Jesus. I remember in the good old days when $200 was a good chunk for a great GPU and $350 was for the very fastest ones.
Wtf happened? Nvidia monopoly and gamers ready to open their wallets because of the Nvidia label seem to be destroying the market. The comments on how the 1050ti is God on YouTube when referring to AMD products and the xboxoneX verify this brainwashing and monopoly.
Hey PC masterace just don't be shocked when us regular peasants switch to consoles where you can get the same performance for cheaper.
All it takes is one person willing to work for cheaper to fuck the whole thing up. Usually someone without education nor math ability to realize it won't pay the bills who has to set the wage for everyone else.
Supply and demand in the labor market combined with the jobs having a low barrier to entry skill wise. All it takes is for people to not take the jobs at the price and under the conditions supplied, but obviously plenty of people are willing to do the work for the pay Amazon is paying.
No. THey will whine to congress how unfair the free market is and immediately government intervention inverse socialism is needed to bring people in from Mexico as Visa employees as they can't find qualified employees etc.
I hear the executives and those in the top 5% always whine about lower paid workers about how hard the big players have to work compared to them and how much stress they have hence why they need $200,000+ salaries etc. They need the money because they work hard. But Walmart, McDonalds, and Amazon show the opposite apparently.
I see a trend too in the I.T. industry for non programmers. We are expected to take calls 24x7 and be polite at 2am when youtube looks funny and call me on the emergencies only I.T. outage line. If I say can we do this on Monday at a reasonable hour it is grounds for termination. But these big players would not accept a call at 2am for a question on a spreadsheet and would get to keep their jobs if they tell them to fuck off I am sleeping.
So, you wrote all those words to repeat that surrender is the only option. Resistance is futile. Personally, I don't give a damn, whatever floats your boat is fine with me, but you should at least acknowledge your own position. Denial is also futile, but the effort is a spectacle in itself. Just put up the white flag and enjoy your beatings.
What do you suggest I do?
History lesson here. George Washington is considered a military genius. He lost several battles in a row at the beginning of the revolution by retreating and not fighting. When he arrived in New York with 2,000 troops the British sent 6,000. He fled. He fled more in New Jersey while the British kept chasing him and he almost lost his command. Washington was smart not to get involved in battles he couldn't win.
What is not as known is the first elaborate spy network was not the CIA or MIS in World War 2. It was Washington's spy network secretly formed in New York. Each spy had a number for his name and even George doesn't know the identities.
You see Washington placed them when he fled on purpose to spy on the new British stronghold headquartered there
He played with whitts and defeated the Germans and British offguard during Christmas with a lesser force to win the next 2 battles with less men.
My point is not give up but be smart how you play. That includes not fighting in battles you cant win as there are consequences to loosing. I knew there was high turnover when I applied. Not so smart but wanted a risk for more skills.
People work at Amazon or McDonald's because they lost and can't win. Playing smart is to gain value so you can negotiate better options
So, surrender is the only option then? Nice future to leave for the kids...
Drones should be the next battle bots for entertainment
FYI the last job has recruiters emailing me and the pay is now in the 40K range?! LOL. They are desperate and can't find qualified applicants who are willing to meet the insane metrics and work cheap so they are lowering the pay so the famous software company (under NDA here) won't penalize the company.
Look who has the gold makes the rules. If the big companies want to save money they will. You can't fight em. The customer will always win a battle with your boss. However, the flipside is there is cost to being cheap. You get inferior performance and employees.
They try to treat this by hiring inferior employees and then laying down metrics and micro manage them to get better results. In the end you get accuracy and a bad reputation.
AMazon is one place I refuse to work at. My brother could get hired there tomorrow but he won't either. None of the Amazon Echo/Alexia team are still there. They all jumped ship after the product was built. Now they have no one who knows the product and will have to pay more to relearn what the experts left.
The only way you can win as the small guy is to be a bigger guy. Gain some skills and kiss ass with more work experience and job titles. That way if an employer tries to jerk you around you have someone else who is willing to pay you more and be a better employer. Have your kids learn they too can be homeless if they don't do their homework when you drive past one in a box under a bridge. Let them know when you drive past a nice home they too can also choose to live here if they emulate what he or she does over a long period of time.
Also let the kids work at McDonalds or the grocery store in highschool. They learn FAST how nice a corporate job is and the value of hard work and money as well as the unfairness of life as well.
Whining on slashdot will not make the world better and employers do not care what you all think anyway.
I am a globalist and a Hillary supporter. GASP! Oddly Trump is the more socialistic and liberal one in terns of economics but I regress going to China may have short term hit us as in the bottom 60% temporarily. Long term the Chinese buy more American products. Pepsi gets only 15% of their revenue in the US today! If the US government got in a trade war Coke and Pepsi would leave the US entirely to not loose greater revenue in China.
Chinese work for alot more money than 20 years ago. They are rich. They buy multiple cars to avoid gas lines. Housing is on par with the US in most major cities. Chinese are outsourcing to Vietnam to cut costs but Vietnam is going up in wages too.
As each country goes up in the value the less American companies can get up and leave as easily. Also your 401K, stocks, and employers revenue keeps going up as well. Assume the shareholders are retired folks like our parents, disabled people, pensioners, etc?
Meanwhile we raise billions out of poverty. THe last countries are Russia and the multitudes in Africa. Once they get outsourced then you can't outsource anymore and by 2050 this will be about done.
Remember western Europe, Australia, Canada, and the US also had very poor people too if you didn't own land. The industrial revolution took about 100 years to complete and look what it left the average person? The revolution will continue in addition to the computer/information one as well in these countries.
I do believe Amazon is too powerful. I was against them being broken up for awhile as they innovate and Walmart is still around but my brother works for FedEX. He is worried that in 15 years from now he will be out of a job and his 401K turned into a 201K with his customers all using Amazon through forced partnerships in it's own shipping services.
But anyway I think the hit on the lower and middle class is lessening as China is rising up. Even cheap Vietnam doesn't have the customer base of 1/5th of the worlds population at China has so the pull they can extort is less.
Warehouses used to be a not bad job for someone without much education or skills, at least according to the people I've known that worked in them. Nothing fantastic but not shitty like this is described.
The problem is freaking metrics. I hate them!
Call centers are horrible too ans run by them. Literally if you give yourself a break more than 3 seconds the team leader RUNS right behind you and freaks out and points to a watch. It was crazy.
THey hurt Dell, GE, and others. I have been let go from a job over them and it was rediculious as it was not a call center or warehouse. It was an MBA from a customer who only saw the numbers in one area that is measurable. GE and Dell came up with firing 15% every year. As a result no one can retire as you are eventually fired. As a result Dell lost alot of good people and many refuse to work under these conditions.
You always need to be careful with them. They ruined product quality and employee morale.
How many people from the original Amazon Elexa team still work there? NONE. Seriously every single scientist, engineer, and expert quit as soon as the contract was up with the Amazon echo. The current team probably was flown in from India on the cheap.
They treat everyone but board members like shit. I was going to apply as a senior desktop and jr system engineer and the recruiter told me $35K a year as a contractor... I hung up the phone. Sorry, employers have shown me not trust them if they promise you the world and will give you promotions or job security.
They simple do not care and will simply fire and replace until they find someone willing to work below value.
Typically places like this can't improve employee screening because the turnover is so high.
What most people who never worked in such hellish environments do not realize is HR metrics in your office include turnover and retention rates. At Walmart or the warehouse? NOPE. They use contractors to hide these numbers because if you want less turnover you need to pay more and better working conditions as we know that won't be happening at Amazon.
OneNote takes clippings from your browser and other office products to put together in a page as well as make hand written notes if you have a MS Surface or tablet/hyprid device. It is quite cumbersome but handy once you get used to it verses cut and pasting it in a word processer. You can for example with the OneNote extension take a sample of a website and send to a onenote tab and add notes or clip an email attachment in Outlook.
Evernote on Android and IOS has similiar functionality.
Microsoft only dropped it from office 2019. You can continue to use the desktop versions of 2010,2013, and 2016 and OneNote desktop won't ever be uninstalled. But yes office 2019 will not support Windows 7. It is MacOSX Sierra and Windows10+ only. If you use Office 2019 it won't matter anyway as you will be using Windows 10
By default OneNote uses Office 365 Onedrive to sync up. If you have it at work try to put in a GPO to enable this by default as they do not belong on corporate shared drives.
I liked the desktop version of OneNote. I even uninstall the one from Windows 10 as I like the features and integration with OneDrive for Business and the browser plugins to OneNote a page.
Even with no unemployment rate supply and demand dictates if you are willing to pay more you will get employees. Simple.
These big corporate free market pseudo-GOP purists LOVE the free market when it benefits them. Then cry foul and need the government socialism when it costs too much. They are not true conservatives obviously as you can't have it both ways.
Many HR departments still think it is the great recession and haven't offered more money than in 2009. Those that have are not complaining about the lack of qualified workers.
In Eastern Europe the cost of a worker is still very very very low even with the unemployment rate. As in about as low as China as workers there are getting paid more than ever. This is an excuse to bring the machines in without suffering a PR nightmare or they found the robots for cheaper than the employees. In some markets like chip manufacturing you need robots as humans do not have the same precision and clean environments that the machines have.
Just because the unemployment rate is low means they are living the life. Eastern Europe has never recovered after the fall of communism where developers still make $600 a month writing software for crying out loud. They want to have life like the rest of us and is quite hard when wages for a skilled job are so low still.
I am skeptical as always as corporations LOVE adding this by the marketing departments to make them not look evil or bad guys when importing H1B1 visa workers, robots, or bus in illegal immigrants from across the border to take American jobs away. A famous meat company was caught doing just this. They paid their US employees $25/hr in 2003. Now the immigrants do it for $10/hr and HR was training not to cross check their residency.
This isn't ethnic more than it is they are free of communism and want the better life after 25 years which is slowly coming.
Even $27 an hour for a system engineer is shit pay. That pays for a 1 bedroom apartment in most cities exclusing San Fransisco. You got ripped off. No offense man as I am sorry.
But I would have left to join another company long ago if I were 38 making a mere $45,000 a year for a job that pays up to $70,000 elsewhere and wanted to not have room mates and sub $3,000 beater cars.
Yeah, to a sweat shop in India. Oh well, without sufficient resistance, don't expect any improvement. People have to stand up and defend themselves,
Do that and a robot takes over.
I got fired last year which is embarrassing for an employee who is not entry level. Why? My metrics on cases per day for a successful software company were not high enough. I busted my butt off and did fine in the final month. But during the first 2 to 3 months I was slower as I got used to the products I was working with. I got 1 1 star rating out of 320 customers. It was not even my fault. It was her system. Yet that was enough to tank me and 5 other people on our team when a new manager came in and wanted to show how cool he was by firing the lower metric folks.
It happens and welcome to the 21st century. I deserved to be fired and employed for 5 months later. I was.6 cases per day to low and even if we were not call center employees the customer like high productivity.
You can't defend yourself if the customer wants this. The customer will go to a competitor instead and the bosses job is to keep his at all costs so the burden is on you. That is just the way it is. If no one can do that then a computer program or robot should be doing it to make the customer happy.
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Jesus. I remember in the good old days when $200 was a good chunk for a great GPU and $350 was for the very fastest ones.
Wtf happened? Nvidia monopoly and gamers ready to open their wallets because of the Nvidia label seem to be destroying the market. The comments on how the 1050ti is God on YouTube when referring to AMD products and the xboxoneX verify this brainwashing and monopoly.
Hey PC masterace just don't be shocked when us regular peasants switch to consoles where you can get the same performance for cheaper.
You mean like containers that Linux and Amazon use and very recently Windows and Azure Linux/Windows serverless?
Problem is it doesn't solve SQL access bugs even if you can generate another container the data is still compromised
Kids today use node.js and frameworks from Azure and Amazon that are secured and unfortunately locked to these platforms.
Coders should not be security experts. The frameworks should which PHP has shown are not written by such
Drupal and php are so well secured and up to date that this can happen is simply inconceivable
When a shitty low end GPU thats just as fast as the xboxX doesn't cost more than the whole console!
Sadly. so many idiots don't understand the phrase "cost of employment" or "supply and demand". See also: Venezuela
Sadly, so many idiots don't get socialistic countries in Europe don't have these problems and people still find work and can live regular lives.
Most contractors I know work off the clock after 38 hours. You want to keep your job right?
All it takes is one person willing to work for cheaper to fuck the whole thing up. Usually someone without education nor math ability to realize it won't pay the bills who has to set the wage for everyone else.
Waehouse work used to pay well and the article points out get paid 200% more than what Amazon is offering.
Also they do not have to piss in bottles to keep their metrics for potty breaks getting them written up and fired like the other jobs either.
Why is it the worst jobs pay the least?
Supply and demand in the labor market combined with the jobs having a low barrier to entry skill wise. All it takes is for people to not take the jobs at the price and under the conditions supplied, but obviously plenty of people are willing to do the work for the pay Amazon is paying.
No. THey will whine to congress how unfair the free market is and immediately government intervention inverse socialism is needed to bring people in from Mexico as Visa employees as they can't find qualified employees etc.
There was just a post last week on the conditions of one Amazon warehouse in the UK.
Why is it the worst jobs pay the least?
I hear the executives and those in the top 5% always whine about lower paid workers about how hard the big players have to work compared to them and how much stress they have hence why they need $200,000+ salaries etc. They need the money because they work hard. But Walmart, McDonalds, and Amazon show the opposite apparently.
I see a trend too in the I.T. industry for non programmers. We are expected to take calls 24x7 and be polite at 2am when youtube looks funny and call me on the emergencies only I.T. outage line. If I say can we do this on Monday at a reasonable hour it is grounds for termination. But these big players would not accept a call at 2am for a question on a spreadsheet and would get to keep their jobs if they tell them to fuck off I am sleeping.
So, you wrote all those words to repeat that surrender is the only option. Resistance is futile. Personally, I don't give a damn, whatever floats your boat is fine with me, but you should at least acknowledge your own position. Denial is also futile, but the effort is a spectacle in itself. Just put up the white flag and enjoy your beatings.
What do you suggest I do?
History lesson here. George Washington is considered a military genius. He lost several battles in a row at the beginning of the revolution by retreating and not fighting. When he arrived in New York with 2,000 troops the British sent 6,000. He fled. He fled more in New Jersey while the British kept chasing him and he almost lost his command. Washington was smart not to get involved in battles he couldn't win.
What is not as known is the first elaborate spy network was not the CIA or MIS in World War 2. It was Washington's spy network secretly formed in New York. Each spy had a number for his name and even George doesn't know the identities.
You see Washington placed them when he fled on purpose to spy on the new British stronghold headquartered there
He played with whitts and defeated the Germans and British offguard during Christmas with a lesser force to win the next 2 battles with less men.
My point is not give up but be smart how you play. That includes not fighting in battles you cant win as there are consequences to loosing. I knew there was high turnover when I applied. Not so smart but wanted a risk for more skills.
People work at Amazon or McDonald's because they lost and can't win. Playing smart is to gain value so you can negotiate better options
So, surrender is the only option then? Nice future to leave for the kids...
Drones should be the next battle bots for entertainment
FYI the last job has recruiters emailing me and the pay is now in the 40K range?! LOL. They are desperate and can't find qualified applicants who are willing to meet the insane metrics and work cheap so they are lowering the pay so the famous software company (under NDA here) won't penalize the company.
Look who has the gold makes the rules. If the big companies want to save money they will. You can't fight em. The customer will always win a battle with your boss. However, the flipside is there is cost to being cheap. You get inferior performance and employees.
They try to treat this by hiring inferior employees and then laying down metrics and micro manage them to get better results. In the end you get accuracy and a bad reputation.
AMazon is one place I refuse to work at. My brother could get hired there tomorrow but he won't either. None of the Amazon Echo/Alexia team are still there. They all jumped ship after the product was built. Now they have no one who knows the product and will have to pay more to relearn what the experts left.
The only way you can win as the small guy is to be a bigger guy. Gain some skills and kiss ass with more work experience and job titles. That way if an employer tries to jerk you around you have someone else who is willing to pay you more and be a better employer. Have your kids learn they too can be homeless if they don't do their homework when you drive past one in a box under a bridge. Let them know when you drive past a nice home they too can also choose to live here if they emulate what he or she does over a long period of time.
Also let the kids work at McDonalds or the grocery store in highschool. They learn FAST how nice a corporate job is and the value of hard work and money as well as the unfairness of life as well.
Whining on slashdot will not make the world better and employers do not care what you all think anyway.
Yes and no.
I am a globalist and a Hillary supporter. GASP! Oddly Trump is the more socialistic and liberal one in terns of economics but I regress going to China may have short term hit us as in the bottom 60% temporarily. Long term the Chinese buy more American products. Pepsi gets only 15% of their revenue in the US today! If the US government got in a trade war Coke and Pepsi would leave the US entirely to not loose greater revenue in China.
Chinese work for alot more money than 20 years ago. They are rich. They buy multiple cars to avoid gas lines. Housing is on par with the US in most major cities. Chinese are outsourcing to Vietnam to cut costs but Vietnam is going up in wages too.
As each country goes up in the value the less American companies can get up and leave as easily. Also your 401K, stocks, and employers revenue keeps going up as well. Assume the shareholders are retired folks like our parents, disabled people, pensioners, etc?
Meanwhile we raise billions out of poverty. THe last countries are Russia and the multitudes in Africa. Once they get outsourced then you can't outsource anymore and by 2050 this will be about done.
Remember western Europe, Australia, Canada, and the US also had very poor people too if you didn't own land. The industrial revolution took about 100 years to complete and look what it left the average person? The revolution will continue in addition to the computer/information one as well in these countries.
I do believe Amazon is too powerful. I was against them being broken up for awhile as they innovate and Walmart is still around but my brother works for FedEX. He is worried that in 15 years from now he will be out of a job and his 401K turned into a 201K with his customers all using Amazon through forced partnerships in it's own shipping services.
But anyway I think the hit on the lower and middle class is lessening as China is rising up. Even cheap Vietnam doesn't have the customer base of 1/5th of the worlds population at China has so the pull they can extort is less.
Warehouses used to be a not bad job for someone without much education or skills, at least according to the people I've known that worked in them. Nothing fantastic but not shitty like this is described.
The problem is freaking metrics. I hate them!
Call centers are horrible too ans run by them. Literally if you give yourself a break more than 3 seconds the team leader RUNS right behind you and freaks out and points to a watch. It was crazy.
THey hurt Dell, GE, and others. I have been let go from a job over them and it was rediculious as it was not a call center or warehouse. It was an MBA from a customer who only saw the numbers in one area that is measurable. GE and Dell came up with firing 15% every year. As a result no one can retire as you are eventually fired. As a result Dell lost alot of good people and many refuse to work under these conditions.
You always need to be careful with them. They ruined product quality and employee morale.
How many people from the original Amazon Elexa team still work there? NONE. Seriously every single scientist, engineer, and expert quit as soon as the contract was up with the Amazon echo. The current team probably was flown in from India on the cheap.
They treat everyone but board members like shit. I was going to apply as a senior desktop and jr system engineer and the recruiter told me $35K a year as a contractor ... I hung up the phone. Sorry, employers have shown me not trust them if they promise you the world and will give you promotions or job security.
They simple do not care and will simply fire and replace until they find someone willing to work below value.
Typically places like this can't improve employee screening because the turnover is so high.
What most people who never worked in such hellish environments do not realize is HR metrics in your office include turnover and retention rates. At Walmart or the warehouse? NOPE. They use contractors to hide these numbers because if you want less turnover you need to pay more and better working conditions as we know that won't be happening at Amazon.
OneNote takes clippings from your browser and other office products to put together in a page as well as make hand written notes if you have a MS Surface or tablet/hyprid device. It is quite cumbersome but handy once you get used to it verses cut and pasting it in a word processer. You can for example with the OneNote extension take a sample of a website and send to a onenote tab and add notes or clip an email attachment in Outlook.
Evernote on Android and IOS has similiar functionality.
Poorly constructed headline.
Microsoft only dropped it from office 2019. You can continue to use the desktop versions of 2010,2013, and 2016 and OneNote desktop won't ever be uninstalled. But yes office 2019 will not support Windows 7. It is MacOSX Sierra and Windows10+ only. If you use Office 2019 it won't matter anyway as you will be using Windows 10
By default OneNote uses Office 365 Onedrive to sync up. If you have it at work try to put in a GPO to enable this by default as they do not belong on corporate shared drives.
I liked the desktop version of OneNote. I even uninstall the one from Windows 10 as I like the features and integration with OneDrive for Business and the browser plugins to OneNote a page.
They can't assemble cars in Japan or Germany as they take up too much space and volume on the cargo ships which would dramatically increase the cost.
The parts can be stacked and boxed tight 10 fold or perhaps 100 fold per container.
I disagree.
Even with no unemployment rate supply and demand dictates if you are willing to pay more you will get employees. Simple.
These big corporate free market pseudo-GOP purists LOVE the free market when it benefits them. Then cry foul and need the government socialism when it costs too much. They are not true conservatives obviously as you can't have it both ways.
Many HR departments still think it is the great recession and haven't offered more money than in 2009. Those that have are not complaining about the lack of qualified workers.
In Eastern Europe the cost of a worker is still very very very low even with the unemployment rate. As in about as low as China as workers there are getting paid more than ever. This is an excuse to bring the machines in without suffering a PR nightmare or they found the robots for cheaper than the employees. In some markets like chip manufacturing you need robots as humans do not have the same precision and clean environments that the machines have.
Just because the unemployment rate is low means they are living the life. Eastern Europe has never recovered after the fall of communism where developers still make $600 a month writing software for crying out loud. They want to have life like the rest of us and is quite hard when wages for a skilled job are so low still.
I am skeptical as always as corporations LOVE adding this by the marketing departments to make them not look evil or bad guys when importing H1B1 visa workers, robots, or bus in illegal immigrants from across the border to take American jobs away. A famous meat company was caught doing just this. They paid their US employees $25/hr in 2003. Now the immigrants do it for $10/hr and HR was training not to cross check their residency.
This isn't ethnic more than it is they are free of communism and want the better life after 25 years which is slowly coming.
Even $27 an hour for a system engineer is shit pay. That pays for a 1 bedroom apartment in most cities exclusing San Fransisco. You got ripped off. No offense man as I am sorry.
But I would have left to join another company long ago if I were 38 making a mere $45,000 a year for a job that pays up to $70,000 elsewhere and wanted to not have room mates and sub $3,000 beater cars.
Yeah, to a sweat shop in India. Oh well, without sufficient resistance, don't expect any improvement. People have to stand up and defend themselves,
Do that and a robot takes over.
I got fired last year which is embarrassing for an employee who is not entry level. Why? My metrics on cases per day for a successful software company were not high enough. I busted my butt off and did fine in the final month. But during the first 2 to 3 months I was slower as I got used to the products I was working with. I got 1 1 star rating out of 320 customers. It was not even my fault. It was her system. Yet that was enough to tank me and 5 other people on our team when a new manager came in and wanted to show how cool he was by firing the lower metric folks.
It happens and welcome to the 21st century. I deserved to be fired and employed for 5 months later. I was .6 cases per day to low and even if we were not call center employees the customer like high productivity.
You can't defend yourself if the customer wants this. The customer will go to a competitor instead and the bosses job is to keep his at all costs so the burden is on you. That is just the way it is. If no one can do that then a computer program or robot should be doing it to make the customer happy.