• ramble81@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    Learn to enjoy the rest of the time during the boondoggle. And most of the time the company is paying for it anyway.

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      8 months ago

      I just love how some things cost astronomical amounts of money just because academia or the company is supposed to cover those expenses and nobody sane is not going to buy that for themselves anyway :(

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        8 months ago

        It’s like the nerdy forgotten stepchild of the hospitals, insurance, and pharmaceutical industries. They make up numbers amongst themselves for the little guy to pay.