I was terminated and escorted out of my last job in the Healthcare IT industry without warning. It was due to reporting a few coworkers for violating HIPPA, and preventing a social engineering attempt...
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I was terminated and escorted out of my last job in the Healthcare IT industry without warning. It was due to reporting a few coworkers for violating HIPPA, and preventing a social engineering attempt...
read moreI’ve been WFH from a different country for three months without telling HR, and the anxiety is finally starting to eat me alive. My VPN is holding up, and my manager hasn't noticed that my home office...
read moreHey I'm looking for some advice. I feel completely trapped at my current job. I am honestly so miserable going to work every day and don't think I can sustain whats being expected of me. I feel like I...
read moreI just found out I didn’t get the promotion that I was certain I would get. I’m feeling very emotional about it. For those who have experienced this, what are the next steps? What should I do and what...
read moreHas anyone else in Tech been laid off in the last 6 months and having trouble finding a new job? I have over 20 years with a telco company
In your opinion is DEI dead at work (specifically in tech)? It was such a big push a few years ago and now I don’t hear anything.
Engineers should probably form unions.
I just had a 1-on-1 where my boss told me I’m too efficient and it’s making the rest of the team look bad. I finish my points in three days and then spend the rest of the week working on side projects...
read moreI know of an employer that employs asian females almost exclusively in their production area. The job is mostly soldering through hole components. The pay isn't very high. There are about 40 people wo...
read moreI just referred my brother in law to the same team I’m on. HR told me that was against policy. I was shocked. Has anyone heard that before? Again, I just sent a referral link and email. I didn’t deman...
read moreI heard a rumor that investors are panicking and pulling funds from AI. Any truth to this?
What is the most pointless thing you have to do on a week by week basis? For me, I just think about how much time I waste in some of my team meetings that I feel provide no value to the group. Sometim...
read moreI got dinged on my latest review for not participating enough in the team channels, and I feel like I’m back in middle school. Apparently, shipping clean, bug-free code ahead of schedule takes a backs...
read moreHow do you deal with the feeling that your entire professional output is meaningless? I’m watching my company ignore every single one of my user-centric findings. They pay me to conduct deep-dive inte...
read moreWhat would you choose? Job 1: stay at legacy enterprise software giant in marketing director IC role with terrible boss but high base salary and remote? Lots of process, things move slowly, no mobilit...
read moreI demand an answer immediately. If you’re accidentally copied on a thread, why do you REPLY ALL and ask to be removed? Walk us through your thought process and explain why you didn’t think a couple st...
read moreOur CIO is pushing us to learn a programming language that no one has heard of. He used it in his old job. One looked into it and found that no company or government agency in my state used it. It doe...
read moreDoes anyone else find it difficult to get another job while you are currently employed? Most people say that it's easier to get a job while you have a job, but that has never been the case for me. Wha...
read moreThe work culture on my team is pretty bad. There is high burn out, lots of fighting, finger pointing, working 24/7. When I bring this up, the leaders mention that this is just how tech culture is. It ...
read moreWhat is the dress code for woman in tech? It feels like it is really casual for men in the office but I think it is still a double standard for women to dress up more.