mickeythug (u/mickeythug)

mickeythug commented on I've acquired a new superpower danielwirtz.com/blog/spot... · Posted by u/wirtzdan

fonema · a year ago

Same here, but I always imagined that for it to work, I would need to have roughly equal vision in both eyes, which I don't. Everything is blurry with my left eye, and no glasses or lenses have ever helped. I attribute this as the reason.

mickeythug · a year ago

Suffering from the same exact plight

mickeythug commented on Goodbye Auth0 joshcanhelp.com/goodbye-a... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

rollulus · 2 years ago

I don’t get it why the US company layoff culture is so different from what I’m familiar with, the European one. What are they afraid of that people need to be locked out? That one brings a gun to work? Here you get laid off, get a notice, are expected to continue working for a while (but depending on your work ethic you’ll take it easy), consume your remaining PTO, complain to your coworkers about what happened during a farewell dinner. So much more humane.

mickeythug · 2 years ago

In some parts of Europe, it is very common to do “mutual termination”, since you cannot easily fire someone just on a whim. If you use the “redundancy” excuse, companies are usually prohibited from hiring again on the same position for 6 months. If you want to fire someone and not face this, there’s a very detailed process of what you have to do, before you can justify termination (documented first warning to the employee, steps they need to take to improve, second warning, proof that they didn’t so what was asked of them, etc).

Virtually no one goes through this, and they opt for mutual termination, and generally a person can negotiate a severance package for their signature (I have seen examples of people negotiating almost a year’s salary as severance), and they are out immediately.

But this is also a scare tactic and people get caught by surprise and sign anything, sometimes without any severance. During this past year, as mass layoffs were happening in waves, people got more informed about this and were smarter in negotiating their exits.

mickeythug commented on Ask HN: Is your company continuing their WFH policies? · Posted by u/xyst

mickeythug · 3 years ago

Got the announcement on Friday: 4+ days a week at office, people who commute 50km or more should be 3+ days, others that want to remain remote can switch to being consultants. There will be some exceptions, but overall we are all coming back in some capacity. Worst thing is that the current office space does not support this many people being at office at the same time.

mickeythug commented on Uber is officially a cab firm, says European court bbc.com/news/business-424... · Posted by u/chrisper

mickeythug · 8 years ago

bbc.com does not have SSL? :O