> nstead I'd be much more impressed to have a "see ya in the afternoon, get some sleep" culture
I've led teams for over a decade that have oncall duties. One principle we have lived by is that if you are paged outside of hours, you take off the time you need to not hold a grudge against the team/company. Some people don't need it, some people take a day off, some people sleep in, some people cash in on their next vacation. To each their own according to their needs. Seems to work well.
We also swap out oncall in real time if, say, someone gets paged a couple nights in a row.
Yup, this is important or people will burn out real quick. And when there are major incidents, as IC it's especially important to dismiss people from bridges as early as possible when I know I'm going to need them sooner rather than later the following day. Or swap with a more junior person so that the senior one is nice and fresh for when the next wave is anticipated.
I would like to understand whether there are any states that even occasionally backs the employer in non-competes for the general layperson. In my experience, courts tend to side with someone who's willing to work over employers.
This is why non-competes are a joke in the US. Courts aren't going to enforce them. Almost every state has an industry where moving between companies, or starting companies to compete with existing companies, exist (midwest auto industry, New York financial industry, Texas energy, etc).
It's great that California is so explicit. I wish other states would follow suit. But the only times I've ever seen a court uphold a non-compete is for highly (8 figures) compensated employees.
But changes in the law in 2018 weakened them considerably and made them more expensive to enforce via garden leave or alternative consideration. The only time I've had a non-compete in MA (small sample to be sure) was when EMC acquired my employer. The terms were actually fairly reasonable and didn't affect me when I left six months later.
Was going to find a place in here to comment on Together.
I remember spending $1500k on a professional license circa 1999, and still think it was the best money I've ever spent on an IDE. Incredibly powerful for large-scale systems, and made large-scale, readable-code development fast.
Baseball cards are in the same boat in terms of demand, although the prices for most are not increasing that much. At least in the last few months, and in certain areas of the country. I've gone from selling a few cards from my hall-of-famer collection per year to multiple people asking to pay for my entire collection. And people are asking whether I have football, basketball, and hockey cards. Which has literally never happened before.
Sports cards in general have gotten to the point of absurdity.
Grown men fighting each other in the aisles of Walmart trying to clear the shelves of NBA cards. The Michael Jordan PSA 10 went from $100k, to $370k to over $700k very rapidly, and has since declined back to around 300k or so. People are buying retail boxes from scalpers for like 5x, just purely on hype and FOMO.
As someone whose been into cards before the covid meltdown, this has all been wild.
Incredibly grateful for what Bezos has built. I learned more in my 6 years at Amazon that I have in my 20 other years in the industry. And Amazon gave my autistic spectrum son a chance when literally nobody else would.
Side a: 2016 US election was stolen. 2020 was fair and square.
Side b: 2020 US election was stolen. 2016 election was fair and square.
Seems that there are a small number of people who think a) both elections were stolen or b) both elections were fair and square. They are being drowned out by sides a and b.
If you fit side a or b above, you might want to some logical thinking. Pretty simple to see the two sides are simply opposite sides of the same coin, both deeped in hypocrisy.
2016 also had open violent attacks on democratic process to certify president election, remember? Riots, destruction of property in November and December 2016? Calls for electoral college voters to switch their votes. Ring a bell?
You have to pay more attention to what both sides were arguing.
In 2016, side A was arguing that the inputs to the election (voter opinions) were manipulated by foreign agents. This claim was 100% proven true by the Mueller report. Whether this actually changed the results of the election is impossible to say (I am of the opinion it was Comey's announcement 11 days before the election which tipped a close election toward Trump). But an effort was made, and that effort was for the benefit of the Trump campaign, and was explicitly supported by the Trump campaign. See: Mueller report Vol I, or Senate Intelligence Committee report on Russian interference in the 2016 United States presidential election (5 volumes).
In 2020, side B was (and still is) arguing that the output of the election (the actual vote total) was changed. This has been shown to be false by repeated recounts, audits, investigations, court cases, etc.
If you think these two scenarios are identical, look a little closer.
Hilary Clinton used the term "stolen election" throughout the last four years, including 2020. That's not an input, it's an output. People - including the media - called Trump an illegitimate President for 4 years. That's not an input, it's an output. Perhaps you should be the one paying more attention instead of getting defensive when your hypocrisy is exposed.
You can try to spin it or rationalize it all you want, both sides are behaving the same.
Literally only one side stormed the capitol during a joint session of congress in an attempt to overthrow the election, so "behaving the same" is stretched pretty far here. By pretending both sides are the same, it would appear you are the one spinning and rationalizing.
I mean, let's not forget that Donald Trump of all people called into question the results of his own win in 2016 by claiming that 3 million people voted illegally, and that people were being bussed to New Hampshire to vote against him. He even formed a commission to investigate this "fraud"! So any impressions that the vote was illegitimate were flamed by the winner himself!
Prisoner firefighters in California are volunteers that opt in and receive significantly reduced sentences for their service and often end up working for Calfire upon release.
Up From Slavery by Booker T Washington. Teaches you anything is possible despite your circumstance. Thankful my kids have read it and taken it to heart. This should be a must read for anyone IMO.
More recently, Disparities and Discrimination by Thomas Sowell was a real eye opener for me.
I've led teams for over a decade that have oncall duties. One principle we have lived by is that if you are paged outside of hours, you take off the time you need to not hold a grudge against the team/company. Some people don't need it, some people take a day off, some people sleep in, some people cash in on their next vacation. To each their own according to their needs. Seems to work well.
We also swap out oncall in real time if, say, someone gets paged a couple nights in a row.