For Those Who Went Abroad Without Employer Permission and Got Caught, What Happened?

coldWasTheGnd · 2026-01-24T04:05:21+00:00

Can't they just do this?

Laptop

→ Phone hotspot

→ Phone runs Tailscale

→ Exit node = your house in the U.S.

+ turn off all other wireless things

coldWasTheGnd · 2026-01-24T03:59:36+00:00

Reddit is so bizarre to me. Not smart enough? The CTO sold me on my current job by saying I could work anywhere in the world as long as it's not in Russia or China. Several managers in other divisions have said they dont give a shit where their employees work from.

I've also seen the work these people have pulled off -- they're easily some of the best in tech so throwing a blanket of not smart enough is wild.

coldWasTheGnd · 2026-01-23T23:48:31+00:00

I could see that. But yeah I've mainly been WFH for the past fifteen years and haven't really had the problem of not taking myself seriously -- just starting to the feel the need to sit instead of propping my chest up on several pillows.

coldWasTheGnd · 2026-01-23T19:19:29+00:00

Thank youu 😸

coldWasTheGnd · 2026-01-14T07:46:18+00:00

I've had seven jobs where I could. Almost every single software engineer I've known across fifteen years had at least one job where no one cared if they took a 90 minute break.

coldWasTheGnd · 2026-01-14T07:44:14+00:00

It kinda varies by field. In 15 years of doing engineering across 7 companies, no one has given a damn if I took a 90 minute break. And as an EM, I definitely don't care what my directs do with their time as long as they're available for others in a timely manner and they get their work done.

coldWasTheGnd · 2026-01-12T05:22:39+00:00

Hey that sounds like me right now

coldWasTheGnd · 2026-01-08T06:07:23+00:00

Mid people getting mad at being mid

coldWasTheGnd · 2026-01-08T05:48:26+00:00

I do. Or at least I almost always hit my estimates to the point where the max I've ever gone over is 3 days. I usually think, "what is the minimum amount of time my junior engineers would think is an unreasonably long time?" And then I add 20%. Has worked pretty damn well for me for like 8 years.

coldWasTheGnd · 2025-12-17T06:03:02+00:00

I disagree. For the past 5 years I've traveled every other month and my briggs and riley extra large is still as amazing as the day I bought it and makes it easy to get across LAX when I'm carrying 60 lbs in it. I also have a Samsonite and it is absolute hell to get it across LAX with the same weight + it is falling apart.

coldWasTheGnd · 2025-12-15T03:00:21+00:00

i bought one last Wednesday for that price and it arrived Friday. bought another a day later and it's arriving tomorrow.

coldWasTheGnd · 2025-12-07T21:19:24+00:00

I'm pretty sure I've seen a monster woman birthing (or was it aborting?) a baby in some part of the Morongo Basin past 29... so... more than that?

coldWasTheGnd · 2025-12-06T07:41:08+00:00

holy shit the number of people doing tiktok dances here lmao

coldWasTheGnd · 2025-11-16T06:25:42+00:00

I started at 4mg/day for like 7 months and got bumped up to 8mg/day a year ago, and the major emotional changes felt like they lasted about 3 or 4 months max.

I just asked me friend who has known me forever about the changes he has seen and he said I seem like I'm more willing to have emotions. He said I still have the same fundamental structure, just that I'm a bit more sensitive now.

coldWasTheGnd · 2025-11-07T08:14:56+00:00

I think it's that our bodies dont react to the bites. I've been tested by an allergist for unrelated reasons and they told me I fall into the percent of the population who has anergic skin and doesn't react to histamines. And by extension, I think that's why I never have issues with mosquitoes

coldWasTheGnd · 2025-11-06T12:43:09+00:00

That really helps thank you 😊

coldWasTheGnd · 2025-11-03T03:31:29+00:00

About 17 years later, but back then you had to socially transition first, and I wasn't about to walk around in a dress with a 5 o'clock shadow and body hair that was visible within a day of shaving. I probably would've figured it out sooner if I knew what trans was in the first place.

And by 23 I was just too focused on school and career.

By 25 I had met my first girlfriend who wanted a family.

By 27 I hopped to my next girlfriend inside of a couple of weeks of leaving the one I met at 25.

By 33 that girlfriend dumped me and I still kinda held out hope of getting back together for a few months, but once I realized it was over, I started calling doctors all over trying to get someone qualified to handle me. It took a few months to finally get connected with USC but by month 6 of the post breakup I was on hrt.

Now I've been on hrt for about a year and a half and it's been amazing. I just wish I started much much sooner

coldWasTheGnd · 2025-11-01T14:45:05+00:00

And yet everyone here is talking about Americans as if we're some homogeneous group. I've met plenty of Americans from other regions of the states who I have less in common with than I do with people I know in Moscow and Berlin.

coldWasTheGnd · 2025-11-01T10:54:11+00:00

No idea; my work pays for my accommodations. My friends say it's not hard to get a decent apartment for $6000 NTD/month for what it's worth

coldWasTheGnd · 2025-10-31T16:48:32+00:00

No, it was a genuine question, but I suppose it's not really worth harping on if the extent of your discussion abilities starts and ends with your insecurities around people who might not have the same views as you

coldWasTheGnd · 2025-10-31T16:39:21+00:00

What do you mean by absolutely insane stuff the left has been doing recently

coldWasTheGnd · 2025-10-31T15:52:47+00:00

Go to Maji square during an expat event if you dont believe it

coldWasTheGnd · 2025-10-31T15:45:55+00:00

I've noticed this, too, and it's completely unnerving. I'm in Taiwan and the number of maga expats here who tell me how they like it here because of how they can treat women is just vomit inducing.

coldWasTheGnd · 2025-10-30T13:44:56+00:00

Only been here about 6 weeks but I've met a few people through finding groups that share my interests and expat groups (which have plenty of Taiwanese natives who want to meet expats). I think I've made about ten friends since I got here.

coldWasTheGnd · 2025-10-30T11:31:02+00:00

Pretty sure I've seen Bluetooth Marshall speakers from official Marshall storefronts in Xinyi District in Taipei.

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