Catch up on stories from the past week (and beyond) at the Slashdot story archive

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror

Comment Re:Is LinkedIn taken seriously anywhere? (Score 1) 52

3. I use LinkedIn to vet resumes of candidates continuously. In fact, one candidate was over-inflating his position history on their resume while their public LinkedIn profile was not mirroring the same titles and experience for the same timeframes. Why would your public-facing titles be less glamorous than your resume?

Because it's visible to anyone without control or limit?

I know for sure I pull a hell of a lot less on my public profile than I'd send on a real resume.

Comment Re:This is so bad. (Score 1) 155

And what markets, exactly are those....?

The Feds have already made it hard enough to be a 1099 contractor, that it is harder and harder to find people or companies that are willing to let your work 1099 with them, for fear someone will try to sue them later (ala MS) or the govt will try to reclassify you, even if you are legit.

I've never seen an industry really even enthusiastically try to work on a 1099 basis.

I find it interesting that we apparently have absolutely alien experiences. In Texas pretty much every single small employer will ONLY do 1099 and at minimum wage or LESS.

There is also effectively no food stamps for an adult, given that if you can pay for lodging you aren't eligible.

So you can literally starve, or work in the exploitative positions offered. Illegal you say? When laws are not enforced, they don't really exist.

Comment Re:This is so bad. (Score 1) 155

No one holds a fucking gun to your head to work 1099. You have to either be a responsible (and talented enough to be in demand) adult, and know what jobs to take and how to negotiate, do paperwork and budget to be a contractor, OR...have it be something part time to add money to your regular "day job".

While I haven't seen firearms used yet. I have seen job markets that amounted to "work as a fake 1099 or die of starvation..."

Comment Re:Welcome to the future of capitalism (Score 1) 726

...but most of them got there by inheriting money.

False. Approximately 80% of millionaires in the USA are 1st generation. That does not qualify as "most."

Way to move the goal posts! Someone with a million is a decently funded retirement in the USA, not one of the rich. Put another way, when it costs a wheel barrow full of money to buy bread, having a wheel barrow full of money doesn't make you rich.

Comment Re:I honestly wonder... (Score 1) 164

The only cases in any mammals seen thus far were deliberately done by human intervention using the same types of techniques used for cloning.

It's been over a decade since I read the story, but pretty sure it was about a whale becoming spontaneously pregnant in isolation, without contact with a male for years.

Slashdot Top Deals

Crazee Edeee, his prices are INSANE!!!

Working...