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What was your TC?
At the game design job? $25,000 and I worked anywhere from 60 hours a week (literally cruising; this was like Heaven's gates) to 120-125 during the worst crunches. Overtime does not exist here. Think my worst crunch was 26 hours straight, a 5 hour window to return home/eat/sleep/shower, then another 20-ish hours. My grandmother passed away overseas from cancer during this patch, and I was granted 15 minutes to grieve outside by my supe, before needing to clock back in. Patch day fires, etc. Would make a good book or film if some aspects were written to be more movie-like and dramatic, to be honest. Maybe pivot it to be a finance company or something so it appeals to a wider audience.
How is dating in Seoul?
No idea, I'm married.
What the fuck. Was this working for an American game company?
Is it safe to travel or do a layover in Seoul?
It's safe, yeah. Just don't go south of Seoul (right now). Don't listen to the media, if you have any KR friends that aren't into the church vibe, tell them to lurk the Naver pages on the virus for you for the latest info. Don't worry about layovers. ICN I assume? There's a capsule hotel in there (like actually in the airport, about 10 meters from a GS25 which is a 7-11 in Korea), $70 for the deluxe room, it's the go-to if you don't want to worry about getting up, catching a shuttle to the terminal, and all that. Just wear a mask and wash your hands. The airport is probably the cleanest thing west of Seoul.
Yeh, ICN. Ok whatβs the name of the capsule hotel? Much thanks
A story that always sticks with me from the game design job was a co-worker that was very addicted to video games, especially on the PC (most people are addicted to mobile games here, not PC). He spoke some English, and we were lunch buddies on some days. The guy would tell me tales of his girlfriend being out of her mind for telling him to stop playing Overwatch. I told him maybe dial back, but he wouldn't. It didn't affect me, so I thought "live, and let live" -- until the BTC moon happened when it hit $20k. The guy had 8YOE as a UI/UX lead, and he was young. Honestly did good work, even by NA standards, a real talent. He took $30k which was his life savings at the time, dumped it all into BTC and got a coin and a half, and the week after he had almost nothing. He was losing his mind, worried with what to do. Lost his girlfriend in all of this, wouldn't seek out a therapist, lost tons of money, sold his BTC at $3,900 I believe quite a while later. Went into a very heavy downward spiral, could tell he was drinking heavily. By the time I quit, he was nothing but a shell and would come into work half-dead. I remember him just tapping his fingers constantly, completely lost.
Heavy
what is AAA? doesnβt sound like the usual auto assoc.
πΏ these are good stories
prestige. is a good poster, throw him some thumbs. π€
Weird racist troll, go back to Invesco.
I heard Blind is huge in Korea. Pretty much 90% of the white collar workforce uses it. Is this true?
Maybe 90% of salarymen in "top" companies, yeah. As far as actual white collar finance/biz people, most have got better things to do. I know a few who are in hedge funds that either have no idea what Blind is, or don't bother as it's just a waste of time and it doesn't apply to them. Consider this: KR is 50% the size of Colorado. It has over 50,000,000 people. Imagine fifty million people packed into half of Colorado, with all of NA's companies. It's another level. The shitposting dynamic is a MΓΆbius strip.
Hows coronavirus there?
It's terrible. In fact, the Parasite movie is drawing a massive parallel. People are shouting "you're eating Chapaghetti" at officials because if you remember from the movie, there's a scene where the rich people are eating those black bean sauce noodles (Chapaghetti) with a very expensive meat in it. The director's said in local interviews this was meant to be a paradox (poor person's meal / rich person's cut of meat) to mix the castes. It's a saying in Korean -- "you're eating the poor man's food so well" as if the rich cherish it, except it's the government versus the people. Given that people hack and cough without masks (culture here, can't hate on it too much) it will spread like wildfire if not contained by, I'd say, a week from now.