I mean this is like saying models don't need to be beautiful, or "beauty" doesn't mean being attractive. Those things are ridiculous, of course.

If you don't have anything cool to show or talk about, and other people do, obviously they will get more attention and money. How are people supposed to know how valuable you are?

If you do unsexy work you will get paid unsexy money. If you have a passion for something thats great but if you want to earn a lot of money you will need to play the game.

With good policies and good people, you don't need "HR". I would argue he has HR just without a centralized department. Although either way, the only good HR is no HR.

HR sucks.

I have never dealt with HR and came away happy or less stressed.

Toby's the worst.

Do not EVER believe that HR is there for you.

Ever.

Spot on, not sure who would down vote this factual statement.

Your privilege is showing.

I think that the thing to keep in mind here is that HR, like legal, isn't for when things are going well. This comment sort of assumes that you'll never have a harassment problem, nobody will ever have an issue with getting their FMLA "approved", and the company will never have a performance problem that requires letting someone go in a way that won't get you sued.

These things all happen, and there's a lot of No True Scotsmanning in the idea that they only happen to bad companies/people.

Edit: I don't like HR either, but I'm very unlikely to need them to keep my boss from harassing me.

It sounds like you think HR la job is to prevent harassment, instead of protecting the company against employees who claim harassment.

What if I told you that preventing harassment is the best way to protect the company from harassment claims?

Just because some people in HR suck and don't do this doesn't mean that's not what their job is a.

If they can’t and won’t prevent harassment it doesn’t matter what they claim their job is.

Many can and do. My source for this is personal experience of watching coworkers successfully get HR to intervene.

As I have repeatedly said on this thread, some HR people being bad does not mean that isn't what HR does/is supposed to do. You're painting with an inappropriately large brush here.

HR doesn’t work for you, the fact that you’ve witnessed a few random cases where they helped coworkers doesn’t change that.

My experience is that HR conspires with managers to serve their aims, so why not just deal with your manager?

Your experience is irrelevant.

Please take a moment to reflect on the extreme irony of going out of your way to tell me that you're not going to "interface"(???) with me. Then consider the definition of the word sanctimonious.

Everyone has blind spots created by the confluence of their intrinsic and environmental characteristics. Pointing out where someone might be missing something because it doesn't apply to them has nothing to do with moral superiority. Conversely, declaring that you won't _interact_ with people who say certain things is pretty preachy and adversarial.

As said elsewhere on HN - HR departments are ultimately there to protect the employer, not the employees. This is fair enough, but not how HR departments advertise themselves.

There is a strong push for hybrid cloud solutions where your data is on-prem but compute is in the cloud. Physical storage is cheap as hell unlike physical compute.

In the long term, on-prem first solutions are dead.

None of those require on-prem solutions, like at all. I work with those on a daily basis. A basic cloud solution is more secure than most on-prem solutions held together by shitty in-house duct tape made by resume engineers.

Navy ships do.

Are you really giving navy ships as an example that shows that 'on premises solutions' are not dying out? That would be like saying that plenty of large businesses don't use the power grid because a military ship is self contained. It has no relevance to the current context.

Neither one will get you a job in VR dev. Just use a static site generator or some template, host it on github pages.

Ah yes, a secure platform is the same as an aftermarket graphics card. Boy I wish I could disable SIP on my mac and then boot whatever I want or install whatever kernel extensions I want... oh wait. I can!

Those are entirely subjective and you can't tell someone what makes them traumatized

This is really cool to witness. A random guy fixed a really obscure bug that millions of people have been complaining of since the game launched.

I am w-2 and my salary is in the top <2% of salaries in America and I literally only do my job for money, and I only care about money.

The better I do, the more money I can make.