Fingerprint? No employer does that short of the government. Standard background checks should be sufficient.

Running a business where your employees are isolated with customers in often remote areas is not a standard business. Additional safety for both parties is certainly warranted.

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toomuchtodo 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Financial services, especially folks who touch capital markets, does fingerprints and drug testing, but agree a standard background check should be fit for purpose for this use case assuming an exception process with a human queue processor.

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0x3f 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Is tech really that relatively cushy? Because I'd quit for either of these, and I don't have any reason to fear them.

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pixl97 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

>Is tech really that relatively cushy?

Just wait till there is more supply than demand in programmers/tech. Then you'll learn how much the rest of the world sucks.

A lot of us here are earning in the top few percent of our countries households and we don't have to deal with any of the bullshit that people making 1/4th we do or less.

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0x3f 3 hours ago | parent [-]

> Just wait till there is more supply than demand in programmers/tech.

Will this happen though? There's still a lot of work to be done, but principally I wonder if AI hype hasn't actually reduced the top of the funnel significantly. If non-programmers (i.e. those who might become programmers) believe the job "won't exist in six months", they are probably not going to set themselves up for that direction. Plus juniors starting work now will suffer from leaning on AI too much as well.

Overall I think it's counterintuitive. When I was growing up, it seemed obvious that my generation knew technology better than the last, and of course the next generation would be even more familiar. In practice though, kids these days are mostly phone-only. The ability to produce technological artifacts remains uncommon.

	▲	pixl97 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		>Will this happen though? I mean, it will, but trying to time the market is a hard game :D

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buellerbueller 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

How do you feel about Palantir?

	▲	0x3f 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That the capabilities of its technology are greatly exaggerated.

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