Berkshire Hathaway can kiss my a*se. Charles Munger, Buffett's lapdog, was responsible for the demise of a generationally beloved bookshop, Dutton's Brentwood. It was the worst sort of corporate bullying, and the landmarked building sits empty to this day. Jerks
"Fun" fact: I know some university math departments have gone over 50 years with no black, Hispanic, or indigenous permanent faculty. And professors at those departments still say "We're not racist, black people just make different choices!"
Teaching college math is probably a pretty easy job. You rarely have to reprep anything. Compare that to teaching climate change or neuroscience or any other rapidly moving field. Grading is pretty quick and simple compared to composition, creative writing, geology, etc.
"Not all Math Profs" of course, but at my colleges they really seemed to have a much easier job (and smaller classes in general) than a lot of other fields
My sister was a math major at Stanford back in the day and could not get A's even though she was a whiz. One of her professors finally explained to her "Women just can't do math." (She was admitted to the math PhD program at UC Berkeley so I guess SOMEONE thought otherwise. She had had enough of them though and decided to do law. Has been a brilliant lawyer, including heading up an ADL regional branch. She DOES GOOD. FUCK those university math departments.
There's a well-known emeritus math professor at UC Berkeley who has had an article on his website since 1998 that can be summarized "There's no sexism in math, women are just bad at math."
Meanwhile, my department (I won't name the school I'm at) has a "DEI committee" consisting of three white cishet neurotypical "allies" (two men, one woman.) All of them have said some awful shit and defended it with "we're allies, so marginalized people aren't allowed to criticize us!"
Just because they got caught this one time - especially in Texas - let's not foreclose the possibility that this was a banner designed to distract from the hundreds and thousands of times they got away with it unseen and undisclosed
Republicans Lie About NonCitizen Voting - Democracy Docket
Oh man I got invited to apply for an ethics training job once for a company like this. They definitely needed one but it wasn't going to be me. Check it out:
I think in this day and age -- when Greg Abbott pardons a convicted murderer who killed a BLM protestor but he actively seeks out prosecutors who will re-prosecute a pardoned Black woman for voting -- what shocks me the most is that people are still surprised.
Why?
Jim Crow was a closed fascist state (the first person I ever heard refer to it so succinctly was Mary Trump). And Edward Blum in cahoots with Stephen Miller and John Roberts and the other members of the #Fascist6 are actively seeking to roll the entire 20th century back to that era and that state.
Why are people "surprised" when spending all that time & energy being surprised takes time & energy away from containing these people so they can't turn the country fascist the way they would like to?
"CEO Sheik Rahmathullah said his company "vehemently denies any guilt or wrongdoing," and blamed the posting on a “rogue staffer.” He also notes that 80 percent of the company’s staff are people of color, as are all of those who occupy senior leadership positions."
plus, there's all kinds of weird xenophobic and classist dynamics going on that we could spend until Christmas to pick apart before we even get to the "company" and "hiring" bits.
OT: Blanche has concluded. His defense is basically "Michael Cohen is a liar and Trump is a victim". I don't see that as a convincing argument, especially once the prosecution lays out detail by detail in their closing argument.
The only time citizenship comes up in employment (AFAIK) is when the position requires someone be eligible to apply for a security clearance. Otherwise, nope.
I'm going to have to assume this was just a really fluke typo because The [s]upreme Court said racism was over when they cancelled the Voting Rights Act so it couldn't possibly be that.
'The open position was for a “business analyst” for “Salesforce and and insurance claims,” a job description I hope no one ever tries to explain to me.'
--The open position was for a “business analyst” for “Salesforce and and insurance claims,” a job description I hope no one ever tries to explain to me.
Based on the way insurance usually works in this country, I expect that "Salesforce and insurance claims" is where, when someone tries to file a claim on their insurance, your job is to explain to them that ( whatever it is they're trying to make a claim about ) their policy doesn't cover that, and offer to sell them a policy that you claim *will* cover it if it happens again ( it won't ). For a "slightly higher" rate.
"Salesforce" is an online suite of software designed to replace sensible experienced humans with algorithms.
So the job is to watch the software as it rejects insurance claims, I'm guessing. Riveting stuff that could be performed just about as well by other bits of software.
Mrs Mild is on the board of our local Hadassah chapter. Recently Hadassah went with Salesforce to update their website and keeping track of donations and membership. It turned into a real shitshow, has taken months to get off the ground and still isn't working.
More recently Hadassah picked another company to fix the mess that Salesforce caused, but Salesforce is still involved because Hadassah is still under contract.
this is what I think happens and happened to my company. SF is a very useful and a broad-use system but it's so complicated and expensive that companies nickel and dime it so that it's only barely useable. My job is 10 times more difficult now.
A "business analyst" is officially someone who "gathers requirements." I'm a PMI-PBA, a certified professional business analyst.
It's a fancy way of saying they want someone who is good at RTFM, explaining it to other people, managing the back end of the software (usually working with a database administrator), and being the go between of the business side and the IT side when it comes to workflows. Salesforce is a very robust piece of technology with a lot of moving parts, but it REALLY needs someone who knows it inside and out to set it up properly. No set up? No worky.
I'm guessing the insurance claims part of it is just that - they need someone who can handle the insurance claims module of Salesforce.
Edit: In defense of my career choice, most of us ended up here because we want to help DESIGN software but we're not great at programming, and we're not great at project management, but we're somehow really really really good at marrying the two bits together. When I get to do my job properly, I live in flow charts. Sometimes I get to draw stick figures interacting with the flow charts.
Yep, this is what I did too for a health insurance company for a number of years. I wrote RTFMs, then morphed into a BA. I was a Salesforce kinda developer/trainer before I (finally) retired.
I don't care how diverse their company is. They were recruiting for a job in Texas, and the customer had the only color that counts: Green.
I've tried using online job placement firms, including Indeed. They are PROFOUNDLY useless. I think they only exist to mine data.
Ta, Robyn. Vey iz mir.
Berkshire Hathaway can kiss my a*se. Charles Munger, Buffett's lapdog, was responsible for the demise of a generationally beloved bookshop, Dutton's Brentwood. It was the worst sort of corporate bullying, and the landmarked building sits empty to this day. Jerks
It's a great building. I drove past it a few weeks ago. Such a waste.
"Fun" fact: I know some university math departments have gone over 50 years with no black, Hispanic, or indigenous permanent faculty. And professors at those departments still say "We're not racist, black people just make different choices!"
Teaching college math is probably a pretty easy job. You rarely have to reprep anything. Compare that to teaching climate change or neuroscience or any other rapidly moving field. Grading is pretty quick and simple compared to composition, creative writing, geology, etc.
"Not all Math Profs" of course, but at my colleges they really seemed to have a much easier job (and smaller classes in general) than a lot of other fields
My sister was a math major at Stanford back in the day and could not get A's even though she was a whiz. One of her professors finally explained to her "Women just can't do math." (She was admitted to the math PhD program at UC Berkeley so I guess SOMEONE thought otherwise. She had had enough of them though and decided to do law. Has been a brilliant lawyer, including heading up an ADL regional branch. She DOES GOOD. FUCK those university math departments.
There's a well-known emeritus math professor at UC Berkeley who has had an article on his website since 1998 that can be summarized "There's no sexism in math, women are just bad at math."
Meanwhile, my department (I won't name the school I'm at) has a "DEI committee" consisting of three white cishet neurotypical "allies" (two men, one woman.) All of them have said some awful shit and defended it with "we're allies, so marginalized people aren't allowed to criticize us!"
I totally believe it. OMG
You can take it from here, Pete Seeger... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py363BW5_DE
Just because they got caught this one time - especially in Texas - let's not foreclose the possibility that this was a banner designed to distract from the hundreds and thousands of times they got away with it unseen and undisclosed
Republicans Lie About NonCitizen Voting - Democracy Docket
https://youtube.com/shorts/gP6v-D46-_I?si=sJMJyQ9GBBXL9KZR
Oh man I got invited to apply for an ethics training job once for a company like this. They definitely needed one but it wasn't going to be me. Check it out:
https://scontent-den2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.18169-9/1450094_374271812705395_608433615_n.jpg?_nc_cat=102&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5f2048&_nc_ohc=51w8veTzFqQQ7kNvgEdiEfM&_nc_ht=scontent-den2-1.xx&oh=00_AYAxv2OE1inOQWzgopwZlRm2MQH2oDICziVhwOZf60bGIg&oe=667D9AA3
Why not? Clearly that single ethic isn't working out for them.
Hoooooly crap. It's always a jolt when they say the quiet part out loud.
WTAF!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think in this day and age -- when Greg Abbott pardons a convicted murderer who killed a BLM protestor but he actively seeks out prosecutors who will re-prosecute a pardoned Black woman for voting -- what shocks me the most is that people are still surprised.
Why?
Jim Crow was a closed fascist state (the first person I ever heard refer to it so succinctly was Mary Trump). And Edward Blum in cahoots with Stephen Miller and John Roberts and the other members of the #Fascist6 are actively seeking to roll the entire 20th century back to that era and that state.
Why are people "surprised" when spending all that time & energy being surprised takes time & energy away from containing these people so they can't turn the country fascist the way they would like to?
CEO of Arthur Grand: My wife did it.
"CEO Sheik Rahmathullah said his company "vehemently denies any guilt or wrongdoing," and blamed the posting on a “rogue staffer.” He also notes that 80 percent of the company’s staff are people of color, as are all of those who occupy senior leadership positions."
ah yes! #interndidit. how original.
He probably thought it would be better to throw the intern under the bus as opposed to the wife like Alito did
"80 percent of the company's staff are people of color"
And they earn no more than 20 percent of the money 💰 in the company, I have not the slightest doubt
#WeKnowWeKnow
plus, there's all kinds of weird xenophobic and classist dynamics going on that we could spend until Christmas to pick apart before we even get to the "company" and "hiring" bits.
"...companies with 15 or fewer employees are allowed to discriminate." is that because with fewer than 15 people, they're harder to hide?
OT: Blanche has concluded. His defense is basically "Michael Cohen is a liar and Trump is a victim". I don't see that as a convincing argument, especially once the prosecution lays out detail by detail in their closing argument.
I can link it to this thread. Blanche is the feminine form of the French word for white.
Drop the "e", and it's a term meaning to whiten or remove color from.....
IT'S NOT FAIR THE PROSECUTION GETS TO GO LAST! ELECTION INTERFERENCE!"
Wait for it
https://youtu.be/gKWJlv9iMug?si=_Y-5UZgttOCk5DpE
The only time citizenship comes up in employment (AFAIK) is when the position requires someone be eligible to apply for a security clearance. Otherwise, nope.
We are a govt. contractor with an ITAR registration, we hire US citizens or permanent residents but no skin color requirement.
I'm going to have to assume this was just a really fluke typo because The [s]upreme Court said racism was over when they cancelled the Voting Rights Act so it couldn't possibly be that.
'The open position was for a “business analyst” for “Salesforce and and insurance claims,” a job description I hope no one ever tries to explain to me.'
I don't think I'm man enough to try.
SalesForce is a CRM system that is taking over the world.
Don't try to explain what CRM is.
--The open position was for a “business analyst” for “Salesforce and and insurance claims,” a job description I hope no one ever tries to explain to me.
Based on the way insurance usually works in this country, I expect that "Salesforce and insurance claims" is where, when someone tries to file a claim on their insurance, your job is to explain to them that ( whatever it is they're trying to make a claim about ) their policy doesn't cover that, and offer to sell them a policy that you claim *will* cover it if it happens again ( it won't ). For a "slightly higher" rate.
It's a Golgafrincham category. They'll all be on Ark B.
That's probably true.
"Salesforce" is an online suite of software designed to replace sensible experienced humans with algorithms.
So the job is to watch the software as it rejects insurance claims, I'm guessing. Riveting stuff that could be performed just about as well by other bits of software.
Mrs Mild is on the board of our local Hadassah chapter. Recently Hadassah went with Salesforce to update their website and keeping track of donations and membership. It turned into a real shitshow, has taken months to get off the ground and still isn't working.
More recently Hadassah picked another company to fix the mess that Salesforce caused, but Salesforce is still involved because Hadassah is still under contract.
this is what I think happens and happened to my company. SF is a very useful and a broad-use system but it's so complicated and expensive that companies nickel and dime it so that it's only barely useable. My job is 10 times more difficult now.
A "business analyst" is officially someone who "gathers requirements." I'm a PMI-PBA, a certified professional business analyst.
It's a fancy way of saying they want someone who is good at RTFM, explaining it to other people, managing the back end of the software (usually working with a database administrator), and being the go between of the business side and the IT side when it comes to workflows. Salesforce is a very robust piece of technology with a lot of moving parts, but it REALLY needs someone who knows it inside and out to set it up properly. No set up? No worky.
I'm guessing the insurance claims part of it is just that - they need someone who can handle the insurance claims module of Salesforce.
Edit: In defense of my career choice, most of us ended up here because we want to help DESIGN software but we're not great at programming, and we're not great at project management, but we're somehow really really really good at marrying the two bits together. When I get to do my job properly, I live in flow charts. Sometimes I get to draw stick figures interacting with the flow charts.
Yep, this is what I did too for a health insurance company for a number of years. I wrote RTFMs, then morphed into a BA. I was a Salesforce kinda developer/trainer before I (finally) retired.
"Business Analyst": I talk to the users so the engineers don't have to.