My last job was at a company with 25 US employees and about 100 in India. It was understood that our job in the US was to be American faces who showed up at the client every day while the Indian employees did most of the actual code production. The problem was that our Indian employees were generally ghastly coders (a few were as good as anyone) so I had to do most of the real work as well.

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  • We had all-company standup meetings every morning at my last job. 25 US employees and about 100 in India. Never took less than an hour and usually closer to two. They started at 7 am so that the India employees could participate at the end of their day. That was my first exposure to companies that claimed to be "AGILE" while still doing shit the same old way.

    The thing I never understood was how long each India employee would talk. Like, don't you motherfuckers want to go home?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago* (1 child)

    No, it wasn't WMMS (unless my memory is even worse than I thought). It was a different station although I don't remember which one. They called themselves "the End" (hence the song), maybe WEND? I dunno. They had that one DJ who had relocated from LA for the gig.

    I stopped listening after that one Barenaked Ladies song started getting played once an hour. "It's been" had me changing the channel so fucking fast it even happened when it was used in their promos. Good god do I hate that fucking song.

    According to this it was 107.9 WENZ. A comment says they kicked things off in May 1992 which I guess is about right.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    My tax preparer randomly started telling me about how he's invested money in a guy that is developing a "reactionless space drive" that works basically like this drawing. I was fighting the eye-roll when he added that the guy solved all the problems he was having with the design by asking ChatGPT. I started to explain how ChatGPT works then thought better of it. Easier to just find a new tax preparer.

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