@jalefkowit I think your contact had it in for you. How hard would it be to just say "everyone here wears jeans"?
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Remembering the time I interviewed for a job at a Leading Govtech Office, and I went back and forth on how I should dress for the interview because it was a govtech job and tech job interviews called for jeans but government job interviews still called... -
Anyone else having trouble with cloudflare on Vivaldi? I can't even load the forums, though I can see in search results that someone asked the same question there.Anyone else having trouble with cloudflare on Vivaldi? I can't even load the forums, though I can see in search results that someone asked the same question there.
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If I could offer my fellow white men just one piece of advice from my 55 years, I wouldn't, because I've learned that I know nothing.If I could offer my fellow white men just one piece of advice from my 55 years, I wouldn't, because I've learned that I know nothing.
But if they insisted, here it is: discomfort won't kill you; in fact, it's trying to teach you something.
I am talking, of course, about those times when someone with less privilege says or does something that makes you uncomfortable. Don't react: just sit with it a while, and think.
That's it. One Weird Trick for not being such a douchebag.
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Re this too-true comic from @workchronicles:I've been through this four times now, and I think the people who decide layoffs are going to happen don't care about the human costs.
And you're right about those not laid off; I've been talking to colleagues who avoided the axe, and they are having just as shitty a time of it as those of us who got the chop.
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Re this too-true comic from @workchronicles:@inthehands @acsawdey I was lucky, we lost the grant on my third (count 'em!) postdoc and I stumbled into an industry job. Turns out I like to make things, and I like being treated like a human being. (Last job, that laid me off last week, not so much. Beware the megacorps.)
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When I started applying for professional jobs, it was an email cover letter with your resume attached, and nearly always you'd get a confirmation of receipt and then at least a form letter if you didn't get an interview.When I started applying for professional jobs, it was an email cover letter with your resume attached, and nearly always you'd get a confirmation of receipt and then at least a form letter if you didn't get an interview.
Now it's a thirteen-page web form and if you don't fill out ONE field EXACTLY the way the screening software is looking for, fuck you.
I want to punch someone but I can't get to the people who need the punching.
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Well shit.Anyone need a molecular biologist? PhD + 15 years' industry experience. Expertise in HIV replication, general mol & cell bio, in vitro diagnostics, analytical and functional assay design, V&V, production, regulatory. If it involves a binding event I can build an assay for it. ELISA, MSD, ELISpot, MOPA, OPA, MNT, lateral flow. Management experience up to team of 20, familiar with cGxP and 21CFR820. I communicate clearly, work collaboratively and set clear, measurable goals.
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Well shit.Well shit. That's a kick in the nuts.
Just got laid off.
Got the summons yesterday to a 15-minute in-person meeting in an off-campus building, and was pretty sure I knew what was coming. I got 2 weeks' notice and severance, so we won't have to move into a cardboard box for a month or so.
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Hive Mind!Hive Mind! Help me out?
I want to deny Unionbuster Bezos as much of my hard-earned as possible, but I still need* to buy books, and I'd as soon shop online when I can in these days of Plague and infinite stupidity.
Where do y'all buy your books online?
*Yes, need. Argue and you eat block.