• comrade_pibb [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      31·
      6 months ago

      I can definitely attest that there are some really awful office cultures where a young and naive computer toucher would feel compelled to go to a strip club to be seen as a team player. It’s gross and I’m not sure how common it is these days, but it’s a thing

      • Ericthescruffy [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        21·
        6 months ago

        Have been a young naive computer toucher and can second this. It is a thing. Often the company owners just want to drag you along and feel like ballers for the night. Its fucking painful and I’m so happy I’m remote and established enough I don’t have to play along anymore.

      • KoboldKomrade [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        5·
        6 months ago

        I felt a bit awkward waiting for my food next to my boss’s boss at a greek place we happened to order at independently. I couldn’t imagine going to a strip club with any of them. (Tech monkey btw)

  • itappearsthat@hexbear.netEnglish
    29·
    6 months ago

    Senior consultants that solve million dollars problems don’t charge that much per hour

    On top of everything else that is literally false at least in the US. If you’re engaging one of these senior consultants on a 40 hour/week contract they won’t be charging $500/hour sure, more in the $200/hour range. If you want them for a one-off hour-long contract or just a couple hours a week? $1000/hour minimum.

  • moujikman [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    26·
    6 months ago

    Five hundred dollars? Are you serious? Just for an hour? That’s absolutely ludicrous. I mean, listen, I’m a tech guy, right? I solve problems worth millions to companies. And even I don’t pull down that kind of hourly rate. Let me break it down for you, because there’s no way the value adds up here. Just think about it logically, for the cost of one hour, I could upgrade my entire home entertainment setup and enjoy it for years. Or better yet, I’d throw that $500 into crypto. Now that’s an investment. Bitcoin, Ethereum - hell, even some of the newer altcoins. Exponential potential returns. This? This is just… it’s poor financial planning, is what it is.

  • Tabitha ☢️[she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    24·
    6 months ago

    Senior Computer Guys don’t charge $500/hour and they solve $1million problems

    actually actually they do often charge $500/hr, but often it’s measured differently, such as $1000/day or $5000/week, and sometimes instead of fixing $1million problems, they create $1million problems, and sometimes the $1million problems are fake.

    Source: pole dancing is great exercise, read theory.

  • Infamousblt [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    13·
    6 months ago

    The real dunk tank is Rule 8 yet again. This one would have been fun and fresh to dunk on but it’s definitely going to disappear any minute now. Sorry OP you’re only allowed to find another celebrity repeating the same propaganda that every other celebrity is also repeating, that’s the only content allowed now.

    • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netMEnglish
      25·
      6 months ago

      I’m gonna go ahead and leave this one up because it’s hilarious and mansplaining is absolutely a mainstream form of dipshit brainworms.

      Rule 8 is about passing a vibe check so we’re not getting mad at fake shit and unfathomably fringe opinions that only a single twitter pervert supposedly has.

      • Infamousblt [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
        12·
        6 months ago

        I think that’s probably my biggest beef with Rule 8 is that it is basically impossible to know what will and will not pass the vibe check. I mean I agree this one is great and should definitely stay but it’s impossible to know until it does or doesn’t.

        • BountifulEggnog [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
          8·
          6 months ago

          What is most confusing to me about it is rule 8 doesn’t read (to me) the way Emma is interpreting it. If the rule was “don’t get made at fake shit and unfathomably fringe opinions that only a single twitter pervert supposedly has.” I’d feel a lot better about it and I think most detractors would too (maybe not though). But the actual rule seems very different to me. When the mods said it would get rewritten I imagined something a whole lot more like what Emma just said then the rule 8 we actually got. The rewrite was mostly reversing it from “Must be popular/lot of upvotes” to “Must not be unpopular/low upvotes”. Which, again at least to me, doesn’t really change it.

          I don’t know, maybe I’m getting too caught up in the wording.

          rule 8 for my mobile comrades

          The subject of a post cannot be low hanging fruit, that is comments/posts made by a private person that have low amount of upvotes/likes/views. Comments/Posts made on other instances that are accessible from hexbear are an exception to this.

          spoiler

          That’s enough whining from me, honestly not even sure if I should post but shrug-outta-hecks

          • Infamousblt [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
            6·
            6 months ago

            You (and everyone) should always post. Posting is Praxis.

            But yes I think this is really the issue; the rule should be more clear, even if it just “mod discretion on this” then fine, write it that way. This community is undoubtedly full of anxious folks who will have a post they wanna share, look at the rules, go “I dunno I’m scared” and then just…not. I’d rather people err on the side of posting and having it removed because “doesn’t meet the criteria for vibe check” than folks go “I dunno if that’s allowed or not” and just … not post. More posts more better I think.