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‘I’m proud of being a job hopper’: Seattle engineer’s post about company loyalty goes viral (www.geekwire.com)

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[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 32 points 9 months ago (10 children)

Nguyen previously wrote a guest post in Business Insider that detailed his post-graduation move from New York City to Seattle for a tech job and how it “turned out to be the loneliest time of my life.”

Sounds like The Seattle Freeze.

Anyway. Yeah, if I'm looking at a candidate and see they had three jobs in three years, that's a minus. Are they insufferable and they're being fired? Are they actually bad at their job? Even if they are good at their job, are they going to stick around here long enough to be worth the resources spent onboarding them?

It's a risky move.

Would be better if employers made more effort to retain people, but here we are.

[–] Sneptaur@pawb.social 7 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I live in Seattle and honestly have never experienced any freeze at all. Maybe it’s because I’m queer or maybe it’s because I have good social skills, but I have had no issue integrating myself with the community here and have made lots of friends. Seattle responds well to those who put themselves out there and aren’t republican weirdos.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

In my experience, you can only make friends through work or through shared activities like skiing or the knitting club. Otherwise people aren't interested in you. If you're super active, then you'll have tons of friends. If you're an introvert, you're probably better off somewhere else.

[–] Sneptaur@pawb.social 1 points 9 months ago

I found most of my Seattle peeps by going to recurring events, and going to the same places a lot

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