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I don't know if they gave a reason for leaving. My friend found out after they got the refund.

One of my friends actually paid upfront for a short-term semi-private accommodation. They did not stay for the whole time, asked for a refund of the remaining balance and left.

My friend has been mad because they took the money.

I'm just an acquaintance. I don't know if the family got power of attorney.

A friend's acquintance has been mentally ill for the last 10 years. They lost their spouse, their job, their car ... everything! They've been gradually increasingly incoherent in their speech over time. They've been resisting treatments.

We are not doctors and won't armchair diagnose them, but we figured out something was wrong. We called a hotline for mental health services trying to see how non-family could help. The counsellor from the hotline said that the best we could do was to convince them that they had to seek help. Since they're an adult, we should not put them in a mental health facility forcefully.

The family had put them in a mental health facility but they escaped. They still thought that they did nothing wrong.

We ran out of ideas on how to help them. They've been living on the streets. We feel helpless.

I am from Canada (not Alberta) and am waiting for an in-depth analysis of how this breach works.

The quotes from the CEO makes the development team has not carry out the basis of well-known security practices. The CEO denied the issue but the app has been offline. Playing catch up is too late. Security is something you stay ahead of the game continuously.

And also Focals by North

I'd like to add "working in antiquated/propriety languages and infrastructure" in the list.

As a new grad desperate for getting paid, I took a job working for a software built on a language no one uses outside of the company. Never got a promotion. Everyone was 10+ veteran. The processes was bureaucratic and inefficient but everyone was ok with it.

After realizing I was paid 60% of market rate, I wanted to get out but it was hard. I thought about software architecture built when I was born. I was out-of-touch about new trends. LeetCode-like questions were my saviour because it's a way to break into the job interview process. Getting a new job away from antiquated tech was one of my best day in my career!

I am a Hong Kong immigrant in Canada. I spent a part of my childhood in HK and the rest of my time in Canada.

There was an era that the parents insisted on communicating with their kids in English so that their kids didn't fall behind in school. Speaking not in English was a taboo at school: Kids raised their eyebrows. Some kids were punished for not speaking in English. (Circa 70s and 80s English speaking Canada)

Now we realized the attitude has been damaging. I've met some adults cannot hold deeper conversation with their parents just like what the author said. In addition, these adults may not know or understand culture subtitles why some trivial matters (such as number 4) being inappropriate.

My high school was great in celebrating all world cultures and the indigenous people. In addition, some of my teachers in Canada spoke other languages at home and understood well how kids would not fall behind by speaking their native tongue at home. Nowadays, many parents would like to send their kids to French immersion school so that the kids can appreciate working in other languages.

I am lucky enough to have enough vocabulary in Cantonese to understand grown-up topics with my parents. Occasionally, I helped the Canadian born Chinese to order proper food in restaurants. They thanked me profusely. I also have early elementary school level Mandarin so I can navigate in many Chinatowns around the world without a hitch. During some occasion, I feel like I have an adult body but think like a kid since I never lived as an adult in any predominantly Chinese speaking (Cantonese or Mandarin) nations.

Well said. There are substantial business related activities related to the product/hobby that you may not love to do.

I used to worked part-time in a ballet school. My boss and her business partner are highly trained ballet dancers. On top of teaching the classes, they do marketing, bookkeeping, dealing with difficult students/parents, hiring and cleaning in the very early days of the school. After the business took off, my boss hired administrative help so that she could take on more students.

Very good food, too. The downside of Taiwan is to learn the local language.

Non-Pole here. Visited Poland in the past 10 years. Beautiful countryside for sure. Cities and roads were clean. Decent food.

During my last visit, wireless phone service was super in the major cities...even better than Canada's.

As a tourist, Poland was a pretty big bang on my money: Equivalent item from the west for 1/3 of the cost while enjoying modern amenities. But I can see non Polish speakers would have difficulties living there in the longer term. During my trips, I insisted on travelling with at least one native Polish speaker.

Also in Canada as well. I have been regularly courted by recruiters from both US (remote) and Canada.

I have started a new job a few months ago. My now former manager was trying to come up with a counter offer, but my new offer is too far off from my old compensation package.

I grew up in the part of Asia that PAL was the standard. Kids beg their parents to buy an NTSC TV so that they can play Nintendo (Japanese version: the red and white one).

I feel old.

Well, someone has tried "screen in glasses".

I've tried the glasses from North, which has been bought by Google a few years ago. The projection of the screen on the lens looks cool, but the glasses had no traction in the market and the company tried to charge me C$1100+ for a pair of prescription smart glasses.

I'd take the article with a grain of salt, too, like many others replying to this thread. Even with a grain of salt, the topic sounds like stack ranking being re-packaged: There is a metric to let go of a certain percentage of employees per quarter or year.

When I worked for a US company in Canada, the upper management was open the fact that stack ranking was used. They said the bottom 2% should be gone every year. There would be a quarter every once a while that looks pretty "bleak". Then the office was allocated with "less" budget. At this point the managers picked a few people across different departments to fire. In a larger office, it's not a difficult task. The ones who regularly stole stationary for personal use, conduct side business during regular business hours or has outdated behaviours were picked. At the beginning of the next quarter, the job postings for those openings went up to the company's career page.

From the grapevine, over half of those people who were let go in this situation had difficulties finding comparable employment. The percentage sounds like a backdoor to get rid of the people who got hired because of some false positives. For that particular site of the company, these people would be let go even without stack ranking formally stated explicitly.

I've encountered a totally different school of thought on job security in the early 2000s after the fall of the dot com era. Many jobs were cut. "Outsourcing" became a dirty word.

My good friend got a year-long internship in banking industry in early 2000s. When I asked him how the real world worked, he was taught to hoard as much knowledge as he possibly could and not share it. Sharing knowledge means someone could do his exact job. He had no desire to learn new skills. He worked with folks who had been with the organization for 20+ years and that's how the workplace worked. He and his colleagues were so afraid that their job would be outsourced.

We are not friends anymore. I bet he still works for the same organization. He may not be wrong about hoarding the knowledge and working in a slower pace industry: Doing so could be an easy ticket to gain job security for life.

I purposely put very little info on LinkedIn to look like a desirable employee and to avoid clueless people from looking for career advice from me.

IBM was so behind the times not only on technology. I'm glad that you found a place without any gimmicks.

I'm in Canada. In the job applications, we don't even have a section to specify ethnicity. When I applied for American companies, I felt a slight cringe when I saw the optional form asking me for my ethnicity, sexual orientation or veteran status for statistical purposes.

There's another anime about emerging animators: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakuman

The same can be say about other entertainment industry: A few on the top make the majority of the revenue. Many people are attracted by the prospects to make it to the top. Despite the low pay, they are driven by sheet passion. They are often burnt out and forgotten.

Same kind of cheating is present in Canadian public schools, too. This is a case that has been exposed. Just to give some context, the French language schools in an English speaking area in Canada is highly desirable by parents. Only the students who are strong academically attend those schools.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/eqao-cambr...

I feel so nostalgic when I read this Beej's Guide. It's a resource that my computer science professor highly recommended back in the early 2000s. The writing is so clear and concise that it's a pleasure to read (as opposed to some dry and technical materials). It's more useful than some textbook that cost hundreds of dollars. It saved me so much time and sleepless nights to figure out how to complete my network programming assignment.

Let me give you a virtual elbow bump! You really made an impact in my academic and professional career!

> provide the students with leisure, varsity sports and regular events on the currently hot social justice topics.

It's already happening. I went to a Canadian university. The marketing material says the school wanted to give the students a "great student experience". What's great student experience? The glossy pamphlets shows varsity sports facilities, bright lecture halls and students hanging out in residences.