Companies looking to make your hiring more diverse, please don't go nagging your potential candidates to apply because "We are looking to increase the percentage of women in our company". It's incredibly insulting and degrading, and then they wonder why the women don't respond to their recruitment emails. Same apply to any other minorities I imagine.
True. On your last point, I think that actually makes pads a more significant invention over tampons and menstrual cups, because it allowed women in very conservative cultures where losing your virginity before marriage is considered taboo, to still able to go about their normal daily actives during periods. Interesting me and friends from elementary school in China were never taught to use tampons, tampons and menstrual cups didn't become a thing until very recently.
Get on a plane? Please, I'm from a plane. Being able to live in these highly developed western countries is a massive privilege. And trust me, a lot of things you take for granted these days, say birth control pills or IUD for women, are still frowned upon and not the easiest to access in China unless you're married, despite its development in the last 20 years. And even relatives who are making good earnings still wash their dishes by hand and dry their clothes with air, restaurants and food handling have little health inspection standards unless you're at a 5 star hotel. And I'm not talking about the rural parts of China, I'm talking about some of the most developed cities.
Pads and tampons. Some argue these are environmentally unfriendly and produce too much waste, but you have to think, not everyone is privileged enough to own a washing machine in their own home, particularly those in 2nd and 3rd world countries. I genuinely believed pads and tampons allowed women to be more productive in the work force and eventually lead to more equality, just hearing my mom and grandma's story of having to hand wash your own bloody (literally) period bands gives me nightmares, that was in the 70s, not that long ago.
Sounds really lame in comparison to everyone else in this thread. Added freakin’ prettier, a lot of resistance and concerns when I brought the idea up in the first place, but time has proven there had been no more BS debates every meeting about how Alex wants trailing commas and Bob doesn’t agree.
have you thought of starting solo to begin? Why do you want partners so early on? I'm luck enough to have met a few at work that I might consider working with on businesses in the future if opportunities come, but those people are honestly quite rare. There are plenty of smart engineers I've met on the jobs that have 0 desire to run a business and enjoy stability, why go the route of resistance?
I have however started a non-tech related business on the side, don't know where this would take me but can say the least because I've started this business, I managed to meet some ambitious and risk-taking individuals, when you meet them you will know their mindset is very different from many of the folks you work with in the office, these people typically dare to lose and dare to dream.
I have rarely seen people solve problems or make changes out of anger and outrage. Everyone can be angry because victimhood is easy, but only few who are able to rationalize, understand their goals and understand the resistance they'd need to go through end up taking actions to make changes.
Ignoring my personal relationships because I put too much time and focus on reaching the goals for my side business. I did reach the goals I set out to do in the beginning of 2019, it gave me hope to move forward with this project and potentially work on it full time. But I often canceled weekend plans with my boyfriend, ignored things he wanted to do, because frankly the idea of being able to build my own brand is an idea I'm so excited for and I just can't wait to prove that I can reach my goal.
I learn that relationships, just like businesses or work, the more commitment you put in, the more result will show. Also, it's important to balance work and life and make expectations clear.
I also had MCD as my first job at 15, and have a lot to appreciate.
My parents basically wanted me to experience a “crappy job” at least once (it really wasn’t that bad of a job, plus 50% employee discount which was a great deal for a teenager and McD lover), and told me that people who are versatile and are able to endure hardship will be able to make it through and pick oneself up even when life becomes difficult for whatever reason.
And another quote from my McD coworker, who was an aspiring music composer, changed my view on money, I had a problem with hoarding money (still kind of do) and he said to me “money is not the goal, it’s something to help achieve your goals”. Didn’t understand that until I was older but it eventually struck me.
Great place to be for teenagers looking for their first work experiences really.
I live in Canada and never had this problem. The only frustrating part is they take a long time to process and not ideal for people who live pay cheque to pay cheque
No, the earth doesn't need our "saving", that's a very self-righteous view to hold imo. What we are attempting is really to save our own species.
I don't know why, I've never really shared the concerns that our species must go on, just like how some people believe if they don't have children and their bloodline ends there, it's a terrible thing, but for me if that's the case then that's the case.
I honestly feel like maybe it's causing more harm to put people in anxiety and depression, and to tell our kids that we're all gonna die when they're just getting to know the world.
I feel very conflicted about this philosophy, on one hand, I do believe this is a way one can find peace. On the other hand, because I have been living this way, I feel like I never stand up for anything that i believe to be right.
I also feel like many programmers enjoy making interview questions as tricky as they can and finding every possible reason to reject other programmers they’re interviewing in order to appear superior in abilities. How can it be that every company complains they cannot hire engineers fast enough, pay 10s of thousands to outsourced recruiters and recruitment services, and yet there are many engineers, not short of decent ones, having to go through at least 5-7 interviews in order to land one offer.
The point I’m trying to get across and explain here is that there are ideas that seem obvious to one set of people, can be incredibly difficult to get across to another set of people due to what they have believed in since childhood. And the fact that I’m getting so many downvoted and people trying to debate and disapprove of my gun law comparison proves that exact point.
That’s not how propaganda works, I assume the vast majority of these students haven’t left the country until close to adulthood. I completed elementary school in China and the teaching begins in grade 1 for students to believe in communism and patriotism. When you have been raised in that belief for your entire life, changing your belief system is not as simple as “look what other people with a different view say!”. Same goes for how people in other countries have a hard time understanding the need for civilians to hold guns, and yet no matter how many logical reasoning you throw, a large portion of Americans still believe in guns.
Edit: my comment was downvoted, unsure if it’s because the comparison for gun law in the states provoked someone, but if that was the case it just goes to show how difficult it’d be for someone to change the belief system they’ve been raised with
If I could I'd upvote this 100 times, it's funny to see people thinking their side is the "one true side of the story", be it the US or China. If you haven't lived in both worlds and understand values and cultures of both, don't be so quick on your feet to think your existing beliefs are the entire truth.
interesting point you brought up, I also hate "fluffy" languages. Besides "Would it be okay..." the other one that grinds my gears the most is when you ask around for a favour people be like "I'd love to but I can't because <insert bullshit excuse>", why can't you just tell me you can't or rather, not bother responding at all, I'd honestly feel better that way. But perhaps you're right... not everyone is the same and everyone likes to be treated well.
Depends, for taxi drivers, it's a job that directly involves customer service, and many female clients may feel more safe riding alone if the driver is female. So if that's the problem they're hoping to solve by focusing on hiring female drivers then I don't think it's sexist.
But for construction and software, I don't see what this practice is trying to gain besides waving around the industry telling everyone they have diversity, when they're treating female employees as victory tokens instead of valued workers.
In general I feel the whole diversity practice recently is missing a huge point of the movement in the first place -- to not discriminate, and let everyone have a fair chance based on their abilities. How it has played out has just been discrimination in a different way. When companies do shit like this, minority groups feel their credits are being disregarded, and non-minority groups feel the other side have it easy by pulling a gender or race card, then they proceed to disregard minority group's ability when they're hired. Nobody is winning.
I've had more than one male friends that told me "You're a girl, you'll get hired even when you don't do so well at the interview", and who do you think are to blame?
Sorry to say, but even though as a woman I technically benefit from things like this, this is yet another form of sexism. I want to be hired and reached out by companies because they value my skills and experience, not because I lack a certain genital so their company can show off at some diversity reports.
If you want to bring your team to more balance in diversity, try letting more people with diverse backgrounds to do the interviews when hiring. This is one thing I don’t see nearly enough in companies, then they wonder why they don’t get any successful minority hires.
Have you worked at more than one place in your Developer career? Sometimes it could just be you don’t enjoy what you’re doing on the current job. For instance, I previously did some DevOp-at/infrastructure work and I really questioned my technical ability, but once I got back to front end development again I felt energized by my work, my self confidence went up, and I have more genuine interests in learning more about it. It could also be you just don’t enjoy the type of development you’re doing. There are many paths to go even for technical roles.
And every shitty little startup thinks they’re Google, and demand so called “unicorn” developers while hoping to pay them 60k a year. And if you don’t know exactly “Home Depot Vendor System” then in their mind you’re marked as not the developer they want, despite having experience in like 5 other super similar technology. That seriously grinds my gears, those companies deserve to not be able to hire anyone.
Sure, China in the 1800s everybody had good amounts of fun from opium, widely accepted by society, pretty much everybody did it. Wonder how that worked out for them.
So just because alcohol is bad we should encourage other substances that also have an effect on people’s ability to think clearly and have additive properties? Instead of discouraging the culture of drinking? Regardless of what westerners think of as “ridiculous” drug laws, Japan, Korea and other Asian countries with “ridiculous” drug laws do have way lower rate of drug addiction and abuse. That is no coincident.
What a joke, Google as a company (and its employees) are massive hypocrites who criticizes China for its censorship and silencing speeches and free thoughts, then they themselves silence and punish employees for not aligning with THEIR opinion and political views on things. Let's not forget the time Google fired the employee for having a different view on diversity.