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If it was up to me, I would hire this man to bring the same amount of visibility to other projects. He put the Antartica on the map for many of us and might have created a powerful recruiting tool for aspiring scientists.
Perhaps there are other projects out there that could benefit from such coverage.
Hey HNers, we've all enjoyed the Brr.fyi stories all this time, so whoever has an open IT position for Paul (author of the blog), go ahead and do the good deed of the day ;-)
Hopefully he doesn't get stuck at a bad recruiter and 10 hours of interview grinding.
I wish him the very best.
I have a feeling he will do OK.
I really enjoyed his posts, but don’t have a job for him.
Couldn't have a more fitting last name
Hope you have a good time at the wastewater treatment plant. It's not really relevant to anything but I'm pretty sure someone threw a renegade rave out near that Brighton location a few months back....
Looks like there's a couple openings in McMurdo currently:
I miss the wealth of remote jobs 3 years ago. I really hope he can stay in the city he is comfortable instead of having to move to a place like NYC or SF just for the sake of job stability.
Living in Denver sounds fun.
As someone who has lived in Denver and NYC. I'll take NYC over Denver any day of the week. Denver is the least diverse city I've ever lived in.
There's like 4 different types of people, they all dress the same and have identical interests. It's as if Denver has a mandated uniform. There's 4 different types of restaurants that are all variations of a cocktail bar, dive bar or brewery.
The only plus is air quality and access to the mountains. However you have to drive through NYC levels of traffic to get to them. I could fly from NYC to Aspen faster than I could drive there from Denver.
Other things may matter more than the diversity of a big city: being close to family or friends, cost of life, less traffic, simpler life.
To me, this weighed much more I moved from a big-ish city to a much smaller one. And I can always visit the old place for fancy restaurants or big events.
Okay? You aren’t required to like any particular city, but your dislike of it doesn’t mean others can’t prefer it.
Okay? He's just sharing his opinion of the city in a HN comment. What's wrong with that?
As a lifelong Denver-area resident, I thank you for this post. You have made a marginal improvement to our traffic problem.
Never lived in NYC but if you consider our air quality a plus I'm concerned for your lungs. Not wrong about Denver people on a macro level, but if you can find your own group of weirdos it's a very fun city to live in (or at least, I'm greatly enjoying it). Very laissez-faire vibe here right now IMO, feels like you can do pretty much whatever you want so long as nobody's getting hurt.
I was saying Denver air quality is one of the few Pros in this comparison. Denver typically has a pretty low AQI and ranks in the top 10 cleanest air for Ozone levels. You're simply wrong. As an asthmatic who runs daily I will check the AQI before any outdoor exercise, we have great air quality on most days. Today is an exception.
I mean I’m not an asthmatic but this random .org seems to contradict you? Or do I have what you’re saying backwards?
https://www.lung.org/media/press-releases/state-of-the-air-c...
https://www.lung.org/research/sota/city-rankings/compare-you...
I may have misread rankings but I personally check AQIs daily and it's rare for me to have to cancel run here due to air quality but it can happen. I've only been here 2.5 years and there hasn't been so much smoke these past couple summers. Denver likely has had terrible years for air quality due to heavy wildfires and I just haven't experienced that yet.
Plus Suncor, the brown cloud, auto emissions, etc. It’s not new, talk to anyone who studies public health around here. Childhood asthma in the inverted L is and has been elevated for years
Is remote gone in the US too?
Uk it seems like hybrid is the new rule.
There are plenty of remote jobs around, not as many as there were. I see a decent amount of Remote-ish (Remote but time zone restricted)
As an aside I hate the term Hybrid, because its anything but Hybrid. 3 days in the office a week is in office. 1-2 days wfh a week for flexibility was a totally normal, in-office perk in 2019. Hybrid to me is like once or twice a month or quarter in person, since you actually have the flexibility of being able to live 4 hours away from the office.
I completely agree. I used to have more flexibility before hybrid stuff.
Remote is less than during covid but at least a couple orders of magnitude higher than it was before covid. Covid was a huge boost to remote jobs and continues to be. My current company, for example, was 100% in-office before covid and is now 100% remote.
The main difference I've seen is with the large enterprises with large land/building investments and cities giving them tax breaks to switch to in-office. They seem to be the primary ones moving from wfh to hybrid or in office. Small to mid-sized companies still seem to be near covid levels of remote-ness.
A lot of the interesting jobs have gone hybrid. Unfortunately a lot of "hybrid" implementations prescribe a number of days per week instead of a just "get your shit done, here's the office if you'd like to use it, we expect you to do whatever makes you most efficient".
I'm in a long-distance relationship and I hate this situation. Like, I'm even OK with alternating 5 days per week for 2 weeks and then 0 days per week for 2 weeks. But some companies are hellbent on 3 days per week and it's a top-down HR level thing that even managers can't control.
Amazon does this. One of the parents at my kid's bus stop in Seattle works for them and has to go in three days a week. Her entire team is in D.C., so nobody she works with is in the office.
Yeah I'm at Amazon right now. I go into the office for 3 afternoons a week. They are just 3 wasted afternoons. The office HVAC gives me a sore throat, I can't leave stuff at the desk (no fixed desks, they implemented "agile" with the desks), the office chairs aren't the best for my back, the Wi-Fi is worse than my wired connection at home, the coffee is shitty, there is no cafeteria, and meeting rooms are in short supply so I sometimes take them from my car. I have gotten COVID once and flus twice from the office because of others badging in sick, losing close to 2-3 weeks of work time, in addition to all the lost efficiency due to the sore throats. I could wear a mask all day in the office, but that's uncomfortable AF.
I get all real work done at home, mostly in the 2 non-office days. They have effectively reduced my work efficiency to 40% of what it was when I joined. Leadership either doesn't understand this, or they are using the whole badging thing as a way to get people to leave voluntarily without severance.
If you want to optimize for people to come to the office, have the best fucking lattes and snacks on the planet, put couches and comfy seating everywhere, give me an assigned desk where I can leave stuff plugged in, and a budget to buy the monitor, keyboard/mouse, chair, and whatever else I want, clean the HVAC, set the temperature to something higher than Antarctica, and ACTIVELY encourage people to stay home at the slightest sign of sickness instead of encouraging them to come in.
If you want to optimize for the business, downsize the offices if people aren't using them and just focus on getting work done, not where it gets done.
They are now busy modifying the code to ensure that people only get 1 free coffee per day, and hear rumors that they will require people to come in for at least 2 hours for it to count, so now people are forced to waste 2+ hours instead of just 1 hour each time. Instead of figuring out how to make the office a comfortable, fun, and infection-free place that people actually want to come to.
But someone at HR probably got a promotion for implementing the maximum of 1 free cardboard-flavored coffee and someone else probably got a promotion for increasing the badging rate.
There are monthly "Who is hiring/who wants to be hired" threads here, perhaps he should try those.