Posted on 11/18/2022 4:57:51 PM PST by MNDude
1. Does anyone know what their average salary was?
2. Do you think it'll be easy for most to get a job that's just as good as they had?
Just curious.
Clannish…..it’s been commented on here before. They’ve taken over entire subdivisions in the north Atlanta suburbs.
And were running a property tax scam up there for years.
Amazon just fired 10,000 employees this week, many of them programmers. LinkedIn is full of these programmers/software engineers looking for new jobs. A good number of them are foreigners (many from India) who are desperate to find another job because their visas don’t allow them to stay here without a job. I’m normally for hiring American citizens first, but if these Twitter idiots don’t want their jobs, hire away.
And for that in Sillycone Valley you get to live in a one bedroom apartment with three roommates.
That’s posh.
I’m not surprised at all.
And then there was Shankar from GE. Asked: “are we pallidating part numbers?”. I said yes. They at the time had no idea about advanced business processes. They struggled with MRPII algorithms. Or get lost navigating in a deep Network database. They learned but it took some time.
When I started in IT in the late 90s, I always gravitated to billing/accounting related companies. My rational was that when times get tough, people still need there money to flow.
I worked at a few cell billing software companies and a company that managed escrow tax payments for mortgage companies.
Around 2000 I got a job as a contractor at a GE company. They were having so much trouble finding workers that would deal with their old school rules (tie every day) that they broke out this department in a separate floor.
We had plasma TVs playing movies, a video game console with couches, foosball, ping pong, and some precursor or a Keurig. They brought lunch in 2-3 times a week. I could come to work on board shorts and flip flops.
One day a guy said “dude you you to stop working so hard. We are all looking bad.” I laughed. He was serious. And he was my boss.
The GE people around us resented the hell out of us.
When the post 9/11 crash happened I could tell the culture was going to snap back the other way.
One day two d-bags are playing foosball and a suit comes through. He lightheartedly asks what they are doing. In the snidest of condescending voices this kid says “playing foosball, what does it look like?”
The next day everything was gone. Every. Thing.
The entitled dot com douches were gone within months. Those of us that made money move, stuck around but got moved to a more professional space.
Twenty years later, the next generation of dot com douches are learning the same lesson. Their job goes only as far as the amount of money they make for their employer.
They’ll probably get a job somewhere. Even though we’re in a recession, a lot of job openings are going unfilled, so they’ll find something, even if it’s something they’re not used to, just like me.
For example, since moving to Florida, I’ve gone from Senior Oceanographic Technician to Seasonal Tax Preparer, so far. If they really want to work, there will be something for them, even if pays less.
Elon Musk should move his Twitter headquarters to Texas and leave all the San Fran employees with a few exceptions, behind. Then watch the liberal heads explode in unison (they do everything in unison).
uh,duh.
thanks.
And now I’m wondering about you wondering about me wondering about him wondering about it.
I.e. I was just making a joke. 😉
The can probably get a job with Homeland Security or the DOJ. Their skills in helping censor conservatives would be valuable to the Biden administration. The money and the perks won’t be as good, but they’ll have a job for life with Civil Service, good retirement plan and good healthcare.
No, and no.
I knew a guy who worked at Twitter. He made about $200k. He left a couple years ago. He’s had two more jobs since then. Each was about a 25% pay raise.
Nice guy. Not exactly a mental giant.
I’ve been saying this from the start. He’s taken the first step to cleaning up Twitter. He fired almost everybody.
The next step is to move the company out of that cesspool and to a place where it is possible to find reasonable non Woke employees. That sure as hell ain’t gonna be in California.
Just curious, is that the same as "produced better code"?
>the Indians were harder workers.
OH yea. They work all the hours. They say ‘yes’ to everything. Can you do X? Yes. Will you work the weekend? Yes. Did you follow coding standards? Yes. Did you unit test the code? Yes. Where are your test results? Yes. :boggle:
Then it turns out ‘test’ effectively translates to “I got it to compile” and you need an American supervisor, an American analyst, and two American testers so your 8 Indian coders’ work actually makes it to system test without bombing your whole project, and they’ve got to be right on these guys on an hourly basis or else. Never mind such archaic American ideas as ‘creatively work through a difficulty’ or ‘do one thing extra that isn’t written in explicit requirements language that takes as long to craft as the code does.’ It’s not their fault — as a culture they’ve had it ground into them that The Boss Is Always Right and that only woe comes to people who do anything The Boss didn’t say to do.
Sure, the quality sucks, you pay through the nose for people to verify everything, and your life is the sort of hellish management that fast food line supervisors endure, but think of the savings!
(Oh, and that $17 isn’t happening even Stateside with H1-B; you’re only getting those figures with offshore crew, which means all that supervision is happening on a 10-11 hour time shift and you need another offshore manager to watch the crew over there — and they also are ‘yes’ men and need to be overseen.)
The hits just keep coming
Ha was going to post that, you beat me to it. The Bee rules again!
They haven’t ‘banned’ it; Musk own the whole enchilada and delisted the company. That’s what happens when a public company goes private (for better or worse).
>Most dotheads’ CVs are lies.
I’m sure *you* know but for the benefit of FReepers; beware responding to these guys pretending to headhunt. They just want your CV so it can then belong to a hundred graduates of whateverthefoxtrot Technical University.
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