And now: you've likely heard of @AskAManager; in this thread ask an admittedly-terrible employee what to do for an "alternate" take on workplace questions.
(DMs are open if you’d prefer not to implicate yourself.)
"Only white guys interview for an open role."
Ask the folks at your company who aren't over-represented what they think of the job description and tweak accordingly.
If everyone at the company is a white guy, you have your answer already.
The correct answer here is of course to fill out the list with names of your rivals or people you just generally dislike. Skip the meeting, bill for the time spent watching Netflix instead.
My solution is to stop stalking my staff on social media, personally. 1:1s should surface any actual issues; assume anything else is largely performance art. Either you're right, or you're such a clueless manager that there's no saving you.
Established employment law has found that cats can't actually manage staff, so don't hesitate to steal your boss's parking space as retribution.
Scam. This is almost certainly a scam. Money flows one way--from the company to you. It's not a "great" position, it's an exploitative position. A laptop costs basically *DICK* to a company compared to an employee. "Six pay cycles" is just nuts.
Similarly, if vendors call you about billing issues for previous employers, your response should be along the lines of "fuck you, we're not paying. What're you gonna do, turn us off?"
I’d start by not painting a target on my back. Culture changes from the top down; driving transformations from the ground up is indistinguishable from being a squeaky wheel that gets fired.
If I’m me, I’m taking bets on how long it will take @awscloud to realize that my post yesterday wasn’t just representing things their customers are saying, but also their staff.
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Ever notice that companies always like to define a key employee leaving as "hit by a bus?"
A thread on this weird, weird, WEIRD framing.
It turns out that the number of employees who leave for "a different job" dramatically outweighs the number of employees who are hit by buses in virtually every geography.
But it terrifies companies if you raise the spectre of taking a new job. Far better to raise the spectre of your untimely demise instead, because it makes your employer more comfortable that way.
Speaking of shitposts: @azure paying @forrester for reprint rights to demonstrate @awscloud's superiority is funny / normal, but WTF is going on over at @alibaba_cloud?!
By request: a thread on my podcast setup nonsense for Q1 2021.
Before we begin, a reminder: This is a business, not a hobby. This isn't recommended for you if your use case doesn't match mine. You can get started with your smartphone.
The mic! I use an @Electro_Voice RE20 is the gold standard. Here you see it equipped with their custom shock-mount, and a mouth guard to reduce the amount of Cheeto dust I spray into the microphone. It's mounted on a @rodemics arm so I can toss it to and fro.
Next it's plugged into a @cloudmics Cloudlifter so I can truly be Screaming in the Cloud. This boosts the signal, or so they tell me. Ask @christopholies, I'm not a doctor.
How do we interview? Well okay. We're still learning. This is how we approach hiring for Cloud Economists (other roles vary and are available at duckbillgroup.com/careers/). There are six steps.
Step 1: So you apply by filling out the form. Next, @mike_julian goes through and screens out poor fits.
(He has no job more important than hiring.)
What do I mean by "poor fits?" No AWS cost optimization experience, inarticulate answers to the questions in the application, etc. We never "shame" folks for it, we just move on.
Nobody should ever be made to feel like an asshole for applying for a job, full stop.
In tonight's thread, incoming @awscloud CEO @aselipsky gets to learn who I am, along with anyone else new to my nonsense. This might take a few tweets.
Around the time @aselipsky was leaving @awscloud I was starting the consultancy that eventually became The Duckbill Group. We fix AWS bills for large customers, and also have a "media" division. Our mascot is Billie the Platypus, who is dangerously unstable and frankly scares us.
Those scare quotes around "media" account for the @LastWeekinAWS newsletter, blog, and podcast, meanwhileinsecurity.com, and the non-snarky interview podcast "Screaming in the Cloud" to which @aselipsky has an open invitation. I also tweet actively and aggressively. Oh dear.