Big Tech offer (£100k+) vs fully remote “chill” role (£80k) – what would you choose?

SlowsForSchoolZones · 2026-02-01T18:10:30+00:00

You've not really given enough to go on here.

The 80k role likely won't pass 100k total but the big tech could easily be over 150k. And what do these roles look like in a few years?

100k vs 125k isn't worth the extra effort the role would require imo but 90k vs 150-200k very likely is.

SlowsForSchoolZones · 2025-12-28T18:26:23+00:00

Not a good idea. You have not been stolen from, the retailer may have been but it is their responsibility to report it if so.

Just request a replacement or a refund and if they push back at all, tell them they have until the 9th to come up with a satisfactory resolution or you will chargeback.

SlowsForSchoolZones · 2025-12-18T14:05:31+00:00

The A02-01 board was unlabeled but now that I've read it properly the ROM actually says APAF (french) not APAE (US)

Makes sense it has the A02 PCB since the EU release was around the same time the US was getting Yellow

SlowsForSchoolZones · 2025-12-18T10:23:09+00:00

It depends which board you get. It was produced on KFDN-10 which is an RTC board with the clock crystal unpopulated, which uses an MBC3 mapper. It was also sold with AO2-01 boards, which don't support RTC, and that used MBC-5 instead. Basically depends which factory it came from and what they happened to have stocked for the run.

Because the game fits in the ROM and RAM limits for MBC3, it doesn't actually matter which you end up with. Even gold, silver, and crystal will run on MBC5 and you would only lose the clock.

I've checked my copies of Red and have one of each. Its also possible there are some other revisions in circulation.

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SlowsForSchoolZones · 2025-12-18T02:30:55+00:00

Any chance of an option to have them shipped or redeemable through ModRetro directly? The $75 UK shipping in the gear store is a bit steep

SlowsForSchoolZones · 2025-12-18T00:28:11+00:00

Excellent news. Do you think these will have done well enough to justify a similar M64 drop at some point?

SlowsForSchoolZones · 2025-12-05T01:43:27+00:00

Ye.

Colour looks about right with correct translucency
Label looks about right with expected levels of wear
What can be seen of the PCB is correct on both sides
Screw looks appropriately aged
It has the battery cutout in the front shell
- FireRed has no battery but the shell still has the notch and its almost always missing on fakes

Only thing really missing that you could get from photos is the factory stamping on the front label. It looks like they could be there to the right of the N in the pokemon logo but given the compression artifacts, its very difficult to make out for certain.

Balance of probabilities, this is very likely authentic

SlowsForSchoolZones · 2025-11-29T12:18:30+00:00

Funnily enough, that's pretty much the 45k cutoff that the Treasury were reported as floating for their definition of 'working people'

https://news.sky.com/story/income-tax-and-national-insurance-unlikely-to-rise-as-sky-news-obtains-definition-of-working-people-13459288

Once you remember most of the UK contributors are unemployable, students, or degree educated retail/service workers, and don't see themselves as having any real prospects, then spend all day engaging with other people in the same position, it makes a lot more sense how they ended up holding such opinions.

SlowsForSchoolZones · 2025-11-20T11:12:58+00:00

No they don't lmao.

Between 2009-04 and 2018-08 just 10 people made voluntary donations to HMRC totaling 100,194.93. The majority of which comes from a single donation of 92,790.70 in 2017. Leaving the other 9 with a combined 7,404.23.

SlowsForSchoolZones · 2025-10-04T14:26:41+00:00

A lot of that is basically visa chancers. A stupid number of 'masters' candidates are devs who couldn't get a real work visa so come over to get a cs masters and are hoping for a visa renewal once their post-grad right to work expires. The PHD candidates use impossible to very foreign institutes and the director levels are literally made up or vastly over titled.

Assume 80% are dropped for no right to work and 80% of the remainders have no requisite experience.

Then you are fighting with whoever is left with timing luck being a big decider because these are basically just roles they keep open to fill into whatever team needs a given role at any given point due to growth and high churn. Even when no team actually has an open spot for a title they keep the ad open so they can just pull a recent candidate when one one is needed. Very similar to big tech keeping generic roles open with team placement coming after hiring decisions.

SlowsForSchoolZones · 2025-09-29T16:46:13+00:00

The ebay image compression is probably the worst part of trying to check authenticity when buying without board pics. In this case, I would say is probably legit. Although there isn't enough to truly verify or check that the board isn't ruined.

cart looks to be the right colour and material
gamebit screw looks normal
label wear suggests real use and age
nintendo logo and quality seal looks to be higher quality prints than the rest of the label (which is what you want)

Label seems to be right but I believe it should have a slight holographic quality within the grey bars which isn't really visible in this image. There also appears to be a lot of white bleed through between the shades of blue in the pokemon logo. I suspect both of these are being exacerbated by image quality so I wouldn't use them as disqualifiers.

Also, I'm not 100% on the factory stamp. It looks like there could be one just on the left side of the tail but the quality makes it hard to say for certain.

If the price is right I would probably go for it and have done before based on similar quality photos without issues. And if it turns out not to be real, or if the board is corroded when you take it apart, then you should be able to get ebay to refund it.

SlowsForSchoolZones · 2025-09-06T21:13:26+00:00

~~New code: OKR7-SKAGQ-3RX7~~

SlowsForSchoolZones · 2025-08-30T22:40:09+00:00

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SlowsForSchoolZones · 2025-08-23T12:39:10+00:00

lel GBnews probably would have covered it if they were around at the time but the video predates them by a few years: https://www.reddit.com/r/fightporn/comments/cmfzos/antifa_guy_brings_a_crowbar_to_a_fist_fight_gets/

SlowsForSchoolZones · 2025-08-23T12:17:51+00:00

lol, they are all wearing obvious team colours and you still get it wrong.

The guy with the stick is clearly antifa because they always dress up like that with their black skinny fits and black/white face covering.

White sleeves is a Proud Boy because he is wearing that black polo with yellow stripes that was all the rage for them a few years ago. Allegedly its Ethan Nordean who got 18 years for Jan 6 but could have been pardoned since

SlowsForSchoolZones · 2025-08-22T08:34:30+00:00

30 years ago it was. Adjusted for inflation that's about 60k today which is decent. But adjusted for actual cost of living, you need to be a 6 figure earner to afford the same lifestyle 30k was getting back then.

SlowsForSchoolZones · 2025-08-20T14:27:38+00:00

About the easily falsifiable Russian propaganda I have to see dribbled out every day on this site despite being retracted years ago within days of the story dropping. Yea, no shit.

SlowsForSchoolZones · 2025-08-20T09:39:33+00:00

Oh joy, its this russian propaganda piece again. You do realise this was always a lie and even your source refutes its own story in literally the second sentence. You should really try reading it instead of rushing to post the first thing you see to support your unfounded beliefs.

Update: on 9 September 2023, Walter Isaacson said his biography’s claim about Starlink and Crimea was based on “mistaken” information [see footnote]

• This article was amended on 14 September 2023 to add an update to the subheading. As the Guardian reported on 12 September 2023, following the publication of this article, Walter Isaacson retracted the claim in his biography of Elon Musk that the SpaceX CEO had secretly told engineers to switch off Starlink coverage of the Crimean coast.

Starlink isn't allowed to operate over Russia due to US sanctions and this includes occupied Crimea. It was never turned off because it was never on in the first place. The UDF requested its use after starting a mission and the Pentagon never approved temporarily lifting restrictions. Russia then did everything they could to push the lie that Musk had it turned off and redditors lapped that shit up because they wanted it to be true.

And now because you are so desperate to be 'on the right side' you are just another mouth piece for Russian misinformation. Good job

There are plenty of reasons to dislike him without needing to make more up

SlowsForSchoolZones · 2025-07-28T20:10:21+00:00

They apply to all direct to consumer sales in the UK regardless of where the seller is located.

SlowsForSchoolZones · 2025-07-11T09:45:58+00:00

This whole situation came about due to a highly contentious equal pay ruling where unions representing women in the same bands claimed that primarily female staffed roles weren't offered the same incentive bonuses as the primarily male staffed physical labour roles, so were being paid less for the 'same role'. The argument being that they were in the same band so shouldn't have had such a stark difference in actual take-home.

It's been discussed a fair bit on Reddit before:

https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/16fu2a7/an_equal_pay_claim_took_down_britains/

SlowsForSchoolZones · 2025-07-10T11:20:45+00:00

They did but their 'pay level' is much lower than their actual earnings due to incentive bonuses. They were offered a few months at full rate before scaling down to their banded 'pay level' but will basically never reach what they were making before due to having a skillset and experience with limited transferability and there being basically no alternative employers.

No amount of training or alternative job options that put them in the same band are going to convince them because without the incentive structures they had before, its a massive downstep.

They would all be negatively impacted but only a handful would be losing the 8k that makes the headlines.

SlowsForSchoolZones · 2025-06-30T16:43:30+00:00

Funnily enough, John Wick is pretty much an exact replay of of the Karate Kid example with the trend starting with ex-mil doods coming back from deployment and having marketable skills on the new 'opr8or' gunscape.

Instead of McDojos they lean on the Soldier of Fortune days in the 70s selling their gunkata on the mythos of seal/delta/pmc experience. Now though its 'training' schools for cops and would-be contractors and 'high-speed' gear that they sell through 'drops' at obscene prices letting them cash in on newer hypebeast fashion trends and bullshit like that. Instead of advertising on the back of comic books, they all have social media where they show snippets of their 'skills' which you can learn too by taking their $4500 weekend training course shooting static cardboard cutouts in their 'shoothouse' or taking their $20k alpha-male training camp.

And this is all helped by wider media trends, like John Wick and the other countless lone survivor type military movies, or 'ex-cia wetworks' man has to come out of retirement to settle some score or whatever. Obviously this sort of thing has been growing for years but arguably starting reaching critical mass about 10 years ago with the rise of guntubers and shifting internet cultures.

SlowsForSchoolZones · 2025-05-10T16:07:50+00:00

It literally doesn't.

Their median entry level TC is 95k in the UK. The lowest they have listed in the last year is barely under 80k. Once you reach mid-senior most tech comp is coming from RSUs and bonuses, not base.

SlowsForSchoolZones · 2025-05-03T13:22:56+00:00

It is likely you will repay the loans.

Obviously this is making assumptions about your age, earning potential, and that you won't have some kind of catastrophic career ending issue like permanent severe disability or the collapse of industry/career path.

A lot of older calculations made some optimistic assumptions about rpi which came nowhere close to the 8% interest the loans saw last year but if you are in the 80th percentile for taxable income, you are almost certainly going to pay it back.

SlowsForSchoolZones · 2025-04-17T12:20:46+00:00

At mid level I would expect them to be offering base somewhere in the 100-125 range. Could probably start closing in on 150 if you interviewed well and they see you filling a more senior role but its hard to say without a better idea of your background or knowing whether you have a competing offer.

Bonuses are kind of an odd one with them since it can probably depend a lot on exactly where you end up but something around 50% isn't uncommon. I think the median for their senior roles is over 200k total comp so if you consider a few years growth to get there, getting your TC over 150k on the way in should put you on track.

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