Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. Also, happy 4th July in advance...I guess.)
Get your popcorn folks. Who would win: one unethical developer juggling "employment trial periods", or the combined interview process of all Y Combinator startups?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44448461
Apparently one indian dude managed to crack the YC startup interview game and has been juggling being employed full time at multiple ones simultaneously for at least a year, getting fired from them as they slowly realize he isn't producing any code.
The cope from the hiring interviewers is so thick you could eat it as a dessert. "He was a top 1% in the interview" "He was a 10x". We didn't do anything wrong, he was just too good at interviewing and unethical. We got hit by a mastermind, we couldn't have possibly found what the public is finding quickly.
I don't have the time to dig into the threads on X, but even this ask HN thread about it is gold. I've got my entertainment for the evening.
Apparently he was open about being employed at multiple places on his linkedin. I'm seeing someone say in that HN thread that his resume openly lists him hopping between 12 companies in as many months. Apparently his Github is exclusively clearly automated commits/activity.
Someone needs to run with this one. Please. Great look for the Y Combinator ghouls.
I'm sorry but what the hell is a "work trial"
I'm not 100% on the technical term for it, but basically I'm using it to mean: the first couple of months it takes for a new hire to get up to speed to actually be useful. Some employers also have different rules for the first x days of employment, in terms of reduced access to sensitive systems/data or (I've heard) giving managers more leeway to just fire someone in the early period instead of needing some justification for HR.
Ah ok, I'm aware of what this is, just never heard "work trial" used.
In my head it sounded like a free demo of how insufferable your new job is going to be