Put your Palantir-working-for plans on hold because they're rescinding offers :kitty-cri-texas:
No sympathy for anyone willing to work for Palantir, but always found rescinding offers so evil, esp if they involve relocation and with younger employees. Like there's a nonzero chance the person just signed an expensive lease and planned to move across the country, and you'll make them unemployed? There should be much stronger employee protections and they should start at the moment an offer is made (at the very mininum).
This shit happened to me with a professorship on a tenure track, and now I'm stuck working retail in an otherwise dead college town in the middle of assfuck nowhere.
The job offer looked like a way out of being trapped forever in lecturer hell and into a tenure track, even if it was a small university, and instead it dumped me into a pretty small agricultural town with a job history and qualifications that sets me up for basically just a professorship or working at fucking Walmart.
:porky-happy: The system with the most efficient allocation of resources
At the very least they should have to give you like 3-6 months pay and buy out any leases
This is why I try to be overemployed now, no way I'm quitting my current job unless I feel the new job is rock solid.
I once got an offer from a startup. I had asked the HR person if I could have a few weeks to give notice to my company that had been very good to me. She didn't reply, instead the CEO replied directly to rescind the offer.
Thankfully I didn't quit yet, but since then I've wished for his demise.
That's completely idiotic lmao. Like you just can't attract talent without flexibility on start dates.
it was even after lowballing me on salary, providing healthcare thats mostly only good on the west coast, and trying to offer stock in a company that will never fucking exist.
And like, it's basic GoodEmployeeBehavior(TM). I would prefer hiring people that tell me ahead if they are gonna leave the post. They are stupid by their own standards
Jokes on them though because they ended up losing a lot of their engineering talent because the CEO is such a fucking piece of shit.
How long until some billionaire techbro "ironically" names a startup "Torment Nexus?" :so-true: :no-mouth-must-scream:
Tornex, an in-house division of Syscom Building Management Ltd, offers a range of products from around the world including Smoke Filtration Equipment, Air Sanitisation products, and Ozilite Automatic Flameless Cigarette Lighters.
The lighters that TorNex makes are designed for prisons: https://ozilite.com/about-ozilite/
Ron Leishman developed and began manufacturing the Ozilite Automatic Cigarette Lighter nearly 20 years ago. Initially the product was named Automatic Cigarette Lighter, now referred to as Ozilite; this device was developed to use in Australian correctional facilities (jails, prisons, penitentiaries etc) for their prisoners.
It's a wall-mount unit that's designed to be tamperproof
The guy who was the former Oculus CEO made a VR headset that will kill the wearer. It was a "love letter" to SAO
Sword Art Online, a fairly influential anime where people are trapped in a game and if you die in the game you die in real life.
I'm surprised one of them hasn't done it already for a company with deep contacts in the military that produces equipment that's def not for "enhanced interrogation".
I did hear about that recent Davos shit where the ruling class announced that "brain transparency" was their next manmade horror beyond our comprehension. :so-true: :no-mouth-must-scream:
Don't mind me, just getting VC funding for my funeral arrangement and domestic spying company, the "Lament Configuration".
“Monsanto, in cooperation with CRISPR Therapeutics, announces its new underwater city”
True story ahead. Today while driving, I saw a guy in business casual attire walking on the shoulder of the road. In his hands he carried a brand-new bankers box. I could tell by his facial expression and body language that he had just been canned. To make things worse for him, it was lightly raining at the time. Things are going south, my friends.
Morals - working in defense industry?
I work in the US defense aerospace industry. I love my job.
In my job, I work on the most complex and technologically advanced machines ever created by humanity. The absolute bleeding-edge, tip of the spear. That's a challenge that's hard to turn down, and these machines being weapons doesn't faze me.
In my personal life, I vote for politicians that I believe will keep us from having to use them.
In both sides, I'm doing my best. And that's all I can do.
Edit: Thinking about this answer, I have one other little tidbit;
It doesn't make me feel any better to know that I'm not involved. I can't watch a village getting bombed in the middle east and feel more comfortable with myself because I didn't work on that specific plane. And I've felt that way since well before I started my career.:very-intelligent: you see, if I don't take the job, someone else will! And they could be a big mean conservative! If I, a bleed heart liberal, take the job making bombs and guns instead, then maybe the Afghans won't feel so sad when they get bombed knowing the designer cares about them.
Would you still be against it if you knew that OP is a minority? ...Wow, so much for the progressive left.
On the one had, I directly contribute to the death and immiseration of millions of people all over the world. On the other hand I take a meaningless action that helps me feel better about what I'm doing with my life.
One of the only good things the US ever did was hang people who used that defense .
If Palantir, a comapny with essentially a money printer, is now rescinding offers either they're in bigger trouble than I thought, or they've run the numbers and the world is. (Or both.)
I once had an extremely cushy job recinded on the day I was supposed to start. Was...quite...upset.
