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> The bathrooms

At my first job they were so crunched for space my desk in the open office was about ten feet from the entrance to the men’s bathroom. I got to quickly know everyone’s schedule, and knew I just had to leave my desk at certain times during the day due to certain coworkers… my manager was not happy when I cited that as my reason for quitting a few months in!

The old lady who runs our neighborhood Polish grocery store would smack me upside the head if I tried to order Pączkis!

And this is at a company that supposedly prioritizes constant feedback, we even have multiple mandatory training sessions per year on providing fast feedback. Go figure...

I wish I had that kind of insight into my ‘performance’ pre-review! I’m at a FAANG right now and given my interactions with my manager alone, I figured I was bombing performance-wise (constant complaints about my work, refuses to acknowledge any accomplishments, super angry at me during one on ones, assigns piles of work that ‘need’ to be done by Monday on Friday at 6pm and then doesn’t even acknowledge the completion of the work next week, ...). Come performance review time on the other hand I’ve had awesome peer reviews, performance ratings, stock refreshes, etc for the past four biannual performance cycles. Given the complete mismatch here between how I feel I’m doing and how my manager treats me, I’m actually pretty happy we have this performance review system in place. Probably just need a new manager...

Because I liked the people in my department doing research in my niche! Unfortunately federal funding in the US disappeared almost overnight for my slice of CS, so I'm currently operating and publishing in a cross-disciplinary fashion in an industry research scientist position. I'm considering leaving the US for a faculty position to get back to the research I really enjoy... so don't do what I did. :)

> But I wonder why?

Publicity for Space Jam 2?

Our apartment building in Manhattan had one of these, it was super fun to fill! We also had a garbage chute... guess which one was more likely to get clogged when it was 98 degrees and 90% humidity mid August

Possibly Native Americans/First Peoples, Pacific Islanders, or individuals who self-identify by ethnicity rather than race on these types of reports.

> Claiming residence in SF or NYC during the hiring process, then starting working somewhere else...

It would be a bit of a cat and mouse game. Companies can trace where you are working from VPN logins. I suppose you could VPN through San Francisco then VPN into your corporation’s network, but they probably monitor for use of common VPN providers. Plus during your meetings, etc, you coworkers would notice if you moved.

I'm as much Stop Building Ugly Condos as the next resident in my reviv(ing) corner of the rust belt... but honestly, with the exception of maybe one photo, none of these are horribly objectionable or out of step with the existing architecture. Crying wolf anyone?

Depends on the state and the public/private designation of the university. There is also the (mostly unanswered in the courts) question of whether private university graduate students are primarily employees or students. Read up on the kerfuffles at NYU and Columbia University to see how gnarly this all gets.

> The cost of landfill is really low, so it wouldn’t make any difference if it were added to the cost of plastic.

The cost isn’t just disposal, it’s also production. Plastic production (‘ethylene cracking’ specifically) is really environmentally gnarly. Communities across the US and internationally will be way better off once we move away from disposable consumer plastics.

> There were exactly zero write-ups of this in the local papers.

A few miles across the border it’s been all over the Pittsburgh news —- the mayor here has even been tweeting about it!