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Cake day: June 1st, 2023

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  • Edit: I get the joke now. Advice stands though!

    As someone who works with recruiters literally every day, that is absolutely bullshit. It is 100% normal and expected to discuss compensation.

    There are some no-nos, like don’t just lie to them blatantly about your comp or job experience. That’s kinda shitty - especially if you get caught and then double down on an obvious lie. What are they supposed to do with that? Feel free to embellish a bit, but if you get caught in a lie it will sour negotiations (for understandable reasons)

    It’s fine to withhold info, of course, but they may be able to give you MORE money if you can give them details of your competing offer, etc. Or your current compensation IF you know it’s already competitive/high - if you’re underpaid or are unsure or going in for a higher level job, better to let them guess.

    You can also hold off on disclosing anything about your pay (actual or desired) until later on once you’ve passed the interviews, but also it sucks to invest the time and stress of interviews only to find out they won’t pay you what you need for the job. But negotiations will be anchored to your stated compensation (actual or expected)

    Negotiating in good faith to get the best deal you can is not and should not be looked negatively on by any serious employer. If anything, they see you negotiating as a signal that you are confident in the value of your labor/skills









  • Well sure. CEOs’ main job is to coordinate the functions of major business units with the wishes of shareholders/the board of directors. Ultimately they’re a middleman on the hook for the results of the business without actual direct control of day to day operations.

    Effectively that means they give broad goals and direction to named execs, who translate those goals into actions for their organizations, that middle managers direct their teams to achieve. Then middle managers report success/failure to named execs, who report back to the CEO who (in conjunction with the other named execs) reports success/failure to shareholders & the board along with financial results.

    The execs all are basically on the hook for the results of the decisions made by those below them, but they only decide the broad strokes of the actions of the business.

    LLMs could do most of that. The only problem is they can’t really make decisions properly. But they could pretty easily turn what is said by the board & shareholders into goals for others to enact - and maybe determine if actions taken by the business support the goals to some degree.

    That is like 80% of the job of a CEO.



  • hand gestures, trump voice It’s called ephuba… epheeba… ephebiolphilia, folks, look it up. These girls. Women. Beautiful women, because you know, I’m only attracted to beautiful. I ran the miss USA pagent for years, you know that? I’m very proud of it. They call me up sometimes and say, “Mr. Trump, the evil, socialist communist left says beauty pagents are wrong and we have to give awards to ugly ladies with nose rings. Please come back”. I have to tell them I’m just too busy saving America. But these women aren’t kids. They’re smart, intelligent ladies. The left hates beautiful women. They say “Donald is robbing the cradle he’s a pedophile”. That’s fake news. Fake. News. Children don’t have… well you know just look at these girls. They’re very well-endowed, these ladies and I won’t bow down to the evil communists. They’re the pedophiles folks. Why doesn’t anyone look into sleepy Joe sniffing all those girls’ hair - it’s creepy. But I’m attracted to beautiful. All the most beautiful things… you’ve seen my new bathroom, right? It’s the greatest bathroom in the history of indoor plumbing… Kim told me that on the phone yesterday. He said he could see it through the window in pictures.


  • Compliance does need to be considered. The company I work for is trying extremely hard to comply, but because of complexities and ambiguities in the law, it is difficult to find out how to comply. I don’t know all the details, but I know legal, compliance, and the data engineering teams spend a lot of time figuring out how to be compliant and there aren’t always clear answers.

    That said, the solution is not to roll back protections but to be very explicit about how to comply.