And some of the things I hate most about Acrobats are these unnecessary additions to PDF files. It should be a read-only format, impossible to turn into a vector for malware. But no, Adobe screwed that pooch. I cannot open a PDF now, with Acrobat or Preview, without it thinking I have just modified the document and so it will ask me when I close it if I want to save my changes. I don't want encryption, if I wanted encryption I would encrypt the file. I hate vendors that send me "secure" documents and then require me to check in every 6 months to get new certificates so that I can continue to read it. I just want to read the document and I don't need the heavy weight Acrobat with it's strange UI doing this.
Does percentage matter? If 75% of women left the work force after getting married, it still says nothing about the 25% who stayed on the job.
My first tech manager was a woman who was the main sysadmin for research labs. She was married and had kids and still had a full time job. She did get pushed out eventually, but that was for not having college degree (which felt like a poor excuse for me since she was doing a perfectly fine job without one).
And in most companies, there really is a need for the old school helpdesk guy. As long as everyone runs a Windows and Microsoft applications, it is a cushy job in a way. Problem is, nearly anyone can do that job, so it generally goes to junior grunts or outsourced grunts.
Usually the execs, upper management, accounting, and so forth, are all Windows people who need lots of computer hand holding. So those guys doing Windows help desk are highly visible upstairs. I know one major company whose IT group keeps the execs happy as one of their priorities. They even send out techs to help out retired executives when they have computer troubles at home.
Ha. I've had a post like that. You try to be somewhat anonymous and change gender at the start of the story, then near the end of the story you forget about anonymizing.
It sounds more like the company just like IT slide while the rest of the company was expanding and changing. Then when they discover they have IT issues, they hire a new guy to fix it all. At this point, those two old guys are extremely valuable - they know what's going on in the company, they know the problems, they probably also know how things have changed and how they couldn't keep up with it or obtain any budget for training.
If those two gets dumped and replaced, then you end up with a generic IT department where zero members of the staff have any clue whatsoever about the company they work for. And believe me, a generic bunch of IT workers bought at a discount (or outsourced) won't know what to do with OSX or Linux. They'll all be indoctrinated as MSCE clones and will start recommending standardization on Microsoft products and services. (to update the old adage, no ever got fired buying sharepoint)
The two things propping up the bitcoin bubble are ideologues and those with a need for a money laundering outlet. One group is pouring more money into it than the other group will ever see; and onegroup is doing more effort in marketing the legitimacy of bitcoin than the other has the capability of doing. Symbiosis.
The rise in orders is probably just a spike from those techheads that refuse to buy anything unless there's an app for it. Once others have apps, or they go out of fashion, the demand will drop off.
Sadly, if you put development speed as top priority, that implies quality is not top priority, or even bug fixing. It may be true that management values speed, but a professional craftsperson should always value quality over speed.
There are people who seem to don't mind slowdowns. Even higher level workers. I've run across one who was proud that the tool he used to auto-generate code "only" had a 100% overhead.
Companies vary. Sometimes they hire the cheapest of the cheap IT people, with no interview lasting longer than it takes to present a Microsoft stamped certificate that proves that they have attended a class. Some companies do better here, with smarter IT up the chain away from the support desk.
Smaller companies in my experience tend to hire better people, because each IT worker has got to manage so many more things.
Really large companies all outsource everything, so instead of ignorant American cookie cutter IT clones, they hire cheaper foreign cookie cutter IT clones. (solution to the workers here is to stop being clones and compete on quality instead of price)
I hate that amazon is trying to trick people into getting prime. They offer a "click here for FREE SHIPPING!" button several times during the checkout procedure. My mother was scammed into this, she had a Prime account but had no idea what a Prime account was or that her FREE SHIPPING was costing money. This is a problem for older generations who are much less able to understand the implications of what's happening on the internet (such as who you should or shouldn't give your credit card or bank account number to). Online shopping could be a very useful tool for older people who can't get out to the stores easily, but it's also one of the most dangerous things on the internet. Young people know what Prime is and will subscribe on their own if they want to without the hard sell.
I sometimes have packages delivered to work. A lot of companies allow this, especially around holiday times, because it means fewer workers are off standing in line at trying to receive or send packages.
Certainly the news is full of rather extreme actions of attempting to connect, all of which are clearly harassment. However the news has not shown that "any" unwanted attempt is harassment. Celebrities and politicians have not been accused of attempting to connect by merely asking if someone wants to go for a drink or see a movie. Instead the news has been about dick pics, groping, trying to force a kiss, abuses of positions of power, and so forth.
If you're in a single's club, or on tinder, and a woman seems interested, then reciprocate and show some interest back. But if your'e at work and a woman is polite, this is almost certainly because the woman is being polite. It's not difficult to just mentally mark your workplace as off-limits, especially if you seem somewhat uncertain about the complicated rules that involve social interaction.
Everyone talks about not being able to say hello without being accused of harassment. Those are called jokes and exaggerations.
We're also higher animals. We don't rut with anything that crosses our paths because we've learned how to cooperate with each other and act as a civilized society. If you've learned enough to not proposition your sister, then you should be able to not proposition your coworkers and learn to go on the prowl at a bar or join a singles club.
I have some innate behavior to punch people who threaten me, but I do not act on this because I don't let primal instincts control my life. Most people have learned to control this sometime in elementary school.
Not true. If you ask to go out to the movies and she says no, it's not harassment. If you don't get the hint and do this every single day, then it's crossing the line.
Let's flip it around. Bob from accounting comes by and says "hey, you've got a nice ass", he gets beat up in the storeroom for being gay. But if a guy says this to a woman and she walks away, the response is often "What's her problem? Must be frigid."
Rule number one. Don't go looking for nookie at work. If sparks start flying anyway, then that's fine. But be sure those are sparks and not just forced politeness.
Flirting is not harrassment. Have you seen any of the people coming forward lately complaining about harassment saying "he complimented my dress, it was awful!" Women are not complaining about being winked at.
Having someone meet you in your hotel room and you turn out to be naked is not called flirting. Trying to force a kiss is not called flirting. Copping a feel from your wheelchair is not called flirting. Posting a picture of your congressional wiener is not called flirting.
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Many companies already do this.
The thing is, offering to pay money to a company should have been the only thing necessary to erase the apathy.
And some of the things I hate most about Acrobats are these unnecessary additions to PDF files. It should be a read-only format, impossible to turn into a vector for malware. But no, Adobe screwed that pooch. I cannot open a PDF now, with Acrobat or Preview, without it thinking I have just modified the document and so it will ask me when I close it if I want to save my changes. I don't want encryption, if I wanted encryption I would encrypt the file. I hate vendors that send me "secure" documents and then require me to check in every 6 months to get new certificates so that I can continue to read it. I just want to read the document and I don't need the heavy weight Acrobat with it's strange UI doing this.
Does percentage matter? If 75% of women left the work force after getting married, it still says nothing about the 25% who stayed on the job.
My first tech manager was a woman who was the main sysadmin for research labs. She was married and had kids and still had a full time job. She did get pushed out eventually, but that was for not having college degree (which felt like a poor excuse for me since she was doing a perfectly fine job without one).
And in most companies, there really is a need for the old school helpdesk guy. As long as everyone runs a Windows and Microsoft applications, it is a cushy job in a way. Problem is, nearly anyone can do that job, so it generally goes to junior grunts or outsourced grunts.
Usually the execs, upper management, accounting, and so forth, are all Windows people who need lots of computer hand holding. So those guys doing Windows help desk are highly visible upstairs. I know one major company whose IT group keeps the execs happy as one of their priorities. They even send out techs to help out retired executives when they have computer troubles at home.
Olympic IT Services. No hurdle to high for us to complete our sprints!
Ha. I've had a post like that. You try to be somewhat anonymous and change gender at the start of the story, then near the end of the story you forget about anonymizing.
It sounds more like the company just like IT slide while the rest of the company was expanding and changing. Then when they discover they have IT issues, they hire a new guy to fix it all. At this point, those two old guys are extremely valuable - they know what's going on in the company, they know the problems, they probably also know how things have changed and how they couldn't keep up with it or obtain any budget for training.
If those two gets dumped and replaced, then you end up with a generic IT department where zero members of the staff have any clue whatsoever about the company they work for. And believe me, a generic bunch of IT workers bought at a discount (or outsourced) won't know what to do with OSX or Linux. They'll all be indoctrinated as MSCE clones and will start recommending standardization on Microsoft products and services. (to update the old adage, no ever got fired buying sharepoint)
Bitcoin also has a very inefficient blockchain. Remove the ideology from it and many of the other crypto currency schemes look a lot better.
There are a lot of people who seem to have been studying their economics in ideological chat rooms. There is no way to change any of those minds.
The two things propping up the bitcoin bubble are ideologues and those with a need for a money laundering outlet. One group is pouring more money into it than the other group will ever see; and onegroup is doing more effort in marketing the legitimacy of bitcoin than the other has the capability of doing. Symbiosis.
The rise in orders is probably just a spike from those techheads that refuse to buy anything unless there's an app for it. Once others have apps, or they go out of fashion, the demand will drop off.
Sadly, if you put development speed as top priority, that implies quality is not top priority, or even bug fixing. It may be true that management values speed, but a professional craftsperson should always value quality over speed.
There are people who seem to don't mind slowdowns. Even higher level workers. I've run across one who was proud that the tool he used to auto-generate code "only" had a 100% overhead.
Well, yes. People with reasonable social skills have figured out how to get find a romantic interest at work without offending the other person.
Companies vary. Sometimes they hire the cheapest of the cheap IT people, with no interview lasting longer than it takes to present a Microsoft stamped certificate that proves that they have attended a class. Some companies do better here, with smarter IT up the chain away from the support desk.
Smaller companies in my experience tend to hire better people, because each IT worker has got to manage so many more things.
Really large companies all outsource everything, so instead of ignorant American cookie cutter IT clones, they hire cheaper foreign cookie cutter IT clones. (solution to the workers here is to stop being clones and compete on quality instead of price)
I hate that amazon is trying to trick people into getting prime. They offer a "click here for FREE SHIPPING!" button several times during the checkout procedure. My mother was scammed into this, she had a Prime account but had no idea what a Prime account was or that her FREE SHIPPING was costing money. This is a problem for older generations who are much less able to understand the implications of what's happening on the internet (such as who you should or shouldn't give your credit card or bank account number to). Online shopping could be a very useful tool for older people who can't get out to the stores easily, but it's also one of the most dangerous things on the internet. Young people know what Prime is and will subscribe on their own if they want to without the hard sell.
People don't need this. It's the years 2017, so how did we manage to survive so long without this service before?
And paranoia in the case of Amazon is well deserved.
I sometimes have packages delivered to work. A lot of companies allow this, especially around holiday times, because it means fewer workers are off standing in line at trying to receive or send packages.
Certainly the news is full of rather extreme actions of attempting to connect, all of which are clearly harassment. However the news has not shown that "any" unwanted attempt is harassment. Celebrities and politicians have not been accused of attempting to connect by merely asking if someone wants to go for a drink or see a movie. Instead the news has been about dick pics, groping, trying to force a kiss, abuses of positions of power, and so forth.
If you're in a single's club, or on tinder, and a woman seems interested, then reciprocate and show some interest back. But if your'e at work and a woman is polite, this is almost certainly because the woman is being polite. It's not difficult to just mentally mark your workplace as off-limits, especially if you seem somewhat uncertain about the complicated rules that involve social interaction.
Everyone talks about not being able to say hello without being accused of harassment. Those are called jokes and exaggerations.
We're also higher animals. We don't rut with anything that crosses our paths because we've learned how to cooperate with each other and act as a civilized society. If you've learned enough to not proposition your sister, then you should be able to not proposition your coworkers and learn to go on the prowl at a bar or join a singles club.
I have some innate behavior to punch people who threaten me, but I do not act on this because I don't let primal instincts control my life. Most people have learned to control this sometime in elementary school.
Not true. If you ask to go out to the movies and she says no, it's not harassment. If you don't get the hint and do this every single day, then it's crossing the line.
Let's flip it around. Bob from accounting comes by and says "hey, you've got a nice ass", he gets beat up in the storeroom for being gay. But if a guy says this to a woman and she walks away, the response is often "What's her problem? Must be frigid."
Rule number one. Don't go looking for nookie at work. If sparks start flying anyway, then that's fine. But be sure those are sparks and not just forced politeness.
Flirting is not harrassment. Have you seen any of the people coming forward lately complaining about harassment saying "he complimented my dress, it was awful!" Women are not complaining about being winked at.
Having someone meet you in your hotel room and you turn out to be naked is not called flirting. Trying to force a kiss is not called flirting. Copping a feel from your wheelchair is not called flirting. Posting a picture of your congressional wiener is not called flirting.