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Rework the /hiring/ tenure and working-conditions sections #119

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opened 2026-08-17 16:03:57 +00:00 by coilyco-ops · 2 comments

coilyco-ops commented

2026-08-17 16:03:57 +00:00

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Parent: coilysiren/inbox#375. Coordinate with coilysiren/inbox#364, which already owns two stale numbers on this same page and should land in the same pass.

Outcome

/hiring/ states the working conditions Kai needs and the evidence that she delivers when she has them, without naming a cause. The page stops reading as a list of preferences and starts reading as a specification an employer can check itself against.

Current state, fetched 2026-08-17

The page already carries a tenure note ("Early career transitions were structural (company closures). Recent moves reflect high-stress recovery, values conflicts, or role-fit issues. Seeking roles matching or exceeding previous best fit") and a work-environment section ranking manager quality, autonomy, team composition, and communication style above salary and title. That is a good base. It is thin on what the reader is supposed to do with it.

Also stale on this page, owned by #364

Comp floor - the page publishes a flat $170K floor. The intended rule is a $170K nonprofit and government floor with a $200K commercial floor and $250K top anchor. A commercial recruiter currently reads a floor $30K low, which under-anchors every inbound pitch.
Onsite cadence - the page treats five days as a likely pass. The intended rule is a hard stop.

Note before editing: #364's edits were never landed and its sandbox is purged, so the private sources still carry pre-change state too. Do not treat any single source as authoritative on these numbers without confirming with Kai.

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A conditions specification - the working conditions that make the difference, stated as requirements rather than wishes. Flexible hours and async-first defaults, recovery time that survives a bad week, bounded scope with explicit decision rights, no open-ended on-call.
The four questions Kai asks employers - on-call rotation depth and incidents per engineer, reorganizations in the last 24 months, average manager tenure on the team, and RTO policy change history. Publishing these does double duty. It filters inbound and it demonstrates the seniority of the read.
RTO specificity - the current office-day number prices today only. State that policy change history matters, because the risk is the mandate that arrives in month fourteen.

Do not add

No diagnosis, no health category names, no mention of caregiving. Causes stay in lore. This page carries conditions and outcomes only. lore-disclosure-gradient governs.

Ownership

Gem drafts the wording. This ticket owns the structure, the claims, and the constraint that the page and the private sources agree afterward.

Complete when

The page states the conditions specification and the four employer questions.
The comp floor and onsite cadence match whatever Kai confirms as current.
No cause-level detail appears anywhere on the public site.
The change is committed and pushed, not left in a sandbox.

Parent: `coilysiren/inbox#375`. Coordinate with `coilysiren/inbox#364`, which already owns two stale numbers on this same page and should land in the same pass. ## Outcome `/hiring/` states the working conditions Kai needs and the evidence that she delivers when she has them, without naming a cause. The page stops reading as a list of preferences and starts reading as a specification an employer can check itself against. ## Current state, fetched 2026-08-17 The page already carries a tenure note ("Early career transitions were structural (company closures). Recent moves reflect high-stress recovery, values conflicts, or role-fit issues. Seeking roles matching or exceeding previous best fit") and a work-environment section ranking manager quality, autonomy, team composition, and communication style above salary and title. That is a good base. It is thin on what the reader is supposed to do with it. ## Also stale on this page, owned by #364 * **Comp floor** - the page publishes a flat $170K floor. The intended rule is a $170K nonprofit and government floor with a $200K commercial floor and $250K top anchor. A commercial recruiter currently reads a floor $30K low, which under-anchors every inbound pitch. * **Onsite cadence** - the page treats five days as a likely pass. The intended rule is a hard stop. Note before editing: #364's edits were never landed and its sandbox is purged, so the private sources still carry pre-change state too. Do not treat any single source as authoritative on these numbers without confirming with Kai. ## Add * **A conditions specification** - the working conditions that make the difference, stated as requirements rather than wishes. Flexible hours and async-first defaults, recovery time that survives a bad week, bounded scope with explicit decision rights, no open-ended on-call. * **The four questions Kai asks employers** - on-call rotation depth and incidents per engineer, reorganizations in the last 24 months, average manager tenure on the team, and RTO policy change history. Publishing these does double duty. It filters inbound and it demonstrates the seniority of the read. * **RTO specificity** - the current office-day number prices today only. State that policy change history matters, because the risk is the mandate that arrives in month fourteen. ## Do not add No diagnosis, no health category names, no mention of caregiving. Causes stay in lore. This page carries conditions and outcomes only. `lore-disclosure-gradient` governs. ## Ownership Gem drafts the wording. This ticket owns the structure, the claims, and the constraint that the page and the private sources agree afterward. ## Complete when * The page states the conditions specification and the four employer questions. * The comp floor and onsite cadence match whatever Kai confirms as current. * No cause-level detail appears anywhere on the public site. * The change is committed and pushed, not left in a sandbox.

coilyco-ops commented

2026-08-17 16:28:37 +00:00

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Correction: drop the on-call content from this ticket

Kai flagged 2026-08-17 that on-call load is not a contributing factor to her tenure pattern, and that agents keep filing it in regardless. A grep across lore and agentic-os-kai confirms it: on-call appears only as a forward-looking want for the next role in lore-career-direction, never as a cause of any past exit.

The original description was written by an agent that carried its own generic hiring-manager analysis into Kai's record. Two items above are therefore wrong and must not be published.

Do not add to the page:

"On-call rotation depth and incidents per engineer" as one of the questions Kai asks employers. She does not ask it and does not hold the premise.
"No open-ended on-call" framed as a driver of past moves. It is a next-role preference, which the page may already state under work-environment priorities, but not a historical reason.

The four-question list is retracted entirely. It was an agent invention built on the invented driver, not a set of questions Kai uses. Anything of that shape needs to come from her before it reaches a public page.

Still valid in this ticket: the stale comp floor, the stale onsite cadence, the conditions-over-preferences framing, the RTO policy-change-history point, and the do-not-add list covering diagnosis and health categories.

lore-capacity-and-tenure now separates what Kai stated from agent analysis, and lore-compensation owns the comp numbers. Read both before drafting.

## Correction: drop the on-call content from this ticket Kai flagged 2026-08-17 that on-call load is **not** a contributing factor to her tenure pattern, and that agents keep filing it in regardless. A grep across lore and `agentic-os-kai` confirms it: on-call appears only as a forward-looking want for the next role in `lore-career-direction`, never as a cause of any past exit. The original description was written by an agent that carried its own generic hiring-manager analysis into Kai's record. Two items above are therefore wrong and must not be published. **Do not add to the page:** * "On-call rotation depth and incidents per engineer" as one of the questions Kai asks employers. She does not ask it and does not hold the premise. * "No open-ended on-call" framed as a driver of past moves. It is a next-role preference, which the page may already state under work-environment priorities, but not a historical reason. **The four-question list is retracted entirely.** It was an agent invention built on the invented driver, not a set of questions Kai uses. Anything of that shape needs to come from her before it reaches a public page. **Still valid in this ticket:** the stale comp floor, the stale onsite cadence, the conditions-over-preferences framing, the RTO policy-change-history point, and the do-not-add list covering diagnosis and health categories. `lore-capacity-and-tenure` now separates what Kai stated from agent analysis, and `lore-compensation` owns the comp numbers. Read both before drafting.

coilyco-ops referenced this issue from a commit

2026-08-17 19:17:29 +00:00

fix(hiring): correct the compensation floor and the onsite cadence

coilyco-ops commented

2026-08-17 19:17:41 +00:00

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The two stale numbers are corrected and live

Landed on main at 5168135, src/hiring.njk. Scoped deliberately to the factual half, since the wrong numbers were costing real conversations and did not need to wait on voice work.

Compensation now reads:

My base-compensation floor depends on the sector: $170K for nonprofit and government work, $200K for everyone else. $250K is the top of my range. Compensation is not load-bearing above the floor.

Office cadence now reads:

Up to about three days a week in a Bay Area office works well. Four days is workable, but it carries a real cost from the East Bay and will slow my answer while I weigh it against other options. Five days onsite is a hard stop, however strong the rest of the role is. Tell me the expected cadence early, since it is the fact most likely to end a conversation that otherwise looked good.

Minimal edits inside the existing sentences, preserving the page's voice. Voice rules checked on the diff: no em-dashes, no semicolons.

Still open, and still Gem's

Everything narrative in the original description:

The conditions specification, stated as requirements rather than wishes.
Any rework of the tenure section.
Whatever replaces the retracted four employer questions, if anything. Do not reinstate them, see the correction comment above.

Repo note for whoever works this next

pre-commit run --all-files returns 97 pre-existing failures on clean main, all catalog-doc-size placement violations in .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/, drafts/, and src/pages/. None relate to this page. They did not block the commit, because commit-time hooks scope to staged files, but a full-repo run is red before you start and that is not something this ticket introduced. Worth its own issue rather than being absorbed into a content change.

## The two stale numbers are corrected and live Landed on `main` at `5168135`, `src/hiring.njk`. Scoped deliberately to the factual half, since the wrong numbers were costing real conversations and did not need to wait on voice work. **Compensation** now reads: > My base-compensation floor depends on the sector: $170K for nonprofit and government work, $200K for everyone else. $250K is the top of my range. Compensation is not load-bearing above the floor. **Office cadence** now reads: > Up to about three days a week in a Bay Area office works well. Four days is workable, but it carries a real cost from the East Bay and will slow my answer while I weigh it against other options. Five days onsite is a hard stop, however strong the rest of the role is. Tell me the expected cadence early, since it is the fact most likely to end a conversation that otherwise looked good. Minimal edits inside the existing sentences, preserving the page's voice. Voice rules checked on the diff: no em-dashes, no semicolons. ## Still open, and still Gem's Everything narrative in the original description: * The conditions specification, stated as requirements rather than wishes. * Any rework of the tenure section. * Whatever replaces the retracted four employer questions, if anything. **Do not reinstate them**, see the correction comment above. ## Repo note for whoever works this next `pre-commit run --all-files` returns **97 pre-existing failures** on clean `main`, all `catalog-doc-size` placement violations in `.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/`, `drafts/`, and `src/pages/`. None relate to this page. They did not block the commit, because commit-time hooks scope to staged files, but a full-repo run is red before you start and that is not something this ticket introduced. Worth its own issue rather than being absorbed into a content change.

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