If they can't figure out how to deal with 50 different tax rates while using a computerized system, maybe they shouldn't be in the business of being an online retailer. Ohmagerd, what if someone from Canada or Belgium wants to buy a product?
What about the small offline mom and pop stores that were screwed over for more than two decades because online retailers were given preferential treatment? I shed no tears.
We never called these things "startups" in the past. The mentality of the startup is a modern thing. We used to innovate, but today we copy. I won't miss it if todays startups start to vanish, we can get back to having real companies whose valuation isn't listed in the fantasy section.
And how long is a startup a startup? For one day? Two years? I know private companies that go along fine being profitable for a decade, but somoene calls them a "startup" just because they're not publically traded.
CEO says HR is too expensive, then outsources it. HR outsourcing firm says this stuff is too hard, and then automates it. Automated system decides its too much trouble and fires everyone so it can watch the game instead.
These things happen without automation too. I've seen cases where the IT guy cancels a badge and computer access because something on the screen says to do it, and then it's a hassle to get this undone. This is a bit like the movie Brazil happening in real life.
"Well sure, I heard you that the robots we made for you are killing your customers, but I've examined the specifications thoroughly and nothing in them says that the robots shall not do that. They are working as designed and you signed off on the design, so I don't know why you're whining about it now."
There are human systems are are so messed up that sometimes it was easier to cancel a contract and start up a new one instead with the same person on the same day just to get around the problem.
"Operated as designed" is a piss poor excuse. Clearly the design was faulty! If someone said "the committee screwed up badly, but that's ok because the committee operated as designed" no one would consider that to be a valid excuse. Just because a machine did something does not mean the machine is right.
The first step when that happened was to notify an actual person of the failure to renew the contract. If there's that much automation involved such that people aren't involved in any of these decisions then it's too much automation. This isn't evil AI, but it is incompetent management.
If they have a consensual relationship there is still a problem. Let's say they were married and have kids, nothing to be prodish about, there are still minefields to manage at work. Will people play favorites with their spouse at work or will they do what's in the business's best interests instead?
For example, will a person promote the spouse ahead of others in the team? Don't automatically say no, there are far too many cases where this actually happens, and is one of the primary reasons businesses won't let someone work within their spouse's command chain.
Even when there's no direct relationship at work you can still get some unwanted drama or poor business decisions. Ie, are they going to be fair in code reviews of each other if they are peers, or will they even want to disagree with each other? The person in power also feels compelled to provide favoritism to their significant other, which can happen overtly or subconsciously. Even for people far down the food chain you often don't want the romantic pair to be in the same or related departments.
Yes and no. There is a lot of weird politics that happens if there's an in-office relationship. You want to call the moron a moron, but you can't because he's dating your boss, or you find that one person's silly projects end up being high priority for no reason other than she's married to the project manager. So you want to lay off an employee but can't because you know you'll end up being enemies of of their paramour who will make your life hell. These aren't hypothetical examples, I've seen them happen.
Now in some cases I can see it, you work in engineering, she's doing accounting, and the company is a reasonable size, so chances of drama are very low.
I haven't left Facebook, but I still get messages telling me to come back! Sometimes I get an email about what's happened while I was away (for a whole two days). If I type in the password wrong even once, I immediately get an email offering to help me logged back on. This shows up sometimes before I've even finished typing in a password a second time.
Not only is leaving Facebook like breaking up with someone, staying with Facebook is like having a crazy-girlfriend/needy-boyfriend.
What are you doing to benefit society in your job? Are you working on another advertising funded social media app, helping executive with their computer issues, managing an e-commerce database? Maybe you're a doctor or farmer in which case I salute you.
There are many old motels where each room is essentially someone's home. I've seen some that were for migrant labor housing, and others that were just full time residences despite each "home" being smaller than a Motel 6 room.
You're ignorant. There are people who cannot work for various reasons, disabilities for example, and thus not "all" people as you claim. Poverty is a pit, and climbing out of it is not easy whether or not you were born in the pit or found your way there later.
Under US federal minimum wage, you will make less than $15,000 a year despite working full time. Then subtract taxes, rent, bus-fare or auto upkeep, medical costs, and so forth, and there's not much leftover. If you've got kids then you can't have both parents working full time. To make ends meet you work two fulltime jobs, if you can find them, the spouse works a fulltime job, and grandma watches the kids. You're still stuck in a rut though, you can't spend time finishing high school or going to college, you can't commute very far to those better jobs. Then you'll likely get laid off sometime anyway.
Here's the irony. Working hard does not mean being paid more. The best paying jobs usually require no manual labor, the worst paying jobs are for some of the most back breaking labor out there. But don't worry if you're poor, all those people with clean pressed white shirts and ties will offer to lecture you about how you need more personal responsibility.
Dammit, I miss Reagan. I didn't agree with him most of the time, but I could respect him. Today the conservatives in power seem to be mimeographed copies of copies of such that the end result is smudged and incoherent and totally unlike the original.
Mobile games tend to be free and rely on ads. So it's expected there. But for a $60 game the developer really shouldn't be trying to squeeze a few more pennies out of you.
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If they can't figure out how to deal with 50 different tax rates while using a computerized system, maybe they shouldn't be in the business of being an online retailer. Ohmagerd, what if someone from Canada or Belgium wants to buy a product?
What about the small offline mom and pop stores that were screwed over for more than two decades because online retailers were given preferential treatment? I shed no tears.
We never called these things "startups" in the past. The mentality of the startup is a modern thing. We used to innovate, but today we copy. I won't miss it if todays startups start to vanish, we can get back to having real companies whose valuation isn't listed in the fantasy section.
And how long is a startup a startup? For one day? Two years? I know private companies that go along fine being profitable for a decade, but somoene calls them a "startup" just because they're not publically traded.
CEO says HR is too expensive, then outsources it. HR outsourcing firm says this stuff is too hard, and then automates it. Automated system decides its too much trouble and fires everyone so it can watch the game instead.
These things happen without automation too. I've seen cases where the IT guy cancels a badge and computer access because something on the screen says to do it, and then it's a hassle to get this undone. This is a bit like the movie Brazil happening in real life.
"Well sure, I heard you that the robots we made for you are killing your customers, but I've examined the specifications thoroughly and nothing in them says that the robots shall not do that. They are working as designed and you signed off on the design, so I don't know why you're whining about it now."
There are human systems are are so messed up that sometimes it was easier to cancel a contract and start up a new one instead with the same person on the same day just to get around the problem.
"Operated as designed" is a piss poor excuse. Clearly the design was faulty! If someone said "the committee screwed up badly, but that's ok because the committee operated as designed" no one would consider that to be a valid excuse. Just because a machine did something does not mean the machine is right.
The first step when that happened was to notify an actual person of the failure to renew the contract. If there's that much automation involved such that people aren't involved in any of these decisions then it's too much automation. This isn't evil AI, but it is incompetent management.
If they have a consensual relationship there is still a problem. Let's say they were married and have kids, nothing to be prodish about, there are still minefields to manage at work. Will people play favorites with their spouse at work or will they do what's in the business's best interests instead?
For example, will a person promote the spouse ahead of others in the team? Don't automatically say no, there are far too many cases where this actually happens, and is one of the primary reasons businesses won't let someone work within their spouse's command chain.
Even when there's no direct relationship at work you can still get some unwanted drama or poor business decisions. Ie, are they going to be fair in code reviews of each other if they are peers, or will they even want to disagree with each other? The person in power also feels compelled to provide favoritism to their significant other, which can happen overtly or subconsciously. Even for people far down the food chain you often don't want the romantic pair to be in the same or related departments.
Yes and no. There is a lot of weird politics that happens if there's an in-office relationship. You want to call the moron a moron, but you can't because he's dating your boss, or you find that one person's silly projects end up being high priority for no reason other than she's married to the project manager. So you want to lay off an employee but can't because you know you'll end up being enemies of of their paramour who will make your life hell. These aren't hypothetical examples, I've seen them happen.
Now in some cases I can see it, you work in engineering, she's doing accounting, and the company is a reasonable size, so chances of drama are very low.
Fans will cry out in anguish: That's no death star, that's just a moon!
For Sale: Facebook account, 2 posts, 7 friends, $10,000 OBO.
I haven't left Facebook, but I still get messages telling me to come back!
Sometimes I get an email about what's happened while I was away (for a whole two days).
If I type in the password wrong even once, I immediately get an email offering to help me logged back on. This shows up sometimes before I've even finished typing in a password a second time.
Not only is leaving Facebook like breaking up with someone, staying with Facebook is like having a crazy-girlfriend/needy-boyfriend.
What are you doing to benefit society in your job? Are you working on another advertising funded social media app, helping executive with their computer issues, managing an e-commerce database? Maybe you're a doctor or farmer in which case I salute you.
A college degree of any kind will put you ahead of where you would be without one.
There are many old motels where each room is essentially someone's home. I've seen some that were for migrant labor housing, and others that were just full time residences despite each "home" being smaller than a Motel 6 room.
You're ignorant. There are people who cannot work for various reasons, disabilities for example, and thus not "all" people as you claim. Poverty is a pit, and climbing out of it is not easy whether or not you were born in the pit or found your way there later.
Under US federal minimum wage, you will make less than $15,000 a year despite working full time. Then subtract taxes, rent, bus-fare or auto upkeep, medical costs, and so forth, and there's not much leftover. If you've got kids then you can't have both parents working full time. To make ends meet you work two fulltime jobs, if you can find them, the spouse works a fulltime job, and grandma watches the kids. You're still stuck in a rut though, you can't spend time finishing high school or going to college, you can't commute very far to those better jobs. Then you'll likely get laid off sometime anyway.
Here's the irony. Working hard does not mean being paid more. The best paying jobs usually require no manual labor, the worst paying jobs are for some of the most back breaking labor out there. But don't worry if you're poor, all those people with clean pressed white shirts and ties will offer to lecture you about how you need more personal responsibility.
And war, war never changes.
Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!
"Separate but equal" means one branch will be getting hand-me-down textbooks and asbestos infused ceilings.
Dammit, I miss Reagan. I didn't agree with him most of the time, but I could respect him. Today the conservatives in power seem to be mimeographed copies of copies of such that the end result is smudged and incoherent and totally unlike the original.
Mobile games tend to be free and rely on ads. So it's expected there. But for a $60 game the developer really shouldn't be trying to squeeze a few more pennies out of you.
That explains why I saw CmdrTaco behind the counter of Chipotle.
Smalltalk, Lisp, ML, etc.