Really makes me think of The Matrix scene with the woman in the red dress.
Can't tell if they did this on purpose to freak us all out?
Are we all just prompts?
I used to work manual labour in the reforestation industry and there were two main schedules we would work: 4-and-1s (criminal) and 3-and-1s (manageable). That change in ratio really adds up.
Sadly, management mostly worked us 4-and-1s because, despite the fact that each day we were less productive, over 3 months more trees would get planted in less time.
4-and-1s of gruelling manual labour inevitably leads to burn out. It did every season without fail, and we all expected it. Burnout was a built-in condition. The key here is that labour tolerated it only because the work was seasonal. There was always an end in sight. And most folks spent the off-season on a beach somewhere it was cheap enough to live off the earnings, surfing and eating tacos all day (or the equivalent activity).
The salaryperson should not accept burn out as a built-in; we are labourers for life and we need to learn how to find dignity in such a reality. When I first transitioned to a salaried worker, I brought the burn out mentality to my work and had a lot of pride in that. And though full of bride, the burnt out husk that I as had little dignity.
Ratios that allow for more life and less labour is that dignity.
Howdy, author here, and yes, I'm yak shaving. My vision wasn't to just build a single game, but to build a "Roblox for online board games".
I've been in the beginning phases of building the runtime and getting the editor to work when I realized that it is going to take much longer to do at the quality that I want. Worse yet, my own credibility of building beyond the infrastructure is shaky, and I could already see the mistakes pile up which means that fight is going to take much longer.
Layoffs aren't what are "rattling" folks in this industry, at least not the tech folks outside of FAANG. If you've worked in startup land, you've experienced layoffs. Probably multiple rounds. You anticipate them, and they aren't scary because the market for your skills is so competitive.
Our "Job Security" comes from the overall state of the hiring market, not finding a job at the most stable company and putting in 30 before retiring.
If folks are rattled, its because of the state of the job market, something I'm actually curious about. Reporting on this would have actual value, as I'm still getting recruiter emails from many of the recent companies that have publicly said they are freezing/slowing down hiring and from many, many startups.
This article just reads like schadenfreude for the majority of tech workers who have never experienced the job security of being at a giant engine growth that never stalled once for 10-15 years.
> I'm still getting recruiter emails from many of the recent companies that have publicly said they are freezing/slowing down hiring
I wonder what a recruiter at a company with a hiring freeze in place is expected to do? I'd be inclined to say, "well then I'll be on vacation until you need me, thanks for keeping the paychecks coming", but I suspect that wouldn't work so well. I think they would want to "keep the pipeline flowing" or however you'd want to say it for a mix of practical as well as BS reasons.
In my experience "hiring freeze" at a large company usually means "hiring freeze, but..."
Exceptions can and will be made, but need higher level approvals. The problem at these companies is that managers just want to infinitely expand their teams, because more people in your chain of command = more important manager, so they tend to use all of their budget regardless of whether they actually need to expand staff by 10% this year. Naturally, these approved hires tend to be specialized senior positions that are seen as business-critical.
In general, I think anyone with 10+ years experience will be fine, but now's a shit time to be a new grad trying to break into the market.
Oh, I pretty much get all that, but I'm just saying that even if there was a 100% freeze, a recruiter at said company still needs to look busy somehow, but of course they're in a silly position if that's the case; though I assume they still have mouths to feed and provide health insurance for.
Totally, I suspect pursuing a bunch of these "opportunities" would lead to dead ends, but I'm not looking for a job currently so I haven't found out.
This is why I'd find reporting that tries to figure this out a bit more interesting and relevant for most of our industry.
Layoffs are inevitable, will getting a new job after be a lot more difficult? Is the current deluge of recruiter emails still being spammed at me an illusion/a lagging indicator of where the hiring market is actually at?
Fired, probably. Recruiting, as a department, is unfortunately seen as expendable and the pipeline doesn't need to flow. Not that I think that's a smart decision.
Most tech recruiters seem to be recent college grades that have a string of a couple 6-12 month gigs before they move on. I am not really sure how any of these provide any value to the companies that hire them.
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Just a heads up, clicking the logo in top left corner brings you to a similarly designed page thats about crypto. And is the copy on the book supposed to mention crypto community management?
What's with the comment section. Has anyone else noticed more and more word-salad-AI-bots in comment sections? To what end are ppl building and deploying these things?
"Nice someone replied, we can make the debate hot and up the discussion. I saw, maybe, with defined purpose, to motivate me to participate, people kidding with de Funny Balloons the Condom, so, if I could elaborate a campaingn, (Please don't get me in touch with politicians, prefer tech tycoons, movies tycoons....). Anyways, returning, I would elaborate a campaingn with a "kids kit" with real fun balloons, trying to avoid, the people use the Condom to fun. If people use the Condom to fun, the real utility get lost. Resume: LOL; Campaing, explaining about don't use Condom to other purposes. If can the involved combine the 2 pratices? The Condom, besides the female, so usefull, indispensable in fact but, I guess, with any Medical or public health formation, injectable, more effective and some, 3 months of safety. Doing the math maybe a little expensive for governments, 3 to 3 months, the women getting a injection, vacine. Maybe doing the math, more efective to try to resolve the populational growth without control. We have to remember the following. Abbandoned people, in anyway tend to search for bad things. Crimes, drugs, go out home, etc. I see some times, rich people abbandoned, so, maybe, worth to think what is more expensive for the system. A correct, effective born control or the troubles caused with the excess of sons or not structured families. Many questions need to be checked. Religion, Value, if worth, ages, fertility, anyways, it's a multi disciplin debate. Health workers, politicians, activists, companies, government, technology, my old area, is the less useful and THERE ARE A LOT OF SOLUTIONS READY."
To me, that reads like stream-of-consciousness comment by a non-native speaker, not a bot. It's civil, so it would fall in the top half of YouTube comments, but it doesn't make a substantive point so it would get flagged on HN.
A large number of people can't write a comment with a clear thesis and supporting arguments. Most college grads can, but most of the world hasn't gone to college.
There is lots of crap in the comments section of blogs of famous people, because lots of people want to think "I spent the morning schooling Bill Gates!" A wiser person might prefer to be schooled by Bill Gates.
It reads like someone may also be posting in snippets from Google Translate when they didn't know the proper English phrase, or at least abusing a dictionary/thesaurus.
What's crazy is that they also tag on a post-comment * to correct something they said, which means they read it through at least once and it made sense to them.
Reading this so far has been one of the most rewarding learning experiences of my life. If you are interested in how philosophy, religion, and civilization has emerged and grown in our species, than you will be constantly delighted while reading this. The Durants are equal to none.
It is a bit unfortunate that the Durants crammed all non-Western history in a single volume while devoting ten to European history, but it was a product of its time. Still, it is certainly well written and few historians attempt this sort of "complete" history these days.
