Perhaps you haven't worked enough in a habitually blaming organization. The problem is that blaming is both easy and often spurious. So in the end you still often run into the same problem: a bunch of people pointing fingers at each other and no one owning anything. If anyone takes a fall because of it that's often more a measure of their political power rather than their actual culpability. It also fails to address dysfunctional organizational processes that make individual errors more likely, because everyone is more concerned with finding a single scapegoat or small group of them.
Maybe we need a new way of expressing "blameless" that still expresses that personal responsibilty for quality work should be expected, but that punitive blame politics are simply a very ineffective way of encouraging that or finding the truth when problems inevitably occur.
You can copy an encrypted backup file to a usb drive and then either copy that to a few other secure places or just put it in a safe depending on how much redundancy you need. I use Aegis these days as a backup MFA option for a yubikey. You can password protect access to open Aegis with its own unique password which I like (no cloud dependency or access), but it's kind of inconvenient if you have a decently sized password so I prefer it as the backup option if the yubikey goes missing.
Don't mention health issues in an interview, ever. It's unfortunate and really should be illegal to discriminate (not to mention passing up on people who have learned a lot of resilience traits and recovered function) but it's pretty much the kiss of death to mention any kind of sickness or chronic issue.
Yeah. But because it’s not explicitly illegal it is a very easy rejection from the employer. A chronic illness is zero upside and only downside from the employers perspective, so if they aren’t legally obligated to ignore it it’s a very easy no from their perspective. So as the candidate there is basically no reason to ever share that information up front because all it will do is get you basically instantly rejected
It's funny, I was just about to finally give in and try premium to see if it would get me more job leads. The subscription errored out. Maybe this is a sign.
I think there might have already been a thread on this recently, but just what are y'all using these days to look for new jobs? Has the hiring process degraded to the point where it's just the same groups of people networking and hiring each other back and forth because public hiring is too onerous?
The hiring process is absolutely, completely, and utterly broken. The moment a new job is posted there are already hundreds of applicants--more likely thousands, although LinkedIn only says "100+," essentially. All the recently laid off, the desperate H-1Bs, etc. are flooding the seeking market with supply. Good candidates are lost in the noise of application spam. It's gross.
I'm personally being really bitten by this. I have a very unique combination of experience but due to the use of "AI" and applicant tracking systems, combined with job postings that are nothing more than 50+ bullet points, there is no chance for a human to see my uniqueness before I'm filtered out for some arbitrary reason. I'm actually worried about not being able to find work in the industry again at this point.
Might as well self-promote[1]: 23+ years of experience in all kinds of software dev, cloud, DevOps, security, even executive advisor and digital transformation. Interested in remote. I give a good interview and I'm an authentic person. Reach out to me if you have something that might fit.
It's been known for a long time that women are more prone to autoimmune issues of all kinds, and yet as other comments here discuss, there is just not much done in the way of thorough exclusion of rarer autoimmune causes. Many doctors, even rheumatologists, just run a standard set of blood tests that only test for common autoimmune issues, and if none of those turn out positive well then I guess it must all be in her mind! And since portability of medical records sucks in the U.S., one often starts again at the beginning with each new doctor no matter how much has been examined before. The gulf between medicine-as-accrued-knowledge and medicine-as-actually-practiced is very wide.
In the past few years (including this past week) Fedex has lost or broken quite a few of the packages I've sent or received. They took no responsibility for smashing a monitor I shipped for RMA that their Fedex Store employees packed, using the box that those employees recommended. (I know better now. Do not trust them to pack anything fragile or important. Always take pictures before shipping.) I now actively avoid them as a choice if there's any other option.
For now. How long do you think it'll really take before it's also pitching you products? We might have a golden period, kind of like when streaming and Netflix first arrived, but that will surely give way to enshittification and ads.
Just to commiserate, I also had a health issue years ago that really threw my career off track. I managed to land a steady job after some long and stressful months and eventually got some treatment that got me back to 95% health-wise, but the job is way below what I think I'm capable of and it's really hard to get back out there and interview for something better. Unfortunately mentioning any kind of health issue during the interview process (typically when the associated resume gap comes up) seems to be a kiss of death, even with supposedly "enlightened" companies that rattle on about their great culture and acceptance. I recommend not mentioning health issues during the interview process at all if you can help it.
If anyone has a different viewpoint on this or has discovered some better way to approach this touchy topic while job hunting, I am quite open to input.
are health issues among those forbidden topics that an interviewer is not allowed to ask about?
i definitely agree that mentioning health issues is a bad idea.
but how does one explain gaps if they are caused by a hospital stay?
i don't have any such gaps, but in my CV i only mention years, not months, so one job ends in 2012 and the next one starts in 2013 regardless of the month where that actually happened. if i get any pushback on that, i'd see that as a sign of trouble. besides in any gap i was freelancing anyways.
Maybe we need a new way of expressing "blameless" that still expresses that personal responsibilty for quality work should be expected, but that punitive blame politics are simply a very ineffective way of encouraging that or finding the truth when problems inevitably occur.