Employment isn't at an all time high - unemployment is pretty low... but a lot of non-working adults or underemployed adults don't count as unemployed. A significant chunk of the population has just given up on trying to find a job.
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In British Columbia our labor laws were basically written by EA so tech workers have almost no protection against overtime unless it's contiguous - the only hard limit on working is once you hit 32 continuous hours you must be given time off... BC high tech employees are exempt from any overtime and the only limit they still get is that they must be given eight hours off every day - but that's eight hours not working, not necessarily eight hours of sleep. So you could be asked to work 32 continuous hours then be sent home with a forty-five minute drive, get home, sleep for six and a half hours (or try to) then get back in your car to drive back to the office to work another sixteen hours.
If you objected to this schedule you could quit but you'd have no legal recourse to sue your employer.
Oh, and in the above three day scenario (home for eight, work for thirty two, home for eight, work for sixteen) you'd be paid the same if you worked for twenty four hours over three days.
BC tech workers have no rights.
Employers don't usually broadly advertise their anti-perks. This is the kind of thing you usually discover with a question during an interview or when you're handed your employment contract.
Most salaried workers are written up if they fail to work 8+ hours. Salaried is now just a method to deny people overtime - fancied salaried workers may still operate in the intended way but even most developers I know have to obey some sort of time tracking method.
Weird ass story... I'm not certain why the local government is refusing to permit the recovery operation when they have no financial liability in it. I normally like to ignore everything crypto folks say but this seems pretty reasonable.
If you need inspiration PirateSoftware has some good pieces on getting started with game programming and regularly runs game jams.
https://archive.is/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/17/world/asia/bangladesh-disappeared.html
For the inevitable NYT paywall.
You'll never escape the ads - never! We'll get you in your sleep! We'll paint billboards on the insides of your eyelids!
Nah, I was brought to church as a kid but I haven't really read the Bible closely. Honestly, I'm just going off a general read of "dude who helps people in need and isn't an ass".
We love ending democracy, amirite guys?!
... guys?
Margin of error: 4%
So not at all statistically significant.
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Critically, if you want one of those really high paying jobs you need to work in a market with insanely high CoL - compensation increases haven't been universal.