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In Santa Cruz, there are lots of stories of frustration from people who lost houses four years ago in the CZU fires and who have struggled to rebuild for various reasons. I assume that the insurance does not make most people whole.

eta: Interesting Twitter thread here about rebuilding from fires in Santa Rosa in 2017.

One of the best things about New York
 

I was standing in a coworkers office looking out the window and there was a modelesque young lady in the building across from us stark naked getting dressed. Absolute 10/10.

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Do you outrank him? Suggest switching up offices.

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I am looking for a new job, and am wondering if my resume is not optimized for the technology that many places are using for screening. There are people and services that say they will take care of this for you, but I am skeptical about their application in the specific sort of niche that we all are in. Does anyone have any experience with these services, or any suggestions about what I should be doing?

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No need our offices are right next to each other, I just happened to be in hers. I have a better view from mine.

I have worked with her for over 24 years but needless to say it was a little bit uncomfortable.

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If you can give more detail of what you are asking (examples maybe) I can ask the younger lawyers I know. I don't recall anyone still (other than Les maybe?) here changing jobs in the last decade?

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Many employers and recruiters use AI to screen resumes. For senior, in-house legal jobs, what's the best way to draft and revise a resume to get past that screening?

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I responded headhunters in two of my moves of the last decade, and I was solicited directly in the third move, so I was not blindly submitting resumes subject to some review algorithm.

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I have never found a job by blindly submitting a resume, but when companies are hiring a first lawyer, they don't necessarily use an external headhunters, and I understand that the internal ones are often using screening tools.

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I get that. I was just saying that I am of no help, despite Hank's suggestion that I might be.

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Not for the first time, I missed a nuance in one of Hank's posts.

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You're probably on an OF video now.

"Watch me expose myself to the offices across the street."

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So Trump cut DEI benefits, but companies are cutting their programs. Is their now a downside to having DEI now?

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Yes. It causes air traffic collisions.

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We had to strip anything remotely DEI from our environment last year, and it was a complete and total nightmare given how much we emphasized diversity previously. (We're in one of the most diverse cities in the world. It's hard NOT to emphasize it.)

I suspect there is going to be a lot more discrimination/hostile work environment litigation because people are going to think that no DEI=carte blanche to be shitty to people based on sex, race, national origin, etc. Of course, I assume the EEOC will also be neutered, so maybe it will be harder to sue, but if I'm guessing the employment plaintiff's bar is going to eat well in the next few years.

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That's what I'm trying to understand. Why did you have to strip it? Can’t your organization just keep going as before?

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Because she works for the state, and the state should not discriminate on the basis of skin color.

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You’re explaining why they should stop. I’m asking why they had to.

Looks like Trump issued an EO that threatens if you don’t. Plus Texas probably has its own restrictions?

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Popped back in to see that this shit never changes. Figured it would be Sebby trying to do the work of Stephen Miller by conflating DEI work to something it is decidedly not. But this stupid shit coming from you isn’t surprising. Fucking ridiculous.

See you all in another however many years.

TM

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In 1982 I got a job offer from the Patent Office to start July 83. Reagan got elected on a promise to slash the Federal workforce. I nervously watched every speech waiting to have my offer revoked. But he didn't paint with so broad a brush. PTO was needed and in fact they had a slug of hires from the late 50s that were retiring so it was on a hiring spree. Early 80s 2 government areas grew, DoD and PTO. You may disagree with what RR did otherwise, but thought at least went into it. I've been asking my Trump loving partners if they were worried PTO will lose people. "No because PTO actually generates money from user fees, brings in more than it costs." But PTO employees got the same email every other Fed employee got. There was no thought.

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Dupe.

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Like we will all be here. Something tells me that glassing Gaza and getting rid of TSA isn’t a winning combination.

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Yes. He can't tell private companies to strip it.

Private companies touting the fact that they are stripping it are doing so to cozy up to the administration. I'll bet in many instances, they're doing what lots of other companies are doing - continuing a version of "DEI lite" or even DEI in full force, as it was before, just under different names, less overtly.

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YMMV, but I don't recall the EEOC doing much. It actually slows down cases by forcing one to exhaust admin remedies while waiting for a year for a right to sue letter.

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The mechanism for punishment is a debarment process (you're no longer allowed to contract with the US) or a withholding of fed grants. The govt couldn't come close to bringing debarment actions (admin regulatory court proceedings) like that against all companies employing DEI or DEI similar programs.

Of course, all this is based on Chevron era powers of regulatory agencies. Idk if that's been altered since Chevron deference was gutted by SCOTUS last year.

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Well, he certainly had my position wrong. I don't think the govt should be for or against DEI in the private sector. DEI seems to me to be a thing in which companies can choose to engage, or not engage, with all the attendant risks that come with either decision.

Biden's efforts to push it in the private sector and Trump's to eliminate it in the private sector are both overreaches. The govt does not belong in the business of telling or even incentivizing business in the area of social engineering, in any direction.

DOGE looks like a shitshow, but narrowing the govt's scope of operations in stuff like this would be a refreshing improvement. If you like DEI, do DEI. If you don't, don't do DEI. Seems an entirely private sector thing. Govt has no place in it, and our tax dollars should not be spent in advocacy for or against it.

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Equality shouldn’t be voluntary. That’s what governments are for. To ensure people get equality under the law.

Want to get rid of DEI? Only when you have actual equal opportunity.

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Surprised that so many people seem to be posting about where RT works without knowing where em works.

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It would be easier to take criticisms of DEI at face value if the same people also ever said anything about the rank bigotry that often goes along with it. If there are people who are truly bothered by DEI out of a principled commitment to equality, you'd think the bigotry would bother them.

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And this morning DOJ is threatening criminal prosecution of private companies engaging in DEI...

ETA: The all out assault on "DEI" is pretty astounding. Companies engaged in combination of marketing and typical HR cya are apparently and affront to equality now.

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Define equality.

That notion can be expanded to include almost every aspect in which humans are unequal. You wind up in an absurdist world akin to Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron. Sooner or later, someone will start arguing that being born rich is unfair, so nothing should be handed down to heirs. It gets nuts.

What should occur is discontinuance of things like legacy admissions. That unfairly steals seats from deserving candidates of less means.

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We've entered a new level of zero sum game politics. This pendulum is going to be awful. Extremism met with extremism over and over.

Our politics is fundamentally fucked - warring factions of people who think everyone else ought to live how they think they ought to live. Fuck all of these people. Fuck anyone who has ever thought, "I think people ought to live [X] way." It's time we call those people what they are - anti-liberty, and pathologically deranged.

If you want to control what others do, You Are The Problem. Fuck you.

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If you are hiring people based on racial/ethnic/sexual identity and not much else, this is problematic. But even then... is it any more problematic than hiring people based on their family connections? I'm having a hard time seeing a difference between hiring people because a company wants to improve the diversity of its workforce (even just as marketing) and hiring nepo babies or Senators' or CEOs' kids who are good for business reasons. Both are strategic choices based on a desire to improve the company.

Seems the govt should stay out of this, as all it can do is sow confusion and create annoying new rules and regulations that will help no one.

Threatening businesses with criminal charges is too ridiculous to dignify with a serious response. I have to put that in the bucket, with so many other recent missives, labeled: Shit Trump Knows He Cannot Do But Suggests to Bully/Troll Opponents.

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Having met people, and in particular business people, I know no one is doing that.

Oh, Bondi is going to do it. I don't think she will be successful, but that is me still having some modicum of hope about the courts and nothing else.

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Your description here of Joe Biden is so dead on that it's uncanny. I don't know how you do it.

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It's funny (or perhaps, more dryly, lamentably expected) that you'd take my comment as a shot at Biden.

I'm making a much broader statement about politics and society generally. It is quite simple: Somewhere along the line, not exactly sure where, politicians and policy wonks decided that they should tell others how to live, rather than merely maintain order.

Of course, this is needed sometimes. We probably shouldn't legalize heroin. And we shouldn't have countenanced segregation, or discrimination. But... we have passed laws - limited laws - to maintain the guardrails necessary.

Laws that impose restrictions on how people want to live ought to exist in the manner Clinton characterized abortion - safe, legal, and rare. These measures should be imposed only where there is dire necessity. In every instance, the govt should do all it can to avoid engaging in any form of social engineering.

Elective social engineering should be verboten, unconstitutional. Nobody in govt has any business, or any proper place, forcing social change that they think is best. This goes for pushing DEI through govt and seeking to preclude it through govt.

These things are overreaches. They are not w/in the purview of govt, which should be exceedingly limited.

And the reasons these problematic and damaging policy edicts exist stems from another problem - perhaps the biggest problem today, and the sourse of our division: People in power trying to reshape society as they think it ought to be.

These people are arrogant, and stupid, and none have ever considered the Law of Unintended Consequences. They are the rot at the core of this dysfunctional country. Until we get back to the notion that govt should be small, limited, and apply the most minimal of guardrails, allowing people to enjoy the freedom to live as they want, and allow their neighbor who lives differently to live how he/she wants, we're fucked.

You do your thing; I'll do mine. It isn't a fucking hard concept. It's the bedrock of liberty. And people in govt need to be reminded of that. But they won't be... Because they are sociopaths, egomaniacs, who think they should be able to craft society to look they way they think it ought to look.

If you want to control other people, you should never be allowed any position of power.

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It wasn't a shot at Biden, obviously. It was both-sidesism. You have a pathological need to say that both sides of the political spectrum are similar.

And your idea that we need to "get back to the notion that government should be small, limited, and apply the most minimal of guardrails" is a nostalgia for something we have never had. "Allowing people the freedom to live as they want" doesn't work, because the freedom many people want is to disadvantage other people. I would like to be free from worrying about someone shooting up my children's school, and you would like to be free to carry a semi-automatic rifle when you go out, and so on.

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I've been increasingly concerned about the direction our country is going in, but it seems, maybe, our profession's ethical obligations may be what keeps us from totally falling apart.

See, eg, Danielle Sassoon's Letter to Pam Bondi

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She is an example to the GOP Senators who don't like what Trump is doing but are scared to stand up to him.