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Can I ask for a $15k raise if my boss has repeatedly said to me that he wants to pay me more? I make $60k rn as a software developer in California. If I wasn't living with my parent's I'd be lucky to have $10k in savings
>>107617099>I make $60k rn as a software developer in California.anon... what the fuck are you doing with your life?for how long have you been working there? you should tell your boss to double your salary or something, or to fuck off and die. you are the cheapest programmer your boss could find, probably, and are being exploited as such.
>>107617202>for how long have you been working there?It's my first job out of college. I've been here for a year and they bought me a $50k car as a promotion gift 4 months in (technically it isn't mine since it's only mine while I work at the company but they pay for all of the maintenance and I have no restrictions as far as number of miles I can drive per month, etc). $60k is the starting salary where I work but I've excelled and have exceeded expectations that go beyond a typical entry level role. I'll be happy with $15-20k more, anything more than that is probably pushing it
>>107617276>technically it isn't mine since it's only mine while I work at the company but they pay for all of the maintenance and I have no restrictions as far as number of miles I can drive per month, etc)have you calculated how much you have saved by having this car? probably not much at allalso, are you fully in office?I'm not american, but judging from what you are saying and what others say about life + salaries in california, you should be asking for far more than $20k. problem, of course, is that you risk getting a "no". maybe you should ask your coworkers or something about their wages.is it a big tech company? if so, they should be able to pay more.why hasn't your boss given you a raise already? why would you need to ask in the first place?your best option would be to find another much better paid job (that's the usual strategy for getting big wage raises in tech), though seeing how bad things are in murica it might be kinda hard. OTOH, if you are comfortable at your current place and don't really spend or plan on spending much more in the future, I guess you shouldn't worry much. getting more money is always nice, though.
I make 60k and live more than fine as a (confirmed) bachelor, I don't see the problem.
>>107617276lawl they are literally taking you for a ride
the new captcha is easier but takes longer
>>107617377Well my ancient car died on me about 3 weeks before the promotion and my boss asked if I needed anything, to which I replied, a car. When I was looking at prices during those 3 weeks, it was gonna cost $300/month for something decent, and the car they gave me is brand new and really nice. Leasing/financing it would have easily been $600/month. So at the absolute minimum, they saved me $3600/year but they gave me a car that probably would've cost double that>also, are you fully in office?Yes but they're flexible and I gather business requirements since I'm a team lead of this big project so it's mostly out of necessity, not because I have to be in the office all the time>is it a big tech company?Nah, it's a startup>why hasn't your boss given you a raise already?He's explained that he wants to do performance reviews for everyone after we finish our current projects, which I was fine with at first but the deadlines keep getting pushed because of so many lagging, external factors. The current deadline is the first or second week of January, which isn't long from now. I genuinely do love working here and I've learned way more in the past year than I probably would have doing any other job, they really just let the developers have at it and there are some really great technical leads that I've learned a ton from too. I just want more money, that's it, other than that I love my job
>survived a section holiday dinner at the pub without either throwing up on someone, getting fired, or revealing that I should never have been hired. though there was some gentle ribbing about my Dress And Deportment in the interview. (but that's more a mark about the kinds of people applying than about me)m8s do I finally have a fucking job? for real? like 'for real' for real? maybe even a career?>>107617446>>107617276>company "bought" "me" a car>but I don't own it and it's probably subject to company policy for usei'd try to be funny myself but >>107617434 already nailed it. are you a jeet literally including being able to go get timmies in the company van as "TC"?
>>107617434Was fine before but now I have a new IP and I'm getting the bad goy version which is 3 sets of 5 images to distinguish, it's annoying
>>107617417Probably because you're a furry and you're pacified and harmless to the elites.Everyone else has bad social credit scores.
>>107617727>pacified furry>good social credit scoreOn top of being generally distasteful, most of my normie site tracking data is probably made up from extreme pornography and hardware stores. If any of the milquetoast losers who post on a thread like this is on a List, it's me.The scariest part of the global surveillance dragnet is that no one is reading any of that data.
>>107617648its a good thing youre not trying to be funny
If you're so much better than me, what the hell do you work on?
>>107617747Do you say "gas jews"? No?Well you're fine. A good goy even.
>>107617774I don't believe in gas as a weapon because it requires far too much preparation for the force assaulting into it, dissipating the element of surprise, and it's indiscriminate, which means it's that much harder to protect my own force and/or civilians while utterly destroying the enemy. Mine warfare, on the other hand, is advanced enough to be fair game if only you'd spend a little money or at least have some intern put dots on a map.
>>107617785I think covid proves there's a much easier solution.Also, enjoy the hantavirus.
>>107617803coof didn't do shit, cyber attacks proved to be a meme, I'll maintain my faith in the infantry, as much as I make fun of them. And a little more faith in artillery and air assets. (the navy is useless, as I can say from experience)
>>107617814>coof didn't do shitHow's the early onset doing?I remember the pentagon talking about a hypothetical anti-extremist virus a long time ago which impacted the brain.
>>107617669same issue here, having to solve these retarded mini iq tests everytime i want to post is becoming tiring. i hate the mods and devs of this website so much its unreal.
>>107617842>a hypothetical anti-extremist virus a long time ago which impacted the brain.well the prototypes didn't work then because I only have more drive to embrace my hobbies and build a giant fucking diesel-actuated rifle, have been intercepting more radio traffic, and have been actually buying more hardware instead of merely window shoppingmy level of radicalization hasn't meaningfully changed but was already quite high
>/twg/ - Terrorists, Wiggers, and Gooners
>The urge to go full schizo weeb that just shitposts and makes shitware all day living of $5 a day
>have to go shut off a thing>the half-a-fuselage girl is there there in its blaze orange lingerieif i eventually get fired it wont be for having sex with that creature but imma tell em that moment straight up that i wanna have sex with that creature. >had to put in some metal plates for a training event to protect Le Sensitive Electricals>"This sucks!">after several minutes of labour, almost done>have to sit in the pilot seat to properly screw one last thing in>...>...>..! //>v<// !!>>107618020do it
retaking my soul from the astral plane after doing battle with network architects and database administrators to put it back in my body so i can conduct conventional physical assaults
when the homies hit you with Bravery and Faith (say that you've done a good job but something else needs doing so just like go do it without supervision(i am absolutely looking for handfuls of lost m3 standoffs to steal))
>>107617099>>107617276Anon you are being raped. I fucking got more from my first job out of college as a gov software tester 10+ years ago.Your car means shit if the pay is so low you'd be living in a cardboard box w/o your parents. Actually, maybe they gave the car to you as a housing bonus.Anyways, ask for raise and try to look at other jobs near you for a feel of what you should be making. Shit go look up a federal pay table and add 20k to what you see if you need a start (hint you'd be grade 7-9 fresh out of school by said table).
Welp, one of the former owners of my company is suing the company for $30m and one of his demands is for the company to be literally shut down lol.
>>107618351You're helping him out, right?
What is your biggest weakness?
>>107618356Gotta get my cut
Where you At?
>>107618454even after being laid off at my last job last year i was still greencurrently have a job and am green now toobut ive been told im weird and have some mental issues but i guess that has nothing to do with levels of happiness
>>107618454Mostly green but I float into yellow sometimes.
>>107618498It's good to be able to take crisis easily but is it that you are unfettered or are you just stupid?People who are truly unbothered by anything never improve and have nothing to offer. I don't mean that in a mean way; but if you have no complaints, everything is going well, and we all know that that's not true. But there's a difference between going "It's fucked up, but it's fixable or mitigatable" and "It's fucked up, but I genuinely don't care"
>>107618568>is it that you are unfettered or are you just stupid?unfettered>People who are truly unbothered by anything never improve and have nothing to offeri find myself constantly learning and improvingim the "It's fucked up, but it's fixable or mitigatable"severance from being laid off was really, and i mean REALLY good but that didnt stop me from looking for new work from day one of being unemployed. And being unemployed gave me time to work on personal programming projects
>>107618454black and not even edgy>What's on for today? What's the plan?>Great question.>Same as always, then.
>>107618596>i find myself constantly learning and improving>im the "It's fucked up, but it's fixable or mitigatable">unfetteredGod I wish I had juniors like you when I was still more active in the military. I'd have almost considered going full-time for either cyber or infantry, and then given up to stay in my trade. We need more kids like that. Not we like "the military", i mean as a species.
>>107618628i was in the nasty girls (national guard) but didnt re-enlist after my contract ended. It was purely for utilitarian purposes, like paying for university
>basically everything I'm uncomfy with work at is basically>"I'd do X Y and Z at home, but this system costs more to merely exist for a day than my life (objectively speaking), so I'm not comfortable attacking it with my usual hick methods.">boss tells me to fuck with it anyway>goes fine the couple times it's had to happenhow do i start taking my own advice and go about touching stuff wrt "invasive surgery"I would love to quote at my juniors at another job>if you stay on the defensive, you'll never become the real thing>the hungrier you are, the better>the more reckless the situation, the betterEverything's in place. How do I grow up? It feels like so long since I was a rookie before, and I was so much braver but so less powerful then. I'm still the new guy, and that is not the problem. I am confident in what few skills I have; I didn't lie in my interviews. I'm a rookie again, but knowing that I don't know shit as a real adult now, and knowing how touchy big corporations are and how systems are and shall be as designed, I dunno, I'm not fucking trauma team I don't have liability insurance for this. If it were at the unit I'd be like "Fuck it, I told you do do it, so tell them I told you to do it" but now that I have someone who says that, it's not that I don't feel safe doing it, I feel like something might be disabled forever and now regardless of liability or whatever it's a me problem forever.
And it's not like I'm uncomfortable changing a card or whatever, but a lot of this junk is far beyond end-of-life. If my ESD strap fails and there's a jolt, it's over. If one pin somewhere bends, it's over. I don't worry so much that I'll do it, but things happen, and the nature of repairs with limited parts makes things dumb. If one little bracket is found to be stripped in one screw hole, it's not like we can just order a new one or even throw some bondo in there. At home I would proudly drive a screwdriver in there and use a die set to cut new thread. Maybe 3d print some shit at the library. Maybe just use some dipshit "mending plate" in its place. In a real company, you can't do that.At home I would gladly attack any device with any tool I have; even at work, it's not about maintaining SLAs or pretending like I'm not an embarrassing lunatic. If something is stripped, or some card failed, it can't just be so easily replaced with an equivalent. hick shit has no place in commercial venture. niggas got contracts and shit, and occasional inspections. I just want things to work, and to be let do what I have to do to make things work.
>>107618737I was in the navy; I was notable for "ammo conservation" despite being an amazing shot
I've only not made top score among the section at a range day once. I missed literally one shot, and while I don't distinctly remember it, the C7 has a problem where the trigger doesn't reset properly so the next pull is always inconsistent. I dunno if it's a general AR platform thing or just the C7, but I don't like it. I put clean holes in dimes at 20m with a .177 and am accurate enough with a pistol for combat. Unfortunately, I'm a huge pussy and have never taken a rifle combat shooting course anyway and am horrendously out of shape, and they only draw snipers from infantry despite how far you can walk without complaining, so it's IT for me. They probably have homing lasers these days anyway
building and firing a low power (175fps, .40 caliber) railgun into a server (the induction from the rails does more damage due to poor design of the rack as provided by APC)
give it to me straight did i get hired because im a lunatic or am i about to get fired for being a lunatic
buying the polearm i always wanted (A Stranger I Remain wasn't the inspiration towards polearms but I am in a place I can be without remorse, a stranger who has found an even stranger war(the lucerne hammer is based and i wish i had 16 arms to handle them effectively but have to settle for one pole-axe-pick among two arms))
From now on, I'm going to tell myself when I go in, "This is to enable a future angel's dance!"
>>107617099Start interviewing for other places. A cheapskate that employs you for that much in fucking CA will not give you a raise.>>107617862>>107617669The app I use shows them all at once, sadly it doesn't autosolve it yet.>>107618454It used to be black, but for years I've been green ever since I embraced edgy cynicism (the philosophy).
>>107619132>It used to be black, but for years I've been green ever since I embraced edgy cynicism (the philosophy).Nothing has inherent meaning; the only thing that has meaning is ourselves, our allies, and the hope for a future!
