Lets be fair I can add one more thing to that list. I believe the US government has managed to rack up the largest debt in present day dollars of any nation in history. I don't think a private company would be capable of ever accumulating that much debt.
So if I understand your post correctly
1. People don't want to live in the area your company is located in for the wages your company is offering.
2. Your company only wants to hire top tier employees who can make substantially more at other companies.
3. Your company doesn't want to train people.
Sounds to me like your company should actually follow the standard BS management line of investing in employees instead of whining about a shortage of people. How about increasing your pay offerings and compensation since you clearly stated that they pay is meh. Another idea might be to work with the local schools and offer paid internships you know so that you might actually be able to nab some of those college grads who already have experience. Also you could actually try and compete with Yahoo and Google for those new grads.
And since I recently found an old 5 1/4" floppy drive of mine I now want to put it in my new computer, too bad the computer doesn't have a floppy drive connector on the board since the drive probably would still work.
Maybe not the beef you eat but the beef I get from a farmer who is a family friend eats mostly alfalfa either fresh or silage with some leftovers from a near by craft brewery. With fresh alfalfa you have to be careful because the cattle will gorge themselves on it and then you get to deal with the after effects. Then again the farmer who I get beef from wands to produce a quality product at a fair price for his small but loyal customer base.
Flame-thrower. Laser pointers just aren't there yet.
You're just not using the right kind of laser. Why bother with a laser that puts out a few miliwatts to a few watts when you can get one that operates in the multi KW range.
Had a similar experience with my grandmother several years back. She is going to turn 93 this year, and is willing to learn new things which seems to be more of the key than anything else. The only uses of the computer for her was browsing the internet to look up information, sending e-mail, and printing pictures so the switch wasn't painful at all especially since she was using an internet e-mail provider already. My mother on the other hand still longs for the days of the family's old Apple II C+ which wasn't all that good when we got it.
The way to avoid getting busted for having a coffee maker in your office is to put the coffee maker in an old computer case and run the plug out the back. One of my foreign coworkers has this setup in the server room he works in and in the 6 years I have known him no one in management or facilities maintenance has found it and no one else in the office will turn him in as they have started doing the same thing.
Personally I would be fine with H1Bs, but since we are told that these companies absolutely need these people that an imported H1B individual is the highest compensated person in the company. This means total compensation, not just salary, and include the magic golden parachute, stock options, relocation expense, housing expense, etc. These companies obviously needs to import this individual since they couldn't find a US citizen at any cost and this position is so critical to the company that this person is so critical to day to day operations that they can't afford the time to train someone to do it so they must be worth more to the company than any one else in the company including those on the board.
Also I don't buy the shortage issue since if there were a shortage then wages would be going up compared to inflation instead of keeping pace or dropping.
Sounds like you know one of my coworkers (CISSP holder) who looks at me like a deer in headlight when I ask a simple yes or no question. A perfect example of this was the other day when I asked if he has that hardened RHEL 6.5 server disk ready that he should have been working on and after the long deer in headlights pause I got an explanation on why installing 6.4 and running an update is a better plan.
I think you may have just found a logically coherent reason for me to be against this legislation and I like it. Lets take the common cited example and law suit that started this of a photographer not wanting to do a gay wedding because of religious objections. Lets re-frame the scenario as there was a photographer not wanting to to do a sinners (in the eyes of their religion they were sinners) wedding because of religious objections.
Now we can have a reasonable discussion about the issue so time to think aloud. If the photographer was consistent in only photographing people who were not living in his religion's view of sin and rejecting all others because of religious objections I would probably be willing to support that. But since the photographer's religion probably has rules about unmarried cohabitation, premarital sex, consumption of shell fish, are of a different religion, etc. and the photographer has done work for those sinners it see that their argument is much weaker. Also we already have laws preventing discrimination based off of religion, which at this point the photographer probably has fallen afoul of.
My wife grew up poor. If you had $1, you spent it. Her spending expands to absorb all available funds.
I actually had the opposite where I grew up poor but my family at the time was very thrifty and tried to save and not spend all the time. We did get government assistance but learning about delayed gratification and how to enjoy the simple thing was important and has helped out immensely. Later in my childhood my parents got a divorce and my mother remarried to a better off individual and they were well into the upper quintile but spent every cent they made and then some so now they don't have a pot to piss in. My father continued to be thrifty and started doing better in his career though never being rich or an upper income earner is fairly well off. My wife on the other hand grew up in a family that was in the upper quintile and never had to want and would regularly get what ever she wanted. She spends like crazy and has the mentality of "look how much I saved" when she went and spend a bunch of money on things she doesn't need.
I think it is the parent's mentality towards money that has a greater effect on how a child views money. While my situation was probably more unique in that I got to see first hand both ends it is illustrative of the underlying problem.
For someone who has a lower id than my self you don't seem to have been paying attention to the other times this topic has come up. It seems fairly universal that the people here have always supported net neutrality.
Probably not, since if I do get a response back it is usually 6 months after the vote with some patronizing form letter that doesn't address a single point I mentioned and thanks me for supporting their decision to vote the way I didn't want them to. The rest of the time I'm pretty sure what I send them just gets ignored.
that sounds like a really good idea for a petition. For bonus points point out the hypocrisy in the current administration in promising to keep lobbyist out of his administration and how much each industry contributed to get one of their own put in a position of power.
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Lets be fair I can add one more thing to that list. I believe the US government has managed to rack up the largest debt in present day dollars of any nation in history. I don't think a private company would be capable of ever accumulating that much debt.
After reading the article this may prove to be a solution to the numerous deer car collisions. I might try this given the number of deer in my area.
So if I understand your post correctly
1. People don't want to live in the area your company is located in for the wages your company is offering.
2. Your company only wants to hire top tier employees who can make substantially more at other companies.
3. Your company doesn't want to train people.
Sounds to me like your company should actually follow the standard BS management line of investing in employees instead of whining about a shortage of people. How about increasing your pay offerings and compensation since you clearly stated that they pay is meh. Another idea might be to work with the local schools and offer paid internships you know so that you might actually be able to nab some of those college grads who already have experience. Also you could actually try and compete with Yahoo and Google for those new grads.
And since I recently found an old 5 1/4" floppy drive of mine I now want to put it in my new computer, too bad the computer doesn't have a floppy drive connector on the board since the drive probably would still work.
Now you just made me feel old as I realized I got my first e-mail address 21 years ago.
Maybe not the beef you eat but the beef I get from a farmer who is a family friend eats mostly alfalfa either fresh or silage with some leftovers from a near by craft brewery. With fresh alfalfa you have to be careful because the cattle will gorge themselves on it and then you get to deal with the after effects. Then again the farmer who I get beef from wands to produce a quality product at a fair price for his small but loyal customer base.
I eat meat because meat tastes like murder, and murder tastes pretty dam good!
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Flame-thrower. Laser pointers just aren't there yet.
You're just not using the right kind of laser. Why bother with a laser that puts out a few miliwatts to a few watts when you can get one that operates in the multi KW range.
Had a similar experience with my grandmother several years back. She is going to turn 93 this year, and is willing to learn new things which seems to be more of the key than anything else. The only uses of the computer for her was browsing the internet to look up information, sending e-mail, and printing pictures so the switch wasn't painful at all especially since she was using an internet e-mail provider already. My mother on the other hand still longs for the days of the family's old Apple II C+ which wasn't all that good when we got it.
Because I remember watching graphics load line by line and that sucked.
Even better would be a pre 1895 Mosin-Nagent.
How so? I dispose of old hard drives that way with my Finnish M39 and will go through that many rounds or more in an afternoon.
The way to avoid getting busted for having a coffee maker in your office is to put the coffee maker in an old computer case and run the plug out the back. One of my foreign coworkers has this setup in the server room he works in and in the 6 years I have known him no one in management or facilities maintenance has found it and no one else in the office will turn him in as they have started doing the same thing.
If he wants to look good for banning some scary technology thing, maybe he should start with something easier - like getting porn off the Internet.
I don't think you understand any good god fearing red blooded American is all for porn, just so long as it isn't any stranger than what they look at.
Still sounds like a good weekend to me.
Personally I would be fine with H1Bs, but since we are told that these companies absolutely need these people that an imported H1B individual is the highest compensated person in the company. This means total compensation, not just salary, and include the magic golden parachute, stock options, relocation expense, housing expense, etc. These companies obviously needs to import this individual since they couldn't find a US citizen at any cost and this position is so critical to the company that this person is so critical to day to day operations that they can't afford the time to train someone to do it so they must be worth more to the company than any one else in the company including those on the board.
Also I don't buy the shortage issue since if there were a shortage then wages would be going up compared to inflation instead of keeping pace or dropping.
Sounds like you know one of my coworkers (CISSP holder) who looks at me like a deer in headlight when I ask a simple yes or no question. A perfect example of this was the other day when I asked if he has that hardened RHEL 6.5 server disk ready that he should have been working on and after the long deer in headlights pause I got an explanation on why installing 6.4 and running an update is a better plan.
That is entirely possible I didn't see it that way, but then there are probably a number of valid interpretations of things.
I think you may have just found a logically coherent reason for me to be against this legislation and I like it. Lets take the common cited example and law suit that started this of a photographer not wanting to do a gay wedding because of religious objections. Lets re-frame the scenario as there was a photographer not wanting to to do a sinners (in the eyes of their religion they were sinners) wedding because of religious objections.
Now we can have a reasonable discussion about the issue so time to think aloud. If the photographer was consistent in only photographing people who were not living in his religion's view of sin and rejecting all others because of religious objections I would probably be willing to support that. But since the photographer's religion probably has rules about unmarried cohabitation, premarital sex, consumption of shell fish, are of a different religion, etc. and the photographer has done work for those sinners it see that their argument is much weaker. Also we already have laws preventing discrimination based off of religion, which at this point the photographer probably has fallen afoul of.
My wife grew up poor. If you had $1, you spent it. Her spending expands to absorb all available funds.
I actually had the opposite where I grew up poor but my family at the time was very thrifty and tried to save and not spend all the time. We did get government assistance but learning about delayed gratification and how to enjoy the simple thing was important and has helped out immensely. Later in my childhood my parents got a divorce and my mother remarried to a better off individual and they were well into the upper quintile but spent every cent they made and then some so now they don't have a pot to piss in. My father continued to be thrifty and started doing better in his career though never being rich or an upper income earner is fairly well off. My wife on the other hand grew up in a family that was in the upper quintile and never had to want and would regularly get what ever she wanted. She spends like crazy and has the mentality of "look how much I saved" when she went and spend a bunch of money on things she doesn't need.
I think it is the parent's mentality towards money that has a greater effect on how a child views money. While my situation was probably more unique in that I got to see first hand both ends it is illustrative of the underlying problem.
Will oxy-acetylene work?
Volts have an ICE so they don't get off easy.
For someone who has a lower id than my self you don't seem to have been paying attention to the other times this topic has come up. It seems fairly universal that the people here have always supported net neutrality.
Probably not, since if I do get a response back it is usually 6 months after the vote with some patronizing form letter that doesn't address a single point I mentioned and thanks me for supporting their decision to vote the way I didn't want them to. The rest of the time I'm pretty sure what I send them just gets ignored.
that sounds like a really good idea for a petition. For bonus points point out the hypocrisy in the current administration in promising to keep lobbyist out of his administration and how much each industry contributed to get one of their own put in a position of power.