In at-will employment states, a notice requirement can't be enforced. A lot of things that wind up in boilerplate employment agreements can't be enforced. If too many people knuckle under and feel forced to give notice to quit, we will end up with just the expectation that everyone has to give notice. Unfortunately, enough people are scared of "burning bridges" that this concern is taken seriously. Maybe we need to recover the attitude that we can do whatever we want that is not illegal, and by trial and error find out what works for us. I have both given notice and quit abruptly, and I never saw any good or bad effects from either course. Some of us are not as scared of the results as others, but we can't let ourselves be ruled by the timid.
After tasting the water in Biloxi, New Orleans, Opelousas, Houston, etc, I am sure that the described process is an improvement. They should just leave out the lake water.
1. I don't want to pay for a smart watch.
2. You have to hook it up with your phone, which I don't have.
Otherwise, it sounds great, but I am too cheap to buy and use all that stuff. If someone could show me how to make more than the investment in that stuff, I would go get one today. I got enough fun building horribly ugly HDTV antennas; I don't need to spend any more time on other stuff that might not be as interesting.
Someone please tell me what HVAC contractors could possibly need to do on a corporate network. This sounds totally insane. If a company has 74 million people's credit card information on the same network that HVAC contractors can access, something more powerful than flamethrowers are needed to clean up that kind of crazy.
It's called phone support. I worked for a company which, while unnamed here, makes you think of electricity. The phone support we did was for a product which, while unnamed here, makes you think of never leaving the office. At the beginning of the shift, you had to put on the phone headset and sign in to the phone. You couldn't sign in early, and you only had a couple of minutes of grace time if your "watch" was inaccurate by a couple of minutes. Breaks were generated by some computer program and had to be followed exactly. The company which farmed out the phone support function, which while unnamed here, makes you think of something extremely small and cushiony, did not want to pay extra for overtime, so if you didn't sign out of the phone after exactly 8 hours you would get yelled at. If you had to suddenly visit the restroom, you had to track down a shift lead and request to go out of ready, and you were at that person's mercy, depending on call volume or the shift lead's own fear of getting in trouble.
Now tell me if this is a substantial new development.
We have an entire population of drug addicts that have been able to peacefully and apparently blissfully put themselves down for over a century. The account of the death of Socrates seems to indicate that he went quietly although with somewhat more displeasure than most OD'ers. You could hit the streets of any decent sized town and get more expert opinion on lethal injection than seems to be available to the state governments. They have been killing people on the operating table for about the same length of time; I'm sure the attending people would be able to describe how they put their charges under for good. This whole business is looking a bit silly.
I don't even think I have watched a show on ABC since "V." And that one wasn't available the next day anyway, and since I missed them on-air, I never saw the last 2 episodes. And I'm sure I haven't been back to their site since I found out they didn't have the previous day's episodes. I think this devastating occurrence is what convinced me to buy my HDTV capture card. For some strange reason, all their sports programming got moved to ESPN, so why should anyone watch ABC anyway?
FTA, the car owner said she set "the timer" to start charging at midnight. Where is this timer, in the car or on the charger connection? Maybe she is using one of those $4 light timers. Does anyone know if the Tesla can turn on its own charging system at some designated time? For that matter, how does the Tesla know what time it is? The fire department might be familiar with historic causes of fires, but (1) hardly any fireman knows anything about electricity as such, and (2) they could scarcely know anything about garage fires associated with electric cars, since so far we only know of somewhere in the vicinity of one happening.
Used to be you could find piles of old asphalt roofing lying around and you could make flying saucers with it. Demands much more proficiency than Frisbees. 5-1/4 floppies are equally good for this, with the added menace of the sharp corners. 3-1/2 floppies might work too. MFM drives are good targets on the shooting range, and you have the added benefit of erasing sensitive data.
Disaster? Not knowing how to use email could be the start of a renaissance in educational excellence. Maybe she will disconnect the campus networks, too. Wow! students obliged to listen to lectures and read books. Yes we can! Obama is a genius!
Well, that is good luck for you. Here are the gory details:
I had just started working for Rois Manufacturing in Philadelphia. They paid me with checks drawn on First Pennsylvania Bank. I dutifully hustled over to the Center City branch before closing time, and presented the check. They told me to get lost, because I didn't have an account there. After a period of fruitless whining, I knuckled under and opened an account with them, and they finally cashed the checks. Now how I was able to get any money to open the account, I am not sure. If I recall correctly, my wife already had an account with them, and I was able to sign the checks over to her, but only after there was enough money in her account to cover the paycheck in case it bounced. To me, what this indicates is a basic unconcern on the part of employers, who just don't want to go to the trouble to find ways to make this situation more helpful to their employees. The attitude seems to be "I gave you a legal pay check, how you get the money from it is your problem. GFY."
I discovered years ago that banks will not honor paychecks drawn on their own banks. They won't cash them unless you have an account with them. Why can't we replace the crack users in prison with these guys?
Look, if anyone is foolish enough to move into a development with a home owners' association, he/she probably has enough money to paper over any of the association's ridiculous demands. I just had a roof replacement done, and the roofer almost fell down and kissed my feet when I told him our neighborhood had no association, that we do what we like in our block and no one cares as long as it isn't too loud or involves crack houses.
Now, back on topic, these new pay schemes are absolutely unconscionable. If the employer can't man up (woman up? gotta be equal here) and pay what was promised without some weasel scheme to pinch pennies, he/she should be sentenced to work at some low-paying job for several years with no option to advance. Jerks, I have never sympathized with those guys.
I have probably 10 years of deferred stuff to take care of. What, you been living in a packing crate all these years?
I have drywall to replace (after first learning how to do drywall).
House painting.
Junk squirreled away all over the property to figure out what to do with.
Carport needs remodeling.
Attic full of junk to figure out what to do with before I get too old to go up there.
A busted weed eater to try to fix.
Many square yards of weeds to get rid of.
Deferred electric and electronic repairs.
Unfortunately, I go to work every day because SS doesn't pay enough to cover the cost of all the above. So, no time. You got time and money. Why don't you drop by and I can put you to work until you drop dead.
Now let's remember that unions sprung up from a variety of causes, not all related to correction of positive workplace abuses. However, because unions were the ones making the noise, the laws ended up favoring them rather than individuals. Now the situation is that joining a union might gain you something you wouldn't have as a non-covered employee. And my experience has been in the "IT" field the contractors have great enjoyment imposing situations on their workers that unions would never tolerate. So, yes, any legal protections should apply uniformly to any sort of worker, whether unionized or not. The union arguments seem to me to be roughly equivalent to what the mob would say about how they deserve support because of how they take care of old people.
On the other hand, you can argue that employers should have the right to impose any conditions they like on workers. If so, we probably need some sort of clearing house to expose or compare different employers (I am thinking of the contractors mainly) for their abuses. Good luck on leaving that to the contractors - you probably will need to regularize the ad hoc Facebook pages where complaints about particular companies are lodged, and have some sort of protection for people who post there.
To summarize, people who are great successes in any endeavor really have put in awesome hours. But putting in awesome hours is not how you become successful. From the point of view of someone who has no particular skills, putting in awesome hours might get me some overtime pay, but it will never make me successful. I have better things to do than go to work, but none of those things will ever pay the rent, so I put in enough time (40 hours a week) on some job I can do well enough. Then I have enough money and leisure to do some of the things I want to do. I'll bet this is the situation of the majority of people in any country. A crowd of achievers talking to each other will never take this into account, so the discussion will go nowhere.
If you look carefully at replacement RAID drives from Dell (HP too probably) you'll find that the same stock number might be made by two or three different manufacturers (are there more than two hard drive manufacturers?).
I finally escaped from the phone support world after a year and nine months, partly because the client is in the habit of canceling contracts after a couple of years, and partly because of finding another job. One of the main problems was uninterest and ignorance of the best way to track needed breaks. All the way from management down to shift leads there was no attempt to deal with the question. So the phone slaves would just come up with their own way to deal. Some would just run off and hope no calls came in. Others would sign off the phone and hope the numbers didn't rank them too far down. Not that the numbers were that important. There was no serious advantage to getting good numbers than you might get a better chance at the shift you wanted. Phone support is a necessary evil, and now I have much better sympathy for those guys than I did before. I'm sure a union presence would have one of two effects - one, possibly reduce the number of indignities, and introduce clear work rules, and two, send the support function off to India or China (funny, that is already happening without unions). Are you working in phone support? Get your certs and get a real job, or if you can't do that, get down to Mickey D or BK. They don't pay that much less, and have more flexible schedules, and the management is only incrementally worse.
Marine mammals used to fight terrorism. Now they don't any more, huh. What, the younger generation has gone over to the dark side, or have they just zoned out and now spend their time surfing the web???
Seems to me the problem is doing work stuff at home. If they want you to do work stuff at home, they can give you their own computer. Medical, huh? On-call blah blah. They don't want to give you their computer? Looks like time to change careers. Pay your bills. Run from these guys or conform. You'll never beat them; all you can do is get a big promotion where you can push everyone else around mindlessly. Can't do that? Run. Run like h$*$%
I can't afford to live in a trailer park. I'm still using the lawnmower I bought 20 years ago. Do you have 6 Mb DSL? I'm jealous. Ever tried to watch a Netflix stream at 256k? Takes me a week to catch up on Lost. Still on season 3.
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In at-will employment states, a notice requirement can't be enforced. A lot of things that wind up in boilerplate employment agreements can't be enforced. If too many people knuckle under and feel forced to give notice to quit, we will end up with just the expectation that everyone has to give notice. Unfortunately, enough people are scared of "burning bridges" that this concern is taken seriously. Maybe we need to recover the attitude that we can do whatever we want that is not illegal, and by trial and error find out what works for us. I have both given notice and quit abruptly, and I never saw any good or bad effects from either course. Some of us are not as scared of the results as others, but we can't let ourselves be ruled by the timid.
After tasting the water in Biloxi, New Orleans, Opelousas, Houston, etc, I am sure that the described process is an improvement. They should just leave out the lake water.
1. I don't want to pay for a smart watch.
2. You have to hook it up with your phone, which I don't have.
Otherwise, it sounds great, but I am too cheap to buy and use all that stuff. If someone could show me how to make more than the investment in that stuff, I would go get one today. I got enough fun building horribly ugly HDTV antennas; I don't need to spend any more time on other stuff that might not be as interesting.
Yabbut...yabbut!!! Wouldn't some big company like Target have someone on staff who knows how to firewall off a network just for the HVAC? Huh? Huh?
Someone please tell me what HVAC contractors could possibly need to do on a corporate network. This sounds totally insane. If a company has 74 million people's credit card information on the same network that HVAC contractors can access, something more powerful than flamethrowers are needed to clean up that kind of crazy.
It's called phone support. I worked for a company which, while unnamed here, makes you think of electricity. The phone support we did was for a product which, while unnamed here, makes you think of never leaving the office. At the beginning of the shift, you had to put on the phone headset and sign in to the phone. You couldn't sign in early, and you only had a couple of minutes of grace time if your "watch" was inaccurate by a couple of minutes. Breaks were generated by some computer program and had to be followed exactly. The company which farmed out the phone support function, which while unnamed here, makes you think of something extremely small and cushiony, did not want to pay extra for overtime, so if you didn't sign out of the phone after exactly 8 hours you would get yelled at. If you had to suddenly visit the restroom, you had to track down a shift lead and request to go out of ready, and you were at that person's mercy, depending on call volume or the shift lead's own fear of getting in trouble.
Now tell me if this is a substantial new development.
We have an entire population of drug addicts that have been able to peacefully and apparently blissfully put themselves down for over a century. The account of the death of Socrates seems to indicate that he went quietly although with somewhat more displeasure than most OD'ers. You could hit the streets of any decent sized town and get more expert opinion on lethal injection than seems to be available to the state governments. They have been killing people on the operating table for about the same length of time; I'm sure the attending people would be able to describe how they put their charges under for good. This whole business is looking a bit silly.
I don't even think I have watched a show on ABC since "V." And that one wasn't available the next day anyway, and since I missed them on-air, I never saw the last 2 episodes. And I'm sure I haven't been back to their site since I found out they didn't have the previous day's episodes. I think this devastating occurrence is what convinced me to buy my HDTV capture card.
For some strange reason, all their sports programming got moved to ESPN, so why should anyone watch ABC anyway?
1. The original Motorola cellular mobile phone.
2. Doc's time-traveling train.
3. The kraken.
4. The gold from Fort Knox.
5. Moby Dick.
Lord, Mister Ford, it would be a real event if Jerry Reed could do a song about the Tesla. Now let me go back to my lair for another puff.
FTA, the car owner said she set "the timer" to start charging at midnight. Where is this timer, in the car or on the charger connection? Maybe she is using one of those $4 light timers. Does anyone know if the Tesla can turn on its own charging system at some designated time? For that matter, how does the Tesla know what time it is? The fire department might be familiar with historic causes of fires, but (1) hardly any fireman knows anything about electricity as such, and (2) they could scarcely know anything about garage fires associated with electric cars, since so far we only know of somewhere in the vicinity of one happening.
Used to be you could find piles of old asphalt roofing lying around and you could make flying saucers with it. Demands much more proficiency than Frisbees. 5-1/4 floppies are equally good for this, with the added menace of the sharp corners. 3-1/2 floppies might work too. MFM drives are good targets on the shooting range, and you have the added benefit of erasing sensitive data.
Disaster? Not knowing how to use email could be the start of a renaissance in educational excellence. Maybe she will disconnect the campus networks, too. Wow! students obliged to listen to lectures and read books. Yes we can! Obama is a genius!
Well, that is good luck for you. Here are the gory details: I had just started working for Rois Manufacturing in Philadelphia. They paid me with checks drawn on First Pennsylvania Bank. I dutifully hustled over to the Center City branch before closing time, and presented the check. They told me to get lost, because I didn't have an account there. After a period of fruitless whining, I knuckled under and opened an account with them, and they finally cashed the checks. Now how I was able to get any money to open the account, I am not sure. If I recall correctly, my wife already had an account with them, and I was able to sign the checks over to her, but only after there was enough money in her account to cover the paycheck in case it bounced. To me, what this indicates is a basic unconcern on the part of employers, who just don't want to go to the trouble to find ways to make this situation more helpful to their employees. The attitude seems to be "I gave you a legal pay check, how you get the money from it is your problem. GFY."
I discovered years ago that banks will not honor paychecks drawn on their own banks. They won't cash them unless you have an account with them. Why can't we replace the crack users in prison with these guys?
Look, if anyone is foolish enough to move into a development with a home owners' association, he/she probably has enough money to paper over any of the association's ridiculous demands. I just had a roof replacement done, and the roofer almost fell down and kissed my feet when I told him our neighborhood had no association, that we do what we like in our block and no one cares as long as it isn't too loud or involves crack houses. Now, back on topic, these new pay schemes are absolutely unconscionable. If the employer can't man up (woman up? gotta be equal here) and pay what was promised without some weasel scheme to pinch pennies, he/she should be sentenced to work at some low-paying job for several years with no option to advance. Jerks, I have never sympathized with those guys.
I have probably 10 years of deferred stuff to take care of. What, you been living in a packing crate all these years? I have drywall to replace (after first learning how to do drywall). House painting. Junk squirreled away all over the property to figure out what to do with. Carport needs remodeling. Attic full of junk to figure out what to do with before I get too old to go up there. A busted weed eater to try to fix. Many square yards of weeds to get rid of. Deferred electric and electronic repairs. Unfortunately, I go to work every day because SS doesn't pay enough to cover the cost of all the above. So, no time. You got time and money. Why don't you drop by and I can put you to work until you drop dead.
The voting results will probably be a done deal before they even open my ballot.
Now let's remember that unions sprung up from a variety of causes, not all related to correction of positive workplace abuses. However, because unions were the ones making the noise, the laws ended up favoring them rather than individuals. Now the situation is that joining a union might gain you something you wouldn't have as a non-covered employee. And my experience has been in the "IT" field the contractors have great enjoyment imposing situations on their workers that unions would never tolerate. So, yes, any legal protections should apply uniformly to any sort of worker, whether unionized or not. The union arguments seem to me to be roughly equivalent to what the mob would say about how they deserve support because of how they take care of old people. On the other hand, you can argue that employers should have the right to impose any conditions they like on workers. If so, we probably need some sort of clearing house to expose or compare different employers (I am thinking of the contractors mainly) for their abuses. Good luck on leaving that to the contractors - you probably will need to regularize the ad hoc Facebook pages where complaints about particular companies are lodged, and have some sort of protection for people who post there.
To summarize, people who are great successes in any endeavor really have put in awesome hours. But putting in awesome hours is not how you become successful. From the point of view of someone who has no particular skills, putting in awesome hours might get me some overtime pay, but it will never make me successful. I have better things to do than go to work, but none of those things will ever pay the rent, so I put in enough time (40 hours a week) on some job I can do well enough. Then I have enough money and leisure to do some of the things I want to do. I'll bet this is the situation of the majority of people in any country. A crowd of achievers talking to each other will never take this into account, so the discussion will go nowhere.
If you look carefully at replacement RAID drives from Dell (HP too probably) you'll find that the same stock number might be made by two or three different manufacturers (are there more than two hard drive manufacturers?).
I finally escaped from the phone support world after a year and nine months, partly because the client is in the habit of canceling contracts after a couple of years, and partly because of finding another job. One of the main problems was uninterest and ignorance of the best way to track needed breaks. All the way from management down to shift leads there was no attempt to deal with the question. So the phone slaves would just come up with their own way to deal. Some would just run off and hope no calls came in. Others would sign off the phone and hope the numbers didn't rank them too far down. Not that the numbers were that important. There was no serious advantage to getting good numbers than you might get a better chance at the shift you wanted. Phone support is a necessary evil, and now I have much better sympathy for those guys than I did before. I'm sure a union presence would have one of two effects - one, possibly reduce the number of indignities, and introduce clear work rules, and two, send the support function off to India or China (funny, that is already happening without unions). Are you working in phone support? Get your certs and get a real job, or if you can't do that, get down to Mickey D or BK. They don't pay that much less, and have more flexible schedules, and the management is only incrementally worse.
Marine mammals used to fight terrorism. Now they don't any more, huh. What, the younger generation has gone over to the dark side, or have they just zoned out and now spend their time surfing the web???
Seems to me the problem is doing work stuff at home. If they want you to do work stuff at home, they can give you their own computer. Medical, huh? On-call blah blah. They don't want to give you their computer? Looks like time to change careers. Pay your bills. Run from these guys or conform. You'll never beat them; all you can do is get a big promotion where you can push everyone else around mindlessly. Can't do that? Run. Run like h$*$%
I can't afford to live in a trailer park. I'm still using the lawnmower I bought 20 years ago. Do you have 6 Mb DSL? I'm jealous. Ever tried to watch a Netflix stream at 256k? Takes me a week to catch up on Lost. Still on season 3.
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This is not a hacked account because thieves have too much self respect.