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lol Tim Cook is upgrading the Apple campus in Singapore and he's touring South-East Asia right now
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@finbarfin's biggest client, who @finbarfin is not going too name for obvious reasons, but they are a very large American company, has an IT workforce mostly consisting of contractors. I'd say in the area of 80% of us are on contract. We've got a big contract with Deloitte right now (I don't report too those guys thank god) and it's been interesting seeing the shift from 100% Indian guys too a mix of people from other countries. We've got a lot of guys from South America now. Brazil, @finbarfin think, is where they're setting up foreign offices for that kind of stuff down there now. The only Americans coming out of the big consulting firms are project managers. Still, these laid off Google employees should have no issue whatsoever getting a miserable job with Deloitte or Accenture, they never seem too stop hiring people.
Long live the CCP lol
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Imo this is in response to poor economics globally. You don't hire jeets if you want to innovate. They're aiming to maintain status quo while cutting expenses, forecast for the next few years probably isn't looking peachy
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Honestly it makes sense - pay top dollar for SV codecels, ship all the rote office work out to third-world countries like Ireland.
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Apple hasn't been doing that since the woz left
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woz was a fricking poser, who has little to do with the Apple mainlines.
You can find 100s of ungroomed soyjak programmers, people like steve jobs are one in a billion
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Apple Watch was pretty good, ARM based computers were great, the vision was
I think they make some cool stuff but the price ain't write with them
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What? Innovating or hiring jeets or both?
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Yeah basically you get 3/4 the quality for half the cost. I fricking hate working with teams in India though. I don't know what it is about the work culture there but all they want to do is churn out shit code as fast as humanly possible.
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No they're preparing to automate those jobs. Jeets are for the in-between
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I'll take countries with notoriously low labor costs for $500, Alex. Surely services won't be negatively impacted by this change
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I wish they had put the call centers in Ireland. The Irish
are like god's little 
green-suited jesters with whiskey on their breath 
and violence 
in their hearts.
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Even absolute scumbag druggies in
land I've met were good conversationalists. It's a weird character of the people. Literally everyone knows everyone so anyone could spark off a convo about something we both can relate to.
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USA: 77k
Ireland: 55k
Mexico: 10k
India: 2k
I wonder what caused such a historically important country to be so broke and underdeveloped today
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I got laid off from tech yesterday. Already had another job starting 29th and was intending to double dip. Motherlovers stole my boat dream.
Not sure what to do with my severance. $90k is not enough for a good boat but too much for hookers.
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That's a nice week or so off though. This happened to me and it was like a vacation but without the stress of going back to the same shitty job.
Krayon sexually assaulted his sister.
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It's pretty juicy TBH. Working as systems architect on relatively small companies Next Big Thing (tm). They canned me because I'm the highest paid non-exec employee left in the US and I wouldn't play nice with an EU team who is totally incompetent. EU pays about 1/5th what we earn in the US.
They think they have their bases covered because there are two people left on my team, had them both in meetings yesterday assuring them they are safe and valuable etc. Both also have new jobs in the new company and were waiting for bonuses to drop before quitting which happens next week. They were not going to double dip. No one else in the company understands what we were working on, we hadn't got far enough with formalizing designs and PoC work is mostly incomplete.
Not sure if they are going to just cut their losses or try and walk back my layoff. If they cut their losses the CTO and rest of US based team will be killed. One of my team is going to screen record his quit meeting with the CTO for me, CTO doesn't have a good poker face so I expect he will see his first ever CTO gig going up in flames less than 6 months in.
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New gig much of the same?
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Right now, I'm a click away from using an SQL injection attack to gain access to the database of the website and gain your login credentials, as well as your IP address. I'll then proceed to leak your IP address onto my hacker forums, and then using an IP locator, I'll easily find your house and your name. With that I can access your social media accounts and proceed to ruin your life. You think I'm bluffing? You think that just because a bunch of 7 year old dipshits say they can "hack", but actually can't, that I can't either? Let me shatter that facade for you. Using my team of hackers, we can trace what websites you've visited and what keystrokes you've used, and with that, I can get into your parents' bank account. I can drain it and make you dirt poor. Have you ever felt what it's like to be homeless? Well, you're about to. I can also use cross-site scripting to redirect your web browser to one of my private sites, and download child porn onto your computer and get your parents locked up in prison. I'm your worst fricking nightmare, and I'm about to make you endure living Heck. I'm nowhere and everywhere at the same time. Have fun regretting your existence, shithead.
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