Sorry to hear that (about the mental and financial health). Hope it gets better.
Appreciate the reply! I also commented more for the general readership of HN.
Rights are kept by exercising them.
You rarely want to go to court (maybe 0.001 times per lifetime) but just indicating you know your rights goes a long way. Read your country's laws - there are probably friendly descriptions online.
Ideally work somewhere where this is not needed though.
For example if the company is hostile to basic things like if you country has sick leave and you take it and it is an issue then I would say move on quickly. Unless you are happy. Maybe they are paying a lot or you are a founder, that would be different.
So know your rights. Understand a contract is subject to wider laws and some conditions may be severed and unenforcable.
Really. If I had to choose learn Rust or learn some law. Learn some law.
Ask them if they want you to consult for $50k/w. Tell them you have more ideas, and you are looking at different companies to consult for. Would they be interested or should I talk to their competitor?
They should help the business with the evidence to make all kinds of decisions, and in a platform-team kind of way help you self serve data needed to make decisions in your team.
> Also that WP Engine was not actually providing WordPress because they were limiting a single resource-heavy feature. As if WordPress.com hasn’t been going even further in providing a limited WordPress experience since the beginning.
I was thinking the same thing!
> This means that many of the people who work for Automattic are technically external contractors despite acting on behalf of the company, holding business cards with the company logo or conducting WordCamp talks on behalf of the company. (Which rendered legal action about what I endured as good as impossible, as I did not have any rights as an actual employee and my contract was with Automattic in California, under US law.)
Many countries use duck tests for employment both for taxation and employment law. Does it quack like employment? Are you given instructions? Are you forbidden from subcontracting? Is there a fixed hourly rate? Are you required to work set hours? Etc.
And possibly human rights based law would pierce both anyway. For example you can be discriminated against as a customer in a shop and sue.
Silly question. Can you do a "drive by". In other words not slow down. How much time you need to "take the photo". I am using terms like Randall in Thing Explainer here!!
Maybe it has further missions in deep space after that. Or look in other directions and use other stars.
And reliability. When Azure sends you the "censored output" status code it had basically failed and no retry is gonna help. And unless you are some corp you wont get approved for lifting the censoring.
Natural gas prices. If gas was priced per kw like electricity then heat pumps would be popular to heat your home as they are more efficient (they cool air outside to get some energy). And then you get the air conditioning mode for the summer. But the winter use would justify the installation.
Appreciate the reply! I also commented more for the general readership of HN.
Rights are kept by exercising them.
You rarely want to go to court (maybe 0.001 times per lifetime) but just indicating you know your rights goes a long way. Read your country's laws - there are probably friendly descriptions online.
Ideally work somewhere where this is not needed though.
For example if the company is hostile to basic things like if you country has sick leave and you take it and it is an issue then I would say move on quickly. Unless you are happy. Maybe they are paying a lot or you are a founder, that would be different.
So know your rights. Understand a contract is subject to wider laws and some conditions may be severed and unenforcable.
Really. If I had to choose learn Rust or learn some law. Learn some law.
IANAL, but a citizen, which is the point!