I can only speak about the US. Generally, companies work at retaining people through various means:
1. Severance Package: You won't get a severance package at your new job until you are vested, in the US at least. That means getting through you probationary period. Severance packages are always much better than our pitiful US unemployment insurance, which they are always making more humiliating to access and more difficult to collect. How much are you giving up to change jobs?
2. Perks: These can be things as simple as having a relaxed work environment, versus being in a pressure cooker. You seem happy where you are, will the new job burn you out in a few months?
3. Communication: Does the company surprise you with bad news, or does it keep you in the loop?
A 7k raise doesn't mean much if they get rid of you in a couple of months.
Economic policy failed for three reasons: (1) policymakers focused on enabling offshoring corporations to move middle class jobs, and the consumer demand, tax base, GDP, and careers associated with the jobs, to foreign countries, such as China and India, where labor is inexpensive; (2) policymakers permitted financial deregulation that unleashed fraud and debt leverage on a scale previously unimaginable; (3) policymakers responded to the resulting financial crisis by imposing austerity on the population and running the printing press in order to bail out banks and prevent any losses to the banks regardless of the cost to national economies and innocent parties.
Republican economists blame "high" US wages for the current high rate of unemployment. However, US wages are about the lowest in the developed world. They are far below hourly labor cost in Norway ($53.89), Denmark ($49.56), Belgium ($49.40), Austria ($48.04), and Germany ($46.52). The US might have the world's largest economy, but its hourly workers rank 14th on the list of the best paid. Americans also have a higher unemployment rate. The âoeheadlineâ rate that the media hypes is 9.1 percent, but this rate does not include any discouraged workers or workers forced into part-time jobs because no full-time jobs are available.
All good mentalists are experts at social engineering. A mentalist who isn't trying to scam people (and there are many) is a good example of a socially acceptable use of the tools of a con-man.
I've been looking for a good book on mentalism for ages, Penn and Teller include mentalism in most of their magic books, but only in a limited way.
"Set a thief to catch a thief" as the saying goes.
Drop computer science for Finance! Make complex derivatives! Speculate on commodities! Short sell protective companies into the Stone Age! Do your bit to make the world a more wretched and poorer place for the vast majority of its inhabitants while making yourself pretty darned comfortable!
Hey, one of the brightest electrical engineers I know dropped out of the field to head to where the real money is... Finance!
Don't be a sucker! Help send the world to Hell in a Hand-basket! Start your new career in Finance today!
1. Environmental Activists who hate technology and figure it is destroying the planet, and don't want to contribute to it with something so frivolous as a Facebook profile.
2. Environmental Activists who are completely paranoid, ala Jeffrey Goines in 12 Monkeys, and don't have a Facebook profile for that reason.
These are two very dedicated groups... can you really afford to exclude them?
"So now you have a mass of uncared-for, uneducated, unemployable poor kids sitting around with basically nothing to do but join up with criminal gangs. "
Conservatives prefer to invest in Government Lethal Chambers, ala The Repairer of Reputations, to investing in Government Schools.
That way the Koch Brothers will be untroubled by restive surplus minimum wage workers while enjoying their ill gotten billions.
As Ayn Rand stated about people who aren't wealthy in her famous book, Atlas Shrugged, "To a gas chamber, go!"
The story is told in the brilliant book by Clayton Christensen, Jerome Grossman and Jason Hwang, The Innovator's Prescription : ASUSTeK started out making the simple circuit boards within a Dell computer. Then ASUSTeK came to Dell with an interesting value proposition: 'We've been doing a good job making these little boards. Why don't you let us make the motherboard for you? Circuit manufacturing isn't your core competence anyway and we could do it for 20% less.'
Dell accepted the proposal because from a perspective of making money, it made sense: Dell's revenues were unaffected and its profits improved significantly. On successive occasions, ASUSTeK came back and took over the motherboard, the assembly of the computer, the management of the supply chain and the design of the computer. In each case Dell accepted the proposal because from a perspective of making money, it made sense: Dell's revenues were unaffected and its profits improved significantly. However the next time, ASUSTeK came back, it wasn't to talk to Dell. It was to talk to Best Buy and other retailers to tell them that they could offer them their own brand or any brand PC for 20% lower cost. As The Innovator's Prescription concludes: Bingo. One company gone, another has taken its place. There's no stupidity in the story. The managers in both companies did exactly what business school professors and the best management consultants would tell them to do--improve profitability by focus on on those activities that are profitable and by getting out of activities that are less profitable.
Dell's management shortsightedly completely self-destructed their company by not hanging on to any of the necessary key components for manufacturing a computer. Eventually the firm they outsourced to said, "Why do we need to kick profits back to Dell?"
Sure Dell wanted more profits, but they didn't want to create a competitor who could absolutely destroy them in the market place, and in no way was that a good business strategy for Dell.
"Not only have recording artists traditionally paid for the making of their records themselves, with advances from the record companies that are then charged against royalties, they are also exempted from both the obligations and benefits an employee typically expects. "
In other words, the recording industry, when it is harmful to them, says, "They are independent artists" including loaning them money to make a recording that they then have to repay. However, when it's in their interest for the artists to be employees, they say, "Hey, it's work for hire, we own it."
This is why the people who make up the recording industry are thought to be the loveliest people on Earth.
"Do you really believe that the online and "MMO-like" elements of Diablo 3 were added first or do you think they added them strictly because they're looking for a way to add DRM?"
I figure they're adding them to monetize their players into an additional revenue stream through real money online auction houses.
I won't be participating of course, it sounds like a painful and horrible experience, and for that I have real life.
"The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but someday the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and security of a new dark age" H.P. Lovecraft- The Call of Cthulu
Kubrick's version of The Shining was infinitely better than the book version of The Shining. King hated it, but he should be happy that a filmmaker of such greatness as Stanley Kubrick saw something of merit in his ghost story.
You know, I really get that bus story you've written up as being a fairly accurate review of Duke Nukem Forever, but I don't know if everyone will. It's very Zen.
Paul Craig Roberts has been harping on this for years:
The idea is nonsensical that the US can remain the font of research, innovation, design, and engineering while the country ceases to make things. Research and product development invariably follow manufacturing. Now even business schools that were cheerleaders for offshoring of US jobs are beginning to wise up. In a recent report, âoeNext Generation Offshoring: The Globalization of Innovation,â Duke Universityâ(TM)s Fuqua School of Business finds that product development is moving to China to support the manufacturing operations that have located there. -- A Work Force Betrayed, Watching Greed Murder the Economy, By Paul Craig Roberts
I have a friend, a brilliant electrical engineer, who received high praise from her professors. She worked at a few engineering jobs over the years, but now she's going for her doctorate... in Finance. She also has a new job lined up... as Vice President of a Bank.
I don't know why the people in charge think that people who are smart enough to crunch the kind of math needed for engineering just fell off the turnip truck.
"The fact that this is a failing business model is interesting, since it shows that China needs the west a lot less than you might have thought - companies that make things in China and sell in the USA are failing relative to companies that make things in China and sell them in China."
Brrr... it's a good thing I have friends in Shanghai.
There will come a time when the nations of the world will cease to exist. When the anachronisms of state and country are finally crushed by the inexorable juggernaut of total corporate domination. When five monolithic Corporations are the new world powers. When the lives of billions are the sole property of the companies that employ them..
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Yes, eBook readers are great... for reading stuff from Project Gutenberg.
I recommend The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers and Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London.
I can only speak about the US. Generally, companies work at retaining people through various means:
1. Severance Package: You won't get a severance package at your new job until you are vested, in the US at least. That means getting through you probationary period. Severance packages are always much better than our pitiful US unemployment insurance, which they are always making more humiliating to access and more difficult to collect. How much are you giving up to change jobs?
2. Perks: These can be things as simple as having a relaxed work environment, versus being in a pressure cooker. You seem happy where you are, will the new job burn you out in a few months?
3. Communication: Does the company surprise you with bad news, or does it keep you in the loop?
A 7k raise doesn't mean much if they get rid of you in a couple of months.
-- Saving the Rich, Losing the Economy by PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
And....
-- Saving the Rich, Losing the Economy by PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
You can't shake the Devil's hand and say you were only kidding.
Oh, please, please bring Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker on Sesame Street.
Also, having Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul on as guest stars would be "the bomb."
All good mentalists are experts at social engineering. A mentalist who isn't trying to scam people (and there are many) is a good example of a socially acceptable use of the tools of a con-man.
I've been looking for a good book on mentalism for ages, Penn and Teller include mentalism in most of their magic books, but only in a limited way.
"Set a thief to catch a thief" as the saying goes.
That might be your lawyer's job, but my lawyer's job is to get me off at all costs.
However, I have to tell you, I don't think your lawyer is very good then.
Drop computer science for Finance! Make complex derivatives! Speculate on commodities! Short sell protective companies into the Stone Age! Do your bit to make the world a more wretched and poorer place for the vast majority of its inhabitants while making yourself pretty darned comfortable!
Hey, one of the brightest electrical engineers I know dropped out of the field to head to where the real money is... Finance!
Don't be a sucker! Help send the world to Hell in a Hand-basket! Start your new career in Finance today!
I'm going to build my own pizza parlor on the moon, with blackjack, and hookers....
In fact, forget the pizza parlor!
But then you are excluding:
1. Environmental Activists who hate technology and figure it is destroying the planet, and don't want to contribute to it with something so frivolous as a Facebook profile.
2. Environmental Activists who are completely paranoid, ala Jeffrey Goines in 12 Monkeys, and don't have a Facebook profile for that reason.
These are two very dedicated groups... can you really afford to exclude them?
A look into the mind of Spinoza's God!
Well, then Breaking Bad should make chemistry class more popular.
"So now you have a mass of uncared-for, uneducated, unemployable poor kids sitting around with basically nothing to do but join up with criminal gangs. "
Conservatives prefer to invest in Government Lethal Chambers, ala The Repairer of Reputations, to investing in Government Schools.
That way the Koch Brothers will be untroubled by restive surplus minimum wage workers while enjoying their ill gotten billions.
As Ayn Rand stated about people who aren't wealthy in her famous book, Atlas Shrugged, "To a gas chamber, go!"
Completely, missed the point:
Dell's management shortsightedly completely self-destructed their company by not hanging on to any of the necessary key components for manufacturing a computer. Eventually the firm they outsourced to said, "Why do we need to kick profits back to Dell?"
Sure Dell wanted more profits, but they didn't want to create a competitor who could absolutely destroy them in the market place, and in no way was that a good business strategy for Dell.
"Not only have recording artists traditionally paid for the making of their records themselves, with advances from the record companies that are then charged against royalties, they are also exempted from both the obligations and benefits an employee typically expects. "
In other words, the recording industry, when it is harmful to them, says, "They are independent artists" including loaning them money to make a recording that they then have to repay. However, when it's in their interest for the artists to be employees, they say, "Hey, it's work for hire, we own it."
This is why the people who make up the recording industry are thought to be the loveliest people on Earth.
"Do you really believe that the online and "MMO-like" elements of Diablo 3 were added first or do you think they added them strictly because they're looking for a way to add DRM?"
I figure they're adding them to monetize their players into an additional revenue stream through real money online auction houses.
I won't be participating of course, it sounds like a painful and horrible experience, and for that I have real life.
"I went in a few branches around the world, and never bought anything. "
Oh, you missed out! They had this great milkshake made out of coffee and vanilla ice cream...
"The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but someday the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and security of a new dark age" H.P. Lovecraft- The Call of Cthulu
Remember eGold? Of course you do.
Kubrick's version of The Shining was infinitely better than the book version of The Shining. King hated it, but he should be happy that a filmmaker of such greatness as Stanley Kubrick saw something of merit in his ghost story.
You know, I really get that bus story you've written up as being a fairly accurate review of Duke Nukem Forever, but I don't know if everyone will. It's very Zen.
Also, Blood.
Paul Craig Roberts has been harping on this for years:
The idea is nonsensical that the US can remain the font of research, innovation, design, and engineering while the country ceases to make things. Research and product development invariably follow manufacturing. Now even business schools that were cheerleaders for offshoring of US jobs are beginning to wise up. In a recent report, âoeNext Generation Offshoring: The Globalization of Innovation,â Duke Universityâ(TM)s Fuqua School of Business finds that product development is moving to China to support the manufacturing operations that have located there. -- A Work Force Betrayed, Watching Greed Murder the Economy, By Paul Craig Roberts
I have a friend, a brilliant electrical engineer, who received high praise from her professors. She worked at a few engineering jobs over the years, but now she's going for her doctorate... in Finance. She also has a new job lined up... as Vice President of a Bank.
I don't know why the people in charge think that people who are smart enough to crunch the kind of math needed for engineering just fell off the turnip truck.
"The fact that this is a failing business model is interesting, since it shows that China needs the west a lot less than you might have thought - companies that make things in China and sell in the USA are failing relative to companies that make things in China and sell them in China."
Brrr... it's a good thing I have friends in Shanghai.
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