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Not sure if troll or real but… “Twitter terminated my employment this afternoon. I was in charge of controlling Twitter office badge access.

Elon just phoned me to ask if I could return to assist them in regaining access to HQ after they disabled all badges and locked themselves out.”

https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jLtFzhv


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Legal content is highly monetized.

I have had trouble finding similar content. Often these are buried in PDF reports by state agencies. There are some federal resources out there depending on what you need. But those are often hard to navigate too.

For something like what you want you may have to compile the date separately to compare it.

But yes, attorney SEO is a huge business


If this was part of a retargeting campaign it would probably be a good audience too.


There is no one size fits all. I’m a believer that office time should be optional. If I was an employer I want to get the most from my people. I want to empower them with the tools they need to get the best work done they can. If that is them working at home. Fine. If it’s having a dedicated space (office) that I pay for. Fine. They are adults and can figure out what works best for them. Why would I as an employer know how best all of my employees can work best.


Individuals may be able to make good decisions for themselves (though, reading this thread, I believe some WFH advocates may just be doing what's convenient, not what makes them happier in the long term), managers need to weigh what's best for the team or the company as a whole. The outcome might be the same, but not necessarily.


Exceeded - 0.0%

Yep

I knew that going in. I helped to secure 10 million in business in 2021. They disbanded our team. To “grow” it. I applied for the “new” role.

They offered less and said it would include 2022 annual raise.

Told by my managers manager they would make me right at the end of 2022 through a bonus. Asked for it in writing, never heard back.

This decrease in total comp plus inflation has seen my real world earned drop by 20% for 2022.


> in writing

Good shit. Make that threat real ASAP.


Really? I’ve put a ton of sets together over about 30 years and I have never had a piece missing.

I’m constantly impressed that they just always all the pieces.

What I have found is that sometimes there is 1 piece stuck in the bag after I have dumped it out. So I keep the bags until I’m finished building the set.


I have received a set with pieces missing. I bought the set off eBay, and the seller swore it was new. I didn’t just misplace the pieces either- one was a wheel, not a tiny part


The HN crowd not her target audience. We all have been in offices where people are not able to use what most of us would consider basic functions of Excel.

I know even in my group once I learned vloolup I was considered the excel wizard. What I knew was that I was far from an actual Wizard. There is so much more.

Either way there are millions of people that her courses are ideal for. Good for her.


the thing that might be more interesting for HN users is that she basically has no presence on Twitter or Facebook. Instagram and TikTok seem to be king for monetizing anything. Twitter and Facebook have horrible organic reach and make it hard to grow without paying.

TikTok is especially good because they'll promote your video based on quality and account size really isn't a factor, that's how this person went from 0 to 1,000,000 followers in a year. Something to keep in mind for your own business


I’m not sure how monetization is being used here, but the intro to the interview says that Instagram and TikTok are used for advertisement.

In the podcast (I think the transcript is taken from there) it’s mentioned that most (95%) of the money is generated from course sales that happen on the thinkific website: https://miss-excel.thinkific.com/collections


"You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nbkaYsR94c


Pivot tables are the real tools of an excel wizard ;)


Makes me kind of sad that OLAP cubes are going out of style. Pivot tables are incredibly powerful tools that a layman can use without much difficulty. One of my previous jobs made it pretty easy to get a cube into Excel pivot tables and the amount of statistical analysis that could be done over a few minutes of dragging things around in the pivot table was just staggering.


This explains my question. How much does Google pay for its own ads on its own platforms? No way to check. Easy to manipulate. But this is a whole lot worse.


It’s like you become a business with multiple clients (employers).


I don’t know if this is connected, but the company I work for we provide marketing services. One service we provide is marketing videos on Facebook on behalf of our clients. We would post the videos on their pages and promote them. We could then publicly see the amount of views they would get.

Well in the last month Facebook has changed how that works. We now have to add them to their ads manager and promote them through there and they will now not automatically get added to the clients page to be seen publicly.

That’s fine we can do that. The kicker here is that Facebook removed 2 years of videos from all of our clients. We have hundreds of clients and thousands of videos.

I wonder now if this is an attempt to stop people from researching this data since they have been removed.

I just have no other explanation for removing 2 years of videos. Note that these videos are not political in any way they are general 15-20 second animated ads. All unique and custom written a produced for each client.


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