The Deuce: Hear, hear

1st time for everything: FREEBIRD! (soliciting power of the 2uece) - ArtVandelay February 26, 2026, 11:07:23

I've been through the roller coaster highs and lows big time...hitting 65 in 2+ months - RSMBob Yesterday, 13:36:26
- The whole DOGE experience broke me. Went from wanting to work to 65… - DT Yesterday, 19:19:16
  - You and me both, buddy - timmer Yesterday, 20:35:36
  - My boss might as well work for DOGE because he has made me go from loving my job to hating it - Taz Yesterday, 19:26:25
    - That sucks. I’ve been lucky in my career that I’ve mostly had good bosses - DT Yesterday, 19:39:56
      - I've had good and bad. Unfortunately at this stage in our company's growth, we are stuck - Taz Yesterday, 20:33:04
- Hear, hear - TarheelIllini Yesterday, 19:17:10
Anyone have any contacts or "in's" at Anthropic? - ArtVandelay Yesterday, 13:11:34
- use claude to optimize your resume for anthropic* - torinese Yesterday, 14:07:45
  - i did* - ArtVandelay Yesterday, 14:30:01
    - i'm out of ideas* - torinese Yesterday, 14:35:10
      - maybe Claude can give me more?* - ArtVandelay Yesterday, 14:41:14
        
        @grok can you help? - illinibone Yesterday, 18:50:26
        
        doesn't hurt to ask* - torinese Yesterday, 18:15:17
Probably joining the FREEBIRD life after next Friday. But we are lucky since I get - LeatherneckIllini March 13, 2026, 12:43:12
- that is a nice FREEBIRD life. You driving down to Greenville?* - ArtVandelay Yesterday, 13:14:09
  - No. I have to drive to DC on Friday and turn in my ID and Laptop. Indy or bust* - LeatherneckIllini Yesterday, 13:17:39
One thing I’ll never forget about this board was the FREEBIRD posts during the Great Recession - opossum jenkins March 13, 2026, 11:27:30
- Job search environment is absolutely brutal right now, too - DT March 13, 2026, 11:34:14
  - yep, it's terrible for those hiring and for those looking to be hired.* - cpsteine March 13, 2026, 11:59:22
    - what are the challenges for those hiring? because they are behaving way worse than 25 years ago* - torinese Yesterday, 14:09:15
    - Went through it last year - BradUnderwoodforprez March 13, 2026, 12:17:25
      - I did 250+ applications over 8 months and got 2 interviews - DT March 13, 2026, 12:24:39
        
        We just posted and hired 3 new positions. One of them had over 700 applicants* - ISeeDeadHawkeyes March 13, 2026, 12:45:47
I was also freebird'ed the last week of January with my last day being the 1st of March... - haighter March 13, 2026, 10:57:07
- Damn* - EffinIllini March 13, 2026, 11:57:54
- if you want to analyze ticketing data for 65K a year, i'm hiring! - assassin March 13, 2026, 11:29:21
- Damn. Good luck, dude.* - DT March 13, 2026, 11:25:19
- Good luck man. Sorry to hear about it.* - ATL March 13, 2026, 11:22:02
- Holy shit. Seems like you have been there forever* - gvibes March 13, 2026, 11:02:27
  - Shade over 13 years. We got a new CEO like 6 months ago... - haighter March 13, 2026, 11:05:27
    - That will go well. And by that, I mean it will be a disaster.* - Chicago1995 March 13, 2026, 12:15:13
      - Yea…he’s also still on the board of the competitor he came from… - haighter March 13, 2026, 12:26:58
    - I had lunch with Showbiz on Tuesday, and he lost his job last December - TarheelIllini March 13, 2026, 11:12:53
- oh man, sorry to hear. please do let me know if i can help even in a small way. - torinese March 13, 2026, 11:01:14
  - Thank you. I have another job lined up starting Mid-April. From the minute I found out... - haighter March 13, 2026, 11:03:20
    - nice! i'm glad it worked out. my journey has basically been the opposite, but i may land a gig soon* - torinese March 13, 2026, 13:14:57
    - that's awesome! best of luck. * - VIV March 13, 2026, 11:55:41
best of luck! about to enter month nine of my search, but you already have a better attitude than i - torinese February 27, 2026, 8:37:58
- replied* - ArtVandelay February 27, 2026, 10:55:03
  - not yet received?* - torinese February 27, 2026, 12:20:51
jesus, Square/CashApp parent Block laying off 50% ( 4000 ppl) on a bet on AI - assassin February 26, 2026, 16:36:08
- Speculation I've seen is that this is a move they needed to make anyway, and blaming AI - doubledown February 26, 2026, 19:25:56
  - Seems like AI is a convenient excuse / scapegoat / at least somewhat of a misdirection play in a lot - DocWalk20 February 27, 2026, 12:22:51
    - 100%* - biclops March 13, 2026, 11:43:01
    - Yeah—I think the truth is probably in the middle in most cases - DT March 13, 2026, 11:29:18
      - So many tech companies overhired during the pandemic and many are still course correcting.* - DocWalk20 March 13, 2026, 11:45:47
- Only the beginning. I’d like to see pre and post pandemic employee numbers and - voiceofreason February 26, 2026, 19:16:21
- subscription needed ^^^^* - TarheelIllini February 26, 2026, 19:00:10
  - I do not subscribe to the Verge* - assassin February 26, 2026, 19:30:39
perhaps something in synthetic rubber materials, instead of the latex industry?* - IlliniOllie February 26, 2026, 12:08:20
- Or, why not architecture, right?* - ArtVandelay February 26, 2026, 12:45:26
  - The world needs a good marine biologist. Or assistant to the traveling secretary. - MojoJojo February 26, 2026, 13:12:30
    - fun traveling secretary story - ArtVandelay February 26, 2026, 13:57:43
Questions inside - ISeeDeadHawkeyes February 26, 2026, 11:48:00
- Answers inside - ArtVandelay February 26, 2026, 13:00:43
  - No. 2 sounds awesome. What an amazing world we live in (sometimes)* - LWillhite February 27, 2026, 12:04:40
  - Those are all good answers - ISeeDeadHawkeyes February 27, 2026, 9:55:18
Pfizer needs help across the board* - Stu February 26, 2026, 11:17:02
- finance department?* - torinese February 27, 2026, 8:39:52
- Nothing on their job boards are a fit for me* - ArtVandelay February 26, 2026, 11:34:41
  - JNJ?* - Stu February 26, 2026, 13:43:56
joining the job market in '08 and '26 is a real "play on Nightmare difficulty" move. Re2pect.* - Sammich February 26, 2026, 11:09:50
- Also... I think that canary just died.* - Chuck Woodaby February 26, 2026, 11:11:36

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