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    In some circumstances, I have heard of employers asking prospective employees to expose their social media accounts during the hiring process.

    In most cases, this seems to be just a formality check of "Is this person exposing their previous company's info / making threatening statements / generally being an asshole of some kind?" or, in one case, to determine if someone was an anti-vax/anti-science type before they started a medical position.

    This wasn't done by an "agency", though, and they really didn't look that deeply. In some cases it seems to come with a wink-wink, nudge-nudge "So these are tooootally all your accounts, riiiight?"

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    Small horses, like small dogs, are herd animals, are utterly convinced they are ten times their actual size, and will show this off at any opportunity.

    Zonetrooper ,
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    Not that guy, but also a (not-software) engineer. Coding is really great for a few things:

    • Software stuff is in really vogue right now. Like there's demand for all engineering disciplines in my area, but software guys are the hot position, with pay to match.
    • Even if you're not software, knowing a little is helpful for other stuff - e.g., whipping up some quick and dirty test interfaces, or interacting with older systems with non
    • It also really, really helps for little things at home.

    Unfortunately I cannot actually write code to save my life, but it'd be real useful if I could!

    Zonetrooper ,
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    A little more appreciation for nuance, empathy, and chill when it comes to "hot" topics would be appreciated.

    Like just about every day I check Lemmy, and I find some really awful, yet highly-voted take (usually on politics, sometimes on tech or something) that sends my eyes rolling so hard I could probably hook them up to a generator and get carbon-free power.

    I can deal with downtimes, community drama, and needing to grow conversations. But the hostility I see almost daily turns visiting Lemmy into a stressful, not welcoming experience.

    Zonetrooper ,
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    Candy Corn. Some people insist they taste like wax, and I'm like, "What?!" I will chew those things all day long.

    Zonetrooper ,
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    This. "Overstressed" doesn't begin to cover it. It's an unimaginably stressful job even when things are going right.

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