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Re: Ask HN: What are examples of companies dying due to many people quitting?

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Post by KerrAvon »

ethbr0 wrote: post #118
pc86 wrote: post #106

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The COVID vaccine decreases the severity of the disease's symptoms. Regardless of the other benefits, isn't that enough reason to get it? Firing some nurse who gets their opinions from Dr. Oz and has crystals in their bedroom is a net positive for the healthcare system in my opinion. I want my healthcare practitioners to be people of science, who practice evidence-based medicine, and are willing to change their opini…

Would you rather have a nurse who was a vaccine skeptic or no nurse? Honestly asking.

Would you rather have a fireman who used a firehouse connected to a water source or a water hose skeptic who insisted on using an empty bucket?

Re: Ask HN: What are examples of companies dying due to many people quitting?

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Post by solarmist »

hollywood_court wrote: post #17
ethbr0 wrote: post #15

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That's a lot of hospitals in the US and Canada right now. Turns out if you cut nurses' compensation and retirement match during the pandemic, ask them to work overtime due to understaffing, and then don't restore benefits or give them raises to match inflation after... they walk. Who knew?

I could not imagine being a nurse or a teacher in the US right now. I wish they realized that they have the leverage and can go on strike. I imagine that's difficult for many of them as they most certainly need the income. A rock and a hard place. I always smile when I read about a nurse or teacher switching to a completely different career field and finding themselves more content.

Didn’t the nation’s largest ever healthcare strike start today in MN?

Re: Ask HN: What are examples of companies dying due to many people quitting?

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Post by gouggoug »

metadat wrote: post #100
andrewinardeer wrote: post #91

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This is the first time I have encountered the word 'pandemic' being shortened to 'pando' either online or meat space.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... It appears to be pretty common.

There's 706 results, but a lot of them are "pando.com" or words unrelated to the pandemic

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Post by KerrAvon »

ars wrote: post #160
CamperBob2 wrote: post #134

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You perhaps don't realize that having an MD degree does not make you qualified to speak about this. Very few practicing Doctors analyze this kind of data. The researchers who are qualified (and who I am getting my info from) don't have MD's, they have PhD's though. Nothing I'm saying is controversial you know. i.e. having or not having an MD degree has little to do with vaccine knowledge.

Nothing wrong with PhD’s in medieval dance theory, but they’re not adequate for epidemiology. And what you are saying is not in line with what epidemiologists seem to be saying.

Re: Ask HN: What are examples of companies dying due to many people quitting?

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Post by _nalply »

PragmaticPulp wrote: post #63

I worked for a company big enough to be in the HN headlines (sorry, have to stay somewhat anonymous) where development virtually stalled for a couple years after a mass exodus event. The CEO went on a rampage and fired some people on the spot for something they weren’t even responsible for, which destroyed the already fragile morale and created a steady exodus of good talent over a couple of years. It didn’t kill the…

So the good ones left when they realized what was going on and the mediocre ones stayed.

I, being Deaf, would have been forced to stay with the mediocre ones because interviewing is difficult for me.

I am lucky that I don't need a job now.

Re: Ask HN: What are examples of companies dying due to many people quitting?

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Post by pjmlp »

triyambakam wrote: post #20
MikeF_323 wrote: post #3

Borland. I worked there up until the mid 90s and then was recruited by Microsoft. They picked off all the great talent leaving barely any competent engineers left. I alongside a ton of other engineers were wined and dined and given a hell of an offer we couldn't refuse. It was insane, I should write a book honestly. I miss those days, it was the wild west of tech.

I think that's how Anders Hejlsberg (creator of C# and Typescript) joined Microsoft?

Anders joined later as a couple of ex-Borland people kept pinging back on him, he mentions this in a few interviews.

https://behindthetech.libsyn.com/001-anders-hejlsberg-a-craf...

Re: Ask HN: What are examples of companies dying due to many people quitting?

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Post by muzani »

LoveMortuus wrote: post #137
muzani wrote: post #131

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There's plenty of unsolved problems in gaming and that's usually where indies make their money. Games like Dwarf Fortress, Minecraft, Stardew Valley, Rimworld.

I'm genuinely curious, what money did Dwarf Fortress make? The game is very cool, but I think it's a bit unapproachable to the majority for it to make any amount of serious money like Minecraft, Stardew Valley and RinWorld did. I could be out of loop, but the last time I played Dwarf Fortress, it still used terminal graphics and white I believe in gameplay > graphics, my brother and the majority don't and probably wo…

Okay, maybe DF is a bad example. It seems to be roughly $15k/month on donations for two people now. It is coming on Steam with a major graphics and UX overhaul, so I guess we'll see eventually.

Re: Ask HN: What are examples of companies dying due to many people quitting?

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Post by KerrAvon »

ars wrote: post #158
moistly wrote: post #156

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It works well enough that the unvaccinated are grossly over-represented in the ICUs and in the death stats. You have to be particularly math illiterate to not recognize that the vaccine does, in fact, work.

For elderly people, sure. For younger? Not so much. It's not helping them very much. I'm not saying it's nothing, but it's not necessary to require it to work as a nurse. The worst part, of course, is the short time that it works. I've seen places where if you got vaccinated 2 years ago, you are golden. Had covid a month ago? A pariah. That is not based on good science, that's just obedience.

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Re: Ask HN: What are examples of companies dying due to many people quitting?

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Post by pjmlp »

n0tth3dro1ds wrote: post #30
klyrs wrote: post #7

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Noncompetes are pretty toothless, even illegal in several jurisdictions. Even then, a company with money and clout to poach talent like that can also stand up for you if your failing ex-employer chooses to lash out.

>Noncompetes are pretty toothless Not true. They’re illegal in California, but in other US states where they are legal they can be quite toothful. I have seen several ex-employees of my prior company get sued and lose. It became a silent doctrine to just leave a two year gap on your public LinkedIn after working there. If you put anything in that period (the length of the non-compete), you were at risk of the CTO sui…

They are also illegal in most European countries.
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