My Dues, 30 a month. I get 6 weeks vacation, great sick time, and fantastic benefits. I make 6 figures.
I work 4 tens, any after hours work is billable, being on call is billable. If I give a profession opinion or fact I can't be fired is it happen to be contrary to what some VP wants. Yes, I was fired for explaining why something wasn't possible to a VP. With facts and number and even maths. Yes, I was polite. Hell, once I was reprimanded for putting people in the wrong order in a cc in an email when I worked in the financial sector.
Working 40 is the minority of programmers schedule.
"That's ignoring the risk of the union making it hard to get rid of the people who sincerely need to go," I seen people let go. There is a process here, and it's a reasonable one. Warning, write up, write up with correction plan, fired. It prevents people for getting fired for political reasons, and it also lets people know when their performance has dropped. As a side note, I got a warning for my performance dropping. Since I normally evaluated as high as possible for my work, this lead e to finding out I was suffering from depression. I've seen people join the union and think it's like the urban myth of the union. They don't last long.
Because it's really a means for the owners to avoid responsibility for their actions. You see this in any country where corporation do not have a built in shelf life.
Did you know corporation where almost banned in the constitution? They grow large and then manipulate the government. Something seen in the British Empire. The only reason it wasn't was because that had, for all practical purpose, a life of 20 years.
Now they live forever and can take an active role in the government.
If it was simply what you say, then I wouldn't have a problem.
No, it's rife with abuse. Many programmer are salary, when they shouldn't be. Many are denied OT, even though they are not management. They are expected to be available all the time without compensation, many are worked to exhaustion, regularly. Funny how when you pay people for there time, suddenly there aren't a lot of last minute emergence that make you stay at work and work 60+ hour weeks.
"Individuals are above the collective," That's moronic, and you don't actually believe that even if you think you do. Do you think my right as an individual means I can drive the wrong way down the freeway? dump toxic chemicals into your ground water? cut in front of you in line? PLay music at 140 db at 4 am?
Presumable your 230 would be divided up among the site you visit. The real problem will be malware that makes it look like you visited a site more often then you actually did.
"Remember how cable subscription you already pay for includes ads in the programming?" you pay for the service of having the shows piped for you, not for the shows. Do you think you cable company makes all those shows? The very premise makes NO DAMN SENSE.
We had ON TV in '77, it had commercials. The Soft core porn add on did not have commercials. Cable TV goes back to the laet 40's and early 50s. They took broadcast channels, and then piped them into areas with pore/no TV reception.
People don't seem to realize that Cable TV has always just shown what was broadcast, and they don't strip commercials.
Now there are some companies that just flat charge you for their channel, and 'stations' business model(HOB et. al.) is pay us, no commercials, but that is NOT the same as providing for a service
Yo are remembering incorrectly. Cable TV was never ad free becasue cable companies have(had) nothing to do with content, only delivery.
ON TV didn't have commercial, but that wasn't cable TV. It was one company, selling on channel AND the service. Literally they installed a cable to your house, then ran it to a box on your TV that had one knob. You tuned your TV to channel 3, then turned the dial from OFF to ON.
um, no. Clearly, no one browses the entire internet, so the money is divided among the site you do visit. As would every one. Subscription service would be a separate agreement.
Please stop spreading the myth. Cable TV has never been advertised to be commercial free. NEVER. Some channels have, like HBO*, but not the company providing the service of having content shipped to your house over cable.
*I don't know if that's still true, but it was when HBO first came out.
I wonder if ad block, et. al. is actually making it worse. Fewer people get ads, websites need more ads for to make the same money from fewer people. aka, the people without ad block.
"paying additional for the privilege of not viewing ads was one of the founding principles behind cable TV" False. It was the premise of a specialized singe channels, NOT 'cable TV'. Cable TV you are paying for a service NOT content.
I miss clothing allowances. OTOH, I do not miss wearing a suit every day. The first real company I worked for had a clothing allowance, free dry cleaning, and an person office decoration allowance. In fact, they gave me a bonus after I joined so I could get a couple of 'real' suits when they found out my suits where off the rack from sears.
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Of course its beneath you. Where the hell would you go were the were over you? :)
"...thought androids on nuclear-powered motorcycles were cool."
That's only because they are cool.
My Dues, 30 a month.
I get 6 weeks vacation, great sick time, and fantastic benefits.
I make 6 figures.
I work 4 tens, any after hours work is billable, being on call is billable. If I give a profession opinion or fact I can't be fired is it happen to be contrary to what some VP wants. Yes, I was fired for explaining why something wasn't possible to a VP. With facts and number and even maths. Yes, I was polite. Hell, once I was reprimanded for putting people in the wrong order in a cc in an email when I worked in the financial sector.
Working 40 is the minority of programmers schedule.
"That's ignoring the risk of the union making it hard to get rid of the people who sincerely need to go,"
I seen people let go. There is a process here, and it's a reasonable one. Warning, write up, write up with correction plan, fired.
It prevents people for getting fired for political reasons, and it also lets people know when their performance has dropped.
As a side note, I got a warning for my performance dropping. Since I normally evaluated as high as possible for my work, this lead e to finding out I was suffering from depression.
I've seen people join the union and think it's like the urban myth of the union. They don't last long.
You just need to hear the sound of their flexor tendons as they squeezed the trigger.
Can't explain something that doesn't actually happen.
Like cake? Cake has layers.
Because it's really a means for the owners to avoid responsibility for their actions.
You see this in any country where corporation do not have a built in shelf life.
Did you know corporation where almost banned in the constitution? They grow large and then manipulate the government. Something seen in the British Empire. The only reason it wasn't was because that had, for all practical purpose, a life of 20 years.
Now they live forever and can take an active role in the government.
If it was simply what you say, then I wouldn't have a problem.
" individuals "
Plural, which would be a collective.
" a word referring to nothing in reality"
Nope:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
Are you ignorant or too stupid to apply context?
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It's another step in trial.
No, it's rife with abuse.
Many programmer are salary, when they shouldn't be. Many are denied OT, even though they are not management. They are expected to be available all the time without compensation, many are worked to exhaustion, regularly.
Funny how when you pay people for there time, suddenly there aren't a lot of last minute emergence that make you stay at work and work 60+ hour weeks.
Coppea.
"Individuals are above the collective,"
That's moronic, and you don't actually believe that even if you think you do. Do you think my right as an individual means I can drive the wrong way down the freeway? dump toxic chemicals into your ground water? cut in front of you in line? PLay music at 140 db at 4 am?
I can go on and on.
It's a balance.
For you? Jan 2000 - June 2000
put every god damn penny you can into a 401k.
Oh, you mean programming wise?
Presumable your 230 would be divided up among the site you visit.
The real problem will be malware that makes it look like you visited a site more often then you actually did.
"Remember how cable subscription you already pay for includes ads in the programming?"
you pay for the service of having the shows piped for you, not for the shows.
Do you think you cable company makes all those shows? The very premise makes NO DAMN SENSE.
We had ON TV in '77, it had commercials. The Soft core porn add on did not have commercials.
Cable TV goes back to the laet 40's and early 50s. They took broadcast channels, and then piped them into areas with pore/no TV reception.
People don't seem to realize that Cable TV has always just shown what was broadcast, and they don't strip commercials.
Now there are some companies that just flat charge you for their channel, and 'stations' business model(HOB et. al.) is pay us, no commercials, but that is NOT the same as providing for a service
Yo are remembering incorrectly. Cable TV was never ad free becasue cable companies have(had) nothing to do with content, only delivery.
ON TV didn't have commercial, but that wasn't cable TV. It was one company, selling on channel AND the service. Literally they installed a cable to your house, then ran it to a box on your TV that had one knob. You tuned your TV to channel 3, then turned the dial from OFF to ON.
um, no.
Clearly, no one browses the entire internet, so the money is divided among the site you do visit. As would every one.
Subscription service would be a separate agreement.
In theory, anyway
Please stop spreading the myth. Cable TV has never been advertised to be commercial free. NEVER.
Some channels have, like HBO*, but not the company providing the service of having content shipped to your house over cable.
*I don't know if that's still true, but it was when HBO first came out.
I wonder if ad block, et. al. is actually making it worse.
Fewer people get ads, websites need more ads for to make the same money from fewer people. aka, the people without ad block.
All modems are self capping. Unless their is an infinity bandwidth modem I am unaware of.
"paying additional for the privilege of not viewing ads was one of the founding principles behind cable TV"
False. It was the premise of a specialized singe channels, NOT 'cable TV'. Cable TV you are paying for a service NOT content.
if they can detect the ad is not showing.
I miss clothing allowances. OTOH, I do not miss wearing a suit every day.
The first real company I worked for had a clothing allowance, free dry cleaning, and an person office decoration allowance.
In fact, they gave me a bonus after I joined so I could get a couple of 'real' suits when they found out my suits where off the rack from sears.