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I worked at a fully remote international tech company that did a yearly in-person meetup somewhere different each year. The year this happened it was Monaco. Flew into Nice, France, then got a taxi ride from there.

Checked into hotel the night before, all fine (tho Monaco was just absolutely sickening with the gluttonous wealth on display everywhere).

Next morning I’m off to the convention center to register and get my badge. Almost get hit by a car not paying attention to my crosswalk.

Get inside, go to kiosk, and look through the terms and conditions. One of which is a liability waiver. For an internal company event. I decline to sign it and escalate my refusal.

Two or three hours later my manager, my assigned HR rep, and someone from the legal team meet in my hotel’s lobby to figure this out. They absolutely would not budge on requiring me to waive company liability for my health and safety while I’m on a work trip.

So I told them I’m not attending and that they need to fly me back home ASAP. Next morning I’m on my flight home while the rest of the company does their bullshit.

I think there were 700ish employees there and I’m the only one who refused to sign the liability waiver.

Thankfully I never got any grief about any of this, but they did PIP me a few years later and I’m sure someone higher up had it out for me with this incident being a motivating factor

every photo of his face I see is somehow even more punchable than the previous photo of his face I saw

Verge link is paywalled

thanks for the explanation, I’m still not sure what “weights” are here, but I’m also not sure I want to know anything more about LLMs than I already unfortunately do, so I won’t ask you to explain it. :P

cuz everyone knows what that means

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