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Equifax used records it collects from companies to fire employees with 2nd jobs

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Post by JamesianP »

edrxty wrote: post #117
simfree wrote: post #111

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Yo, don't @ me. And yes, those of us with poor public school experiences are here on HN.

Went to public until 5th then private school through HS, all were dumpster fires in their own way. Just my .02, and while this was over a decade ago, I'm inclined to believe shitty and free is better than shitty and expensive. If your kids are even remotely motivated and smart, what they do outside school is 10,000x more important so might as well put the money towards that.

Where I grew up public schools were measurably worse than alternatives. Using objective metrics like average number of gang wars in a given year.

Since there's something like 100k public schools in the US, with very different performance and governments in charge, I don't think people here are really in a position to judge someone's parenting choices over the internets.

Also by the way, public universities run about 12k/year, so they may well have their children in public school.

Re: Equifax used records it collects from companies to fire employees with 2nd jobs

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Post by [deleted] »

neither_color wrote: post #91
HWR_14 wrote: post #87

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This is great publicity. It's Equifax talking about how their new product removed double-dipping employees. Don't you also want to find your distracted employees? For a modest fee to Equifax, you can too.

Unless your employee is underperforming why would you care?

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Re: Equifax used records it collects from companies to fire employees with 2nd jobs

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Post by conductr »

itake wrote: post #118
unendingtorment wrote: post #94

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Or maybe get vouchers or tax refund for that dumpster fire.

I think that's defeats the purpose of public school. As a society, we decided we need to collectively contribute to every child's education, regardless if they are own. I have no kids, but I pay my school taxes so that other people's children can have an education.

You would not pay those taxes if they were optional. Most wouldn't anyways. Most people live in a paycheck to paycheck world and would love to get a free pass on that tax bill.

"We" also have not really decided anything as a society but were born into the decisions of prior generations and it could be changed. See Roe v Wade, marijuana, etc.

Re: Equifax used records it collects from companies to fire employees with 2nd jobs

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Post by edrxty »

JamesianP wrote: post #131
edrxty wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Went to public until 5th then private school through HS, all were dumpster fires in their own way. Just my .02, and while this was over a decade ago, I'm inclined to believe shitty and free is better than shitty and expensive. If your kids are even remotely motivated and smart, what they do outside school is 10,000x more important so might as well put the money towards that.

Where I grew up public schools were measurably worse than alternatives. Using objective metrics like average number of gang wars in a given year. Since there's something like 100k public schools in the US, with very different performance and governments in charge, I don't think people here are really in a position to judge someone's parenting choices over the internets. Also by the way, public universities run about…

Yeah you raise a good point, I was in a city with generally serviceable schools. Really, I just tend to get frustrated at the belief system that all public schools are awful and any good parent should send their kids to private school. Even when the public option is ok we can't have our kids hanging out with the prole kids.

Re: Equifax used records it collects from companies to fire employees with 2nd jobs

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Post by raydiatian »

jedberg wrote: post #113
DoctorNick wrote: post #109

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>In an alternate universe, the Chief Information Security Officer of Equifax is giving interviews about the dangers of work from home for cyber security roles, informed by her masters in music composition and 0.0 years of IC experience as deep expertise. I'm struggling to understand what the point of this was.

They're making fun of the fact that during the data breach the CISO was someone with a music degree and no background in security.

Holy fuck, I never knew this detail.

Re: Equifax used records it collects from companies to fire employees with 2nd jobs

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Post by conductr »

edrxty wrote: post #117
simfree wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yo, don't @ me. And yes, those of us with poor public school experiences are here on HN.

Went to public until 5th then private school through HS, all were dumpster fires in their own way. Just my .02, and while this was over a decade ago, I'm inclined to believe shitty and free is better than shitty and expensive. If your kids are even remotely motivated and smart, what they do outside school is 10,000x more important so might as well put the money towards that.

This is still just one data point. Can you compare your public HS experience to your private HS experience? Can you compare public school A to public school B? Private A to private B?

A school being private doesn't magically make it great. It has to still work hard for that. A public school being good requires hard work too. But let's be honest, usually it boils down to parent involvement which is usually fueled by economic status. Rich(er) people have time and/or resources to actually be involved in their kids lives. They also tend to have fewer kids so more time/resources per kid. The initial thing a private school does these days is pool the rich(er) cohort of kids together.

I live in a part of my city known as the 'private school corridor' because there are so many. And, the public schools are notoriously horrible in the city's ISD. So, it's pretty much required if you have the means. The other alternative is to move to a suburb (different ISD), but even those are pretty easily seen as correlating good school districts with high home prices. Yet, I've seen studies in my area that say if everyone sent their private schooled kids to the public schools they would average out and be pretty well rated. But it's a first mover disadvantage to do so, so nobody does.

I also live in the south and this whole private school thing really started during integration, so there's that whole issue to contend with too. The impacts of red lining and white flight are pretty stark here. I don't think it's the motivating factor for most people any more, but inertia.

This is why our public schools have stats like "5% white" and "86% low income" on Great Schools. 5% white seems really low, the city is ~56% based on another google search.

Re: Equifax used records it collects from companies to fire employees with 2nd jobs

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Post by raydiatian »

aliqot wrote: post #33
raydiatian wrote: post #30

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I once missed a $10 payment on my credit card and lost 100 points on my credit score. I swear on my life.

> I once missed a $10 payment on my credit card and lost 100 points on my credit score. I swear on my life. Is it an option to not use CC in your life? I don't but I understand people in the city may have a different experience.

> Is it an option not to use CC in your life?

Honestly the CC isn’t the problem, it’s mobile phone notification culture. One billion meaningless daily notifications, I just shut everything off. I had used a backwater credit card that I never touch to pay for parking and suddenly CC company was livid that I was delinquent. I rack up over $100 in late fees and lost 100 pts off my cred score. To resolve the issue I had to snail mail in a letter asking them to update the report with the credit score agencies.

Just such a carnival, regardless of how much you want to victim blame me

Re: Equifax used records it collects from companies to fire employees with 2nd jobs

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Post by nyanpasu64 »

deltree7 wrote: post #130
yellow_lead wrote: post #127

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Technically yes, but depending on your location your public school system may be chronically under-funded, to the point where sending your kid to a public school would put them at a big disadvantage in high school or college (and so then for the rest of their life). Yes, you could move, but as it turns out properties are more expensive in good school districts.

You could live in a shitty apartment in a good school district, if you are really determined to sacrifice and give a good education to your kids. 100% of the immigrants do that

And raise traumatized children like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32946010.

Re: Equifax used records it collects from companies to fire employees with 2nd jobs

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Post by lnxg33k1 »

neither_color wrote: post #91
HWR_14 wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is great publicity. It's Equifax talking about how their new product removed double-dipping employees. Don't you also want to find your distracted employees? For a modest fee to Equifax, you can too.

Unless your employee is underperforming why would you care?

You would be surprised about how many top managers are control freaks
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