"A hospital is perhaps the most hostile work environment."
It is indeed one of the most hostile work environments in existence. Doctors are actually some of the easier personalities to deal with unless they've got the God complex. If one dare cross a nurse there will be hell to pay. Managers in healthcare are very turf-happy and territorial.
Yes ageism is quite alive and well in IT and other areas of the job market.
To answer the previous poster's question of "Where's the problem?" the problem is the original article is talking about the supposedly best and the brightest of IT, the top grads of high-ranking IT schools not your run of the mill community college/generic state U or Kaplan/Devry/ITT Tech grad. The former are seen as leaders of their profession. When many of the leaders are simply out to make as much $$$$ as fast as they can many others adopt the same mentality. There is little movement of working to help for the greater good of society. It's how much can I get and how quickly can I get it?
No the 50-year old consultant will be paid to empty the trash and scrub the toilets. No way the Sesame Street crowd will let an old foggie anywhere near something kewl.
It's a very rural area although about 30 min. from the closest city of any size, that being Waterloo. Cell service is spotty when one ventures off Hwy 20 with any carrier other than U.S. Cellular. I have to laugh at AT&T's and Verizon's coverage maps because having used both carriers in that area. That's simply not happening.
Back to the point of discussion I know companies in that region such as Oran Mutual that are truly the only game in town. I think this issues goes beyond bandwidth and pipelines. Small-town telephone cooperatives really operate in a world and a kingdom of their own. They really are in their own little world in more ways than one.
" why the guy does not let MS know about the bug"
The entire point of all this to me is that MS should know about the bug and all the others. It's their job to know. Who is ultimately responsible at MS for mistakes such as this? No one? How many people must that company have who test their products for security vulnerabilities?
It's called HIPAA. The so-called medical privacy act only ensures common citizens have no access to one's medical records. But HIPAA also gives government greater access to comb through anything its little hearts desire. Thanks for nothing Ted Kennedy.
and then finish at a state school. Making sure it's a state CC with lower tuition get all the Gen Ed out of the way there. Not everyone has to or will go or has the study skills to go to a four-year school right out of high school. If you're God's next gift to medicine, science, engineering, etc.......the scholly $$$ will be there. But for the mortals there's nothing wrong with a solid two years of study at a good community college.
There's been no armed backlash against banks and the like. Instead of a school shooting or bombing a federal bldg why hasn't there been something similar in Wall street?
I simply cannot believe how any discussion of healthcare in the U.S. carefully avoids the swelling of the ranks of MBA/MSN level workers. Medical bureaucracy in the average U.S. hospital is a constantly growing drain on the financial resources but still seen as critical as any ER nurse or surgeon. We've created a kind of entitlement system where an MBA level job in the ranks of administration is off limits when budget cutting time comes around. Much easier to agonize over the cutting of janitors or kitchen workers to make the numbers work.
HIPAA is another cost on the system kept under wraps. How many jobs in the average 100+ bed hospital deal only with HIPAA compliance, generating not one dime of revenue for their organization. And letting many HIPAA violations go unrecognized and/or unpunished to boot.
because it safeguards all and anyone from having access to my data who isn't directly involved in my care as a patient. Isn't that right? Beuhler? Beuhler?
I mean good god, how much is it costing the U.S. healthcare system to run HIPAA?
That's funny, when the GOP barely won in the past, they've always immediately claimed mandates and so forth. Yet that apparently only work FOR them. Well fuck them, they don't get to arbitrarily decide when the majority votes means something. Besides, they've only won the popular vote 1 time out of the last 6. Ideally the GOP will waste away to be a footnote of craptastic corrupted idiocy in the future.
And you don't understand how the U.S. government is supposed to work. Let's examine ACA. That was passed by a majority of both houses of Congress, who in turn were elected by their citizens. The President signed it. It was upheld by the Supreme Court. Yet the GOP, the butthole of politics, tries at every step to kill or unfund it.
What EXACTLY do republitards suggest as a mechanism to running a democracy, if this MOST OBVIOUSLY constitutional method of passing and enacting laws, is apparently not good enough? Republitards don't believe in the legitimacy of government, except when they control all branches. So fuck them again, scumbags that they are.
And as for voting, yeah, lots of people don't vote. Makes us kind of hypocritical when we invade other countries for bullshit reasons, mostly having to do with beefing up profits and defense contractors that the previous VP was head of, under the theory we're bringing them freedom and democracy. Those same unassailable values that various dumbasses here don't bother to use?
who put both major parties in power in the South and work out a liveable solution? We could actually have something resembling a government for the people once again, that is until we actually strip corporations of person-hood.
Did you know that Iceland is the oldest democracy in existence? And, by the treatment received by bankers and politicians during the most recent financial crisis, it is the best performing democracy too.
I have an uncle now in his 80's who dumbed himself down in high school in the 1940's to avoid bullying. And this was in small town Midwest. Podunk USA if there ever was. This man was intelligent enough to take on the most challenging academic path there was but he didn't want to appear overly smart to his peers for fear of getting picked on and beat up.
Nothing new under the sun here.
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"A hospital is perhaps the most hostile work environment." It is indeed one of the most hostile work environments in existence. Doctors are actually some of the easier personalities to deal with unless they've got the God complex. If one dare cross a nurse there will be hell to pay. Managers in healthcare are very turf-happy and territorial.
but ageist, definitely.
Interesting any industry feels it can run with a hands off mode towards the customer.
and give touch-screen keyboards the same feel as using a real keyboard?
That statement can apply to a good share of American industries from computers to healthcare.
I'll save my pre-meditated attempts at injecting clumsy Republican-bashing for stories dealing with vast numbers of closeted gays thank you very much!
Amazing how senior management doesn't really have to deal with true capitalism, only the minions.
Yes ageism is quite alive and well in IT and other areas of the job market. To answer the previous poster's question of "Where's the problem?" the problem is the original article is talking about the supposedly best and the brightest of IT, the top grads of high-ranking IT schools not your run of the mill community college/generic state U or Kaplan/Devry/ITT Tech grad. The former are seen as leaders of their profession. When many of the leaders are simply out to make as much $$$$ as fast as they can many others adopt the same mentality. There is little movement of working to help for the greater good of society. It's how much can I get and how quickly can I get it?
No the 50-year old consultant will be paid to empty the trash and scrub the toilets. No way the Sesame Street crowd will let an old foggie anywhere near something kewl.
It's a very rural area although about 30 min. from the closest city of any size, that being Waterloo. Cell service is spotty when one ventures off Hwy 20 with any carrier other than U.S. Cellular. I have to laugh at AT&T's and Verizon's coverage maps because having used both carriers in that area. That's simply not happening. Back to the point of discussion I know companies in that region such as Oran Mutual that are truly the only game in town. I think this issues goes beyond bandwidth and pipelines. Small-town telephone cooperatives really operate in a world and a kingdom of their own. They really are in their own little world in more ways than one.
" why the guy does not let MS know about the bug" The entire point of all this to me is that MS should know about the bug and all the others. It's their job to know. Who is ultimately responsible at MS for mistakes such as this? No one? How many people must that company have who test their products for security vulnerabilities?
It's called HIPAA. The so-called medical privacy act only ensures common citizens have no access to one's medical records. But HIPAA also gives government greater access to comb through anything its little hearts desire. Thanks for nothing Ted Kennedy.
and then finish at a state school. Making sure it's a state CC with lower tuition get all the Gen Ed out of the way there. Not everyone has to or will go or has the study skills to go to a four-year school right out of high school. If you're God's next gift to medicine, science, engineering, etc.......the scholly $$$ will be there. But for the mortals there's nothing wrong with a solid two years of study at a good community college.
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Hey pal, you people voted for W the little twerp. We gotta clean up the mess now.
There's been no armed backlash against banks and the like. Instead of a school shooting or bombing a federal bldg why hasn't there been something similar in Wall street?
Many of us poor working stiffs have no opportunity to keep our employer at arm's length. Get back to the cube farm where you belong.
I simply cannot believe how any discussion of healthcare in the U.S. carefully avoids the swelling of the ranks of MBA/MSN level workers. Medical bureaucracy in the average U.S. hospital is a constantly growing drain on the financial resources but still seen as critical as any ER nurse or surgeon. We've created a kind of entitlement system where an MBA level job in the ranks of administration is off limits when budget cutting time comes around. Much easier to agonize over the cutting of janitors or kitchen workers to make the numbers work. HIPAA is another cost on the system kept under wraps. How many jobs in the average 100+ bed hospital deal only with HIPAA compliance, generating not one dime of revenue for their organization. And letting many HIPAA violations go unrecognized and/or unpunished to boot.
because it safeguards all and anyone from having access to my data who isn't directly involved in my care as a patient. Isn't that right? Beuhler? Beuhler? I mean good god, how much is it costing the U.S. healthcare system to run HIPAA?
That's funny, when the GOP barely won in the past, they've always immediately claimed mandates and so forth. Yet that apparently only work FOR them. Well fuck them, they don't get to arbitrarily decide when the majority votes means something. Besides, they've only won the popular vote 1 time out of the last 6. Ideally the GOP will waste away to be a footnote of craptastic corrupted idiocy in the future.
And you don't understand how the U.S. government is supposed to work. Let's examine ACA. That was passed by a majority of both houses of Congress, who in turn were elected by their citizens. The President signed it. It was upheld by the Supreme Court. Yet the GOP, the butthole of politics, tries at every step to kill or unfund it.
What EXACTLY do republitards suggest as a mechanism to running a democracy, if this MOST OBVIOUSLY constitutional method of passing and enacting laws, is apparently not good enough? Republitards don't believe in the legitimacy of government, except when they control all branches. So fuck them again, scumbags that they are.
And as for voting, yeah, lots of people don't vote. Makes us kind of hypocritical when we invade other countries for bullshit reasons, mostly having to do with beefing up profits and defense contractors that the previous VP was head of, under the theory we're bringing them freedom and democracy. Those same unassailable values that various dumbasses here don't bother to use?
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who put both major parties in power in the South and work out a liveable solution? We could actually have something resembling a government for the people once again, that is until we actually strip corporations of person-hood.
The major entitlement spending is not for Medicare/SSI but for corporate welfare at the federal state and local levels.
Did you know that Iceland is the oldest democracy in existence? And, by the treatment received by bankers and politicians during the most recent financial crisis, it is the best performing democracy too.
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I have an uncle now in his 80's who dumbed himself down in high school in the 1940's to avoid bullying. And this was in small town Midwest. Podunk USA if there ever was. This man was intelligent enough to take on the most challenging academic path there was but he didn't want to appear overly smart to his peers for fear of getting picked on and beat up. Nothing new under the sun here.
any disagreement with said faith is not only insulting it's looked on as blasphemy. It's no more complicated than this. So says the recovering fundie.