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I don’t think I’ve ever had a single aspiration in my life. I only take the path of least resistance
>>109839201Same anon.
>>109839201That sounds sad. I have aspirations AND take the path of least resistance... As a way towards fulfilling my aspirations.
what's the point to this life /twg ? i work my ass off, no girlfriend, no children, no home, I don't even know what to pursue in this fucking life.
I alternate between suffering and boredom. There's nothing to expect or to contemplate.
>>109839223<inject country name> dream. Always has been.
>>109839223>>109839236jerking offdrugsfood
>>109839284>DrugsIn this economy?
>>109839175Tbh as much as you think the 3d disgusting is in wrong here, actually it speaks badly about the person in the bottom panel. Like you know, he isn't "boyfailure" an¡Me mc, he is just balding doomer sitting in a filthy room. That's not even autism.
>>109839326they're cheap on darkweb
>>109839284I've been fucking tranny hookers and learning to play the ukelele.
>>109839175Tea is better, I don't know how anyone unironically drinks coffee for the taste and enjoyment, but Americans do it apparently
>>109839543Coffee is nice with a bunch of milk, like 1:5 milk to coffee ratio. Dont drink office coffee though, that shits nasty. I exclusively drink decaf at home
>>109839175>BAWWW I MAKE 200k A YEAR TELLING AN AI TO WRITE CODE I AM SO.... LE MISERABLE
>>109839553>200k a yearMan what is this 2005? Enjoy those EBT cards anon you are going to have to hit up the food back afterwards to feed that family.
>>109839366>girlfailureAKA stay at home wife except she isnt caring for a kid and cant actually do chores or anything>boyfailureAKA failure
>>109839622Boy failure or any other term is just a catch all for faggots anon. Faggots can't hold jobs, can't maintain relationships, can't have stable friendships, can't go a day without abusing a family member, can't go a day without begging their parents for money. IE all jannies are lonely faggots.
>>109839175>>109839366I don't disagree. They're both 2 pathetic extremes of the same consoomer cattle caste>retarded, zero personality meme buzzword spewing zoomer whose social contact comes from work, prides themselves into the surreal timewasting ritual that is corpo work meetingsvs>pathetic, malnourished pale husk of a human being, hormones completely nuked from sitting inside all day without a single ray of sunlight, literally balding from it 20-30 years early than they should, cattle gayming chair + macbook, smoker, alcoholicI wish I knew what the artist's message behind this is though. Perhaps the dystopian reality of having these two kind of losers being forced to mingle in the same workspace? >>109839622Girlfailures can be excused to a degree. Do you know how shitty a foid's life is having to deal with menstrual cycles? The default foid has to suffer from a 4 way multiple personality disorder because every week is totally different hormonal cycle. They need to plan their whole life around this shit. They have to buy a ton of hygiene products for this that doesn't get subsidized. Their outfits are biweekly seasonal because she can just randomly start bleeding into light colored pants. A dude's life in comparison is easy mode. They still have to grind to reach a valuable status, but they can do it from a position of comfort. Really all a guy has to do to be a trophy husband is lift for a couple years, have the self control to not have any addictions, go outside in the sun for 15 minutes every day, and be hygienic, and boom you're top 40%. Learn skincare and you're top 10%. Moid life is so easy brehs.
>>109839175It's my time working on the New Product Development team. I volunteered assuming that I would get to work on an exciting new product. It is but FUCKING HELL HOW MANY MEETINGS DO WE NEED TO DO. I used to be part of a smaller team that just does feature enhancements that are relatively small deliverable pieces of work all the way up to a month or two worth of work for a single developer. We're just adding to existing products that we sell. I loved it but I wanted to be part of the creation of a whole new product. Zero to One. It's a fucking nightmare. The fucking bureaucracy of it is insane. I can't tell if these people love the sound of their own voice or not. They're also insanely risk adverse for no real reason. IT'S LITERALLY A NEW REPO, WE ARE NOT DEPLOYING TO PROD, HOW TF ARE YOU TAKING THIS LONG TO APPROVE A PULL REQUEST. I literally have to wait until PRODUCT pushes them into getting things moving. They must be sitting on their ass all day killing time. They hate actually getting stuff done. A WHOLE MONTH OF ONBOARDING, TWO MONTHS OF EXPLORATORY WORK WITH ZERO END PRODUCT.The worst part isn't that they're clearly just using AI to write their documentation, no they straight up TELL YOU TO YOUR FACE THAT THEY DO, which is fine for a small pull request description not FIFTY MARKDOWN FILES THAT ARE SEVERAL PAGES LONG. Which I guess would be fine if it made any sense but NO, THERE ARE MAJOR ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN ISSUES WHERE THEY CLEARLY DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY'RE FUCKING DOING.I was already planning on leaving and hoping that this period of time at the new team will statpad my CV but now I hate it so much that I want to leave ahead of time.
>>109839543I do like coffee. Bitter, tho mostly americano. I didn't like Japanese coffee. Utterly disappointing.>>109839716I mostly agree with you, 2nd part about girlfailures too even if it feels slightly radical.
>>109839284This. This so much. *Burp* Nothing matters just jack off to tranny porn Morty.
>>109839201I had aspirations and failed at all of themNow I'm a loser who can't get a job
>9.39 for the new chicken waffle sandwich from chick fila
>>109839553I work a temp job for $18/hr
>>109839553I only make 130k
>>109839930>Nothing mattersyou missed the point
>>109839553i make 200k a year and I love it
>>109839175Looking for some advice from retarded anonsLevel 1 helpdesk job for a little over a year and I want to do more but it's a small company and I'm doing almost exclusively password resets and getting work phones/laptops up and running. Don't think there's even really a level 2 help desk role where I'm at.YouTube and chatGPT are telling me that certs and homelabs is the way to get to the next level.My friends tell me certs are useless and a waste of time and moneyWho do I believe?
>>109839716Go away tranny.
>coworker shows me his new AI work flow automation and skill he uses to refresh PATsWe have regressed, we now need to pay Sam Altman for the privilege of having an automated script instead of just using a cron job or task scheduler
>>109840083>My friends tell me certs are useless and a waste of time and moneyThey're right. Only go for certs if your company can subsidize them for you>homelabBig memeI suggest you look for ways to automate or streamline your current workflows so you can do less work. Put that extra time you save into following a TryHackMe or HackTheBox course, there's hundreds of hours you can put into that. Yes they're cybersec first and foremost but their total curriculum covers SO much more and you will really learn how computers work indepth. Especially look into the terminal courses for THM. Learn how to use the terminal for all your work, learn how to write powershell scripts, learn how curl and APIs work, and you should be able to automate 99% of your work.
>>109840083>do I do something or do I do nothing and hope for the best?
>>109839175I said 'caffeinmaxxing' in a work chat a few moments before seeing this comic originally.It was rare moment in contributing to a big presentation chat. I haven't been at peace with my normalfaggotry since.
>>109840277do americans really post reddit memes in their work chats?
>>109840277>normalfags have appropriated looksmaxxing lingo They need to be more culturally sensitive. My culture is not a costume!>>109840304Millennials do and it makes me want to kms. Also lame gifs from The Office
i had a cool polak in my chat who kept posting pepes i know you're here kacper
>ai was used to create a ticket>the engineer feeds it to the ai>the reviewer feeds the result to the ai>if there are things to discuss or clarify in the process, someone sends ai generated text into the chat>someone replies with an ai generated answer
>>109840387Your frustration makes sense — you are expecting to talk to a human being and you are receiving machine written responses. Sad!
>>109840387And then when it crashes in the middle of the night, you get a phone call (fifth one in 24 hours) and have to figure all that shit out.
>>109840387Can you hire me? I don't mind doing that
>>109840436>Sad!TrumpGPT?
>>109840457i was gonna make this identical post what the heck
>>109840467You may be a LLM
>>109840436>—
>>109840067I get 3$ dollars per day here in Mumbai. In one hour you get more than I do in a wek.
>Germany>57k Euro per yearUS or Switzerland...here i come
>>109841138yoe? col/city?
>>109839201you aspired to post on /g/ with frens
Lately my job has just been maintaining a few different claude code sessions simultaneously all day. It feels so soulless.
>>109839223>but mom would be sadyeah, well, what if I don't care about that miserable bitch anymore?
>>109839366Noone thinks it's cool. You think this site is "cool"?
>skillset is just SQL / procedural SQL extension language / database development>well paid with cushy easy job>but fear if I ever get laid off I wont have the fullstack object oriented agile creds to get another job>sort of golden handcuff situationwhat do?
>strike next week>will get paid for doing nothing>it's probably gonna last weeks at the least
>>109841298What video game company do you work for
Realistically, are less than 2 years of experience enough to get another job?I've been feeling like utter shit lately. I can't contribute shit.
>>109841463King
>>109841493just lie and say you have 3 and a half
It's my first job and I only worked for like a month. I fucked up socially by saying llm output is low quality and needs to be checked . What I didn't consider is that this is like implicitly saying I am better than the retards that vibe code. Is it over for me or can it be salvaged
>>109841555izzat lost is not so easily regained...
>>109839201I did, and then got banned from tiktok
>>109841519Damn those candy crush foids are gonna be mad
The workforce is a religion.
>>109841519>>109841814the candy crush multiverse lore is... interesting
>>109841145exactly 3 YOElocated in Potsdam
i was let go todayat least i have time to work on my projects now haha...
>>109841814I'd be surprised if they even know it's happening.>>109841828>American tier salaries but in Europe>one of the best bonus packages in the country on top of that>haven't had a day of real crunch in 4 years>whine and strike because the company rejected a CBA that covers less than we already have anywayFree paid vacation for me that doesn't come out of my yearly 6 weeks so you won't find me complaining, but still.
>>109839175>-maxxing>mogsNormie foids don't say that
>>109841945give it a year
>got laid off a couple weeks ago>lots of work experience but had neglected certs cause I wasn't really planning to get another job>banged out a couple entry level MS certs>canvassed my town today handing out resumes at every MSP I could find on google maps>ended up getting an impromptu interview at the last place I stopped, ten minutes from my house with minimal/zero traffic>talked with regional manager and one of their network admins for about half an hour>they were very happy I was pursuing certs, even showed interest in my home network setup and basement Truenas box>discussed salary, benefits, hours, travel reimbursement>emailed me five minutes after I left asking for references>said they want me to start ASAP but need to confirm with third guy at the firm>meanwhile there's like six total job listings on indeed for my area and none of them have responded to mesmall town life is weird, but I like it>>109841493if it's early in your career I'd say it's basically expected>>109840083certs are good, just focus on easy/cheap ones to pad your resume and tell them you want to get Sec+ when you go for interviews. basic MS certs are $99, intermediate ones are like $165 and MS has free online study courses.Sec+ is friggin $439, and you have to buy (or pirate) study materials.A+ is worth getting but also kinda pricy at $274.
>>109842089>firm handshake technique still worksBased>99 + 165 + 439 + 274>kinda pricyYou're joking right? I paid more for my driver's license
>>109840387I only dislike this when done by non technical people without proper judgement and using crappy models
>>109842115you have to pay for your driver's license?also I only meant that Comptia certs are overpriced, and having to pay for study materials is turbo-jewery. MS ones are fine.
>>109842089>Sec+ is friggin $439, and you have to buy (or pirate) study materials.>A+ is worth getting but also kinda pricy at $274.wtf, A+ is like babby level. How does it cost that much, and wtf is up with Sec+ (babby level as well) almost double that?I think the CCNA was $99 when I got it. The fiber cert was expensive, but it was also compressed into two days with hands on fusion splicing etc. in a warzone, so I wasn't expecting that one to be cheap, pretty sure it was like a grand. Probably the best cert to get if you're not a brainlet, you can work a couple days a week just terminating that shit and listening to a podcast or something.
>>109839716I did all this and picked up whores at bars and now I'm burned out. I don't want these cheating psychos to have my children and I'm lucky I didn't catch anything
>>109839175God damn, that OP picture is literally me every fucking day, I'm just not balding yet.
>>109842192Comptia suck. all their certs are expensive as hell now and expire in 2 years afaik. I got my A+ paid for by the tech school I went to and got it like a month before they converted it from a lifetime cert to an expiring one, and if I ever get any other Comptia cert they will automatically "upgrade" it to the newer one, hence why I've specifically avoided getting anything else from them so far lol.
>>109842191You have to pay for I think 20 hours of lessons (+ the test) if you didn't learn driving with your parentsA slew of certs for less than a thousand dollaridoos is nothing man get as many as you can for sure
>>109841274Same here oracle bro. I'll worry about it when that happens.
>>109842227oh yeah, I did those for cheaper insurance. pretty sure it was only like $10 or $20 a week for like 8 weeks, but that was 20 years ago so who knowsmostly we just watched old cheesy industrial films like Red Asphalt lol
>>109842176why does "proper judgement" matter if they're just prooompting anyway
Man anyone else just bummed out on how hard it is to find any work in this industry? Sometimes I think that maybe I should have studied economics after all instead though I heard even that industry is fucked.I guess I should have studied hard enough to get into law school like my friend. It took him 3 years but he did it the 3rd time.
>>109839553Yea idk what they're saying going from waiting/construction to this is like 1 million times better. I just get to stay home and no longer sit in traffic and I make more money
>>109839175why would I actually want to work with uncs?
>>109842495>should have studied economicsI know a pharma tech, a school teacher, and a copywriter who all studied economics. They all are extremely interesting to talk to.
>sick days accumulateso like... what if I get sick and I don't have any sick days? do I just come into the office a gargling coughing dying mess?
>>109839543My wife and I make a blueberry crumbl coffee it's delicious
>>109840103You're right about certs, but a homelab is how he's going to demonstrate he's ready for the next level. No well structured company is going to let anon play around with automation at his level. Even if he tries to do it without permission, again any company well structured won't have anything he can do because access will be locked down
>>109841921Apply for unemployment immediately
>>109842790>unemploymenthow does that work in the USA? do they base the comp on your previous salary, or you're just getting EBT to buy food?
You know what I just realized.After working with .Net, C# and Azure for more than 10 years I've never actually seen a single interesting project using any of it. It's all just corporate slop. I think it's time to stop being corporate slave but I don't know what other language/ecosystem to switch to.
>>109841921Sucks, bro. If this your first time, just realize you'll feel like shit for a few days, but you'll feel better. > Get proof of employment. A copy of the layoff letter may suffice> Get access to your 401k immediately> If you have good standing with your manager, get his contact info nowI can't remember orher stuff I'd wish I'd done, but I'm sure there is some.
>>109842815wait, Azure is a programming language? I thought it was some cloud thing.
>been doing the bare minimum (if even) for months>completely ghost people and barely even work on projects anymore because of how much they piss me off.>check meetings this morning>meeting tomorrow morning with boss and his boss for 30 mins with just the word "touchpoint">omgomgomgomgomg it's happening>start planning vacation trips, start imaging my neet life, start telling my friends last go around the rodeo if they want anything on a discount.>literally start talking to coworkers and start being more open about "lol yeah this place is shit".>people are probably like wtf this guy was the moodiest motherfucker why is he so happy now>have my last 1:1 with my boss>start making shit up like "ohhhh just working on a big move to be near the office" to troll him because I know he's firing me>wait a minute he sounds oddly supportive and okay of it.>weird alright>meeting happens, decide "fuck it what's the touchpoint about">mfw it's a re-org and not a firingHow do I handle being part of moving to the department by myself. There's a lot of things I want to change about my current workflow and I think keeping quiet here is what really fucked me. I'm debating whether to start mapping and plotting shit that I want to achieve or run through with my new boss or keep quiet and play it by ear. What would you do? I'm strangely optimistic about moving to a new department where I'll have a better stake on the applications and tools I manage.
>started new job a year ago>team has ai psychosis>use sub agents to work on four tickets at once>PRs have 5k line diffs minimum>all comments they make on jira/github are clearly straight from claude>get switched to new team last month>new team lead is a hardcore sperg>vehemently anti-AI>verbally abuses you if suspects you used AI in a slack message (using literally any punctuation is grounds for this)>team spends a whole sprint on tickets my old team would complete in a day>way more bugs, at least one deploy from our team gets rolled back every sprintanyone else work at a company like this?
>>109842834Cloud platform he was targetting.
>>109842815I can't imagine any webshittery being interesting
>>109842837based
>>109842836kinda what happened to me, but it's a medical thing on top of not caring about how fucked the company is. was just blunt and honest with my boss, and now I'm basically on sick leave and in an adviser roll. >>109842837no.
>>109842850I like automating webservice containers and watching them spin up to do work when traffic comes in. It gives me a warm fuzzy feeling. It's like a shittier version of beekeeping.
>>109842891I do the same with power equipment so I understand the feeling
>>109842836also thought i was getting fired the other day when my manager randomly pinged me at 9 AM to have a "quick chat". i actually like my job and was sweating bullets, but apparently he was just going on vacation for a week and wanted to ask if i needed anything before he left. i have no idea why we needed to meet for that, maybe just wants to keep me on my toes
>>109842899Now that would be cool. Automating real world shit sounds finnicky but rewarding.
>>109842877I think you may have responded to me a few times lol. I was actually pretty honest with my boss afterwards saying why I felt things were shit but he had the same attitude of "it is what it is". He's no longer my boss so it's nice letting things go a little like "fuckkkk shit's kinda fucked ain't it". But now I'm strangely a lot more pumped up with energy on like how to actually start situating things. I think a big problem of how work was in my current team is that we baby our groups too fucking much and I was thinking of implementing a ticket queue and be a LOT more organized on how we situate projects/priority/tasks. I was thinking of directing more further "ownership" on certain workflows and stuff too since a big problem that I'm finding too is >Hi X, we want to do X or Y and not sure what's best >I'm like "yeah X or Y would work but this is more operational and you should probably check in with your boss>my boss said speak to you and ask what you recommendand I'm sorta like I really don't give a fuck if you do X or Y but I hate having to loop my current boss in because then he'll loop his boss and then it's probably some big initiative to make the X and Y question never happen again (it will) when we shouldn't even be owning the answer.Fuck bros I need some actual help here. Should I take more leadership/ownership (of organizing who owns shit lol) or will that just bite me in the ass with politics and ETCs and stuff.
>>109842912It's PLC programming so... grass is greener and all that
>>109842930How did you get into that? EE license or what?
>>109842909nah, he just wants to make sure that he's not going to get a call or deal with some shitshow upon his return. email is the bane of management, if it's older than two days just send it again because I'm not scrolling down that far to catch up. >>109842918yeah, probably have lol. problem with my company is they constantly buy other companies, and then try to integrate whatever the shit is that they bought into our workflows. I don't fucking teams, webex, slack, fucking email, my phone number etc. Two different cloud services for storage? Sure, no better way to completely derail projects because nobody knows where shit is. Jira? yeah fuck you, I'm not updating that shit either. The hard part is being not only political about it, but apologetic, because nobody else wants to do this bullshit either. Maybe I should just be a shrink.
>>109842960Something like that although our division specifically works with power equipment (batteries, solar, generators). many other branches to the discipline (assembly lines etc) though some electrical knowledge is always nice. In theory you don't need to know anything as actual engineers will give you the input requirements.. in theory
>>109842973Yeah I'm finding that happens with my current team. My new team is a lot more of a strictler about it from what I'm seeing but that also makes me a bit worried. I guess I'll see what happens then. But I do want to be sorta prepared and get more of an ownership in things since fuck I hate it when we have an easy answer or a way forward but then my boss or his boss wants to go another direction (why?) because of the much much harder make believe solution of use AI for everything and I can't see that vision implemented like ever. I know I'm being a bit needy here but yeah I'd really appreciate just what the fuck do I do in the new department to get the ball rolling but also not stab myself in the foot.
>>109839175Oh no they discovered our top secret incel argot!
>>109843005thankfully my company has already basically given up on the AI meme. It's just more overhead, and sure you can save some time, or might find something 'unique', but at the end of the day you're still doing the work because you have to verify it isn't fucking slop and cost the company a shitload more than you're worth. If you want to move up, and have that power to control things, you also have to take responsibility and see the risks, how to weigh them, and know when you're out of your depth. Main reason I browse this site for example is because of this general and a few others that focus specific sectors or markets that directly affect my own livelyhood. It's like touching digital grass because outside of namefags you have a very quantum like decision each post, could be complete bullshit, could be the truth. Maybe life is just a choose your own reality adventure book in the end and just ride this fucking train until the rails fall off or whatever the saying is.
I think incorrect ticket severity classification should be punished by rape. Its insane how many people just won't bat an eye while paging someone in a weekend at midnight for minor inconveniences (to them, not customers), meeting "launch deadlines" or "fixing impact on metrics". Just insane. Man I wouldn't even dare DM someone outside their business hours and always schedule it to 9 AM their time or something.
>>109843075>jeet in chief invites jeet subordinate to a 4:30 in the morning meeting (for him)>I tell jeet in chief he won't be needed as the problem doesn't impact his product>"oh it's fine it's normal to get up that early in india :)"Meanwhile he apologises to me for setting up meetings at 8:30
>>109843097This isn't uncommon. Meanwhile my European colleagues want to schedule shit at 0600 my time because it's middle of the day for jeet. This is part of those politics. The jeets know that they're slaves, and they'll sacrifice each other for you. Thank them, and apologize for the inconvenience, but not in front of their subordinate. Do that later, or before, but not in the top jeet's presence. Silly fucking office games per usual.
>haven't started yet>manager texts me some variation of "we're so excited you'll be joining us soon!"they're going to skin me alive, aren't they
>>109843161You are going to want to skin yourself alive and roll in sea salt before the month ends.
>>109843161anon, if you got a job before meeting (or being hired by) your manager, you're a temp
>>109843144I'm from MENA and I remember that one type one US bitch needed help in something, as in she needed help for shit her team owns, and not a single person is obliged to help her, if they do its just from the kindness of their hearts. So she schedules a call with people from 3 different timezones, including India, and she proceeds to do it at 9 AM her time. I was planning to join since I start late anyway but the gall of that stupid bitch being the one needing help and asking everyone else to join in midnight at their timezone made me seethe so hard I didn't join despite being online. Similarly my manager once said a US team needed our help and needed to book a call with someone from our team to help them, he wanted me to join in their time instead of them joining ours and I told him to fuck off. I think its really cancer elitism mutts have that's completely undeserved and enabled by thirdie management. Europeans, South Americans or Canadians never do this shit btw. Its always the damned americans.
>>109843238Women got a pass for a long time, and I think some of the bs they got away with is starting to bite them in the ass. I've seen that meme about the women job report going around, and I think it's the opposite, they're getting hired because they've all been let go. Five years ago I worked with probably a dozen different women, now it's two. Tech people are autistic, they tend to deal with patterns and math, being logical is rewarded for the most part. Time just takes a while to do it's thing.
>>109843075I work with a bunch of jeets in jeet land and Israelis in jew land while I'm in America. I send them messages whenever, they'll answer when they wake up. I'm not waiting around until midnight to send a message to be nice to them
>>109843290I didn't say anything about waiting until midnight. You can type your message and schedule it for it to be sent that time.
>>109843306That's extra work, so no
Jesus fucking christ man.
>>109842280it's funny setting up the debugger for vscode sql developer extension is literally such a pain in the ass that I'm debugging with DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE. I feel insane being paid as much as I am while not even being able to use a debugger
I debug with print statements
>>109843508I haven't tried that extension, I'm still using sql developer... And yeah sometimes I have to add log writes if I'm debugging a concurrent program.Just need to hope I can hold on for ~15 more years and make it out.
I have 3 yoe as a scala dev and I just took one whole year holiday. It was just supposed to be 3 months, then it became 6, 12 months.How fucked am I?I can't do anything else I'd rather be a NEET if I can't be a dev
>>109843803post stupid questions in utwg
>>109843518I can nearly promise you it doesn't have to be this way.
>>109843811Depends on the platform you're working on.
How is the job market now? I'm getting tired of my corpo job. I've got 3 yoe at a fagman for reference
>>109843836horrible
>>109843836Make sure you have 2 years of savings if you ever lose your job. My entire cities worth of IT/Tech guys are sweating a major crash.
F..fr..friday...>>109843481Exactly.>>109842877>I still haven't talked about my own medical leave with my manager I guess, I understand why everyone is worried about me, now.What did you tell your manager, anon?
>>109839175How do I force myself to laugh at that shit?t. balding doomer
>>109843836I guess I'm hiring, or I'm fired and they're waiting until next Q.I need a team of neets to fulfill a specific job.Keep the systems running until I can retire.
>>109842815jellyfin? cmon anon
work has me so fucked up lately i've started watching the quintessential quintuplets anime i will say it does help me relax
>>109843907My manager didn't know at the time. I was on a remote call with some coworkers I deal with day to day, and one of them was aware of my aliment, they contacted him because he had my emergency contact info, etc. EMS showed up a few minutes after I regained consciousness, told them I was fine (couldn't remember what year it was) and then called him when I got it together. Should know how cooked I am tomorrow, finally got an appointment for an EEG. If I don't go full retard dementia in the next year or so cancer is gonna fuck me, moral of the story is stay salty, honest, and if you enjoy a drink or a smoke then some harpy bitch that complains about it isn't worth it.
>>109840103This is retarded advice>>109842815Have you tried learning golang? Lpta of interesting things were born due to its features
>>109842624>what if I get sick and I don't have any sick days? do I just come into the office a gargling coughing dying mess?My current employer offers no sick days, so I come in even if I'm dying.My favorite story about this was the time a company lunch gave me food poisoning. I stayed late because I couldn't leave the bathroom, then came in the next day because I had to. I ended up leaving an hour early and spending my first ever night in the hospital, for which I got written up. Yes, I'm American.
>>109843856>>109843864At least in my area, the difficulty of the market seems to depend a whole lot on your experience level. If you're at +10 years, jobs are easy to come by and it's more a matter of pay. Under 3 years and good luck.
>>109841138>sweden, 8yoe>612ksek per year
>>109839175Seeing all the stress you guys are under, why not just take the NEET pill and enjoy coding and tech as a hobby instead?
>>109842432with "proper judgement" you can at least spot more easily when the model hallucinates or does something stupid or if for example the code quality is badat my job I work with non technical proompters and have seen the quality difference
>>109840316>Also lame gifs from The Office
>>109842624say thanks to people who abused the system by bribing/befriending doctors to write tons of sick notes and then bragging about it
>10 YOE in monitoring/application/infrastructure, whatever you wanna call it>lost old client at work, new client is dogshit with overworked team members, in a sector i don't give a fuck ini'm hoping to get a shot at this internal IT position. the pay is somehow even marginally better, but it's 10 minutes by car instead of like an hour
>>109844386enjoying moege is the real threshold of hitting the bottom of the wagie life
>need someone with lots of experience in M365 to join our team>female manager in charge of interviewing and hiring says she wants someone who fits the culture and only needs to know the basics of M365
>>109839175would you work harder if you manager was someone you could respect?
>>109839551is this 6 parts in total meaning 16%? or 5, meaning 20% milk
>>109839553its tiresome when the work is meaningless and your boss is disgusting to speak it. Today on a call I minimized all the windows sono couldn't see anyone. They he spoke and the windows came back up. I literally jump and gasped with surprise and disgust
>the honest ... is>what it buys you>bookkeeping
>>109845484>work harderfuck nobut I would be less snarky and may actually listen to what he says
>>109845454>someone who fits the culturei still don't know what this means, even after years of working.does it just mean someone who's willing to do free unpaid overtime all the time?
>>109845753this + actively participates in teambuilding shit and watercooler conversations
>respect managerslmao no never give me money>respect cowoerkslmao no never give me money>respect companylmao no never give me money>join company culturelmao no never give me money
>>109839366That's the joke.
>>109839737>using AI to write their documentation,I actually hate people who do this. I think AI is cool, I use it a lot at work. I've vibe coded a couple things, I even train my own models at home (yeah I have the hardware.) If there's one thing you write yourself it's the documentation, having an LLM write that makes absolutely no sense.
>>109845759teambuilding shit and watercooler stuff i can do, but i ain't doing unpaid work lmao
>>109845812You can't really buy anything interesting with money.
>>109844924>why not just take the NEET pill and enjoy coding and tech as a hobby instead?I did this for a year and someone convinced me to work for them. It's the best job I've ever had, I have an insane workload but I pretty much never feel stressed.
>>109845832you can buy a nice (not a mansion) house that it is affordable and can last forever with the right amount of maintenanceyou can buy enough to have a nice little aquarium so you can hang out with your little shrimp friendsyou can get a nice desk and furnish your gaming roomyou can buy a reliable second hand corolla and let that bad boy run foreveryou can buy a few quality pieces of clothing you can wear for yearsyou can spend that money on a better gym, nice bed, etc
>>109842624>>109845220I think I've used less than 5 sick days during my 8 years of working. I just can't bring myself to fake being sick.
>>109845845>you can buy a nice (not a mansion) house that it is affordable and can last forever with the right amount of maintenanceNot anywhere near work, they all cost millions here. Paying money for a worse commute seems dumb to me.>you can buy enough to have a nice little aquarium so you can hang out with your little shrimp friendsI suppose those are expensive, I already have a boat though and don't really feel the need to keep sea animals in my house.>you can get a nice desk and furnish your gaming roomI don't have a gaming room and just wear "AR glasses" in bed.>you can buy a reliable second hand corolla and let that bad boy run foreverI already have this.>you can buy a few quality pieces of clothing you can wear for yearsNice clothing is incredibly cheap these days. >you can spend that money on a better gym, nice bed, etcMy apartment has a gym and my bed is fine. Once you get over about $70k more money doesn't get you anything more than a little more financial stability until you get above about $200k. Even then it's still minor incremental improvements like being able to afford a house. It's just not worth striving for, the peace is worth more than anything you could buy.
Fucking hate this shit man, I hate this fucking country I hate the thrid world I hate corporate America I fucking hate AI.I've been trying to break into the IT/tech world for almost 10 yrs. Stuck doing random bullshit and retail/warehouse shit for most of my life and now AI and H1B Jeets come into the picture I dont think ill ever get a chance.If you an American and still work in IT, I legit see that as a huge flex.
>>109839236Get a creative hobby outside of just consuming shit.
>>109845882>I fucking hate AI.>I've been trying to break into the ITYou're trying and not succeeding because you don't have the right attitude.
109845892>You're trying and not succeeding because you don't have the right attitude
>>109845849Well aren't you tough
>>109845894Alright, I was being nice. I should have told you to fuck off like we do to most people who belong in utwg. Yeah, I can tell you have the wrong attitude and you don't belong here. You're living in the middle of a major technical revolution and instead of taking advantage of it and building something you bitch about it. Fuck. Off.
> You're living in the middle of a major technical revolution and instead of taking advantage of it and building something you bitch about it
>>109845887Not the other anon, but I find creative hobbies just feel like chores.
>>109845914I'm white and the last three times I've been banned from 4chan have been for complaining about Indians. I agree with you the H1B situation is awful.But if you're not building things what exactly are you wanting to "break into tech" for? The corporate socialization you claim to hate? I think you don't get what you want because you don't even know what you want.
>>109845923Then keep being unstimulated and bored igEverything could be a "chore" with that attitude.
>>109845928Anything you could build with Ai has no value and is probably already been built by some third worlder who was way ahead of you.You better hope Diesel goes back under 3$ before winter because ppl like you will be the first I rape and kill when this shithole country finally stops pretending to be First World and goes back to the wild west.
>>109845945>Anything you could build with Ai has no valueIn that case it makes no difference economically. "And building with AI" doesn't mean using an LLM to produce it. There have been a lot of software companies sold for lots of money which are just wrappers around inference APIs. >and is probably already been built by some third worlder who was way ahead of you.Very little interesting software ever seems to come from the third world (other than maybe Eastern Europe if that counts.) I think it's for the same reason their countries are the way they are: they all have your attitude. >ppl like you will be the first I rape and kill I doubt it, you'll find some reason to put it off just like you do now.
>I doubt i- ACK!
>>109845995You're still just talking about it. It's exactly the same way you just talk about "breaking into tech."Go *do* something.
>>109845995Whats the point of the signal jammers?
>>109846016It's from South Africa. They all hire private security to respond but if the signal is jammed the security doesn't show up.
>>109846016So you dont call for help whilst they are breaking into your homestead in the dead of night and kill/rape you and your family like im going to do to every smug HR faggot in the very near future.
>>109846020I'm a senior embedded software engineer actually.
>>109846025well you type/ sound like every HR/Hiring managment roastie ive ever had the displeasure of meeting.Either way, your ass is grass.
>>109846034You type like an illiterate high school dropout.
>You type like an illiterate high school dropout!!11!
Now that I think about it-Anyone with "senior" in their title should be promptly ignored any way. You're going to get laid off which is the funny part- partly for age discrimination and partly because corporate America loves cheap labor. And you were already grandfathered into tech and have no idea who bad it is right now.
>>109839201but that's how humanity progressed throughout the ages >b-but my exceptional unitary examples!!only relevant in last ~500 years
>>109846122You're not even in tech. Either fix the problem (which means killing people) fix yourself (which means actually listening to my advice instead of bitching on 4chan) or shut up.
>>109839543Americans have no idea about coffee. See: "americano".
>>109839551>1:5 milk to coffee ratioHow is this even coffee anymore?
>>109846184>you're not even in techAnd why is that?Look buddy, 1 in 6 American adults are unemployed right now and the only solution they have is "just keep submitting a 1000 applications, you'll MAYBE get a job" and they think this system can just keep chugging along with no consequences.I shouldn't have to compete with both the 2nd and 3rd world for a tech job in my hometown.
>>109846213For most people in the US yeah it's a broader social problem. You in particular would not do well even in good times. You don't like tech.
>>109846190One place gave me that when I asked for just a normal black coffee. It was not good.
>>109846218I have an Associate's degree in Network Systems that I earned all while working a shit warehouse job.Every asshole thinks they work harder than the guy they are next to, but im 100% certain ive done more shit in a year than you probably ever done in your entire life. Just because you got lucky and got into tech before all of this kicked off doesn't mean you are actually good at your job.
>>109846225>Every asshole thinks they work harderI never said you didn't work hard, I know you work very hard. I said you have a terrible attitude and don't want what you claim to want.
>>109840387This is my company. I just resorted to using Claude routines and loops and pic rel is literally me now.
>set linkedin search for jobs within a reasonable radius around me>he still gave me one in bumfuck nowhere and i accidentally applied because i forgot to check the distance for this specific application
>>109846232My "attitude" is only like this precisely because of the way things are you classic faggot.If morale does not improve we circle back to turning this shithole country into Apartheid SA
>>109845882>>If you an American and still work in IT, I legit see that as a huge flex.well dont. theres other ways to make a decent living which are actually in demand. you are a doofus.when people ask me what i do for a living i consider making up a job. tech is gay and people think less of you for working in it.
>>109846290Everyone is going to work at an Amazon warehouse for pennies in the future because everything else is outsourced to jeets and chinese and this country is ran by greedy retards that can't think 5 yrs into the future.
>>109846267Just ghost them if they actually call back.Never accepted a job further than 30 mins from where I lived. I've met people who were willing to travel an hour away from their house just to work someplace for minimum wage. Literal animals with no higher cognitive thought. When Jews discuss goyim being cattle, these are the kinds of people that come to mind.
>>109840446Do you mind being responsible for it though?>>109846288Your attitude is one of the few things in your life you can actually control. >turning this shithole country into Apartheid SAMeh. Apartheid was better than what they have now.
>>109846313they called back. no need to ghost them, i simply apologized>I've met people who were willing to travel an hour away from their house just to work someplace for minimum wagethat's me when i was starting out. 24/7 365days/year job too.it wasn't that bad, the shifts were very chill.later on i even tried 90m commute time because we switched client, let me tell you it was NOT fun.at least it was public transportation, if it was by car i would have killed myself.i'd like a second covid to hit the towers, so that all the RTO people can kill themselves.but hey, apparently linkedin fixed a bug where none of the job offerings loaded correctly and i had to open a new tab everytime. only took them 2 months+ to fix the site's main functionality
>>109846372>at least it was public transportation, if it was by car i would have killed myself.Well thats different. If you're a eurofag with High Speed Rail or something in your country then commuting long distance for work isnt a big deal.But, I'm saying this entirely from an American perspective of having to get on the interstate and DRIVE through TRAFFIC for 90 minutes + multiple times a week to a shit job that barely pays the bills is mentally insane behavior.
>>109846222It's more water than coffee. Double espresso or ristretto is the way to go. The latter is basically liquid amphetamine.
>generates a wall of text slop (prose, almost no code, despite this being an issue with the code) to justify some change>i can already see inaccuracies that put into question the whole thingnow i have to tactfully tell this guy that his slop might be wrong and it's not my job to sift through this bullshit that he didn't think through and he needs to start using his fucking brain and i don't want to review this shit and won'tDUMB USELESS MOTHERFUCKERS
>>109842837>new team lead is a hardcore sperg>vehemently anti-AI>verbally abuses you if suspects you used AI in a slack message (using literally any punctuation is grounds for this)Absolutely based
>>109846819i concur and i want to start doing this
>>109842836bump any advice anyone?
>>109846301...and that's a good thing, here's whyliberal democracy must be littered with the bodies of the working class. freedom ain't free.
>>109839217I have grand aspirations and take the path of least resistance which gets blocked in my face 5 seconds after engaging it which results in actually taking the path of most resistance because all other paths are blocked.
>>109844907Sweden, 4 yoe a year ago. 900k a year.Now 5 yoe (obviously), 1.7m a year starting next month.
oh yeah I'm at work lol
>>109845892>>109845894>you don't have the right attitude>what's the right attitude?>well look at *coworker who is 6ft5 with a defined jawline and hunter eyes*'s attitude!
How do I make it to these kinds of salaries? I've been in web dev for almost 15 years and I've never had a job that paid more than $100k a year.
>>109847015Where do you work? I get 800k and that's supposedly really good, nobody I know makes makes 600k or up and I'm in Stockholm.
>>109847015>>109847015>>109847286As an American these impotent larps are funny to me, knowing that no europoor will ever make anything even close to this kind of money while at the same time there are plenty of Americans who actually do.
>>109847279You stop looking at exceptions? It's like a welder looking at the salary of some hyperbaric welder working off the coast of Norway and wondering why he's not making that kind of money.
>>109847286I'm in Stockholm. I work(ed) for a legaltech company not called Legora. They're actually looking for a senior AI engineer right now and having a hard time finding anyone who can do more than vibecode the assignment and then pretend they totally wrote it themselves. The usual ask range has been between 70k and 90k/month. We have interviewed some people asking 80-90k/month so that's in-budget for someone who can pose as senior.Anyway. I'm now/soon at a fully virtual American-based company who is hiring me through my AB, hence the huge salary.I also have an ex-colleague who makes 900k as well as a product specialist at BioNordika, for example. These rates aren't that unusual.
>>109847320We're talking about kronor, not usd. Rule of thumb: divide by 10.
>>109847323>exceptionsLiterally everyone who works for a publicly traded tech company gets paid these kinds of salaries. The number of people is in the hundreds of thousands.
>>109847320>can't figure out it's SEK not USD>As an American Don't worry we can tell. >there are plenty of Americans who actually do.Drop the larp retard.
>>109847340Only the top 10 tech companies and only in the bay area. Actually look it up instead of hallucinating, dumb chatbot.
>>109847332Why haven't you just adopted the euro at this point instead of continuing to use your funny money that has to be divided by 10 to compare against real currencies?
>>109847359And those people are paying 5k/month for a shoebox apartment too, so you can start by detracting 60k from their yearly.
Don't worry Ameribros, some day you'll earn 800k so you can get a similar quality of life as a European earning 80k.
>>109847359These companies have lots of offices in other cities and still pay generally the same salaries.
>>109847363It's not just the currency, Sweden has retained several unique rights and products (snus being a key example, it is illegal everywhere but in Sweden). The authoritative entities (government, banks, etc.) in Sweden often deliberately disregard EU laws, for better or worse.It is better for the economy to be decoupled like that, especially since Sweden typically does far better economically than the EU block.
>>109847389A principle engineer at M$ caps out at about 200k CAD in Montreal, nowhere near 1.12m USD. In the land of poo it is ₹1.21 crores, or about 120k USD. In UK it is £130,000.As you see, none of those numbers are even remotely comparable.
>>109847388If I wanted to be carless and live in a shoebox apartment I could do that right now
>>109847420Sour grapes. Your cities are known for their absurd rents precisely because Americans dream of living in an apartment where you don't need a car. Supply and demand, quite simply.
>>109847420I'm carless but I live in a 75m2 apartment just to save up faster. I could sell it and buy a 120m2 house with private lake access 30m from the city center at any time. I could get a car whenever I want, just haven't needed it so far.
>management has us creating our own user stories after new boss came in>India team starts making complete bullshit cards with no justification or reason or oversight>tfw called them out on it and forced them to regularly review and justify their user stories to management
>>109839175I'm starting to have a severe physical reaction to using the computer. Especially when my boss messages me on Slack with a task. I just want to vomit. I want to die. I don't know how to do anything else but at this point I'd rather starve to death than do another jira
>>109847435I don't have sour grapes, that was always an option. There are more cities/towns here than NYC and SF gobshite
>>109847452You're burnt out. See what kind of break you could take.
>make $250k in the US>only work 10 years and invest most of it>retire at 30 wherever you want in Europe>never work another day and stroll around sipping latte while Euro coders have to go into the wage cage until they die365 days of vacation a year!
>hey go download this vendor app, we need you to communicate with them>download the app>try to create an account>put in my email>it sends me a code to sign up>"this email is not registered"
>>109847472That's "only" $156,269 take-home each year if you live at home and your parents pay for everything including transport. $1.5m in 10 years.Assuming you don't use a golden visa (lose roughly 1m) Most of western Europe will be off-limits to you on cost if you intend to love 40 years, and you'll have to live in outskirts or the countryside the whole time.However, at a high level, this is the correct strategy.
>>109839175Well I think I might be fucked in the near future. My indian CTO was talking about how we need to incorporate AI into our workflow and started comparing us to similar companies that were able to reduce their IT dept staff by relying more on AI. Talked about how we are behind and need to catch up with rolling out more AI.
>>109847499luddite cope. Vibe coding is the future
>>109845280guess i still haven't hit rock bottom then, good to knowitsuki best girl btw
>>109847544Yes, $1.5m invested. Now factor in 8-10% compounding returns year over year because we live in an investor utopia not a socialist nanny state.
>PR needs reviewing>ask Claude to handle it>reword it a bit>post it>read what it wrote>feel a cold sweat>"Hold on are you sure about x?">"You're absolutely right, and I owe you an apology..."
>>109847472An interesting power fantasy but I have never in my life met an American doing this. In fact I meet very few American tourists that aren't boomers. I feel like your power fantasy might not be entirely realistic, or everyone but you is stupid.
tgif am i right fellas
>>109847570And what do you do on a bad year when the portfolio loses 50% value? Do you keep drawing down that much which is equivalent to double-drawdown in good times? Or do you just starve and wait for a good year?
>>109847324>Anyway. I'm now/soon at a fully virtual American-based company who is hiring me through my AB, hence the huge salary.that's not a salary then, it's a payment and you're essentially a contractor who has to pay own health insurance etc?
>>109847592In practice they get stuck with the visa issue and can't move. They sometimes cope and retire in the midwest, but most find it too shit to live and go back to their expensive shithole, then have to take on a job again to make ends meet.
>>109847592It's very easy actually, you just have to be:>in the top 2% in income>in a place where half your salary doesn't get eaten by CoL >you being continuously employed for those years in the tech sectorSimple.>>109847570What are you going to do with a measly $1.5mil retard? It's not the 90s anymore, that's not as much money as it sounds. >8-10% compounding returnsWhere the fuck are you getting that kind of returns reliably? I swear you people are delusional, if you can get that kind of ROI reliably why work at all? Why does a 401k even exist lmao just coast on the returns. Everyone earning above 100k would just retire at 45 or earlier if it were that easy.
>>109847631I removed the employer tax, employer insurances, premium pension plan, vacation expenses, and so on and so forth to leave the gross pay + dividend gross pay sum as the number I noted here, but yes. Health insurance is not employer-provided in Sweden. Benefits like free parking and premium healthcare that employers can provide are considered taxable fringe benefits that are counted the same as salary of equivalent value, so they're rarely something you provide to employees. Instead, as owner of my company, I get to expense a car and fuel that allows for fully personal use/enjoyment at the company (so before tax) as a non-taxable benefit, and I can also expense other things like software subscriptions and hardware, before I draw down payments.
>>109847324that's interesting.i've had a friend who's worked for EasyPark at one point, 1300kr/h, which is nice, but if you are like me and not in either Stockholm or Göteborg, then the going rate for consultants is like 700-900kr/hbut I suppose it is a matter of who and what. remote assignments work just as well from anywherewhat are you actually doing? ai? for me it's embedded and that's not always suitable for remote work. thinking about "reschooling"
man, i really hope i don't fumble another interview
>>109847652>Where the fuck are you getting that kind of returns reliably?isn't that the long-term average for sp500?
>>109847717My primary area is comp bio, but since jobs in the field are non-existent, I spent too much time doing ai crap, including grad school and "classic" deep learning, not just "calling the api" bullshit like the only ai jobs are like today. The American company is comp bio, though.
>>109847652Ah yes, Schroedinger's European. $80k goes very very very far in your country but $1.5m+ invested does not. L M A OOOOOOOPOORFAGGOT
>>109847758NTA sounds as cool as Biomed and Test Equipment is. When did you realize your situation? I know plenty of people learn during their masters degree or half way through their Phd(they get a consolation masters degree when dropping out)
>>109847758ty, basically data analysis theni've gotten to the point where i feel that embedded was a shit choice, or at least as i have tackled itevery company i've been at has said that they struggle finding good embedded engineers yet the pay is below what someone who does integration work on android is, in the same org even lolthanks anyways. i hope your success brings you happinessour cunt is a mess in many ways but a lot of it is offset by being somewhat well paid
>>10984776080k doesn't go "very far", the quality of life is naturally very high simply because of how free things work. The 80k is what you need to earn to live without worrying about money, but doesn't uplift you from the dregs or anything like that, there simply aren't dregs to be elevated from. This is why you need 800k in the US to get 80k in europe's worth of quality of life.The 150k you hope to take out as 10% gains on your 1.5m means about 100k post-tax, but gets double-taxed until you file for a 1:1 tax credit from the IRS so you're really at 50k take-home with a year-end 50k bonus that you can't earn on. That's going to be borderline if you want to live the typical middle class life, rather than comfortably in the first year, but quite decent if (upper middle class) in the second year. But your investments will never grow, and if anything happens like a bear market, you're permanently reducing your possible drawdown yearly. (in practice you won't even get 10%, the CAGR for QQQ between March 1999 through September 2016 was "only" above 5%, so you will get drawdowns most years that you will never statistically recover from)
>>109842836yo anyone please? this shit probably happened to you guys a lot can someone tell me how to survive a re-org???
>>109847789I was actually banking on sector growth past PhD. At the time, there was increasing traction from the top down about the importance of comp bio in the sector, because it is severely underutilized even though nearly all new results are drawn from comp bio. Unfortunately I underestimated how siloed the industry was, which is the real reason comp bio is not showing what it can do, thus strongly reducing the interest in comp bio hires in the field. The calls for more comp bio from top companies never materialized as job offers, and the market cooled by the time I left the PhD, so people stopped caring about deep learning and started caring about using chatgpt (not even APIs), thus my key plan B (to continue with deep learning professionally and either prove value and build on it in one company, or wait for the market to thaw) died and I had to take what I could get.I did get a few gigs doing comp bio that unfortunately didn't last, but they were the most exciting jobs I've ever held and I'm looking forward to starting the next one, I'm very certain this is what I want to do and I've been very lucky to find the opportunity.
>>109847839Correct, so you could make $1.5m go very far there because functionally speaking you only need to spend $20-30k to enjoy the "free things" calm life and tranquility you allude to. You're just upset that I rocked your gay little boat and now you're seething.
Just wait until this stupid coping faggot finds out that long term capital gains are taxed at 0% per year up to $41k withdrawnGuess what little nigga I could retire in your peasant colony with $1m, not even $1.5m
>>109847903If your goal is to enjoy calm life and tranquility then yes, you won't need to draw down a 100k yearly capital gains to cover your lifestyle and you can buy very cheap houses in the middle of nowhere (sub-100k), then your only costs will be car, fuel, groceries (typically cheap but depends where) and hobbies. Then 1.5m is more than enough for 40 years and even if the market plunges 50%, you should still remain positive yearly.
>>109847879re-org is 99% of the time just a way for the bosses to feel involved and for them to show that they are in fact workingnot to be negative but i've never seen any actual change happen due to a re-org, the same work is still done by the same people but this time under different titlesbut go ahead and show ambition, bosses love that shit
>>109847925You are retarded. It is the tax residence country that decides how your capital gains are taxed, not your country of origin. As a US citizen, you also get taxed in addition to any taxed incurred in your tax residence country. You need to file with the IRS for a tax credit if there is a tax agreement with the resident country (there is for most), or eat the double tax.
>>109847879Buy some work boots, a jacket, reflective vest and a bottle of whisky. Anon you are joining the trades. pic related is your state mandated wife.
My manager's incompetence resulted in me having the rest of the day off, lmaoTime to start the weekend early.
Why is file explorer visible to everyone on zoom when I click an upload button? I'm only sharing my browser.
>>109847928Here in Sweden, re-orgs are codeword for layoffs.
money feeds my ego
>>109845746does your manager get bothered by you slighting him?
>>109848111Is it similar as France where you can't really be fired unless you kill someone or for economic reasons which is why they do those reorgs?In the US they can fire you for wearing the wrong colour of shirt so they don't need to fire people during reorgs
>>109848010state mandated brahp hag that releases docile gas from her gigantic lymphatic backside any time you get a heart rate over 120
I feel like swe was a lie. I still can't buy a house as swe on over $250k salary. Single family houses that aren't run down are like 2 million minimum. Even if I go for a $1.3 million townhouse, I can't afford the mortgage payments because almost half my salary is from stocks
>>109839543let me guess, your idea of coffee is the instant dried stuff that's only good as a food flavoring or brown dye readymix but they market to you as actual coffee
>>109848216>1.3 million townhouseAny exemples? I can't imagine anything other than an extremely luxurious villa in an incredible location
Anyone here worked for TSMC or GF before? How is it? Are they strict about requirements?
>>109848240
https://files.catbox.moe/r2hstl.mp4
>>109848260That's absurd
>working in core model team of frontier lab> not in the US/SF bubble and mostly friends with non-tech people>tfw everyone I know IRL and every newspaper article and every youtube video tells me i should quit my job for ethical reasons or be complicit in crimes against humanitythe terrible truth is that i dont want to quit because i want to feel smart and important, not for any higher reasoni dont even get paid that much for possibly selling-out the human race (£250k)
>coworkers are posting AI generated memes of each other as Orcs, Clippy etc using Copilot>we recently got Claude and funbucks so we look good for investors>ask "So is this how you guys use your Claude funbucks?" in the gc>Manager sees this and starts flipping his shit>Asks us we're seriously burning tokens for memes>C-suite gets involved>our token usage will now be evaluatedHahahahahahahahaha
>>109848531I would sell out the uman race for half that, you're recruiting?
I'm wondering if you've also noticed an increse in hostility between coworkers the past few years.It feels like people are attacking and mocking me without even provoking them. Maybe they want me to leave, and I would if I could find somewhere decent to go.
>>109839175I stole the broken dell latitude e5440 with an i7-4600U and GT 720M (2gb vram) to repair it and make it my dedicated league of legends machine so I don't have to have vanguard installed on my main pc. It was going to be recycled anyway.
>>109848531why your TC so low sarr?
>>109842624you get to stay home sick, but you don’t get paid
>>109848531>British>cringeyep, that checks out
>>109846958>and that's a good thi-ACK
>>109848722>I'm wondering if you've also noticed an increse in hostility between coworkers the past few years.Yes, but not just coworkers. Society as a whole. That's how you know things are tearing at the seams and good times are ahead.
>>109848722definitely more hostility, because we all know that deep down, none of this shit we do matters, it's all up to C-level executives who insist on destroying our spirit by any means necessary, and we would all rather be talking to anyone other than each other also more bullshit because it's all retarded questions and copypasta from AI responses all the way downmore than half of my job is now mediating AI agent output between requirements and correspondence of my coworkers just earlier I asked the agent if my re-request for PR approvals was rude at all, because I've been waiting for 3 DAYS for approvals and wanted to make sure I was being mindful of how I bumped the request, so I copypasta'd the agent's 2nd option and sent that verbatim and it workedI like how my message came across as passive-aggressive because I would never type like that but those fucking PRs were approved in absolute minutes
pro tip:get your relocation package in writing before you sign the contract
>>109848216You're supposed to go into debt buying/building a house
Does anyone have any resources for system management / IT infrastructure best practice for operations? This guy >>109842836 here and I want to REALLY start introducing and formalizing a lot of our processes. Not a big fan of our own (emails and no SLA so everything is a coin toss and is just chaotic) but my companies own procedures and process are even weirder (lotta indians stuff, redirecting to the wrong teams all the time, not being able to figure out issues unless you directly tell them what it is, making things worse than it is, constant escalations)
tech field is so mentally ill
My married friends realizing how much sex they're going to be having for the rest of their liveshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aazAwda4bM
>>109847760america vs europe arguments are really a waste of breathe. people read europe marketing and propaganda on reddit all day and are convinced everything is great. takes very little time to look up what median salaries, tax rates, and home costs are. or you could even ask a european, a lot will tell you it sucks. every european ive known has told me the systems suck there, especially the healthcare.
>>109849347>41% top tax rate (expected) in california
>>109849535Its honestly such a meme industry, i'm actually glad its in its final death rattle right now.
>finish second interview>"we'll send you a mail sometime next week">two weeks later still no mail>the job opening I applied for suddenly reappeared on their websiteokay then
>>109849649this is the employed general, you CLOWNS have your own containment thread >>>/g/utwg
>>109848531>be complicit in crimes against humanityI wouldn't worry about the token predictor killing humanity, that's just marketing to keep the money flooding in.
>>109848826because i was born - may allah forgive me for saying this - br*tish
>>109839175Good lord, this thread is more depressing than /r9k/. Whats so special about working in tech that turns people into Schopenhauer? The rest of this board isnt like this
>>109839175just seeing this picture makes me want to kms
>>109849789>hats so special about working in tech that turns people into Schopenhauer?just like Schopenhauer they are severely autistic, but unlike Schopenhauer they are not highly intelligent
>>109849679I am responsible for IT operations in a retirement home and want to get out of this hellholeI only took this job because it's a five minute drive and seemed calm enough, but nurses are psychopaths and if I ever have to end up in permanent care by them I'd rather kill myself
From now on I'm going to wait a minimum of 30 minutes before acknowledging any question that could be answered by searching confluence or reading the code. I need to condition my "juniors" (who all claim to have nearly twice my working experience in the industry) to see me as the most inconvenient means of acquiring information.
>>109847925US will collapse unless it does capital gains tax so good luck. You will get taxed eventually.
>>109849789Having to interact with AI while not being unemployed Bosnian spammer.
>>109849789This wouldn't be a problem if american firms mandated degrees instead of allowing self taught subhumans in
>>109850106They would have degree requirements if programming didn’t become easy and low standard. Before AI anybody with IQ above 110 and months of free time could have learned how to code in some beginner language like python or JavaScript, now with AI anybody with IQ above 70 can prompt clanker to give them result better then 99% of bachelor degree holders in CS.
Engineers take a FE exam, Software Engineering needs an equivalent exam(And some Leetcode SAT/GMAT equivalent, I'd much rather grind like crazy, take an exam saying I got a xxx/yyy on DSA than have to deal with leetcode questions in every interview)
>>109850089>US will collapse unless it does capital gains tax so good luck.Already exists.
>>109850106Computer Engineering majors are about as useful in a corporate slopware dev team as Mechanical Engineering majors are in a garage.
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>>109849546>he fell for the amerilard propagandalmaot. Eurochad
>>109850204No point in enforcing any software related exam since they can be easily passed using a GPT
>>109839553>200k75k. Fifteen years ago I would have felt okay about this. Today, I just hope normies (women) don't realize this is actually a very low salary now.
