Your hatred of Musk is hilarious.
I’m still gonna say you crossed the (metaphysical) line when you used the hilariously pampered and entitled ex-Twitter employees as modern day martyrs (my version of apocalyptic messianic complex) when Musk fired (rightly, pun intended) their hilariously pampered, woke, (which you claim to hate) entitled arses.
No, I didn’t deem them martyrs, I don’t give a shit about them. I was marveling at the fact that people got so emotionally invested in a billionaire firing employees in a newly acquired business.
I don’t like very rich people with a lot of money who by definition (surrounded by sycophants) are colossal egomaniacs. Especially the new breed on tech guys who are mostly on the spectrum and have very limited understanding of life outside the SF VC bubble.
I didn’t say you did. I was hyperbolizing (is that a word?), just like you
I’m just calling out your obvious bias against Musk, which I really don’t care about; it’s just when you use that bias to espouse dumb shite like defending (hyperbole, maybe) Soros, or defending fired blah blah Twits (yes, you did) that I comment on it.
I do.
They have made me a lot of money.
Yeah, I have heard this too. Same for Tesla. Lots of hours and work for standard pay.
I think there is some truth with engineering that the jobs that sound really cool end up sucking. Koenigsegg seems like it would be super bad ass place for an engineer. But lots of engineers think the same. Lots of competition. If you won’t do it, others will. I’ve seen videos of the engineers there sleeping under their desks because they work such long hours and commuting home just doesn’t make sense.
Something less glamorous I think is more likely to be stress free (or close to it), flexible and not more than 40 hours a week.
I think most industries you will be hard pressed to find a job that is desired that only requires 40 hours or less a week that pays well.
Some of it is setting boundaries. Some people are better than others at that.
I have it where I am at now. It’s pretty chill, I get an office (which is awesome compared to the open plan layout at my last place), I can kinda pick what to work on out of a bunch of projects.
This is true and also depends on your position and pay.
Some weeks I might have 10 hours of legitimate work and other weeks it might be 60 depending on what is going on with case load, acquisitions, etc.
My work load can be variable as well. I am not some big shot by any means, but I am also in the pay range (I got a big pay bump coming from medical device which is known for good pay in this area, MN) and have a similar title to the guys working as engineers for the companies that really work their engineers.
I agree though. If I want to really climb the ladder, 40 hours/wk isn’t realistic. I don’t think I’d enjoy management at all. My dad got pushed into management (kinda half engineering half management) as an engineer and found a lot less satisfaction in his job. He only got a bit more money, but had to work a lot more, had to do performance reviews, tell people they were being let go. I like doing the actual engineering (today I am designing a vacuum breaker). I think I have fairly good people skills, but no desire to use them in a management setting. I’d rather tinker with shit, and make cool things.
I completely understand.
Managing people often sucks ass.
Luckily, I just have a handful that directly report to me in my GC position.
This isn’t the confession thread, but I’ll go ahead and confess that I enjoy two foreigners arguing about how another foreigner operates his American business.
Even though I imagine @loppar shares more of my Eastern European mongrel physical characteristics, @punnyguy is as OK USA as they come. And by “they” I mean foreigners, not 1980’s stereotypes of Hong Kong men who broadly approve of Americans with iconic movie lines.
I didn’t even scroll down as far as the video, but as soon as I read this, I thought, “Is this a Bloodsport reference?”
I think that was the first Van Damme movie I saw. I still have hopes of doing the splits someday.
I’ve been disappointed in you ever since you failed to get my TK421 reference several years ago, but I feel like you’re finally turning a corner with your pop culture literacy.
LOL. That guy was obviously a native Cantonese speaker, which made him OK HONG KONG in my book -my pet peeve is when they put in an Asian dude/gal who can’t even speak the language; I mean, WTF?
This is where I make my obligatory reference to the Olympic gold medalist Tae Kwon Do guy that I personally witnessed not even getting close to doing splits. Splits are overrated.
Since we don’t have a degenerate thread.
Dear God.
It should be legal to execute convicted pedophiles.
What’s funny is how these people look exactly as you would expect.
So how is this not “woke” and “critical race theory”?