In corporate context it's because that's, in theory, an effective use of resources:

If 20 teams are constantly "there is a huge risk of fire", a lot of mental energy is wasted figuring out how to stack rank those 20 and how real of a fire risk there is. If instead you wait when there is a real fire, you can get the 15 teams actually fixing that one.

In practice, you've probably noticed that the most politics-playing & winning teams are the teams which are really effective at :

1) faking fires

2) exaggerating minor fires

3) moving fast & breaking things on purpose (or at least as a nice side effect) to create more fires in their area of ownership* , and get rewarded with more visibility & headcount to fix those fires.

* As long as they have firm grip of that area... If they don't, they risk having it re-orged to another team.

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Wouldn't work at "a certain company" if such company now made all their levels secret by default of course.

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https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/king-county-courtho...

Not sure if it's still going on today.

true.

> For large companies like FAANG, I actually think they mostly fall in bucket 2

Also true most fall in the "figure it out" bucket... But here's where it gets funny: just meet in-person you say?

No, this is FAANG. You're in MTV, but the people you need to collaborate are in NYC, LAX, SEA, AUS, SFO...

So your in-person experience is you booking a room just for yourself so you can video conference all those people who also booked a room for themselves.

Because every other team is in same situation, finding a meeting room is a challenge in itself.

Take the call from your desk then?

No, this is FAANG, every building is open office layout, it'd be rude & disrespectful to your colleagues around who are busy coding.

"Exempts manufacturers or distributors of certain medical devices, motor vehicles, any power generation or storage equipment, or equipment for fueling or charging motor vehicles."

Wondering what type of farmer equipment count as "motor vehicles" here, and if tractors are counted or not.

https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2023-24/Htm/Bill%20R... :

> (Other) Motor vehicles are not the focus of the bill, but could be impacted by the bill, especially for things like touch screens in vehicles and electric vehicle chargers. The industry would appreciate an exemption to exclude motor vehicles and related devices from the scope of the bill

https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2023-24/Htm/Bill%20R...

> (Other) There are concerns regarding the definition of digital electronic equipment. A clarifying amendment to exclude digital electronic equipment in vehicle charging stations would be appreciated. New York's right to repair law had similar language.

The list of entities testifying in the "(Other)" category (versus "(In support)") is thankfully visible in these docs you only need to Ctrl+F for "(Other)".

Also interested people can probably spend time watching the videos in https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=1392&Year=2023... to learn more, such as the few minutes at 2:31:25 in https://tvw.org/video/house-appropriations-2023021401/?event...

If only there was a service where you can pay money to be driven somewhere... I heard Americans invented these smartphones with apps, Maybe they can even invent an app-based version of that paid ride service!

This one is close to what you're describing:

https://www.lihihousing.org/tinyhouses

(Consider donating!)

These tiny house villages are real tiny homes, providing privacy & dignity.

And you're right about people preferring anything over a shelter:

"Some of the people we spoke with told us that if given a choice between staying in a nearby homeless shelter or spending their nights in a tent, they will choose the tent" (https://www.krem.com/article/money/economy/boomtown-inland-n...)

A tiny house in a small-by-design village is a better solution than a tent in a large encampment or shelter.

Forget about "bad rep", it was a bad economic decision: why let go a slight underperformer (a now-known 0.8x engineer) that you hired in 2015 at pay X, if in exchange you hire a "expected normal 1.0x engineer", but at a price of 1.8*X in 2021 due to crazy escalation of SWE salaries in that period.

(Assuming you have a perfected/more picky hiring process that knows the median hire will be a 1.0x engineer)

Now in 2023, the situation is different: you can hire a "expected normal 1.0x engineer" but at pay 0.8*X (adjusted for inflation - ratios all made up)

This announcement will at least make it more fair going forward to teams that sticked to the rules and did report the days off. The teams that didn't report still get an advantage in a larger payout though.

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Orange badge is for contractors, but purple badge are for dogs: https://twitter.com/juliehubs/status/892459513432858624

Was purple used for a different badge type back then?

It's either that, or you are an animagus like Sirius Black!

Stopping in both NYC and WA state would cut you out of 16 million, so the equation becomes a bit different.

- salary bands (+ stock awards & bonus. i.e "TC" bands)

- average seniority

- title change ( I (entry level) -> II -> Senior -> Principal -> ...)

- internal ladder descriptions (someone who worked at at least 2 FAANG companies can trivially figure out what maps to what, the titles & on-paper responsibilities are pretty standardized across most FAANG)

Simply put: if you get to build your perfect house, with a nice mountain view, the neighbor west of you could build a building the size of the empire state building, and so does your neighbor east of you. Now you don't have any sunlight. The neighbor south of you could build a smelly & noisy factory, and the one north of you could build a nightclub.