That all sounds like hard work. Isn't it easier to just do the time honored thing and bribe the boss, find out something they wouldn't want disclosed publicly, or sleep with them if the appropriate gender?
Seems to me blackmail would be more successful if you catch them sleeping with the inappropriate gender. But even that's losing its shock value.
Again, what sort of fucktard doesn't know that Canada is not part of the United States? Different countries, different laws, or did you miss the very first word in the summary - "Canadian"?
Maybe just grab your emails and give them to all your competitors in other eastern european countries, along with your source code, and let them undercut you. Or, after stealing the source, introduce a few "fixes." Some ransomware that demands they pay you in bitcoins. You'd sure look guilty. Clone your crap and post it on github. I'm sure I can come up with better, but these are just "top of the head"...
And of course, from your Ukraine office to your home - and tons of KP on your home machine, and a tip to the fuzz. After all, if you're part of the problem with the whole "race to the bottom", you kind of deserve it.
It's a problem. "Work for me for free - it's experience on your résumé" If the work you do is good enough for them, then they should damn well pay for it. You don't see suckers lining up to clean toilets for free because "the experience will look good on your résumé". How is working for free so that someone else can profit not equally shitty?
They had running water, flush toilets (the story about Thomas Crapper inventing the flush toilet was an April Fools column in Scientific American that got out of hand), and central heating.
Regarding supporting a family on a high school diploma, that will require a change in consumer behavior not corporate hiring behavior.
That high school drop-out (never mind diploma) drives a bus, makes +$100k with overtime, has a union, can't be fired unless he kills or rapes someone, if his boss gets on his case he can stop working and file a grievance and get full pay while not working, has full benefits, and when his job finally is automated away, will have a great pension.
As a software developer, you are stupid enough to be paid to train your replacements because you mistakenly believe that if you don't they can withhold your last paycheck, and you can't get your collective brains together to say "not going to happen", turn everything off, and walk. No wonder there are so many Anonymous Cowards here. How many of you have ever belonged to a union? Or ever tried to organize one? "Oh noes, we don't need a union..."
You will one day, but by then it will be too late. Compared to that high-school drop-out, you're not so smart after all...
If I had to do it over again, knowing what I know, I'd have driven a bus instead. Less stress, better benefits...
So how is a mechanical engineer (the guy in the article) supposed to do the same as you - be on their second decade of experience by the time they graduate? Build a few bridges? Stress-test a jet turbine to destruction? Blow up things? Dig up sections of street at random so they can graph traffic volume vs deterioration of the substrate?
Not being able to see how different fields might actually BE different in practice is one of the reasons the software industry is totally fucked up. It attracts people who are clueless in the greater scheme of things.
Why are there two many candidates? Maybe because there are fewer workers required to do a job thanks to increased productivity, automation, etc., than in the past. So the population increases, but the number of workers doesn't increase in lock-step. And now that we're in the process of eliminating whole categories of jobs, it's going to get worse.
And they're supposed to do this while working to avoid accumulating killer loads of debt? Bullshit. A student with no debt and a couple of years of real-world work experience (not some crappy internship or co-op) while in school is more well-rounded, and you know they can function in a real work environment. If it takes them a year or two more because they're paying as they go, it's still far better than having a bunch of debt and no work experience.
I know exactly what a co-op is. Had a bunch of them "working" at one of my last jobs - they were unpaid, and they were still over-priced. Same as almost 20 years prior, in 1995.
Co-ops are profit centers for schools. They get to charge you tuition for the semester without having to supply classrooms, teachers, etc on a daily basis. Total rip-off.
So when everyone is zigging, zag. Now that everyone is on to the trick of putting $5k less, put $20k more (gotta account for inflation). It will get their attention. Maybe get you a second look. It might work, and if it doesn't you didn't lose anything anyway.
So your advice to a 22 year old fresh STEM grad in Canada is to be Germany?
Well, if they were, they would have two advantages - (1) lower student debt since tuition is free, and (2) no Trumplestiltskin for a next-door neighbor.
Specialist: Knowing more and more about less and less until you know everything there is to know about sweet f*ck all. These people are useless when trying to work in the greater scheme of things - their ideas make sense to them, but they're off in a world of their own. You need balance.
The guy is a mechanical engineer. What sort of "open source projects" do you want him to participate in? What sort of side projects? (Hint - bending metal is more expensive than sitting at a keyboard and typing code).
Sure, if he had bought a machine shop full of cnc tools, a few 3d printers, a forge, etc., but your statement that he should have contributed to open source projects makes about as much sense as saying a biologist should be experimenting with bio-hazards in their mom's basement.
Why should someone stay for team-building exercises after hours? If the company thinks it can benefit from it, then let the company pay for the time. "Team-building" exercises are bs anyway. You really want to build a team, have the occasional meeting over lunch at the local pub. Really want to find the problems? Same thing. After a few drinks, people will say what they really think.
The "taxpayer-funded lifestyle" is the same amount that anone on welfare would receive. The stories about people getting 10x as much as an old age pensioner are lies.
You obviously haven't tried it. It works even with the talking heads on TV yakking away on the news. It's easier than using the on-screen keyboard and gets rid of some of those auto-correct errors. Bunch of luddites, it's not 2010 any more.
Have you actually tried it recently? Oh, of course not. I just used it to text one of my sisters because it's quicker than using the on-screen keyboard, and I'm having left-over home-made spareribs for breakfast before heading out into the -18 cold.
So they should go learn a trade, like long-distance trucking. Except those jobs are going to be automated out of existence over the next decade.
Just like lots of other jobs. Accounting (already lots of it off-shored, and some replaced by AI), coding (already greatly off-shored), reading radiograms (also already much of it off-shored), medical billing (already lots of it off-shored), legal research (already much of it off-shored, and much of it being done by AI)...
There's probably an app to help you choose which trades to go into, but it's probably also been off-shored. And it's as simple as 1-2-3:
1. Move to Mumbai or Hyalabad
2. Throw up from the stench of human shit everywhere
3. F*ck it! You lose.
It's perfectly legal for students under 16 to work after school or on weekends. What sort of fucktard are you to think otherwise?
Read the story. People who have been teaching university for 19 years are still on 4-month contract gigs - 19 years of having to have their teaching contract renewed for another 4 months. This is not an "entitled millennials" problem. And I haven't encountered much in the way of the so-called "entitled millennials" - just older assholes with an "I got mine Jack so up yours" attitude, who tell themselves that somehow they are better, or special, forgetting that if the next generation can't afford to buy a home, your home is worth shit as a retirement nest egg.
And if everyone did that, would everyone have a job? Your hard work and study doesn't miraculously create a new job opening where none existed before. There are too few jobs, too many candidates.
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That all sounds like hard work. Isn't it easier to just do the time honored thing and bribe the boss, find out something they wouldn't want disclosed publicly, or sleep with them if the appropriate gender?
Seems to me blackmail would be more successful if you catch them sleeping with the inappropriate gender. But even that's losing its shock value.
There are already people on their old age pensions who are garnisheed for school debts from decades ago. It's not going to get better.
Again, what sort of fucktard doesn't know that Canada is not part of the United States? Different countries, different laws, or did you miss the very first word in the summary - "Canadian"?
And of course, from your Ukraine office to your home - and tons of KP on your home machine, and a tip to the fuzz. After all, if you're part of the problem with the whole "race to the bottom", you kind of deserve it.
It's a problem. "Work for me for free - it's experience on your résumé" If the work you do is good enough for them, then they should damn well pay for it. You don't see suckers lining up to clean toilets for free because "the experience will look good on your résumé". How is working for free so that someone else can profit not equally shitty?
They had running water, flush toilets (the story about Thomas Crapper inventing the flush toilet was an April Fools column in Scientific American that got out of hand), and central heating.
Regarding supporting a family on a high school diploma, that will require a change in consumer behavior not corporate hiring behavior.
That high school drop-out (never mind diploma) drives a bus, makes +$100k with overtime, has a union, can't be fired unless he kills or rapes someone, if his boss gets on his case he can stop working and file a grievance and get full pay while not working, has full benefits, and when his job finally is automated away, will have a great pension.
As a software developer, you are stupid enough to be paid to train your replacements because you mistakenly believe that if you don't they can withhold your last paycheck, and you can't get your collective brains together to say "not going to happen", turn everything off, and walk. No wonder there are so many Anonymous Cowards here. How many of you have ever belonged to a union? Or ever tried to organize one? "Oh noes, we don't need a union ..."
You will one day, but by then it will be too late. Compared to that high-school drop-out, you're not so smart after all ...
If I had to do it over again, knowing what I know, I'd have driven a bus instead. Less stress, better benefits ...
So how is a mechanical engineer (the guy in the article) supposed to do the same as you - be on their second decade of experience by the time they graduate? Build a few bridges? Stress-test a jet turbine to destruction? Blow up things? Dig up sections of street at random so they can graph traffic volume vs deterioration of the substrate?
Not being able to see how different fields might actually BE different in practice is one of the reasons the software industry is totally fucked up. It attracts people who are clueless in the greater scheme of things.
Why are there two many candidates? Maybe because there are fewer workers required to do a job thanks to increased productivity, automation, etc., than in the past. So the population increases, but the number of workers doesn't increase in lock-step. And now that we're in the process of eliminating whole categories of jobs, it's going to get worse.
And they're supposed to do this while working to avoid accumulating killer loads of debt? Bullshit. A student with no debt and a couple of years of real-world work experience (not some crappy internship or co-op) while in school is more well-rounded, and you know they can function in a real work environment. If it takes them a year or two more because they're paying as they go, it's still far better than having a bunch of debt and no work experience.
I know exactly what a co-op is. Had a bunch of them "working" at one of my last jobs - they were unpaid, and they were still over-priced. Same as almost 20 years prior, in 1995.
Co-ops are profit centers for schools. They get to charge you tuition for the semester without having to supply classrooms, teachers, etc on a daily basis. Total rip-off.
So when everyone is zigging, zag. Now that everyone is on to the trick of putting $5k less, put $20k more (gotta account for inflation). It will get their attention. Maybe get you a second look. It might work, and if it doesn't you didn't lose anything anyway.
So your advice to a 22 year old fresh STEM grad in Canada is to be Germany?
Well, if they were, they would have two advantages - (1) lower student debt since tuition is free, and (2) no Trumplestiltskin for a next-door neighbor.
Specialist: Knowing more and more about less and less until you know everything there is to know about sweet f*ck all. These people are useless when trying to work in the greater scheme of things - their ideas make sense to them, but they're off in a world of their own. You need balance.
The guy is a mechanical engineer. What sort of "open source projects" do you want him to participate in? What sort of side projects? (Hint - bending metal is more expensive than sitting at a keyboard and typing code).
Sure, if he had bought a machine shop full of cnc tools, a few 3d printers, a forge, etc., but your statement that he should have contributed to open source projects makes about as much sense as saying a biologist should be experimenting with bio-hazards in their mom's basement.
Why should someone stay for team-building exercises after hours? If the company thinks it can benefit from it, then let the company pay for the time. "Team-building" exercises are bs anyway. You really want to build a team, have the occasional meeting over lunch at the local pub. Really want to find the problems? Same thing. After a few drinks, people will say what they really think.
The "taxpayer-funded lifestyle" is the same amount that anone on welfare would receive. The stories about people getting 10x as much as an old age pensioner are lies.
Toronto is far from a "rust-belt" city. The Economist ranked it as the #1 place to live in the entire world in 2015.
You obviously haven't tried it. It works even with the talking heads on TV yakking away on the news. It's easier than using the on-screen keyboard and gets rid of some of those auto-correct errors. Bunch of luddites, it's not 2010 any more.
Have you actually tried it recently? Oh, of course not. I just used it to text one of my sisters because it's quicker than using the on-screen keyboard, and I'm having left-over home-made spareribs for breakfast before heading out into the -18 cold.
you can use any keyboard via the mini usb connector.
So they should go learn a trade, like long-distance trucking. Except those jobs are going to be automated out of existence over the next decade.
Just like lots of other jobs. Accounting (already lots of it off-shored, and some replaced by AI), coding (already greatly off-shored), reading radiograms (also already much of it off-shored), medical billing (already lots of it off-shored), legal research (already much of it off-shored, and much of it being done by AI) ...
There's probably an app to help you choose which trades to go into, but it's probably also been off-shored. And it's as simple as 1-2-3:
1. Move to Mumbai or Hyalabad
2. Throw up from the stench of human shit everywhere
3. F*ck it! You lose.
It's perfectly legal for students under 16 to work after school or on weekends. What sort of fucktard are you to think otherwise?
Read the story. People who have been teaching university for 19 years are still on 4-month contract gigs - 19 years of having to have their teaching contract renewed for another 4 months. This is not an "entitled millennials" problem. And I haven't encountered much in the way of the so-called "entitled millennials" - just older assholes with an "I got mine Jack so up yours" attitude, who tell themselves that somehow they are better, or special, forgetting that if the next generation can't afford to buy a home, your home is worth shit as a retirement nest egg.
So maybe it's time for Canadians to retaliate by hacking your Ukrainian offices. After all, turnabout is fair play.
And if everyone did that, would everyone have a job? Your hard work and study doesn't miraculously create a new job opening where none existed before. There are too few jobs, too many candidates.