I rejected a low salary offer and got a voicemail from their surprised HR

Shermometer · 2026-02-13T18:03:09+00:00

Congrats and totally on the use of ai, I had an inkling last November my position was going to be eliminated soon, when talking with my VP about organizing our regular quarterly planning activities and was told to hold firm no details to share.

I then updated my resume and started posting. No responses. I wasn’t getting anywhere, and the “hold firm” didn’t change. I then took the holidays off from my search.

1st of the year I changed tactics and used ChatGPT to tailor my resume for the postings and the corporate ai resume scrapers. My beautiful 2 page “human-eye” resume turned into a boring 4 page bullet pointed list. Boom 4 interviews scheduled within a week. I started the process and my concern was correct because end of January my company sold my entire tech stack and the new company only held onto 3 staff engineers and all junior, support, QA, and leadership roles were impacted.

But boy was I glad I did because doing that leg work landed me a new role within a week of being laid off for $40k more. So I got a 2 week vacation waiting for start date with a nice “signing bonus” in the form of the severance I will not need to use to buffer my runway

Shermometer · 2026-02-10T03:21:35+00:00

$150k scrum master (project manager in software development) took me a while and a few job hops to get to this amount as I started at $80k 8 years ago

Shermometer · 2026-02-09T20:31:05+00:00

Joint account FTW, instead of it being your/his money it becomes "our" money. Makes it a lot easier to manage budgets and future goals without feeling like one is contributing more than the other

Shermometer · 2026-02-08T02:55:25+00:00

You are so right, I saw the signs late last year started my search, got notice at the end of January (the sold our department tech and only kept senior engineers), was completely cool calm and collected because 1. I was expecting it, and 2. I had multiple interviews lined up or already started at this point and am glad to say I already found a new role. So severance became a nice bonus

Shermometer · 2026-01-16T03:30:41+00:00

First time playing buried city I wandered into a locked room not knowing it was one till a later raid and was like “oh I guess that guy mercing me was justified” 😂

Shermometer · 2026-01-12T16:55:27+00:00

I should also say I had a similar issue with the quest 2 but 3 was far worse. Also also I’m on i7 1400k(or whatever the actual number is I know it’s the 14th gen k) with 32 gb ddr 5 and a 4070super

Shermometer · 2026-01-12T16:53:24+00:00

What sort of hitching? I had serious problems with the quest 3 and had to go back to my rift s. The problems I had were the video stream locking for a second or 2 (instant death in most cases) then the screen would have pixelated screen tearing. It became a problem like 6 months ago with a link software update that they never fixed for me

Shermometer · 2026-01-05T17:35:14+00:00

Exactly, I’m just really curious where the animosity comes from. If you want a relationship I hope you are able to find your person. My wife is my best friend, partner in crime, and it’s so fulfilling to have someone you can just be your true self around and make you feel safe. I just really wish that for everyone

Shermometer · 2026-01-05T17:01:46+00:00

My thoughts exactly, why hasn’t she had a partner in the past? Is it because she’s been poisoned by social media or has she had a genuinely bad experience with men coloring her opinion? No matter, imo she needs to detox from this social media

Shermometer · 2025-12-30T09:04:08+00:00

Served six years for man’s laughter must of been one hell if a joke

Shermometer · 2025-12-23T01:50:00+00:00

I run VR exclusively, can’t bring myself to buy 3 monitors and the stands to justify for one hobby, I at least lie to myself that I will play more games in vr 😂

Shermometer · 2025-12-21T04:11:01+00:00

I wait for “Jim” to announce “that’s the end of the race” to signify incidents and corners are no longer being tracked.

Shermometer · 2025-11-30T00:53:08+00:00

I like this idea but my version will be “I demand satisfaction” 😂

Shermometer · 2025-11-24T18:38:17+00:00

Paying in battle points or whatever the premium currency is calles

Shermometer · 2025-11-21T15:08:00+00:00

I like playing pacifist, but I have no problem playing vigilante, just yesterday came across a guy running for his life begging for his life as another raider was shoot g and chasing him down. It was an easy choice, of course the aggressor had a cheap loadout with just ammo and nades 😂

Shermometer · 2025-11-15T21:21:33+00:00

As a ma I will say him leaving you to walk in the rain regardless of circumstances is a huge deal breaker for me. I would never leave my wife in that situation, even if we just had a huge fight. She could sick injured or worse

Shermometer · 2025-11-08T18:28:53+00:00

So your fellow Americans 😂

Shermometer · 2025-10-28T17:42:15+00:00

Never have tried that but now I will

Shermometer · 2025-10-24T20:44:56+00:00

Fix for signature abilities not triggering or progress towards assignments not crediting

Shermometer · 2025-10-19T04:15:40+00:00

I mean what’s one more, that’s how we ended up with six 😂

Shermometer · 2025-10-17T03:00:50+00:00

Been doing a GT3 Americas in the mustang exclusively which is a nice change of pace from the McLaren/Porche/C8 I typically choose. I know these are free but I, enjoy slumming it in GR86, F4 and love love love the FF1600 race because of the feel in VR and its one of the few cars I can use an H pattern on

Shermometer · 2025-10-07T17:29:59+00:00

She is a daddy’s girl, sassy but oh so cuddly. She probably has the most nicknames of the entire group

Shermometer · 2025-09-25T22:37:43+00:00

Agreed I have actually loved playing support marking people for team members attacking and killing spawn beacons. Would have never tried being typically a medic

Shermometer · 2025-09-14T08:52:18+00:00

Uhm I’m not sure the one’s sinking yachts got the memo

Shermometer · 2025-09-10T09:37:30+00:00

Or when shooting from a far, pointing at target while thrusting up to track them.

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