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Re: Being homeless a struggle, even with a $100k job offer

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Post by AYBABTME »

Symbiote wrote: post #77
AYBABTME wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They reimburse, you need the money upfront.

Not necessarily. I would have thought the company paying directly was preferable, since then they can see invoices, and query costs beforehand. My employer paid to transport my belongings, all I did was get a few quotes. It was useful for them to be involved, since they knew about necessary insurance etc, but an international move was new to me. They also offered to transfer my relocation bonus to me as soon as the c…

You're right, it varies. I'd posit that most of the time however, you get reimbursed.

Re: Being homeless a struggle, even with a $100k job offer

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Post by theandrewbailey »

rmc wrote: post #81
coldtea wrote: post #68

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Only in places like the modern US, where suing is a kind of hobby, and you can be sued for anything. In other places (and in the US in the past) neither the companies expect to be sued and take pre-emptive measures, nor the employees sue "just because". At least not any significant numbers.

Really? But the right wing in the UK keep insisting it's because of all that red tape from Brussels and the EU? How can the USA, being free from the yoke of Eurocrats, have such similar problems???

Where do you think the Eurocrats get their ideas from?

Re: Being homeless a struggle, even with a $100k job offer

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Post by dmichulke »

rdancer wrote: post #98
DanBC wrote: post #88

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May I ask: What would have helped? And what would help now? Homeless people and people who are vulnerably housed in the UK have pretty lousy treatment from "services", a lot of which is provided by faith and voluntary groups. There are huge amounts of stigma, and a lot of misunderstanding of alcoholism and drug use and mental illness.

> Homeless people and people who are vulnerably housed in the UK have pretty lousy treatment from "services", a lot of which is provided by faith and voluntary groups. Local council has to put you up in some accommodation. That's what we pay taxes for, so that people who happen to be evicted didn't end up in the streets. There's plenty of money on the table, and all you have to do is ask. You have to work the system,…

Now I understand your indignation with this and I totally agree with it.

Yet, I believe the "system" is not the only culprit here, it's also you who is complicit - you say the system is good and still it didn't help in this concrete case.

Now I know it's hard to not pay taxes so I wouldn't expect you to. But for starters you could admit that the system works poorly, is intransparent, doesn't adapt and covers only what falls under its own definition of poverty/...

A good indicator of being "complicit" is always when you use the line "they should do something about it".

Re: Being homeless a struggle, even with a $100k job offer

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Post by lukeschlather »

AYBABTME wrote: post #37
ommunist wrote: post #23

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Companies pay relocation to a suitable candidate.

They reimburse, you need the money upfront.

In the tech industry, I think you're generally given the option between all-expenses-paid and a lump sum paid in advance. That was my experience. The only caveat is that the money is potentially owed back prorated based on how long you stay with the company.

Re: Being homeless a struggle, even with a $100k job offer

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Post by nih0 »

etivrusky wrote: post #69

Top kek. This article is full of shit. If your skills are worth _anything_ in security then you can make easy money via bug bounties or vulnerability acquisition programs. Most web companies pay thousands of dollars for trivial XSS vulns and you want to tell me that this poor chap can't help himself? Yeah right.

>Top kek

wrong site anon, back to >>>/g/ with you

Re: Being homeless a struggle, even with a $100k job offer

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Post by noer »

RyJones wrote: post #58
erdojo wrote: post #31

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Yes but they expect you to pay and they'll reimburse you. Not saying it never happens any other way, but that's the only way I've ever seen it done.

Microsoft paid my entire relocation expense and I never (directly) saw a bill or paid a dime for it. I know Qualcomm does the same thing. I was on the hook for a year - if I quit before one year was up, I owed Microsoft some pro-rated amount of money. In 1999 or 2000 I turned down an offer from Microsoft, and they asked if I owned a house and if I needed Microsoft to buy that house to get me to say yes. I don't know…

Microsoft probably doesn't buy the house directly. A relocation company buys it from you and holds onto it until it can be sold for a profit.

Re: Being homeless a struggle, even with a $100k job offer

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Post by eternalban »

buro9 wrote: post #73
exhomeless wrote: post #59

I was homeless for about a year and a half. The first 6 months were spent sleeping on the streets, and when possible, in a shelter - but realistically, in the area where I was, most shelters were not really a safe place to be, and the few that were filled up early. The remaining time, I crashed at a drug dealers house and helped sell in return. I didn't have much more than the belongings that fit in a mid-sized duffl…

Fully escaped? I've spoken openly of my 30 months sleeping rough on the streets of the UK. I may have "escaped" homelessness, but the mental scars accumulated whilst on the street do still haunt me. I feel it, the sense of worthlessness, the self-doubt. There's a feeling that I shouldn't be alive let alone here in this workplace or surrounded by good people, a feeling that I don't quite belong. One can put a roof ove…

Are you seeing a therapist?

Re: Being homeless a struggle, even with a $100k job offer

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Post by fweespeech »

sdrothrock wrote: post #12

In his case, it sounds like the problem isn't homelessness itself, but: 1. A crappy background check system that reports him as an ex-con/drug dealer when he's been exonerated. 2. Companies using those systems and judging him without giving him a chance to speak up.

The truth is we've gone from a system where you are innocent until guilty to guilty to proven innocent [for everything that matters]. It really is a sad transformation.

Re: Being homeless a struggle, even with a $100k job offer

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Post by buro9 »

eternalban wrote: post #118
buro9 wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fully escaped? I've spoken openly of my 30 months sleeping rough on the streets of the UK. I may have "escaped" homelessness, but the mental scars accumulated whilst on the street do still haunt me. I feel it, the sense of worthlessness, the self-doubt. There's a feeling that I shouldn't be alive let alone here in this workplace or surrounded by good people, a feeling that I don't quite belong. One can put a roof ove…

Are you seeing a therapist?

No, she's a film lecturer.

Jokes aside, really I've found the best method for handling what has happened in life is just to share openly and honestly with others, which is what I've done here as well. I haven't personally found as much benefit from professional help as just sharing and reflecting.

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