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Post by Zigurd »

sandworm101 wrote: post #288
fridif wrote: post #256

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your friend was working for a bureaucratic company. Source: I know plenty of engineers without any formal degrees working for big money at real companies.

If they dont have formal degrees, then "engineer" is a loose term. They would not be professional engineers (PE/PEng).

Unpopular idea, but that is why I use the word "engineer" sparingly. Engineers doing real engineering is becoming a smaller part of making tech products, especially software.

Software developers can be at least as highly skilled and intelligent as can be engineers, but, most of the time, they are engaged in a highly skilled craft rather than engineering. Making software is sometimes more creative and more integrative than engineering.

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Post by immmmmm »

isoskeles wrote: post #342
mumblemumble wrote: post #130

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We should try to read each others' comments in the most charitable light possible. In this case, I think the friendly way to interpret that comment is as an attempt to anticipate and pre-empt a very common and harmful misconception about sex workers.

It comes off as strange to me because it doesn’t make a difference if a “sex worker” is intelligent or not. And this goes for any job that doesn’t require brilliance. Am I supposed to feel better for, more accepting of, more sympathetic to, etc. a person because of their intellect? And if I have a problem with sex work, it has nothing to do with how I perceive the intellect of the workers, so the pre-empting seems un…

doesn't require brilliance? appart from her deep interest in science, she became one the top twenty most paid porn actress worldwide. i don't think this comes out of pure luck.

it is true that the intelligence argument was arbitrary (it is my assessment of her) and perhaps clumsy. but again, go have a look on your favorite social media how these people are considered.

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Post by 6gvONxR4sf7o »

whymauri wrote: post #106
CabSauce wrote: post #100

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Getting a degree in a field that has jobs helps too.

It helps, but for many it was/is not enough. Trust me, the job search was brutal even as a computer science graduate from MIT. I had an offer and it was revoked (and companies that I had offers from pre-pandemic would not engage anymore). I'm almost certain that I have classmates who had OF at one point during the last year and I know for certain from Twitter there's Ivy League, Cal, and Stanford students on there. E…

It sounds like you’re talking about the very beginning of the pandemic when everyone was just trying to figure out what the hell was happening. That seems entirely separate from the topic of the value of a degree these days. I had a similar situation finishing school as the last recession hit, but that wasn’t so sudden. Someone else is talking about it being brutal graduating in 2002. The common theme here seems to be graduating right after crashes or right after pandemics hit sucks.

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Post by fnord77 »

da_chicken wrote: post #405
rootsudo wrote: post #36

My biggest shock was how much "PR" was generated on Reddit, and how many sexworkers really do use the platform. I knew it was a thing, I knew of the memes, but to see both sides in arms over a company vs branding, creating their own website and content - and vanity domain as well. People really do just want a one click solution for creating adult content, and consuming adult content. And the memes, I think they're pr…

> People really do just want a one click solution for creating adult content, and consuming adult content. Once they know it's possible, people want a one click solution for anything. The subject being taboo has nothing to do with it. This is one reason why Youtube, Spotify, Steam and Netflix did such a good job combatting piracy for music, video games, and movies, while ROM sites are still a ubiquitous problem for 2…

there'd probably be a netflix for ROMs if there were enough demand (I imagine the copyright holders would get onboard if the demand and $$ was there)

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Post by belter »

These companies, most seem to admire here, just because they make a lot of money, are going from bad to worst.

First....

- They made money on stealing your privacy.

- Then they made money on taking your rest and piece of mind inviting your neighbors to make money from renting their mattresses.

- Then they made money from making you do "gig's" with zero hours contract style type of work...But making you believe you are a contractor.

- Then they made money from reading your email and showing you announcements.

- Then they made money by tracking your location and selling your buying habits.

- Now they are making money by inviting you to sell your soul and exhibit yourself naked for money.

Is anybody working on something that matters or is it only money that matters?

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Post by karaterobot »

HelloMcFly wrote: post #262
gambiting wrote: post #213

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I have a friend who worked for 5 years at a big consultancy company and he got stonewalled for getting promoted to a team lead role because he didn't have a masters degree. Like, he was getting top marks every year at performance review, clearly knew how to do the job, but some internal policy somewhere said that you can't be a lead without a masters degree, sorry. He did manage to arrange with them that they would p…

At a consultancy, credentials you can market when "selling" your consultants is part of the job. Depending on the field, a certain level of accredited knowledge (i.e., from a degree, or certification perhaps) is part of how the bill-rate is justified for employees at given levels. We don't have an education lock on certain roles/levels at the company I work for, but we do have roles at certain levels that require a g…

> This isn't a small-brain move that misses the forest of knowledge for the trees of credentials

It is a second-order small-brain move: the clients are the ones missing the forest for the trees, while your company is just going with the flow. I get it, my company did the same thing, but in the end it's one of those "how business is done" things that add together to create a culture we all freely admit makes no sense.

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Post by Aeolun »

HelloMcFly wrote: post #262
gambiting wrote: post #213

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a friend who worked for 5 years at a big consultancy company and he got stonewalled for getting promoted to a team lead role because he didn't have a masters degree. Like, he was getting top marks every year at performance review, clearly knew how to do the job, but some internal policy somewhere said that you can't be a lead without a masters degree, sorry. He did manage to arrange with them that they would p…

At a consultancy, credentials you can market when "selling" your consultants is part of the job. Depending on the field, a certain level of accredited knowledge (i.e., from a degree, or certification perhaps) is part of how the bill-rate is justified for employees at given levels. We don't have an education lock on certain roles/levels at the company I work for, but we do have roles at certain levels that require a g…

> part of how the bill-rate is justified for employees at given levels

“This guy is absolute garbage, but he has a masters degree, so we charge more for him.”

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Post by cpach »

after_care wrote: post #209
cpach wrote: post #156

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That’s troubling. I don’t know where you live but at least in my locale many employers seem hesitant to hire newly-grads, even if they need to increase staff. Many companies seem to expect some other company to take care of the training. A degree is nice but until someone has gained experience that person first needs a company to take a chance on them.

When I graduated (5-10 years ago) internships were the best way to grain experience and stand out a bit above the rest in the full time hiring portion. 1. The company that hired the interns received a fantastic deal on labor. I think the company that hired me did it because they had an extra fully equipped desk that was going to waste without someone coding on it. 2. Not every student earned an internship, so gaining…

Internships is a good thing, if the terms are reasonable. But IMHO there should also be other ways to get a foot in the door.

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Post by pW9GLKxm9taFEhz »

DangitBobby wrote: post #232
pW9GLKxm9taFEhz wrote: post #188

I guess it wasn't really a requirement imposed on them by Mastercard as they claimed.

That's not very charitable. The pressure could be very real. We still don't know whether they will survive the decision they've made.

Was it charitable for them to blame Mastercard when they are now blaming banks?
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