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Every office worker that insisted that their job could be done 100% remote deserves this lmao. How stupid can you be? "Please boss man please outsource me!"
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If a company wants to hire jeets overseas then they're gonna do it no matter where their domestic employees work
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It does seem logical. 'You don't need to be in the office for your job? Then we won't need your job to be in the country.'
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Very logical. "I can't manage my employees when I only see them twice a week in the office. Instead I'll never see them, they'll smile and nod at all my requests, and then I'll have to micromanage the frick out of them to get 30% of the output".
Remote work is a manager problem, not a grunt problem.
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Yeah, it's not the right solution, but it's the Efficiency Expert solution. Looks good on paper.
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Well I mean maybe but think about it like this the good ones you can't really replace them. Theres a reason programming is a job in the us
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It's more of a grift than a job. Companies will pay to snatch up talent just to deprive other companies. None of these people work more than 3 hours per day for their bloated salaries. We deserve whatever happens.
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This site relies on remote workers.
Follower of Christ Tech lover, IT Admin, heckin pupper lover and occasionally troll. I hold back feelings or opinions, right or wrong because I dislike conflict.
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The only safe US Remote roles are ones where there is some regulatory requirement for US citizens, for sure.
In 10 years remote will have dwindled to mostly professionally licensed services like attorneys, CPAs, Professional Engineers (actual PE licensed) / etc., and people in aero+defense.
Heck even in the latter case, we use Indian developers for basic stuff and then move them off projects, so even A&D isn't 100% insulated.
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They should learn to weld
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I could probably learn to lay a perfect bead in less time than it took me to get kubernetes working
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The best part is trying to set up a dev environment that simulates your eventual cloud deployment.
Sorry, I'm not planning on paying amazon 1k a month to run my control plane so I have to actually know how it works
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Angle grinder and paint make me the welder I ain't :marseyautobodyrepair:
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Communism will win if we take an angle grinder too the gay shit
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k8s is a meme.
They have played us all for fools.
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It only cost $100,000/month in additional billings and 17 Azure marketplace purchases that no one can exactly explain the structure of
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Underwater welding so hard-working Americans and blacks can't steal your job because they can't scuba dive.
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It's too late to study a high paying career that relies on social skills to the point it won't get automated or outsourced to 10 monkeys in the philipines
I'll try to squeeze as much as I can from IT for the next 10 years. Once My house is paid for I'll go full unabomber and stop using tech at all, get a low skill low paying job that requires little to no human interaction (janitor, night security guard, etc.) and stop showering. I'm already a full schizo masking just enough to keep a job so it'll be easy
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NTA
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TI?
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thx king
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Google was known for a decade to be the ultimate Cruise Job. You get in, work maybe 5 hours per week, rake in 3-500k/year, and have 6 weeks of PTO to find purpose in your life because God only knows the talent you needed to get hired at that OTE wasn't being used, you weren't learning shit, and you sure as heck weren't going to scratch to total comp elsewhere without busting your butt on some risky startup with a 95% of the RSUs expiring worthless during the bankruptcy.
I'm just amazed it finally imploded (and butthurt I was too young to coast the Free Money era like people 10 years older than me)
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Install Gentoo
Snapshots:
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/google-lays-hundreds-core-employees-moves-positions-india-mexico-rcna150297:
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archive.ph (click to archive)
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