My ex-wife worked for non profit for most of our marriage, these are my summations of her frustrations over the years. She and I both were pretty severely depressed during this period as well, so keep that in mind:
they are run like a business, and can be just as political
you will be overworked and under paid
career prospects are limited
the board is sometimes full of sexist idiots
you will meet some wonderful people but still sometimes work with and for idiots
All that being said you are doing something that typically is doing good for humanity.
My lease has two things. Mow the lawn AND abide by any HOA shit, so I had to mow the lawn to their standards and do the random bullshit they came up with. My garbage cans were in front of my house for 9 months and then all of a sudden it was a problem. Fuck HOA’s and land bastards
Went to Google Play to complain about Hulu. I noticed Google advertising that over 300 reviews had the verbatim quote “watch and movies that you love”. It’s always confusing that buggy corporate apps have >95% 5 star reviews until you see that the majority are just completely fake, and no one cares or is doing anything...
I agree with you, but look where the money is at. Google and Amazon and the rest want to take a cut of the money you give these apps and goods. It loses them money if they police these things.
That’s why strong regulation can be a good thing, keep the capitalists in check at least a tiny bit.
I know you’re not op but I don’t really engage with public gamer forums since gamergate. I don’t need the idiotic, racist/sexist/whateverist takes. I just want to forgot about the world for a bit and talk to my friends about how cool the pixels looked at that one point in time. I can get that with my friend on discord.
Ah ok thanks. Good on Ubisoft I guess? Black people are part of the world and deserve to be represented. I’m sad that this is a fucking point of contention.
Sure floating piers are cool, but couldn’t we just, you know, force Israel to open up air. Or better yet stop the fucking slaughter.
Netanyahu’s time outside of prison depends on him continuing to wage the war (unrelated to war crimes, I think he is getting prosecuted for corruption) so he won’t ever stip. We could embargo their economy instead though. Or drop a division of special forces into Rafa to provide humanitarian aid, Israel is not gonna bomb US troops.
That is the attitude of my dad’s generation. He works 60+ hours a week and gets up at 4am.
He makes less than I do working 40 hours and barely getting to my computer by 8.
That advice may have been true 30 years ago but corporations do not care about you anymore. You move up by writing a good resume and switching jobs every 3 years. All that unpaid overtime you gave them means nothing. Maybe it’ll help you get a raise that is less than inflation once a year.
Believe in working you a ton? That’s true. It’s kind of an American work culture thing. Corporations figured out that they don’t even need to pay people more and the culture of working will still keep going.
It’s really fascinating working with Europeans, I definitely don’t work a lot but I still am embarrassed about it if that makes sense. Like I am cheating. But my colleagues in Europe can take vacations and holidays with no shame
I have many conversations with people about Large Language Models like ChatGPT and Copilot. The idea that “it makes convincing sentences, but it doesn’t know what it’s talking about” is a difficult concept to convey or wrap your head around. Because the sentences are so convincing....
Yeah I don’t mean to imply that both parties aren’t corrupt. The gop seems to just be better at it and therefore the Democrats are forced to have slightly more sane policies.
I just joined a fantastic team and within a month I saw how dysfunctional it is. Nobody knows how to organize humans. Whoever actually figures it out could rule the world.
If you've worked for a non-profit in a paid position, how's your experience been?
The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel (youtu.be)
‘We don’t have a democracy’: why some Oregonians want to join Idaho (www.theguardian.com)
Yard lookin' fine tho. (lemmy.world)
Time for a CGI animation (lemmy.world)
Corporate astroturfing is the norm
Went to Google Play to complain about Hulu. I noticed Google advertising that over 300 reviews had the verbatim quote “watch and movies that you love”. It’s always confusing that buggy corporate apps have >95% 5 star reviews until you see that the majority are just completely fake, and no one cares or is doing anything...
Ghost of Tsushima is currently Sony’s fourth biggest launch on Steam (www.pcgamesn.com)
Black samurai 😡 (lemmy.world)
Seriously, why aren't most people using adblock these days (lemmy.world)
Streets of SimCity 27 Years Later: An LGR Retrospective (youtu.be)
First aid flows into Gaza over massive U.S. pier (www.nbcnews.com)
Psychologist has some *ahem* advice (www.inc.com)
Here's a first look at The Last of Us Season 2 (www.destructoid.com)
Red Lobster could file for bankruptcy this month following the closure of 50+ stores: WSJ (www.businessinsider.com)
Red Lobster could file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection next week, per The Wall Street Journal....
What is a good eli5 analogy for GenAI not "knowing" what they say?
I have many conversations with people about Large Language Models like ChatGPT and Copilot. The idea that “it makes convincing sentences, but it doesn’t know what it’s talking about” is a difficult concept to convey or wrap your head around. Because the sentences are so convincing....
AT&T paid bribes to get two major pieces of legislation passed, US gov’t says (arstechnica.com)
Kristi Noem Cries ‘Fake News’ After Disastrous Interview on CBS (www.thedailybeast.com)
It do be like that (sh.itjust.works)