It doesn't matter if it is illegal or not. Reason being if you're a senior software architect you can write your own checks and employers are desperate to look the other way and do their best to bring you on board.
If you are a fast food worker. The manger throws out your application and hires someone else and doesn't care. Even if the court throws it out they still won't hire you if the owner says no I know the other other owner etc.
Rotten but at the end of the day supply and demand can be very fucked up if you are on the excess supply side and not on the excess demand side.
One of the first things you learn in law school is that this kind of non-compete clause is virtually unenforceable in most U.S. jurisdictions as it is unconscionable as a matter of public policy. If you are so unskilled as to only be able to get a fast food job, then a non-compete clause would make it so you couldn't get -any- job.
Dude. You don't get it if you are on the bottom of the food chain. The managers don't give a shit and will hire someone else instead. This was a result of a big mega fast food chain owner to prevent these poor guys from working 2nd or 3rd jobs to support their families and to always be oncall... uncompensated of course.
You could whine about the evils of socialism like most Americans (assume you are but not everyone is) but unions were formed to prevent this from those who have 0 bargaining power to be fucked over.
Have you been a manager or a lead? Great A level players encourage firings. If you haven't then you don't know a thing about setting examples. If you let an employee come in late and be rude others will think that is ok and do it too. When they see someone canned they will go oh shit I better watch myself etc.
20/80 rule implies for a good boss. 10% out of the 20% are in the bottom or the top. 80% are average. After every promotion or firing your job is to identify the top and bottoms and prepare more firings and promotions. The 80% follow the best or worst employee always. This is why Dell fires 15% of it's staff each year as do GE.
By keeping her the game publisher acknowledges this as ok and a hostile work environment is acceptable. Sorry she has got to go or the problem will amplify 10x
So true. Kids today don't realize there are many gears involved in a modern company. Views and public relations are important. So is a hostile free workspace. This isn't highschool anymore where you keep showing up.
Employers reserve the right for having only the best people and work with folks they want to do business with.
Respect is important and if you don't give it you don't receive it back
What do you want to make a bet employees who show up tomorrow get an email from the CEO with a social media agreement baring any mention of employer on the internet with termination as the consequence that must be signed by the end of the day
No. They are IP owned by the employer. Your slashdotID is your IP as well even if the site is owned by sourceforge.
Sorry she embrassed the employer and opened it up to future hostile work environment ambulance chasing lawyers and did something without marketing and PR approval in the name of her employer
I have no sympathy because I would have been fired if I dare say where I work and mentioned customers or co-workers on the internet. My views are my own, but my views at work are owned by employer at work. If I don't like it go work for someone else.
I disagree. I worked for another successful gaming company which I signed a Social Media Agreement where I can't tell you even whom.
If I went on slashdot and said I worked for X I would be fired! I mean that is how strict as I was not an authorized PR representative nor did I have permission from any senior leadership to say where I worked.
My present employer same thing. If I bashed a customer or a coworker I would have HR take my badge and hand me a box and show me the door first thing Monday morning. If I have an issue a senior manager or HR would be the appropriate course of action.
It sucks but it's reality. Employer now can be sued for millions of dollars as having the appearance of a hostile work environment all on the internet for lawyers to see. Just great...
Nero was cool and great... during the XP era when Windows could not burn ISOs.
One of the reasons I was a proponent agaisn't the whinners on here 5 years ago clinging to XP was using 13 year old technology you need to use third party shitware like RealAudio and Nero and toolbars in your browser to do things due to it's age.
On a modern OS MS, Mac, or Linux with a modern browser there is no need for shitty flash, insecure java, or Adobe printing adons to get your PC to do modern things.
Hey, let's take something that works and mangle it till it is useless!
You know I adjusted just fine 10 years ago with Office 2007 after 1 week. I can't live without it now as I am used to hitting the shift key for the keyboard shortcuts and I can now use Word without a mouse on a plan because of this.
No more unproductive nested menus. Sometimes change is hard and you need to use your muscle memory to learn new things.
Often new features are there to sell the new version. Desktop software has to keep selling new versions, but web apps are typically free.
Having said that I bet there is plenty of work being done on the back end to analyse data and make more money from ads.
That is changing. Adobe is subscription now. Office it is office 365. Oracle it is on their weird cloud thingie as they still sell RDBMS but their own sales team makes no commissions off the classic on-prem licenses.
Web apps and SAAS is where the money is at now and the new thing which makes sense. MMOs in games still make the most money outside the appstores. Wow and Everquest have been around forever but it is an early SAAS so to speak
There is a reason we no longer run Sybase, DB2, OS/2, SCO Xenix, Solaris, Word Perfect, Nokia, Motorola, Netscape Communicator, Yahoo Mail, Real Audio, IE, and the list goes on and on.
If you don't innovate it is only a matter of time before a competitor does. When that happens you loose the mindshare you once had. You want to save money and expect income to magically keep coming in. Guess what? Someone else will want that money too.
IE is a classic example as it was a superior browser to Netscape 4.7 with CSS and ajax. It is laughed at today for good reason and MS at the very last minute after 10 years of neglect tried frantically to compete with Mozilla Firefox and then Chrome but it was a lost cause. They gave up and even EDGE their do-over browser for Windows 10 and Android is still a year to 18 months behind Chrome and missing things.
Websites need mobile CSS support, updated security, TLS vulnerability workarounds, LibreSSL and not OpenSSL, advanced analyitics frameworks, Amazon AWS or Azure for cloud clustering and so on.
Universities are like that. Unlike a company there is no strong financial incentive nor penalty of lost productivity to move slow. I had a contractor opportunity now gone for Penn State. 2 months later I got a job elsewhere while they debated it and went over meeting in when and if to bring me on. My hunch is since college graduates apply several months before graduating to internal positions that they are used to that speed.
That will work for a screening phone interview yes. HR still won't let you hire as they will be sued for not hiring qualified candidates from fired workers. They need to verify to a judge that only ones with a great history are selected who have a correct degree etc. Sucks but is reality. Also if people hire without HR and they get a high turnover the HR manager will get a negative performance review. They can't have any of that can you?
Dude this isn't 1994. It's 2018. Thanks to Metrics HR MUST filter out people out to reduce turnover. This means exact job title and descriptions for +2 years, no gaps, 3 managerial references and no more than 3 employers in 5 years, oh and the magical peace of paper called a degree.
Not meet all 3 of the requirements above? No interview therefore no job.
Listen if you know your shit I'll hire your ass in a heart beat. Doesn't matter if you have no job experience or if you're a felon. You know how to program and have written something decent you can show me on github and I'll hire your ass.
Hi, this is your local HR representative. I am afraid I will have to deny your candidate due to not meeting the job requirements. Feel free to have us find the best candidate for you as we have to meet certain criteria to reduce turnover and firings dictated by the VP of HR.
If you haven't got the intuition and talent to understand programming, then no teacher (in most cases just a person paid to recite text-book material for you) will be able to help you.
With all the free resources on the internet, you haven't got your head screwed on properly if you decide to pay for it.
That's great back in 1999 you learned on your own and a got a rich job. In 2018 HR won't care if you don't have experience, degree, and an active github account with 3 managerial references.
I learned coding and still can do a few simple structures 12 years later in most languages. However, I am unemployable because I do not have a CS degree nor a job title that matches HR's own. I am employable in a different field today. A code school can help HR not throw your resume out and predatory schools and banks know this to their full advantage.
Except that in this context, "chocolate milk night" would be racist and made to exclude white men of said laying sessions.
Just throw on a wig and a dress on and call yourself Mary and problem solved as you are hipster tranny. You may have guys trying to lay you instead though
HR is part of the problem as well. Today they are graded on metrics as turnover. Steve Jobs application for Atari was displayed and it only had 4 questions and didn't ask about gaps of unemployment.
Today job placement === exact job title for 2 years+ with no gaps and a college degree. The problem is some kids graduate during a recession can't find work as they have no job experience and are now unemployable by HR for having gaps. Meanwhile they still need to pay the loans.
Also by requiring a college degree they won't talk to you without it so you now you need to be extorted for a chance that may or may not work.
If HR can't find the ideal candidate they ship em in from India. You can't win either way.
Slashdot Mirror
It doesn't matter if it is illegal or not. Reason being if you're a senior software architect you can write your own checks and employers are desperate to look the other way and do their best to bring you on board.
If you are a fast food worker. The manger throws out your application and hires someone else and doesn't care. Even if the court throws it out they still won't hire you if the owner says no I know the other other owner etc.
Rotten but at the end of the day supply and demand can be very fucked up if you are on the excess supply side and not on the excess demand side.
One of the first things you learn in law school is that this kind of non-compete clause is virtually unenforceable in most U.S. jurisdictions as it is unconscionable as a matter of public policy. If you are so unskilled as to only be able to get a fast food job, then a non-compete clause would make it so you couldn't get -any- job.
Dude. You don't get it if you are on the bottom of the food chain. The managers don't give a shit and will hire someone else instead. This was a result of a big mega fast food chain owner to prevent these poor guys from working 2nd or 3rd jobs to support their families and to always be oncall ... uncompensated of course.
You could whine about the evils of socialism like most Americans (assume you are but not everyone is) but unions were formed to prevent this from those who have 0 bargaining power to be fucked over.
I want to know which logfile editor to use to read the journal.d or /etc/logs. Vim or Emacs?
Thanks
What about IE6 performance? It's the PHB ultimate browser as Chrome makes his internet's sites on the LAN look funny
Have you been a manager or a lead? Great A level players encourage firings. If you haven't then you don't know a thing about setting examples. If you let an employee come in late and be rude others will think that is ok and do it too. When they see someone canned they will go oh shit I better watch myself etc.
20/80 rule implies for a good boss. 10% out of the 20% are in the bottom or the top. 80% are average. After every promotion or firing your job is to identify the top and bottoms and prepare more firings and promotions. The 80% follow the best or worst employee always. This is why Dell fires 15% of it's staff each year as do GE.
By keeping her the game publisher acknowledges this as ok and a hostile work environment is acceptable. Sorry she has got to go or the problem will amplify 10x
So true. Kids today don't realize there are many gears involved in a modern company. Views and public relations are important. So is a hostile free workspace. This isn't highschool anymore where you keep showing up.
Employers reserve the right for having only the best people and work with folks they want to do business with.
Respect is important and if you don't give it you don't receive it back
What do you want to make a bet employees who show up tomorrow get an email from the CEO with a social media agreement baring any mention of employer on the internet with termination as the consequence that must be signed by the end of the day
No. They are IP owned by the employer. Your slashdotID is your IP as well even if the site is owned by sourceforge.
Sorry she embrassed the employer and opened it up to future hostile work environment ambulance chasing lawyers and did something without marketing and PR approval in the name of her employer
I have no sympathy because I would have been fired if I dare say where I work and mentioned customers or co-workers on the internet. My views are my own, but my views at work are owned by employer at work. If I don't like it go work for someone else.
I disagree. I worked for another successful gaming company which I signed a Social Media Agreement where I can't tell you even whom.
If I went on slashdot and said I worked for X I would be fired! I mean that is how strict as I was not an authorized PR representative nor did I have permission from any senior leadership to say where I worked.
My present employer same thing. If I bashed a customer or a coworker I would have HR take my badge and hand me a box and show me the door first thing Monday morning. If I have an issue a senior manager or HR would be the appropriate course of action.
It sucks but it's reality. Employer now can be sued for millions of dollars as having the appearance of a hostile work environment all on the internet for lawyers to see. Just great ...
Nero was cool and great ... during the XP era when Windows could not burn ISOs.
One of the reasons I was a proponent agaisn't the whinners on here 5 years ago clinging to XP was using 13 year old technology you need to use third party shitware like RealAudio and Nero and toolbars in your browser to do things due to it's age.
On a modern OS MS, Mac, or Linux with a modern browser there is no need for shitty flash, insecure java, or Adobe printing adons to get your PC to do modern things.
Why Do Popular Websites Add New Features So Sparingly?
If it ain't broke, don't break it.
Yep just like Yahoo and MySpace.
Hey, let's take something that works and mangle it till it is useless!
You know I adjusted just fine 10 years ago with Office 2007 after 1 week. I can't live without it now as I am used to hitting the shift key for the keyboard shortcuts and I can now use Word without a mouse on a plan because of this.
No more unproductive nested menus. Sometimes change is hard and you need to use your muscle memory to learn new things.
Often new features are there to sell the new version. Desktop software has to keep selling new versions, but web apps are typically free.
Having said that I bet there is plenty of work being done on the back end to analyse data and make more money from ads.
That is changing. Adobe is subscription now. Office it is office 365. Oracle it is on their weird cloud thingie as they still sell RDBMS but their own sales team makes no commissions off the classic on-prem licenses.
Web apps and SAAS is where the money is at now and the new thing which makes sense. MMOs in games still make the most money outside the appstores. Wow and Everquest have been around forever but it is an early SAAS so to speak
Yes. It's called Outlook
Yeah said every 'has been' ever.
There is a reason we no longer run Sybase, DB2, OS/2, SCO Xenix, Solaris, Word Perfect, Nokia, Motorola, Netscape Communicator, Yahoo Mail, Real Audio, IE, and the list goes on and on.
If you don't innovate it is only a matter of time before a competitor does. When that happens you loose the mindshare you once had. You want to save money and expect income to magically keep coming in. Guess what? Someone else will want that money too.
IE is a classic example as it was a superior browser to Netscape 4.7 with CSS and ajax. It is laughed at today for good reason and MS at the very last minute after 10 years of neglect tried frantically to compete with Mozilla Firefox and then Chrome but it was a lost cause. They gave up and even EDGE their do-over browser for Windows 10 and Android is still a year to 18 months behind Chrome and missing things.
Websites need mobile CSS support, updated security, TLS vulnerability workarounds, LibreSSL and not OpenSSL, advanced analyitics frameworks, Amazon AWS or Azure for cloud clustering and so on.
Universities are like that. Unlike a company there is no strong financial incentive nor penalty of lost productivity to move slow. I had a contractor opportunity now gone for Penn State. 2 months later I got a job elsewhere while they debated it and went over meeting in when and if to bring me on. My hunch is since college graduates apply several months before graduating to internal positions that they are used to that speed.
That will work for a screening phone interview yes. HR still won't let you hire as they will be sued for not hiring qualified candidates from fired workers. They need to verify to a judge that only ones with a great history are selected who have a correct degree etc. Sucks but is reality. Also if people hire without HR and they get a high turnover the HR manager will get a negative performance review. They can't have any of that can you?
Not where I work. Infact last 3 jobs HR wanted a transcript. You can't even work help desk for $20 an hour without one even.
They may hire you as a contractor but until you finish your degree they will never make an offer at my current employer. HR rules
I exert the effort to speak 2u who I used to call "King Billy" (in another galaxy far, FAR away) : The FUTURE truly IS now...
* :)
(I'm not a "product" of my environment (Actually I'd be a mathematical outlier on a linear optimization curve (but @ least I'm ORIGINAL))).
Ahem - IMPORTANT - you're NOT anymore. Tools "developers, Developers, DEVELOPERS"?
Non-sequitur/Inconsequential.
APK
P.S.=> LONG-LIVE THE REPUBLIC my people that still possess' self-determination spine... apk
I need to configure a custom host file to set that up. Any advice?
Oh darn you busted me! But I get free chocolate milk from the group at the university from diversity.
Dude this isn't 1994. It's 2018. Thanks to Metrics HR MUST filter out people out to reduce turnover. This means exact job title and descriptions for +2 years, no gaps, 3 managerial references and no more than 3 employers in 5 years, oh and the magical peace of paper called a degree.
Not meet all 3 of the requirements above? No interview therefore no job.
Listen if you know your shit I'll hire your ass in a heart beat. Doesn't matter if you have no job experience or if you're a felon. You know how to program and have written something decent you can show me on github and I'll hire your ass.
Hi, this is your local HR representative. I am afraid I will have to deny your candidate due to not meeting the job requirements. Feel free to have us find the best candidate for you as we have to meet certain criteria to reduce turnover and firings dictated by the VP of HR.
Thanks
If you haven't got the intuition and talent to understand programming, then no teacher (in most cases just a person paid to recite text-book material for you) will be able to help you.
With all the free resources on the internet, you haven't got your head screwed on properly if you decide to pay for it.
That's great back in 1999 you learned on your own and a got a rich job. In 2018 HR won't care if you don't have experience, degree, and an active github account with 3 managerial references.
I learned coding and still can do a few simple structures 12 years later in most languages. However, I am unemployable because I do not have a CS degree nor a job title that matches HR's own. I am employable in a different field today. A code school can help HR not throw your resume out and predatory schools and banks know this to their full advantage.
Except that in this context, "chocolate milk night" would be racist and made to exclude white men of said laying sessions.
Just throw on a wig and a dress on and call yourself Mary and problem solved as you are hipster tranny. You may have guys trying to lay you instead though
HR is part of the problem as well. Today they are graded on metrics as turnover. Steve Jobs application for Atari was displayed and it only had 4 questions and didn't ask about gaps of unemployment.
Today job placement === exact job title for 2 years+ with no gaps and a college degree. The problem is some kids graduate during a recession can't find work as they have no job experience and are now unemployable by HR for having gaps. Meanwhile they still need to pay the loans.
Also by requiring a college degree they won't talk to you without it so you now you need to be extorted for a chance that may or may not work.
If HR can't find the ideal candidate they ship em in from India. You can't win either way.