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Cake day: March 24th, 2025

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  • when I was involved with hiring (as a dpmt manager), I only had to look at resumes that made it past HR. and that was still an overwhelming amount, and full of people completely unqualified for the position or just with absolutely fucking terrible resumes

    I read every resume myself, but goddamn was the hiring process ever a time suck. some people were not only wasting our time but theirs as well what with how much they clearly didn’t give a shit about the interview. thankfully there weren’t many of those

    most phone interviews were 20min, if it went well it’d go up to 40 maybe, and we’d have them come on site for a walk through of the shop and chat about things. again, the better it went the longer it went, but it was usually about 30min because if we had people coming in, we were already pretty sure we were hiring them and it was more of a just hanging out chatting thing while looking at neat stuff




  • I thought you were saying that the other way around, and was hoping to hear why you like 5x8 more

    because yeah, I like 4x10 more. actually, I like having the flexibility to do either one based on how I feel that week and the needs of the company. I like knowing that I can get my 40 hours in and fuck off whenever I want Thursday afternoon for a 3-day weekend, or I can bleed into Friday as much as I want if there are meetings that need to have happen or other work I want to get done by end of week.

    I get that some people would prefer 5x8 because they have before or after work obligations, but that’s not me so I would rather have a proper weekend.


  • I worked 6-6 M-F for a year, and 6-3 M-F for a few years

    social life existed because of having no kids and getting little sleep. I didn’t waste time with doctors appointments or important stuff like that. I’d pop out “early” at 2 or 3 pm if I needed to for appointments.

    now, I’m an office worker, but with a flexible schedule that lets me get that “business hours” stuff done when I need to. it’s wonderful and benefits both me and my employer.







  • while I agree with it, there’s also another side to it

    I’ve been on too many calls where the meeting leader / management says some bullshit that’s incredibly unclear and unactionable, and they need to admit that in front of everybody before they start blaming teams for underperforming