Based on the premise that you need to have a cash flow, there's a road map that you can always follow:
First, it always help to know when the company has started the fsck planas soon as possible. This will help you in to not getting yourself in trouble as you can when you start obeying the company to stay for long work shifts, or even 7x24, because once you start doing so it will very difficult to stop. It always pays to have friends on human resourses / finantial department to know when things happen.
Second, you start searching for another job when all your coworkers use the extra work time to fall in the spiral of trouble. Of course, it will help when not only you, but all the department simply do not accept the new kind of rules, but unfunaterly this is not the case as you're reading Slashdot when the others are using compressed air to clean motherboards.
Third, you can expect to be fired when this process (finding another job in your free time) is still in early stages, because other coworkers will even start to complain as you leave office early every day, among other causes. This is not as bad as it sounds: when the company fires you only because you're doing your job at the usual schedule it will pay you for that (legal affairs differs state to state or even country to country). When you leave voluntarily you receive a lot less (and you will if you find another job to jump in).
Third, never use the company's network to search for another job (you can be fired early, even with no compensatory package, simply for using the company's assets for this purpose), this is NOT a smart move. Period.
In the end, if everything is sincronized, you will find yourelf in another job, using the time the others spend jobless working for your current company, for less daily hours. This is the best case, of course, and demands you to be as reserved and confidential as you can. But hings could go wrong...
Always get to know the law, as you can find what can happen, to be prepared (this could help you when you receive your last payment for your current company, for example).
You can use some (of all) of your company's benefits (days you can work from your home, sickness, courses, even not showing at office with a limit) to go to job interviews.
Keep in mind this: you will not be treated different because you're special, you know something the others know or youÂre to important for your company, if you fail to realize this you probably shouldn't reading this, it will help you more to use compressed air to service motherboards and cds. You have very little time to fly, maybe to a better possition;)
If it helps, once the company fires the unfirable staff, it starts a never-ending process of hiring new people, and as soon as this people finds what it's all about, resigns, to start it all over again, and again, and again...
It's just a shame that there're some places where the finantial people are so dumb thay cannot say what costs more, or the company is so alienated with money that does'nt care for it most valuable asset: the people.
Would you support backdoors on encription when you have a working prototype of a Quantum Computer (or big advances so there is a releasing date for such a thing)?
Come on, it's pretty obvious... there's an enourmous ammount of money on many projects, and since Sept. 11 I'll be surprised if it is not a national priority;)
I have, for long, studied USA (it's forms, it's people, it's long-standing vision of freedom and even it's media and way-of-life) to a level that I can think like an american.
This is because we're side to side in a map (I'm en Mexico), and because my work (computer-related) just can't be done other way. First: I will not say that I dislike USA's way of life, to the extent that it does't get involved into other people's way of life. I don't like USA's standing in "our way of life it's the best, so we will impose it in every corner of the planet". USA must stop in doing so. Second: Do you actually know what level of security is used to secure must Israel's airports, borders, even malls? you know that must of it came from USA? you think that USA is going to be more secure than Israel? (at every level, be it high-tech or militar), do you think that Israel, some day, some how, will be terrorist-free? do you think USA? Third: USA has demostrated before, it's people is not prepared to deal with a long-standing war on terrorism on it's own soil. If the american people think that this war is going to be fighten in other place, they're mistaken. USA must realize that it is not going to benefit from this "new kind of war". Many countries are already wining it by means of not relating themselfes with middle-east. That's the way people. Stay off that area. Let Israel deal with Palestine.
I like USA the same way I like TCP/IP, it's there, is reliable, it sets a standard, you can use it, and certainly are better ways to do it, but if it begins to change into something that I don't like, It'll be years to have another standard to live on, and I don't know how could it be...
I think that the election process is not related to technological problems, but to a very close end of the presidential race.
We just have some new "ingredients" to count on:
The most problematic state (Florida) is run by the younger brother of one of the candidates (Bush)
The design of the ballots in _only one_ of the counties (Palm Beach) is to bad to be true
As it stands at this very moment, it seems that Gore is a winner in Florida, pending on a hand recount that has a limit set at tomorrow at 5pm EST.
Is incredible that at this time the election is winned on Electoral Vites and not by just counting how many citizens have voted on a particular candidate
My final comment: you americans complicate your selfes to much and your image associated with democracy is at the highest risk: if Bush is declarated president elected you will not have the right to say you honor democracy, but the right to say your lawyers are good or bad.
Just imagine what you would have saved if just used a pen and old-fashioned ballots!
I'm sick of hearing that using more techical advanced procedures would make the change... I think that using them just will make thing worst.
As it stands, whatever you put your signature on, name ir a contract, an agreement, anything, _has_ to be honored.
If the paper says that in the event you develop, discover, work in, anything that can be useful, marketable or simple archivable it's the property of your employer, that's the final word. period.
But usually those papers don't apply when you work after work-time AND not using the resources of your employer AT ALL. It means that when you're away from work (school also), averything you do is yours and yours alone.
Don't confuse things: if someone is paying you and you have agreed with it (in paper), you must comply with the policy you just have signed.
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First, it always help to know when the company has started the fsck plan as soon as possible. This will help you in to not getting yourself in trouble as you can when you start obeying the company to stay for long work shifts, or even 7x24, because once you start doing so it will very difficult to stop. It always pays to have friends on human resourses / finantial department to know when things happen.
Second, you start searching for another job when all your coworkers use the extra work time to fall in the spiral of trouble. Of course, it will help when not only you, but all the department simply do not accept the new kind of rules, but unfunaterly this is not the case as you're reading Slashdot when the others are using compressed air to clean motherboards.
Third, you can expect to be fired when this process (finding another job in your free time) is still in early stages, because other coworkers will even start to complain as you leave office early every day, among other causes. This is not as bad as it sounds: when the company fires you only because you're doing your job at the usual schedule it will pay you for that (legal affairs differs state to state or even country to country). When you leave voluntarily you receive a lot less (and you will if you find another job to jump in).
Third, never use the company's network to search for another job (you can be fired early, even with no compensatory package, simply for using the company's assets for this purpose), this is NOT a smart move. Period.
In the end, if everything is sincronized, you will find yourelf in another job, using the time the others spend jobless working for your current company, for less daily hours. This is the best case, of course, and demands you to be as reserved and confidential as you can. But hings could go wrong...
Always get to know the law, as you can find what can happen, to be prepared (this could help you when you receive your last payment for your current company, for example).
You can use some (of all) of your company's benefits (days you can work from your home, sickness, courses, even not showing at office with a limit) to go to job interviews.
Keep in mind this: you will not be treated different because you're special, you know something the others know or youÂre to important for your company, if you fail to realize this you probably shouldn't reading this, it will help you more to use compressed air to service motherboards and cds. You have very little time to fly, maybe to a better possition ;)
If it helps, once the company fires the unfirable staff, it starts a never-ending process of hiring new people, and as soon as this people finds what it's all about, resigns, to start it all over again, and again, and again...
It's just a shame that there're some places where the finantial people are so dumb thay cannot say what costs more, or the company is so alienated with money that does'nt care for it most valuable asset: the people.
This guy has his image copyrighted!
Would you support backdoors on encription when you have a working prototype of a Quantum Computer (or big advances so there is a releasing date for such a thing)? ;)
Come on, it's pretty obvious... there's an enourmous ammount of money on many projects, and since Sept. 11 I'll be surprised if it is not a national priority
This is because we're side to side in a map (I'm en Mexico), and because my work (computer-related) just can't be done other way.
First: I will not say that I dislike USA's way of life, to the extent that it does't get involved into other people's way of life. I don't like USA's standing in "our way of life it's the best, so we will impose it in every corner of the planet". USA must stop in doing so.
Second: Do you actually know what level of security is used to secure must Israel's airports, borders, even malls? you know that must of it came from USA? you think that USA is going to be more secure than Israel? (at every level, be it high-tech or militar), do you think that Israel, some day, some how, will be terrorist-free? do you think USA?
Third: USA has demostrated before, it's people is not prepared to deal with a long-standing war on terrorism on it's own soil. If the american people think that this war is going to be fighten in other place, they're mistaken. USA must realize that it is not going to benefit from this "new kind of war". Many countries are already wining it by means of not relating themselfes with middle-east. That's the way people. Stay off that area. Let Israel deal with Palestine.
I like USA the same way I like TCP/IP, it's there, is reliable, it sets a standard, you can use it, and certainly are better ways to do it, but if it begins to change into something that I don't like, It'll be years to have another standard to live on, and I don't know how could it be...
We just have some new "ingredients" to count on:
My final comment: you americans complicate your selfes to much and your image associated with democracy is at the highest risk: if Bush is declarated president elected you will not have the right to say you honor democracy, but the right to say your lawyers are good or bad.
Just imagine what you would have saved if just used a pen and old-fashioned ballots!
I'm sick of hearing that using more techical advanced procedures would make the change... I think that using them just will make thing worst.
Carlos Niebla
Carlos Niebla