Honestly the majority of millennials I’ve known in most cities are casual baseball fans at best, who enjoy an afternoon beer in the upper reserves. Almost all of the millennials I know that are actual baseball fans, do it because of their family traditions, but I do see them carrying it on in the current generation, but I still worry about access to the games on a regular basis it’s hard to be engaged.

Lol. If you think any of this is humble bragging, I feel bad for anyone who tries to have a conversation with you that contains opposing views. This is me doing nothing more than providing realistic insight into a different industry than OP was talking about that has similar hiring strategies, because this hiring strategy exists everywhere and it's goal is to weed out liars.

Until you draft the legislation to require staging/interview time to be paid and it gets signed into law, all of your energy dedicated to being upset at less than legal hiring practices is nothing more than a waste of time. You could be improving your earning potential, increasing your industry knowledge and get promoted, but you'd rather project insecurities about your lack of success in this thread than accept that maybe more of life is within your control than you admit and you're just lazy. Why do you expect everything, including jobs to just be handed to you without earning them? Filling out an application and having a decent work history is NOT earning the job, its earning the opportunity to be considered seriously.

It’s not different from what I originally said, but for some reason all of you chose to think I put in nearly a month of work for some app where my coding assignments were used in production which really happens far less often than some of the hiring horror stories suggest.

While that does happen some of the time, it’s not common practice. I get it though, the downvotes are just projections of insecurities bcz jealousy causes weird reactions.

I’ve seen a pixel or two in my day

While you and everyone else on Reddit lives in a dreamworld, the rest of us have accepted it for what it is and figured out a way to make it work. But enjoy your echo chamber, there’s some benefit to venting…

I’ll defer the hater attitude and downvotes to let you all know that now I work 20 hour weeks at MOST, from wherever I want, and make a healthy six figures.

Sure the scale differs when you’re a software engineer, not a cook, but the fact is that for all jobs, I don’t trust anyone’s resume, I trust how they handle Sunday brunch or a regional instance of an AWS cluster failing during deploy that causes the SaaS app to fail on a peak weekend.

I’d never hire you blindly, but I’d let you do a coding challenge, the same way I’d let you stage during a catered event to see how you handle it.

To be clear, each job application is maybe 2-3 hours of work, I didn’t do 3 full time weeks of work for one app, as much as the software engineering job market is very competitive and it took a while to find a good opportunity.

Get with it or stay poor, sad and broken, homies. I am only here to help provide insight into how the rest of the world without college degrees, myself included, makes it.

Hiring for any job that pays more than 40k will take 3-4 steps, and likely 2-6 weeks.

To become a software engineer, I completed over 100 hours of “take home” assignments. This is very common and an acceptable way to see if people are not entirely full of shit.

And not to be the dickhead, but a huge chunk of people in hospitality are full of shit.

You/your friend should know better than to expect ethics from the hospitality industry.

Assuming a line cook makes 20 an hour, which is high, that means your “friend” is owed $180 bucks. Closer to $140 after taxes.

Youll likely spend more time in this thread than your friend did at work, and neither of you will ever be compensated.

Fact is, hospitality is toxic and this is a $180 sign of gratitude that they don’t have to work for that EC.

Like how hard is it to google exactly what’s printed on the sticker and not get the right answer.

Bruh I can hear you mouth breathing from here, maybe call your cousin for a date night or go clean one of your guns. Gang doesn’t mean violent criminal, it does however mean association of people.

I didn’t say a thing about skin color, however like all gangs or groups or squads, the culture of dirt bikes in baltimore is a family that these people lean on the exact same way hells angels, the crips, knights of Columbus, the local intramural sports teams,or kappa alpha sorority, because they want to belong to something. I find the structure of all of the organizations very beneficial to mental psychology, even if the actions of the orgs are not necessarily lawful.

Fact is, dirt bikes in the city, whether ridden by perfect citizens or not, are a nuisance. This is very similar to evenings on ritchie highway is a shithole filled with tuners, a lot of city is a shithole with 12 o clock boys, and that’s why anyone with a brain can accept that it is what it is, but you’d rather tell me I’m racist than look at something from outside your tiny ignorant lenses. Good luck out there my friend, life isn’t gonna get any easier for your grumpy ass if you don’t step off from your high horse a bit.

If you actually ever got off your high horse, you’d realize you’ve been riding a donkey your whole life claiming you’re on a Clydesdale.

Idk what you wanna hear fam. The culture of the dirt bikes in our city is one of gangs and kids without families to support them.

Do I wish that wasn’t the case? Yes, but giving these kids a dirt bike track wouldn’t solve the problem of systematic racism and lack of opportunity for these people.

But go ahead, keep thinking I’m racist, have a great day!

Awww there’s always one racist

Because having somewhere to ride the dirt bikes is not the reason they are a problem. It’s the culture surrounding the reasons the dirtbikes exist, and they don’t exist to compete in the X games.

Whatever your problem is my guy, screaming about it incoherently into the void won’t ever help prove your point more, digitally, or gain more respect IRL. Have yourself a nice lil Saturday!

Because you’re really angry for some reason. There are problems in every industry, but very few industries will pay pretty well even just to learn, and then even better after some experience. And within a 10 year streak you can go from minimum wage to six figures. Nobody’s hiring software engineers who can’t engineer, trades are all still a viable path for everyone who didn’t get other options. Learn a trade. Build a business, own a share of a successful business once you want to stop swinging a hammer or whatever. More of the boats in the white Marlin open are owned by successful blue collar business owners than any other market and you want to sit here and cry about all the negatives instead of seeing the positives.

Studies suggest that the less well off you are financially the more you’re likely to focus all of your efforts on not being homeless and feeding your kids.

This starts with apathetic acts such as lack of turn signals, but then trickles into things like property crime and robbery.

I’ll say it and eat the downvotes.

Baltimore is a highly uneducated region. A staggering number of our citizens can’t be bothered to think about their yearly budgets, or how to meal plan, this is because of the inability to see anything more than what’s directly in front of their faces literally and metaphorically. Empathy is a skill that takes practice and cognitive awareness of others, something - lot of smart people are still really bad at. So using your turn signal is a very basic way to drive/communicate/live with empathy, which is just something a lot of people don’t have anymore.

I think we all pretended to care a little bit in 2019, and then all our psyche’s were irreparably fucked during all the shit that happened in Covid/trump

Winning an election is completely different from running the office. Even when you’re in office, the only thing they can do is elect someone else, but all you’ve gotta do is spew the right bullshit come election season and incumbents almost always win.

Delta has non stop flights from BWI to JFK for ~$200. Unless you don’t like airports, there’s really no reason not to fly. Trains and busses get delayed just as frequently, so if you can optimize your time in the airport as much as you would have on the train, it’s reasonably cost effective.

If more and more DC money comes up 95, a lot is gonna change.

All I’m saying is the bag in the photo probably costa 3-4 bucks and looks like it’s from some artisanal coffee shop.

Nobody’s putting a tall boy or a 40 in that bag.

And nobody knows what it is either way. That’s the point. This is bad marketing regardless, but using the OG iconic pint of Guinness to market the Guinness brewery is correct. Marketing is about reaching people with things they connect with.

Yes, because it’s a Guinness factory, brewery, etc. regardless of what they make, people will know a pint of Guinness across the world when you see it. Any blonde looks the same.

Why would they use decorative retail bags tho? Everyone knows what the brown paper bag around the tall boy looks like and it surely isn’t the bag you’d expect your products from urban outfitters to come in.