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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 09:16:20 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   I'm looking at a company hiring for techs to work on neat aerospace projects. they're a contractor doing stuff with GPS and calculating orbits and stuff!

   and they want you to know Ada. NOPE, EJECT, ABORT, NOT A GOOD JOB

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 09:17:26 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     it's not about the language itself, mind you: Ada is a perfectly fine language, even if I don't know it.

     It's that the people who want you to know Ada are the people who thought it should be required for all new programming projects, like the department of defense

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 09:17:56 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     this job listing is trying very hard not to reveal that they want to hire you to make missiles

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 09:20:07 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     kinda like how Uber doesn't advertise any of their jobs as being for Uber's self-driving cab division (you know, the one that has killed at least one person)

     they're hiring for a "autonomous ride-hailing service"

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 09:21:53 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • rk: not a typewriter

     @rk I mean, they're not ENTIRELY wrong. making sure it doesn't kill random other people is definitely an improvement, but it's still gonna kill people. that's the job of the thing you're making

   • rk: not a typewriter (rk@mastodon.well.com)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 09:21:54 JST rk: not a typewriter

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     @foone

     I had a recruiter explain to me that I shouldn’t feel bad to work for them because with my skills I’d make the missiles more accurate and reduce the risk of killing people who weren’t the target…

   • lolcat (lolcat@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 09:26:15 JST lolcat

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     @foone

     Hahaha! I hadn't heard much mention of ADA since NINETEEN NINETY FIVE!!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 09:33:45 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • petabites

     @HoustonDog or your conscience!

   • petabites (houstondog@mastodon.world)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 09:33:46 JST petabites

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     @foone
     
     A work-from-home job (making missiles for DoD) sounds pretty cool...
     
     * just don't tell your neighbors

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 09:39:26 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I don't work for ABC companies:
     AI, Bombs, Crypto.

     and the annoying thing is that some of these companies know that there's people like me and are trying to hide the fact that they're hiring for ABC jobs

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 09:45:09 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Rin/Mari (mainline)

     @rinmari good point. I've never seen their jobs cross my job listings, but they'd definitely join the list!

   • Rin/Mari (mainline) (rinmari@urusai.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 09:45:10 JST Rin/Mari (mainline)

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     @foone This but also D (Debt collectors)

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 09:52:03 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     THE FBI!? in what world would I work for the FBfuckingI?

     They delayed my wedding, tried to get me fired, and once mentioned my old 4chan username in a federal trial!
     They very, very don't want to hire me.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 10:02:51 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     heh. "AI HW design verification"
     I don't want to work for an AI company but I could technically do that one.
     Every time they send me a design, I confirm if there's still AI in it, and if so, I fail the verification for that design

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 10:16:20 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     Another company is hiring for web dev stuff, and the "submit job application" PHP file is throwing 500 internal errors.

     they DEFINITELY need a web developer

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 10:18:43 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     maybe it was a mistake to embed EICAR and some actually live DOS viruses into my resume

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 10:22:19 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Sludge

     @sludgegirl what, don't you bring your resume to dates too?

   • Sludge (sludgegirl@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 10:22:20 JST Sludge

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     @foone silly foone. That's how you get interesting dates, not jobs /j

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 10:28:08 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     this job application site has added "check all your pronouns" to their applying process. They left out a major one (it/its), but they do let you enter custom pronouns.

     Sadly they limit it to 41 characters, so I can't stick the entirety of Doom in there. Again.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 10:28:38 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     my resume should play doom. I should fix that

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 10:32:43 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Hugo Mills

     @darkling I always bring my resume on floppy disk to any job interview, but usually it's just a boring PDF.
     I should make them a bootdisk or something

   • Hugo Mills (darkling@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 10:32:44 JST Hugo Mills

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     @foone I'm reminded of a recruitment round in my first post-BA job, 30 years ago, where we got a couple of CVs on floppies, as executable code.