grover_hartmann

HR never does anything. They're there to get the company out of liability as someone else said it here.

This is why I support workers over capitalists.

I'll find another job. I'm very confident with my skills that I won't starve or get out of jobs.

Indeed, and I will talk about this to coworkers that have been nicer with me, those same coworkers have also been mistreated by the boss.

I'll say something about the boss during lunch break and I'll see how they respond, I'm not sure if some of the coworkers will gossip anything I said about the boss to the boss though.

How do you deal with that?

I will. Thanks.

Thanks for your advice, but with 15 years of Linux/Unix experience, I think I'm very well qualified for most positions. Thank you.

The points you make and the advice you gave me is excellent though. Thanks.

I just haven't programmed with PHP for a long time, but I know how to get work done regardless of the programming language.

Me using Linux for a very long time doesn't also mean that I can't use Windows. It comes down to having a preference for the environment I'm more used to, and that environment is GNU/Linux for me.

What for? I'm using an anonymous handle right now, and I'm not sure I'd like to reveal my identity that easily.

There's a chance he probably won't care at all, and I'm sure he knows he is being an ass.

As I mentioned, I didn't eat at all yesterday and I asked the boss if I could leave earlier to eat. He said I couldn't and that "our schedule is our schedule" so I had to be there until 6pm.

This is abuse, clear and simple.

Oh, they also mentioned I'm not allowed to eat pork (or derived) in the company because they are Jewish.

I believe this is just one of the first "not allowed" from a long list. Fucking hell.

I can't relocate, it's not that simple. I tried to relocate, but companies in other cities just don't want to give me a job, they probably think it's harder to hire me as I have yet to move to the actual city where the job is available.

So they always say "We'll get back to your whenever we make a decision, we still need to interview other candidates." so at the end of the day, they're just wasting my time and my limited resources.

I don't think I can transfer to other teams, as I'm new with this company, but it's already hellish, only after 2 days of being hired. :(

I'm not in the US.

It's not that simple when you have bills to pay and there aren't enough jobs in your local area in the first place.

Thanks.

Rails gigs are good for getting some extra income, but my experience is that they don't last, and there's no way I can live only with remote gigs.

I mean, I've been freelancing for years and living off remote work for 2 years.

But the financial stability with remote work is nowhere as good as when you have a "real job".

What I'm trying to say is that when you are working remotely, you're not really a employee, as the company can and will go away from one day to another, and what options do you have then?

I'm talking about international remote work, now partial remote work with a local company might be another story.

I don't think I'll lawyer up over this, unless something really bad starts to happen.

I know, and I think he was racist with me and others. Even some of the employees were racist towards a coworker. It really is very nasty.

The problem with finding new work is that there aren't many IT jobs over here, so I have to put this for longer until I can actually find a better job.

The problem with looking for new work is that there's not much work related to IT in my area, and I think they know this and therefore abuse us.

Moving to a larger city is more expensive and harder, therefore I'll have to put up with this for a longer time.

Thanks.

Yes, it's reasonable, but the office is not generally quiet.

They keep talking and laugh all the time.

They just pick on me because I'm an immigrant and a introvert.

Can you elaborate on this?

I agree, KVM on Linux is amazing and there's nothing that comes even close with performance IMHO.

However, my problem is that I'm stuck with Windows 7 at work, so I have to use something like VirtualBox to run Arch on it.

I'll try getting one of those SATA-over-USB converters and I'll get my SSD to the office, hopefully they'll allow me to boot over USB so I can run Arch and bypass Windows completely.

I don't think it's a mistake at all to prefer to run GNU/Linux on a OS X or Windows environment.

If they have trouble helping you just because you run a different OS then they don't sound like they're skilled enough to begin with.

And it's probably them who can't adapt rather than you.

Thanks for this reference.

Thanks for those links but they mentioned their codebase is full of legacy code.

I talked about what they use on their PHP stacks and they mentioned they don't use any frameworks at all. They use AngularJS for their front-end but on the PHP side they use pure PHP and no frameworks at all.

No.

1) Show me where are the remote jobs you're talking about. I've been looking for a long time on different sites, e.g."Who's hiring" (Hacker News), We Work Remotely, and so on.

The standard response I always get is:

- "Thanks for reply. No this is Full time only."

- "Thanks for getting in touch. Unfortunately we are looking for someone to join our London team."

- "Unfortunately, we’re not looking for remote engineers at this time."

I've got enough of this shit.

2) Because there's nothing else I can find. I don't live in SF where you have a lot of options about where to work and the toolsets you can use.

3) They allowed me to use Linux on a VM so I can use Linux. I'm just stuck with a VM for now and while that's not optimal, it's still better than nothing. I'll try booting Linux from USB and see if they allow me to do this, so I can bypass Windows completely.

4) Lots of companies don't allow this, and this is full time employment, not your cool and fancy startup in SF where they allow you to play video games in the office.

Their servers are Linux.

They develop on Windows with Sublime Text.

I understand the difference between those, what makes you think I don't?

What?

I've already got Arch Linux working on a VM and I have it on full screen now, I can't notice the difference.

It took me 10 minutes to set up Arch this way. And this was on my first day at this job.

Why should I go back to Windows?

They are using raw PHP, no Laravel or any other frameworks are involved.

I've just asked if they use Laravel here or another framework and they mentioned they don't use any frameworks at all.

Other than AngularJS, they stick to plain PHP.

I just like Linux a lot, it's not that I can't use Windows, I just don't want to.

I'm more familiar with Linux, so I'm faster with it. What's wrong about that?

Why would you think that I have a problem to adapt just because I prefer to run Linux as my development environment?

I've just noticed the Windows machine I'm supposed to be using to write code doesn't even have admin access.

So I'm limited to what is installed, I can't even install anything on this machine.

This is bullshit.

Yes, they use Windows and Sublime Text to write PHP code.