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Re: Googler... ex-Googler

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Post by zdragnar »

cab11150904 wrote: post #565
causal wrote: post #560

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Consider therapy

On what basis? You're assuming that this feeling is wrong. It is not. There is no need for correction.

Therapy isn't so much telling you that your feelings are wrong. Feelings arise from many factors that are beyond your immediate control.

Therapy helps provide better context for, introspection into, and understanding of those feelings, and more importantly, alternative ways of responding to, expressing and acting upon them.

At the very least, expressing them less aggressively while still getting across your point.

Re: Googler... ex-Googler

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Post by ativzzz »

cab11150904 wrote: post #565
causal wrote: post #560

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Consider therapy

On what basis? You're assuming that this feeling is wrong. It is not. There is no need for correction.

Just like you're assuming the OPs feelings are wrong. They are not.

I remember my dad lamenting the bourgeoisie to a family friend who recently immigrated to the US. His answer was, "To us, you are the bourgeoisie"

There's always someone richer than you, you can hate it, but what's the point? You just make yourself miserable and don't enjoy whatever you can carve out of life for yourself

Re: Googler... ex-Googler

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Post by gh0stcat »

ur-whale wrote: post #352

Silver lining: one less person working on the spying machine.

Honestly this, if these people are so smart, I truly believe they can help shift the ratio of spying/nefarious/addictive tech to productive/helpful/truly world changing tech in a positive direction. We need to distribute talented people across more industries to improve the world and technology for everyone.

Re: Googler... ex-Googler

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Post by zdragnar »

Sonnigeszeug wrote: post #547
marcinzm wrote: post #308

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Many European cities aren't exactly low cost of living, and those that are have even lower salaries. In the end someone who was working at Google in the Bay Area for 15-20 years can retire if they didn't have life style creep (which is different than cost of living). Not the case in Europe.

'Someone who worked at one of the best paying companies in the world can retire after 15-20 years'. This has nothing to do with Europe. This is particular a tech thing

It's a particular tech thing in not Europe, specifically.

Re: Googler... ex-Googler

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Post by _whiteCaps_ »

EE84M3i wrote: post #307
abdj8 wrote: post #110

Layoffs are a difficult thing for employees and their managers. I have seen people (one was a VP of Engineering) escorted out of the building, sent in a cab to home along with a security guard (this was in India), not allowed access to computer or talk with other employees. But, recently have had a very different experience. The current company I work for announced 30% layoffs. The list was made public within one hou…

Wow, I've never heard of terminated employees being able to keep their corporate laptops before. Did IT at least wipe them first?

Interesting. That's what's happened in the last two companies I've worked for when they did layoffs. I'm typing this message from my ex-corporate laptop right now...

The process was that IT locked the laptop until the severance package was signed, then you got a code that let you reboot and reinstall MacOS.

Re: Googler... ex-Googler

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Post by vshade »

Freak_NL wrote: post #248
knorker wrote: post #208

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Ironically you're statistically very likely to be writing this comment in a browser based on chrome. And Chrome really helped save us from an Internet "embraced and extended" by Microsoft. We were heading for Microsoft succeeding in their (not first) attempt at owning the Internet.

Someone extremely critical of Google is likely to not just use Firefox? That doesn't sound statistically likely.

I'm not sure, specially as a lot of income for mozilla foundation came from google.
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