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Today is what happened to yesterday.
(Score: 4, Informative) by SomeGuy on Wednesday July 09, @06:01PM (15 children)
These days a better question would be "where do you find tech jobs?"
All the job sites out there are just brick walls.
Networking? How do you do that? Great if you like shmoozing and sucking dick.
Talk to someone that works at a company? Yea, get past the iron gate and it's still "I don't know of any jobs, I don't even know the person in the cube next to me or anything outside of my very narrow work, go away".
If you have an ok job and are in tech, hang on to it for dear life. Things are going down the shitter really fast.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 09, @09:44PM (1 child)
That is why I've followed turgid's journal with interest. Many of his entries have been complaining about his employment history. Watching as he struggles against the inanity of middle management that has swept across our profession. I have, thankfully, be immune for those concerns for much of my career. But I do have to admit that there is a bit of guilt in being unable to throw a life preserver from my yacht as the others drown.
(Score: 5, Funny) by turgid on Thursday July 10, @09:47AM
Where's the "+1 Aw, shucks!" mod?
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 11, @08:46AM
Try the space industry. It's booming. C, C++, Python, Web stuff, Linux, Real Time.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday July 11, @12:51PM
I've been with my current company for 11 years, working for the same department for 9, and last week was the first time I ever got recruited by an outside recruiter for another position within my own company - not only my own company but at my current location - in another department.
The headline advertised salary was actually top of the possible range of offers, 50% higher than the bottom of the possible range, and 20% lower than my base pay. They didn't mention bonuses, I suspect that title is at 10% bonus, I'm currently at 18% (adjusted for company performance, yadda yadda, in a "bad" year it's usually still over 15%...)
Outside recruiters are, of course, dumb as bricks, probably incorporating AI into their candidate dragnet now, I always tell them "unsubscribe" "stop bothering me" "CEASE AND DESIST" but, of course they keep coming and I've never updated my LinkedIn in the past 12 years so they probably didn't clue in that I'm already "inside" but apparently they do have a geographic fix on me - the next day they offered me a shot at another company in town that's in my line of endeavor but I didn't even know they existed - their website says they've been in the business since 1898, but somehow they're still operating out of a modest building in a warehouse district...
🌻🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Thexalon on Saturday July 12, @02:55AM (2 children)
I recently pretty much had to make a leap, and eventually succeeded, but it was 6 months of looking, frustrations galore, and accepting a significantly lower salary than I'd had before although so far at least everything else looks better than where I left.
A few things I learned from that process:
- The job boards are basically useless, as you correctly noted. At this point, automated filtering algorithms mean that approximately 95-99% of all applications are completely ignored for reasons that not even the hiring managers could explain coherently.
- Human headhunters vary a lot in their quality. The really good ones have established relationships with the companies they're placing people for, while the really bad ones know basically what you know about the state of the job boards. One useful thing you can do is ask anybody you know in the industry who has made a move recently which headhunters they had success with, because that will probably point you in a good direction.
- You are 100% correct that the market really is bad right now. Ever since Elon got away with firing most of Twitter's staff, all the big tech companies have had major layoffs, flooding the market with thousands of very qualified techies, many of whom are desperate to find a job before they have to leave the USA. Also, a lot of MBAs are 100% convinced that techies aren't needed because AI will do the job for them.
"Think of how stupid the average person is. Then realize half of 'em are stupider than that." - George Carlin
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 19, @08:29AM (1 child)
They'll forget about it in 2 years.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Tuesday August 05, @03:12PM
No, they won't. Because they'll be forced to hire people to maintain the massively unstable AI garbage piles that were pieced together by mindlessly stuffing jira requirements into an LLM until they finally reach the breaking point.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Saturday July 12, @03:41PM (6 children)
What in the world do you think networking is? For starters, talk with people like you - same general industry and interests. You don't need to suck their dicks. The idea is that you pass on information about work in your organization and region (along with how terrible it might be) and they do the same. Pool information and help each other out. Cooperation.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 14, @12:04PM
The fact that GP doesn't understand what "networking" is potentially highlights reasons why GP is struggling to find work.
(Score: 0, Troll) by c0lo on Saturday July 19, @08:51AM (3 children)
Likely khallow still lives in Yellowstone and has... umm... selective social interaction.
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfSteveKeen https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2, Informative) by khallow on Saturday July 19, @12:48PM (2 children)
Work? Selective social interaction. Networking? Selective social interaction. Anyone with a life? Selective social interaction on multiple levels.
C0lo, why bother coming up with excuses to downplay good advice?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday July 19, @01:49PM (1 child)
Because it's of low value outside the social interactions your Yellowstone location exposes you.
Here's a taste:
ex-google recruiter says: jump on linkedin and network (with examples of to suck to others you think could help) [youtu.be]
the reality of what others to suck to on linkedin look like [youtube.com]
a bit of perspective [youtube.com]
No, IRL, as a software/tech-related professional, you don't have the luxury of networking in person, there are way too many as hungry as you.
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfSteveKeen https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0, Redundant) by khallow on Saturday July 19, @04:26PM
And really how do you get past the several hundred applicants to one job posting? Networking helps with that.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 24, @11:49AM
That sounds a bit like socialism. Who are you and what have you done with khallow?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 19, @08:25AM
The blow ones.
Right you are. An acquired taste, to be sure.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 09, @06:33PM (14 children)
I am retired now. But I am pleased that I am not searching for a job in today's market.
I realise now that I was relatively well paid; I am not rich, but comfortable. Most importantly I have a good pension which is more than I need to live each month. So I also have savings which are slowly growing.
I look at my children who are, of course, adults and although they have their homes they are watching the economy closely. Prices are spiralling much faster than wages and each month requires major decisions on how to make ends meet. But they do not want any financial help from me. They are determined to succeed on their own merit and are glad that I have a secure future.
God Bless 'Em
(Score: 4, Interesting) by martyb on Friday July 11, @02:44AM
Wit is intellect, dancing. I'm too old to act my age. Life is too important to take myself seriously.
(Score: 4, Funny) by JoeMerchant on Friday July 11, @12:54PM
Anybody tell you: "Suck it, boomer!" lately?
🌻🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Thexalon on Saturday July 12, @01:25AM (3 children)
"What's a pension?" - everybody younger than you
One of the major changes in employment over the past few decades is that nobody has loyalty to the company they work for, in large part because they know full well that the company has zero loyalty to their employees and would happily lay them off for the flimsiest of reasons.
"Think of how stupid the average person is. Then realize half of 'em are stupider than that." - George Carlin
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 12, @07:12AM (2 children)
Two years ago, I tried to talk my nephew out of taking a job because of two major warning signs. We were talking in my office after he had an interview there. He mentioned that they offered a 401(k) that wouldn't vest at all until he finished 4 years of work for them. I told him that plus the "we're a family" talk was a sign they were going to screw with him as much as possible and then fire him. "Trust should be earned and not given away," I said and that the only reason upper management gives me as much slack as they do is because everybody knows that they need me more than I need them. He didn't listen and I've been proven right. Last I heard, they didn't give him time off when my sister, his mother, was in the ICU at the hospital. Guess when they said "family first" they weren't being literal.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Thexalon on Saturday July 12, @10:53AM (1 child)
"We're a family" always reminds me of one of the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition: "Treat people in your debt like family - exploit them!"
"Think of how stupid the average person is. Then realize half of 'em are stupider than that." - George Carlin
(Score: 5, Funny) by krishnoid on Friday July 18, @08:15PM
And the professor in Futurama -- "This isn't a business. I've always thought of it more of a source of cheap labor. Like a family."
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 15, @07:04AM (7 children)
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(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 15, @07:09AM (6 children)
If your doctor is so good at eliminating herpes, then why hasn't he proved it by eliminating the herpes [soylentnews.org] that currently infects this site?
If I could, I'd mod you both -1 Spam and -1 Scam because your doctor hasn't cured this site of herpes.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 15, @10:03PM (5 children)
Actual spam, and janyrinok does not know how to handle it? Telling.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 25, @11:48AM (4 children)
So he spam mods the comment pointing out the spam? Guilt by association, I guess.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 26, @08:20PM (3 children)
Hey! A little Admin attention over here! Illicit spam mods on aisle Six!!
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 31, @09:31PM (2 children)
The only conclusion one can come to is that Admin approves of spam mod abuse. Well, good to know. Really does undercut the usefulness of the site, though.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 01, @11:22AM (1 child)
My job is to use Artificial Intelligence to hunt down illicit spam mods. There are several here. Authorities have been notified. Time to make your pace, all your base belong to us.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 04, @07:22PM
More spam modding should clear out all the undesireable posts. We need more, not less spam mods. The only way to purify SN is through Sidney Sweeny's genes. Megan just doesn't have the endowment. Tucker is still tanning the 'nads. What is wrong with you people? Knot Seas!
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 09, @09:42PM (2 children)
Six years. I have not told them yet. While not resigning I'm not going to renew my contract. So the effect will be the same. I'll be gone by the end of August. Onward to, hopefully, better things.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by janrinok on Thursday July 10, @03:18PM
[nostyle RIP 06 May 2025]
(Score: 3, Informative) by janrinok on Thursday July 10, @03:19PM
[nostyle RIP 06 May 2025]
(Score: 5, Interesting) by mhajicek on Thursday July 10, @02:52AM
I started a CNC machining company at the end of 2020; it's just me and my garage. My wife will sometimes help swap or deburr parts, and handles the taxes.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 4, Insightful) by bzipitidoo on Thursday July 10, @06:30PM (5 children)
I did the FIRE thing before that name was invented. In the fable of The Ant and the Grasshopper, I am the ant. Saved all that I could, lived very frugally. Refused to let anyone tempt or push me to do otherwise. Women and employers both tried. (Ongoing source of astonishment to me at how similar marriage and employment can be.) If I missed out on a lot of dating opportunities because I drove a Metro, I felt it was just as well, those are not the women I would want to marry anyway. Though it did get lonely, sometimes seemed there weren't any women who weren't gold diggers or superficial.
And now I am reaping the rewards. I am so done with the sort of office politicking involving bullying and threatening of hapless employees trapped by their need for that monthly paycheck. When I was in those kind of environments, at first I was under that spell of fear. As I got older, and had built up more savings, I could better stand up to it. The bullying managers would get sulky that their attempts to bully me were ineffective. Fire me, see if I care, go on, do it. They would back down, muttering that I was "not suited for a corporate environment", and other b. s. coded language of that sort that really meant that their bullying tactics would work if I was a "normal" employee, basically an idiot savant skilled at the engineering needed, but a complete moron when it came to personal finances.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 11, @04:07AM (2 children)
I had no idea that incels could survive into retirement! At least they do not reproduce. Kids are just too expensive, and what's in it for me? Do did these women seek your vital essence? Did you deny them that? Gen. Ripper would be so proud, boys.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 14, @02:06AM
ProudBoys (TM) have a rule that they can only masturbate within a certain proximity to a female. The reason seems to be, that if they are too close, they have to pay. All the world despised cheapskates.
(Score: 2) by ChrisMaple on Tuesday July 15, @04:09AM
I have sympathy for women wise enough not to date a person driving a junkheap. There is no good reason to live in poverty when there is a viable alternative.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday July 11, @01:02PM (1 child)
> I am so done with the sort of office politicking
I have been WFH since 2020, and what little office politics I used to see around the floor I see no more, but I'm sure it's still there.
My manager was a younger same-level peer when I joined, I was WFH when I joined around 2015 and he was trying to move the department that way. During the 2020-2024 window when WFH was "cool" our department scattered to the wind, one member to Europe, two others still in our time zone but hundreds of miles distant - I can still drive in, but I have only done so a half dozen times since being first told to stay home. We have also integrated more tightly with our counterparts in India and to a lesser degree China and the WFH skills (actually knowing how to use Zoom...) serve those connections well.
I have two colleagues in India who seem to be suffering office politics issues. I don't know if they are actually knifing each other in the back, but they certainly seem concerned that it might happen - interesting to try to manage that on a couple of calls per week... I'm about to start putting us in three way calls instead of the one on ones they have been requesting.
🌻🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 14, @12:22PM
I have a WFH colleague who disappeared with no comms for 3 months (and no work progressed). So we now have a rule that everyone have to come in at least once a week.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by DannyB on Friday July 11, @04:39PM (1 child)
I got out of college with my degree in 1982. Started my first job as a small company in a small town. It was highly unusual for a high tech company in 1982 to be in a small town in the US midwest. I was the fourth person.
Never changed jobs in 43 years. Everything changed around me. I've written here before about developing Timbuktu and getting the company acquired. Which then happened again.
Now I work for a large software company owned by an even bigger Canadian software company.
I may retire one day, but I still like my work, my team, the company treats us very well, I have 25 paid vacation days per year plus 5 "personal" (aka "sick" days that can be used without notice).
Before the internet people thought villages had only one idiot.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 31, @07:30PM
Can you actually use them or are you being treated like a deceased when you use more than half of that?
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 11, @09:40PM
My only job is to complain about janrinok. I believe I have guaranteed lifetime employment. Only problem, it's his lifetime, not mine! And the benefits suck! No time off, no vacation or sick leave, it is almost my own private Missouri! (A state whose only claim to excellence is that it is not Arkansas!)
(Score: 4, Interesting) by jelizondo on Saturday July 12, @12:37AM
When I was young(er), I was fascinated by computers. Back in the day, when I was 16 I was allowed to visit a government computer center, where they housed, I believe, an IBM system/3
Even do I was not allowed to do anything other than stare at the blinkenlights, I was totally taken.
For many years I made a living of writing software, installing hardware (computers, satellite communications, etc.) and was entirely happy that someone was willing to pay me good money for me to play with interesting (and expensive) toys.
After more than twenty years on that train, I decided to change careers: toys had become much the same, MS was everywhere and there was no satisfaction to be had. More, competition was horrible, f&cking kids just out of college would charge half what I was and I couldn't keep up. I had a family to support, so I could not work for beer money.
I'm happy I left the field, the way I see it, tech jobs have become scarce, underpaid and overworked.
Been on my own for the last twenty years, no boss, no job, no shit from anyone.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Thexalon on Saturday July 12, @01:35AM (1 child)
There have been points in my career where I could have stayed at an employer for the long haul: I could stand to do the work, the bosses liked my results well enough, and the salary was good enough. I didn't, because I would look at the people who had been there 10-25+ years and see how much they had been beaten down by it.
There are 2 reasons job hopping every 3-5 years helps, on average:
1. You tend to get a raise, at least for the first couple of decades before age discrimination kicks in. The reason is this: Inertia tends to keep you near whatever salary and title you were originally hired at. You might get a few percent each year as part of performance review cycles, but you aren't likely to see big jumps even as you gain experience and seniority.
2. You know more people in the local industry, and they know you. Those people become references for future gigs.
Now I'm pushing myself towards financial independence, with the target in sight. Because as much as I like doing software work, I'd much rather do the things I'd like to do with it for fun than because I have to.
"Think of how stupid the average person is. Then realize half of 'em are stupider than that." - George Carlin
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 03, @06:18PM
> The reason is this: Inertia tends to keep you near whatever salary and title you were originally hired at. You might get a few percent each year as part of
They're called "cost-of-living" increases or raises. The companies bump your salary in line with inflation.
You might get a raise-salary bump if you change positions -- especially upward, team-lead, team manager, etc -- but you never get a _raise_ staying in the same position. Unless you were hired extremely under-paid or profoundly affect the position in a way that is positive to the manager.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by oldeschool on Saturday July 12, @02:41AM (1 child)
November will be 28 years with the same employer, started providing Win 95 and NT support, now senior staff systems engineer.
don't hop jobs, hop positions...
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 19, @11:44AM
Now it is 28 years later, Hmmm, Re: your brains? [youtube.com]
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 13, @11:34AM (46 children)
Dalek, in his sequestered journal, seems to think that there are actual radical leftists in America, who promote violence! Well, you don't have to be a Weatherman to know which way the wind blows! Neighborhoods are turning out to resist the racist attack on the United States, and Fifth Columnists like dalek are more than happy to adopt Trump's language. People throwing rocks at plain clothes (Rambo Cos-play) officers who hide their faces out of shame? The IDF just killed an American, a Palestinian American, and are probably going to say he was throwing rocks at the ICE from the West Bank. Dalek just pisses me off so much, I might have to go full Symbionese Liberation Army on his ass.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 14, @06:02PM (45 children)
It boggles how dalek tone trolls but makes sure to put a disclaimer saying that is not happening. Sure spends a LOT of effort on arguing the Nazi label, as if that is the important part. The baddies rarely stop being bad if people are nice enough to them.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 15, @04:39AM (44 children)
I guess if we try to talk nicely to the Nazis, and refrain from pointing out what a libertariantard khallow is, then all our problems will be solved? Other than Border Officers arresting random persons without cause and under cover of incognitio, no badges, they don't need no stinking badges! And no Faces! Don't want Cop faces to show up on facebook, or the full hatred of the people would fall down upon their sorry asses. Nice of Trump to make all these things manifest and clear to all. Dalek is still a simpleton, however. I hope janrinok shadow-bans him, again.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 15, @03:46PM (43 children)
They are no simpleton, just the vestiges of civility that covered over the white nationalism in the US which coincidentally was the inspiration for the German Nazi party. I think they are the product of the post WWII moral cover that was used to make the US imperial activity seem legitimate. The propaganda runs deep, as can be seen every time socialism is mentioned and the knee jerk reactions come out.
The part that gets me is that lefties have been insulted for so long as having no spine while the righties get to spew vitriol with at most a wet noodle slap to the wrist. As soon as a lefty gets mean and fights back it is suddenly all about civility and the status quo. Pretty sure they have their heart in the right place, but they are struggling to see the full cultural picture of bias and deceit.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Tuesday July 15, @04:46PM (42 children)
Perhaps if people (on both sides) stop doing that then things will improve? If people argue more intelligently like adults the problem wouldn't even exist.
[nostyle RIP 06 May 2025]
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 15, @05:48PM (41 children)
So just ignore human nature, got it. We have seen your method here on Soylent News and it has not changed anyone's position. The key difference in this case is that righties have been comfortable with blatant lies while lefty mean words are just the truth. Do we need to rehash why the current GOP situation in the US is deserving of the Nazi label? Really? Sometimes tough love and honesty are the best solution, bot coddling genocidal political parties.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by janrinok on Tuesday July 15, @06:32PM (39 children)
You can only be mean to a person. You cannot be mean to an idea. The whole point that you fail to understand is that we are here to discuss points of view and ideas. Not to attack people. You are simply too thick to understand the difference.
[nostyle RIP 06 May 2025]
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 15, @06:38PM (36 children)
I'm not talking about just SN. As usual you miss the point and violate your own rules by attacking me. Not surprised, your hypocrisy has been evident for quite a while now.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Tuesday July 15, @07:12PM (35 children)
I am so pleased that you took the bait.
If you are not thick, stupid, or lacking in intelligence, the only other conclusion that I can come to is that you are intentionally attacking individuals on this site. Now, which of those would you prefer? Bearing in mind of course that there are no rules about how intelligent somebody has to be to join our community, but there are most certainly rules about attacking individuals on this site. I don't care about how you behave on other sites, but as usual you miss the point.
Your comment is in a Poll asking "how long you have been in your current job". Take your crying somewhere else please.
Now, I have mod points, and you don't. Your call; either think about what you are doing or start another of your rants about me.
[nostyle RIP 06 May 2025]
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 15, @09:58PM (25 children)
OOohhh! Janyrok has mod points, and he's not afraid to use them! You should be very afraid, or he will defend Nazis from your personal attacks!! How long before he realizes that ACs have no karma, and that IP's are not personal identifiers, and that his program of censorship and thought control is massively failing? And he is encouraging more soylentils to leave? Well, at least he is succeeding at one thing.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 16, @12:34AM (1 child)
Why was this comment Spam modded? Who did it? Really, WTF is up with all the Spam Mods?
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 18, @08:30PM
No, really, WTF is up with all the spam mods? They seem to be the majority of moderations now, not like the early days, when moderation almost worked and pissed of conservatives by showing them how unpopular they were. But even then, it was the Troll mods, not the spam. Reference MartyB's excellent journal entry on this.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 16, @05:25PM (22 children)
Really was the weirdest flex. He can't seem to figure out that downmods are not the irritating part, it is the lying hypocrisy. I think they are too old, used to a kind of veneer of civility. That shit disappeared in the 90s, accelerated just after 2000, then exploded around 2007.
If they want civility they have to model that behavior and apply the rules to everyone. The exaggerated defense of someone's genocidal musings kinda seals it in. Now I just want to know what game they are playing. If it really is just boomer shit then that is sadly naive and the world is going to hurt.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 16, @09:49PM (21 children)
Hilarious coming from a thin-skinned baby like you who can't handle any criticism of the crap you post. You piss and moan about others but lose your shit every time someone criticizes you. You lost your shit and rage quit when you got a temporary mod ban on your Azuma Hazuki 2.0 account. You can't handle any criticism of your shit, so you've spent the last three years pissing and moaning because you weren't able to spam mod people you disagreed with for a little while. You're still obsessed after all this time and have wasted so much of your life repeatedly posting the same stupidity. It's obvious to everyone else watching your obsession that you're not a functioning human being. Seek professional help.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 17, @08:08AM (2 children)
Excuse me, to whom is this comment addressed? I cannot tell.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 21, @09:20PM (1 child)
Simple, polite, RELEVANT question gets spam modded? WTF?
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 24, @08:27PM
Janrinok's blog has become dysfunctional. He spam mods everything. Editorial selection of articles is atrocious, full of Micro$erf clickbait, and old person's medical stories, with a British slant. khallow is running rampant in journals, and has become insufferable. And the fucking Nazis. This is the end, my friend. My only friend, the End.
Jim Morrison
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 17, @04:21PM (16 children)
Hi dalek, we see your cockroach came out of your pants again. Maybe spray some RAID doen there.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 18, @05:36AM (15 children)
Doesn't matter who you think I am. Your attempt at an insult shows that the truth hurts for you. You've spent more than three years of your life foaming at the mouth over a temporary moderation ban. That's really sad and pathetic, bro. I pity you, especially as you desperately try to convince yourself that all your vitriol actually has value. It doesn't.
We both know that what you're doing here has no value. It's just empty raging that doesn't persuade anyone to join your crusade against janrinok, dalek, or anyone else whom you imagine is oppressing you. This poll is actually about employment, the purpose of which is to receive compensation for doing something of value for others. But even without the compensation, doing something that benefits others has value. That could be volunteering your time to a worthy cause or releasing open source software that others use. You could post tutorials about programming that benefit others. You could even write and post meaningful commentary on social and political issues, stuff that goes actually goes beyond shouting down anyone you think disagrees with you. All of that would have value, unlike what you're doing here.
You've even admitted that nobody here takes your screeds seriously. I agree. Your behavior over the past three years is really sad and pathetic, bro. Why not stop and get a job or at least do something of value to others? Or at least seek some professional help.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 18, @08:41AM
Ow! Ouch! Hurtful trufths! Hey, look, over there! Clouds. Have at 'em, old man.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 18, @10:58PM (13 children)
Imagine what you want, the value is in calling out improper governance. Like you are trying to do about the Trump regime. Sadly you cannot take constructive criticism about tone trolling others, and to be clear you have been the one attacking others in off topic manners. I will not back down from the truth, and I have even made the mistake of being honest about my actions. Seems humility is beyond you and the other user.
Mistakes were made, lies continue, rules are selectively enforced. If you were capable of taking the high road much of this would pass, but we can see that any criticism is too much and you demand obedience. Calling Nazis Nazis is normal, anyone that wants to avoid such a label can stop defending the political party that revels in Nazi symbology from a very fat man's (get the joke reference?) non-theoretical goons. Nazi salutes, Nazi symbolism, and goddamn Nazi flags at GOP events.
A desire for civility is nice, but you try too hard to force your exact version which was viable maybe in the 90s. Best of luck bro, sorry you got triggered bro. Well not really, but I do very much support your political analyses. Stop being authoritarian and witness the personal critiques melt away. Kind of like the abuse here on SN, if it disappears and content is appropriately modded instead of suspected identity or whatever, and rules applied evenly, then MAGICALLY there will be nothing to complain about. I take my lumps if the rules are applied to everyone, but each personal attack from you or anyone else just proves the rules mean nothing until someone is vocally butthurt.
Just because the majority does not like conflict and do not believe abuse is truly happening does not reduce my desire to highlight the wrongs. You do you buddy, just don't expect others to obey your hypocritical whims ;x
#phoenix666
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 19, @01:03AM (12 children)
You're projecting again, Karen.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 19, @11:19AM (11 children)
No Phoenix666 was an actual soylentil. But he is signing an AC post? Did he get janrinok Banned for harsh language? Oh, dear, First Frojack, then Athanasius, then NotSanguine, and now Phoenix666!! Who is left here, besides janrinok and khallow?
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday July 19, @12:57PM (7 children)
Do that realization now while you still have a life to live.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 22, @04:06AM (6 children)
Mere weeks from now, when you are the sole soylentil remaining, will you survey the desolation of your domain and weep for the lost potential you have squandered? Will you beg for the return of your worthy opponents, who told you it was, actually, an insurrection? Will you bemoan then your bad faith tactics that leave you alone and irrelevant? You were warned, khallow.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday July 22, @04:21AM (3 children)
No, because you're bullshitting and this is a non-serious scenario. Needless to say, you can do more with your life than that.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 27, @10:49AM
Stuck in my death bead, next to the rotting corpse of Randian Libertariantardianism, khallow. And they thought he had bad faith and smelled when he was alive! So, how did we get here? Ideological delusions, policy not based on reality. Rejection of empirical evidence and the scientific method. Great man theory, radical individualist psychology, worship of value in the abstract. And, micro-penises. There, I, and Satan, said it! Both Trump and khallow have very small male members, that seem to have their own eyes, and speak for them. And you thought ManBearPig wasn't real! Ha! Ha ha!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 27, @11:38AM (1 child)
No, he can't. This is aristarchus we're talking about here. He's an incel who visits SN and IRC multiple times each day to smear his verbal sewage everywhere. If you give him a laxative, it causes him to post more often. In most cases, I'd agree with you that someone is capable of doing more with their live, but not about aristarchus.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 28, @12:24PM
Have you confused aristarchus with the khallow? Rookie mistake.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 22, @05:17AM (1 child)
Obviously fake news. You'll still be here posting about janrinok, Runaway, khallow, and dalek. Even if they all left, you'd still show up to post about them. I get the feeling from dalek's recent posts that he's just about had enough of this place. But you'll still post about him if he's gone, just like you do about Runaway. Amirite?
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 24, @08:34PM
khallow can't quit. He is waiting around to "win the internets". May take a while. Wingman. Von Mises. Moldbug. Insanity. He can't leave.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Saturday July 19, @01:51PM (2 children)
[nostyle RIP 06 May 2025]
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 20, @10:37AM
"No" to khallow's wonderful end of life plans, or "no" to it being the actual phoenix666? It is sometimes very difficult to understand you, my dear janyrinolk.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 25, @07:20PM
NOW ON THE FRONT PAGE!! (All caps for more old man cray-cray!) Amazing so many medical news articles on dementia and Old Timer's Disease appear on the front page. And, What is the NHS? Some nefarious replacement for Obamacare?
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 22, @04:14AM
Hey, janrinok!! I found some! Abuse, that is!
Problem is, I have no idea who is being personally insulted an abused. Who got a the temporary ban? Wasn't c0lo, I know that much, his was permanent (and mysterious) mod-banned, until kolie showed up. And, soylentils, with wasted lives? Is it the "driving a Metro" guy? Even TMB used to drive an Echo. The loss of institutional knowlege here on SN is appalling, and I am appalled.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 16, @05:14PM (8 children)
Look who decided to pull the thread into visibility. Oh ya, same dumbass ad usual. So many rules on what can be said, yet no rules stopoing you from violating those rules. Glad I took the bait? You're one strange individual. I don't know why it is so hard for the self righteous users to folliw their own rules. Apparently the rules are malleable and depend on someone's personal reputation. We usually call that behavior corruption. Your glee shows what a turd you are, same as other tone trolling nutjobs.
Like it or not the US is the original home of Nazis, imported German Nazis for profit and power, and now they are performing a coup. This us not the time for tone trolling, it is the time for calling out authoritarian genociders. You providing cover for those comfortable lying and abusing others under the guise of "teh rulez" makes you a bad person.
To be clear, if you policed and spam modded other users breaking the rules including yourself, and stopped allowing moderation based on suspected identity instead of content (no need to lie some more) then some would make efforts to folliw those rules. Tired of double standards based on YOUR personal opinion.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Wednesday July 16, @05:44PM (7 children)
It is ALWAYS visible.
[nostyle RIP 06 May 2025]
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 16, @09:15PM (6 children)
Fellow Soylentils! Time to Spam Mod the janrinok! Only massive community disapproval will dislodge this ensconced cockroach. Write to the board, if you can find out who they are and how to reach them. Save Soylent News!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 16, @09:22PM (5 children)
You think anyone here gives two poofs about anything out of your mouth its hilarious. How much time and effort and hours do you spend just doing the same crap. Coming to the same journals and polls. Spewing the same shit. No one gives a fuck, its a giant waste of your existence, and to think that your time in this world, this is how you spent it, this is how you value yourself and your cycles? Sad bro. You on years of this daily episode on repeat?
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 17, @08:10AM
Would you like a Zantax? I might have a spare, . . .
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 17, @04:19PM (3 children)
And you keep gobbling it down like a good viewer. Sad!
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 17, @07:31PM (2 children)
No, it is being shoved down my throat! Leftist Trans Socialist ideology! I need janrinok on that wall! As a conservative, I have no brains, and no coherent position, only fear of change, and the "other". I can't discuss my fear rationally, and the libs scare me with their big words and strange ideas. Property is a social construct? Money an artifical exchange medium? Gender not fixed by nature? Janrinok no longer head admin? Reality is just too confusing, so I reject it.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 18, @08:26PM (1 child)
Dalek seems to be putting out a lengthy journal entry once per day now. Must be his job. Raises the question, how much does he get paid, and by whom?
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 19, @11:29AM
But maybe the dalek is getting a clue? Good thing he locked down his journal, so he doesn't get any comments!
Vast improvement, there, spoiler tags! We don't have to bother to read dalek's opinion, unless we really want to! What a nicety, and consideration! Thank you, dalek, and
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 18, @08:54PM (1 child)
Except when that idea is racial superiority. Racist fucks are so fucking stupid and inferior that there is no polite rational discussion to be had with them. So the idea itself is what we are being mean to, when we punch the Nazis in the face. Fair enough?
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 22, @04:17AM
Fuqueing Nazis! Punch the Fewer in the face once for me, eh?
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 15, @09:54PM
Interesting typo! Are you suggesting that janrinok is Nazi Artificial, well, not intelligence, but chatterbox? But the point is that advocating oppression is not a defensible position, and not one that can be politely discussed. Reminds me of that scene in "It's a Beautiful Life", where the Italian housewives are sitting around discussing the curriculum their children are being subjected to in Fascist school. The school was presenting the costs of maintaining and treating the developmentally disabled, versus the much cheaper option of just liquidating them through a eugenitics program. The mothers were in shock, that the school would require such complicated math of their darlings! Reminds me of both khallow and dalek, who might be the same person.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by PiMuNu on Monday July 14, @12:25PM (1 child)
I've been in essentially the same job for 20 years. Every few years my managers would put me up for promotion, requiring some external review committee but essentially it gets waved through. So I am now reasonably senior with little effort, thanks to managers looking out for me (and now I try to do the same with my people)...
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 20, @03:09AM
Tor is not safe on SoylentNews! Janrinok has Five Eyes on each and every exit knode, and can tell if you are ari! The 404 was a false flag operation! Rupert Murderdock lives here, with Jeffery and the 72 Miss Teen competitors! The site is dead, down four times in the last fortnight, and fortnighte is very popular these days.
(Score: 3, Informative) by mcgrew on Sunday July 20, @03:03PM (1 child)
I retired 11 years ago. Now I do any damned thing I want!
Tom was torn between serif or sans serif.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 22, @04:24AM
only what you want, or only what you are still able to want, because it is one of the few things that still work?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Unixnut on Wednesday July 23, @03:58PM (4 children)
... What kind of jobs do you have? Are you in actual tech companies? Or companies that just use tech?
I ask because I have always worked for "tech" or "fintech" companies, and I am not a job hopper. I never left a job on my own volition, yet in my 20+ years of working I've never been in a place more than 4 years. It seems no company I worked at can go 5 years without a major reorganisation, acquisition or outsourcing which results in redundancies. If it is not outsourcing to cheaper countries (as was the case in the past) its the "outsourcing to AI" for which there are now rumblings deep in the bowls of senior management at my current company, and there have already been redundancies (approx 30 people).
I just wonder what kind of companies are out there which need tech people yet are stable enough that you can build a career there for 10+ years. Or is it geographic? I admit I've mostly worked for UK and US companies (based in the UK or Europe), so perhaps companies elsewhere are not so turbulent internally?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 25, @11:11PM
I have been relatively lucky. After finishing my PhD in computer science and software engineering, I was recruited to a large firm. There I work on one of the special projects teams. We design software with special considerations, usually one or more of high-assurance, high-integrity, high-availability, high-reliability, real-time, or SOUP mitigation. We also assist with other projects for other high-profile clients. I've kept more or less the same position the whole time, although I have gotten promoted to low-level manager 20/80. I've stayed away from managerial positions I'm not suited for but kept the productivity of myself and my reports high. Any time there have been reorgs, we've stayed relatively untouched because of our consistent quality and quantity despite the difficulty of the projects we have combined with the fact that any one of us on the special project teams could walk into another job with zero trouble despite many of them being rather esoteric individuals. And really, I think that is the key to a long career in one location: doing something important for somewhere capable of recognizing it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 31, @08:06PM
Industrial automation, if it's big enough of a company. Although after 15 years, my first job got sold of to a bigger company, which did not have any idea what they bought. Pretty much everyone left from that company in the sold department within 6 months in that city, don't know about other cities, we had a few offices around the country. After that i've been strugling a bit, been to 3 companies in 3 years and been out of a job for a while. The job market is crap even now in that field, but it is getting better.
But i have friends in "real" tech companies. It just seems much more turbulant, but they get severence packages and much better pay, you don't get that in industrial automation or pretty much any other field that i know of, maybe like business or law fields, don't know.
Maybe if it's a place, where they use custom controllers and machine vision and stuff like that, it might be more of a traditional tech job, but where i've worked it's standard industrial controllers and parts.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 01, @04:47PM
Working in (government funded, not military) research - where there are not many specialists in my field and we have responsibility for designing, maintaining and inventing significant pieces of kit that would cause problems if they broke.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 06, @02:54AM
My work unit is covered by a union. Having the ability to negotiate with actual power and expertise has prevented many of those sorts of issues.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 27, @04:02PM
Hulk Hogan is dead, and nothing of value was lost.
Scott Adams blames "Obama's hoaxes" for ruining his life.
Rightwingers should shut up and hope people still invite them to parties. Whining about self-imposed social consequences, or worse blaming others for it, is hilariously sad.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 01, @08:21PM (4 children)
Given the abysmal jobs reports in this poll, Trump is going to fire janrinok, to prevent infections of viral diseases by suspending testing. If we don't know the economy is fucked by tariffs and dementia, that's as good as it not being fucked, right? Republicans, the new ostrich party of face-eating leopards.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 02, @12:25PM (3 children)
New??
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 02, @12:51PM (2 children)
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 03, @12:44PM
I thought Jan quit, not that he was fired. And can precedent Trump legally fire a SN editor, even?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 03, @04:33PM
The republican ostriches that pretend to care about the working stiffs, drugs and pedophiles, while being the most egregious offenders. But you knew that.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by srobert on Saturday August 02, @05:45PM
From 1980 to about 1991 I had literally dozens of employers. Jobs were temporary by design. Or they were such bad jobs that I quit them, or i got caught in a massive layoff without any seniority. From 1991 to 2002, I had one stable job. Then I quit to take another where I have been for the last 23 years. It just occurred to me that I've just now been at my current job longer than all the others combined. Hoping to retire within three more years.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 04, @07:27PM
The Economy is better, we have employment levels never seen before, so huge, because Trump has fired the person responsible for the bad numbers. I am so relieved we finally have someone who wants to make America grate, again! The Precedent also says that he has also made America Hotter!! What a Great man, and pedophile.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 07, @04:03AM (1 child)
Have all the backbirth conservatives taken over? Ugly Linux backdoors? TDS, and not "The Daily Show"? Colbert's revenge will be fierce and pithy, Republicans should be very afraid.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 08, @11:04AM
Here, hear! Heir! Hare! Harrumph.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 08, @09:32PM
He-e-e-e's Baaaaack!! Runaway is posting rightwing disinformation, again. Could be get a permaban on the cretin?