My company went remote first in April 2020. Even if I left here, there’s no way in hell I’m going back to an office.

I built a kit car, painted a penguin on the side, and forgot to include the telemetry module. Oops.

I think I’ll travel somewhere else.

Answer: to give the players the illusion of fairness while I reach behind me to grab the plot gaf.

Sony lost me many years ago when they decided it was appropriate to include a PC rootkit on an audio CD. This only lends weight to that decision.

Jokes on them. They’ll get to watch a former mcse start the machine, play one specific game for a couple of hours, then reboot.

Garbage. I’m over 50 and I’m not worried.

I know for a fact I’ll be working till the day I die.

Buck Rogers would be a cool one to reboot; plus it already has the " we’re going to trash the world " backstory.

If you bow without rhythm you won’t attract the worm.

Let them. Seeya!

“duh,X” but hear me out. The signal to noise ratio on Twitter has always hovered around 50%. Ever since the upheaval, anyone with any sense has already left the platform. It’s fully expected that on any topic, the toxic responses will be louder than reason.

Not really, but since I’m not going to find any solutions here and people have it worse, I’ll leave it at that.

In America, asking for help often only results in a lighter wallet and additional related or semi-related stress. " It is what it is " is not only cheaper but offers more peace faster.

The least amount? 20k US would halve my credit card debt and give me a leg up on getting the rest paid off. 40k would give me a jump start on finally rebuilding. Given I’m in my 50s though and with the state of the world, I’m likely to be making credit card payments until the day I die.

And you’re an inflexible, unfeeling waste of cells. I hope for your sake you never have to deal with chronic health issues. Somehow, I don’t think you’ll be able to handle it.

Could be worse. They could have picked Orlando.

How about this - your position is that a chemical burn from concrete cannot reach third degree? That it doesn’t happen fast enough to cause that damage?

Let me use your vernacular.

Bullshit. (Warning: NSFW)

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I agree, see my other reply on this post. Assessments ARE sometimes necessary, however. In my field, we get a lot of self-taught software developers. I’ve had times where I think the candidate can do the job but can’t quite put a pin in it - but the team needs a warm seat. That’s when I pull out something stupid like FizzBuzz or a palindrome detector and ask them to pair program it with me, in the time span of the interview. If I have a choice, nobody will ever see a take-home assessment from me. I hated them when I was a junior, what kind of person would I be if I handed them out?

If you have a coherent rebuttal, I’m happy to listen. If not, Johns Hopkins has a good page on the subject.

Speaking as both a software developer and a sometime hiring manager or hiring consultant: Yes absolutely.

As a developer, if you give me something to " take home ", I expect to be paid an hourly rate for it. It doesn’t really matter if the work is going to be used thereafter or if it’s throw away. The employer gets valuable information, and I’ve spent time focused on their project to the exclusion of all else.

As a hiring manager or consultant, if I can’t get a handle on your skill set sufficient to justify the risk of a 90-day trial relationship (pretty common in the state I live in, here in the United States) within a one hour conversation, then I’ve done something wrong. Interviews I’ve led or otherwise been a part of don’t tend to last more than 15 or 20 minutes unless we really hit it off and start talking about 3d printing or something.

Note that everything I’m talking about refers to technical interviews. I don’t do the HR stuff.