Vacation time is important. As is going home after 10 days. I get no use out of someone who is ruining his (mental) health over some perceived "requirement" who is gone for good with burnout half a year later. It takes almost a YEAR in my business until I can rely on someone. Hire and fire doesn't work here, and simply burning through people isn't an option. Not to mention that good security people are hard to come by in the first place.
And people who sit and work for 10+ hours increase their mistake rate. What good is someone who stays another 2 hours only to create enough trouble that he or someone else has to invest another 4 hours to undo it?
That has nothing to do with being lazy, that's simple human nature. We are not machines. And we don't work like ones.
Then again, I have worked in the US, and by that pace I could also work 14 hours. I'd rather just work 7 and get more accomplished by simply WORKING during the time I'm working, though.
Fortunately that's not the case (yet) around here. And the very LAST thing I need is a sick person coming to office and infecting the rest of the people here. I made it clear that if you're sick, you stay home and you better not even try to put a foot into the office before it's certain that you won't make the rest stay home for the next week.
I can do with one person being sick. I can't handle 5 people staying home because someone thought that the world stops revolving if he doesn't "push through". If you're sick, stay the hell away from me and anyone else in the office! If you feel like going to an office, try that of a competitor!;)
Time you don't take off before you quit has to be paid out. Now, to make sure that your company CAN actually pay the time they "owe" you if you quit today and they go bankrupt the same day, your company has to stash money in government bonds to the tune of what they'd have to pay their workers if all of them went out the door today.
Calculate about, say, 25 vacation days per worker, for a workforce of, say 10,000. Let's be conservative and say that a day/person is about 100 bucks.
Can you see how companies can have a HUGE interest in their workers actually going on vacation, and doing it as early as possible?
I MUST spend my vacation every year. They now even made it a bonus-valued goal, not to spend my vacation days and letting them roll over threatens my annual bonus. And since March I get weekly reminders from HR that I still have 10 unplanned days and that beautiful days are coming up, and whether I don't feel like taking some of the upcoming Fridays (with Thu being a holiday) off to enjoy a 4 days weekend.
Nope. Get back to the drawing board, it lacks everything that's important in a phone.
Actually I wanted to ask whether its software makeup is free of the pesky "cannot-remove-the-google-crap" shit that requires you to root and flash it, but if it fails already at the hardware level, there's no need to even ask about the software situation.
Well, the whole tightening of the security theater sure didn't improve my chances to make a trip to the US again (like I did a lot about a decade ago, still). But it wasn't the beginning of the blacklisting of the US for me.
It's not only since Trump took the helm that you're treated like a criminal for the heinous crime of wanting to spend money in the country. Sorry, but I have very little "real" vacation time, and I prefer to spend it where I feel welcome. If only because I bring money.
I do not like to be treated like a criminal. Especially when I actually want to do business with someone. Which is, by the way, also the reason I stopped buying quite a bit of content. Treat me like a customer and partner, and we'll both have a great time doing business. But there is a saying in German, the knave thinks others are the way he is. So what am I to expect from you if you treat me like a criminal without me giving you a reason to do so?
The question is what you want out of a tool. One of the things that I want out of my OS is the ability to run the games I want to play. If it doesn't fulfill that role, it is unfit for my purpose.
So yes, maybe I don't want to switch "hard enough". Probably because I don't make it a religious issue but one of practicality. I do business on Linux and I (still) play on Windows. And it seems to stay that way for the foreseeable future.
CEOs, at least in my experience, are very often actually very incompetent. I'm dead serious when I say that the average CEO of a large corporation couldn't run a small business without running it into the ground within 3-6 months.
They started to notice that dissatisfied customers inform others and create a HUGE backlash in social media, which in turn makes people turn their backs to the company. Which translates into lost sales.
And that's pretty tough for airlines where you have HUGE fixed costs and rather insignificant per-passenger costs. Every empty seat you're flying around hurts you. Why do you think they overbook like crazy?
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Vacation time is important. As is going home after 10 days. I get no use out of someone who is ruining his (mental) health over some perceived "requirement" who is gone for good with burnout half a year later. It takes almost a YEAR in my business until I can rely on someone. Hire and fire doesn't work here, and simply burning through people isn't an option. Not to mention that good security people are hard to come by in the first place.
And people who sit and work for 10+ hours increase their mistake rate. What good is someone who stays another 2 hours only to create enough trouble that he or someone else has to invest another 4 hours to undo it?
That has nothing to do with being lazy, that's simple human nature. We are not machines. And we don't work like ones.
Then again, I have worked in the US, and by that pace I could also work 14 hours. I'd rather just work 7 and get more accomplished by simply WORKING during the time I'm working, though.
Fortunately that's not the case (yet) around here. And the very LAST thing I need is a sick person coming to office and infecting the rest of the people here. I made it clear that if you're sick, you stay home and you better not even try to put a foot into the office before it's certain that you won't make the rest stay home for the next week.
I can do with one person being sick. I can't handle 5 people staying home because someone thought that the world stops revolving if he doesn't "push through". If you're sick, stay the hell away from me and anyone else in the office! If you feel like going to an office, try that of a competitor! ;)
Time you don't take off before you quit has to be paid out. Now, to make sure that your company CAN actually pay the time they "owe" you if you quit today and they go bankrupt the same day, your company has to stash money in government bonds to the tune of what they'd have to pay their workers if all of them went out the door today.
Calculate about, say, 25 vacation days per worker, for a workforce of, say 10,000. Let's be conservative and say that a day/person is about 100 bucks.
Can you see how companies can have a HUGE interest in their workers actually going on vacation, and doing it as early as possible?
I MUST spend my vacation every year. They now even made it a bonus-valued goal, not to spend my vacation days and letting them roll over threatens my annual bonus. And since March I get weekly reminders from HR that I still have 10 unplanned days and that beautiful days are coming up, and whether I don't feel like taking some of the upcoming Fridays (with Thu being a holiday) off to enjoy a 4 days weekend.
I kid you not.
Looking back into history, I'd say around 1985 or 1986.
Why do you use seat belts? Just don't drive against walls.
Nope. Get back to the drawing board, it lacks everything that's important in a phone.
Actually I wanted to ask whether its software makeup is free of the pesky "cannot-remove-the-google-crap" shit that requires you to root and flash it, but if it fails already at the hardware level, there's no need to even ask about the software situation.
Well, the whole tightening of the security theater sure didn't improve my chances to make a trip to the US again (like I did a lot about a decade ago, still). But it wasn't the beginning of the blacklisting of the US for me.
It's not only since Trump took the helm that you're treated like a criminal for the heinous crime of wanting to spend money in the country. Sorry, but I have very little "real" vacation time, and I prefer to spend it where I feel welcome. If only because I bring money.
I do not like to be treated like a criminal. Especially when I actually want to do business with someone. Which is, by the way, also the reason I stopped buying quite a bit of content. Treat me like a customer and partner, and we'll both have a great time doing business. But there is a saying in German, the knave thinks others are the way he is. So what am I to expect from you if you treat me like a criminal without me giving you a reason to do so?
Those suitcases are usually packed with soft, shock absorbing material like clothing. I wouldn't really count on them to add to your firepower.
The question is what you want out of a tool. One of the things that I want out of my OS is the ability to run the games I want to play. If it doesn't fulfill that role, it is unfit for my purpose.
So yes, maybe I don't want to switch "hard enough". Probably because I don't make it a religious issue but one of practicality. I do business on Linux and I (still) play on Windows. And it seems to stay that way for the foreseeable future.
CEOs, at least in my experience, are very often actually very incompetent. I'm dead serious when I say that the average CEO of a large corporation couldn't run a small business without running it into the ground within 3-6 months.
Shareholders.
They started to notice that dissatisfied customers inform others and create a HUGE backlash in social media, which in turn makes people turn their backs to the company. Which translates into lost sales.
And that's pretty tough for airlines where you have HUGE fixed costs and rather insignificant per-passenger costs. Every empty seat you're flying around hurts you. Why do you think they overbook like crazy?
And if it is, you probably don't fit into a plane seat.
Or three.
I'm pretty sure if you omit the steering wheel and the seats, you can make cars a lot flatter.
Hey, if you can get a free keyboard, we gladly drop the idea of bundling one.
You sure that isn't patented?
Make that a brick and you're close to home.
I found the guy selling those things!
Can't be. He ain't getting in no plane!
Didn't say it's perfect.
I miss California. But I somehow don't think that driving in from Mexico is any less obnoxious than flying...
Still, dropping a flaming plane wreck onto a metropolis has somehow more zing than just blowing up an airport. Just compare New York to Brussels.
I love people who yell "YOU ARE WRONG" without providing even the least idea what would be right instead.
But hey, people win elections that way these days, so...
Oddly, people rather spend their vacation in Paris, Manchester or Berlin than flying to the US.
Hell, even the threat of getting killed ain't worse than this kind of shit!
And how the fuck should the makers of the nudie scanners get money from them using their eyes?
Focus, dammit!
Right. The word he should have used is "shady".
What I can't explain is why he is STILL the CEO.