What's I dislike the most about this situation is that I cannot even shut down my yahoo email account, as it could be re-created by someone else, i.e hijacked.
It's also terrible that such bad password policies are being pushed onto users, yet no guarantee of security is associated with them.
It has occurred to me that bonuses don't suit me well. As a software engineer my ability to work rests upon many different layers of knowledge (my trade), assumptions (there will be electricity at my client's office when I arrive), beliefs (I will get paid).
I work hard to make sure each of these elements are in place, so that I can free my mind of them, and focus on my work.
Well a bonus turns one of my most important factors for employment into a variable, based on my performance. This is a cognitive load that I refuse to bear while carrying out my trade.
If you read up on research regarding bonuses they also seem to lead to worse performance when it comes to cognitive tasks, and I'm unwilling to work with a company that doesn't use data, facts and reason as some of their driving factors.
Having worked at a couple of places that did bonuses I've come regard them as a bad thing. Even when the formula for calculating bonuses is completely open and data driven it still feels unfair and quite arbitrary since on an individual level there is little you can do to control for most of the factors. There are few things that can create in-company animosity more than feeling you didn't get your bonus because some other team slacked off or not getting a bonus while another group does despite feeling you worked at least as hard as they did.
If you read up on research regarding bonuses they also seem to lead to worse performance when it comes to cognitive tasks, and I'm unwilling to work with a company that doesn't use data, facts and reason as some of their driving factors.
Doesn't that exclude you from all major tech companies? Also, I'd be interested in reading this research if you have a link to it?
At the end of every year I'll be bemused when my employer gives me a chunk of free money for essentially doing the job I'm paid to do. I'll say a slightly awkward "Thank you, you really didn't have to..." and wander away from the meeting.
I don't understand bonuses really, I've come to simply accept they're a thing that happens and I'll cross that bridge when I come to it each year.
What annoys me with British PSA's is that they're always stick rather than carrot.
I know it may sound like I'm whining, but hearing for the 50th time today that I'll get fined some stupidly high amount for not doing as I'm told can get weary after a while.
Isn't that kind of inherent with safety stuff? The best case is that you leave with the same number of digits, limbs, and organs that you came in with. The potential downside is huge (death, dismemberment) and the potential upside is zero.
I had that problem visiting California, where so many signs also list the law that applies. Even the little cart to take people to the top of Alcatraz has a sign "don't board moving cart", seemingly simple advice, then it lists the relevant law. The effect felt a bit police-statey, I found.
Then flat out refuse. I just landed an amazing gig by writing a relevant blog post with code included. Else they could rely on some of your github code.
I'd like AIs to have settings so they start engaging me, rather me always having to engage them. e.g ask me what my tasks are today, or other types of interactions initiated by them at a propitious time.
Very different beasts. :) Writing CAD software can be done with a surprisingly small number of libraries, which is not at all withe case when it comes to typesetting.
