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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Anecdotally, every interaction I or many friends had with IBM left a “is this the 90s” taste.
    It feels super disorganized but it’s still a big corp, “simple” dev position hard require a degree (like, their system just wouldn’t let a friend submit their application because they didn’t press the checkmark lol) - usually it’s not a hard requirement in our local market. I’m still waiting 5 years later for the VP of the BU I was interviewing at to return from his vacation to “approve my hire” LOL (for all concerned I found work at a different company… But still amusing to think about that guy spending 5 years in vacation…).

    Just examples, but feels like there’s some internal process/management failures higher up the food chain. Their devs create pretty innovative things, then nothing is actually done with that lol.








  • Same-ish lol. I specifically looked at transit availability when I was purchasing a condo in the city. I’d open Google maps, click the nearest bus stop and see if I can get to a few central places in the city in one trip. Anywhere that required swapping buses was cancelled as an option.
    I’ll still need my car like once a week or two, but being able to either walk to or use transit daily for most of my needs would be a huge improvement to me. But still won’t be fully able to get rid of the car!


  • Can’t answer for all of humanity, but for me I basically live somewhere that has absolutely shit public transport. My village has a total of 5(!) buses a day. But that’s rural life.
    I’m planning on moving to The Big City™️, so when I will I won’t be using my car daily. But I won’t get rid of it because for any trip which is beyond the central city routes it’ll be hell to get to without a car. (I expect it to be once a week-ish).
    E.g - to get directly from where I’ll be moving to my mom’s house is like 40minutea by car. It’s 3+hours by public transport.
    Also if I’ll want to do anything that requires carrying stuff (like let’s say, going to the supermarket to buy more than one handful of stuff…) - a car would make that practical as I’ll be able to put the things in the car rather than carrying it across the city.

    I definitely aim to reduce my car usage by a lot, but in my country I’ll still benefit from using a car. Maybe in a decade or two the state of public transport will be much better and I’ll be able to consider dropping the car all together.