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Corporatocracy

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  • CBS, Playboy, CocaCola, ABC, Camel Cigarettes, Windows
  • ?, Travelers, Apple, Nike, AT&T, Chrysler
  • Warner Brothers, ?, Chase, Intel, Pizza Hut, McDonalds
  • Xerox, Adobe, IBM, General Electric, Internet Explorer, Bell Laboratories
  • United Airlines, Shell, Adidas, NBC, Pepsi, Compaq

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Restaurant Uses AI for Menu, Accidentally Describes Appetizer in Way So Disgusting That We May Never Recover

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I know of 4 companies in the last 2 months that laid off their entire QA departments. With the expectation that product and engineers will pick up the QA work with the reasoning that you can use AI to be more productive and help with quality assurance tasks. Historically, in my experience, QA departments are the only ones that actually have any documentation and knowledge of how the product works... Better than the product department.

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Who am I supposed to use as a work reference?

So this is advice I've offered many co-workers and friends over the years. This advice actually came directly from my first boss.

Always try and make time to have a lunch with a former co-worker. Just one, co-worker, it's one hour, once a month. Just have a lunch with someone, anyone from a former job. This helps in a couple of ways, you keep your network open and you keep it expanding. These people aren't your friends, but they could turn into friendship if you wish them to be.

Prior to the pandemic, I had a list of my months, and which co-workers I would reach out to from former jobs. This has been huge for me as it has helped me land new job opportunities and it has turned some former workers into great friendships. But it's just 12 hours a year, and 12 lunch's a year. But it's just enough that I'll always have someone I can use as a reference.

I've now had many different jobs over the years, but I still schedule lunches with former co-workers. But I make sure to reach back out to people to set these up, it's helped me also become more social than I normally am.

So once you've got this new job in the bag, do not lose touch with the old co-workers make an effort to have lunch with someone, anyone, but at least someone you wouldn't pull your hair out after spending an hour with them.

It's just 12 hours once a year.

edit: don't get me wrong this isn't an easy task my first boss had to force me to go to lunches I didn't want to go to.

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Is Lemmy's code base "good"?

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Which... makes sense. The creator of doesn't like coding.

I actually hate programming, but I love solving problems. I really don't like programming. I built this tool to program less so that I could just reuse code. PHP is about as exciting as your toothbrush.

So PHP it born out of a dislike of coding. In turn the documentation is all over the place and inconsistent.

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The issue is not space, but how we move through it

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Because public services and transportation hasn't and can't provide services to disabled people? You really think that? Fuck man, these systems can work and provide for you easily. Japan and the Netherlands have a lot of handicap support and you can get around without needing to be privileged. I hope you get the help you need.