I don't remember who it was who pointed this out, but it would appear as though the right considers hypocrisy to indicate a position of power. These are the rules for you, but not for me, because I'm more powerful.

From another perspective, this is what is commonly referred to as Wilhoit’s Law:

> Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

> There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

> There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time.

> They will die on their sword for 2A

No, they will not. Remember when Breonna Taylor was summarily executed for Kenneth Walker exercising his second amendment right to night time home defense - one of the exact scenarios the gun-fundamentalists are always fantasizing about - but then the Trumpists came out on the side of licking the jackboots?

Personally, I think it is likely that sometime during this Trump "presidency" we will see him call for more national gun control (obviously framed in terms of hurting some vulnerable group). We will see most of his supporters fall right in line, just as they have been doing on everything else. There will be heaps of rationalization about how it won't affect them of course, and they might even be right.

Morals, values, and other lofty ideals mean nothing to these people, beyond being trotted out as dishonest justifications to try and trick reasonable people into supporting their movement. I'm sure they meant something at some point, but that has been long forgotten. Their only real desire appears to be unrestrained power for their team, demonstrating it by hurting people who aren't on their team. This is why it has been impossible to have an actual discussion about what they actually want, or how Dear Leader and his policies fail at everything they claim to want - there is literally nothing of substance there.

I mean, I think you're only reinforcing GP's point: conservatives are hypocrites, even when it comes to the issues they consider sacred. They'll flip if it serves their interests better.

Yes, and my point is that this isn't even about the traditional political issues and tribal squabbling. I'm a libertarian. I was hating on the "deep state" before it was cool. Still, as an American it's time to circle the wagons - anyone with half a brain should be dead set against Trumpism. We've been taking the rule of law for granted, and we really need to stop.

Furthermore, I think it's bad to continue calling this movement "conservative", as it helps disguise their aims as business-as-usual rather than the sea change towards destruction of the American experiment. At best they used to be conservative. Then they got angry that the leaders they would choose kept selling them out and that fundamentalism didn't produce effective results, so they gave up on their constructive values and fell into blind team allegiance. Now they're just reactionary/autocratic/authoritarian/fascist.

If you think this is low, you should check out some of the insanity in the US and Canada. Today I read one for a senior dev, $45,000 USD!

I just had a CEO reach out to me and offer an informal interview for a developer position that pays $50k in the US. Then he said he would consider me even though he would prefer someone with a computer science degree. I politely declined.

At least he offered a salary. I once was offered only equity in a non-formed dream corporation with the promise that "once we have a product"...

True but it offered no benefits and $50k per year isn’t enough for a single individual to live in my town with a marketplace healthcare plan and a 1 bedroom apartment. So it’s definitely not enough for a family man.

I imagine he hasn’t had any CS grads apply to work for $50k and no benefits so that’s why he reached out to me on LinkedIn. I’m no CS grad but I’m capable of making far more that $50k fortunately.

Greed is an endless evil

What I hate about Medium, is that have created multiple other websites using the pay model all hiding ready remind you how many free articles you have left.

While I have some empathy, and I am not certain what was involved in your technical interview but the level of difficulty in some cases is just plain nuts. My first tech interview in January was mind boggling, timed questions of 90 seconds. The position was for Django, and not a single question was Django. All pure Python. The main question was so abstract to this day I have no idea wtf they wanted, 12 minutes to solve. Twitter and other places are filled with cases like this. So in an environment like this expect pinch hitters.

On a more positive note my last interview was very fair and on topic.

A few weeks back I was sent a home assignment by a company and it was a full blown production level program. If someone asked me to do it, I would charge them a minimum of $10,000. And it required I pay for an API, complete testing, caching, Dockerized, and a laundry list of other requirements. And it certainly would take a lot longer than a few hours.

The most reasonable company I have dealt with was Trip Ninja, an Amazon gift card for my time. Regrettably I tripped up, and messed up the test, timed tests are my Achilles heel.

After reading this I uninstalled teams on my Mac and a bunch of annoyances have ended. The main one, the text on tabs in sublime text are no longer distorted. This alone was driving me crazy for months

Last year my bank, Scotiabank, increased its profits be from $6 billion the previous year, to $9 billion. And while they can be helpful, try calling them on the phone. A painful process to deter you from calling them. I had to call them yesterday. When I finally got to talk to a human, she took my number for a call back, I am still waiting . I have no idea how the elderly deal with this blatant corporate greed.

Just last week a friend who worked for a bank like that said, "If you don't like it, just buy the stock." His rationale was if they can get away with crap service and high service charges, along with being defacto permanent government oligopolies, any savings of yours that you can convert into bank stock will pay out multiples on what you pay in fees and irritation.

It just encourages them, but that's Canada, market economics don't apply here.

Tangerine online bank too. I switched from a standard debit card which I had previously used with Google Pay app. to a new card they offered. The activation steps didn't work. It's been 2 years trying to get someone on the phone, I don't want to wait the 2 hours stated on the voice message. Their chat chat is useless.

In Canada, credit unions aren't perfect, but usually worth paying a bit more for better service.

In Quebec, Desjardins (coop, on paper) has done lots of cuts and tries to compete with banks (many branches closed/merged), but when there are issues, I can easily get someone on the phone and they resolve it quickly and professionally.

This title needs an edit, like many of those noted, "How to Quit Like a Boss when you work for Rational People". Many places have toxic irrational people who would fire you in an instant and then have security escort you out of the office like a criminal.

You seemed to miss the entire point, their legitimate problems: how the pay system is set up; the fact that YouTube referred to the hacker as the "other Admin", and suggested they deal directly with the thief to resolve the problem; and how they initially just dismissed the problem. If you watched that video and thought it was all their fault, I suggest you watch the entire video.