LillyPip

Right? It’s getting hard to talk to people nowadays because everyone seems brainwashed.

But you can’t get them out of it. Asking people to not check those feeds every day is like asking them to go without water.

I don’t like Veteran’s Day and I’ve been called out for that.

I do respect and appreciate veterans for what they’ve done, but I cannot respect or celebrate the military complex that has thrown people into a meat grinder and then discarded them for decades, which is what that day represents to me.

I cannot support these wars, where people are brainwashed, used, then cast aside, to benefit elites and politicians who will never feel that pain and will literally party when dropping their bombs.

Fuck everything about that.

Everyone wants a demon bursting through the ground in an explosion of lava. There are classes for that. Nobody has ever asked for a scarf in our game, and our code doesn’t even know what a neck is.

Hahahaha. No.

Oh shit, I didn’t read the overall message at first and thought hell yeah, I’m a bunch of these things.

But they’re anti-these things, so fuck them.

I want to make mostly the same sign but with the opposite message.

e: also, pencil neck weak kneed gutless men are my jam. Plus long haired freaky people. They can apply.

Good on them.

Yeah, IIRC when a bunch of large corporations got away with doing this in the 1980s and 90s, a lot of us just assumed it would keep happening. Some people have tried raising the alarm about this, but have been shouted down pretty consistently.

Sorry, but this is kinda separate:

we couldn't possibly pay the market price for it.

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I was like but that's the job.

This is literally what labour unions are for?

Well, this shows that the people in charge have no idea what they’re running, and are not adding any value. We’ve been brainwashed (by them buying our eyeballs and brains) to think they do.

They do not.

I cannot stress this enough:

THEY. DO. NOT.

Thanks. It sounds like our backgrounds are similar.

Writing JDs for new roles I had to fill I was constantly getting them knocked back by HR.

That’s awful. It feels really bad when you feel you’re standing in the way of people getting jobs. When you would normally feel like you might be a leftist, this sort of point can be easily exploited to make you feel bad, right?

I don’t even want to address the rest of your points until we go over this one because it feels so important.

No, I ended up hiring under qualified people who had skills on paper but had no talent for the job, because I had to look at candidates who had ‘book’ qualifications in adjacent fields but not passion or any qualifications that actually meant anything to the specialty itself.
This was a design and engineering job.

e: and to be clear, our company president was famous for saying ‘specialisation is for insects’. Like that was his catchphrase.

I’d rather teach someone with passion and interest on the job vs someone who has neither of those but with a certificate any day, and I’ve done both.

15 years ago. Unfortunately not of my own volition (I became unable to work due to disability).

e: I can’t write right