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Re: Leaving Google

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Post by knuthsat »

_arthur_ wrote: post #441
knuthsat wrote: post #285

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Sounds like a job in a bank. Or any other monopolistic entity.

There are other 'monopolistic entities' who don't give their employees a cushy life.

Highly doubt it. It's the nature of monopolies that do not have an army (real guns and blood).

There are employees that will create pressure out of nothing and will ruin the cushy possibilities just out of their own boredom and misery due to not being able to progress the hierarchy of the monopoly (most old monopolies don't really give big raises and it's very hard to reward employees because most don't really have any impact). (managers that start micromanaging employees that somehow do something productive, regular workers that overdo it at the task managing platforms and then stress over the backlog, etc.) But it's not the monopoly that's taking the cushy from them.

Re: Leaving Google

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Post by Joky »

dilyevsky wrote: post #173
shoto_io wrote: post #162

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Scale kills them all except for Apple? There is a comment somewhere here saying that levels at Apple are private. This seems to be an interesting concept to keep a somewhat flat hierarchy.

There’re private in a sense that there isn’t internal registry where you can just look up anyone like at google. From what i can observe over years apple has almost exactly same perf culture as google and any other similarly sized company in the US

> From what i can observe over years apple has almost exactly same perf culture as google and any other similarly sized company in the US

Right, if you look from very far away and put "all large US company" in the same bag.

Otherwise, if you zoom on "Silicon Valley Tech Companies" then Apple and Google's perf process and associated incentives look quite radically different in many aspects.

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Post by random314 »

throwawaylinux wrote: post #425
random314 wrote: post #393

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How is the price of thermal coal spiking and solar prices collapsing not a good thing?! Are you sure that if the situation were inverted you wouldn't still be complaining? Damned if you, damned if you don't.

Coal prices are high because there is a lot of electricity demand not being met by existing renewables. Because everybody bought the green electricity. Which is not only making the green electricity more expensive, it's causing more coal to be burnt to keep up.

Like I said before, that's not how economies of scale work in the long run. Following your recommendations will reduce green energy prices in the short run and promote CO2 emissions in the long run.

The negative externalities of CO2 are long term and not short term. So your complaints are counter productive.

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Post by onphonenow »

esprehn wrote: post #355
throwawaylinux wrote: post #261

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Can a private company not accept a letter of resignation? Would that be a violation of the 13th amendment?

If it's in violation of your contract they can reject your resignation, but most people are At Will employees which means either side can terminate employment.

This is generally false. You can’t be forced to work and a specific performance judgement is unlikely. If you resign and had a contract you can’t work elsewhere, may need to pay damages. But slavery, indentures etc mostly illegal these days
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