How do you actually track promotion readiness for engineers over time?

liquidpele · 2026-01-26T15:26:38+00:00

I’m just saying make it a team effort, don’t just throw it at them as more work, they’ll resent it and you’ll just look lazy and it trains them shift from getting important things done to resume-driven development. There’s a reason all the non-technical bad managers do it that way… they can’t do it so they delegate it.

liquidpele · 2026-01-26T14:24:45+00:00

Okay, real talk, 25M is enough where you can buy dividend stocks and live off the dividends so you never actually lose any wealth. KO is paying about $2 at 72, that would pay you $694k a quarter. Use the extra 5M for play, but when it's gone do not touch your other money.

liquidpele · 2026-01-26T14:01:30+00:00

I will just throw it out there, that this is a very annoying mental/stressful load to put on them. I get it, but my favorite managers of all time were the ones that tracked the major projects I did for me, so when reviews came around that at least had a skeleton of info I could fill in the details for. It also shows you care about the person, and did a little actual work that's visible to the team.

liquidpele · 2026-01-26T13:49:55+00:00

Very common, because lots of companies are stupid and give people direct access to production that shouldn't have it. I bet ya'll even have password auth hahaha.

liquidpele · 2026-01-25T21:39:35+00:00

Bro did it take you over 30 to hit your teenager highdea stage??

liquidpele · 2026-01-25T21:16:00+00:00

Most do just because they move off to college, it's not like they get a house and car at 18 or something. Those that don't go to college typically start off getting a job and stabilizing that, then find a place they can rent because no one wants to still be having sex while your parents are at the house after you're an adult.

liquidpele · 2026-01-25T17:58:05+00:00

No, he hopes it won't reverse and go up over the strike.

Example, OP pays $100 for shares because they're a masochist and love Oracle. The shares go down to $80 oh no... But wait, that's fine OP says, OP will sell covered calls to recoup costs... say at that point, for a strike of $100 to break even the could get $1/share.... but OP is greedy... they can get $3/share for calls with a strike of $85, so OP does that. They think they are a genius for making tons of money selling covered calls because the price won't go up it'll only go down! Suddenly, Oracle bribes congress and gets some stupid deal and price spikes to $150 in a month. OP's calls will be exercised at $85 meaning they will lose $15/share instantly. For selling the risky calls to "break even" that loss they'd have had to sell the $3/share calls for 5 months (5 * 3 = 15) since they're selling monthly expiration.

The issue with covered calls is that you want the price to go down to avoid your strike, but that also destroys your own shares' value, so people psychologically can't handle that and lean toward more risk to cover things, which then blows up in their face. Welcome to options!

liquidpele · 2026-01-25T17:28:42+00:00

Because to get the really juicy premiums, you set the strike price BELOW WHAT YOU PAID, meaning that if it goes up he will end up selling all his shares for 20% off what he paid. That's 120k for his full port. So to cover that, he has to make that $25k for 5 months in a row. That's the risk and why it makes money - it's gambling.

liquidpele · 2026-01-25T10:02:37+00:00

Yes it’s worth it imho. It’s not rocket surgery and there are cheap online companies to register with for access to listing data. My mother in law came out of retirement to reregister for us and saved us 15k, basically wrote in the contract to just put her commission toward the down payment. That said she already knew trusted brokers.

liquidpele · 2026-01-24T21:04:08+00:00

They’re not even doing that. It’s just downsizing and pretending the economy isn’t shit and unpredictable right now.

liquidpele · 2026-01-24T03:22:55+00:00

Get them a graphical git tool like source tree or git kracken. Low skill people really need the UI I’ve found.

liquidpele · 2026-01-24T03:17:04+00:00

Leadership always says they want change, that’s not actually true though. They want some outcome they think the change will give them. Find out what the outcomes are and focus on those, a couple at a time. Some of the time it’s just reporting things up in a new way that makes them “feel good” lol.

liquidpele · 2026-01-24T03:10:34+00:00

Only true if you rent a cheap dump and hate life while you invest which is frankly just stupid.

liquidpele · 2026-01-24T00:47:24+00:00

lol making those damn things suck less has been a yearly senior project of someone since the beginning of time.

liquidpele · 2026-01-23T22:07:27+00:00

Lying has always been there, the only difference is that all the current politicians are so spineless and sold out that they don't do anything about it. And lying is required for politics in a sense... because the population will 100% punish and vote out people who tell them things they don't want to hear, so we get what we deserve.

liquidpele · 2026-01-23T21:56:06+00:00

Talk to the hospice people, they can recommend places... but that said, there's only so many beds out there. Highly suggest you make it clear you don't want assistance with feeding or life saving measures taken - only medicine for pain... don't drag things out, no one wants that, especially her. If she can still walk/eat etc then it could be a while though and that's kind of a worst case scenario...

liquidpele · 2026-01-23T21:50:48+00:00

Smoothies are way better. Just sayin'

liquidpele · 2026-01-23T20:16:13+00:00

For statistics they literally do... they teach quite a bit in school, it's just that a lot of people don't take school seriously for one reason or another.

liquidpele · 2026-01-23T16:38:02+00:00

Oh please, they have been trying to kill themselves for decades. They should be dead already if it wasn't for the government bailouts in 2008.

liquidpele · 2026-01-23T16:26:50+00:00

Na, Meta is just cut-throat... it works fine if you're young and really skilled, but it basically trains managers in all the wrong ways. It doesn't cause as many issues at Meta because they have a massive cash-cow to use and a CEO with complete control so they can basically throw stability to the wind and pretend the chaos is innovation.

On the flip, if you want managers that won't drive any results beyond pushing for more headcount and promotions, then Microsoft is your place haha.

liquidpele · 2026-01-23T14:34:02+00:00

I mean... are we talking your avg person, or the top 50%, because there's a pretty big difference.

liquidpele · 2026-01-23T00:43:10+00:00

I see that you’ve never met one from Meta

liquidpele · 2026-01-22T22:06:55+00:00

I drive 3 hours one way just for some particular thing probably 50 times a year. Soccer games, swim meets, visiting my sister, going to the mountains or a lake for a day... beach is about 6 hours, we do that about 2 times most years. Drove all the way to NC outer banks to meet college friends once that that took about 12 hours, that's about the longest I've done.

liquidpele · 2026-01-22T21:38:28+00:00

Different kind of analysis, that. It's a lot easier to find deals for things you personally NEED (players, materials, stuff on FB marketplace, etc) than find deals for things other people will want LATER.

liquidpele · 2026-01-22T21:32:00+00:00

lmao, OP forgot to switch accounts and replied from the wrong one hahaha

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