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I mean it's not corporate bullshit. Yes there are plenty of legitimate uses, but the majority of bad actors are over VPN's, so hence the statement is true.

I have it on by default, until its abused. Once it's abused it's never getting it back

Complete and utter disregard for their Linux community and their reliability when they swapped off p2p and onto cloud based infrastructure was a pretty big one. It was crashing multiple times a day during that stage.

Oh that sounds good, and it makes sense from a linguistic POV.

Considering Tech bro isn't clearly defined it's unlikely that there is a proper word for it.

The closest I would say is probably nerd being used as an insult, or a tech trendist, but I'm hoping some other people can chime in as well cuz I might have missed something

They also appear on the main screen, as you're browsing and on shorts

It depends on your job designation(and region tbh). Out of my personal experience in the states, If you are a "contractor" you are expected to pay for everything, but if you are an "employee" then the company is expected to pay for any additional training past what you brought to the table when you were hired. If they say that they are changing the job requirements and they now require you to get the next level license to continue your job, they must pay for that process, that is not something the employee is required to pay for.

Being said, it sounds like OP is being pushed a "if you want to be promoted you must do this" type of deal, which is completely fair as it's an optional thing to gain more money, but you can't push that as a requirement to keep your job without also putting yourself at risk of an employment case either under wage theft, improper dismissal or an unemployment claim if they did decide to fire the employee.

FULLY AGREE.

I am lending my employer some of my personal time. Therefor if they want more, they need to pay for it. This ideology that you are owned by your company is shitty and needs to stop.

"I don't feel it is in my personal benefit to spend my energy and time outside of work, chasing a end goal that will not favor me personally. This certificate was not a requirement for me being hired, and I am not being reimbursed for said spent time and energy. If this is something that the company is interested in pursuing, I am more than happy to continue working on it as long as I am reimbursed for my time. A chance at promotion with no compensation in current day, does not guarantee enough of a reward for it to be worth my time."

Know your worth OP, companies will burn you time and time if they think they can. Don't learn the hard way like I did, or my grandfather did (he did a masters degree fully out of pocket because there was an increase in pay involved + a massive bonus, the removed the bonus and halved the increase in pay the year he graduated). It's a well known scam used by employers in specialized fields to avoid having to actually pay for training and certs.

Additionally you may want to note that if they try to say that you need to cert to stay at the company, mention that in that case it's mandatory training and you are supposed to be paid for time spent, and if they refuse look into an employment lawyer for wage theft.

I fell for New World myself.

Even played the beta and saw how empty it was, but nope I continued on.

Fully agree, but also after an event the extent that CEO did, that's going to be held over their head for years to come. The easiest way to get it out of the air is stopping the constant engagement that's encouraging it. Mastodon was a pretty large source of that.

going off memory, I believe it depends on region, but yes federally I don't think it cares as long as the price is correctly shown and the "was price" is not higher than it had ever been listed as