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Me in a position of power,

Poor schmuck who's desperate

Me showing pity on the schmuck

Schmuck uses the opportunity

Me showing LinkedIn how great I'm

Reese would have failed regardless. Not sure saving him in this instance would have made a difference. In fact, letting him fail early might have been better.

Not sure why you are being downvoted. The immigration policy especially for high-skilled workers is rooted in racism and is ignored because no party benefits from it. The only solution is for workers to form a PAC and raise funds to influence the political agenda.

I can choose to willingly not go into a closed space with 1000+ people. The risk of exposure is going to be higher in the office. I have no qualms with meeting my team for lunch or dinner or even a team offsite for a whole day once a month but the notion of coming into potential close contact with hundreds of people day to day is very scary.

If you don't have a long commute, don't have to work in an open office with a lot of people, it might be nice to go back. In my case, mandatory return to work means I'm commuting 6 hours a week at least and increasing my chances of getting covid.

I'll go back 2 days a week if they give me an office. I'm not working in an open space with 500 people on my floor.

Is everyone back there? Maybe it's nice because it's quiet? That's how I felt when I went back but to imagine being with 1000s of people in there is scary

I switched over to mushroom coffee since I couldn’t tolerate decaf. Still has some caffeine but doesn’t leave me jittery.

Vim is dn addiction. Difficult to quit

Everyone needs something different. I have enough to retire comfortably but no green card which would change my life instantly.

With WW2, people had a clear goal to look forward to. Ending the war. Today, people are drifting aimlessly and just go through life which causes more dissatisfaction than being in the middle of a war.

Thank you. Any thoughts on when that'll happen? Weeks, months or years?

Why is the Lincoln Processing Center moving so slowly in processing I-485s? It's issuing roughly 80 GCs a day whereas MSC is issuing in the order of 1000s.

I listen to Bach or Beethoven when I need to really focus. Works wonders. I use it sparingly so that I don't get bored.

My favorite joke of his is the one where a salesman is convincing him to buy a pit bull.

I got an iPhone in which I have not installed Chrome. Want to uninstall Gmail but work email needs gmail. Other than that no other Google Apps.

There are ancient texts that describe Patanjali's yoga and the reason behind it.

Five Parks Yoga is the best. Precise instructions. Wide variety of videos targeting different parts of the body at different levels. I support them on Patreon after doing their yoga sessions and getting rid of chronic back pain. I have a L5-S1 disc bulge and a mild bulge at C5-C6 in the neck.

As a H1B holder who's also a cancer survivor and suffering from severe health issues, I can tell you it's hell. I cry at least once a week at the fact that I cannot take a break without having to destroy my life and my family's life and 20+ years of life built up here. Everything this person said is absolutely true. The high compensation comes at a very high cost. It's not just mental or physical but also moral. You follow some arbitrary process since some higher up decided that it's the best way to measure productivity or performance. You underlevel people because you have to have a high bar. So someone with 20+ years of experience with subject matter expertise (not me) is a 'developing' Principal engineer. You have to hit arbitrary dates with moving goal posts and convince your team that they are doing God's work.

I meant to say H1B transfer process. Previously, it used to be straightforward but the Trump administration started treating them as new applications and doled out RFEs (Request for Evidence) willy-nilly. The current administration has scrapped that but it's still a laborious, nerve-wracking process.

That's not at all true. People on H1B cannot change jobs easily. They have to go through the visa transfer process and hope nothing goes wrong with the process. They have to make sure their current employer does not get wind of the job change and doesn't fire them during the transfer process. They have to ensure that the new employer can process their green card application. Lots of nuances involved. It's a serious source of stress for a lot of highly skilled H1B engineers

But you get to retain them for longer since the switching cost is high.

The previous administration had zero credibility on anything and were rightly laughed out of the room.

AI tools cannot catch covid. Only humans can.

The joys of a conservative government.

Precisely. Some of the conversations look interesting but I can't put my life on hold. It's a missed opportunity IMO to get more engagement.

Are clubhouse conversations recorded?

As a user, I love Safari for privacy and its reader mode which means I don't need to see ads. I switched to an iPhone due to privacy concerns with Android and haven't bothered installing Chrome on the new phone.

I got an iPhone 12 after being a long-term Android user. The difference in quality is just phenomenal.