binxbolling

A massive number of people are making big salaries that have risked absolutely none of their assets. Then when they suck, not only did they not risk or lose anything materially, they'll get huge severance checks.

And if you require a carrot that takes you from, say, $2M to $2.5M salary, maybe re-consider what motivates you and try to find something more intrinsic to the work & company itself.

No. Non-profits in the US can match whether it's a 401(k) or a 403(b).

Why are you only tallying NY and CA?

...and training, succession planning, workforce planning, onboarding, offboarding, retention and attrition, re-locations, HRIS management, coaching, etc.

Not sure most people really understand what HR does, just as HR arguably doesn't understand what a developer does.

Let's not delude ourselves: in the US, in public non-union orgs, everyone is there to serve the CEO.

Some people in this thread make it sound like every department is actively thwarting senior management and working counter to the company's business—except HR, who are in on the game or something. So, fuck HR, right? They couldn't possibly be one cog, along with every other cog, in a larger machine designed to extract value from workers for owners/shareholders.

You're right, author has rose-colored glasses. I almost thought it was a joke at first—2012 as the good ol' days? The internet ruined in the last three years? Come on.

It's broken for me because I uploaded copyrighted clips to YouTube in 2006 with a username. When Google took over and linked my Gmail to YouTube and got serious about copyright, they banned me. So I have the pleasure of being able, as they seem to intend, to use one Google account to navigate all their services, except for one of the most popular because of petty offenses done in the early years of social media.

No, it actually is that way. And one party has a disproportionately vested interest in maintaining that hostility.

Just to re-iterate something amazing: while this snow farm is the largest and most famous, there were many others in and around Boston. Until you see one in person, it's hard to wrap your mind around the size even while you're standing there in, say, June (for the mound farm nearest me). I don't think this seaport one will last through the summer, but I can see why some people are making that bet.

I don't understand the question marks? I am missing something? This is a reference to something or what?

For me it makes interacting with people even more inconvenient. Now instead of having a conversation with one person, I'm effectively having one with a dozen or more. So everyone's booking entire conference rooms just to talk 1:1—even if the topic is fairly benign or banal, nobody likes eavesdroppers.

Not sure I'm with you on the "responding well" part. Why blog about it before even notifying your customers? And Joe's whole post seems fairly low-key given that this was a security breach and security is their entire business.

Author should also clarify that they're referring to a very, very specific type of riding—commuter and/or casual biking in good weather (sort of mentions this last part).

The most interesting quasi-claim is buried: helmets protect your head, but cause more damage to your neck. That's an empirical claim that I doubt, but at least it's better than "I don't think I look good in a helmet."

My understanding was that almost all of that is due to the insane benefits and pension requirements placed on the USPS in 2006. Happy to be corrected if I'm offbase.

Not a culture built on miscommunication, but there are typically going to be different norms around communication.

E.g. can you approach the C-suite directly, or have to go through their assistants? Can meeting participants cut things off if it's unproductive, or is that feedback shared privately afterward? Is really vigorous (perhaps intimidating) debate an expectation, or are people more laid back about discussing ideas? To what extent can you express emotions, and which emotions? Two companies can totally be "feedback-oriented" yet drastically differ on when, how, and to whom feedback is given/received—none objectively The Right Way, just different cultures.

To me this is all culture, hard to judge pre-hire, and hard to adopt if it's really not your style.

Which is wildly successful and doesn't cost us taxpayers a dime. If our "leaders" stopped actively sabotaging the USPS, it could be doing even better.

Now where's the Zenefits rebuttal to this salvo? I think this story is really interesting on a number of levels.

Most major social or democratic change depends on illegal activity. And the powers that be almost always appeal to the almighty Rule of Law. Later generations then look back with scorn at the dutiful law abiding folk who dramatically impeded progress. To me, looking to charge & punish Snowden is simply inviting scorn from our children and grandchildren who will see with more clarity what we today cannot. Personally, I'm grateful that so many people throughout history—even people I don't generally like—have broken the law so that we all might benefit.

To steal someone else's metaphor, try thinking of Twitter as a river. If you try to bottle it up or consume it all you'll drown. If, on the other hand, you dip in for a swim as you please, you might find it all bit more manageable. As the rush of tweets flows by you, just check out some, then turn your phone off and carry on. When you load it again, don't feel you have to go back and "catch up" or give it the constant attention you mentioned.

YMMV, but I also think the emphasis on "conversations" is a bit misleading. Lots of people do have conversations on there, but I personally love it for breaking news, link-sharing, jokes, and photos. If your frame of reference is a forum with posts, or an article's comments, or a real-life conversation... you're going to have a bad time.

Just curious, but what ATS are you using that makes sending 50 canned replies tedious?

Exactly! And modern HR tech makes rejection en masse so ridiculously easy. So if your company has an ATS that doesn't make it ridiculously easy to reject en masse with a boilerplate message, then you badly need to upgrade your ATS.

(LEGO even sent me a nicely formatted, well-branded letter within 7 business days despite not even making it to the phone screen stage.)

Wondering the same thing... Really bizarre, unfortunate stories coming out of SpaceX.

Creativity, intelligence, and/or Node expertise are almost assuredly necessary, but not sufficient, conditions for employment there.

I would personally prefer this stay fairly loose and only exclude recruiters/middlemen who have no relationship to the hiring company. These are the people blowing up my phone and inbox based on one random keyword from a resume or profile.

On the other hand, an in-house recruiter, an outside recruiter contracted by the company, the actual hiring manager, just a peer or colleague, the company's receptionist... I think all these should be allowed.

If we're going to cut one more cohort from the above paragraph, cut the 3rd party recruiters. However, excluding all talent acquisition teams and/or other co-workers within the company seems unnecessarily restrictive.

"They had some issues understanding basic system administration, data modeling, basic algorithms, web architecture, and systems modeling."

Can you expand on this a bit? As in, what kinds of things within those areas were they not getting or completely ignorant of?

Job postings and job pages can reinforce/hint at this age bias as well. Since they can't outright discriminate, over time I've gotten a lot better at reading between the lines to see if the company has any room for people over 30.

The list is very long. HR applications across the board are generally very expensive, so you'll easily hit six figures for a business with just hundreds, not thousands, of employees.

This is why the exciting new breed of start-ups in this space (payroll, ATS, HRIS, etc) are making a killing—amazing profit margins, even when you dramatically undercut the established players.

Are there similar job boards for international relocation? E.g. companies that will sponsor your visa at minimum, and maybe even help pay for the move.

> I built an app that sends me an SMS asking me how I am feeling and why and logs the response for later analysis.

Please share if possible! Sounds great.

To me he comes off less as a nut job and more as a cranky 78-year-old who's being interviewed by a media outlet that's been attacking him pretty hard.