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16 May 2023 1 minute read 3 comments Great White Snark
Sending CVs and emails to recruitment agencies achieves about as much as redirecting stdout to /dev/null and expecting any response: It's an exercise in futility. Call me old-fashioned if you will, but I prefer to deal with actual humans (fallible th...
16 Apr 2023 4 minute read 0 comments lowededwookie
We've so far looked at what AI can do. We've looked at what it gets right and wrong. We've also shown how future AI could make our lives easier. In this final part we'll look at whether its potential is damaging to our future or not. In the example...
6 Mar 2023 1 minute read 2 comments Debesh Choudhury
Let's talk about work. Everybody has to engage in some work to sustain in life. It can be a job, business, or self-employment. Your work may be a full-time, part-time, or contractual engagement. It can be any work that gives you a decent inco...
25 Jan 2023 3 minute read 2 comments WinterYeti
There's nothing that sends shivers and anxiety through an organization faster than watching someone get fired. It's a bit like being on a colonial-era ship and watching someone walk the plank; you don't want to be that person, but it's also such a sl...
20 Dec 2022 2 minute read 2 comments Liberty John
North Dakota Needs People My company has a location in North Dakota. There is a lot of work to do there. Several employees quit, plus a few got fired. So they invited us to go there temporarily with significant extra pay as an incentive. I volunteer...
12 Sep 2022 3 minute read 0 comments Debesh Choudhury
Earning is essential to survival. Who will deny that earning is essential for life? Only those with enough ancestral assets, or who can live without food, can survive without stable earnings. Full-time jobs are not the only ways to earn money. One...
11 Sep 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
One of the two companies that gave me a job interview on Friday wants to give me a month's probationary employment, to see if I'd be a good fit for the job and the company environment. I haven't even done a technical assessment yet. For nearly two ye...
16 Jun 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Yugocean
Recently Fortune 500-listed company Coinbase fired more than 1k employees to cut the expenses. This has made things difficult for the staff, who are now hunting for work. People on Twitter stepped up to help the person who had made the request...
20 Jan 2022 2 minute read 3 comments D2EarthCrypto
We've likely all seen cities competing for talent and business opportunities. Cities and states often compete by funding economic development initiatives ranging from building accelerators, supporting housing developers, and even providing cash for p...
30 Dec 2021 3 minute read 0 comments SweptOverNiagara
Earlier today, I hopped in my car and threw in my guitar and drove around town and all around for about an hour or so and snapped some pictures of all the help wanted signs that have popped up just about everywhere as far as the eye can see. In all m...
