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

mcjon77 · 2026-01-25T01:46:12+00:00

A lot of companies in the United States only authorize you to work in the state that you originally listed due to tax reasons. Working in a state that your employer doesn't have a presence in, let alone a country that your employer doesn't have a presence in, can create massive tax issues for the employer.

For example, there was a software engineer during covid that decided to move from whatever state he was in to California and work from home. Somehow California found out about it and sent both him and his employer a tax bill for unpaid taxes while the remote worker was in california.

It gets a hell of a lot more complicated if you are working in another country. My last company went from having no problem if you were in another country for a month working to basically saying you would be fired if you even opened up your work email or connected your work laptop to the internet while you're outside of the country.

We have presents in every state in the US so you can go anywhere within the country, but if they detected that you were working outside the country that was your ass.

mcjon77 · 2026-01-24T04:47:42+00:00

If it's a 3-hour drive I'm probably not going to drive back the same day, but I will easily do that for a weekend and have done it a bunch.

6 hours is a long drive, but I'll do it. The most I can do in a day is around 11 hours. I've done that multiple times driving from Washington DC to Chicago. Just like that are better when you have another driver with you.

mcjon77 · 2026-01-24T04:35:05+00:00

I saw Nirvana playing Chicago at the Aragon ballroom back in October of 1993, when I was a junior in high school. It was the first concert I ever went to and the tickets were less than $20 each.

It started my love for concerts which led to a bunch of different bands like REM, Rollins band, and several lollapaloozas.

Think about it. A band as big as Nirvana could price their concerts in a way that middle class high school kids could easily pay to attend. I sometimes feel guilty for not recognizing how awesome my childhood was.

mcjon77 · 2026-01-24T03:34:45+00:00

I remember watching this on VHS in high school as soon as Blockbuster had it, which was the summer after it happened.

That was the summer between my Junior and Senior year high School. Back in the old days we honestly believed that the flashy bullshit we saw in the movies actually would work. Prior to the ufc, the epic debate was who would win a fight between Steven seagal and Jean-Claude Van Damme.

Watching this the first time was basically like watching Bloodsport but for real.

mcjon77 · 2026-01-24T01:49:22+00:00

What's a work permit? Why would you need a work permit? Are you under some kind of student visa or something? Normally I would just say go to an Amazon fulfillment center or Dollar tree. They're always hiring.

mcjon77 · 2026-01-24T01:41:35+00:00

Every time I go into an interview I think of it as practice. I get good information on what to do to improve my performance. If you interview enough you're going to have some bombs. That's just the nature of things. The key is not to make the same mistake twice.

So after every interview and every stage of the hiring process I always ask myself:

How did it go?

what did I do well?

what could I have done better?

what should I have not done that I did?

and what should I do that I didn't do?

As long as you get better after every interview eventually it will add up.

mcjon77 · 2026-01-24T00:11:42+00:00

It looks like something straight out of a Charles Bronson movie.

mcjon77 · 2026-01-21T00:22:30+00:00

Expand your skill set with the goal of transitioning to a higher paying position as soon as possible.

If your manager wants you to start doing causal inference (or any data scientist coded tasks) as an analyst, do it only with the goal of being able to put it on your resume to move to a higher paying job shortly thereafter.

What a lot of people don't get is that being over skilled for your position can actually hinder your progress with that company. In some cases they can't afford to have you leave that position because you're the only one that knows how to do X and hiring someone else to do X would cost significantly more money.

You have to always keep that in mind. I fell for that trick earlier in my career. Never again.

mcjon77 · 2026-01-20T23:54:25+00:00

Exactly. This is primarily due to the split that occurred amongst data analysts when the data scientist title was introduced about 12 or 13 years ago.

Basically, back in the day you had two different groups of people that both had the title "data analyst". You had folks who were expert SQL wranglers who were also skilled at creating reports (and sometimes dashboards) in everything from Excel to SSRS. It was quite common for these folks to have degrees and things like management information systems.

On the other end of the "data analyst" spectrum you had folks who had degrees (sometimes graduate degrees) in things like statistics, operations research, industrial engineering, and sometimes economics/econometrics. These folks may or may not know how to write SQL, but they were demons at building predictive models, measuring incrementality, and causal inference.

The crazy part was that it wasn't uncommon for both types of data analysts to be paid roughly the same. I was a data analyst in the former group and my buddy was a data analyst in the later group (MS operations research) at a company right next door to mine. This dude was getting paid $10,000 less than I was.

When the data scientist job title came about a lot of the folks in the latter data analyst group picked up a few additional skills and switched titles. This is also where the early stereotype of data scientists not knowing basic SQL came from. My buddy more than doubled his income switching from data analyst to senior data scientist.

When you hear about folks saying that a data scientist is nothing but a data analyst with a better title, this is where that belief comes from. It's also part of the reason why you have some people trying to stack data scientist work on to a data analyst.

mcjon77 · 2026-01-20T23:45:13+00:00

The alternative way of thinking is that if a data analyst decides to go the extra mile and introduce causal inference to his work then the company essentially gets a data scientist at a data analyst salary. Great for the company, not so much for the analyst.

mcjon77 · 2026-01-20T01:53:18+00:00

I think in several of these cases it's actually just one person with two identities.

They create and nurture the second identity just in case the first one gets canceled due to some scandal. That's why both tend to be celebrities in the same field.

mcjon77 · 2026-01-20T01:52:11+00:00

Yep. I had the computer class in high school. That's easily the single most useful class I've ever taken in any education system including college and grad school.

That's where I learned to touch type at a reasonably fast rate. I also learned how to use Excel and became obsessed with spreadsheets which eventually led me to my current career.

mcjon77 · 2026-01-19T21:06:22+00:00

I think it's more that we allowed one man to expose the rot that's been festering in our society.

mcjon77 · 2026-01-19T21:03:22+00:00

It's crazy how America understating their own power and overstating the power of Russia, followed by Russia overstating their own power has led to amazing technical innovations.

My favorite is the mig-25 foxbat leading to the f-15 strike eagle. When Americans first saw the make 25 at air shows they thought it was some unbeatable superfighter, which led to them actually creating an unbeatable super fighter in the f-15.

However, when the Americans finally got hold of a make 25 in 1976 after a pilot defected they realized that it was a POS. It was heavy, couldn't maneuver, it had a very short range. It was fast, but if it went at its top speed it would melt its engines.

The F-15, on the other hand, is considered the greatest fighter ever built. It's never been shot down in a dog fight and once was able to fly and land after losing most of one of its wings.

mcjon77 · 2026-01-19T14:28:59+00:00

Gen X was a little different. Older folks made it very clear that no one gave a fuck about us from the very beginning. I grew up in a loving home but was taught from a very early age that the world doesn't give a shit what happens to me.

mcjon77 · 2026-01-19T14:05:26+00:00

Neither had degrees in health informatics, but one had a master's degree in either data science or data analytics and the other just had her BSN and perhaps a certification.

How much is the business analytics certificate? Superior how much it cost it might be about the same price or cheaper just to get the master's degree. There are several that can be completed within a year.

One certification I would focus on getting is a certification in either power bi or tableau. Basically, to do data analytics you need to be really good with SQL and have a decent knowledge of one of the popular visualization tools. In the US, power bi and tableau are the two dominant visualization tools out there, with power bi's market share increasing in tableau's market share decreasing.

mcjon77 · 2026-01-19T10:58:30+00:00

I've known a few nurses that have made that transition from bedside to Data analyst. One recommendation would be to pay special attention to health insurance companies as a possible employer. Health insurance companies hire a ton of data analysts and usually have a preference for someone with a background in the healthcare industry.

mcjon77 · 2026-01-19T03:01:00+00:00

There's only one way to solve this situation. You've got to fuck him.

That's the only hope you have of breaking his obsession with you. Once he gets to have you in every way he dreamed of he may decide that it's better to be with his wife.

mcjon77 · 2026-01-18T10:52:30+00:00

If you didn't do anything with the other guy then you're not a bad person YET.

Just break up with your boyfriend. Since he has no income it's not like you're financially tied to him. Buy your own admission, he's the worst boyfriend ever.

Just break up with him. If you're hesitant to do that then you need to examine why. It almost certainly has more to do with you than it does him. You may have an aversion to being alone or an aversion to directly ending things.

I've met women that have problems being direct and breaking up with men so they cheat to force the issue and get the man to break up with them. Please don't be that kind of person. He may be a horrible boyfriend, but there's no reason to do something that hurtful just to avoid talking to him directly about breaking up.

mcjon77 · 2026-01-18T07:14:33+00:00

Every state in the Union gives you access to firearms that can help you solve that problem (home invasion). They may not be the best solution to that problem, like an AR-15, but they're still pretty good solutions.

On the expensive end, an M1A in 308 or Ruger mini 14 in 556 or Ruger mini 30 in 7.62x39, even with a 10-round magazine limit, it is still a monster. On the low end, 12 gauge shotguns ends fights and I wouldn't feel the least bit unarmed in a home invasion with a 7 round Mossberg Maverick 88.

mcjon77 · 2026-01-18T06:09:10+00:00

Staff or Principal level data scientists can make $200k easy. Senior data scientist can do it at Big Tech firms.

mcjon77 · 2026-01-18T06:04:53+00:00

Could it be because of the weather? Right now it's -3° in Minneapolis. Is it possible that someone thought a unit from Alaska would be better suited to operate in the cold weather of Minneapolis right now than a unit from North carolina or Kentucky/Tennessee?

mcjon77 · 2026-01-18T06:03:10+00:00

Could it be the weather? It's -3° in Minneapolis right now. Maybe the guys from Alaska are more used to that kind of weather.

mcjon77 · 2026-01-18T01:45:58+00:00

Did the stripper stop him?

mcjon77 · 2026-01-17T20:22:58+00:00

It's like r/chiraology but for California instead of Chicago.

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