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25% here, plus taken on 2-3x workload (not related to the furlough situation). Edit... btw, 2-3x workload doesn't mean that i can actually complete 2-3x workload.
Executive: Everything is important! Executive: Why aren't you finishing everything?
My heart goes out to all who've lost their job (and those who's health has been impacted by COVID-19). In case you want to get perspective of the huge US impact of unemployment, see this automated visualization. https://t.co/G5k24nxJRS
I’d be more interested in seeing the actual unemployment rate presented like this, not the weekly claim numbers.
Unemployment peaked at around 25% in the 1930s depression. Rough calcs suggest that could be surpassed: https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2020/march/back-en...
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> Try talking to a bartender sometime, you may find out they’re not as dumb as rocks. AOC has done an excellent job in that regard :-)
Though sad that she's now taking marching orders from Pelosi now https://www.nationalreview.com/news/aoc-drifts-away-from-act...
Be skeptical of anything written by the National Review about progressives.
I landed my first job as full-time professional software developer doing React-Native development right before the Coronavirus pandemic struck. By the time I finished filling out all of the hiring paperwork, drug tests, etc., they reneged on the offer. Was pretty upset about it at the time, but I guess it's hit everyone else just as hard.
Where was the job located? It seems odd that you had to take a drug test for the job. I don't think I've heard of that happening in the tech field.
Fired officially next week but to be honest it was ongoing before the lockdown;) On the bright side it seems the tech job market is not too much affected here in Paris but we'll see how it goes. Well at least I can now finish some freelance gig that was taking my free time, and it gives me more time to continue learning elixir, I even finally took the time to open-source and deploy a demo of a LiveView game I made in…
Haha, I enjoyed the game. I'd suggest a 20-25 second long timer.
20% paycut here. This comes after being laid off a few months ago when Docker sold their enterprise version (sort of, the new company made us all offers but they have terrible benefits among other problems so most people didn't take the offer or only stayed long enough to find something else), so we're all a bit sad. There was then an immediate around of layoffs right after that (though thankfully my department wasn'…
> I wish the employees had a seat at the negotiating table for any of this If the tech industry didn't seem to despise unionizing so much this could've been possible. Maybe that will change once the current disaster is behind us.
Just been put on furlough with likely redundancy at the end of the national lockdown period. Absolutely devastated. My job was hard and the pace relentless but the work was extremely stimulating and my colleagues were absolutely fantastic people. (It was also a Haskell gig, which is a real rarity.) Right now I'm just licking my wounds and waiting for the lockdown to end. I'm not sure if it makes sense to start a new…
Fired officially next week but to be honest it was ongoing before the lockdown;) On the bright side it seems the tech job market is not too much affected here in Paris but we'll see how it goes. Well at least I can now finish some freelance gig that was taking my free time, and it gives me more time to continue learning elixir, I even finally took the time to open-source and deploy a demo of a LiveView game I made in…
> tech job market is not too much affected here in Paris What are good websites to find positions for work in Paris? No problem if the website is in French, bien entendu :-)
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Just curious, how does a bartender ends up staying reading HN?
I have a physics degree. It turns out a bachelor’s degree doesn’t help much, and I was too burnt out at the time to go to grad school. I took a few introductory programming classes and I’ve been trying to get back into it lately. Try talking to a bartender sometime, you may find out they’re not as dumb as rocks.
I was supposed to intern at Shopify Canada this summer. I'm free for next three months and would love to work on some interesting projects or remotely. https://github.com/shashanoid
DM me if interested - we are doubling our engineering intern class this summer, I believe 50-75 more seats, to try and help out folks who've had their summer plans canceled. This would be at least partially remote, but we are considering bring folks to the Bay Area if shelter in place ends early in the summer. (posted publicly in case others are in the same boat)