It's not quite "bait and switch"; That's replacing an inferior product for what was originally advertised. E.g. you spot an advert for $10 carpet shampoo, the guy comes around, and hard-sells a $150 "extra super quality" service instead.
This is classic negotiation tactics; Ask for something outlandish, and go towards the middle-ground from there. "If you want a puppy, ask for a horse." The problem is that we're really, really shit at negotiating the other way.
I've taken Chris Addison's approach to Daily Mail headlines; If you read one, append it with the words "... said Diana through medium." and see if you still think the headline holds any water.
"Red Cross Debates If Virtual Killing Violates International Humanitarian Law" said Diana through medium. "Mario kills Tanooki" says Diana through medium. "Muslim Fundamentalists Derka Jerbs" says...
Eh? I'm talking about making sure you're not expendable! Where did you get the impression that I was in a job I didn't enjoy? Maybe I enjoy it so much, and appreciate the fact that I such a great job in this climate, that I feel the need to safeguard my position here as best as I can. That doesn't mean that I'm not "Hit-By-A-Bus" ready for disaster, but that it may take someone equally as competent as me to bring the system back from disaster. This doesn't harm the company at all because I'm here should things to awry. It ensures that I don't end up holding a ticket in the job centre should budgets get cut, and right now that's pretty much my only worry.
Clarkson, May, and Hammond all have roots in motoring journalism; Hammond in Motorweek as well as radio presenting, May in The Engineer, Autocar, and Car Magazine and radio presenting, and Clarkson formed the Motoring Press Agency and has been in Top Gear since its inception.
I never said they were professional drivers, just like I said the Mythbusters team weren't professional scientists. I said they had a background in business before moving into entertainment.
Personally, use a LiveCD (Dr Web) in an old laptop with no hard disk as a sheep-dip station. If I'm handed a memory stick, it gets scanned before it touches a network connected device. It's not 100% foolproof, but it eliminates a lot of risk. Once scanned, I plug it in to my workstation to see what's on it. Disabling auto-run prevents automatic launch of any payload, and media-insertion scan from $favouriteAVproduct will let you know of anything else untoward. br.Failing that, snap the thing in half and chuck it in the recycling. Hey, it's $3. Or, free at any trade show.
Please tell me where you work, so I can never ever work there.
The private sector, during an economic depression. What sparkles-and-ponies world are you living in right now? Competition for work is visceral during crises like this; You protect yourself, or you join the benefits queue. Being a good guy is fine in times of plenty. It also makes you the "low hanging fruit" come staffing cuts.
I'm not saying that you shouldn't do a good job. Hell do the best job you can; Anything less is disingenuous, and you'll be strung up if you're found out. However, in times of scarce resources, you need a safety net. Think of it as burying nuts for the winter. You can worry about the other squirrels not getting theirs when your family is fed.
Life isn't like nursery rhymes and fairytales any more. Don't you know there's a war on?
They're professionals in the same way as Top Gear's Clarkson, May and Hammond are "professionals"; They dick about destroying stuff for entertainment, but have backgrounds in Seerius Bizniss.
Someone once compared that show to Last of the Summer Wine; Three old men getting into mischief.
I think the biggest thing/. is missing is that people knowledgeable in the sectors relevant to the discussion are already here, posting under personal accounts.
The "sponsors" we see won't be engineers or experts. Those guys are already here, posting because it's their passion.
Blue-skying this kind of methodographical paradigmitricism is really how this agilified industry really stays one step ahead of the curve. I really think we should interoperlesce our independemutual idearification thought-shower processes to better extramanipulify our squazzoreadibility enfungusifierated lolipopsiclewafer technology.
Corollary: "If you're hit by a bus in the next five minutes and the company can carry on without you, why shouldn't your manager replace you with the Sports Pack for his new Mercedes?"
In my opinion, the appropriate response to such nuisance calls is the phrase "Impersonal robo-calling at 6am is losing you votes." followed by a loud air horn. Repeat at least six times, to be sure you get your money's worth.
Haptic feedback (vibrating) isn't the same as key punch and return.
Anecdotally, this keyboard isn't a solution for me anyway, as it is too similar to the Apple keyboards (more than likely by design). The separation between the keys is too much for me, as I find myself brushing the neighbouring keys when typing on keyboards to improve accuracy. I can't do this on newer Apple devices. I should probably learn to type properly, but this way seems to offer accuracy, speed, and comfort at reasonable levels.
So you pay base-rate and include stock options as bonuses. This way, your coder has just as much invested in the success of your product, and they can pay bills in the mean time until the product returns a profit.
Look out for the "yesno" head-weave; It's a sure sign that you're in for disappointment. It's culturally accepted, when faced with difficult questions, to be so completely non-committal that all talking stops and to just sit / stand, weaving their head until you stop talking.
The device itself is selling at $250, which really isn't a bad price for the hardware if you look at it. I suspect they're selling the device for a loss and trying to make their money back with the storage.
You're salaried. You're paid to do a job, whether it takes you 20 hours or 80 hours a week. If you want, I'll pay you an extra 50% of your hourly wage when you work more than 40 hours a week. Your hourly wage is $0/hour, here's $0.
I'm done! I can go home early, right?
Sure, I do. Don't you?
I've found that this is one of the benefits of having the word "Manager" in your job title.
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It's not quite "bait and switch"; That's replacing an inferior product for what was originally advertised. E.g. you spot an advert for $10 carpet shampoo, the guy comes around, and hard-sells a $150 "extra super quality" service instead.
This is classic negotiation tactics; Ask for something outlandish, and go towards the middle-ground from there. "If you want a puppy, ask for a horse." The problem is that we're really, really shit at negotiating the other way.
You should feel exactly the same; It's the same document, just with a less threatening name. Don't you know how these things work?!
So what? If this is a cure for cancer, I would consider it a crime against humanity to keep it locked behind intellectual property law.
Woo-to-the-ooosh, my friend.
I've taken Chris Addison's approach to Daily Mail headlines; If you read one, append it with the words "... said Diana through medium." and see if you still think the headline holds any water.
"Red Cross Debates If Virtual Killing Violates International Humanitarian Law" said Diana through medium.
"Mario kills Tanooki" says Diana through medium.
"Muslim Fundamentalists Derka Jerbs" says...
You get the picture.
Eh? I'm talking about making sure you're not expendable! Where did you get the impression that I was in a job I didn't enjoy? Maybe I enjoy it so much, and appreciate the fact that I such a great job in this climate, that I feel the need to safeguard my position here as best as I can. That doesn't mean that I'm not "Hit-By-A-Bus" ready for disaster, but that it may take someone equally as competent as me to bring the system back from disaster. This doesn't harm the company at all because I'm here should things to awry. It ensures that I don't end up holding a ticket in the job centre should budgets get cut, and right now that's pretty much my only worry.
Clarkson, May, and Hammond all have roots in motoring journalism; Hammond in Motorweek as well as radio presenting, May in The Engineer, Autocar, and Car Magazine and radio presenting, and Clarkson formed the Motoring Press Agency and has been in Top Gear since its inception.
I never said they were professional drivers, just like I said the Mythbusters team weren't professional scientists. I said they had a background in business before moving into entertainment.
Personally, use a LiveCD (Dr Web) in an old laptop with no hard disk as a sheep-dip station. If I'm handed a memory stick, it gets scanned before it touches a network connected device. It's not 100% foolproof, but it eliminates a lot of risk. Once scanned, I plug it in to my workstation to see what's on it. Disabling auto-run prevents automatic launch of any payload, and media-insertion scan from $favouriteAVproduct will let you know of anything else untoward.
br.Failing that, snap the thing in half and chuck it in the recycling. Hey, it's $3. Or, free at any trade show.
Please tell me where you work, so I can never ever work there.
The private sector, during an economic depression. What sparkles-and-ponies world are you living in right now? Competition for work is visceral during crises like this; You protect yourself, or you join the benefits queue. Being a good guy is fine in times of plenty. It also makes you the "low hanging fruit" come staffing cuts.
I'm not saying that you shouldn't do a good job. Hell do the best job you can; Anything less is disingenuous, and you'll be strung up if you're found out. However, in times of scarce resources, you need a safety net. Think of it as burying nuts for the winter. You can worry about the other squirrels not getting theirs when your family is fed.
Life isn't like nursery rhymes and fairytales any more. Don't you know there's a war on?
I think that brainless MBA down the hallway from me just jizzed his pants because he read your post and thought those were actual buzzwords.
Is there a "Poe's Law" for business jargon?
They're professionals in the same way as Top Gear's Clarkson, May and Hammond are "professionals"; They dick about destroying stuff for entertainment, but have backgrounds in Seerius Bizniss.
Someone once compared that show to Last of the Summer Wine; Three old men getting into mischief.
I think the biggest thing /. is missing is that people knowledgeable in the sectors relevant to the discussion are already here, posting under personal accounts.
The "sponsors" we see won't be engineers or experts. Those guys are already here, posting because it's their passion.
Hi, and thanks for your input!
Blue-skying this kind of methodographical paradigmitricism is really how this agilified industry really stays one step ahead of the curve. I really think we should interoperlesce our independemutual idearification thought-shower processes to better extramanipulify our squazzoreadibility enfungusifierated lolipopsiclewafer technology.
Let me know what you think!
You have it backwards, yet correct. We're only looking at them, so what we will see is how they were 600 years ago.
If they looked our way today, they would have front-row seats to the rise of the Ottoman empire.
Corollary: "If you're hit by a bus in the next five minutes and the company can carry on without you, why shouldn't your manager replace you with the Sports Pack for his new Mercedes?"
In my opinion, the appropriate response to such nuisance calls is the phrase "Impersonal robo-calling at 6am is losing you votes." followed by a loud air horn. Repeat at least six times, to be sure you get your money's worth.
You learn something new every day! Thanks.
Haptic feedback (vibrating) isn't the same as key punch and return.
Anecdotally, this keyboard isn't a solution for me anyway, as it is too similar to the Apple keyboards (more than likely by design). The separation between the keys is too much for me, as I find myself brushing the neighbouring keys when typing on keyboards to improve accuracy. I can't do this on newer Apple devices. I should probably learn to type properly, but this way seems to offer accuracy, speed, and comfort at reasonable levels.
So you pay base-rate and include stock options as bonuses. This way, your coder has just as much invested in the success of your product, and they can pay bills in the mean time until the product returns a profit.
Look out for the "yesno" head-weave; It's a sure sign that you're in for disappointment. It's culturally accepted, when faced with difficult questions, to be so completely non-committal that all talking stops and to just sit / stand, weaving their head until you stop talking.
Don't you mean "25-40% of English and French words share a common root in Latin"?
The device itself is selling at $250, which really isn't a bad price for the hardware if you look at it. I suspect they're selling the device for a loss and trying to make their money back with the storage.
Simpsons^WGillette did it first.
I'd like to see something shot at faster than 24fps. Having fast motion turn into nothing but a smear it getting kind of annoying.
You're salaried. You're paid to do a job, whether it takes you 20 hours or 80 hours a week. If you want, I'll pay you an extra 50% of your hourly wage when you work more than 40 hours a week. Your hourly wage is $0/hour, here's $0.
I'm done! I can go home early, right?
Sure, I do. Don't you?
I've found that this is one of the benefits of having the word "Manager" in your job title.
... if Congress raises it's pay there is nothing that can be done to stop it."
If I remember correctly, "Jury" was only the third box.
Just pointing out that "nothing" is a pretty strong word in this instance.