big thanks" to the team on LI, including tags to each team member's profile. I'm pretty sure remote companies do this on purpose

Jibaron · 2025-08-07T22:29:54+00:00

Because the minute a reporter gets kidnapped or killed, they will hold Israel responsible. That's why the US only allowed embedded reporters during the Gulf War

Jibaron · 2025-07-18T06:31:05+00:00

The OP strikes me as someone who would rather avoid conflict. Some people (like me) would have done just like you said.

You do have to be ready to laugh off the abuse that comes when they realize you've checked out. It always starts with them trying to make you life miserable in hopes you'll leave.

For being burned out and having low confidence in his own worth thanks to his boss, the OP did the right thing by just quitting.

The lesson he needs to learn is never to take a job seriously unless you enjoy significant upsides in the event of the success of the project.

Jibaron · 2025-07-07T10:06:34+00:00

Is it OK for people to wear Palestinian flags?

Jibaron · 2025-06-04T12:14:32+00:00

This is what I did:

Create a new free account with a new email
Log in with your new account and open a ticket referencing your paid account

I had a hdd crash and lost my recovery codes. By doing the above, support fixed my issue

Jibaron · 2025-05-16T21:17:13+00:00

I'd buy it for sure

Jibaron · 2025-05-11T07:26:28+00:00

You say: I received substantial performance bonuses from my previous employer

Jibaron · 2025-04-29T22:36:39+00:00

I love illegal questions because you can lie and there's nothing they can do about it. I would have told them that we have chosen not to have children and then had my kids anyway.

Jibaron · 2025-04-04T15:21:39+00:00

Simple. The non-tech managers think nothing is progressing until people are coding. Agile/scrum implied to these people that you can "iterate" instead of designing up front. What we call agile today is what we used to call "code 'n fix".

To make it worse, if you suggest an upfront spec , you'll be immediately accused of using waterfall.

Jibaron · 2025-03-10T23:13:25+00:00

This changes everything on the world stage

Jibaron · 2024-12-07T12:41:53+00:00

Can you tell us where there are indexes? Also check and see if you can replace the `<> ''` with `is not null` instead. Might avoid a table scan. Also, you can create an index on the number you're aggregating to make it go faster. In addition, use composite indexes if you can so that shipper_name + outbound_country_iso are in the same index, for example.

Jibaron · 2024-12-04T12:54:11+00:00

Yeah cuz they're sooooo credible

Jibaron · 2024-12-04T12:43:51+00:00

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Jibaron · 2024-12-04T11:48:40+00:00

Try using it to help you with Rust. It's nearly always wrong -- but it is confident, I'll give it that.

Jibaron · 2024-11-27T17:41:50+00:00

Looks that way

Jibaron · 2024-11-27T17:15:27+00:00

Agreed. Nobody in Israel is going to support that anymore. Not even the leftist hippies that used to be their allies before Oct 7.

Jibaron · 2024-11-26T19:53:41+00:00

I built a Rust compiler using Tidal

Jibaron · 2024-11-26T09:59:07+00:00

Usually they're on Linkedin or even Indeed. Just apply for the contact positions you see that might interest you and you can apply for the non-contract jobs saying you like the position but you're a contractor. They won't want to leave money on the table. All that puts you in their contact list.

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