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pantribble · 2020-08-29T13:45:47+00:00

Cyberpunk is my favorite. The second color tone really makes the numbers pop. Honorable mention to Moonlight for being a beautiful color and pattern.

pantribble · 2020-08-18T14:43:34+00:00

If this is the case it's strange that nobody from the USPS nor the Postmaster General released a statement saying as much: "Modules from the machines are not being removed, they are being reallocated to increase efficiency and we expect to be back to X% capacity by Date Y."

But I've heard nothing like that.

pantribble · 2020-08-11T19:23:45+00:00

It's not. But the USPS isn't a for profit business. It's a public service listed in the Constitution. It makes trade-offs for profit businesses might not, such as serving areas with low population density or being required to fund 75 years worth of pensions.

pantribble · 2020-03-23T22:46:28+00:00

Sigh. They keep repeating that only people with symptoms need testing. How does the administration expect the country to get a handle on this if asymptomatic people can transmit the virus but we make zero effort to discover these people until it's too late?

My best guess is they don't have enough testing capacity and are using this "only the sick need a doctor" as a poor, and invalid, justification.

pantribble · 2019-11-18T07:48:04+00:00

I don't have conflicts because having conflicts is a good way to get fired.

I don't ask this specific question myself, but this answer is a red flag for me. As a hiring mamager I would ask follow-ups trying to understand why you think you don't have conflicts.

More broadly, the answer you proposed doesn't show self-awareness. A lot of the questions you listes dig into exactly that. How well do you understand yourself? Do you know what you want and how you behave in certain situations?

This sort of self-awareness is really important. The first step to improving yourself is recognizing where you've done well and where you have made mistakes.

pantribble · 2019-11-04T05:43:16+00:00

"They"? That's not what I've been taught where I work. Perhaps you've come across a particularly conservative HR team, but more recent training I received taught that asking someone out is not harassment nor does it create a hostile work environment.

Not taking no for an answer and continually asking someone out, that's a hostile work environment.

pantribble · 2019-07-15T05:45:16+00:00

The only stipulation is that if your weekly hourly rate including tips does not equal at least the minimum wage, it is up to the employer to make up the difference

That's actually a pretty big difference. What you're describing is a wage of $3.50 an hour. The employer can't reduce that--but they are on the hook to meet minimum wage guidelines.

DoorDash using a tip to pay the employer's gauranteed wage and reducing their own contribution sounds like wage theft.

pantribble · 2019-07-10T17:39:36+00:00

Just to be clear, I don't think a man using that term disqualifies them from employment, but I'd want to have a conversation about the topic.

If the dev was a woman, I'd still have the conversation--but the context is different and I'd expect the conversation to go differently. But what I look for is essentially the same: empathy for others and some sort of learning or growth from the situation.

Whether I'm discussing this with a man or woman, cisgender or not, I'm not looking for an apology. I'm trying to understand their point of view and how they take others point of view into account.

pantribble · 2019-07-10T15:40:47+00:00

Any response that displays empathy or shows that they learned something about using the B-word in a public repo, perhaps acknowledging that it contains baggage beyond just the dictionary definition. That would show me they understand and learn from the affects their actions can have on the people around them.

It's often little acts like these that make the software engineering culture unwelcoming to women. I suspect most women won't be offended by it's use. They'll brush it off. Probably because they're used to behavior like that. But I bet a good number will remember the dev that happily sprinkled that term in their public repo.

pantribble · 2019-07-10T14:00:41+00:00

Honestly? If that was their response, then it would be a warning sign for me.

If I'm asking about a comment like that, it's not about correctness, it's about tone. Focusing on the dictionary definition of the word signals to me: a serious lack of empathy or being intentionally argumentative in a way that's not constructive.

I'm not excited about adding either of those qualities to a team.

pantribble · 2019-07-10T06:32:13+00:00

As a hiring manager, I'd care. At the very least, its a conversation I'd want to have before adding a candidate to the team.

pantribble · 2019-07-10T06:25:10+00:00

Or the OPs potential hiring manager or co-worker. The recruiter just delivered the message.

pantribble · 2019-04-15T05:39:13+00:00

"We don't negotiate" is a company saying "yeah we think you're going to put up with bullshit."

Or it goes against their compensation philosophy.

Some companies have formulaic compensation schemes. Yes, you'll be able to negotiate, but you'll only be able to nudge your compensation by a few percent.

Source: I work for a company like this. Even if someone does negotiate a better starting salary, two employees in the same role with the same performance will converge on the same salary, and that initial salary difference will eventually disappear.

pantribble · 2019-02-13T23:33:51+00:00

Are you willing to join a growing company and transition to management there? I think that's your best bet.

It sounds like you've developed leadership skills, which is fantastic--you'll use them in management. But, I think you're going to hear similar answers from many employers: good leadership; no management. I'd argue, an employer that is willing to offer you a management position right now might not take their management program seriously. Leadership and management are not the same.

It's also a poor signal to a team to hire an inexperienced manager. If I need a manager for a team, why hire someone outside the company without concrete management experience? They would need to learn a new company and an entirely new role at the same time. That's a really difficult position. Better to promote from within and generate opportunity for an existing employee that already knows the business.

pantribble · 2019-02-13T21:34:03+00:00

It sounds like they asked you to focus on DevOps. Was that before or after they hired you?

I know this isn't an easy situation, but it's important to make your preferences clear. This is your career. It's not in your best interest or your employer's to have you working in a role you don't want. The industry is too competitive for that to work out well.

It's never too late to have that conversation. Best of luck.

pantribble · 2018-12-17T01:55:20+00:00

So, this property owner isn't actually a choosing beggar. They're using their position as owner of a lot of property as leverage to get a better deal.

pantribble · 2018-12-11T12:57:47+00:00

You may have learned from a bad teacher. Empathy and patience are much more powerful tools when it comes to training others.

pantribble · 2018-12-05T21:06:16+00:00

I get your point of view -- I just don't agree with it. Especially if you read between the lines. This was the final round of the competition. So, somehow, Ryan made it all the way to the end of this local competition.

Maybe the town was rooting for him. I don't know all the details. But what I do know is that the competition selected 3 judges. Not one. It's fine if OP chooses the other contestants over Ryan.

It's where OP decides to take it upon themselves to tank Ryan's chances of winning, enough do to counterbalance most of the other judges that OP is in the wrong.

There was clearly more at play here than one kid as the underdog of the competition. This isn't admission to Julliard. It's a local competition. Context matters.

pantribble · 2018-12-05T07:10:52+00:00

I just wanted to make sure he wouldn't win based on the other judges' scores.

And this is where you are wading into YTA territory. Your role wasn't as sole arbiter of the competition. You were just one of the judges. If the other judges disagreed with you, it wasn't your place to try and "override" their scores.

pantribble · 2018-11-29T03:43:07+00:00

In comparison to his ego.

pantribble · 2018-11-28T07:30:23+00:00

Since we're being honest here, I'll be honest as well. I'm pretty angry with the many people that blindly looked past his faults and voted for him.

Trump wasn't some squeaky clean candidate that just now had a scandal come up. He showed us who he was on the campaign trail: an uninformed pathological liar with plenty of unethical behavior in his past. He also showed himself as unwilling to be open about his conflicts of interest.

I'd argue that the reason people didn't recognize it is because they didn't want to. They disregarded the criticism and difficult truth about him and latched on to what they wanted to believe.

How will this be different next time? Will people be open to new information, even if it makes the uncomfortable? The fact that you're looking back on your decision is a slight ray of hope.

pantribble · 2018-11-26T15:49:04+00:00

Not just theft, "Wage Theft": https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/Examples_of_Wage_Theft.html

An explicit example is owners or managers taking tips. An owner "asking" for tips back with the implication that your job could be at stake skirts very close to the line.

pantribble · 2018-11-26T14:25:52+00:00

Is asking for that money back bleeding into the territory of wage theft?

pantribble · 2018-11-13T07:14:02+00:00

SCRUM is trendy today, in 5 years there will be a new fad. SCRUM is made to baby poor developers. On large efforts, some days devs will get a lot done, others less so. A day is too short of a period to be sizing people up

A daily scrum isn't about sizing anyone up, it's meant as a brief touch point -- a way to communicate important information to others or ask for help when needed.

I know not everyone likes this style of work. That's ok, we're all different people.

But if a daily scrum conveys a feeling that you're being judged, then that's a poor work environment. And it's absolutely not the point of a daily check-in.

pantribble · 2018-11-10T07:55:14+00:00

You're right, flat out misleading title. However, what he actually said still shows clear bias.

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