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I both envy and pity those that can and need to blast out applications like this. There aren’t 1500 open positions in my field in the country. As someone who struggles with doing nothing, application grinding would resolve a lot of anxiety.
AHamSandwich@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•4chan faces UK ban after refusing to pay ‘stupid’ fineEnglish
151·4 months agodeleted by creator
MeatBrick: a culinary hate crime.
AHamSandwich@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•Trump serious about pursuing a third term, Gavin Newsom warns
1·5 months agoOne down, 77.3 million to go.
I’m on unemployment so I’m getting paid to shit post.
AHamSandwich@lemmy.worldto
Progressive Politics@lemmy.world•Trump Lost. Vote Suppression Won. Here Are The Numbers…
22·6 months agoRemoved by mod
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politics @lemmy.world•Trump, 79, Sparks Health Concerns With ‘Heaven’ Declaration
3·6 months agoLike the seven deadly sins, it’s just more appendant mythology to herd the sheep.
AHamSandwich@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•Trump, 79, Sparks Health Concerns With ‘Heaven’ Declaration
14·6 months agoI don’t believe in a Christian afterlife (and the jury’s out on any at all), but I really want there to be one so these sick fucks can have all the pain and suffering they’ve caused rubbed into their faces.
AHamSandwich@lemmy.worldto
birding@lemmy.world•This is Janice. She is a young great blue heron.English
2·6 months agoA great blue heron in Germany?! That’s a rarity.
AHamSandwich@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•So Long to Tech's Dream Job: It’s the shut up and grind era, tech workers said, as Apple, Google, Meta and other giants age into large bureaucracies.English
3·6 months agoIt’s funny that not too long ago getting a FAANG job right out of college was a recipe for success. Now many grads would prefer to avoid them because they’re so toxic, but can’t find a job and have to apply anyhow.
AHamSandwich@lemmy.worldto
News@lemmy.world•Young men are struggling in a slowing job market, even if they have college degrees
5·6 months agoAn associates, bachelor’s, and master’s here. I’ve been rejected for being “underqualified” for jobs with no stated or practical education requirement. I just got a job making a bit above 1/3 of what I was making when I was termed seven months ago. I’m incredibly overqualified and I only got it because I was third choice and two PhDs ahead of me backed out after being offered it. The job is just above entry level and has a requirement of an associates or high school and 2 years experience.
It’s not you, the job market is just insane.
AHamSandwich@lemmy.worldto
Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•HR people smiling at you thinking that you are a complete moron
2·6 months agoIt’s being gross about it and referring to her like livestock that bothers me. Breedable. Yuck.
AHamSandwich@lemmy.worldto
Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•HR people smiling at you thinking that you are a complete moron
3·6 months agoGoddamn that’s low. At first I read that as $1200/week, which would be the highest in the nation.
I also got termed for no reason but my state maxes out at $875 per week, low considering the cost of living here.
AHamSandwich@lemmy.worldto
Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•HR people smiling at you thinking that you are a complete moron
5·6 months agoIt depends. I was terminated under false pretenses, so I collected unemployment without any issues.
Seconding Bazzite, it’s great for gaming.
AHamSandwich@lemmy.worldto
Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•HR people smiling at you thinking that you are a complete moron
92·6 months agoGather round and attend my layoff time tale of woe.
I worked for this company for four years. They fell on hard times and, in place of layoffs, required employees to temporarily give up a portion of their salary on the condition it would be repaid within 2 years with interest, plus increased bonuses proportional with how much you sacrificed. I voluntarily gave up 20% as the company had never had a layoff in its history (no layoffs was part of their alleged culture) and all the old timers gushed about their massive bonuses after downturns like these.
I was given my quarterly review in October and I get a perfect score. I work three weeks, then am badly hurt on the job. It requires fairly major surgery, so I’m out for almost two months.
I literally limp back, probably a little too early. The first day is fine and I’m getting back up to speed. Boss shows appreciation to my dedication as I reasonably could have taken more time to recuperate. I tell her I need to discuss accommodations as I’m still healing. She agrees and sets an appointment for the next morning. Great job HamSandwich, everyone loves you.
I arrive to the accommodation meeting to find the head of HR and my boss. I figure HR is there to help with accomodations. Nope, I’m being terminated. For performance. Huh. I ask about my stellar review. My boss tells me there were issues. I ask about the issues. She is unable to give me any examples. I ask how I was supposed to know I had performance issues when I had a perfect review three work weeks ago and no one can tell me what I’ve been doing wrong. HR boss bitch pipes in with “Ham, at your seniority level you should just know.” Fuck you, boss bitch. Fuck you.
As I’m packing up my things, I realize they cut me one day before my yearly stock shares were to be awarded. Security walks me out and tells me I’m one of many senior level employees being terminated. People are being fired for showing up five minutes late. Upper level admins are walking out in protest. It appears this was the strategy: bank on the company’s good reputation to encourage increased voluntary salary cuts, then dump as many high earners as possible if still in a downturn. My boss is a spineless twerp and went along with it. She lies and tells the rest of the department I was terminated for sleeping on the job. Fuck you, boss. Fuck you.
The company had its first round of layoffs a few months later. Those employees also lost the money they gave up. The company’s reputation is irreparably harmed and I’m currently suing them for lost wages.
AHamSandwich@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•Misty Watercolor Meme-ories, Of The Way We Were.
7·7 months agoWe also underestimate how stupid those that voted for him are.
AHamSandwich@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•Irish tourist jailed by ICE for months after overstaying US visit by three days: ‘Nobody is safe’English
10·7 months agoWhile profiting off of it. Government contractors were paid for 100 days of related services for this poor fellow.




My experience is exactly the book reproduction part when I used a LLM to help with a narcissist. I had no choice but to deal with them, for months. I was stressed and panicking from fending off constant attacks while undoing years of conditioning and abuse, raising two young kids, working, seeing a therapist, seeing a lawyer, and cramming self-help and communication books.
My lawyer suggested it. It picked the manipulation hidden in ‘reasonable’ requests and phrased things safely for me while I learned to do it myself. It did a good job, still better than I do. I was reading a few self help books and began noticing familiar phrases. It was reproducing sentences, sometimes closely paraphrased, sometimes verbatim. Like, a lot.
I feel a little bad because I probably used a bunch of water, but I got full custody. They had been doing a great job making me look like the crazy one until they started flipping out from me being calm and professional in response to their abuse instead of panicking and flipping out myself or shutting down. Sorry planet, thanks for the water, will do better next time.