What might be starting to happen is that there are increasing numbers of these "snowflake" employees that are offended by everything, can't take a joke, etc. For them, "normal" people are toxic because OMG! they occasionally make a slightly off-color joke, or something, then go straight to HR. So they think the workplace is toxic because they're forced to be exposed to that. Normal people then have to carefully watch every word that comes out of their mouths, can't have any fun or relax, so they consider the snowflakes toxic. So basically, everyone thinks it's toxic, and it really only takes one snowflake per office to make it like that.

If they won't respect robots.txt, maybe they'll stay off your site if you stick random gibberish poison pages all over the site.

Any organization that knows what it's doing will have parallel promotion tracks for management and non-management.

In the specific case of my company, I "Sr. Solutions Architect" have a job grade roughly equivalent to a director, and above that of anyone called "manager", "supervisor", or the Sr. versions thereof. The "principal architect" I work with is equivalent to the sr. director that manages the whole team. I think the individual track tops out around VP/SVP level here. And yes, a non-sr. director can be managing an SVP-level non-management employee.

The next human driver cited for this should file a civil rights lawsuit claiming racial discrimination. Since there's apparently video evidence of "we don't/can't ticket robots" (rather than a hard to prove "officers have discretion" type thing), it might stick, especially if it goes before a jury.

Can we please re-classify our annual bonuses as "tips" from the company?

Because you can't compete with the efficiency with which the world creates idiots and assholes.

The problem is that garages have been shrinking to the point that you can barely put two cars in a "two-car" garage and still be able to open the doors. This means that there's no room to put things like yard equipment, etc. that can't go in the house without leaving at least one car in the driveway. Add the shrinking lots, and you can't build a shed, either, because there's no space left inside the build lines and setbacks. The newer homes I've been in have next to no storage space inside, either.

Came here to say this, as well. The useless amber alerts (and silver/blue alerts) from 600 miles away are the number one reason I and most people I know turn them off.
The reality is that basically all amber alerts are "false alarms" in that people can't do anything with them in most situations:
- At home? Useless unless the abductor is breaking into your house with the abductee.
- At work? Basically same as above. Office workers won't see them, and retail/similar employees probably aren't allowed on their cellphones to get the alert.
- Driving? You shouldn't be getting out your cellphone to check an alert while you're driving.

We all know what happens when people get useless alerts: they turn them off or just ignore them.

Fortunately, you can usually turn of JUST amber alerts on phones, but not all radio devices.

This is why it's more important than ever to maintain friendships/acquaintances/etc. with professional colleagues. I haven't gone into an application cold in about 20 years, because if I don't have previous coworkers/bosses actively trying to recruit me, I at least have lots of people to ask.

The problem I see is one of scale. The places you describe often have 30+ gas pumps, and around here, we have Bucee's that have about 100 - with usually 95%+ in use during peak times. You need 5-10x as many chargers to keep the same car throughput, so you're looking at 150-1000 charging stations. At 300kW each, that's 45-300MW of electric service for one business. Not only do you need 10x the real estate, you need room for a pretty sizeable substation, and access to pretty hefty power lines (probably 200-300kV, from some cursory research).

The problem with that plan is that collectively, those companies have a lot of resources to develop other solutions. It's only a matter of time before they form an industry group that duplicates VMWare with open-source tools, that's just as easy to use. Someone will also sell support for it. At that point, VMWare as a platform is done.

I suppose it's possible that Broadcom sees that happening anyway, and is just trying to squeeze as much out of it as possible before then.

I think this is also due to cars becoming more aerodynamic for fuel efficiency. My newer cars will get bugs on the flatter areas of the front, but rarely the windshield anymore, unless it's a particularly large one that the slipstream can't get out of the way fast enough.

So if no one hires entry-level coders, then in 10 years, there won't be any experienced programmers, either.

We'll either be totally dependent on AI, or software quality will go (more) into the toilet. Probably both.

"Normal" is just the average of everyone's individual crazy...

I'm mildly autistic, with an official diagnosis. This is considered a disability under the ADA, and thus employers must provide reasonable accommodation.

My employer recently started requiring everyone within 50 miles of an office to come in 2x/week, but the offices are all high-density shared workspaces - a nightmare for anyone on the spectrum. I talked to my manager, he talked to HR, and surprise, surprise, the most logical accommodation was to continue to work from home full time.

If there's one thing HR is terrified of, it's exposing themselves to lawsuits stemming from discrimination or disabilities, so use that to your advantage!