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   Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Sep-2024 09:37:14 JST Bread up, Bro

   • weaf:jv::nv:
   I never thought I would see Intel panicking
   
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     petra (petra@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 05:13:34 JST petra

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     @sickburnbro @weaf It sickens me. I'm older. I've worked at old school companies approaching a century in operation. They had internal schools that after 7 or so years you were allowed to attend and took 18 months to go through. X-company University they were called. It was not a lark. You had to work at the company 7 years to even be invited to attend. And it was by selection. You didn't apply. They picked you. That 7 years prior was you proving you were worth it for the company to invest in you. Everyone took it seriously.
     
     Now, nothing is serious. Nothing at all.
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     Boina Roja Enthusiast Karl Dahl (karldahl@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 05:13:34 JST Boina Roja Enthusiast Karl Dahl

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     • petra
     @petra @sickburnbro @weaf A friend of mine spent a decade as a working (impoverished) musician, then went overseas and taught English and music in shitholes for most of another decade. When he was coming back to the US and trying to figure out what he'd do for a living - how he could leverage his experience for a real job - he spoke with his much older brother, which caused him to understand why his entire family was so delusional about the current economic system
     
     His (much older) brother was a graduate of the USAF Academy, spent either six or eight years in the AF, then left for a gig in a large consulting company. This was some time in the late 90s. His brother was plugged into a system where the company evaluated him in various ways and then trained him in a pretty robust career development program, where he had mentors and the like. Just like the Air Force
     
     This brother assumed that every employer did this and that someone out there would see his little bro for the stand-out guy he was and plug him into the same sort of system. Little bro asked him to peruse his company for openings for such programs and, wouldn't you know it, they didn't work that way anymore. This was news to big bro, who was scandalized. "No wonder attitudes among our new employees are so different," he said
     
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