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"CDC Cyber" made me laugh. Marketing seemed to be on point Almost 40 years later, phone numbers are on the way out, DOBs are "illegal" and github and email are more important information on a CV.
"CDC Cyber" made me laugh. Marketing seemed to be on point Almost 40 years later, phone numbers are on the way out, DOBs are "illegal" and github and email are more important information on a CV.
> DOBs are illegal And yet recruiters frequently request them up top on resumes.
What's up with the date format in the table, for example 1964-67 and 1968-70? I don't recognize this format.
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My first programming language was Fortran, writing GOTO lines everywhere and making spaghetti logic was fun
What version of Fortran were you using that you needed gotos?
"CDC Cyber" made me laugh. Marketing seemed to be on point Almost 40 years later, phone numbers are on the way out, DOBs are "illegal" and github and email are more important information on a CV.
I remember that.
"Still in all, every night we does the tell, so that we 'member who we was and where we came from..."
Put in a home? Why wouldn't you want to spend all the last time on this mortal earth with your parents, and holding their hands as they leave this lifetime? Repayment of when you yourself was born into this one? I don't understand Western opinion on this matter. But on topic, that is one concise application letter. Cheers for your dad efforts back then!
Because my parents are huge assholes, are intolerable as people, and abused me during my entire childhood. So I'd rather avoid them at all costs.
>Repayment of when you yourself was born into this one?
I didn't ask to be born, I don't owe my parents anything.
Even if you love your parents more than anything else in the world, it can be downright impossible to care for someone who needs 24 hour medical care if you aren't medically qualified. On top of that most people can't afford to quit their job and their entire lives to become permanent caregivers. It's often impossible.
I have an uncle-in-law who is extremely disabled and lives in a home. It's not possible for my (now dead) grandparents-in-laws (or anyone else) to give him the care he needs.
Looks like a simpler time. You just say what you did. No need to BS it up to sound like you are gods gift to programming. And once you get the job probably no logging every second of your time.
The thing that stuck out the most to me in the resume is that he went to university to learn programming languages. That wouldn't happen today. Today you'd either get a book and definitely work through some online materials. How do you proof competency this way? You'll have to point at projects you did and talk a little more about what you did. I'm pretty sure that the set of potentially required skills has exploded.…
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I think the better question is: how many employers can claim that these days? My understanding is that there was a big cultural change in theory of management during the corporate raider era of the 1980s. Before, lifetime employment was common; employee loyalty was matched by defined-benefit pensions and the implicit commitment that you'd be kept on until retirement unless you did something terrible. Corporate raider…
So they'd just lay off a lot of people, forcing out the older, more expensive workers. This is still taught today in business schools. When you take over a company, the first thing you do is fire a bunch of people. The market sees it as cutting costs, so the stock goes up. It doesn’t matter who the people were or how essential to the company they were. This is simply a fundamental part of the theory of “business” as…
So now our sales targets are higher than both combined (AFAICT), and we don't meet them at all. Since we're a "team" now they distribute the layoffs equally across the "team".
Not sure where these sales targets come from since we aren't publicly traded. I just feel we're being setup to fail.
Anyway, people are leaving in droves (2 best salesmen left, engineering is a revolving door) since our formerly generous performance based bonus is going away.
I am the only full-time left on my project, the rest are contractors (since we have a hiring freeze, but a large budget left over for contractors for some reason). They literally cannot do releases without me. And after asking for a raise to reflect that I'm managing 3 contractors instead of coding (the former lead left), I got scoffed at and told that there was a hiring freeze (that's not a promotion freeze, but ok, except you have 100k/year freed up from the last guy that left...), and that my project isn't under as much pressure as the other projects so no. Come back to me in a year and we'll talk.
Yeah ok. Wait a year for maybe 5%. Or jump ship for an easy 20%. And no managing/lead responsibilities. Go pound sand.
The company is clueless about keeping talent. No one mentions the massive churn at company update meetings. They just go "wow, didn't meet the sales targets... gotta work harder guys! Look at all these cool initiatives we're gonna do next year!"
I keep hearing the word death spiral among coworkers. Yep.
/rant.
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I’m an EE with 22 years at the same employer; first job out of grad school. Working until 67, I could be there 42 years, and I probably will be. This is an old school defense contractor. Though EE (RF, Microwave, Antennas to be exact) still has the respect for the gray beard. The record for my employer is 60+ years; a machinist who started at 18 and still working into his late 70’s as he enjoys it.
I worked at an old school defense contractor where tenure was measured in decades. :)
Now the age distribution is log-normal with 5 years average experience. Was just given a 25% retention bonus yesterday, which is unheard of. They are scared of the old people leaving, and rightly so.
The millennia’s job hop like crazy, and in my field there is a lot of institutional knowledge built up.