I have years of experience in programming and management yet 99% of the time HR kicks out my resume because I do not have that BS in Comp Sci. Sorry I was self taught! I had a friend working at a bigger company that recommended me so I actually got an interview. The dept head liked me, got great responses in each of the interviews, then got an email from the dept head saying they filled with another candidate. Found out from my friend they found a guy (H1B) that they could work 6-7 days a week for less than half the salary they were discussing with me. Companies want CHEAP! I have been offered salaries under $18k a year for 6 day work weeks.
And from what you're saying, it sounds like you really liked working there. That operations manager must have been a great guy. Great working environment. Mutual respect all around! So let's make the whole world work that way.
Actually hated it.. It had over 120% employee turnover one year. The Operations Manager was actually a woman who got the position because of looks. She would get someone from our department to do her powerpoint and excel spreadsheets for her for her bosses.
But I worked for several other software companies here in Florida that had the same rule. I actually left the software industry for retail sales for less pay but MUCH less stress and hassle.
An employer I had a few years ago stated that any electrical device plugged in at work premises would be "theft" and you would be fired and charges pressed against you. No cell phone recharging, no lamp, no fan, nothing that plugged in. You plug it in and they catch you = lose your job and get arrested. Seen the Operations Manager have security pull someone from their desk and walk them out the door for plugging in a cell phone and then putting it in a desk drawer to try to hide it.
I would never just ASSUME something like a electrical outlet or water or anything is OK to use just because you can reach it.
Would you park in someones driveway and decide to wash your car because HEY they left a hose right there where you can reach? Would you just take a plant from someones garden because hey you can reach it from the sidewalk? Theft is theft.
Well I think we were not viewed so much as employees as "things". We HAD to show up for Christmas dinner for them halfway through December. It was NOT optional you HAD to show up. One year my supervisor hosted and his house was maybe 5000-6000 or so square feet with a huge hand laid brick driveway that he JUST had done. Another year one of the owners had it at his house. No raise that year but he had his home theater redone and big wall of McIntosh audio for his theater.
I should have left when I was told even though I was salaried that every time I worked less than 40 hours a week I would be docked a minimum of 1/2 a vacation/personal day. I was 20 minutes late one day and lost half a day. Did NOT matter the last week I probably worked 55-60 hours not including working 10+ hours on documentation at home EVERY weekend.
My last job the district manager changed and threw out all the promises of the last one. Told me he did NOT care what the last guy said and that he did NOT care how good I was with the business that people skills were more important than being knowledgeable. Top it off he started a GOLD STAR AWARD where we got GOLD STARS for doing an excellent job where we got gold star stickers by our name on a post it board in the employee lounge. I complained about being treated like a kindergartener and that's when the demotion started. Took me off the top of the promotion list, moved me to part time and shifted my office to another one 45 minutes drive from my home vs the one I was working at that was less than 5 min from home.
Why would a GAME improve a situation? I had one employer who thought taking us IT department to a paintball match would be fun. Was told by a fellow employee DO NOT shoot at the boss, the last guy who did was fired for it. Boss shows up with this super expensive automatic paintball marker and rest of us get single shot pistols. It was management vs the IT dept. Wanna guess what happened to every IT guy who actually shot at management? I was let go and a friend who accidentally hit the foot of a supervisor was demoted for "demoralizing the company with his attitude" because he was actually firing AT the opposing team.
I guess that is what is "effective management" in todays world.
Right now I know Racetrac and Murphys USA gas stations kept only managers as full time and rest are downgraded to part time no benefits. I asked the district manager for the Murphys here how are his employees going to survive. His answer? Get another job.
So to survive you will have to have 2-3 part time jobs just to make the same as 1 full time job and still have NO benefits. I have heard most of the bigger stores around here are doing the same thing. Managers = full time, everyone else is going part time.
I interviewed with a company that monitored people nationwide with the ankle bracelets.
Job was for network technician responsible for all computers/sat links/ect. Also was to make the receptionists coffee and copies as she needs and be her gofer. 6 days a week. With possible 7 days a week. Salary. $18k a year. No bonuses/perks. Oh and if the system messes up and someone gets hurt. Guess who is the fall guy?
That only works in major population areas. I am 40+ miles from the towers of everything but the VERY local/religious channel towers. I would need a 75+ foot tower with directional antenna to get fox/cbs/nbc/ect. Great thing is the local govt doesn't allow that tall. So I am stuck with either comcast (went thru 3 boxes in 3 months with them burning out) or dish or direct tv. Those are my only options. Oh and for internet its either comcast or DSL from the local phone company. Which no one else provides dsl on (no bare wire lease). Heck you can't even get DSL without getting local phone service which is $40/month. For low end DSL and local phone service its $97/month.
I had Comcast Cable TV and Internet service.. No TV for 3+ months. Had over 12 visits from different techs over the 3 months. Replaced cable box 4 times, Replaced repeater on pole, replaced line to house, I redid line from outside to tv, comcast tech redid line as well, Signal was just unwatchable. Told Comcast to cancel.
3 months after I turn in my box I get another bill for $180 saying I owe it for the time I DID NOT HAVE SERVICE THAT I PAID FOR and for the another month after I canceled. I called and oh its a MISTAKE you only owe $30. You will get a bill in a week. TWO MONTHS LATER another bill for $180. I hate Comcast with a passion and am seriously thinking of getting a lawyer. Got a call from COMCAST saying IF I DON'T pay the $180 they will turn it over to a collection agency and to the credit bureaus. $180 to pay for service that I already paid for and didn't have. What reality do they live in to think that makes sense?
Last salaried job I worked was Tech Support and OnSite Installation. Was SUPPOSED to be a 8-5 job but i was expected to be there working at 730.. and did tech support in office till 7 sometimes... but every time i had a doctors appt or was late.. i got dinged half a day vacation or comp time. BUT I was also expected to fly anywhere in the USA on installs with less than 3 hours notice (made for fun flight checks.. every time my bags where checked they were inspected!) My beef was i was expected to work a MIN of 40 hours no matter how much I got done but got forbid i was 15 min late.. there went half a day vacation time. How exactly is that legal? I work for myself now.. I have to thank them for driving me into being self employed!
6 months because that is all the cars are allowed to be on the road in the USA before they are destroyed or shipped back overseas if they are imported and not DOT approved. "Proof of export or destruction must be submitted to this office not later than 30 days following the end of the period for which the vehicle has been approved to be admitted to the United States." http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/CARS/RULES/IMPORT/TempInfo.html
Based on my personal experience.. thank you.. you are fired. Worked for about a year and a half documenting fixes/workarounds/protocol for setting up software/hardware and doing QA work on both. Soon as everything was pretty much documented (I was actually working on the last document) I got called to a conference room and was told I was being let go and when asked why I was told "lets not get into this." WFT??!? But that is life. You help your employer eliminate your position why would they keep you around? they just saved $X thousands of dollars a year.. thanks goodbye!
3 months eh? I remember getting a $1,500.00 + phone bill for long distance charges... makes ANY ISP look good. Then again there were NO other ISP locally for almost 2 years after AOL.
HEY! You try sending out 500 gazillion CDs a year and see how much you have to charge, eh!
Actually I used AOL when it was the only way to get online and they only had 2 phone #s in the entire state which were of course long distance.:) I think it is a great way to start to learn to get online (it is easy to find things to do/email with AOL). Just some people never move on.
AOL is expensive because it tries to have too much AOL only content. It has deals with content providers for AOL only exclusives which have no real value but are a nice bandwith waster.:) Plus the person who ran the broadband division of AOL told everyone below that broadband was dead and dialup was the future. So AOL broadband never really got a chance to be different than dialup. It is a dinosaur but at least it is a colourful one?!?
The moose is basically an EVA suit inside a plastic back with heatsheilding on the outside of the bag and foam on the inside.
Testing showed that it would work as a single person escape pod.
GE did all the testing on it in the early 60s. Again I ask..
Quote: "Support operations do not generate income, therefore offshore outsourcing reduces operating costs. IM frequently less than HO corporate America's first loyalty is to stockholders and unfortunately altruism doesn't increase the bottom line, so I think companies will continue to outsource until there's a financial incentive for them to quit doing it. "
Support operations DO generate income.. REPEAT BUSINESS! If I buy a product and your support SUCKS I will NOT buy from you again. I will go to a competitor who has better support. Seems American CEOs dont understand this. Actually American CEOs dont seem to understand basic business principles such as LONG TERM investment in the company and its workers. They would rather run the company into the ground as long as they can cash out their stock first, and get that platinum parachute for being fired!.
The Cellphones at gas stations myth is not a myth. Vibrating cell phones DO put out sparks which CAN cause fires.
BUT I would be more afraid of the people who get back IN their cars while fueling. That is THE perfect way to get a nice static charge to zap that fuel handle.
And if that doesnt.. im sure a exploding nokia battery would:) lol
Basically acoording to her little bio she has no clue how to review hardware. Dont blame her for being clueless, blame the moron who hired her.
Name: Eugenia Loli-Queru
Title: Editor in Chief
Email: eugeniaosnewscom
Personal website: http://www.eugenia.co.uk/
Birthday: 1973
Current residence: Bay Area, CA, USA
Short biography: I served for 2 years at BeNews, serving the BeOS and its community (this is all past now, but still full of great memories), and before that I was contributing as a news editor for a well known Gaming news site for about 8 months and I also co-held a fan site (LandOfEden) in the early development days of Lionhead's Black'n'White game. For more information about me, you can always check my homepage. Alternative email address: eloli --AT-- hotmail --DOT-- com
I am Greek and english is not my native language. I do OSNews for pure fun (it is just a hobby for me in order to fill up my free time), so if you have a problem with my spelling and grammar either:
a) do not come back (spare us and save your time too) b) send me a proofread version of the article in question.
Whining about something I can't radically improve overnight, is not an option.
Every large company I have worked at has done this to employees. Its useful for managers as a way to get employees that they dont like fired as useless. The employees that have kissed up to managers/supervisors always seem to get rated high even if they are totally useless.
If you read my profile you see I work for the largest ISP in america, well really world wide. Just got informed no bonus this year, MAX raises were 2% compared to 7% last year, and about 50% of the people got no raises at all, including me.
I really feel the love working there. Any bonus you give to an employee in any way is a great thing as long as you do it with good intentions.
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Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Short of it is: If more than X amount of people get fired you need X amount of days notification.
WARN ACT; PUBLIC LAW 100-379
SECTION I. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) SHORT TITLE. -- This Act may be cited as the " Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act".
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS. -- The table of contents is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title.
Sec. 2. Definitions; exclusions from definition of loss of employment.
Sec. 3. Notice required before plant closings and mass layoffs.
Sec. 4. Exemptions.
Sec. 5. Administration and enforcement of requirements.
Sec. 6. Procedures in addition to other rights of employees.
Sec. 7. Procedures encouraged where not required.
Sec. 8. Authority to prescribe regulations.
Sec. 9. Effect on other laws.
Sec. 10. Report on employment and international competitiveness.
Sec. 11. Effective date.
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS; EXCLUSIONS FROM DEFINITION OF LOSS OF EMPLOYMENT.
(a) DEFINITIONS. -- As used in this Act --
(1) the term "employer" means any business enterprise that employs --
(A) 100 or more employees, excluding part-time employees; or
(B) 100 or more employees who in the aggregate work at least 4,000 hours per week (exclusive of hours of overtime);
(2) the term "plant closing" means the permanent or temporary shutdown of a single site of employment, or one or more facilities or operating units within a single site of employment, if the shutdown results in an employment loss at the single site of employment during any 30-day period for 50 or more employees excluding any part-time employees;
(3) the term "mass layoff" means a reduction in force which --
(A) is not the result of a plant closing; and
(B) results in an employment loss at the single site of employment during any 30-day period for --
(i)(I) at least 33 percent of the employees (excluding any part-time employees); and
(II) at least 50 employees (excluding any part-time employees); or
(ii) at least 500 employees (excluding any part-time employees);
(4) the term "representative" means an exclusive representative of employees within the meaning of section 9(a) or 8(f) of the National Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 159(a), 158(f)) or section 2 of the Railway Labor Act (45 U.S.C. 152);
(5) the term "affected employees" means employees who may reasonably be expected to experience an employment loss as a consequence of a proposed plant closing or mass layoff by their employer;
(6) subject to subsection (b), the term "employment loss" means
(A) an employment termination, other than a discharge for cause, voluntary departure, or retirement,
(B) a layoff exceeding 6 months, or
(C) a reduction in hours of work of more than 50 percent during each month of any 6-month period;
(7) the term "unit of local government" means any general purpose political subdivision of a state which has the power to levy taxes and spend funds, as well as general corporate and police powers; and
(8) the term "part-time employee" means an employee who is employed for an average of fewer than 20 hours per week or who has been employed for fewer than 6 of the 12 months preceding the date on which notice is required.
(b) EXCLUSIONS FROM DEFINITION OF EMPLOYMENT LOSS. --
(1) In the case of a sale of part or all of an employer's business, the seller shall be responsible for providing notice for any plant closing or mass layoff in accordance with section 3 of this Act, up to and including the effective date of the sale. After the effective date of the sale of part or all of an employer's business, the purchaser shall be responsible for providing notice for any plant closing or mass layoff in accordance with section 3 of this Act. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, any person who is an employee of the seller (other
We are timed down to 3 seconds. 3 seconds late well that rounds up to 1 min late. also counts late coming back from breaks (2 per day) and lunch. Each time you are late thats a half occurance unless your more than 5 mins late thats a full occurance. 3 occurances in a rolling 30 day period and you are dismissed. Dang I wish I had it as easy as some of you. My job will even schedule us for overtime in the mornings BEFORE you come to work. How would you like it if you have to be at work from 9 am till 8pm but show up at 8:40 in the morning only to be told today you have 1 hour mandatory OT starting at 8am and btw your late and thats an occurance.
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I have years of experience in programming and management yet 99% of the time HR kicks out my resume because I do not have that BS in Comp Sci. Sorry I was self taught! I had a friend working at a bigger company that recommended me so I actually got an interview. The dept head liked me, got great responses in each of the interviews, then got an email from the dept head saying they filled with another candidate. Found out from my friend they found a guy (H1B) that they could work 6-7 days a week for less than half the salary they were discussing with me. Companies want CHEAP! I have been offered salaries under $18k a year for 6 day work weeks.
And from what you're saying, it sounds like you really liked working there. That operations manager must have been a great guy. Great working environment. Mutual respect all around! So let's make the whole world work that way.
Actually hated it.. It had over 120% employee turnover one year. The Operations Manager was actually a woman who got the position because of looks. She would get someone from our department to do her powerpoint and excel spreadsheets for her for her bosses.
But I worked for several other software companies here in Florida that had the same rule. I actually left the software industry for retail sales for less pay but MUCH less stress and hassle.
An employer I had a few years ago stated that any electrical device plugged in at work premises would be "theft" and you would be fired and charges pressed against you. No cell phone recharging, no lamp, no fan, nothing that plugged in. You plug it in and they catch you = lose your job and get arrested. Seen the Operations Manager have security pull someone from their desk and walk them out the door for plugging in a cell phone and then putting it in a desk drawer to try to hide it.
I would never just ASSUME something like a electrical outlet or water or anything is OK to use just because you can reach it.
Would you park in someones driveway and decide to wash your car because HEY they left a hose right there where you can reach?
Would you just take a plant from someones garden because hey you can reach it from the sidewalk?
Theft is theft.
Well I think we were not viewed so much as employees as "things". We HAD to show up for Christmas dinner for them halfway through December. It was NOT optional you HAD to show up. One year my supervisor hosted and his house was maybe 5000-6000 or so square feet with a huge hand laid brick driveway that he JUST had done. Another year one of the owners had it at his house. No raise that year but he had his home theater redone and big wall of McIntosh audio for his theater.
I should have left when I was told even though I was salaried that every time I worked less than 40 hours a week I would be docked a minimum of 1/2 a vacation/personal day. I was 20 minutes late one day and lost half a day. Did NOT matter the last week I probably worked 55-60 hours not including working 10+ hours on documentation at home EVERY weekend.
My last job the district manager changed and threw out all the promises of the last one. Told me he did NOT care what the last guy said and that he did NOT care how good I was with the business that people skills were more important than being knowledgeable. Top it off he started a GOLD STAR AWARD where we got GOLD STARS for doing an excellent job where we got gold star stickers by our name on a post it board in the employee lounge. I complained about being treated like a kindergartener and that's when the demotion started. Took me off the top of the promotion list, moved me to part time and shifted my office to another one 45 minutes drive from my home vs the one I was working at that was less than 5 min from home.
Why would a GAME improve a situation? I had one employer who thought taking us IT department to a paintball match would be fun. Was told by a fellow employee DO NOT shoot at the boss, the last guy who did was fired for it. Boss shows up with this super expensive automatic paintball marker and rest of us get single shot pistols. It was management vs the IT dept. Wanna guess what happened to every IT guy who actually shot at management? I was let go and a friend who accidentally hit the foot of a supervisor was demoted for "demoralizing the company with his attitude" because he was actually firing AT the opposing team.
I guess that is what is "effective management" in todays world.
Right now I know Racetrac and Murphys USA gas stations kept only managers as full time and rest are downgraded to part time no benefits. I asked the district manager for the Murphys here how are his employees going to survive. His answer? Get another job.
So to survive you will have to have 2-3 part time jobs just to make the same as 1 full time job and still have NO benefits. I have heard most of the bigger stores around here are doing the same thing. Managers = full time, everyone else is going part time.
http://bit.ly/rCBPp7 You don't know where that link goes until you click it. So, what do you do?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bitly-preview/
Shows full URL. Rule 1 don't click on URLs to unknown websites ESPECIALLY at work! :)
I interviewed with a company that monitored people nationwide with the ankle bracelets.
Job was for network technician responsible for all computers/sat links/ect. Also was to make the receptionists coffee and copies as she needs and be her gofer.
6 days a week. With possible 7 days a week. Salary. $18k a year. No bonuses/perks. Oh and if the system messes up and someone gets hurt. Guess who is the fall guy?
I basically RAN from the interview.
That only works in major population areas. I am 40+ miles from the towers of everything but the VERY local/religious channel towers. I would need a 75+ foot tower with directional antenna to get fox/cbs/nbc/ect. Great thing is the local govt doesn't allow that tall. So I am stuck with either comcast (went thru 3 boxes in 3 months with them burning out) or dish or direct tv. Those are my only options. Oh and for internet its either comcast or DSL from the local phone company. Which no one else provides dsl on (no bare wire lease). Heck you can't even get DSL without getting local phone service which is $40/month. For low end DSL and local phone service its $97/month.
I had Comcast Cable TV and Internet service.. No TV for 3+ months. Had over 12 visits from different techs over the 3 months. Replaced cable box 4 times, Replaced repeater on pole, replaced line to house, I redid line from outside to tv, comcast tech redid line as well, Signal was just unwatchable. Told Comcast to cancel.
3 months after I turn in my box I get another bill for $180 saying I owe it for the time I DID NOT HAVE SERVICE THAT I PAID FOR and for the another month after I canceled. I called and oh its a MISTAKE you only owe $30. You will get a bill in a week. TWO MONTHS LATER another bill for $180. I hate Comcast with a passion and am seriously thinking of getting a lawyer.
Got a call from COMCAST saying IF I DON'T pay the $180 they will turn it over to a collection agency and to the credit bureaus.
$180 to pay for service that I already paid for and didn't have. What reality do they live in to think that makes sense?
Last salaried job I worked was Tech Support and OnSite Installation. Was SUPPOSED to be a 8-5 job but i was expected to be there working at 730.. and did tech support in office till 7 sometimes... but every time i had a doctors appt or was late.. i got dinged half a day vacation or comp time. BUT I was also expected to fly anywhere in the USA on installs with less than 3 hours notice (made for fun flight checks.. every time my bags where checked they were inspected!) My beef was i was expected to work a MIN of 40 hours no matter how much I got done but got forbid i was 15 min late.. there went half a day vacation time. How exactly is that legal? I work for myself now.. I have to thank them for driving me into being self employed!
6 months because that is all the cars are allowed to be on the road in the USA before they are destroyed or shipped back overseas if they are imported and not DOT approved. "Proof of export or destruction must be submitted to this office not later than 30 days following the
end of the period for which the vehicle has been approved to be admitted to the United States." http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/CARS/RULES/IMPORT/TempInfo.html
Based on my personal experience.. thank you.. you are fired. Worked for about a year and a half documenting fixes/workarounds/protocol for setting up software/hardware and doing QA work on both. Soon as everything was pretty much documented (I was actually working on the last document) I got called to a conference room and was told I was being let go and when asked why I was told "lets not get into this." WFT??!? But that is life. You help your employer eliminate your position why would they keep you around? they just saved $X thousands of dollars a year.. thanks goodbye!
3 months eh? I remember getting a $1,500.00 + phone bill for long distance charges... makes ANY ISP look good. Then again there were NO other ISP locally for almost 2 years after AOL.
HEY! You try sending out 500 gazillion CDs a year and see how much you have to charge, eh!
:) I think it is a great way to start to learn to get online (it is easy to find things to do/email with AOL). Just some people never move on.
:) Plus the person who ran the broadband division of AOL told everyone below that broadband was dead and dialup was the future. So AOL broadband never really got a chance to be different than dialup. It is a dinosaur but at least it is a colourful one?!?
Actually I used AOL when it was the only way to get online and they only had 2 phone #s in the entire state which were of course long distance.
AOL is expensive because it tries to have too much AOL only content. It has deals with content providers for AOL only exclusives which have no real value but are a nice bandwith waster.
There are already rescue systems designed and could be easily done for the cheap!!! and not risk other astronauts lifes in the process. Such as the Moose http://www.friends-partners.ru/partners/mwade/craf t/moose.htm
f tfam/rescue.htm
has several examples of already researched rescue pods/vehicles/modules and long term "lifeboats".
The moose is basically an EVA suit inside a plastic back with heatsheilding on the outside of the bag and foam on the inside. Testing showed that it would work as a single person escape pod. GE did all the testing on it in the early 60s.
Again I ask..
Why reinvent the wheel?
Btw.. THat same website going back one step http://www.friends-partners.ru/partners/mwade/cra
Quote: "Support operations do not generate income, therefore offshore outsourcing reduces operating costs. IM frequently less than HO corporate America's first loyalty is to stockholders and unfortunately altruism doesn't increase the bottom line, so I think companies will continue to outsource until there's a financial incentive for them to quit doing it. "
Support operations DO generate income.. REPEAT BUSINESS! If I buy a product and your support SUCKS I will NOT buy from you again. I will go to a competitor who has better support. Seems American CEOs dont understand this. Actually American CEOs dont seem to understand basic business principles such as LONG TERM investment in the company and its workers. They would rather run the company into the ground as long as they can cash out their stock first, and get that platinum parachute for being fired!.
The Cellphones at gas stations myth is not a myth. Vibrating cell phones DO put out sparks which CAN cause fires.
:) lol
BUT I would be more afraid of the people who get back IN their cars while fueling.
That is THE perfect way to get a nice static charge to zap that fuel handle.
And if that doesnt.. im sure a exploding nokia battery would
Basically acoording to her little bio she has no clue how to review hardware. Dont blame her for being clueless, blame the moron who hired her.
Name: Eugenia Loli-Queru
Title: Editor in Chief
Email: eugeniaosnewscom
Personal website: http://www.eugenia.co.uk/
Birthday: 1973
Current residence: Bay Area, CA, USA
Short biography: I served for 2 years at BeNews, serving the BeOS and its community (this is all past now, but still full of great memories), and before that I was contributing as a news editor for a well known Gaming news site for about 8 months and I also co-held a fan site (LandOfEden) in the early development days of Lionhead's Black'n'White game. For more information about me, you can always check my homepage. Alternative email address: eloli --AT-- hotmail --DOT-- com
I am Greek and english is not my native language. I do OSNews for pure fun (it is just a hobby for me in order to fill up my free time), so if you have a problem with my spelling and grammar either:
a) do not come back (spare us and save your time too)
b) send me a proofread version of the article in question. Whining about something I can't radically improve overnight, is not an option.
Every large company I have worked at has done this to employees. Its useful for managers as a way to get employees that they dont like fired as useless. The employees that have kissed up to managers/supervisors always seem to get rated high even if they are totally useless.
If you read my profile you see I work for the largest ISP in america, well really world wide. Just got informed no bonus this year, MAX raises were 2% compared to 7% last year, and about 50% of the people got no raises at all, including me.
I really feel the love working there. Any bonus you give to an employee in any way is a great thing as long as you do it with good intentions.
Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification
Short of it is: If more than X amount of people get fired you need X amount of days notification.
WARN ACT; PUBLIC LAW 100-379
SECTION I. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) SHORT TITLE. -- This Act may be cited as the " Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act".
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS. -- The table of contents is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title.
Sec. 2. Definitions; exclusions from definition of loss of employment.
Sec. 3. Notice required before plant closings and mass layoffs.
Sec. 4. Exemptions.
Sec. 5. Administration and enforcement of requirements.
Sec. 6. Procedures in addition to other rights of employees.
Sec. 7. Procedures encouraged where not required.
Sec. 8. Authority to prescribe regulations.
Sec. 9. Effect on other laws.
Sec. 10. Report on employment and international competitiveness.
Sec. 11. Effective date.
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS; EXCLUSIONS FROM DEFINITION OF LOSS OF EMPLOYMENT.
(a) DEFINITIONS. -- As used in this Act --
(1) the term "employer" means any business enterprise that employs --
(A) 100 or more employees, excluding part-time employees; or
(B) 100 or more employees who in the aggregate work at least 4,000 hours per week (exclusive of hours of overtime);
(2) the term "plant closing" means the permanent or temporary shutdown of a single site of employment, or one or more facilities or operating units within a single site of employment, if the shutdown results in an employment loss at the single site of employment during any 30-day period for 50 or more employees excluding any part-time employees;
(3) the term "mass layoff" means a reduction in force which --
(A) is not the result of a plant closing; and
(B) results in an employment loss at the single site of employment during any 30-day period for --
(i)(I) at least 33 percent of the employees (excluding any part-time employees); and
(II) at least 50 employees (excluding any part-time employees); or
(ii) at least 500 employees (excluding any part-time employees);
(4) the term "representative" means an exclusive representative of employees within the meaning of section 9(a) or 8(f) of the National Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 159(a), 158(f)) or section 2 of the Railway Labor Act (45 U.S.C. 152);
(5) the term "affected employees" means employees who may reasonably be expected to experience an employment loss as a consequence of a proposed plant closing or mass layoff by their employer;
(6) subject to subsection (b), the term "employment loss" means
(A) an employment termination, other than a discharge for cause, voluntary departure, or retirement,
(B) a layoff exceeding 6 months, or
(C) a reduction in hours of work of more than 50 percent during each month of any 6-month period;
(7) the term "unit of local government" means any general purpose political subdivision of a state which has the power to levy taxes and spend funds, as well as general corporate and police powers; and
(8) the term "part-time employee" means an employee who is employed for an average of fewer than 20 hours per week or who has been employed for fewer than 6 of the 12 months preceding the date on which notice is required.
(b) EXCLUSIONS FROM DEFINITION OF EMPLOYMENT LOSS. --
(1) In the case of a sale of part or all of an employer's business, the seller shall be responsible for providing notice for any plant closing or mass layoff in accordance with section 3 of this Act, up to and including the effective date of the sale. After the effective date of the sale of part or all of an employer's business, the purchaser shall be responsible for providing notice for any plant closing or mass layoff in accordance with section 3 of this Act. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, any person who is an employee of the seller (other
Looks to me like it says W583,000 which is about 506.91 USD give or take a few cents.
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Then again I dont speak/read Korean.
We are timed down to 3 seconds. 3 seconds late well that rounds up to 1 min late. also counts late coming back from breaks (2 per day) and lunch. Each time you are late thats a half occurance unless your more than 5 mins late thats a full occurance. 3 occurances in a rolling 30 day period and you are dismissed.
Dang I wish I had it as easy as some of you. My job will even schedule us for overtime in the mornings BEFORE you come to work.
How would you like it if you have to be at work from 9 am till 8pm but show up at 8:40 in the morning only to be told today you have 1 hour mandatory OT starting at 8am and btw your late and thats an occurance.
Sorry, excuse me...how fast is your connection, if I may ask? Oh, thank you... chkchk *BANG!* Aaaa...now we're talking...*busy clicking sounds resume*
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hmmm Only in Texas would you hear the bang. Civilized people would just throw hot coffee on the offender till he runs away screaming in pain.