@DustinB3403 said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:

There could be, usually those are written into a contract. But those benefits do not always exist.

Guess I've been terribly spoiled by good conditions throughout my career then I've only realised not all companies hand out company vehicles to all employees on my 16th year in IT

@DustinB3403 said in Never Give More than Two Weeks Notice:

Employment contracts aren't normal in the US. Those are "Contract Employees" and do exist but are different from normal hire situations.

It's the same here in Canada, a "contract" employee is a freelancer or an incorporated individual, usually, simply sending invoices every month. But a full-time employee also has a contract to sign - terms of employment, hours, benefits, salary - all of that has to be documented and signed.

@DustinB3403 I see. And there is no compensation involved? Some countries I worked in, if you are sacked, you get compensation, but if you decide to leave, you get nothing

@scottalanmiller in Canada two weeks are in most provincial employment legislations (haven't checked them all). But if your contract says 4 weeks, it takes precedence.

@travisdh1 said in MongoDB vs. Redis:

I'm a "data scientist" or "data engineer", who knew?

Just drink your smoothie, you hipster you

@DustinB3403 said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:

No. . .

But he can walk and gets paid for what he'd worked.

Who said anything about him not being paid for the time he's already worked?

If there is no regulation, who enforces the employer to pay?

@scottalanmiller said in MongoDB vs. Redis:

Are there new hipster names for DBAs? We see the opposite, suddenly hipsters call everyone DBAs, even people very far removed from the database.

I see a lot of "data scientists" and "data engineers" who really are people with a bit of python, some basic statistics and knowledge of SQL

@DustinB3403 so he walks out the door, and the employer refuses to pay what is owed for the last month. And there is no regulation for such a case? Damn, I wouldn't want to live in a place where this is the norm.

@scottalanmiller said in Never Give More than Two Weeks Notice:

That's pretty rare. Also you aren't in the US.

I've been mostly working for US companies though. But you are right, there are reasons I don't want to live in the US

@DustinB3403 said in Never Give More than Two Weeks Notice:

Again, you are the exception.

Most people leave their positions because of the complete opposite of what you've posted.

Good companies AND good managers.

That is absolutely possible but I still think I've been doing something right, if I managed to avoid these situations in 99% of the jobs I've held

@JaredBusch said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:

He is a regular employee without any specific contract. There is nothing to do except walk out the door.

There's usually the local employment code dictated by the state/province/etc. All disputes are typically regulated according to that, superseded only by whatever additional terms are mentioned in a signed contract. If there is no contract, there's only the law. If there is no contract, an employee (and employer) are still in an employment relationship, governed by that law.

Typically it's that law that states you need to give X weeks of notice, and the same law that protects the employee from not getting paid for those weeks.

@scottalanmiller weird indeed. Also, Mongo at scale is a nightmare (manual resharding when adding a node!)

Mongo is great for a developer who is just starting a project - it's damn easy to use, initially, and when you aren't big enough to actually need someone with DBA (or whatever hipster name you want to call them) skills

@DustinB3403 said in Never Give More than Two Weeks Notice:

@dyasny you are the exception than.

I've given two weeks and was asked to stay longer. There is no good way to do that. You don't want to be there. They feel awkward with you there.

It's a lose lose situation.

I never saw this situation really. I always left on good terms of course, no awkwardness, everything done as correctly and properly as possible. And I (almost) always worked for good companies, under good managers.

Make sure you did absolutely everything within the local employment code/law - proper notice time, everything documented and the management signed off on.

I had exactly one horrid employer in my life. When I found a way to leave, I did everything by the book, with a checklist, because I knew they sued everyone who left them, every time.

When I left, my friends at the office told me they were meeting with a lawyer the very same day. Nothing came of it, because I didn't give them anything to base a lawsuit on, but the fact that they tried remains.

As a bonus, I found out they lost 3 of their largest customers (~$4.5M/year) as soon as I left.

I've always given 4 weeks. Never had any problems, panics or whatever with that, that usually meant the company actually managed to find a replacement and we had a few days of overlap, so I could hand everything over nicely.

NoSQL is a huge field. You should pick a database according to what your app requires and not "by reputation". Redis and Mongo are very different, and are used for very different use cases.

I use invoiceninja, checked out akkaunting and decided not to go there, but I might switch to Wave if I ever run into the invoiceninja limitations

@travisdh1 said in ScreenConnect agent on Fedora fails rpm install:

Wha? I think @JaredBusch can distinguish between the two just fine.

He's skipping from installing packages using the rpm command to the specifics of formatting the dependency chain in an RPM package declaration. Two very different things right there

@JaredBusch said in ScreenConnect agent on Fedora fails rpm install:

Only if the deps are defined in the RPM package.

You really cannot distinguish between an RPM packaging format and the rpm command?

@JaredBusch said in ScreenConnect agent on Fedora fails rpm install:

@dyasny yum/dnf does not magically resolve dependencies.

The RPM has to have them noted.

Yup, only the rpm command will try to install and fail, while the yum command will resolve the deps.