Too many companies are on the race to the buttom and it really shows. They do not listen to consumers and always try to pull a fastone on them.
Wall Street is schzo in this regard as they reward companies for doing this. In Business School the good companies invest in long term strategies are better picks. Apple is included in this. If you watch undercover boss on TV, the first thing every CEO says is "I will go in and look for inefficines and ways we are wasting money to reduce costs". Then they get all butt hurt when they see all their employees overworked to the point of losing returns because of the insane cheapness. It is every single episode I see.
Apple is old school when companies did not only focus on cost and instead on value. If others followed their league they would be worth more than their competitors.
Seriously the Apple Iphone was lightyears ahead of anyone when it came out. It was better and not made from some cheap marketing guys in Tiawan. But real thought with pretty icons, GPU graphics, HTML 5, etc. The WindowsMobile 6.5 team were trying to catch up to IE 6 pocket addition to give you an idea how far behind they were when they scoffed the Iphone.
Steve Jobs is a great CEO and I rank him as high as Bill Gates.
15 years ago this was the truth. The basic concept was true before the HUGE gain in stock prices. Investors noticed when the DOW went from 3,000 to 15,000 in just 10 years! That growth corrupted them and now expect it.
With those growth rates of course dividends looked paultry. In reality low interests and borrowed money inflated those prices from actions of the FED and no real wealth was created. Today people are demanding this growth and if they can't get it they buy HFT computers to rip other people off to get it.
So if you do not pay a dividend but your shares gain 300% in value then who cares if you make money? That is the age and stuff that is taught in finance today and why wages are declining. Share price is king and because there is no dividend your 401k is dependent on constantly rising share prices.
This system needs to end as many are predicting another stock crash or bond market crash.
It is only a big loan if you do not pay dividends as the only way you can gain money is if it gains value. Unless you own HFT computers to short the stocks.
Call me old fasioned (Yes I took finance in school), but it doesn't matter how much money a company has if you do not get paid for owning the company.
Non dividend shares are no different than bit coins? Worse, as people actually paid money for them unlike using their GPU to create them. It is a big scam.
They only worth Apple Stock is what someone else will pay for it. That is a bubble my friend. If you own something just to flip and it does not even generate an asset that is a dangerous situation that the new finance gurus do not see. At least flipping houses you could rent them and get some money.
It is unrational and you assume the share price is statistically always in line with company performance. Sometimes it is, and other times it is not just like the.com craze a decade ago.
Paying a dividend puts less pressure on raising its stock price. But Apple did not do it with a large amount of money. Just a very small amount so it has plenty of cash left. Keep in mind there is also irrationality that if you have too much money it is bad too. That is why banks were pressured to keep buying bad loans in 2004. The CEOs would have been fired if they sat on their cash. Again, that is proof of the insanity of the market.
Not everyone automates server oriented tasks with batch files. I love VI myself. My guess is your conservative who hates change.
However a gui like Visual Studio or Netbeans can do a lot more.
Guis show what you are printing exactly how it is viewed on the screen. Normal computer usage is creating documents for others to view them. This is why the gui is necessary in business. Sorry Latex does not cut it for marketing shops creating brochures and imageMagik or whatever it is called is no photoshop.
Menus hide things in illogical and places that are hard to find. Ribbons show all the options and lets you preview them. It is a wonderful tool and if you open your eyes you can find out it is the most hot key friendly Office yet if you hate the mouse. My productivity is much higher as I do not have stop typing and look for functions in a sea of menus.
But I once told an I.T. consulting executive, that I love FOSS because it is free and it is the best!
He rolled his eyes and decided I not important enough to do business with. Doesn't even prefer expensive solutions and loves shareware?? This was 10 years ago and Linux was a toy compared to NT 4 in his eyes probably. But it was embarasing for me.
I guess it depends how big you are. There is a reason many businesses still use IE 6 in 2012 like I mentioned above. It is because if you are Volkswagan you can simply demand to support it for their logon site if you are an auto parts supplier. Not everyone is.
In small business or if you send a resume you need to look professional. I remember 15 years ago if you didn't have a fax number no one would want to do business with you. Then it was an email, and now it is MS file formats. I am hoping this will change but right now it is not.
I do not like LO as OpenOffice was slow, ugly, and didn't do things that MS Office did. The file formats and personal and corporate image were one. I started becoming more cynical of zealots over the years.
It is a personal one. If you need real databases then use an external source like SQL Server or even Mysql through ODBC.
Access has a great gui that a non IT professional can create a solution quickly without having the hell of 5 versions of a 1 million line excel spreadsheet emailed and unsynchronized floating on the network were 1 - 2 hours a day are spent finding errors. Yes corporate America is doing this more commonly thanks to restrictive I.T. and the high demand for more results with less employees.
Think of it as a gui builder to store data for small to medium sized business. Not that is can't datawarehouse and run on 32 cpu systems with a thousand users at once, etc. That is not what it is for. An average Joe will not setup an Oracle Enterprise Data server to store client records in his small local business store. Access fits perfectly.
Would you rather have a 1 million line excel spreedsheet where there are 5 different versions all emailed around and not synchronized instead? Yes, this happens because people do not have time to wait for I.T. and some BS policy on databases. This causes a lot more headaches.
I will take access thank you.
If it is such a pain do not buy an Oracle License. Use Mysql or postgresql and use ODBC as an external datasource. A fresh college grad making websites in college should be able to set it up in about a day or two.
If people are emailing databases back and forth they are doing it wrong. It defeats the purpose. Seriously in 2012, this should be universal as databases were taking ground in the 1980s. It seems we are going backwards.
I love the ribbon now and I cringe going back to menus.
It has its benefits and if you hit the alt key, it will even number the shortcuts. You can preview changes by just having the mouse cursor over all the settings. I love it and the ribbon bashing is so 2007.
It reminds me of those whinning about guis and how CLI terminals and DOS were soo awesome.
It took a week to learn but unlike METRO solid R&D was behind it in usability. Word is certainly more tolerable.
Good luck having another supplier, vendor, or another business view your documents and have them all looking funny?
Their is a reason businesses standardize on Office. Every office user who is not a FOSS zealot hates Libra Office with a passion and I have worked in projects before where it was replaced with Office so they can work and do things like everyone else.
Maybe in the future it will take off, just like these same office workers scorend Firefox and went back to IE 6 because it felt better. But Libra Office needs to be faster and have more functions and start to do things that iWorks and MS Office does before people prefer it.
Keep in mind Apple has buyout programs for its CEO and other employees that are long term oriented.
They will dillute the value of the shares. This is only a small payout and will keep the price high so the employees can earn their hard owned money without tanking the stock. It is commendable for them to do this as many 401ks are tied to their employees. Many CEO's payshit, but promise a nice stock buyback and 401k for their hard work, then turn around and dillute the shares and steal from their own employees when it goes public and the CEO buys a nice Porshe and a yatch.
Look up Zanga? What assholes, I would quit in discuss. As greedy as Apple is at least they respect their employees more and of course this investors do not want to loose their precious share price when employees start dilluting and cashing out shares.
It means Apple (according to many guru's and those on Wall Street in this day and age) think they do not know how to invest in themselves and what is valuable. Instead they feel to give the money back to the shareholders as they can invest in the money better than they can. Apple's stock price went down after the bell opened, but did go up in pre-trading (why is that legal ?)
However, my opinions are more old fashioned and feel Apple should give money back to its owners after they invested the risk duh. Doing so in old school theoretical sense means they want less pressure on quarterly results and on just raising the share price and giving investors some of their earnings back eleviates this and allows for the same amount of money for slower growth from investors. Which is what the the thinking was even if that is rejected for newer investors as growth not revenue is everything.
If I made you a partner in a company but didn't pay you because Hairyfeet, might just pay you then you will be on my ass to rise the share price as you see no return anyway. If it goes up then you gain money. That is how Apple has been operating since 1997.
Apple is trying to eleviate that.
It also is a little disapointing as Apple could start a 4G network to compete with the big boys, use the money for more R&D, or pay their Foxconn employers more and educate them to work for Apple China through scholarships. But Apple did not want to take that risk.
I am a badass coder and here is some of my awesome code from my login page in php 4 that is super secure
$query_login="select * FROM user"; $result_login = mysql_query($query_login) or die("Your passwrod is might be bad I think");//$login_check = mysql_num_rows($result_login); while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result_login)) { $username=$row["username"]; if ($username==$username1) { echo ""; echo "window.location.href='login_error.php?rec=qq';"; echo ""; exit; } }
Do you have any idea how much a house cost in Silcon Valley?... or maybe rent for an apartment?
You need millions. Tens of millions for a middle class lifestyle if you have kids and want to buy... gulp an actual house more than 1600 sq feet in a nice area.
The econonics over there does not make sense and I still smell a huge bubble as only the top 5% can afford the median square foot home. If I had a family Google would have to pay me at least $1 million dollars to move as I do not want 85% of my income to rent out a room in a basement.
If Google were smart they would move their R&D to Austin like a lot of tech companies are. They can they pay their employees only average and they can live like everyone else. Sure some people would bulk at living in the midwest but people with experience want to live like their are worth something and fullfil their own dreams and not some landlords dreams who got lucky 20 years ago.
Companies are forgetting this hence, why only the rockstars are in their 20s and 30s from top colleges in places over there and in New York. After kids enough is enough.
Norton 2012 is the lightest AV out there according to PCMag. It is rewritten and no longer sucks.
I however like Avast because you can put it in game mode and it wont interrupt you in MMOs not to mention registration is free and it wont nag you. I do not understand the fuss as it only does this once after 30 days
Avast 7 did have some issues I do admit when it was introduced, but the latest fix corrected them.
Other than that is it the fast and best able to detect and remove rootkits of any antivirus product except Norton 2012(Hell froze over it is the best out there and is no longer a POS).
It is lightweight and has live updates on the minute. I prefer it much more over MSE.
" But looking at the world situation, this really is not the case at least in the West- there is plenty of food and wealth around (just not that distributed that evenly;) )."
There is. We are still in recovery from the worst recession since The Great Depression. Demand is very weak for the products, but the demands from Wall Street for high productivity with half the workers is very high.
The wealth is vanishing and going to Asia and the top 2% as CEOs salary has gone up 300% for the decade. They want their leisure time and toys too and the workers are in the way by costing too much money in this deflationary situation (why The Fed is printing money to stop it).
It will be awhile before its recovered and when it is people will be scarred from the experience and still work hard just like in the 1950s after leaving the depression.
"These work conditions are demanded by the market.",
There are millions who have been laid off due to the financial crises out of work who have accounting and financial experience.
The market doesn't demand it. Your CEO and shareholders demand it. What time do they leave? My guess is 5. If they want people not to quit and work for private companies or start their own small accounting firms they need to hire more and lessen the hours.
It was necessary in 2008 to cut staff, but it seems they kept the hiring freeze and just made free money and probably more mistakes.
If you love your marriage I would quit and work elsewhere. The extra perks and pay are simply not worth it if you spend all your time at work.
Well I realize it may not always be true as an American. However, I can't change the system and now if I do not put a 110% effort and get that promotion, the next guy in the office who does will.
If you work hard and invest more time in the office or yourself you will become luckier. Work a 2nd job is more money. Working until 1am for a degree will bring in more. Or start a business will bring more. Thats part of changing strategy. Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard was his.
Not always, but doing nothing will result in nothing more than what you already have. Americans like the control of at least I can try and that feeling of self control.
I will say it is humbling to see those who snob the poor who lose everything in the last recession. Millions of people. They realize you know you can lose all of it at any time.
I graduated in 2009 and could not find a job in my field. Now employers are starting to hire again but it is still sluggish. Many work these insane hours because it was what they were expected to do in the 2008 financial crises.
All the ads here in Florida are for $8-$13 an hour and with shitty pay only desperate people take them. This makes those like yourself keep the jobs. It wont last forever, but here in the states it is all about cost cutting and not about creating anything.
Most computer science majors I know answer angry help desk phones all day for $13 an hour with no benefits. That is all there is. If you are in Vancouver or Toronto maybe your area is different. The last place I lived in Alaska was terrible for I.T.. Hell I could make more money teaching.
You know this is a trend that started this last decade. It will die out.
It started in I.T. to fix the y2k bug with the.com industry taking all the good talent and excitement there used to exist about computers. Today it is about cost savings and keeping the lights on.
A good manager will view those who work these insane hours as in trouble. Either they are incompetent or they have too much on their plate or something blew up. The manager needs to take notice and find out why. If it is the new expected norm guess where all the good employees with years of experience will go?
Out the front door!
It is starting to happen now as employers are hiring. Once more people start working and wages start climbing there will be a massive shift and the HR weenies will freak out and find out it is due to bad management and working hours. THey will hire more people and put an end to bad management and hours. Managers will be forced to not make their employees work long as retention will be an issue.
True many are scared just like in the 1930s and will work forever out of fear. But it will change and productivity will start (already has) going down as only entry level employees would want to put up with that bs.
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Yeah and I would take a modern high quality car than a Model T or one of the terrible Yugo's of the past.
Yes it is only a a refinement, but to me it is innovation and why Ford, Honda, and Hyundai are still in business while Yugo is not.
How would they edit the forms then?
How can someone highlight your resume and make amendments when copying the file back and forth between people?
How about making it better as innovation?
Too many companies are on the race to the buttom and it really shows. They do not listen to consumers and always try to pull a fastone on them.
Wall Street is schzo in this regard as they reward companies for doing this. In Business School the good companies invest in long term strategies are better picks. Apple is included in this. If you watch undercover boss on TV, the first thing every CEO says is "I will go in and look for inefficines and ways we are wasting money to reduce costs". Then they get all butt hurt when they see all their employees overworked to the point of losing returns because of the insane cheapness. It is every single episode I see.
Apple is old school when companies did not only focus on cost and instead on value. If others followed their league they would be worth more than their competitors.
Seriously the Apple Iphone was lightyears ahead of anyone when it came out. It was better and not made from some cheap marketing guys in Tiawan. But real thought with pretty icons, GPU graphics, HTML 5, etc. The WindowsMobile 6.5 team were trying to catch up to IE 6 pocket addition to give you an idea how far behind they were when they scoffed the Iphone.
Steve Jobs is a great CEO and I rank him as high as Bill Gates.
No.
15 years ago this was the truth. The basic concept was true before the HUGE gain in stock prices. Investors noticed when the DOW went from 3,000 to 15,000 in just 10 years! That growth corrupted them and now expect it.
With those growth rates of course dividends looked paultry. In reality low interests and borrowed money inflated those prices from actions of the FED and no real wealth was created. Today people are demanding this growth and if they can't get it they buy HFT computers to rip other people off to get it.
So if you do not pay a dividend but your shares gain 300% in value then who cares if you make money? That is the age and stuff that is taught in finance today and why wages are declining. Share price is king and because there is no dividend your 401k is dependent on constantly rising share prices.
This system needs to end as many are predicting another stock crash or bond market crash.
It is only a big loan if you do not pay dividends as the only way you can gain money is if it gains value. Unless you own HFT computers to short the stocks.
If you gain dividends there is less risk
Call me old fasioned (Yes I took finance in school), but it doesn't matter how much money a company has if you do not get paid for owning the company.
Non dividend shares are no different than bit coins? Worse, as people actually paid money for them unlike using their GPU to create them. It is a big scam.
They only worth Apple Stock is what someone else will pay for it. That is a bubble my friend. If you own something just to flip and it does not even generate an asset that is a dangerous situation that the new finance gurus do not see. At least flipping houses you could rent them and get some money.
It is unrational and you assume the share price is statistically always in line with company performance. Sometimes it is, and other times it is not just like the .com craze a decade ago.
Paying a dividend puts less pressure on raising its stock price. But Apple did not do it with a large amount of money. Just a very small amount so it has plenty of cash left. Keep in mind there is also irrationality that if you have too much money it is bad too. That is why banks were pressured to keep buying bad loans in 2004. The CEOs would have been fired if they sat on their cash. Again, that is proof of the insanity of the market.
Not everyone automates server oriented tasks with batch files. I love VI myself. My guess is your conservative who hates change.
However a gui like Visual Studio or Netbeans can do a lot more.
Guis show what you are printing exactly how it is viewed on the screen. Normal computer usage is creating documents for others to view them. This is why the gui is necessary in business. Sorry Latex does not cut it for marketing shops creating brochures and imageMagik or whatever it is called is no photoshop.
Menus hide things in illogical and places that are hard to find. Ribbons show all the options and lets you preview them. It is a wonderful tool and if you open your eyes you can find out it is the most hot key friendly Office yet if you hate the mouse. My productivity is much higher as I do not have stop typing and look for functions in a sea of menus.
Call me cynical.
But I once told an I.T. consulting executive, that I love FOSS because it is free and it is the best!
He rolled his eyes and decided I not important enough to do business with. Doesn't even prefer expensive solutions and loves shareware?? This was 10 years ago and Linux was a toy compared to NT 4 in his eyes probably. But it was embarasing for me.
I guess it depends how big you are. There is a reason many businesses still use IE 6 in 2012 like I mentioned above. It is because if you are Volkswagan you can simply demand to support it for their logon site if you are an auto parts supplier. Not everyone is.
In small business or if you send a resume you need to look professional. I remember 15 years ago if you didn't have a fax number no one would want to do business with you. Then it was an email, and now it is MS file formats. I am hoping this will change but right now it is not.
I do not like LO as OpenOffice was slow, ugly, and didn't do things that MS Office did. The file formats and personal and corporate image were one. I started becoming more cynical of zealots over the years.
Because it is not a server database.
It is a personal one. If you need real databases then use an external source like SQL Server or even Mysql through ODBC.
Access has a great gui that a non IT professional can create a solution quickly without having the hell of 5 versions of a 1 million line excel spreadsheet emailed and unsynchronized floating on the network were 1 - 2 hours a day are spent finding errors. Yes corporate America is doing this more commonly thanks to restrictive I.T. and the high demand for more results with less employees.
Think of it as a gui builder to store data for small to medium sized business. Not that is can't datawarehouse and run on 32 cpu systems with a thousand users at once, etc. That is not what it is for. An average Joe will not setup an Oracle Enterprise Data server to store client records in his small local business store. Access fits perfectly.
Would you rather have a 1 million line excel spreedsheet where there are 5 different versions all emailed around and not synchronized instead? Yes, this happens because people do not have time to wait for I.T. and some BS policy on databases. This causes a lot more headaches.
I will take access thank you.
If it is such a pain do not buy an Oracle License. Use Mysql or postgresql and use ODBC as an external datasource. A fresh college grad making websites in college should be able to set it up in about a day or two.
If people are emailing databases back and forth they are doing it wrong. It defeats the purpose. Seriously in 2012, this should be universal as databases were taking ground in the 1980s. It seems we are going backwards.
I love the ribbon now and I cringe going back to menus.
It has its benefits and if you hit the alt key, it will even number the shortcuts. You can preview changes by just having the mouse cursor over all the settings. I love it and the ribbon bashing is so 2007.
It reminds me of those whinning about guis and how CLI terminals and DOS were soo awesome.
It took a week to learn but unlike METRO solid R&D was behind it in usability. Word is certainly more tolerable.
Good luck having another supplier, vendor, or another business view your documents and have them all looking funny?
Their is a reason businesses standardize on Office. Every office user who is not a FOSS zealot hates Libra Office with a passion and I have worked in projects before where it was replaced with Office so they can work and do things like everyone else.
Maybe in the future it will take off, just like these same office workers scorend Firefox and went back to IE 6 because it felt better. But Libra Office needs to be faster and have more functions and start to do things that iWorks and MS Office does before people prefer it.
Keep in mind Apple has buyout programs for its CEO and other employees that are long term oriented.
They will dillute the value of the shares. This is only a small payout and will keep the price high so the employees can earn their hard owned money without tanking the stock. It is commendable for them to do this as many 401ks are tied to their employees. Many CEO's payshit, but promise a nice stock buyback and 401k for their hard work, then turn around and dillute the shares and steal from their own employees when it goes public and the CEO buys a nice Porshe and a yatch.
Look up Zanga? What assholes, I would quit in discuss. As greedy as Apple is at least they respect their employees more and of course this investors do not want to loose their precious share price when employees start dilluting and cashing out shares.
It means Apple (according to many guru's and those on Wall Street in this day and age) think they do not know how to invest in themselves and what is valuable. Instead they feel to give the money back to the shareholders as they can invest in the money better than they can. Apple's stock price went down after the bell opened, but did go up in pre-trading (why is that legal ?)
However, my opinions are more old fashioned and feel Apple should give money back to its owners after they invested the risk duh. Doing so in old school theoretical sense means they want less pressure on quarterly results and on just raising the share price and giving investors some of their earnings back eleviates this and allows for the same amount of money for slower growth from investors. Which is what the the thinking was even if that is rejected for newer investors as growth not revenue is everything.
If I made you a partner in a company but didn't pay you because Hairyfeet, might just pay you then you will be on my ass to rise the share price as you see no return anyway. If it goes up then you gain money. That is how Apple has been operating since 1997.
Apple is trying to eleviate that.
It also is a little disapointing as Apple could start a 4G network to compete with the big boys, use the money for more R&D, or pay their Foxconn employers more and educate them to work for Apple China through scholarships. But Apple did not want to take that risk.
I am a badass coder and here is some of my awesome code from my login page in php 4 that is super secure
$query_login="select * FROM user"; //$login_check = mysql_num_rows($result_login);
$result_login = mysql_query($query_login) or die("Your passwrod is might be bad I think");
while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result_login))
{
$username=$row["username"];
if ($username==$username1)
{
echo "";
echo "window.location.href='login_error.php?rec=qq';";
echo "";
exit;
}
}
Do you have any idea how much a house cost in Silcon Valley? ... or maybe rent for an apartment?
You need millions. Tens of millions for a middle class lifestyle if you have kids and want to buy ... gulp an actual house more than 1600 sq feet in a nice area.
The econonics over there does not make sense and I still smell a huge bubble as only the top 5% can afford the median square foot home. If I had a family Google would have to pay me at least $1 million dollars to move as I do not want 85% of my income to rent out a room in a basement.
If Google were smart they would move their R&D to Austin like a lot of tech companies are. They can they pay their employees only average and they can live like everyone else. Sure some people would bulk at living in the midwest but people with experience want to live like their are worth something and fullfil their own dreams and not some landlords dreams who got lucky 20 years ago.
Companies are forgetting this hence, why only the rockstars are in their 20s and 30s from top colleges in places over there and in New York. After kids enough is enough.
Norton 2012 is the lightest AV out there according to PCMag. It is rewritten and no longer sucks.
I however like Avast because you can put it in game mode and it wont interrupt you in MMOs not to mention registration is free and it wont nag you. I do not understand the fuss as it only does this once after 30 days
Avast 7! is my favorite.
Avast 7 did have some issues I do admit when it was introduced, but the latest fix corrected them.
Other than that is it the fast and best able to detect and remove rootkits of any antivirus product except Norton 2012(Hell froze over it is the best out there and is no longer a POS).
It is lightweight and has live updates on the minute. I prefer it much more over MSE.
" But looking at the world situation, this really is not the case at least in the West- there is plenty of food and wealth around (just not that distributed that evenly ;) )."
There is. We are still in recovery from the worst recession since The Great Depression. Demand is very weak for the products, but the demands from Wall Street for high productivity with half the workers is very high.
The wealth is vanishing and going to Asia and the top 2% as CEOs salary has gone up 300% for the decade. They want their leisure time and toys too and the workers are in the way by costing too much money in this deflationary situation (why The Fed is printing money to stop it).
It will be awhile before its recovered and when it is people will be scarred from the experience and still work hard just like in the 1950s after leaving the depression.
"These work conditions are demanded by the market.",
There are millions who have been laid off due to the financial crises out of work who have accounting and financial experience.
The market doesn't demand it. Your CEO and shareholders demand it. What time do they leave? My guess is 5. If they want people not to quit and work for private companies or start their own small accounting firms they need to hire more and lessen the hours.
It was necessary in 2008 to cut staff, but it seems they kept the hiring freeze and just made free money and probably more mistakes.
If you love your marriage I would quit and work elsewhere. The extra perks and pay are simply not worth it if you spend all your time at work.
Well I realize it may not always be true as an American. However, I can't change the system and now if I do not put a 110% effort and get that promotion, the next guy in the office who does will.
If you work hard and invest more time in the office or yourself you will become luckier. Work a 2nd job is more money. Working until 1am for a degree will bring in more. Or start a business will bring more. Thats part of changing strategy. Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard was his.
Not always, but doing nothing will result in nothing more than what you already have. Americans like the control of at least I can try and that feeling of self control.
I will say it is humbling to see those who snob the poor who lose everything in the last recession. Millions of people. They realize you know you can lose all of it at any time.
I graduated in 2009 and could not find a job in my field. Now employers are starting to hire again but it is still sluggish. Many work these insane hours because it was what they were expected to do in the 2008 financial crises.
All the ads here in Florida are for $8-$13 an hour and with shitty pay only desperate people take them. This makes those like yourself keep the jobs. It wont last forever, but here in the states it is all about cost cutting and not about creating anything.
Most computer science majors I know answer angry help desk phones all day for $13 an hour with no benefits. That is all there is. If you are in Vancouver or Toronto maybe your area is different. The last place I lived in Alaska was terrible for I.T.. Hell I could make more money teaching.
You know this is a trend that started this last decade. It will die out.
It started in I.T. to fix the y2k bug with the .com industry taking all the good talent and excitement there used to exist about computers. Today it is about cost savings and keeping the lights on.
A good manager will view those who work these insane hours as in trouble. Either they are incompetent or they have too much on their plate or something blew up. The manager needs to take notice and find out why. If it is the new expected norm guess where all the good employees with years of experience will go?
Out the front door!
It is starting to happen now as employers are hiring. Once more people start working and wages start climbing there will be a massive shift and the HR weenies will freak out and find out it is due to bad management and working hours. THey will hire more people and put an end to bad management and hours. Managers will be forced to not make their employees work long as retention will be an issue.
True many are scared just like in the 1930s and will work forever out of fear. But it will change and productivity will start (already has) going down as only entry level employees would want to put up with that bs.
Perhaps working those 80 hours is why she is so angry?
Women have different needs than men and spending time is important. Not the paycheck. At least that was true with the ones I have been with.
But the other guy in India did it for 1/5th the price!
Think about the shareholders, managers, and the CEO? Not not to mention that big bonus for the person who is so smart for going cheap.
Who cares about quality. How does making it better reduce the share price or pay for the CEOs kids college tuition?