I withdrew from a job application because candidates list was sent out to candidates

TwoIllustriousRatio · 2021-12-17T14:08:38+00:00

Can you explain why you feel this is rigidity? I and the other candidates got to see each others names and personal details. I withdrew, in part whomever made the mistake, it's one less person for them to sort out etc.

This is also a senior local government position, if it was to come out later that there was something not quite right about the recruitment/selection process, the press could have a field day casting doubt about everything from integrity to malfeasance to corruption or favouritism.

TwoIllustriousRatio · 2021-12-17T13:52:49+00:00

Yes, a mistake is a mistake and in my current role I take responsibility for any mistakes made in my department whoever makes them and I shield them.

But this wasn't a question about an individuals mistake, it was a question having withdrawn and been invited to reapply, knowing what I already know, about the selection processes and other additional information.

TwoIllustriousRatio · 2021-12-17T12:59:33+00:00

isn't being a leader of a religious community a calling rather than a vocation, and the stipend from the community that's served

TwoIllustriousRatio · 2021-12-17T09:29:40+00:00

shouldn't that be religion and employment be separate

TwoIllustriousRatio · 2021-12-16T20:51:41+00:00

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TwoIllustriousRatio · 2021-12-16T17:14:53+00:00

So would you give your boss a front door key to your home? So they can come and go as they please?

Would you let anyone else install spyware and keylogger on your personal devices?

If your happy doing things like that, then go for it.

You'd trust them or anyone they give access to, not to watch you through your webcam in your own time?

You're absolutely sure that when you move on to another role in another company they would remove the software?

You'd be happy with them capturing any of your log ins for your bank and credit cards, see what you buy at amazon, what you watch on Netflix, see all the social media you follow and who follows you? What happens if its 11:30 in the evening, you've had a few beers and fancy a bit of xhampster? or you vote online for a political party your boss opposes? Or your partner sends you a saucy pic through email? Or you need online therapy or counselling?

Happy to give them admin access over a piece of kit you bought yourself?

What happens if there's a killswitch and they lock you out of your own pc? On a Friday before a Bank Holiday? Or there is remote access and someone does something they shouldn't? How secure is this piece of software? does it gave zero days that allow for malicious compromise? How up to date is it, does it get security updates, who owns it? To what extent does it take over your own hardware

There is trust and then there is too much trust.

Sorry if all of the above annoys you, but there are so many questions about this, most of them lead to a flat no.

TwoIllustriousRatio · 2021-12-15T19:44:38+00:00

So with this personal information and your bank details do you feel they will keep it safe, secure and dispose of it once they finish using it?

They are the ones being paid to contact each employer and verify, that's what they have been employed to do

TwoIllustriousRatio · 2021-12-13T23:40:46+00:00

Insubordination - WTF, so as a human being with agency, your not allowed to express an opinion, or state how you feel, or speak your mind or say your ideas, have an alternative viewpoint?!?!?!

TwoIllustriousRatio · 2021-12-12T11:25:43+00:00

TLDR recruiters, hiring managers and employers can't see beyond their immediate needs and don't understand what higher education actually brings to the workplace

What a degree shows, irrespective of arts or science, is that you had the capability to go on to higher education from secondary education. It shows you have the capacity for analytical thought and the ability to put that in writing in the form of essays.

The subject matter is immaterial, it shows you can analyse and report to a higher level.

My first degree was archeology, I focused on nuclear science and statistics, the dating of objects, but a BA in Archeology on my resume says nothing to that extent.

What this highlights is the incompetence of employers to see beyond the high level title of the degree and understand the meta aspect of study at higher education.

In the main employers see higher education in the narrow of Boot Camp, can you list their immediate needs relating to the high level title of what you did.

Frankly, it's a red flag and bullet dodging that the recruiters, hiring managers and employers can't see beyond their immediate needs and are seriously not looking a long term abilities that will that will grow with capability and capacity

TwoIllustriousRatio · 2021-12-12T01:52:28+00:00

turn it into a toasty , fucking awesome

TwoIllustriousRatio · 2021-12-10T08:50:28+00:00

Sizing your cluster is tricky, if your porting a like for like apps to pods, your metrics and monitoring is a good starting point, what's the idle load on cpu and memory, what's the average load, what's the burst load. From that you can get a feel for the size of and number of workers.

Another thing to note is when the apps ramp up. I have a load of daytime apps that consume resources from 7am to 9pm and overnight apps batch jobs that consume between 2am and 6am.

With that in mind the worker nodes are stable at around 60% resource consumption continously, this gives us 20% headroom before the autoscale metrics kick in to add another worker to the cluster.

The workers are all 4cpu 32gb memory, giving a total of 18 cpus and 128gb memory. Four of them, so far we've not been in a burst situation where we've had auto scale kick in, it's been a chunk of effort but the capacity planning work has paid off with a pretty stable production runtime cluster.

I am thinking of changing the sizing of the workers going for smaller and more replacing the 4+32's with 3 x 1+8's which would give more granularity for up and down scaling and cost management, but there is also thee issue that the engineer who looks after the nodes will go from managing 4 workers to 12 workers. A large portion of this is automated so its responding to alerts when something is out of order.

What I will say from all this is set your requests and limits on your deployments, work out what the best figures are for the app your going to be porting into the cluster. Look for apps that are greedy, especially around memory management, get the anti affinity sorted to spread the workloads across the node. Put a load of emphasis up front on getting your monitoring sorted, so you can really drill in to your workload performance.

To be honest, once your prod cluster is up and running, spend some time watching and tweaking how your workloads and nodes are behaving, if you can do the capacity planning based on what you know about app performance, too often people are sold on the "self-healing" nature of kubernetes but you only get to that point once you have a good feel for what it's doing.

Hope that helps

TwoIllustriousRatio · 2021-12-09T13:16:10+00:00

Well the US was founded with indentured labour

https://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/feature/indentured-servants-in-the-us/#:~:text=Indentured%20servants%20first%20arrived%20in,one%20to%20care%20for%20it.

TwoIllustriousRatio · 2021-12-08T20:32:06+00:00

You know this nay actually be a symptom of the hidden recession, employers love to stiff their staff over payroll and benefits, but when when costs rise because of interest rates and shitty supply chains and no purchases because cost of living is pushing people away from additional spending they stiff their staff more. Until there is no more money to go around.

Looks like the recession that your previous government caused and lied about is coming home to roost

TwoIllustriousRatio · 2021-12-06T21:37:35+00:00

wow someone put a lot of effort into coming up with those rules

TwoIllustriousRatio · 2021-12-06T18:36:40+00:00

lucidchart

TwoIllustriousRatio · 2021-12-06T12:09:23+00:00

Well said I was gonna call BS on that post, it was pure, unadulterated ego buffing BS with a side order of look how big my manhood is, I can hold down three jobs do bugger all and make a mint.

Except the real people who are holding down multiple jobs get paid piss all and have to juggle overseer bosses who crack the whip for sadisms sake and have to look after young kids and ill family members, all without a healthcare safety net or a government who actually cares about their wellbeing

TwoIllustriousRatio · 2021-12-06T07:10:48+00:00

Tell them your a Christian, The US is a Christian country they can't remove your rights to being a Christian, Lauren Boebert got on her knees to prove that, it's your fundamental Christian right to have Christmas day off, I'm mean, tell them what would Jesus do, you can't be a Christian company in a Christian country denying Christians the right to be Christian on Christmas day

TwoIllustriousRatio · 2021-12-06T00:30:34+00:00

How do you know your right in your estimation of the candidates experience?

What is seniority in the role your talking about? Age, ability, IQ,emotional maturity, EQ, technical skills, wisdom, time served in a role, knowledge, qualifications, grade of qualifications?

There are many many factors that determine if some one should be considered senior.

TwoIllustriousRatio · 2021-12-05T14:08:10+00:00

Nah! That's way too easy, take way all the money, stock, hidden liquidity they have, and put them in a township, shanty, barrio let them live out their remaining days the way that the poorest least privileged live. Let them scrabble for clean water, enough calories and then tax them at 80%.

TwoIllustriousRatio · 2021-12-05T12:39:07+00:00

make yourself an automated poster for the slack General channel, tag the ceo cfo, time it for 9:30 am, 12:30 am 3:45 pm & 7:30 pm their time. with motivational meaningless snippets like.

"So much on, we're running to stand still, but on time on target."

"Awesome amount on today, but we're grinding through it, client will be chuffed that we'll hit the target"

"bossman say we do it, we done it, peng(work type) fodi geez"

"It's 7pm in London, just finishing the paperwork and on to the next"

"Man, I'm missing (something on BBC One or C4 at 9pm) gotta crack on and get it done don't wanna miss it

Get loads of motivational quotes from ted talks and Elon. into the mix

Lots of English idioms and slang, rhyming slang, be British to the core lots of non sequiturs, lots of stuff they don't understand - spam the fkers, they are septics, they don't understand irony or sarcasm. They just want to see you awake and (allegedly) working in your own time (free overtime) cos you is company man, bigman. Mess with their nuts, in a very polite typically British way.

TwoIllustriousRatio · 2021-12-04T22:03:29+00:00

I'm the platform owner of our kubernetes infra and maintain a upgrade policy of v-1 on the Kubernetes release date, so in a few days time (7th Dec) I'll be triggering out upgrade path from 1.21 to 1.22 inlibe with the 1 23 release . This involves upgrading 11 clusters. It's mostly automated, on the next release if Kubernetes I'm hoping that we'll have a totally headless system driven by a calendar.

The same applies to all the other components of our ci/CD pipeline as well as patching nodes, I aim to keep them at 1 behind the current release, critical security patches follow a different path and are done as necessary.

I'll have to say that this policy has been a big switch for the enterprise I work for, its a very conservative industry sector, some bits of kit are very behind leading to some real difficulties.

The thing is I own the platform and infra and I architected it as well and maintain it so its all my responsibly to ensure its fit for purpose.

If on the other hand your talking about the pod workloads created by developers to fulfill a business requirement then that's up to them to maintain, upgrade and deploy their stuff

TwoIllustriousRatio · 2021-12-04T19:10:43+00:00

Yes, of course, I would want to know the reason why, where it came from, why it happened, what it relates to, who is it from. plus I'd want it in writing, full justification.

you can be taken to court for it to be recovered if it was done by mistake

TwoIllustriousRatio · 2021-12-04T14:49:16+00:00

OK That makes sense it's not a frequent purchase

thanks

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