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Apparently Automattic are laying off around one in six of their workforce. And I'm one of the unlucky ones.

Anybody remote hiring for a UK-based full-stack web developer (in a world that doesn't seem to believe that full-stack developers exist anymore) with 25+ years professional experience, specialising in PHP, Ruby, JS, HTML, CSS, devops, and about 50% of CMSes you've ever heard of (and probably some you haven't)... with a flair for security, accessibility, standards-compliance, performance, and DexEx?

CV at: danq.me/cv/index.html

#note #work #automattic #job #memorable #employment

Via: 🔗 danq.me/2025/04/02/redundant/

danq.meDan Q | CV
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Bringing that up here because I heard someone has a case against its former employer because of the money talk.

The employer shields itself saying it "brought discourse, uneasiness and hostility to the employees environment". Contract stipulates salary as non-disclosable.

The employee says, it's null and void to censor an employee speech about his salary, or employment conditions, inside the business.

Who would win?

#Legal#Job#Jobs

I stand by my former boss Rule 7 for his business:

7. Money talk is prohibited with risk of firing.

Why? He told me (paraphrasing a lot):

"Talking about money can bring the worst from your people. Once someone feels its being mistreated or unfairly paid, it can be demoralising at best, but also destructive or hostile at worst. Sadly, firing him always solves the problem and sets the example for the rest."

#Job#Jobs#Working

I interviewed a candidate recently where everyone on the panel is convinced the person was reading the output of an LLM in real time. It seems likely that they had the audio piped to some kind of system that heard the questions and wrote plausible replies. Of course none of us KNOW this to be true, we just strongly suspect it.

They would say things like "we implemented a privacy protocol" and I would say "I'm in security, but privacy really isn't my area. Can you explain a bit what a 'privacy protocol' is?" You know the thing they JUST said in the immediately prior sentence? And the candidate was stumped. They hemmed and hawwed and delayed with phrases like "mmm, let me think of just the right way to answer that..."

It is totally trivial to detect and defeat someone interviewing this way. All you have to do is ask follow-up questions. "That's interesting, what did you do next?" or "Tell me how you decided that was the right thing to do?" LLMs don't tell coherent stories. They're just making stuff up. All you have to do is ask for details. The details won't tell a consistent story. They told me about a situation that was a "suspected data breach" but it turned out to be a false alarm. I asked "what gave you confidence that it was not a data breach?" and they really struggled to answer that.

The other thing that was laughable was their approach to the code and design exercise. Given a problem description, they were able to—almost instantly—verbally outline the right solution. And when asked questions like "what's the computational complexity?" they could provide the right answer (e.g., "O(n)" or "O(log n)"). And then you ask a really simple follow-up question like "so what's the outermost for() loop going to look like?" and they can't answer. There is no for() loop in their head.

They didn't want to be obvious in their copy/pasting of code from an LLM, so they typed. But since they didn't understand actual Python syntax, they used the wrong quote marks (e.g., ` instead of ') and they didn't take care with indentation.

I'm told this is a problem in lots of roles at lots of companies. Heaven help us all.
#employment #interview #jobinterviews #jobhunt

The problem is not that these lists exist. The problem sounds like the lists get abused. If someone is terminated for cause (maybe they committed a crime, or a seriously bad behaviour) the company needs to remember not to bring them back.

But for privacy reasons (I suspect) they can’t write down WHY the company won’t rehire. Imagine seeing not just a “do not engage” flag, but also some label like “crime: fraud” or “HR: sexual misconduct” next to the do-not-hire flag. A recruiter, who needs to know NOT to interview this person, is staring at the person’s personal details and now also some really sensitive info about them—that the recruiter really has no business knowing.

But like many secret things, this cuts both ways. The US’s famous “do not fly” list works similarly. Can’t find out if you’re on it, can’t find out WHY you’re on it, no path to legally challenge it. No clear criteria or process for putting people on it or reevaluating whether they need to remain on it.

Secret lists are really problematic. If companies didn’t keep these lists, they might rehire bad people the way cops with disciplinary records just move from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. I don’t know how to do the good blocks while preventing the abuse of bad blocks.

#employment #hiring #jobhunt

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Veterans Group Wants to Make Elon the Supervillain of the Midterms

A new ad campaign from VoteVets goes after vulnerable House Republicans by turning the spotlight on DOGE.
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"The #ads all feature the same roundtable of #veterans sharing their struggles after losing #employment because of #DOGE cuts...

it features #Musk throughout, incl the now infamous scene of him wielding a chainsaw on stage at #CPAC."

🚀 Redefining Work in a Hybrid Society – Technology, #Leadership, and the Future of Employment

The way we work is changing—fast. Traditional employment models are being challenged by fractional leadership, the gig #economy, and the rise of remote-first collaboration. But is this shift making work better, or just more fragmented?

In this latest episode of Redefining Society & Technology on ITSPmagazine, I sat down with Sara Daw, author of "Strategy and Leadership as a Service" to talk about how technology is reshaping the workforce.

We dive into:

💡 The rise of fractional C-suite roles and why executives are choosing autonomy over full-time positions
💡 How companies are shifting from payroll to access-based #employment
💡 The role of psychological ownership in a world where contracts no longer define commitment
💡 What this means for future generations, as they enter the workforce with an entirely different mindset

Technology enables this shift, but the real question is: Are we using it to empower people—or just creating a new kind of instability?

🎻 Teaser: youtu.be/8FGKB4kfCGQ
📺 Watch the full video: youtu.be/fVAjiD85sYM
🎧 Listen to the full conversation: redefiningsocietyandtechnology

Sunscribe? Share? 🫠 🙂

What do you think?
Are we heading toward a more flexible and fulfilling work model, or is something getting lost in the transition? Let’s discuss.

#FutureOfWork #Technology #Society #GigEconomy #Leadership #RemoteWork #DigitalTransformation #ai #socialmedia #tech #future #HR

Sean Martin

‪Employment Opportunity
source: Bsky

Nature Communications‬ ‪@naturecomms.bsky.social‬
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We are looking for a new editor in Battery and electrochemistry. Hiring location: Milan, Madrid, New York, Philadelphia, Shanghai. Deadline 30 March: .
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#Writing #Science #Job #Employment
#Technology

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A similar wait is in store for those hoping to ascertain the effects that #Trump’s #tariffs — both those imposed / unimposed / reimposed… & those still threatened — may have on global #trading partners, #business #investment & #employment.

Even w/o the shake-up in foreign #trade & federal employment, private-sector #hiring has slowed substantially from the blowout pace 2021–2023 [#ThankYouJoe]. That has left #labor market & financial analysts readying for a cooling in economic growth.