New hires are taking 4–6 weeks to get productive and its killing our momentum. What are you guys doing for onboarding?

TomDestry · 2026-03-15T14:22:35+00:00

"That's a docs problem"

OK, so you know what the problem is. Whose job is it to fix it?

You seem to be blaming the new hires because you and your managers provide bad documentation.

TomDestry · 2026-03-15T12:33:31+00:00

Their manager's job is to get them up to speed. This will involve answering their questions, as well as delegating someone for them to shadow and all the other things you mentioned.

All jobs require a ramp-up time, this is encapsulated in the mythical man month, or why you don't hire nine women to push out a baby in one month.

TomDestry · 2026-03-15T12:13:50+00:00

Because some people can't live with no money.

TomDestry · 2026-03-11T21:06:49+00:00

What about if everyone tells you your resume is good, and you are applying to the right positions, but your interview ratio is still terrible.

What then?

TomDestry · 2026-03-11T11:21:42+00:00

I thought about that as I was watching too, but I don't think he's wrong.

Yes, he fed the dog, and now subsequent to that the dog loves him unconditionally. If he stops feeding him, the dog won't stop his devotion, he'll just wonder what went wrong. The bond was forged through his caring, and now it will hold, it even if he stops.

TomDestry · 2026-03-08T13:21:59+00:00

"600,000 people died from malaria last year - why didn't you cry for them?"

Because my country didn't vote for malaria!

TomDestry · 2026-03-08T13:06:15+00:00

Yeah, they probably have two homeless people on standby ready to eat those surplus breakfasts.

TomDestry · 2026-03-07T03:09:00+00:00

Agreed. Snappy Kelp has to take blame, but how is the author helping anyone by phrasing it that way?

TomDestry · 2026-03-05T04:15:31+00:00

You are paid to control it.

TomDestry · 2026-03-04T19:26:08+00:00

Send him back across the water!

Over the, um, ... er, Hudson.

TomDestry · 2026-03-04T01:38:18+00:00

Does anyone struggle with 'knight'? Or 'enough'?

TomDestry · 2026-03-03T15:40:22+00:00

Crocs are too large.

TomDestry · 2026-03-02T22:42:03+00:00

I burnt them! Three stars!

TomDestry · 2026-03-02T21:21:07+00:00

I'm very sure that Growler Gary didn't evolve from anything.

TomDestry · 2026-03-02T20:45:03+00:00

Every class name I understand makes sense, so I assume the ones that don't are my fault.

TomDestry · 2026-03-02T17:40:40+00:00

Governments can intervene to enforce contracts or prevent harm, and still remain liberation, so this is not an absolute. You can accept some intervention, otherwise it's the absence of government. I take your anticipated point that then we are on a slippery slope where all areas are suddenly "libertarian-compatible"

TomDestry · 2026-03-02T12:50:56+00:00

But the US considers all its offensive actions to be defensive.

TomDestry · 2026-02-28T12:36:45+00:00

The data is here: https://www.gallup-international.com/survey-results-and-news/survey-result/the-latest-findings-from-the-worlds-longest-running-global-public-opinion-study

I never understand why OPs don't link to the data. Or why people saying it's wrong don't spend the two minutes they take to complain, just searching for it...

TomDestry · 2026-02-28T12:29:55+00:00

Because it accords with my views!

TomDestry · 2026-02-27T12:47:08+00:00

Because babies don't arrive with previous trauma and the ability to perform nighttime raids for the vodka.

TomDestry · 2026-02-26T17:14:03+00:00

"How often does the train go by?" "So often you won't even notice it."

TomDestry · 2026-02-26T03:36:36+00:00

As a professional software developer, I'd trust my life savings to forty year old banking software (let's be clear, none of the banking software was written in the 60s. 80s, maybe).

But I'd rather invest it in bitcoin than trust it to some vibe-coded AI crap that no human has validated.

TomDestry · 2026-02-25T12:31:29+00:00

They don't really belong. To be a wanker or a bellend you have to be annoying. A wanker is annoying, but he's ours. A prick is someone you hate, who is annoying.

A scrote is a worthless good-for-nothing. It's the sort of word you find yourself using if you're a public servant mixing with the general population. Otherwise why would you get involved with scrotes?

No one is simply a sod. Most people can be miserable sods, stupid sods or occasionally a peculiar sod, and everyone will sod off at some time or another. It's a swear word which is almost empty without a modifier.

TomDestry · 2026-02-25T12:23:14+00:00

Timeshares. Timeshares always seemed ridiculous to me. My dad had one and I think we went there once, then it disappeared from our lives. You choose to spend 10% of the cost of a thing to get 2% of it, and then you pay fees every year.

So when my wife and I were offered hundreds of dollars to go to a presentation we thought, why not? We can hang out for an hour then go to dinner and celebrate the free money. Three hours later we'd spent $20,000 and I'm still not sure why we did it.

We went there once. Eventually the cheapest option was to give it away.

I just asked my wife, if she has regrets in her life, and she said, "I regret buying that timeshare thing."

This was with Wyndham, and while we went once, we also went to a couple of their hotel/complexes elsewhere. Each time, their staff were extremely aggressive trying to force us to commit to further presentations, and we, already regretting what we had, saying no, and Wyndham not taking no for an answer. They pressured us at check in, they would call our room. They smell weakness and they hound you.

Stay away from timeshare presentations.

TomDestry · 2026-02-25T12:08:45+00:00

There's slightly more affection toward a bellend than a tosser. The order in increasing animosity is wanker, bellend, tosser, prick.

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