From 1026603aae0cbf763fa1dcd204230329f0386ae1cea85d7cd2758ed3222f581b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nicholas Johnson Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Subject: Replace instances of 'anyways' with 'anyway' 'anyway' is the correct spelling. --- .../gaining-clarity-after-walking-off-a-job-on-orientation-day.md | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'content/entry/gaining-clarity-after-walking-off-a-job-on-orientation-day.md') diff --git a/content/entry/gaining-clarity-after-walking-off-a-job-on-orientation-day.md b/content/entry/gaining-clarity-after-walking-off-a-job-on-orientation-day.md index 77c5db2..bda17d9 100644 --- a/content/entry/gaining-clarity-after-walking-off-a-job-on-orientation-day.md +++ b/content/entry/gaining-clarity-after-walking-off-a-job-on-orientation-day.md @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ It came as a surprise because this type of job normally wouldn't be offered to a It started with an interview with the English program director. We discussed the details of the job for a while and got to know each other. The director was surprised to learn that I didn't have a phone or a phone number. After realizing that I'd need a phone, a phone number, and WhatsApp to contact the director and my coworkers, I told the director I would be willing to get those things. I also learned that I'd need a Mexican bank app to get paid. I wasn't happy about it, but I tried to remind myself that I needed the job since I've lacked stable employment for quite a while now. -Before I'd even discovered the teaching opportunity, I'd already made the rounds at large Mexican banks in a futile attempt to find one that didn't require a proprietary mobile application just to use the fucking account. I ended up finding an alternative to banking that's good enough for now. So imagine how annoyed I was finding out that I'd need an account and the app anyways. One of the biggest problems with these bank apps, besides them being proprietary spyware, is that they refuse to work if you use a custom rom or try to exercise any real control over your own device. +Before I'd even discovered the teaching opportunity, I'd already made the rounds at large Mexican banks in a futile attempt to find one that didn't require a proprietary mobile application just to use the fucking account. I ended up finding an alternative to banking that's good enough for now. So imagine how annoyed I was finding out that I'd need an account and the app anyway. One of the biggest problems with these bank apps, besides them being proprietary spyware, is that they refuse to work if you use a custom rom or try to exercise any real control over your own device. I'd need a real mobile phone to get the bank app since my computers lack the CPU instructions to spin up Android VMs. I certainly wasn't going to spend money on a closed hardware computer or mobile phone, so a family member gave me their old Android device. Thanks to planned obsolescence, I could not upgrade the system past Android 8.1, meaning it probably contained unpatched security vulnerabilities. I was unable to install a custom degoogled rom either. @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ I also noticed that the classrooms had surveillance cameras, which made me uncom After the orientation, we were shuffled off to a conference room. In the conference room, we were emailed a document to complete as some kind of Google form. While everyone was using their phones to complete the form, I wasn't even aware that I'd need to access my email on my phone while at work, so I didn't prepare it and couldn't access the form. I was also very apprehensive about putting any information in a Google form. Why should I have to give data to the corporate surveillance monster that is Google just to have a job? -Eventually everyone in that group had completed the form and went to get their pictures taken, except for me since I could not access the form. I became frustrated and stressed, so I left to sit down on a bench outside the conference room to calm down, then headed towards the English language coordinator's office to discuss the matter. They had to continue the orientation soon, but they gave me a few minutes anyways. +Eventually everyone in that group had completed the form and went to get their pictures taken, except for me since I could not access the form. I became frustrated and stressed, so I left to sit down on a bench outside the conference room to calm down, then headed towards the English language coordinator's office to discuss the matter. They had to continue the orientation soon, but they gave me a few minutes anyway. At that point, I'd had enough. I didn't want a phone. I didn't want a phone number. I didn't want WhatsApp. I didn't want a bank app. I didn't want to use Google. I originally thought I could put up with it all given how badly I needed a stable job, but it turns out I was wrong. @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ The director messaged asking me to return and I did. I tried to state the terms The leader proceeded to lecture me, saying that sometimes it's necessary to do things I don't like to fit in with the group and that if I had a problem with that, I'd need to talk with the director. I believe that was the moment when I decided for certain I wasn't going to work there. -I sat through the rest of the debriefing anyways, where I noticed that the online grading system wasn't even protected by a TLS certificate, meaning that anyone smart enough to use [Wireshark](https://www.wireshark.org) could capture all institutional data including student grades and teacher and administrator login credentials. +I sat through the rest of the debriefing anyway, where I noticed that the online grading system wasn't even protected by a TLS certificate, meaning that anyone smart enough to use [Wireshark](https://www.wireshark.org) could capture all institutional data including student grades and teacher and administrator login credentials. After the debriefing, I informed my group leader that I'd decided not to take the job and that they needed to tell the systems people to fix their TLS because the site was unsecured. I explained the severity of this and the importance of fixing it, but I was told that the systems people "would not listen to them". After hearing that, I walked straight out the door. -- cgit v1.2.3