he wants to be CALLED june, but his real name is JERRY.
(sigh....)
I wonder, though; the CAUSE of this was islamic terror - and that triggered our extreme fear reaction which caused us to go overboard on the 'security theater' checks.
all the while, the muslim extremists who WANTED this done to us, are laughing their asses off.
I wish - and I know this would never 'fly' - that we would make their lives as uncomfortable as ours - or even more so. they are really offended when their women are even looked at by westerners. what I would love to see is that we go OUT OF OUR WAY to fondle and embarass all the muslim women - ALL OF THEM - that enter or leave any western country. yes, its payback and its meant to inflict a return feeling for all that have 'done' for us.
it will piss them off no-end! in a non-violent but VERY clear way. and if we decided to do this under guise of 'making us all safer' then there would be nothing they could do.
the fact that we let them ruin our way of life - and they got away with it - means that they are boldened to keep doing this crap to us.
if we do a tit-for-tat (as childish as that might initially seem) then maybe the escalations and wars would come to a stand-still.
see, killing them does not change a thing. they WANT to die; they have been trained for it and their way of life lets them think that they will have paradise of they do harm to non-muslims. but what would make them more angry than murder is to EMBARASS THEM. saving face is a big deal in the middle east and it would show them that if they do X, we will do Y and Y will be MUCH worse than their X.
we're pussies, though. we are afraid to truly fight them in ways that will give us the desired result. instead, we fight them in ways that would make ourselves angry; and the problem with that is that what makes us angry is not what makes them angry.
the sooner we truly engage in this culture war, the sooner we can end it all and return to sanity again.
I know, we won't do this. I know that. like I said, we're pussies and won't truly fight them in ways that will bring about change.
the republicans are like children to technology: or worse. the average 5 year old knows more than the shriveled old white guys that wear the R badge.
they are afraid to endorse ANYTHING the 'left' wants. its the grouch marx thing: "whatever it is, I'm against it!". that's one part of it. the other is that they see this as NOT allowing a 'nice' big business to overcharge and profetize twice for the same data.
they are not at all concerned with anyone's quality of life except what lines their own pockets. the D's are not much better, these days, but at least they are not on the wrong side of history on so many modern issues.
they have been quite brazen in how little they care for 'mr. everyman'. if you are not in the top of the rich class, you don't exist to them; and the ultra rich have no need for faster or even reliable internet. hell, they have other people 'do the internet' stuff for them, so they are very detached from reality.
but simply, its the grouch marx thing that really explains it all. too bad that we have such polarization in this country; progress has been a concept that has not been around for decades, now, because of it.
having the government step in may not be the best solution, but its the ONLY solution we can pick.
are you arguing for the so-called 'free hand' to auto correct?
(wait. you're serious??)
gov has to step in BECAUSE free market (that does not truly exist) keeps screwing the customer more and more. there is no sign of any fix coming from them; quite the opposite.
so, SOMEONE has to step in. the gov is the only other 'power' that can help balance this out of control industry.
they don't make 'tube transistors' anymore, but I could probably find some resistifiers and capacitators inside the usual china-made electronics gear of today.
maybe the occasional transistorators, as well, even though they are starting to become rare as chen's teeth.
he's not delusional; he's just plain lying and shilling for the h1b factories.
everyone who has been in tech and looked for a job via non-friend (public) channels has seen their share of being rejected and ignored even though your quals and the job are nearly a carbon copy of each other (happens to me all the time).
I doubt there are more than 100 jobs, country wide, that NEED special talent that is not available here already. I might even be estimating that too much, too.
I'm pretty well experienced in US tech. after college, I stayed in boston for 10 years working at a well known new england computer company. I later moved to the bay area and have been here 25+ years. all working for tech (software eng). I know this field, I have worked at quite a few top-name companies and so have real experience in matters that we're discussing.
when I moved here 25 or so years ago, seeing the mix of imported labor vs US born was more reasonable. still not representative, but not outrageous. maybe half of my group were from asia/india and the rest US born. over the years, its gotton to be about 90% asia/india, for any given group other than upper management. in engineering, you can now walk the hallways of many bay area companies and if its an engineering building, english will be the exception, not the rule. I am not lying, those who live here can verify this if they are brave enough to speak up about it.
now, it would be fair if you found about 10% or so of each group being imported labor. I can agree that there may be some jobs that are so specialized that no one locally can do. but when it gets to 50%, 70%, 90% of the typical group (sw, hw, sysadmin, devops, etc) - then I really question that *everyone* there is special and could not be done by a willing and able local person. most companies are run on the meat and potatoes person - competant, able, but no genius. for that, you should be able to find local employees. but when you see that 90% of a software or hardware group is h1b, you really know that its all a scam and a lie that 'no one local could be found' for all those regular old jobs.
hey, I started out wanting the glory jobs. I think I'm pretty good, I've been around, I've done lots of things. I was not getting the jobs that I applied for. so I lowered the threshold and applied for the so-called meat and potato jobs. the ones that even average people can do (and who is often hired). nope, shut out of those, too. all staffed with indian and chinese folks. I was willing to do nearly any software work that paid a living wage, and could not find it. I've personally been looking for a few months, now, and its this way for many of us.
again, if the 10% cream-of-the-cream jobs were only fillable with international talent, fine, cool, I'm ok with that. but that's not even close to what the actual reality is. its abused beyond abuse.
after you unwrap yourself from the flag, I'll tell you the real story.
the real story is: what applied back in the turn of the century does not apply any longer. lots of reasons, we can list them but I'm sure you agree that what made sense (letting tons of people in) does not, any more.
WHY are we obligated to solve the world's problems and give everyone in the world the same rights as people who have a lot invested and who plan to live here long-term.
see, that's one thing your little jingoistic story leaves out. the ellis island folks, by and large, did not plan to move here for a short stay, make a lot of money and return home. they were INVESTED here, they eventually learned the language and merged in. that was then.
what we have now is a 'grab, take, return home' situation. we don't give these folks citizenship. look, if they are valuable, give them citizenship and let them be like the rest of us! let them live with the long-term results of what we all are going to face. if you come to shit in my country, take what's good and then leave, do you think people will want to like you?
we don't give citizenship, really; we give h1b. 'temp work permits'. in that, its nothing like ellis island days. nothing AT ALL.
stop playing star spangled banner and smell the real coffee. what worked 100 years ago is not applicable now. the workforce is too crowded, the unemployment is sky high and we are borderline on depression, again and again. is that a time you think of as a 'work surplus' era? I sure don't! if you have no surplus, you have no right giving out jobs to people who are not as invested as those who were born and raised here.
and yes, I do think that being born in a country and raised there DOES give you more rights over those who just moved in. try moving to germany or france or austria or switzerland or probably most other european countries and trying to be 'a citizen'. in some places, if you were not born there, you'll NEVER be one of them. jobs won't go to you first, etc etc. why do we have to import the word's labor force - especially when our own people are being routinely refused a living wage in the field they are WELL qualified to work in.
have you walked the hallways of companies that hire 'a lot' of h1b's?
come visit the bay area. take a tour of any random cisco building, for example. just go into their cafeteria. or pick another well known tech company in the bay area. go walk their hallways. listen to the languages you hear there.
come back and tell me about diversity.
ok, you have a point. you can hear mandarin, cantonese, hindi and at least 10 other indian dialects. and so, yes, there's a KIND of diversity in tech, these days, in so-called US companies...
all else being equal, citizens who spent 20+ years paying dues, being immersed in the culture of the country, having a PERMANENT STAKE in the success of their country - vs 'guests' who could really care less about the long-term success of our nation?
YEAH, YOU BET! I WOULD HIRE AMERICANS ANY DAY over those who come to grab the goods and then run.
yes, we deserve first choice on jobs. is your country different? let me visit your country and see if I can get a job there. I bet I can't - and its because YOUR country realizes that it needs to protect its own people.
MY country - the US - sold its soul decades ago and cares nothing about its own long-term survival. but almost every other country in the modern world will not allow 'guests' to come in and tip the balance of the workforce.
I don't know why you think YOU deserve a job over an equally qualified american, IN america!
I don't think you are serious and its obviously not right to treat ANYONE badly like that.
what I would like to know is this: for those of us here who are not US born, how do you feel being in a tech company and 90% of the people you see are also not from the US? does that give you any guilt at all? do you honestly think that everyone you met that came from india or china was head and shoulders above a US-born worker.
I've seen stellar programmers from india and china. I've also seen horrible work from people that came from those countries. in all, what I've seen in bay area companies is that the people they have working for them are average. very few companies have top talent, and yet the population is 90% asian. is the US 90% asian? I don't think so. not even in the bay area.
so again, do you indian folks think that the system has been fair? how would you feel if the tables were turned: if your country allowed (which we know it does not!) foreign workers to come in and undercut the local labor force? suppose you walked into an indian company, in india, and 90% of the faces were white. would you think it was fair?
next time you are sitting in a round table meeting, discussing the next non-indian candidate, before you immediately conclude 'not a cultural fit', think what each hiring decision is doing. think about fairness rather than staffing up with more folks of the same background as yourself.
if we are fair with each other, we all win. if you continue to play the 'not a cultural fit', what kind of message are you really sending? and think about this: suppose your son or daughter were to witness the discrimination that happens at your company. would they be proud of you? is this the kind of morals you want them to have?
I call BS on that. you have no leverage and everyone knows it. tell me, what CAN you do if the employer wants to force you to work every weekend for the next 3 months? what are you going to do or say back to the boss?
go ahead. enlighten me, oh Mr. brave AC. tell us that you will tell the bossman to jump in the lake.
if they would only realize that by making US employment of americans stronger, we will be able to AFFORD to buy the toys that our very companies are making (toys being used in the very general sense).
what will happen to all those who came or want to come to the US? well, this will force their own countries to deal with their own problems instead of the 'I cant fix my own country, so I'll just go to the US, instead' mentality. if mobility was a bit more limited, people in their own countries would have to deal with and fix their own problems. that's a win/win for everyone.
by allowing cheap labor to displace US workers, its lose/lose. nothing in india (and we all know, india is the #1 source of h1b tech workers) will get better if their 'top talent' all moves here for jobs; and the US struggles to keep its own people employed.
we have let the ceo's ruin our economy for decades! their selfishness has stunted the entire US economy for all but the one percenters.
then again, congress is all about the one percenters and so, expecting a fix from those who can't even SEE the problem is a bit overly optimistic.
HIRE AMERICANS and we'll start to consider sending our kids to comp-sci classes.
but in the current world, they would all be better off being blue collar workers. those jobs are not out-sourceable. not glamorous, but as a comp-sci guy, myself, I've been out of work way longer than any plumber or wallboarder I've ever met. those guys all have more business than they can take, which is NOT at all the life I lead, as an unemployed american tech worker.
maybe if I changed my name to rajiv, I would be able to get a job in the bay area doing software work. but I am simply the wrong 'cultural match' (cough, cough) and won't get hired into this work force.
I am almost ready to just give up. and you want to encourage our kids to live this kind of life? are you serious or just delusional? proof that congress (etc) has no connection with today's working class. none whatsoever!
maybe its not about men vs women. that's a red herring.
in the bay area, at least, job salary negotiations exist mostly for non H1B's. H1B's will take what they can get and be thankful for that.
US born and raised folks have had more options and they won't be manipulated (as much) as foreign workers let themselves be.
which do you think companies want more of? those that can walk and go elsewhere vs those that are indentured?
the same for salaries. those who are indentured won't be able to negotiate salaries. those few of us who are left, 'need' to be stripped of that right, too (according to her).
this is CEO vs common man, not man vs woman.
war on the middle class, just with a distraction tactic added.
the south east is jesusland (bible belt). many of us in the bay area would not be caught dead living in the deep south. I should not have to splain it to you, either.
if you grew up there, fine. if you are not from there, they do not want you (and I don't want them, either).
any place that has, as a first social question 'so, which church do you belong to?' is no place for me; same with most of the people I know in the silicon valley area.
its expensive here but its not as 'christy' and that is wroth a lot, to me.
I'm unemployed. been looking for tech work the last few months. I had 1 offer: it was for $50k less than I was making when I had a fulltime (contract) job.
if you are out of work, they see dollar signs in you. "he's abusable and will take anything we offer. oh, he's over 50, too? oh, standard operating procedure, everyone: offer him 1/3 less than he made before and deny him any benefits. tel^H^H^Hlie to him about 'temp to hire' (that is actually a typo, its 'temp to FIRE' in reality) and see if he's at the bottom of his rope, yet. at some point, if we all collectively squeeze him hard enough, he'll take our pitiful offer"
welcome to he REAL corp america. you will be fucked. just wait your turn.
actually, IoT -is- a thing and has been for a while, now.
one vendor has more levels, one of which is EioT (enterprise iot). enterprise, meaning wired cat5/6 cable with PoE and once you have network and power, you can put sensors all over the place, easily, with existing cables already in your building. at least, that's their push for -e- iot.
iot is a new buzzword, its true. but its also implying 'cloud stuff' when it comes to consumers. that's the part I object the most to. the iot stuff I work on (my own projects) does not require or even use any cloud shit. all things are local on your network with things you setup and trust. if/when you want to gateway to some other public network, you then need permit/denies at very granual levels. if you are not prepared to do that, you have no business putting shit on the public internet.
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he wants to be CALLED june, but his real name is JERRY.
(sigh....)
I wonder, though; the CAUSE of this was islamic terror - and that triggered our extreme fear reaction which caused us to go overboard on the 'security theater' checks.
all the while, the muslim extremists who WANTED this done to us, are laughing their asses off.
I wish - and I know this would never 'fly' - that we would make their lives as uncomfortable as ours - or even more so. they are really offended when their women are even looked at by westerners. what I would love to see is that we go OUT OF OUR WAY to fondle and embarass all the muslim women - ALL OF THEM - that enter or leave any western country. yes, its payback and its meant to inflict a return feeling for all that have 'done' for us.
it will piss them off no-end! in a non-violent but VERY clear way. and if we decided to do this under guise of 'making us all safer' then there would be nothing they could do.
the fact that we let them ruin our way of life - and they got away with it - means that they are boldened to keep doing this crap to us.
if we do a tit-for-tat (as childish as that might initially seem) then maybe the escalations and wars would come to a stand-still.
see, killing them does not change a thing. they WANT to die; they have been trained for it and their way of life lets them think that they will have paradise of they do harm to non-muslims. but what would make them more angry than murder is to EMBARASS THEM. saving face is a big deal in the middle east and it would show them that if they do X, we will do Y and Y will be MUCH worse than their X.
we're pussies, though. we are afraid to truly fight them in ways that will give us the desired result. instead, we fight them in ways that would make ourselves angry; and the problem with that is that what makes us angry is not what makes them angry.
the sooner we truly engage in this culture war, the sooner we can end it all and return to sanity again.
I know, we won't do this. I know that. like I said, we're pussies and won't truly fight them in ways that will bring about change.
its as if someone had been coding samba ... in the rain!
(GOML)
the republicans are like children to technology: or worse. the average 5 year old knows more than the shriveled old white guys that wear the R badge.
they are afraid to endorse ANYTHING the 'left' wants. its the grouch marx thing: "whatever it is, I'm against it!". that's one part of it. the other is that they see this as NOT allowing a 'nice' big business to overcharge and profetize twice for the same data.
they are not at all concerned with anyone's quality of life except what lines their own pockets. the D's are not much better, these days, but at least they are not on the wrong side of history on so many modern issues.
they have been quite brazen in how little they care for 'mr. everyman'. if you are not in the top of the rich class, you don't exist to them; and the ultra rich have no need for faster or even reliable internet. hell, they have other people 'do the internet' stuff for them, so they are very detached from reality.
but simply, its the grouch marx thing that really explains it all. too bad that we have such polarization in this country; progress has been a concept that has not been around for decades, now, because of it.
having the government step in may not be the best solution, but its the ONLY solution we can pick.
are you arguing for the so-called 'free hand' to auto correct?
(wait. you're serious??)
gov has to step in BECAUSE free market (that does not truly exist) keeps screwing the customer more and more. there is no sign of any fix coming from them; quite the opposite.
so, SOMEONE has to step in. the gov is the only other 'power' that can help balance this out of control industry.
the republicans are the groucho marx of this decade:
whatever it is, I'm against it!
just wish it was funny...
"packet police" sounds funny.
maye we should call the anti-net freedom guys "bit bastards". maybe it will stick.
"yet another bit-bastard wants to enact legislation..."
and so on.
they don't make 'tube transistors' anymore, but I could probably find some resistifiers and capacitators inside the usual china-made electronics gear of today.
maybe the occasional transistorators, as well, even though they are starting to become rare as chen's teeth.
"well, that's just - like - your opinion, man."
he's not delusional; he's just plain lying and shilling for the h1b factories.
everyone who has been in tech and looked for a job via non-friend (public) channels has seen their share of being rejected and ignored even though your quals and the job are nearly a carbon copy of each other (happens to me all the time).
I doubt there are more than 100 jobs, country wide, that NEED special talent that is not available here already. I might even be estimating that too much, too.
what's that? you say you plan to use a remote control on them?
let us know how that goes.
and the infamous 'steering wheel tray' with the great user submitted photos:
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I'm pretty well experienced in US tech. after college, I stayed in boston for 10 years working at a well known new england computer company. I later moved to the bay area and have been here 25+ years. all working for tech (software eng). I know this field, I have worked at quite a few top-name companies and so have real experience in matters that we're discussing.
when I moved here 25 or so years ago, seeing the mix of imported labor vs US born was more reasonable. still not representative, but not outrageous. maybe half of my group were from asia/india and the rest US born. over the years, its gotton to be about 90% asia/india, for any given group other than upper management. in engineering, you can now walk the hallways of many bay area companies and if its an engineering building, english will be the exception, not the rule. I am not lying, those who live here can verify this if they are brave enough to speak up about it.
now, it would be fair if you found about 10% or so of each group being imported labor. I can agree that there may be some jobs that are so specialized that no one locally can do. but when it gets to 50%, 70%, 90% of the typical group (sw, hw, sysadmin, devops, etc) - then I really question that *everyone* there is special and could not be done by a willing and able local person. most companies are run on the meat and potatoes person - competant, able, but no genius. for that, you should be able to find local employees. but when you see that 90% of a software or hardware group is h1b, you really know that its all a scam and a lie that 'no one local could be found' for all those regular old jobs.
hey, I started out wanting the glory jobs. I think I'm pretty good, I've been around, I've done lots of things. I was not getting the jobs that I applied for. so I lowered the threshold and applied for the so-called meat and potato jobs. the ones that even average people can do (and who is often hired). nope, shut out of those, too. all staffed with indian and chinese folks. I was willing to do nearly any software work that paid a living wage, and could not find it. I've personally been looking for a few months, now, and its this way for many of us.
again, if the 10% cream-of-the-cream jobs were only fillable with international talent, fine, cool, I'm ok with that. but that's not even close to what the actual reality is. its abused beyond abuse.
after you unwrap yourself from the flag, I'll tell you the real story.
the real story is: what applied back in the turn of the century does not apply any longer. lots of reasons, we can list them but I'm sure you agree that what made sense (letting tons of people in) does not, any more.
WHY are we obligated to solve the world's problems and give everyone in the world the same rights as people who have a lot invested and who plan to live here long-term.
see, that's one thing your little jingoistic story leaves out. the ellis island folks, by and large, did not plan to move here for a short stay, make a lot of money and return home. they were INVESTED here, they eventually learned the language and merged in. that was then.
what we have now is a 'grab, take, return home' situation. we don't give these folks citizenship. look, if they are valuable, give them citizenship and let them be like the rest of us! let them live with the long-term results of what we all are going to face. if you come to shit in my country, take what's good and then leave, do you think people will want to like you?
we don't give citizenship, really; we give h1b. 'temp work permits'. in that, its nothing like ellis island days. nothing AT ALL.
stop playing star spangled banner and smell the real coffee. what worked 100 years ago is not applicable now. the workforce is too crowded, the unemployment is sky high and we are borderline on depression, again and again. is that a time you think of as a 'work surplus' era? I sure don't! if you have no surplus, you have no right giving out jobs to people who are not as invested as those who were born and raised here.
and yes, I do think that being born in a country and raised there DOES give you more rights over those who just moved in. try moving to germany or france or austria or switzerland or probably most other european countries and trying to be 'a citizen'. in some places, if you were not born there, you'll NEVER be one of them. jobs won't go to you first, etc etc. why do we have to import the word's labor force - especially when our own people are being routinely refused a living wage in the field they are WELL qualified to work in.
ethnic diversity?
have you walked the hallways of companies that hire 'a lot' of h1b's?
come visit the bay area. take a tour of any random cisco building, for example. just go into their cafeteria. or pick another well known tech company in the bay area. go walk their hallways. listen to the languages you hear there.
come back and tell me about diversity.
ok, you have a point. you can hear mandarin, cantonese, hindi and at least 10 other indian dialects. and so, yes, there's a KIND of diversity in tech, these days, in so-called US companies...
all else being equal, citizens who spent 20+ years paying dues, being immersed in the culture of the country, having a PERMANENT STAKE in the success of their country - vs 'guests' who could really care less about the long-term success of our nation?
YEAH, YOU BET! I WOULD HIRE AMERICANS ANY DAY over those who come to grab the goods and then run.
yes, we deserve first choice on jobs. is your country different? let me visit your country and see if I can get a job there. I bet I can't - and its because YOUR country realizes that it needs to protect its own people.
MY country - the US - sold its soul decades ago and cares nothing about its own long-term survival. but almost every other country in the modern world will not allow 'guests' to come in and tip the balance of the workforce.
I don't know why you think YOU deserve a job over an equally qualified american, IN america!
pretty ballsy of you to think so, too.
I don't think you are serious and its obviously not right to treat ANYONE badly like that.
what I would like to know is this: for those of us here who are not US born, how do you feel being in a tech company and 90% of the people you see are also not from the US? does that give you any guilt at all? do you honestly think that everyone you met that came from india or china was head and shoulders above a US-born worker.
I've seen stellar programmers from india and china. I've also seen horrible work from people that came from those countries. in all, what I've seen in bay area companies is that the people they have working for them are average. very few companies have top talent, and yet the population is 90% asian. is the US 90% asian? I don't think so. not even in the bay area.
so again, do you indian folks think that the system has been fair? how would you feel if the tables were turned: if your country allowed (which we know it does not!) foreign workers to come in and undercut the local labor force? suppose you walked into an indian company, in india, and 90% of the faces were white. would you think it was fair?
next time you are sitting in a round table meeting, discussing the next non-indian candidate, before you immediately conclude 'not a cultural fit', think what each hiring decision is doing. think about fairness rather than staffing up with more folks of the same background as yourself.
if we are fair with each other, we all win. if you continue to play the 'not a cultural fit', what kind of message are you really sending? and think about this: suppose your son or daughter were to witness the discrimination that happens at your company. would they be proud of you? is this the kind of morals you want them to have?
I call BS on that. you have no leverage and everyone knows it. tell me, what CAN you do if the employer wants to force you to work every weekend for the next 3 months? what are you going to do or say back to the boss?
go ahead. enlighten me, oh Mr. brave AC. tell us that you will tell the bossman to jump in the lake.
but we know you are lying.
if they would only realize that by making US employment of americans stronger, we will be able to AFFORD to buy the toys that our very companies are making (toys being used in the very general sense).
what will happen to all those who came or want to come to the US? well, this will force their own countries to deal with their own problems instead of the 'I cant fix my own country, so I'll just go to the US, instead' mentality. if mobility was a bit more limited, people in their own countries would have to deal with and fix their own problems. that's a win/win for everyone.
by allowing cheap labor to displace US workers, its lose/lose. nothing in india (and we all know, india is the #1 source of h1b tech workers) will get better if their 'top talent' all moves here for jobs; and the US struggles to keep its own people employed.
we have let the ceo's ruin our economy for decades! their selfishness has stunted the entire US economy for all but the one percenters.
then again, congress is all about the one percenters and so, expecting a fix from those who can't even SEE the problem is a bit overly optimistic.
HIRE AMERICANS and we'll start to consider sending our kids to comp-sci classes.
but in the current world, they would all be better off being blue collar workers. those jobs are not out-sourceable. not glamorous, but as a comp-sci guy, myself, I've been out of work way longer than any plumber or wallboarder I've ever met. those guys all have more business than they can take, which is NOT at all the life I lead, as an unemployed american tech worker.
maybe if I changed my name to rajiv, I would be able to get a job in the bay area doing software work. but I am simply the wrong 'cultural match' (cough, cough) and won't get hired into this work force.
I am almost ready to just give up. and you want to encourage our kids to live this kind of life? are you serious or just delusional? proof that congress (etc) has no connection with today's working class. none whatsoever!
let me ask just one more question-
does that apply to front-yard chickens, as well?
bingo!
I think we have a winnah, folks.
its not about men and women. its a way to remove 'fair pay' from the job market. you will take what we offer or else.
I bet it will go over big with the bay area ceo's. the rest of us, well, we're getting screwed once again.
the class warfare (in real terms) can't come soon enough - sometimes I really think that.
maybe its not about men vs women. that's a red herring.
in the bay area, at least, job salary negotiations exist mostly for non H1B's. H1B's will take what they can get and be thankful for that.
US born and raised folks have had more options and they won't be manipulated (as much) as foreign workers let themselves be.
which do you think companies want more of? those that can walk and go elsewhere vs those that are indentured?
the same for salaries. those who are indentured won't be able to negotiate salaries. those few of us who are left, 'need' to be stripped of that right, too (according to her).
this is CEO vs common man, not man vs woman.
war on the middle class, just with a distraction tactic added.
same old, same old (sigh) ;(
the south east is jesusland (bible belt). many of us in the bay area would not be caught dead living in the deep south. I should not have to splain it to you, either.
if you grew up there, fine. if you are not from there, they do not want you (and I don't want them, either).
any place that has, as a first social question 'so, which church do you belong to?' is no place for me; same with most of the people I know in the silicon valley area.
its expensive here but its not as 'christy' and that is wroth a lot, to me.
I'm unemployed. been looking for tech work the last few months. I had 1 offer: it was for $50k less than I was making when I had a fulltime (contract) job.
if you are out of work, they see dollar signs in you. "he's abusable and will take anything we offer. oh, he's over 50, too? oh, standard operating procedure, everyone: offer him 1/3 less than he made before and deny him any benefits. tel^H^H^Hlie to him about 'temp to hire' (that is actually a typo, its 'temp to FIRE' in reality) and see if he's at the bottom of his rope, yet. at some point, if we all collectively squeeze him hard enough, he'll take our pitiful offer"
welcome to he REAL corp america. you will be fucked. just wait your turn.
actually, IoT -is- a thing and has been for a while, now.
one vendor has more levels, one of which is EioT (enterprise iot). enterprise, meaning wired cat5/6 cable with PoE and once you have network and power, you can put sensors all over the place, easily, with existing cables already in your building. at least, that's their push for -e- iot.
iot is a new buzzword, its true. but its also implying 'cloud stuff' when it comes to consumers. that's the part I object the most to. the iot stuff I work on (my own projects) does not require or even use any cloud shit. all things are local on your network with things you setup and trust. if/when you want to gateway to some other public network, you then need permit/denies at very granual levels. if you are not prepared to do that, you have no business putting shit on the public internet.