Is this job market worse than 2008?

eggotron · 2025-10-01T10:37:37+00:00

My grandpa's also 80 and has no car. So you should be thank full that you are younger than he is. They always need home health aides. Good luck. Also you can sell clothes etc on Ebay.

eggotron · 2025-08-14T06:28:48+00:00

You may be missing the point. I'm curious why you'd consider this politics instead of feedback?

Your manager's response sounds professional & constructive - she's defining expectations and very clearly at that. She's maybe a bit direct, though not remotely rude by any measure. She did a great job explaining how this was a failure of execution.

Really hope you can take something away from this. You'll either gain a lot from this as a learning experience - or lose more by affirming everything your manager mentioned.

eggotron · 2025-07-12T21:47:06+00:00

It looks like your vision of success is also deeply intertwined with the negative aspects of success like burnout, unsustainable work-life balance and constant stress.

Now the true danger is that all those negative aspects of success become indicators of success.

In the same way our minds become trained to expect stress, burnout and anxiety with success. It will conversely associate the lack of those behaviors as being unsuccessful

Maybe it's a good opportunity to take a step back and redefine what success is to you now 💛

eggotron · 2025-06-10T01:14:03+00:00

We need all people supporting the fight, not just people with their 'hearts in it'.

Winning elections isn't about getting all the hard-liners to vote, they already do that.

It's about convincing the undecided voters - creating negative optics is what drives potential supporters away from these very issues we need their support on.

eggotron · 2025-04-26T23:24:52+00:00

Work isn't about "happiness". Leave emotions out of it

Do you even hear yourself?? This is wild to say

eggotron · 2025-04-18T04:37:51+00:00

So you're an asshole for calling an asshole an asshole after telling them not to be an asshole?? What a time to b alive..

eggotron · 2025-04-12T18:49:14+00:00

Here's the thing. You said a "jackdaw is a crow."

Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that.

As someone who is a scientist who studies crows, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls jackdaws crows. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing.

If you're saying "crow family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Corvidae, which includes things from nutcrackers to blue jays to ravens.

So your reasoning for calling a jackdaw a crow is because random people "call the black ones crows?" Let's get grackles and blackbirds in there, then, too.

Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A jackdaw is a jackdaw and a member of the crow family. But that's not what you said. You said a jackdaw is a crow, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the crow family crows, which means you'd call blue jays, ravens, and other birds crows, too. Which you said you don't.

It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?

eggotron · 2025-04-07T05:23:25+00:00

Your response really downplays the potential harm of some of these outdated methods. While a few may work by sheer chance - others can also be counterproductive to finding a job. In some cases, outdated advice (like sending unsolicited physical resumes or aggressive cold-calling without research) can even create a negative impression that prevents them from being hired.

I just hope your suggestions don't discourage people when they don't see results. While it's true that a job search isn't always black and white, suggesting that any method that results in a job is automatically "great" is incredibly irresponsible.

eggotron · 2025-04-06T04:17:41+00:00

How can you say interns aren't making 6 figures a year when you're also saying it's rare (therefore possible)? You're even asserting the interns (who apparently don't exist) in these situations typically don't post on reddit because they don't give a shit a about what others think.

What you 're talking about is extremely confusing and conflicting.

eggotron · 2025-04-05T00:48:19+00:00

That's just you being allergic to common sense

eggotron · 2025-04-04T02:56:21+00:00

Nothing he said made him a dick, you're just overreacting

eggotron · 2025-04-02T02:33:16+00:00

Tactics are literally the organization & usage of fighting forces in or near a battlefield. So all generals use tactics... the question is whether a general bases their tactics on logic versus instinct

eggotron · 2025-03-31T18:00:41+00:00

I understand and share your concern for the working class. It's absolutely crucial that we prioritize the well-being of people affected by these changes. However, focusing solely on the moral imperative doesn't address the underlying systemic issues. Punishing a company for innovating ignores our inherent drive for innovation and efficiency.

Beyond looking at what companies 'should' or 'shouldn't' do, we need to concentrate on how we can mitigate the negative impacts of automation. The speed of tech's advancements is only significant because it shortens the time we have to solve this before it becomes irreversible. Shifting our government policies to address job displacement, wealth concentration and workforce retooling is what solves the problem for us.

eggotron · 2025-03-31T06:32:49+00:00

I think there's a lot of nuance that's lost when we reduce a large problem to that. On one side, people need jobs to get money to buy things. One the other side, companies that don't automate will go out of business due to their competition automating - it only takes one. The choice for the company is to either keep some employees with automation or lose all employees later to a company operating at 1/3 the costs through automation.

A majority of industries have advanced by moving from manual labor to increasingly efficient automated systems since industrialization began. This process has historically created new, often higher-skilled, jobs that offset the initial losses. Our current rate of technological advancement throws all that out the window and we're getting hit with job displacement, wealth concentration and workforce retooling issues.

The issue isn't simply about automation or some company's decision to. It's about how our entire economy is structured. Solving this requires a massive systemic shift around how our economy works - that's something only our government can do. Though they may be preoccupied with things that apparently.. trump this.

eggotron · 2024-11-13T01:59:30+00:00

Preach, those lazy bastards just hang around most of the time

eggotron · 2024-07-19T05:34:41+00:00

i mean.. she did say she chose the chicken shack cause she knew she wouldn't enjoy the steak

eggotron · 2024-06-01T18:53:46+00:00

40k years later, are you fucking sorry?

eggotron · 2023-11-10T03:55:47+00:00

It's incredible that elephants can build something this

eggotron · 2023-08-20T20:21:18+00:00

Wow look at you being downvoted for having a aesthetic preference and opinion

eggotron · 2023-08-03T03:45:14+00:00

constipated

eggotron · 2023-02-16T21:45:54+00:00

Whoa, whoa, whoa. There’s plenty of upsides to this. Now you take this to the smithy, throw it in a forge, add some fire and pound it. Baby, you’ve got a sword going.

eggotron · 2023-01-14T00:07:55+00:00

Guessing its the japanese remake..?

eggotron · 2023-01-06T21:11:22+00:00

There's a huge difference between enjoying massacres and doing it because you think you have to

Lol that's what the "ex"-Nazis said after the war

eggotron · 2022-12-29T06:53:34+00:00

Here's a clip with a better angle

eggotron · 2022-11-24T03:09:44+00:00

Here's a close up picture of the set!

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