Careful; some of these commentators will call you a jumper for not staying around longer at that job...
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Apple's Director of Machine Learning Resigns Due to Return to Office Work
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Planet Earth 🥰 Seems many with the mental illness that is ‘long covid’ (clutch pearls here) left long ago….
Do what thou wilt, but stop thinking you’re in the right for telling people to stop living and suffocate themselves over a spicy cold/flu that disproportionately affects the diabetic, obese, and ventilated (who die because of diabetes/obesity/ventilators btw).
Are you trying to decide whether to be hostile toward him or supportive of him in his resignation?
I was at an in-person conference for work last week. They know of several dozen people — adding up to about 10% of attendees — who have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 infection since, and I'm sure there are more still who didn't think to notify the sponsor organization upon receiving their positive test result.
But sure, the pandemic is "pretty much over."
Well, companies in general, pay you based off the cost of living where you live, it saves a company money by not overpaying. I get moving jobs for a better paying one. But assuming you'll get paid a Silicone Valley salary when living in places like North Carolina, Iowa or Ohio is too fantasy land.
Wait. What? You think you're paid above minimum wage BECAUSE there's NO union?
We actually have a history of paying for college bills:
Back in the 1970s and 1980s, there was far more grant money than loans in aid so those of us that went to college back then had much lower college prices and more grant money. The lower college prices were probably the bigger factor though. UMass Amherst was $800/year in my first year of college. I believe that states did more to support higher education as well. California is an example of a state that does a good job at this today but a lot of other states don't provide the level of affordable higher ed compared to what they used to.
There were nice tax credits to companies to provide tuition reimbursement to employees for college courses leading to degrees. These seem to fade quite a bit in the mid-1990s. I had all but one year of college paid for by employers and therefore paid for by the Federal Government due to education tax credits.
The company that I retired from had a program to help with student loan expenses as a recruitment tool. It doesn't benefit those without college loans but a lot of young graduates with Computer Science degrees that have lots of options are looking for student loan assistance. It would be nice if it were extended to other degree areas.
Some employers, like McDonalds and Starbucks, do provide tuition reimbursements. Things might be better with more generous tax credits for tuition reimbursement.
That is what ends up happening anyways. Just look at the Bay Area, NYC or other up and coming cities. However, cost of living will eat into any salary increase you see. That's why all companies use the cost of living as one of the metrics for salary/compensation.
Obviously he's not going to accept a job offer from a company that does not allow him to work from home, at this point...
I see it as if a job can be done remotely, but if you can't adapt to being a remote worker or working with remote workers you need to be replaced. Sure, some tasks benefit from face-to-face interaction, but often that's due to one or more people dragging their heels and being unwilling to change the way they approach problems.
In the 2000s if you couldn't learn to use a computer you were let go. In the 2010s if you couldn't adapt to online in the office you were let go. Employees need to understand that not every employee will be in the office, and if you can't adapt you will be let go.
Or maybe it has nothing to do with this guy and everything to do with Apple management's choices, as reported by a MacRumors article some time ago...
Can you imagine how mad they'd be if they actually find out the people actually retire from Apple?
Lock them to their desks right now!
How Inflation is Causing Americans to 'Unretire' - The Journal. - WSJ Podcasts
Economic data from March revealed a new trend: hundreds of thousands of Americans are "unretiring" and returning to the workforce. WSJ's Harriet Torry reports that rising inflation is making retirement unsustainable for many. We also hear from two retirees who have started looking for work...
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i didn’t say that. On the other hand the person I responded to said ABSOLUTELY no reason to go the office….I was much more flexible in my wording asking that people not exaggerate the truth.
It's astounding that people can have these facts staring them in the face, and STILL reject the reality, blaming their pet hate for inflation, etc., and voting against their own interests. It's indistinguishable from religious zealotry.
Tell that to the programmers at game companies, who were laid off by their employers to boost the quarter financials, after finishing all that crunch time demanded by management to complete a video game by an overly optimistic arbitrary release date... And this even gets the CEO a bonus.
Activision Blizzard CEO Criticized For Layoffs Amid Massive Stock Increase
The CEO of Activision got a $200 million bonus.screenrant.com
"If you're in tech" really does a LOT of heavy lifting there in your sentence.
I was in tech, and it did nothing for me. Tech support was turned into a cheap labor position filled by anyone who can read a three-ring-binder and hand someone a replacement disposable device, because corporations don't want skilled workers when it's cheaper to hire anyone who can read scripts and to treat products like disposable garbage (and that's how they treat their employees). So then I went to tech training. HAH, no one wants to pay for that either (and my boss was a sociopath). Why train people on the tech when you can just throw them in on the deep end and expect them to have the skillset of 12 different job titles.
But game developers being laid off to make more profit... those workers are definitely in possession of far deeper skills than I ever had, they often came with degrees, and yet they were STILL disposable to their employers.
The majority of people aren't making a ton of money. If that's the circle you travel in, you really need to examine your privilege.
I tend to think of tech like Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, Salesforce, etc. And tech jobs as engineers. Sorry if I was unclear.
Activision stock was about $12 ten years ago. It is $78 as of Friday so that's a really great return for a decade. But you could also have just put the money into an S&P 500 Index fund and had pretty good gains.
Don't you know that food magically appears in supermarkets? Who needs farms?
I do hope you get there too. I would wish for everyone to love their job. After all, you spend a significant part of your life doing work. My boss once put it nicely: life is too short to spend it with people you don't like, and doing things you don't like.
If I won the lottery I would also still be working. I would probably work remotely from nicer places on the face of the earth. I would travel in business class, probably.
How about if you got cancer?
Getting cancer changed my perspective on work quite a bit.
Most jobs require a collaboration with a team. Unless you are a craftsman or something along those lines.
So for all other jobs, the importance to be face-to-face is there.
It’s not that long ago but I’m pretty sure what shocked me most was they downloaded all of this data inside Johny Srouji’s lab. I cannot imagine that happening in Ive’s lab and not because of any ill intent towards Srouji - just that maybe Apple has slackened off in some ways and is now going after the wrong targets.
So what you're saying is, employers need to be better regulated in order to get them to participate in civilization, rather than leaching off of it...
Declaration: I’m a senior dev and I’m also on the wrong end of the autism spectrum. They made me work in an open plan office for years. It was dreadful - people not operating at my level cannot begin to comprehend the disastrous impact of interrupting me, before you add in autism’s disdain for breaking concentration. That’s why I’ve worked from home for ten years and actually did my best work during the lockdowns. I was no longer tied to an arbitrary 9-5 and one of the mechanisms local government in the UK used to get COVID support payments out to people was based on an API I wrote at 4am one morning.
May have got done in the office but certainly not on time and not with the same quality.
I was on a customer call many years ago. A large HMO's patient management system was down and I was sent to diagnose and fix the problem if possible. So I flew there, checked into my hotel, got dressed and went to the office. They explained the problem (it was vague) and the put me in a chair in front of a terminal with two VPs and a sales manager in the room. I looked at crash dumps, logs and did some database page dumps for about five hours. During that time, the people in the room asked me a bunch of questions about what I was doing and what I was trying to do.
You can imagine how helpful that was.
So I said that I was leaving at night and went for a drive for about an hour to work out the problem in my mind. I had some ideas from looking at all of the data and tried to piece together my best analysis of what happened. Eventually I put it together and went back to the hotel, told them that I likely had it figured out, got a few hours of sleep and then went back in in the morning and explained the problem and the solution.
Working can be in the shower, at the beach, driving someplace, or seeing something that triggers an idea or solution. You might even come up with a solution while you are asleep.
They did manage to get their system back up and running so that their doctors could get back to work.
I have another example of this with a large airline parts manufacturer where their production line was completely shut down. That was one time when we worked around the clock in the office as I needed another engineer with specific expertise. Sometimes you need to work alone without distractions. Sometimes you need to work closely with other people.
Fredrich August von Kekule, a famous German chemist, was attempting to determine the shape of the benzene molecule, which was known to have six carbon atoms. In 1865, reflecting upon his discovery of the hexagonal-ring like structure, he asserted that the solution came to him in a dream1; however, it is not clear if he was in rapid eye movement (REM) sleep dreaming or if he was in non-REM (NREM) sleep imagery. It is possible to think of this type of discoveries as an expression of creativity, i.e. the ability to use existing pieces of information and combine them in novel patterns leading to greater understanding and new solutions. Preliminary support of the role of sleep in creative thinking comes from a recent study by Wagner et al.2; these authors asked normal participants to perform a cognitive task, the Number Reduction Task. In this task, participants are required to understand a set of stimulus-response sequences and supply a single representative numerical answer. Improvement in task performance may be gradual (i.e., by slowly increasing response speed), or abrupt (after insight into an abstract rule underlying all sequences). They found that 59% of the participants that were allowed to sleep were able to perform the task in a time that was 70% shorter than the other group that did not sleep and suggested that sleep may facilitate insight-related problem solving. Here we report the results of the first study showing a direct complex correlation between sleep architecture or microstructure and creativity in normal controls.
The Correlation between Sleep and Creativity - Nature Precedings
Fredrich August von Kekule, a famous German chemist, was attempting to determine the shape of the benzene molecule, which was known to have six carbon atoms. In 1865, reflecting upon his discovery of the hexagonal-ring like structure, he asserted that the solution came to him in a dream1...
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