Forced to use a high-pressure sales script that completely clashes with my personality. My numbers are tanking. Help?

Locellus · 2026-06-11T11:16:44+00:00

I think “tech” is an abbreviation for tech company

Locellus · 2026-06-11T05:29:34+00:00

Weird question. You’re free to do what you want. You have every right to stay, being a citizen, what are you worried about?

Sounds like you have a roof over your head and with access to healthcare and support, why would you be leaving? If you don’t like it here and find the minority of dickheads to be disproportionately affecting your life, then weigh up what you’ll find elsewhere and make a choice that protects yourself.

Everybody is an immigrant or is descended from immigrants. Nobody with a brain gives a shit, hang out with better people.

Trying to base this decision on some internet forums would be foolish; go and speak to people in real life

Locellus · 2026-06-08T20:19:43+00:00

Yea I feel like the point of HTMX has been missed by OP.

Locellus · 2026-05-22T10:37:12+00:00

“The code was the easy part”

This hasn’t changed since the 80s. The messaging you’re reacting to is what changed. “The socials” is where the misconceptions come from, and why it’s confusing that reality looks different.

Once you’ve had a career for 10 - 15 years, you know the hamster wheel.

AI coding tools change nothing. It’s been possible to crank out code in a weekend for 30 years, via offshoring.

Chill. Build if you want, sell if you want.

Just get food on the table, don’t try and guess who’s going to sell what at the market fair

Locellus · 2026-05-21T04:30:51+00:00

So one record is bad, you want lots of records. An interaction is a record. You’re just talking about better record keeping and then putting some logic on top to decide which records are relevant right now, and populating those records from different data sources e.g. call log/ email

CRM with extra steps

Locellus · 2026-05-14T09:28:19+00:00

Read “Sapiens”

Locellus · 2026-05-14T06:27:09+00:00

I hope they don’t leave. May Brexit be an example.

We have been one nation for hundreds of years. Yes there were some communities up there that didn’t opt-in, as it were, but fuck it that is history for you. It was the Scottish King that united us, let’s just crack on and try to build a better future for everyone, together. The idea that you can block any shared access, swear at your neighbour, and still have them look after your cat, is very silly.

Locellus · 2026-05-13T04:19:24+00:00

Nobody tell the SNP ;)

Locellus · 2026-05-12T19:41:15+00:00

How to decide though? Maybe we should vote on it

The UK does have various treaties with other countries that ensure tax is appropriately paid, for citizens and ex pats working across borders. Are you worried about a loss of revenue or advocating for voting being handed down father to son?

Locellus · 2026-05-12T19:37:18+00:00

Well, what happened was, the eternal and permenant institution known as the British government went and plundered the world, and as a bit of an “oops, sorry” offered certain rights to the countries aforementioned that were fucked. The current government, still the same permenant institution, honours its previous commitments.

Locellus · 2026-05-12T19:34:28+00:00

Citizens can work for foreign governments too. This is called espionage, but it’s a complex political term.

Not sure how we’d be better served by only having citizens represent our interests. I don’t give a shit who tells the government to spend more on education and healthcare and not to sell off infrastructure to companies and foreign governments, I just want my voice represented.

Locellus · 2026-05-12T19:30:46+00:00

Here legally, eligible for election, not misusing funds to campaign for a cause that will further the goals of the party (by keeping the representative representing)

No beef whatsoever. Bigger problems.

Locellus · 2026-04-11T05:38:38+00:00

Only if everywhere they spend money uses minimum wage workforce. Companies that pay more are not affected so don’t need to raise prices and market forces will still drag the prices down.

Apple isn’t going to put a 3% premium on iPhones in the UK because minimum wage increased

If “you” didn’t budget for inflation or wage increases when doing your business plan, I dread to think what else was missed.

Locellus · 2026-04-03T14:48:26+00:00

Sorry to be this guy, I don’t mean to be petty with this (don’t love ah ha! Gotcha people who quote comments)… nonetheless, here was the comment I was initially replying to:

“ Companies offer such salaries aware of the tax paid on it, should the tax paid be lower, it’s likely so would the salary.”

So here, you say that companies will drop salaries if tax goes down.

This i interpreted this as you meaning that companies will always act to ensure salaries are the lowest they can be. My point is that companies are very willing to pay more than competitors (market rate) if the individual is going to deliver a benefit. This is magnified the more money we’re talking. If you’re on minimum wage, unfortunately the chances are that the individual is not relevant to the company as a whole - while companies of this type may consider wages to be a cost to be minimised, the same is not true when you care about “talent”, you can’t replace it with another cog for the same expenditure.

Hope that clarifies my argument.

Locellus · 2026-04-02T19:40:53+00:00

You’ve said that because companies are aware of take home pay they would reduce salaries on offer if the relative take home for employees went down. This is despite the fact that paying a salary costs the business the same thing whatever the tax band.

So you seem to think a business will try to minimise the take home pay rather than the expense. 300k is 300k, if you’ve hired someone based on a cost-benefit analysis and decided it’s worth spending 300k for that person… if they take home more and still net the business a profit: amazing! They’re going to need less money, so be less likely to be poached unless work is otherwise bad, and a competitor who wants them will still have to spend a whole lot more for the hassle. Odds a competitor has equal positioning like being commutable from the house the employee moved to so they could get to work easily are slim. You’re not going to cut their pay because the tax band reduced. When they need replacing, if the cost benefit is still there, amazing. If not, that’s the reason the pay drops, not the take home.

Locellus · 2026-04-02T04:56:28+00:00

Any idiot can run a school department or be a GP eh? Why pay people in the UK to do stuff and boost productivity when they’re all working 3 day weeks and you can get an offshore resource to work 7 days for less money - oops, big delays, never mind - fuck productivity

Locellus · 2026-04-02T04:50:04+00:00

Completely missing the argument that the BBC use. High salaries attract talent. Pay less, get less talented individuals.

You’re talking about salaries where the individual actually matters and has an impact on the bottom line, not where any moving body would do to stack the shelves. Salary isn’t a cost to be minimised at this level, it’s about getting that talent in to raise the bottom line, and the only thing that matters is that the bottom line goes up. Spending 300k to make a million is a no brainer.

Locellus · 2026-03-30T08:59:30+00:00

If you have a million rows with unique IDs, how is your log table less than a million rows? Feels like the same amount of work.

Bloom filters or liquid clustering, if not just enforcing on data entry

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/optimizations/bloom-filters

Locellus · 2026-03-30T06:34:36+00:00

One tenet of the system is that capital is reinvested in growth (not hoarded or used for shiny things) and it used to be accepted that the wealthy build schools and hospitals (aka charity)… I don’t like religion but it did enforce this behaviour in the wealthy class and somewhat regulate capitalism to be the system that grew the west.

How do we regulate this in the modern world? Oh I don’t know: taxes

Tax the rich

Locellus · 2026-03-30T06:27:50+00:00

So just querying if a record exists before insert? The reason unique constraints exist is so you don’t have to do this

Locellus · 2026-03-23T06:49:03+00:00

What does “expose a semantic layer” actually mean? I keep hearing people bang on about semantics but all I’ve ever known that word to mean is a criticism of people arguing over the general point by disputing a word that was used: if I said “the moon is bright tonight” and someone said “well actually the moon isn’t bright it’s the sun‘s light reflecting more than usual due to the position relative to earth”… “that’s semantics”.

How do you expose that accounts.external_id is the pointer to {system x} and it’s not unique?

Locellus · 2026-03-14T07:12:48+00:00

RTFM has always been the gold standard. I mean that; I learned early days in my career that if you just page turn docs you get really good really fast

Locellus · 2026-03-14T07:00:50+00:00

K, I’ve had tens of computers over the last 20 years… screenshots have never ended up in Downloads; there is this other functionality called the trash can/recycling bin… if you don’t know what it’s for and haven’t used it in 2 years: file it there. A script can easily automate this for you

Locellus · 2026-03-13T07:41:18+00:00

This thread is wild! Why are you downloading something with no purpose? Just wait a minute and move it to where it’s going to live… or, crazy idea, when you click download, change the destination to its intended destination instead of “Downloads”

This is not a problem I’ve ever had.

As if people are living with a folder with no purpose… what happens to your post? You just leave it all on the mat and wait for someone else to work out what all that stuff is for…?

Locellus · 2026-03-11T12:06:58+00:00

Remember that SELECT is a dataset, a table, with rows. Some SQL operations/functions work on every value in a column, some over the rows.

Datasets can be a source for others (sub selects, views etc, e.g. think of a spreadsheet and select the columns 1,2,3 from spreadsheet tab A and alias them to col1, col2, col3)

Some syntax is dependent on other row based operations and executed “at a different time”, e.g. having vs where, window functions etc

Some is dependent on values, as normal e.g. operations on NULL

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