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Don’t forget that the $10k bonus is pre tax so they’ll be looking at $6k.

Unless that ATC is making over $197k they would keep $7600 of the bonus as up-to $197k annual income the tax rate is only 24% for 2025. Yes, the bonus withholding rate is higher, but when they file at the end of the year, they'd get back that difference in the withholding rate vs the income tax rate.

Those "uhh"s are a competent person thinking through how each thing they say could be misinterpreted and changing the language on the fly. He knew anything he said that could even be taken slightly as offensive to the right would dominate the news cycle for the next week. Its just sad that trump and his supporters knows the same thing and simply doesn't give a shit about who he offends.

i would assume an actual competent person would be able to answer them immediately and confidently,

People aren't always able to regurgitate encyclopedic knowledge in interviews. Sure some can, but many have anxiety about interviews in general, or stuff going on in their lives which can make them not the sharpest when hit with a rando question like this. There are some absolutely brilliant people I've hired that would fail miserably if this was how they were measured.

Some people work better with scenario based questions instead of bulleted memorized answers. Honestly, I'd much rather have a candidate that knows the concept being discussed even if they can't remember the exact name of a term or the name of a flag they'd need to include when issuing a command. Those last things can be googled in the moment. Conceptual knowledge and understanding is much more important to me than wrote memorization.

someone reading an LLM prompt is probably sounds like they’re reading from a script even if the answers arent wrong

Well, thats what I experienced from my original post, but I'm not sure it will always be that. Someone more clever could take the answer from the LLM and paraphrase it, or put it in their own words and sound competent.

I’m doing the job of 3 people right now.

FUCK YOU PAUL. I will never work a single minute of OT for you ever again.

You're in HR so you probably are already ahead of me on this one. Just in case:

To CYA, you need to have one email exchange with Paul. With only the limited amount of time you're not going to be able to complete all 3 jobs. Get in writing which of your 3 jobs Paul wants as #1 #2, and #3 priority. Work will go undone without PTO. When things blow up, you need to be able to point to that email exchange where your boss, Paul, told you that #2 and #3 get shafted in favor of #1, and that your 35 hours only allows you to cover #1.

I'm not following, wouldn't an LLM be able to easily answer that one?

From the other side, hiring competent people has gotten much harder with AI in the hands of people. Its making them dumb.

A coworker and I were interviewing someone for a technical role over a video meeting that we did NOT get through our network. His answers were strangely generic. We'd ask him a direct question about a technology or a software tool and the answer would come back like a sales brochure. I message my co-worker on the side about this strangeness, and he said "We're not hiring this guy. Watch his eyes. Ever time you ask a question, he's reading off the bottom of his screen." My coworker was right. I saw it immediately after he pointed it out. We were only 4 minutes into the interview and we already knew we weren't hiring this guy. I learned later about LLMs that you can run while being interviewed that will answer questions your in real time.

Another one happened within 48 hours of that interview. Someone that had been hired was on a team with me. An error came up in a software tool that we are all supposed to be experts on. I had a pretty good idea what the issue was from the error message text. This other team member posted into our chat what ChatGPT had thought of the error. In the first sentence of the ChatGPT message I immediately could tell that it was the wrong path. It referenced different methods our tool doesn't even use.

To translate it with an analogy, assume we're baking a cake and it came out too sour. The ChatGPT message said essentially "this happens when you put too much lemon juice in. Bake the cake and use less lemon juice next time" Sure, that would be a reasonably decent answer....except our cake had no lemon juice in it. So obviously any suggestions to fix our situation with altering the amount of lemon juice is completely wrong. This team member, presented this message and said "I think we should follow this instruction". I was completely confused because he's supposed to be an expert on our tool like I am, and he didn't even pause to consider what ChatGPT said before he accepted it as fact. It would be one thing to plug the error message into ChatGPT to see what it said, but to then take that output and recommend following it without any critical thinking was insane to me.

AI can be a useful tool, but it can't be a complete substitute for thinking on your own as people are using it as today. AI is making people stupid.

This is why I generally hire from inside my network or from referrals of those I know. Its so hard to find a qualified worker among all the other unqualified workers all applying at the same time. I know there are great workers not in my network, I just have no way to find them with the time and resources I have available to me.

Why in the world would anyone hog tie someone like that and then write shit about trump on her?

Many MAGAts that face social consequences for their MAGAtism cry victim and and then circled with attention and monetary support by other MAGAts. Since they aren't actually victims and they want the attention, they manufacture the victim status.

Sadly this isn't confined to MAGAts. Actor Jussie Smollett did the same thing attempting to manufacture victimhood of a hate crime. What really angers me about Smollett is that there are real victims of race based hate crimes and his antics cast doubt on those other real victim's situations.

Is it a scam offer if the benefit was valid for 5 years? If the value proposition for a product changes to where its not valuable anymore, stop buying the product.

As a Williams fan, I'm excited to see this livery in person. Also the Williams event setup in front of the New York New York Casino is pretty elaborate this year. I took these pictures a couple of days ago:

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I believe she swears an oath to the magistrate that receives the indictment that the bill is proper and true. Hopefully a disbarment is on the horizon also.

She's also trying to prosecute a former FBI director on trumped up charges. Shouldn't that set off warning bells for her that the rule of law will come after her for actual violations of the law in the years ahead?

BTW you missed a colon at the end of your if statement on line 341. Also you used irregular whitespace on another line, but I'll let you find that one yourself, as a treat.

Hmm, by removing Piet and thus hiding the traditional racist representation of black people, or by whitewashing him?

"because he has to climb through Chimneys to deliver gifts for Sinterklaas". "Has to"?! Is Piet a slave to Sinterklaas? /s /ragebait

Ending the conflict would end the attention.

I recently learned that Mikey Mouse's classic look was derived from racist Vaudeville blackface dress:

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Disney successfully evolved/hid/whitewashed Mickey away from his racist image roots, and few today would say Mickey is a reference to the racist past.