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Re: I have quit my job

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Post by travoltaj »

gkop wrote: post #170
travoltaj wrote: post #169

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"Resource Snapshot along with Any ID Proof" - It means a screenshot of the interviewee and their ID proof together. It's a virtual interview invite. They usually ask the interviewees to hold up their ID proof, then take screenshots, before starting the interview.

What industry are you in?

I'm a Software Engineer.

Currently I'm working for a USA based product company with ~1000 employees (The ones who said "We'll get a new front-end resource soon". "We're opening two more backfills for backend resources". "We need a front-end resource to unblock this ticket".)

The interview invite was for the position of a Tech Lead in an outsourcing firm in India. (The ones who said "Request to panel-Please Take Resource Snapshot along with Any ID Proof and share the Feedback along with IRF post completion of interview."

Edit: In a recent anonymous survey, I gave the feedback to stop treating the India employees as code monkeys or outsourced work, because several have started considering this as "yet another service-company type job", and are thinking to leave. With outsourcing companies, you expect it. But if most indian engineers had clarified that "the India office is not a outsourcing office for this company" before joining, people are gonna be more pissed on being treated like that.

Re: I have quit my job

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Post by bambam3000 »

janmo wrote: post #56
bambam3000 wrote: post #48

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What sort of projects are you making money from?

I have created a bunch of websites. 4 as of today. Those are little tools, and I make money by selling ads. 3 are revenue positive and 1 is losing money. One example: https://apewisdom.io/

That's awesome. So given it sounds like a traffic game, how are people finding apewisdom? Just organic search???

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Post by PikachuEXE »

eezurr wrote: post #110
paskozdilar wrote: post #74

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> Why this anger towards the author for doing what he considers to be the best thing for himself? Because most of us don't have the luxury to take a break from work. Honestly, I feel jealousy towards people who can take a break from work. I've been feeling like I'm on a treadmill since my teen years. I am not ashamed of it, though - jealousy is a human feeling and we can't wish it away, we can only control it and not…

There's a term for that type of thinking: "crab mentality". It's named after the behavior of crabs when they are placed in a bucket. When a crab tries to escape, the other crabs notice and begin pulling the escaping crab back into the bucket. For us humans, when we manage to climb out of a bucket we land in a larger bucket that contains the one we climbed out of. Eventually we get our bearings and begin to see the ne…

Now I finally can refer it with a name "crab mentality"

I only knew it as "fish ball mentality" (inaccurate translation from Cantonese)

Re: I have quit my job

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Post by eezurr »

PikachuEXE wrote: post #173
eezurr wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a term for that type of thinking: "crab mentality". It's named after the behavior of crabs when they are placed in a bucket. When a crab tries to escape, the other crabs notice and begin pulling the escaping crab back into the bucket. For us humans, when we manage to climb out of a bucket we land in a larger bucket that contains the one we climbed out of. Eventually we get our bearings and begin to see the ne…

Now I finally can refer it with a name "crab mentality" I only knew it as "fish ball mentality" (inaccurate translation from Cantonese)

What's the story/logic behind "fish ball mentality"?

Re: I have quit my job

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Post by PikachuEXE »

eezurr wrote: post #174
PikachuEXE wrote: post #173

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Now I finally can refer it with a name "crab mentality" I only knew it as "fish ball mentality" (inaccurate translation from Cantonese)

What's the story/logic behind "fish ball mentality"?

Oh it's from a local show (in Cantonese) which is ~2x years ago. Here is the approximate content.

Supposed there is a merchant selling fish balls (in sticks). Then two people (A & B) buy one stick of fish balls. A gets a stick of 6 and B gets 5. B complains about it.

Merchant says: OK I will give you back one more. B: No I don't want one more. I want you to take away one of A's fish balls.

Since then all locals who watched the show would refer it as "fish ball mentality" and kept being used on local online forums/social media groups.

"crab mentality" was never mentioned anywhere (for me at least, until I see it here).

Re: I have quit my job

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Post by eezurr »

PikachuEXE wrote: post #175
eezurr wrote: post #174

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's the story/logic behind "fish ball mentality"?

Oh it's from a local show (in Cantonese) which is ~2x years ago. Here is the approximate content. Supposed there is a merchant selling fish balls (in sticks). Then two people (A & B) buy one stick of fish balls. A gets a stick of 6 and B gets 5. B complains about it. Merchant says: OK I will give you back one more. B: No I don't want one more. I want you to take away one of A's fish balls. Since then all locals who w…

Ha, interesting. Thanks for sharing!
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