Lurker > Cleo_II

you didn't answer my question, how would you have done it? and no I'm not a majority shareholder of google nor am I CEO of google, you got that right

Yes, I'm not so good at articulating these sorts of things.

Anyways Techs golden ages are likely over now, and the days of them hiring a abudance of useless people to do essentially redundant ad hoc task for 6 figures are done.

So what IS the exact same reason for layoffs? Is this preventive over the looming recession to protect profit margins? Or lower demand?

Have to weight the benefits too. And if it's federal government they usually make it rain with raises every year.

So they get their bonus or not?

Delayed till April after they fired?

If anything, that's a damn good and generous severance package. My company gives you one week, doesn't pay out vacation, and tells you to fuck off.

So who all in tech has had mass layoffs in the last few months? Google, Microsoft, Salesforce all off the top of my head. Amazon too I think, yeah?

Really? At the two companies I worked for they let you go into the negatives so long as at the end of the year you were above 0

And don't forget citizenship. That's awesome too.

Brandon Sanderson.

I feel like Im at where you were where I feel like mine is falling behind on communication (13 months now)

Hes really good at playing, walking, starting to use his toys the way theyre meant, but it feels like he should be a little farther along with sounds. He sort of babbles mama and dada sometimes but its not always clear whether he actually wants us or is just making sounds

i guess they all grow at their own pace

Wife has been out of town since Thursday, so just been me and the baby this weekend chilling. Feels like she's going through a growth spurt though cause she's just been sleeping a lot.

Yeah, that's probably me also, I want to try to become more active in how I play with her. But I also like seeing her entertain herself.

Thankfully not. Honestly, I would have nope'd out immediately if they had. I definitely wouldn't give out any sensitive info like that.

And yeah, it's reasonable to just criticize the practices of the company even if they are legit. The entire thing seems very peculiar and gives me a pretty negative opinion of what they'd be like if I were to work for them. The fact that they seemed really surprised and put off that I had plans already on a Saturday when we hadn't discussed the second interview at all up to that point is a pretty shaky sign for what they might be like to work for.

Man, I'm excited for that part. But I can tell it's going to wear me out

Congratulations. What were you previously?

I wonder what the correct answer to that Speaker question would have been if it had been asked during that period where they were still voting

Kinda crummy to get that right now. If you had failed by one question, you would have had every right to be mad.

Congrats!!! Yay!!!!

I am very happy for you.

tip - get the passport and the passport card too, it's great for proof of ID and it fits in your wallet, even if you can't fly with it (the card). You can apply for both at the same time

congrats!

What kind of oath do they make you swear? Never heard of that before

Congratulations Cleo! Hope I can do the same in the next few years.

Congrats!! I'm also curious on what kind of questions they ask. Because I remember seeing examples like a decade ago, and going by those examples, I'm fairly certain most Americans couldn't even pass. Also, I didn't know you weren't American.

• Why do some states have more representatives than others?
• Why are there 13 stripes in the US flag?
• Who is the current Speaker of the House?
• Name 3 of the original 13 colonies
• Name one state that borders Canada
• Name one branch of the government

now your husband is married to an American, so he can get American citizenship too

Thanks Kevin Mcarthy!!

Congrats!!

Welp, I was let go today

looks like a couple other people were too. They had HR check-ins last week with everyone that in hindsight feel like they were using to judge loyalty/who to keep around in cost-cutting

they gave me a (small) severance package, positive letter of recommendation and my boss offered to be a reference for me, so its not 100% bad now Im getting paid a few weeks to stay home with my family

on the plus side I had already applied for some jobs last week and got a couple interview requests

Three months of IUI and $7000 later, we got a positive test this morning. Went in to the fertility clinic for blood work and HCG level was 121 which the doctor seemed thrilled about. She goes back in Thursday for more blood work to make sure it keeps rising.

First pregnancy was October 2020 after about three years of trying naturally and we lost it at six weeks. Second was April 2021 after five months of IUI and she was a stillborn at 25 weeks.

Staying with the fertility doctor til 10 weeks then switching over to a high risk doctor for the remainder of the pregnancy

Before the insemination she had two good eggs when they measured so theres a slight possibility of twins lol

If it happens and its a boy and a girl Im getting snipped

So our little one (5 months) who has a congenital heart condition is having trouble eating. Part reflux and part heart issues. But wow it's been so stressful.

Sometimes he just doesn't want to eat at all. He's due for another surgery in a couple weeks so the cardiologist has been pressuring us to feed him a lot more to gain more weight but there's really nothing we can do if he just won't take it...

At least he hasn't been losing weight, but it's such a slow weight gain. He's still in the first percentile.

Went to GI specialist yesterday. He's gonna try to get this special formula called Fortini covered by our insurance. Hopefully it goes through cuz it would basically give him a lot more calories in smaller volumes.

I like him so hopefully he comes back