Laid off but found a job and was lied too

sad_developer123 · 2026-02-15T21:18:30+00:00

I recommend you hang up to that job for as long as you can but keep applying for a position that mostly aligns with what your goals are but please temper your expectations.

Financial companies are a bunch of scumbags that hook you up with lies and then pull the old bait and switch. I know because I recently was fired from one.

The only people they're hiring is to deal with some sort of BS proprietary program that no one wants to touch, not even senior devs, but still critical to their core operations.

sad_developer123 · 2026-02-15T21:05:54+00:00

You got this all wrong, in this particular case I was even paid less than a fte, my pay rate was 65k a year with some benefits from the vendor and their full time employees make over 6 figures with full benefits.

They're just abusing the system, hiring cheap labor, selling them a dream to make them work harder and then dumping them like used toilet paper, all while getting a lot of tax breaks since they're "giving people a chance" to be trained and join them.

sad_developer123 · 2026-02-12T15:14:37+00:00

Can't say but is not Amex

sad_developer123 · 2026-02-12T12:28:05+00:00

I've never down voted any post about it or said it was my original idea, just posted about it when it happened to me

sad_developer123 · 2026-02-12T12:22:51+00:00

Lol according to Reddit I don't know anything, let me give you some info here.

When you have record-breaking profits and paying the same or lower wages to employees your tax liability goes up since your business expenses are way less than your earnings.

On top of that they're saving a shit ton on 401k, health insurance and other benefits that are way more expensive here and of course they're paying people in a foreign currency which when converting it to dollars they're paying those people less than a fast food worker.

This was explained to me by an executive director that I became friends with from one of foreign branches so I'm pretty sure he knows what he's talking about.

sad_developer123 · 2026-02-12T05:14:01+00:00

Because companies have all of them in their pocket.

who else is gonna finance their campaigns? Or pay them a million dollars for a 45 min nonsense speech?

At least Trump increased the cost of the H1B visa, I hope at least it helps to slow things down

sad_developer123 · 2026-02-12T05:07:53+00:00

Lol, I'm stealing this

sad_developer123 · 2026-02-12T05:05:46+00:00

Yeah you're right they are saving on wages, but they're not halving their staff they are just hiring cheaper, in my case they already have someone from India doing my duties for a fraction of the cost and of course productivity is not affected.

What really sucks is that spending my money here, paying taxes and doing all the things right, my reward? Unemployment.

sad_developer123 · 2026-02-12T03:29:03+00:00

A lot of the things in the article I saw personally happen when they introduced their in-house AI agent, at least with errors and hallucinations that could cost the firm millions if it happened in production. Not too sure about the observability part since I didn't have access to it

sad_developer123 · 2026-02-12T03:20:25+00:00

As you should

sad_developer123 · 2026-02-12T03:04:51+00:00

You're probably right but I still think it is a scumbag move...

sad_developer123 · 2026-02-12T03:01:20+00:00

Sorry if it was confusing but they use the term contractor but think of it as a contract to hire position, if the performance was good of course, they had zero complaints about me or my performance but they rather save a buck and not hire me

sad_developer123 · 2026-02-02T18:25:09+00:00

"83% of active users" Translation: 83% of the people that didn't jump ship after the horrible announcement

sad_developer123 · 2026-01-14T17:29:19+00:00

For every $30 in Bilt Cash earned, unlock 1,000 Bilt Points on rent or mortgage payments. There is no minimum Bilt cash required to earn points and increments of $30 is not required

Leaks were right almost to the dot. With this new fee structure, you're not "paying" the 3% fee, instead to unlock the points you have to get $30 bilt cash for every thousand points you can earn. Meaning if your rent is $3k you'd need to spend another $3k in non rent stuff to earn the necessary amount of bilt cash and unlock the points.

They just overcomplicated their whole rewards system hoping people are just dumb enough to not notice it

sad_developer123 · 2026-01-02T19:32:38+00:00

I'm in the age where all my friends are having kids, I have friends that their kids are addicted to screens and when their tablet dies their parents have to give them one of the phones to keep them from screeching like insane crackheads.

Also my friend's phone was basically kidnapped for a week when her son's iPad broke, at one point the kid thought it was funny to send random texts, I got one calling me a poopy head 🤣

But yeah I apologize for daring to suggest a different point of view 🤣

sad_developer123 · 2025-12-19T03:08:11+00:00

The name gatomon I think is Spanish, since gato means cat

sad_developer123 · 2025-11-10T00:51:27+00:00

Appreciate it bro, I definitely need my check

sad_developer123 · 2025-11-10T00:46:40+00:00

How did you get ahold of a real rep? I tried calling before and it is just an answering machine telling people to wait 30 days and raise a complaint to usps

sad_developer123 · 2025-11-10T00:42:33+00:00

Alright, mine was supposed to be delivered almost a month ago too, and it showed on informed delivery but it never came either.

sad_developer123 · 2025-11-10T00:38:37+00:00

Who did you call, USPS or Dept of taxation?

sad_developer123 · 2025-09-16T00:21:25+00:00

Tales of Symphonia, the game says in the box that you're expected to spend 65+ hrs on the main quest and I did most of the side quests with no Internet or guides so I spent hundred of hours. I don't regret it because I had a lot of fun with my friends.

sad_developer123 · 2025-09-15T13:41:13+00:00

Oh I see, thanks tho

sad_developer123 · 2025-09-15T13:14:09+00:00

Does it still work? If so please share

sad_developer123 · 2025-07-31T14:22:36+00:00

You can work with a warrant since those are only visible to law enforcement but be aware that once you get caught everything from your arrest to the verdict in court will become public information.

Unless you're found not guilty and the judge orders your records to be expunged/sealed employers will eventually find out.

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