Actually, no, you know what?
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Steph (they/them)replied to Asta [AMP] last edited by
@aud I'm so angry with these fuckers I want to storm their HQ with every other queer or otherwise marginalised high school dropout who pulled their shit together later in life DESPITE the indifference and outright hostility they faced at every corner and is therefore far more resilient and interesting and capable than any mayonnaise high-school high performer this question panders to... and kick every single one of their windows in.
we've all got big stompy boots, I assume.
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"why don't more minorities and women work in tech", no one is asking, because they like that it's a "dominant ethnic and social majority" boy's club.
Canonical seriously needs to be looked into for this shit. It's riddled with bias and it wastes the time of the people who are usually more often unemployed in tech: minorities! Nothing like getting your hopes up because you have no choice but to follow the interview chain wherever it leads only to be turned down for vague reasons.
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Asta [AMP]replied to Steph (they/them) last edited by
@[email protected] ohhhhhh do I ever have big stompy boots.
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Captain Superfluousreplied to Asta [AMP] last edited by
Second, unless you're a recent graduate, they could be asking about a class you took 20, 40, etc, years ago.
Only young people need apply. Olds are not welcome.
Oops - I said the quiet part out loud again.
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Captain Superfluousreplied to Asta [AMP] last edited by
bordering on being homeless and was neglected, underfed, underclothed, and emotionally manipulated, did not graduate high school.
Ah, see - there's the problem. You didn't choose to be born into wealth and stability. You foolishly chose to have trauma and abuse and poverty instead.
I should have said before, only young people from financially/relationally stable backgrounds need apply.
No one else matters or could possibly be good at this job.
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@aud wait until you get to the test that's definitely not a dyslexia test, but also not *not* a dyslexia test.
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@[email protected] oooooooooh I DID. And you know what I did? I fucking passed it ANYWAY despite almost certainly being dyslexic. Those fuckers.
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Asta [AMP]replied to Captain Superfluous last edited by
@[email protected] you know what's funny about growing up Mormon? Is they believe that families specifically chose to be together before everyone was born, and so my mom would routinely tell us that we had picked this so we better be okay with it or whatever. haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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yes, it's me, liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦replied to Asta [AMP] last edited by
how is that not red flag for age discrimination, just for starters. the job description is for someone with more than 10-15 years in the field and they expect the applicant to have all that information about their high school years?
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@[email protected] which was half luck on my part anyway
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@[email protected] Right? And Canonical has been doing this for years. yeaaaaaars. And yet they keep doing it and everyone pretends this is fine?
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yes, it's me, liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦replied to Asta [AMP] last edited by
@aud it is fucked up and bullshit. i hate it. everything you wrote is absolutely right. they must not hire outside of their own cliques and this is just for show; to comply with the labor department.
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Asta [AMP]replied to Captain Superfluous last edited by
@[email protected] The fact that they later did indeed ask for my non-existent transcripts from over 20 years ago. Like. You just spent two months evaluating me. And now you need a piece of paper from 20 years ago to "seal the deal"... which oooooooops we didn't up sealing actually here's a vague "we're looking for someone with passion"?
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@aud ahaha, wonderful! (I retracted my application when I saw that test, and told them exactly why)
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@[email protected] GOOD FOR YOU. You saved yourself another month or two of bullshit, I guarantee that. It just gets worse from there.
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Asta [AMP]replied to yes last edited by [email protected]
@[email protected] right? Except I have no idea how this even vaguely... I know I'm not a lawyer, but my god, how do they justify asking these questions? In what world where age discrimination is illegal can they ask for documents that specifically state your age that might well be anywhere from 1 to 70 fucking plus years old? There's no way they're relevant even a couple years out of high school. Oh, yes actually! I went to HPC high school where we packaged python software for HPC environments. Good question!
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@[email protected] motherfuckers I have passion believe me. That is something I do not lack.
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@[email protected] Just in case anyone thinks I'm not telling the truth. lmao at the use of "objective". Except I'm not laughing at all.
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[email protected]replied to Asta [AMP] last edited by
@[email protected]
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Asta [AMP]replied to [email protected] last edited by
@[email protected] Ah, no, technically the reason they gave was my lack of experience in, lessee.... "... and your lack of exposure to Django, relational databases, and expertise in Python and Golang made it not a match for my teams at this time"
The "lack of expertise in Python" is especially bullshit because I passed their technical test, in Python, and said straight up I hadn't worked in Python in two years (true) and so some of the syntax was a little C-ish. My implementation was correct, but I hadn't bothered to lint it so apparently that's a "lack of exposure" (despite 10 years of doing parallel computing in Python as well as integrating CPython into other languages and exposing C style arrays as numpy arrays and writing Cython and)
Soo. And the Django thing, they were ripping it out at the time.
