[-] Wisely@lemmy.world 35 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Boss forced everyone to come into work because she was tired of using tech. Wanted people to come in and eat ice cream while brainstorming with post it notes. Said anyone not there is fired.

Well she didn't put any effort into planning it, and it was very inefficient so everyone ended up using their computers like they had been doing at home. Just with more distractions and needing to commute. Not much work got done so everyone needed to work from home that night after hours to meet deadlines.

Well it turns out the guy passing out icecream was also passing out covid. Every single person on the team got sick. None of the projects were completed by the deadlines and the entire department was shut down. Everyone lost their jobs.

The boss herself is still unemployed over a year later because she is now disabled with long covid. Has a heart problem from it where she can pass out at random times. Can no longer taste ice cream.

[-] Wisely@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Sadly a lot of that isn't necessarily about ability to work, but ability to get through a job interview.

The whole interview process is going to weed out the candidates who aren't as sociable, outgoing, charismatic, etc. They are going to look at body language and eye contact while doing small talk. A lot of soft skills like that are more important to pass a job interview than actual technical knowledge. Even when the job has no customer facing requirements.

They also tend to not have the connections that get your foot in the door.

It's bias in an interview process that isn't designed with autism in mind. Many who have high IQ with attention to detail, technical skills and are hard workers are still unable to get a job offer because they come off as disinterested or awkward.

[-] Wisely@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

Wow crazy that so many people use those social media platforms. I have never used any of them.

[-] Wisely@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

So kind of like K Mart?

[-] Wisely@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I have used Kagi for a few weeks now after hearing about it on Lemmy.

At first I wasn't that impressed for the price. It is really growing on me the more I use it though. Where it really shines is the customizations. Once you rank up and down to your preferences the results are way better than anywhere else.

One way they rank results is based on how much tracking a website has. You can also see the number of trackers, check the archive or do an ai summary of it without even visiting the website. You find a lot of high quality nonprofit information with the commercial high tracking websites filtered out.

I also made custom redirects for sites like reddit and quora for privacy frontends.

I find myself actually using bangs now that I can customize them. You can also add other search engines so they are one click away if you want a second opinion. Lenses are great, I made some custom ones to search the top 10 websites for forums, tech support, news, etc.

When I don't feel like sifting through a bunch of results the ai summarizes the results. When it doesn't come up with a good summary it's because the results don't have the answer and you saved a bunch of time.

The free trial wasn't enough time for me to decide if I liked it. I am glad I paid for the $10 plan. However, I seem to do about 3,000 searches a month. I was able to upgrade to unlimited at a prorated amount. $25 is a lot per month but it is saving me a lot of time and helping me to find better results so I find it worth it.

[-] Wisely@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just be yourself also is good advice. Not that it will always be successful in advancing the relationship. But it will be less stressful for you and prevent you from wasting years of your life with someone who only likes you for your fake personality.

If you have a horrible personality work on that so just being yourself doesn't mean being an asshole. Even then though at least anyone getting into the relationship will know that ahead of time and not after the divorce.

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