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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • In my experience, good candidates (including interns/juniors) are still landing the roles. Hiring in tech/design/product is tough because there’s a deluge of applicants who’ve either coasted during the boom, or been sold a lie by an educational institution.

    You can spot the ones who apply for 40 jobs a week, and those who’ve used chatGPT a mile off, and they’re usually the worst candidates, with long, bland, unfocused resumes.

    LinkedIn is full of my worst ex-colleagues bemoaning the lack of opportunities, like they’re entitled to it.

    Please tell me if I’m being unfair. Maybe I should be less cynical.


  • A shameful culprit IMO was the Kermode and Mayo film review. Two wealthy broadcasters (one extremely wealthy) who left the BBC, created an objectively worse show, half of which immediately went behind a paywall. Then they started voicing atrocious adverts and wingeing that people should pay so they could keep the lights on.

    They could easily have experimented with a Patreon, but the arrogance was clear.

    The only upside was that I felt no pain in dropping them like a stone, but I do miss the old show and never found a good replacement.



  • Monkeytennis@lemmy.worldtoAutism@lemmy.worldToo peopley
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    1 year ago

    See, there’s a huge different for me between “people” and “my people” - they can be two separate groups of strangers, but I can tell them apart in seconds.

    In the rare times I want to socialise, my quest is to minimise contact with the former and maximize the latter.