There were shadowy conspiracists lurking in the dark alleys of Washington, and hiding from the glaring sun in the High Desert of California, but they were laughably easy prey when the Martian lizard people, the subterranean Vril-empowered mole-men, and the globalist pedophile Commies did show up.

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  • superkret@feddit.orgtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Question about UK remote job interview dress attire.
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    10 hours ago

    Find the people you’re interviewing with, or others in a similar role with that employer, on LinkedIn or a company website, and dress the way they do in those photos.

    Alternatively, dress the way you’d want to dress at work when an executive or a customer walks in.
    If you are then over- or underdressed at the interview, it’s a sign that the employer isn’t a good fit anyway (cause dress code represents culture).

    In my professional experience, even a tie is overdressed nowadays, unless you’re applying at a bank, insurance company, law firm or similar.
    (I’ve worked with several hundred companies of varying sizes and in different sectors as IT consultant)
    And in my personal opinion, a tie without a suit jacket never looks good anyway.

    For a creative role, I’d go with a pastel-colored, neatly ironed button-down shirt.

  • superkret@feddit.orgtoMemes@lemmy.ml•Working weak
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    1 day ago

    Last time I applied, I filtered out anyone requiring 40h/week.
    I now work 35h/week, with 42 days PTO I can (actually, have to) take.
    Pay is for a full time position and supports my wife and me comfortably.
    Flexibility is given, I just (at 8pm) told my team leader I won’t be coming in tomorrow.
    My resumé isn’t exactly an HR department’s dream, I got a BSc in Ecology when I was 31.

    I guess what I’m trying to say is, what you’re describing isn’t normal. And it shouldn’t, and doesn’t have to be, either.

  • superkret@feddit.orgtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•It has been two years since the release of ChatGPT. How has it impacted your work or personal life? What changes have you experienced, and do you see it as a positive or negative influence
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    1 day ago

    It’s a neat tool for very specific language-related tasks.
    For example, it can translate a poem so that the translation still rhymes.
    Its main strength is not its ability to write, but to read. It’s the first time in human history where you can pose any question to a computer in human language, and expect to get a meaningful reply.
    As long as that question isn’t asking for facts or knowledge.
    It’s also useful for “tip of my tongue” queries, where the right Google search term is exactly what you’re missing.

    All of its output is only usable and useful if you already know the facts about what you’re asking, and can double-check for hallucinations yourself.

    However, on a societal scale, it’s a catastrophy on par with nuclear war.
    It will consume arbitrary amounts of energy, right at the most crucial time when combatting climate change might still have been possible.
    And it floods everyone’s minds with disinfo, while we’re at the edge of a global resurgance of fascism.