Sooooo. Middle aged people? Or are we now dealing with those going into retirement.

I think I’m technically “middle aged” now… No idea how that happened… But I know better than to think you can work your way through college and not come out the other side with a crushing amount of debt…

My country subsidized my education, and provided me with a loan to attend college. I finally paid it off some 20-ish years after I started college.

I’ve never seen a six-figure salary, despite probably being owed one, but the top rate I can find for my vocation in my local area is around $80k/yr or about 50-60k USD/yr.

Yet, if I go to the USA, and get the exact same job, I can make $80k+ USD, which would easily push me over $100k/yr in my country’s currency.

If you guessed I’m from Canada, you may have looked at my username, and noted my home Lemmy instance.

International students pay something like 5x what Canadian citizens do for college/uni (at least they did, the last time I checked), and my local provincial government set up a student assistance program, which provides loans to college/uni students.

I still walked out of college with over $40k in debt and this was in the mid 2000s. Costs have only gone up.

I support student loan forgiveness. It won’t help me at all, but I don’t really want anyone else to have to go through what I did trying to pay everything back.

None of these answers are wrong.

Pretty sure we had CRTs in highschool, back when I was a teen many years ago that were Kia brand… IIRC.

Crazy, right?

Oh damn.

Manufacturing of any kind always causes an environmental impact. This is the way of things.

The one thing we can’t get that would mitigate the environmental costs of making stuff, is if stuff was built to last…

Honda built a rocket

Me: of course they did.

They launched the rocket

Me: naturally.

They landed the rocket.

Me: on the first try?

Spear phishing disagrees with you.

If you’re targeting a specific individual, cloning their SIM or performing another number hijack or even intercepting their SMS in flight, are all viable.

For broader, more general attacks SMS is usually enough to keep anyone out.

Honestly, probably not much less secure than SMS.

I disagree.

1. You already have a government space agency. Maybe give them more funding so they don’t have to rely on space-x to get their stuff into orbit?

2. There’s a national telecom network already in place. It at least has the potential to be faster and more reliable, if it isn’t already… At least compared to low earth orbit satellite coverage.

There’s no good reason to continue providing Elon or his companies with any government handouts. Pull that funding and give it to… I dunno, students who have more debt than homeowners with a mortgage… NASA… Literally anything that helps people?

Days in lieu, from working OT on salary… IMO, is required.

I don’t work for free; if you’re paying me to be present for specific hours, regardless if it’s salary or not, then I expect to work during those hours and not any other time.

If, as a salary employee, I’m paid for results and as long as I meet my deadlines (and deadlines are reasonable) I can work whenever, then yeah, I’ll probably put in unpaid OT sometimes. I’ll tell you something though… With my level of experience, it would be unusual for anything to take so long that it requires that I work more than what is typical.

As someone who works for a living: praise is nice, but pay is required.

… Fuck you, pay me.

Making you pretend to like it is HR’s kink.

Researching the company used to be a thing you did when selecting a career/lifetime position.

… Since that doesn’t happen anymore, I couldn’t give any less of a shit about what your company is all about. I can do thing, you want to pay me to do thing. It’s as simple as that. All the rest of this crap, I just don’t have the time, effort or shits to give.

Same. There’s so much here that’s just excellent.

If I’m working late on something, I expect to be paid for that time and the company can provide a meal.

You’re not paying me? I’ll see you later then.

Shocked Pikachu

People will work FOR MONEY!??!

• every HR team ever.

BuT We’Re A FaMiLy HeRe!

Let’s stop mincing words here.

You want me because I have a particular set of skills that you think will be helpful to you in your pursuit of profit.

I want your job because I can leverage the skills I have for money and benefits that will provide food, and shelter.

Your main concerns are profits.

My main concerns are survival.

Employment is where these things meet in the middle. Let’s not pretend that we’re here because we’re friends. We are not family. Fuck you, pay me.

Neither of those keys exist.

Probably because I keep uninstalling the software.

Heh, it’s a small business and bossman isn’t exactly anti-AI.