Though, that being said, HR usually doesn't care about job requirements for the various departments. They're just following a directive from higher up, and if they are told "Position X requires YYY amount of experience," then by God, they'll require that amount of experience and junk any resume that doesn't follow those job requirements.
The solution (that nobody seems to want to man up and take) is to slap HR around.
If you're not already a VP (sometimes even those aren't immune), if you butt heads with HR, you find yourself out the door. Maybe you're not a team player, maybe you're causing unnecessary strife, maybe you're causing a 'hostile workplace environment.' Any of those excuses are enough 'let go' most workers. That's why people don't 'man up' against HR, people who man up against departments with more power (and HR usually has the power) lose. They get fired. They might feel they fought the good fight, but they're still fired. You need some really good managers with real clout in the company on your side.
Everyone is expendable (even people in HR) and the people who think they're too important to be fired over something so petty don't realize how expendable they really are.
That's true, you could also get a job at one of those places by being someone's daughter or nephew.
Or have a good reference. It doesn't have to be nepotism, professional connections help too.
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Listening to others is sometimes a hindrance and a sign of indecisiveness.
Doing what others tell you to do and being unable to formulate and defend your own opinions and decisions is a hindrance and a sign of indecisiveness. Listening is not. Those are not the same thing.
For absolute certain, your view a year after the change will be quite different. You can't see it yet, but I know it, having seen it in everyone around me.
Then please, turn around and ask the random people around you why the heck they would prefer dollar/pound/etc coins to bills.
I can think of one, and exactly one effect that the switch will have on me, and that is I'll end up carrying a lot more coins around, and I will HATE that.
Because right now you're using the language that someone brainwashed would say. I don't mean to imply that you have been or any such nonsense, but no one in the thread has been able to give logical arguments why I would like coins better, there's just a vague "if you embrace it... you will understand." From the outside, it just sounds weird.
Scott Pilgrim is a fine movie, a greatly underrated movie. The Best Movie? Naahh.. not even the best geek movie of that year. But it's a quite decent movie.
Besides I never really had a feeling from the move from the Light side of the Jedi to the Dark Side of the sith.
To be fair, he did start the slide early on in Attack of the Clones where he massacred an entire village, something Padme knew about, but then seemed to promptly forget, or not care about.
I think most people would have thought the 3 prequels were fine movies if they had not been labeled "Star Wars". The problem is that OK movies hit the theaters wearing the name badge of a movie series that really did 'define a generation'.
The movies would have simply been forgettable instead of infamous if they had not been labeled Star Wars. Forgettable big-budget extravaganzas, like Van Helsing.
WARNING: Only watch Red Letter Media's works if you want to watch a movie review that is as long as the movie he's reviewing.
His Star Wars reviews are fantastic (even if he does get a little too distracted with woman-killing jokes the further into the reviews that you get) and display a surprising understanding of movie artistry and story construction and character interaction.
But what has had more impact in the last 40 years culturally than Star Wars that can be attributed to a single person?
But we're not talking about Star Wars. We're talking about Revenge of the Sith in particular, and while Star Wars and the Empire Strikes Back have had almost unparalleled impact on culture, the prequels have had very little. I can think of many counter-examples.
You mean the first scene in 2012? With Tom Hanks as some author, and he was at a party? Without giving away too much, I thought the other guy was also an author, not a critic.
*MINOR MINOR SPOILERS BELOW*
He was the literary critic, and it was his published critique that Hanks's character blamed for the failure of his book.
If you haven't seen it yet, don't expect any *spoiler alerts*, I think there's a shelf life for those. Have you seen Citizen Kane? *spoiler alert* Rosebud is a sled.
Yeah but everyone remembers the Citizen Kane early 80s saturday morning cartoon featuring Rosebud the talking magic sled.
The 24 inch rims would of been rubbing up against the wheel wells, rubber would of been ripped to shreds assuming by some miracle the wheels where stuffed in before inflating the tires. Sparks would of been flying out as each rim grinded against the unrelenting pavement. Skidding down the road as he injected the NO2 into the fuel injectors, the extra pressure would of ripped the bottom end of his daily driver spewing hot oil across the road. Cylinder 2 and 4's crankshaft, because of the dangerously low oil pressure would of been seized. Due to the opposing motion of the crankshaft, the rods connecting the cylinders would of been ripped clean off.
This sounds like one of the more amusing traffic stops in history.
I always browse at 120-125%, and some sites come out completely borked -- resizing artefacts on images (including many titles, banners etc), text that gets cut off due to hacky fixed-size boxouts etc. It's all crap.
That's one of the reasons why I switched from Firefox to Chrome. I couldn't believe how BAD the image resizing under Firefox (on Linux, not sure about other platforms) is, and how Chrome had far fewer resizing artifacts. It's not a speed issue either, Chrome seems refaster at scaling than Firefox is at the same time.
Then again I open a lot of webpages where it's important to not have any image resizing done at all, so I zoom text only, which breaks a number of web sites that use images as spacers.
Problems are always the caused by the "other guy", including previous developers
Come on, that happens pretty often -- a developer quits, leaving a mess behind (possibly quitting because he didn't want to fix the mess). Another developer is hired to clean things up. How are the short term problems not the fault of the previous developer? Things like getting up to speed with the code, writing and testing fixes all take time, and during that time you're in "I've inherited a mess" mode.
Ever want to install more than one copy of Apache?
This is up to the installer writer. I don't have experience with DEB, but with RPM, there is, for instance, no reason why you can't have two versions of the same package installed as long as they don't try to own the same file locations (or at least, as long as those shared files are the same). The Linux kernel does this by default on many Linux distributions, allowing you to have several different versions of the kernel installed that you can switch between. The version of the program is baked into the base install directory, something I note that many non-rpm enterprise software installers do anyway.
I hear what you're saying, and pensions are just fundamentally flawed for a company in decline... But is a 401(k) really better? How much do you trust stock brokers in NY with your future?
A properly diversified 401(k)? I put a lot of trust in it, actually. It's better than a company pension that is likely to get axed when the company goes through Chapter 11.
Long gone are the days of the loyal company worker who worked at a stable company for 30 or 40 years, and I'd greatly prefer a retirement system that isn't tied to the health of the company.
You seem to be equating "legal merit" with "accuracy" or "truth". I think this is the point of the objection here. "Legal merit" is not necessarily truth. It probably relates to it in a way similar to how "law" relates to "morality".
But you don't know "accuracy" or "truth." What you really have is "legal merit" versus "truthyness." Sadly, this is the one time I have to go with truthyness.
There are plenty of games that work in Wine, many games (especially older ones) that do not, and a whole host of games that "work," (World of Warcraft, Civilization 5) that work, just not all that well.
But for the University President to take such a personally condemnatory stance - I don't recall him writing such a screed against John Brennan, the 2012 commencement speaker who defended the USE OF TORTURE (afaik the Catholics haven't explicitly endorsed that since Torquemada) - is seemingly unprecedented.
Yes, I would take John Brennan over Ann Coulter. Not a fan of Brennan, but I can't think of a -worse- speaker than Coulter. At least Brennan could try to use facts and logic to try to defend the use of torture. Coulter is nothing, nothing more than a pure hate-monger. She has no positive qualities. She exists solely to widen the division in our country and increase the hatred and contempt the right has for the left. I consider it more damning than policy disagreements. A speaking engagement aids and abets that, in fact those are what she needs to survive. Brennan doesn't need that, she does.
Even if we grant you that there is a liberal media that does the same thing as the conservative media (and if we forget that 'But they do it too!' is a lousy argument
According to Ann Coulter, the subject of the story, Fox News is the only major news organization that tries to report fairly. Every other large media organization is liberal to the core and only reports with a very liberal slant. Every one.
I'd like some references for this of specific examples. This has to be mainstream media too, no MSNBCs or Air America (does that thing even exist?) or Bill Mahar or Jon Stewart.
The only incident I can think of off the top of my head is the George Zimmerman audio tape edit. I hope someone was fired for that.
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Though, that being said, HR usually doesn't care about job requirements for the various departments. They're just following a directive from higher up, and if they are told "Position X requires YYY amount of experience," then by God, they'll require that amount of experience and junk any resume that doesn't follow those job requirements.
The solution (that nobody seems to want to man up and take) is to slap HR around.
If you're not already a VP (sometimes even those aren't immune), if you butt heads with HR, you find yourself out the door. Maybe you're not a team player, maybe you're causing unnecessary strife, maybe you're causing a 'hostile workplace environment.' Any of those excuses are enough 'let go' most workers. That's why people don't 'man up' against HR, people who man up against departments with more power (and HR usually has the power) lose. They get fired. They might feel they fought the good fight, but they're still fired. You need some really good managers with real clout in the company on your side.
Everyone is expendable (even people in HR) and the people who think they're too important to be fired over something so petty don't realize how expendable they really are.
That's true, you could also get a job at one of those places by being someone's daughter or nephew.
Or have a good reference. It doesn't have to be nepotism, professional connections help too.
Listening to others is sometimes a hindrance and a sign of indecisiveness.
Doing what others tell you to do and being unable to formulate and defend your own opinions and decisions is a hindrance and a sign of indecisiveness. Listening is not. Those are not the same thing.
For tolls, California has been trying to force us all to use FastTrack; I'd rather not be tracked fast, thank you very much.
You already are, cameras take pictures of your license plate every time you cross a bridge.
For absolute certain, your view a year after the change will be quite different. You can't see it yet, but I know it, having seen it in everyone around me.
Then please, turn around and ask the random people around you why the heck they would prefer dollar/pound/etc coins to bills.
I can think of one, and exactly one effect that the switch will have on me, and that is I'll end up carrying a lot more coins around, and I will HATE that.
Because right now you're using the language that someone brainwashed would say. I don't mean to imply that you have been or any such nonsense, but no one in the thread has been able to give logical arguments why I would like coins better, there's just a vague "if you embrace it... you will understand." From the outside, it just sounds weird.
Tits, eh? Giving up on the eagle?
Why not both? Eagle with tits? Surely we can come up with a compromise.
Scott Pilgrim is a fine movie, a greatly underrated movie. The Best Movie? Naahh.. not even the best geek movie of that year. But it's a quite decent movie.
Besides I never really had a feeling from the move from the Light side of the Jedi to the Dark Side of the sith.
To be fair, he did start the slide early on in Attack of the Clones where he massacred an entire village, something Padme knew about, but then seemed to promptly forget, or not care about.
I think most people would have thought the 3 prequels were fine movies if they had not been labeled "Star Wars". The problem is that OK movies hit the theaters wearing the name badge of a movie series that really did 'define a generation'.
The movies would have simply been forgettable instead of infamous if they had not been labeled Star Wars. Forgettable big-budget extravaganzas, like Van Helsing.
WARNING: Only watch Red Letter Media's works if you want to watch a movie review that is as long as the movie he's reviewing.
His Star Wars reviews are fantastic (even if he does get a little too distracted with woman-killing jokes the further into the reviews that you get) and display a surprising understanding of movie artistry and story construction and character interaction.
But what has had more impact in the last 40 years culturally than Star Wars that can be attributed to a single person?
But we're not talking about Star Wars. We're talking about Revenge of the Sith in particular, and while Star Wars and the Empire Strikes Back have had almost unparalleled impact on culture, the prequels have had very little. I can think of many counter-examples.
You mean the first scene in 2012? With Tom Hanks as some author, and he was at a party? Without giving away too much, I thought the other guy was also an author, not a critic.
*MINOR MINOR SPOILERS BELOW*
He was the literary critic, and it was his published critique that Hanks's character blamed for the failure of his book.
If you haven't seen it yet, don't expect any *spoiler alerts*, I think there's a shelf life for those. Have you seen Citizen Kane? *spoiler alert* Rosebud is a sled.
Yeah but everyone remembers the Citizen Kane early 80s saturday morning cartoon featuring Rosebud the talking magic sled.
The 24 inch rims would of been rubbing up against the wheel wells, rubber would of been ripped to shreds assuming by some miracle the wheels where stuffed in before inflating the tires. Sparks would of been flying out as each rim grinded against the unrelenting pavement. Skidding down the road as he injected the NO2 into the fuel injectors, the extra pressure would of ripped the bottom end of his daily driver spewing hot oil across the road. Cylinder 2 and 4's crankshaft, because of the dangerously low oil pressure would of been seized. Due to the opposing motion of the crankshaft, the rods connecting the cylinders would of been ripped clean off.
This sounds like one of the more amusing traffic stops in history.
Lawnmowers do not come to life and attack gardeners except in bad movie adaptations of Stephen King stories.
Or AWESOME movie adaptations of Stephen King stories (caveat: Haven't seen Maximum Overdrive in over 2 decades).
I always browse at 120-125%, and some sites come out completely borked -- resizing artefacts on images (including many titles, banners etc), text that gets cut off due to hacky fixed-size boxouts etc. It's all crap.
That's one of the reasons why I switched from Firefox to Chrome. I couldn't believe how BAD the image resizing under Firefox (on Linux, not sure about other platforms) is, and how Chrome had far fewer resizing artifacts. It's not a speed issue either, Chrome seems refaster at scaling than Firefox is at the same time.
Then again I open a lot of webpages where it's important to not have any image resizing done at all, so I zoom text only, which breaks a number of web sites that use images as spacers.
Problems are always the caused by the "other guy", including previous developers
Come on, that happens pretty often -- a developer quits, leaving a mess behind (possibly quitting because he didn't want to fix the mess). Another developer is hired to clean things up. How are the short term problems not the fault of the previous developer? Things like getting up to speed with the code, writing and testing fixes all take time, and during that time you're in "I've inherited a mess" mode.
Ever want to install more than one copy of Apache?
This is up to the installer writer. I don't have experience with DEB, but with RPM, there is, for instance, no reason why you can't have two versions of the same package installed as long as they don't try to own the same file locations (or at least, as long as those shared files are the same). The Linux kernel does this by default on many Linux distributions, allowing you to have several different versions of the kernel installed that you can switch between. The version of the program is baked into the base install directory, something I note that many non-rpm enterprise software installers do anyway.
I hear what you're saying, and pensions are just fundamentally flawed for a company in decline... But is a 401(k) really better? How much do you trust stock brokers in NY with your future?
A properly diversified 401(k)? I put a lot of trust in it, actually. It's better than a company pension that is likely to get axed when the company goes through Chapter 11.
Long gone are the days of the loyal company worker who worked at a stable company for 30 or 40 years, and I'd greatly prefer a retirement system that isn't tied to the health of the company.
You seem to be equating "legal merit" with "accuracy" or "truth". I think this is the point of the objection here. "Legal merit" is not necessarily truth. It probably relates to it in a way similar to how "law" relates to "morality".
But you don't know "accuracy" or "truth."
What you really have is "legal merit" versus "truthyness."
Sadly, this is the one time I have to go with truthyness.
There are plenty of games that work in Wine, many games (especially older ones) that do not, and a whole host of games that "work," (World of Warcraft, Civilization 5) that work, just not all that well.
But for the University President to take such a personally condemnatory stance - I don't recall him writing such a screed against John Brennan, the 2012 commencement speaker who defended the USE OF TORTURE (afaik the Catholics haven't explicitly endorsed that since Torquemada) - is seemingly unprecedented.
Yes, I would take John Brennan over Ann Coulter. Not a fan of Brennan, but I can't think of a -worse- speaker than Coulter. At least Brennan could try to use facts and logic to try to defend the use of torture. Coulter is nothing, nothing more than a pure hate-monger. She has no positive qualities. She exists solely to widen the division in our country and increase the hatred and contempt the right has for the left. I consider it more damning than policy disagreements. A speaking engagement aids and abets that, in fact those are what she needs to survive. Brennan doesn't need that, she does.
Even if we grant you that there is a liberal media that does the same thing as the conservative media (and if we forget that 'But they do it too!' is a lousy argument
According to Ann Coulter, the subject of the story, Fox News is the only major news organization that tries to report fairly. Every other large media organization is liberal to the core and only reports with a very liberal slant. Every one.
Ugh...
I'd like some references for this of specific examples. This has to be mainstream media too, no MSNBCs or Air America (does that thing even exist?) or Bill Mahar or Jon Stewart.
The only incident I can think of off the top of my head is the George Zimmerman audio tape edit. I hope someone was fired for that.