Chucktshoes
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Man, I would love to hope I’m wrong about most of the shit I see coming down the line. That said, I bid you a peaceful adieu.
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Max Sterling
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Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Fort McMurray, Alberta.
avecigrec
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Fort Mac alone would've given you quite the cross-section for any sociological exercise! I can't speak much to the culture of Corner Brook as I've only passed though, myself, and worked with a couple from there on a small island on the other side of the country (Gabriola)
Jan
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World’s climate scientists to issue stark warning over global heating threat
IPCC’s landmark report will be most comprehensive assessment yet as governments prepare for pivotal UN talks in November
www.theguardian.com
World’s climate scientists to issue stark warning over global heating threat
IPCC’s landmark report will be most comprehensive assessment yet as governments prepare for pivotal UN talks in November
And there was this last week:
A crucial ocean circulation is showing signs of instability. Its shutdown would have serious impacts on our weather. | CNN
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation's collapse would have dire implications for our weather and life on Earth.
www.cnn.com
I've been reading a loooot about this one.And there was this last week:
A crucial ocean circulation is showing signs of instability. Its shutdown would have serious impacts on our weather. | CNN
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation's collapse would have dire implications for our weather and life on Earth.
From what I understand, this is the plot of 2004's The Day After Tomorrow.
Yes and no.
We will not get cyclones across the globe instantly bringing in an Ice Age. But the trigger for it happening was the shutdown of this current.
This is something that has been known for some time. I remember seeing it mentioned on the Discovery Channel back in High School. Before 2004.
But back then it was more of a theory. And that it could happen if the earth continues to warm. But it was not something at the time they believed would happen this century. Not in our life times.
But alas, now top research believe it could destabilize at any time and collapse. We just don't know when that will be and what the crucial threshold will be.
Data released last week also showed that the earth is warming much faster than expected.
The time to act probably has already passed. Meanwhile the GOP still does not believe in global warming or any green policies and want's nothing more than to block them all for the foreseeable future.
Workers quit at historic clip
3.87 million workers quit their jobs in June, which is close to the record, set in April, of 3.99 million.
www.axios.com
A mass exodus is happening. People are leaving their current jobs for new jobs with better pay and benefits.
I have even seen it where I work. Half my team has left this summer. One of the biggest reasons is compensation. Underpaid for what they do.
Despite a bunch of job openings becoming available, there are no roles I can move into to get better compensation. They are choosing to back fill all vacancies with junior developers / lower salaries. So any open position would be a paycut.
Compensation is an issue for me and if I find a job with better compensation I would jump in a heartbeat. It's a necessity for me as I can't get by on my currently salary alone. I must find freelance work just to make end meat. There haven't been any cost of living adjustments since early 2018 at my company. For the last 4 years they have had an outside company looking at pay bands after a company survey showed employees were displeased by compensation. In June, when they completed the study for my title, I learned that I was paid below the pay band. And they had to adjust my salary by 2k to bring me to the lowest level of the payband. The pay band has 15k in it's range. But with cost of living adjustments not a thing at my company currently and promotions the only way to get a pay bump, there is no way for me to see a pay increase without being promoted to a senior developer. Which would be more than a 15k pay bump. and as of right now, we only have 2 senior developers. All the rest of them were laid off when covid hit because they make to much money. And even they were paid below industry standard but all we hear from our clients is "we are to expensive" and we keep losing work to overseas contractors.
We have heard about how the pandemic has created a reset of wages. Companies are seeing job shortages and raising wages to attract talent. Especially for the service industry seeing higher wages today.
But these gains in wages unfortunately have been completely erased by inflation. Inflation is at a 13 year high and is outpacing wage growth accord to a report I just saw on CNN.
Inequality and poverty only continues to grow.
But these gains in wages unfortunately have been completely erased by inflation. Inflation is at a 13 year high and is outpacing wage growth accord to a report I just saw on CNN.
Inequality and poverty only continues to grow.
There is a lot of this when it comes to highly skilled specialized jobs.
A lot of it has to do with not enough people choosing these career paths today. The job market was over saturated a generation ago and people choose or landed in different career paths with better prospects of landing a job. Now much of that work force is retiring out. The pandemic helped with that push. So it may take another generation to saturate the talent pool again.
With highly paid, specialized jobs the workforce was largely filled up / saturated by the time millenials came around. While there were some job openings and people coming out of school for these positions. The last 20 years or so has seen nearly as many new positions created as people would be retiring eventually. A bit of an unbalance.
It's hard to sustain a highly paid, specialized workforce if the talent pool large shifts every couple generations with low turnover in between. When the jobs dry up the people seeking that career path dry up.
yukbon
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When things get tough, people go to ground. It happened in 2008 with the housing crash: people feel unsure about their immediate future and they look for stable jobs, even if they pay less. I've started getting headhunters calling, offering 6 and 12 month contract gigs for decent money. Not like, fuck you money or "quit your life for a year and move to california" money, but decent.
Google is still in the fuck-around stage Pay cut: Google employees who work from home could lose money
presumably they will hit the find-out stage if they actually implement it widespread. Meanwhile their execs are relocating to New Zealand.
Google is still in the fuck-around stage Pay cut: Google employees who work from home could lose money
presumably they will hit the find-out stage if they actually implement it widespread. Meanwhile their execs are relocating to New Zealand.
Jan
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Might a lesser influx of engineers from other countries a reason. Pandemic probably shut down some of that
We were just talking about this at work. A coworker of mine has a cousin who works out of Google's San Francisco office. And of course with the cost of rent in San Francisco, can't afford to live in the city itself. So he has a 90+ minute commute into the city. Sometimes as long as 3 hours if traffic is bad. His life was just work and commute so he decided to work remotely. And just ended up recently with a substantial pay cut because he is not considered to be a "San Francisco" salaried worker any longer. He lives outside of "the prime area".
We've had data analyst positions that haven't been filled for over a year.
I didn't think about @Jan's point, but he's right. And there's evidence in graduate school numbers that also suggests that we aren't getting the influx of international students that universities regularly rely on for income (about 30% of all grad students are foreign). There's been a mass exodus of older workers and I can tell you now that I've been overloaded with work because we have open positions. I know several people who have looked for work elsewhere because they got stuck with extra workload.
Just like these manufacturing systems that got leaned down to nothing, a lot of optimization has been done around how many people we need to complete work. Some manager somewhere at the top, hoping for a dividend bump, decided that whatever org only needs X amount of people. Sure the people will have greater workloads and the work life balance is completely off. My parents were boomers and my dad was basically chained to his desk. I don't see myself that way with my current company. I think what I'm trying to say here is that I watched my parents work very hard and do great work, and I still saw them get laid off. I think that current workers don't feel all that attached to a company because very few companies are attached to their workers. Maybe if employers started considering humans as true capital, they wouldn't be in this problem.
The reason many people don't choose these career paths are because they do not pay enough compared to how much debt you will be in once you graduate with a specialized degree. The reason there are not enough engineers, doctors, fill in the blank, is because college is too expensive for most people and the salary they could get in these fields might have a tough time paying back student loan debt. This wasn't kids opting out of specialized fields, this was a direct result of our public schools in poorer areas not being able to get kids on a path to college. Instead of a kid saying, "I want to be an engineer. I need to go to college." We are telling the kids who's families can afford college that they HAVE to go to college to be successful. So regardless of what they want to be, they feel then NEED college, but no one just falls into engineering, or computer science, or physics. We have basically given a poorer kid who wants to do this work a very narrow path to college--that usually involves a lot of debt.
Dtknuckles
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I wonder if other countries that have easier routes to advanced degrees are having the same problem?
Marjorie Taylor Greene is suspended from Twitter for 7 days, Rand Paul is suspended from YouTube for 7 days.
Got to love that our elected officials are putting out dangerous misinformation and inciting their base to the point they warrant temporary bans.
And of course, the GOP wants to take action against the social media companies and are angered by their actions.
Got to love that our elected officials are putting out dangerous misinformation and inciting their base to the point they warrant temporary bans.
And of course, the GOP wants to take action against the social media companies and are angered by their actions.
The Texas State Senate today passed the voter suppression bill. It's passage was a vote down party lines and included a 15 hour filibuster that went all through last night.
SB1 is not law yet though. The Texas Senate just voted to approve the bill without the house first approving it. Democrats in the house of representatives in Texas have vacated the state to DC to prevent its passage. Though it's almost guaranteed that it will eventually pass.
Easier to vote my ass. All it does is restrict votes and make it easier for election officials to throw out votes
SB1 is not law yet though. The Texas Senate just voted to approve the bill without the house first approving it. Democrats in the house of representatives in Texas have vacated the state to DC to prevent its passage. Though it's almost guaranteed that it will eventually pass.
Easier to vote my ass. All it does is restrict votes and make it easier for election officials to throw out votes
Max Sterling
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It's easier to vote, from his perspective, as he no longer really has to worry about it as much. It's not as much of a burden on his mind whether or not his party will win or not, since they rigged the hell out of it.