Unionization is also a part of the free market. You just have to get the marketing out to all the other workers who want to be abused for less money. At one time this was possible, but in the intervening decades there has been a lot of counter marketing so that the workers who could benefit the most from collective negotiations are often the ones most opposed to it.
Labor used to be the single issue that decided many elections, for those who only care about voting based on a single issue. Since both parties seem weak on labor that single issue has slowly been replaced by other hot button issues.
American firm, or do you mean American government? Because evidence is showing that the Russian *government* is attempting to influence elections around the world, not just Russian firms. Certainly the US has been involved in covertly trying to influence elections - in the past. Today the US influences elections publicly. Nevertheless, having the US being underhanded at some point does not imply that we should welcome election interference from a foreign dictatorship with open arms or try to deny that it even happened.
Because there is evidence that points to Russia. There may be other countries doing this, but there is little evidence. Russia is engaging this in a big way, not just as a small hobby for some retired politicians. No other country seems to be close to this scale. It only compounds things that Russia is an adversary.
As I remember it, the PC revolution was slow and stumbling. PCs took a long time to get to the point of really being useful in larger office settings. Sure, it started off popular in small businesses that had no computers previously, or on the desk of execs who otherwise had no terminals, but for places that used mainframs the PCs took a long time to take over. You really had to wait until the 386 era before things started to be more useful for actual work.
Not really. If there were no rebranding then we'd have hundreds of marketing people wandering the streets and begging pedestrians for user experiences.
The one star reviews are often clearly bogus too, someone is having a bad day, they are trolling, they bought the wrong product and haven't figured it out yet, they're bitching about how the delivery guy dumped the box in the bushes, etc. People do not take the effort to use their brains when reviewing stuff.
People also trying too hard to be witty in the reviews as well. 'If I was headed to a desert island and could only take one 3.5x5" picture frame this would definitely be the one.'
Count all those 5 star reviews that say "Adorable!", quite a lot of those showed up when I just browsed randomly. And seriously pointless reviews like "It's solid wood which is nice" even though the product description tells you the same thing (while yet another review for the same product says "cheap plastic").
Those all seem like impulse buys to me. Maybe I'm too discerning by reading descriptions and online owner manuals, etc. Or maybe these people just randomly buy crap and then return 9 out of 10 of them, then head online to review them all because making stupid reviews is their hobby?
A lot of 5 star reviews are pure fluff. They say nothing of value. I've also seen 5 star reviews where they go into detail about the good stuff and the bad stuff, enough bad stuff that it shouldn't have earned 5 stars. People are not logical animals, trying to make sense of reviews from mere people isn't very helpful so you may as well have llamas review things.
Of more value to me are the questions and answers, such as how hard this is to install, does it work with my house, how expensive are the refills, etc. Much more useful than someone says two stars because "I didn't like the color".
Five stars says this product is so awesome that it changed your life.
5 stars is stupid, and 1 star is stupid. Yet if you go to Yelp thse are the common reviews, because the wannabe food/movie critics think it is all about being witty and proflic. Nobody wastes the time and effort to review something that they're ambivalent about, instead you get the lovers and haters showing up. Nobody hated the decor so much that a 1 is deserved, they're just being snarky and they want their social media friends to see how edgy they are. So when you actually read them, the majority of the 5's should have been 3's or 4's and the majority of the 1's should have been 2's and 3's. This is why Yelp is so amazingly useless and unhelpful.
A better system maybe is to allow a star rating without any text or names. Just click once, make it so easy that it doesn't take any effort for the person who says 'meh'. Then the textual reviews have no star ratings, just the text. Separate the two concepts.
Even better, but harder, would be to list all the star ratings from a particular customer. If you see that someone always gives 5 then you can discount this as irrelevant.
Not everyone has these skills. It's not easy. Selling is extremely difficult, not everyone can do this. And if you like doing the work, but end up spending 79 hours a week managing your business and only 1 hour a week doing stuff you like to do, what's the point of it all?
I had a roommate once with his own company. He spent most of the daylight hours on the phone, then when it got dark he started working on his code. He was most definitely not making a lot of money.
Technically you can't require someone to work longer hours, legally. Instead you assign tasks and goals and hope they work longer. This especially works for younger workers who seem to think that the long hours are required, or other workers have told them that this is normal. A few long days now and then during a "crunch" is ok but if this is non stop then you should bring it up with your manager or get that resume updated and see the doctor about stress.
Also, time spent at Slashdot does not count towards working hours!
Well, my salary if very nice. However the cost of living for me is very high in Silicon Valley so it doesn't feel like I'm rich. Give me this salary in Kansas and I'd be very well off.
One problem is that for some reason, entry level rates for simplistic tech jobs in Silicon Valley can be very high, like there's not even such a thing as "entry level" any more and you have to work your way up, they're starting in the middle instead. No wonder that their cookie cutter jobs are being outsourced.
To me, don't feel envious of Silicon Valley workers. If you've got a nice three bedroom home with a back yard that you have a good chance of paying off the mortgage to by retirement, and your company is paying for health care, then you're doing awesome.
Too many people assume that if the story matches their preconceived notions that it must be accurate. Then they start filtering out contrary views. Flat earth thinking on a global scale.
The worst technical job I ever had gave me an office. They severely underpaid me, but they were rolling in cash and everyone except visiting salespeople got an office of their own. I liked it. You could shut the door when you needed to concentrate, you had room for books, you could look out the window while daydreaming about better jobs, etc. Previously I had been in shared labs or shared offices.
After this was my first job with a cubicle and it took a lot of getting used to. Noisy and chaotic. Especially with 90s era clackety keyboards.
Hospitals and clinics really are cash strapped. There's a lot of red tape involved as well. So buying capital systems is a big deal. You can't even tie it indirectly the patient billing as the insurance companies might object.
Once I casually mentioned to my boss that I heard the guy across the corridor who was a complete goof off was making more than I was. He said "This is intolerable", headed upstairs, and came back down with a raise.
This is one of those reasons that companies don't normally want employees to know their coworkers' salaries.
But no one wants this at work. No matter where you work there will be difference of political opinion. Just like you don't talk religion at work, it's stupid to talk about politics as well. Especially with times being so vitriolic it's best to just keep your head down and get back to work.
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Unionization is also a part of the free market. You just have to get the marketing out to all the other workers who want to be abused for less money. At one time this was possible, but in the intervening decades there has been a lot of counter marketing so that the workers who could benefit the most from collective negotiations are often the ones most opposed to it.
Labor used to be the single issue that decided many elections, for those who only care about voting based on a single issue. Since both parties seem weak on labor that single issue has slowly been replaced by other hot button issues.
Don't be silly, the mob would never want to be associated with Trump.
I never lost any data on a Chromebook. Of course, I never actually figured out how to get data onto a Chromebook in the first place...
Courage!
American firm, or do you mean American government? Because evidence is showing that the Russian *government* is attempting to influence elections around the world, not just Russian firms. Certainly the US has been involved in covertly trying to influence elections - in the past. Today the US influences elections publicly. Nevertheless, having the US being underhanded at some point does not imply that we should welcome election interference from a foreign dictatorship with open arms or try to deny that it even happened.
Because there is evidence that points to Russia. There may be other countries doing this, but there is little evidence. Russia is engaging this in a big way, not just as a small hobby for some retired politicians. No other country seems to be close to this scale. It only compounds things that Russia is an adversary.
As I remember it, the PC revolution was slow and stumbling. PCs took a long time to get to the point of really being useful in larger office settings. Sure, it started off popular in small businesses that had no computers previously, or on the desk of execs who otherwise had no terminals, but for places that used mainframs the PCs took a long time to take over. You really had to wait until the 386 era before things started to be more useful for actual work.
How about "Tetanus" for a product name?
Not really. If there were no rebranding then we'd have hundreds of marketing people wandering the streets and begging pedestrians for user experiences.
The one star reviews are often clearly bogus too, someone is having a bad day, they are trolling, they bought the wrong product and haven't figured it out yet, they're bitching about how the delivery guy dumped the box in the bushes, etc. People do not take the effort to use their brains when reviewing stuff.
People also trying too hard to be witty in the reviews as well. 'If I was headed to a desert island and could only take one 3.5x5" picture frame this would definitely be the one.'
Count all those 5 star reviews that say "Adorable!", quite a lot of those showed up when I just browsed randomly. And seriously pointless reviews like "It's solid wood which is nice" even though the product description tells you the same thing (while yet another review for the same product says "cheap plastic").
Those all seem like impulse buys to me. Maybe I'm too discerning by reading descriptions and online owner manuals, etc. Or maybe these people just randomly buy crap and then return 9 out of 10 of them, then head online to review them all because making stupid reviews is their hobby?
A lot of 5 star reviews are pure fluff. They say nothing of value. I've also seen 5 star reviews where they go into detail about the good stuff and the bad stuff, enough bad stuff that it shouldn't have earned 5 stars. People are not logical animals, trying to make sense of reviews from mere people isn't very helpful so you may as well have llamas review things.
Of more value to me are the questions and answers, such as how hard this is to install, does it work with my house, how expensive are the refills, etc. Much more useful than someone says two stars because "I didn't like the color".
It's almost like someone using only 1's and 0's.
Five stars says this product is so awesome that it changed your life.
5 stars is stupid, and 1 star is stupid. Yet if you go to Yelp thse are the common reviews, because the wannabe food/movie critics think it is all about being witty and proflic. Nobody wastes the time and effort to review something that they're ambivalent about, instead you get the lovers and haters showing up. Nobody hated the decor so much that a 1 is deserved, they're just being snarky and they want their social media friends to see how edgy they are. So when you actually read them, the majority of the 5's should have been 3's or 4's and the majority of the 1's should have been 2's and 3's. This is why Yelp is so amazingly useless and unhelpful.
A better system maybe is to allow a star rating without any text or names. Just click once, make it so easy that it doesn't take any effort for the person who says 'meh'. Then the textual reviews have no star ratings, just the text. Separate the two concepts.
Even better, but harder, would be to list all the star ratings from a particular customer. If you see that someone always gives 5 then you can discount this as irrelevant.
Not everyone has these skills. It's not easy. Selling is extremely difficult, not everyone can do this. And if you like doing the work, but end up spending 79 hours a week managing your business and only 1 hour a week doing stuff you like to do, what's the point of it all?
I had a roommate once with his own company. He spent most of the daylight hours on the phone, then when it got dark he started working on his code. He was most definitely not making a lot of money.
Recruiters don't like you saying this, because they were planning to pocket the difference as their hiring bonus.
The median is pretty sucky though, depending upon the bar.
Technically you can't require someone to work longer hours, legally. Instead you assign tasks and goals and hope they work longer. This especially works for younger workers who seem to think that the long hours are required, or other workers have told them that this is normal. A few long days now and then during a "crunch" is ok but if this is non stop then you should bring it up with your manager or get that resume updated and see the doctor about stress.
Also, time spent at Slashdot does not count towards working hours!
"Impossible" often means the same thing as "I couldn't find a library that matched my search results" or "we didn't learn this in school".
Well, my salary if very nice. However the cost of living for me is very high in Silicon Valley so it doesn't feel like I'm rich. Give me this salary in Kansas and I'd be very well off.
One problem is that for some reason, entry level rates for simplistic tech jobs in Silicon Valley can be very high, like there's not even such a thing as "entry level" any more and you have to work your way up, they're starting in the middle instead. No wonder that their cookie cutter jobs are being outsourced.
To me, don't feel envious of Silicon Valley workers. If you've got a nice three bedroom home with a back yard that you have a good chance of paying off the mortgage to by retirement, and your company is paying for health care, then you're doing awesome.
Too many people assume that if the story matches their preconceived notions that it must be accurate. Then they start filtering out contrary views. Flat earth thinking on a global scale.
The worst technical job I ever had gave me an office. They severely underpaid me, but they were rolling in cash and everyone except visiting salespeople got an office of their own. I liked it. You could shut the door when you needed to concentrate, you had room for books, you could look out the window while daydreaming about better jobs, etc. Previously I had been in shared labs or shared offices.
After this was my first job with a cubicle and it took a lot of getting used to. Noisy and chaotic. Especially with 90s era clackety keyboards.
Hospitals and clinics really are cash strapped. There's a lot of red tape involved as well. So buying capital systems is a big deal. You can't even tie it indirectly the patient billing as the insurance companies might object.
Once I casually mentioned to my boss that I heard the guy across the corridor who was a complete goof off was making more than I was. He said "This is intolerable", headed upstairs, and came back down with a raise.
This is one of those reasons that companies don't normally want employees to know their coworkers' salaries.
But no one wants this at work. No matter where you work there will be difference of political opinion. Just like you don't talk religion at work, it's stupid to talk about politics as well. Especially with times being so vitriolic it's best to just keep your head down and get back to work.