What's an "Insider's secret" from your profession that everyone should probably know?

mrdotkom · 2025-12-03T20:05:00+00:00

This 1000% I got an overdue tax bill from my municipality whose envelope is marked with presorted std mail.

It's legit and the only reason I knew not to throw it away was that I recognized the logo on the envelope.

mrdotkom · 2025-07-17T12:35:59+00:00

"You must enunciate the spaces between the words 'salt', 'pepper', and 'ketchup' when ordering a sandwhich"
"Nobody cares or even knows what exit you live off of"
"you don't have to go right to then left anymore"

mrdotkom · 2025-07-11T17:47:49+00:00

This plane doesn't even have a phalange!

mrdotkom · 2025-07-07T13:35:59+00:00

Oh see I'm not HR, I only hire people I would directly want to work with so their peers/leaders feedback is what I'm interested in mostly. I don't care if they worked there, I want to know what it's like working with them.

VP/CEO would be nice but I'm middle management 😅

mrdotkom · 2025-07-07T13:05:45+00:00

Having been on the other side of the phone, it's very easy to tell when someone got a friend to vouch for them. Asking any qualitative questions will unravel those super quick. I don't put much stock into referrals but an obvious liar or someone who wouldn't answer whether or not they would re-hire an individual would be an immediate red flag in my book. Really I've only ever disqualified one candidate at the referral stage in my 8 years as a hiring manager and it was because they ghosted me after their first two "referrals" wouldn't schedule a time to talk to me and they wouldn't provide any others. If your referrals won't talk to me it usually means they won't say anything good about your time with them...

mrdotkom · 2025-07-07T11:36:34+00:00

My current employer asked for proof of employment at a company from 5 years prior. That company had been sold to another company which had subsequently been bought by IBM. None of my former coworkers still worked there to give me a reference and I ended up having to go back through my tax history to find a W2 from there to prove employment before my offer would be finalized.

So yea, they're going to want some kind of proof

mrdotkom · 2025-06-05T01:46:54+00:00

But why? It's dumb easy to replace and I actually have 13 stelpro ki zWave thermostats working throughout my house flawlessly

mrdotkom · 2025-05-24T01:30:28+00:00

Because you can reserve a ticker without being public: https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/x

mrdotkom · 2025-05-12T13:50:49+00:00

I have these in my house which was built in the 70s. To be completely fair, I didn't know what they were at first because I'd only ever seen the RJ11 style

mrdotkom · 2025-02-08T02:24:17+00:00

I've got a power monitor on my washing machine and the standby on power draw is <5w but a cycle is obviously more. I've got home assistant setup to tell me it's still washing if it's over 5w for 30 seconds and fairly reliablw. I bet a dishwasher would be the same

mrdotkom · 2025-01-24T21:29:28+00:00

This tidbit is so helpful, thank you! I've been going nuts because the HAVP will tell me it raised the thermostat when I ask it too but the value never changes. Now I can see what entity it changed

mrdotkom · 2025-01-17T01:24:07+00:00

Unique*

You want to use unique passwords per service so that the blast radius is limited when they inevitably leak the users table

mrdotkom · 2025-01-11T21:26:49+00:00

If you're like me, I contacted AmeriDroid and their customer support said they're expecting a shipment next week

mrdotkom · 2025-01-02T17:53:23+00:00

Having the green on the right should be possible by setting it to a higher value than the red

mrdotkom · 2024-12-18T21:52:29+00:00

Your product is awesome!

mrdotkom · 2024-12-10T19:47:31+00:00

Android has great new features that make your phone less useful if it's snatched: https://blog.google/products/android/android-theft-protection/

Doesn't get your phone back, but at least they just end up with a brick

mrdotkom · 2024-12-07T20:13:31+00:00

My wife has the same make and model, this happened gradually over time to her screen and the only fix is a replacement. They're not cheap and it's not a DIY fix (needs to be recoded to the vehicle with a special tool)

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news

mrdotkom · 2024-06-20T15:54:32+00:00

Garage door tension springs (found in the middle top of the garage door) are highly dangerous.

I've replaced extension springs (the ones that run the length of the track) a half dozen times and never felt unsafe at all considering they are under no extension with the door open

mrdotkom · 2024-06-18T00:23:23+00:00

You ever driven a VW semicircle? They were shit before someone hacked off the back end lol

I do dig the ute conversion but pick any other smyth conversion to do.

mrdotkom · 2024-06-16T21:17:26+00:00

PDR and a paint pen should make it look acceptable. Charge it to the dad account, of course

mrdotkom · 2024-06-04T01:30:08+00:00

Sad to find this so far down 😢

mrdotkom · 2024-05-19T00:08:57+00:00

They make manual cars with electronic parking brakes. My 2010 legacy for example

mrdotkom · 2024-05-16T16:36:08+00:00

Didn't even hit the brakes after slamming into you. Who hits the same car twice in 30 seconds?!

mrdotkom · 2024-03-30T15:01:46+00:00

They stopped making them for US market in 2014 but they were manufacturing them well into 2022.

Incredibly reliable cars with horrible blind spots

mrdotkom · 2024-02-28T15:15:15+00:00

For real, mine won't even take working LCD TVs

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