Readit News> Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy; the Office of the Chief Scientist
How are those 2 offices "DEI architects?"
> middle managers with no direct reports
No actual engineers performing real work were harmed in this exercise.
Strangely enough, the home I bought in 2022, which was new construction, has gas stove and water heater, but no gas in the laundry room. (I'm sure I can have it run relatively inexpensively if I chose)
Not strangely, it is regional preference. Go to Lowes or HD and see what housewife in that area prefer; there will be 20 models of one kind and 2 of other kind.
Relevant to my life.
Anyone have experience with these? They seem pretty uncommon in the the US. Thinking about pulling the trigger on an all in one heat pump to replace an all in one with a condenser.
So many mixed reviews about heat pump dryers saying they don't dry well.
Good luck fixing it when it breaks and thus creating more e-waste.
Electric dryers, especially older models, are very simple appliances, you can easily repair yourself and keep them running forever. Can't say the same about heat pump or gas dryer
Total clickbait after you read details:
> NASA announced March 10 that it was closing the Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy; the Office of the Chief Scientist; and the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Branch of the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. The employees of those offices, 23 in total, will be laid off.
So 23 DEI architects and middle managers with no direct reports were sent packing by means of re-org. Good riddance!
No physical offices being closed as implied by misleading title.
huang_chung commented on Layoffs Don't Work thehustle.co/originals/wh... · Posted by u/indigoabstract
Is that an average time given a 12 month vesting schedule?
edit: Actually curious about the dead comment. What companies have multi year 401(k) vesting?
Every company I have worked at or seen does a match on a 12 month schedule or less.
Are they thinking of stock options?
Two years is more typical.
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huang_chung commented on Layoffs Don't Work thehustle.co/originals/wh... · Posted by u/indigoabstract
Real talk here, and I'm sorry for being "that guy"
Why do tech workers get so wrapped around the axle of layoffs when most people are in a chronic state of tech job hopping? I know multiple people who have worked their entire career thus far without ever staying at a place for more than 3 or 4 years. Some no more than two. Tech job culture is practically a mono culture with "hop jobs" being a hallmark.
From an employers perspective it's not laying off a bunch of family members (Southwest has an average tenure of 11.5 years), it's laying off a bunch of people who were gonna dip in 6 months to a year anyway.
I know this is controversial take, but recognize that the tech industry is an outlier industry, with outlier amounts of money and outlier amounts of volatility.
Well, getting fucked out of your 401k money 6 months before it vests stings some.
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Now they have gone from crypto grifting companies and AI hyped companies and it really seems that the a-level players are missing.
Or maybe it's just a matter of smaller teams and focus and care.
I think now I see YC more like a job for the partners than a passion.
I might be wrong but there is definitely something to it that YC has not had a success for a very long time.
It's really sad because YC is one of the best things to happen to the tech industry.
Reddit rode the wave with zero innovation. Really what is Reddit? Message boards predated Reddit, which was predated by Usenet, predated by BBS. Somewhere in there were Yahoo! chat forums.
All they did was colocate message boards in one place, and allowed freewheeling moderation. That's it. They got lucky, made millions with zero new ideas. People connected the same way on AOL 15 years before.
Like most Silicon Valley innovations, you just reuse an existing idea or resell polished turds as new.