I'm looking at a company hiring for techs to work on neat aerospace projects.
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this job listing is trying very hard not to reveal that they want to hire you to make missiles
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kinda like how Uber doesn't advertise any of their jobs as being for Uber's self-driving cab division (you know, the one that has killed at least one person)
they're hiring for a "autonomous ride-hailing service"
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I had a recruiter explain to me that I shouldn’t feel bad to work for them because with my skills I’d make the missiles more accurate and reduce the risk of killing people who weren’t the target…
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@rk I mean, they're not ENTIRELY wrong. making sure it doesn't kill random other people is definitely an improvement, but it's still gonna kill people. that's the job of the thing you're making
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@foone Who has the autonomy? The rider, the hailer, or the driver? :blobcatthinking:
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@riley legally, the driver, because otherwise the company would be in trouble for having killed people
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@foone Ada is quirky, and a bit of a bondage-and-discipliney, but it's not too bad.
Do they have citizenship restrictions or something? I think most Ada-related jobs used to be American-only, and might even require security clearances
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Hahaha! I hadn't heard much mention of ADA since NINETEEN NINETY FIVE!!
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@foone
A work-from-home job (making missiles for DoD) sounds pretty cool...
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@HoustonDog or your conscience!
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I don't work for ABC companies:
AI, Bombs, Crypto.and the annoying thing is that some of these companies know that there's people like me and are trying to hide the fact that they're hiring for ABC jobs
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@foone This but also D (Debt collectors)
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@foone There's a lot of legitimate aerospace work, though. For weird historic and/or contractual reasons, some of this might be Ada-related. I mean, consider how much Ada influences are in both Verilog and VHDL.
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@rinmari good point. I've never seen their jobs cross my job listings, but they'd definitely join the list!
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@foone Do they think that hiding that would trick people into working for them? Like you wouldn't just quit when you found out what they wanted you to work on?
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@sl1 I suspect this is a move being pulled by recruiters. they get paid by how many people they get hired, not if those people are happy and stay
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THE FBI!? in what world would I work for the FBfuckingI?
They delayed my wedding, tried to get me fired, and once mentioned my old 4chan username in a federal trial!
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heh. "AI HW design verification"
I don't want to work for an AI company but I could technically do that one.
Every time they send me a design, I confirm if there's still AI in it, and if so, I fail the verification for that design -
Another company is hiring for web dev stuff, and the "submit job application" PHP file is throwing 500 internal errors.
they DEFINITELY need a web developer
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maybe it was a mistake to embed EICAR and some actually live DOS viruses into my resume
