• blarth@thelemmy.club
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    10 days ago

    Oh boy, I wish I could tell you a story about this without doxxing myself. Holy fuck does it hit hard.

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      10 days ago

      What if you swap the locality name for “Metropolis”, and yours for “Lex Luthor”?

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        10 days ago

        Let’s just say I was morphing into something in my career, then was made a ridiculous offer for more money doing something I wasn’t fully qualified to do with the promise that there would be plenty of time to ramp up and develop. I took it, the timeline constricted, I got laid off (might as well have been fired), and it derailed my career from the trajectory I was on. Then the entire tech sector went into downturn, everyone’s doing RTO, every job has 487261884 applicants, and I’m about ready to cash in my chips.

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          10 days ago

          I don’t understand the part with chips at the end. Why was the offer ridiculous ? do you mean the compensation was ridiculously higher than your usual ? I kinda did that recently, and am still hard at work to finish the thing in question,… so I can relate, I think.

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            10 days ago

            Yeah, compensation was too high to turn down. I was happy where I was and going in the right direction.