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Post by digianarchist »

peterburkimsher wrote: post #167
digianarchist wrote: post #99

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If you come into Canada using the Express Entry immigrantiom system then you land as a PR and so does your wife. No qualification period. Also Canada recognises commonlaw marriage.

Yes, Canada's Express Entry is one of my top-two preferences. The problem is if I then leave for more than 2 years, I lose PR. So it's not really "Permanent". I'd have to stay for 4 years and become a citizen. But that's ok - I enjoyed my Working Holiday there, and I could see myself being there for 4 years. My girlfriend said she prefers NZ though (and NZ has tougher requirements) so I'm sticking with that for now.…

>The problem is if I then leave for more than 2 years, I lose PR

That's not correct. You need to be present in Canada for 2 years out of every 5. NZ is more flexible but has a 2 year qualifying period to get PR.

It's also 3 years to qualify for citizenship.

US Greencards are the worst. Leave the country for a couple of months and it can be revoked.

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Post by s2g »

hknd wrote: post #103
taneq wrote: post #55

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Even if the people are great, small (5-20 employee) companies often simply don't have scope for much career progression. You might have one layer of management between yourself and the company owner, so unless they start hiring or you plan on taking over the company, you can only be promoted once.

I have the same experience (worked for small companies, startups and FAANG). At small companies you are working your ass off, and sometimes you'll get something in return - but mostly you'll just get a thankyou from some C-level or founder dude. At FAANG I was getting a decent salary raise year after year (and a bigger bump through a promotion).

My raise at Amazon was about 4.5% (total after two years).

Of course they say it was 10% because of the way they take stock into account.

Not totally unfair, but still a kick in the pants when the bonus runs out and you see a thousand dollars a month less in your bank account.

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Post by TheCoelacanth »

newfoundglory wrote: post #176
peterburkimsher wrote: post #165

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Children born overseas (e.g. France, Taiwan) can't be British. Children born in the UK from me can be British, I think. I was in the UK for university and a Christian volunteer group, over a period of 5 years. I emailed the Home Office to ask to "upgrade" my citizenship, but they said there's no way to do that. So I'm not sure where you got that 3 year limit from. (But maybe this changed since 2012 when I was last th…

I got this information from my research in the 90s, and it’s definitely valid today. Your own citizenship does not change, but your children will be eligible to register as a British citizen through form MN1 Section 3(2) > To qualify under this section, the parent who is British by descent must have been born to a parent who was a British citizen otherwise than by descent (or if that person died, then they would have…

What if two such parents had a child born in France? The child would be stateless, except that Britain allows stateless children born to British citizens to gain citizenship and France allows stateless children born in the country to gain citizenship. Which one would the children actually get?

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Post by itronitron »

sokoloff wrote: post #179
mercutio2 wrote: post #147

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Are PIPs public knowledge at your BigCo of choice? Sounds like your (peripheral) experience has been positive, so not criticizing, just curious. I’ve always treated PIPs as something only to be discussed between manager and struggling employee. One of the most painful things for me in administering PIPs is not the “you are on thin ice, here’s a bunch more structure and documentation” part, but rather, the requirement…

> Are PIPs public knowledge at your BigCo of choice? We try to have them not be. I'm an exec and have 5 tribes reporting into me for years, so I've had the opportunity/obligation to discuss, strategize, and track the outcome of a couple dozen PIPs in my org over the last decade. Leaders spending extra time and attention on team members who are struggling is no secret and doesn't need to be. (It's not like the rest of…

Is there a common performance shortfall that initiates PIPs or does it vary widely?

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Post by sokoloff »

itronitron wrote: post #184
sokoloff wrote: post #179

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> Are PIPs public knowledge at your BigCo of choice? We try to have them not be. I'm an exec and have 5 tribes reporting into me for years, so I've had the opportunity/obligation to discuss, strategize, and track the outcome of a couple dozen PIPs in my org over the last decade. Leaders spending extra time and attention on team members who are struggling is no secret and doesn't need to be. (It's not like the rest of…

Is there a common performance shortfall that initiates PIPs or does it vary widely?

Great question; I can’t think of a single, general theme as they are all over the map. Attendance, competence, intelligence, collaboration, work ethic/drive, judgment, inability to follow process, you name it.

Of the success cases, I think a common/typical unifying thread was lack of good, nearby leadership (team/squad lead or even a “buddy/onboarding mentor”) intersecting with someone who wasn’t already competent, curious, and self-motivated. I view those successes as (at least partially) leadership failures that we corrected alongside the employee. This framing is both generally accurate, but importantly, also removes the “stain” for future reviews and promotions. We truly do “put it behind us.” Anything less would be terrifically unfair. We have ex-PIPers get promoted, go on to lead teams/projects, etc.

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Post by newfoundglory »

TheCoelacanth wrote: post #183
newfoundglory wrote: post #176

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I got this information from my research in the 90s, and it’s definitely valid today. Your own citizenship does not change, but your children will be eligible to register as a British citizen through form MN1 Section 3(2) > To qualify under this section, the parent who is British by descent must have been born to a parent who was a British citizen otherwise than by descent (or if that person died, then they would have…

What if two such parents had a child born in France? The child would be stateless, except that Britain allows stateless children born to British citizens to gain citizenship and France allows stateless children born in the country to gain citizenship. Which one would the children actually get?

I think France, because to show statelessness to the UK you need documentation from the country of birth saying the child is not eligible for citizenship there. But if France required similar documentation from the parent’s country, then I think it would be whichever you applied to First?

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Post by RJIb8RBYxzAMX9u »

peterburkimsher wrote: post #52
fjsolwmv wrote: post #38

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You don't have a country to call home?

"Home" is a place I can settle, start a family, go back to and live in. I grew up near Geneva. My parents bought a house in France because it was cheaper. My dad crossed the border every day to work at CERN and take me to international school. I can't be Swiss, because my parents weren't resident. I can't be French, because I wasn't born there. The nearest French hospital is 2 hours away through the mountains and CER…

> If she and I had children, they would be Taiwanese from her, and would have to go to the military and learn how to kill foreigners.

Compulsory military service had been phasing out for years, if not fully by this year, almost certainly by the time your children would be born. Moreover, only men are conscripted, so it's a ~50% chance. Finally, there are various alternate services they could qualify for, in lieu of military service. So I'm not sure what your GF's been telling you?!

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Post by Aeolun »

jerf wrote: post #137
Aeolun wrote: post #68

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I think the problem is that most casual conversation just isn't relevant. If we're having a conversation to have a conversation, what's the point? I happen across a lot of conversations where people are just blabbing at each other, but don't actually listen to what the other is saying (or are clearly not interested in what each is saying), but still continue to have a conversation. I don't get that...

"If we're having a conversation to have a conversation, what's the point?" You're actually halfway there with the question. Indeed, the point is not conversation, or at least not the literal contents of the conversation. When I was younger, I had a hard time understanding this stuff too. I'm not 100% sure why (I'm not convinced I'm even slightly on the spectrum, but it's not out of the question entirely; it's also ju…

Unfortunately, I don't really think I got what you were intending to say with this message.

You basically said there 'is' a reason for inconsequential conversation, but then only proceeded to hint at it's existence outside the last paragraph, and that was described as a different idea I might want to discard.

As such I can only hope that I'll eventually figure it out as I get older. So far the only thing I'm finding out as I get older is that humans are indeed irrational, and that often you just have to deal with that.

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