Most WILL NOT issue a severance check UNTIL you sign the separation agreement. They WILL issue you your last paycheck, however - they must do that.
I think requiring companies to pay a 50% salary when a non-compete is in effect is brilliant as they can dictate for whom you can work (and, as such, the ability earn a comparable salary).
If a company determines you are no longer of value to them and they release you (fire/layoff, then the non-compete should be voided entirely. If they still deem you of value but have let you go, they need to provide compensation such as in a layoff with option to recall (as in temporary down-size), they need to pay up or release the obligation.
Or I can just outsource you all to a less socialistic and more capitalistic country like India where I won't have this problem. Be careful what you wish for as Detroit at one time thought the same thing with automaker and government workers. It is now done in Alabama for minimum wage where workers are happy to work.
H1B1 Visa workers will also be happy to sign them too and since the company is not based in the US the laws do not apply. Just saying.
They all seem so bad until you consider any alternative, and the work that goes into maintaining it over time.
Dude I can write several sites quicker without any CMS before I learn how Drupual or Joomla works. The industry wants these sites up yesterday and can not wait for you to learn anything.
I think a simple tool like Banshee or writting your own CMS is much quicker and at least you know your own tool fairly well.
Taking 5 months to learn a tool is unacceptable. We need results NOW
I just promised an important client that the new site will be ready by the end of the week. I know you just downloaded Drupal, but I need you to learn the whole thing by the end of your lunch hour today so I can get this project done. I signed the contract already promising.
So learn it by 2pm today so I can start to see the code? Thanks
Dude this 2016. Not 2006. Corporate sites no longer support IE 8 starting last year. Shit ADP processing is one huge corporate site for credit cards. Myaline won't even support IE 8.
Today corporations use Firefox and Chrome and MBA and PHB see sites like MSN miss render. They won't blame web developers.
In 2006 everyone used IE 6 and Firefox was a secret geek thing. It had 0 presence on corporation desktops! All the sites the PHB worked fine in IE 6. So it must be an incompetent web developer then etc. Those days are done.
Ditch IE 8. Corporations all have IE for that ancient SAP app and Firefox for everything else in 2016
At work we have Chrome everywhere now. Reason being is IE 8 in the past year has stopped working for a large number of websites!
Shit even ADP credit card processing for customers or to print out our paystubs just stopped working.
IE 8 users see the writing on the wall for the past year now and won't blame you if everyone else including IE's own default MSN page doesn't support it!
The professional one does. You can select an update schedule or you can enable defere updates which means you will go on the business channel which is every 3 months and just get security updates.
I think it's time I look at an exit strategy from IT. I'm starting to lose the appetite I had for it.
I'm thinking truck driving school, then start driving trucks. Pays less, but I imagine it has less bullshit.
I'm also considering it because it would seem the IT Worker is now an Endangered Species.
Dude. My experience may not be the typical slashdotter, but I left IT and changed majors from computer science back in the early 2000's. HORRIBLE MISTAKE. All my buddies who stayed in IT got rich! I read back in 2003 on/. that no American would be doing IT by 2016. You know? They are full of ***.
I got in IT as I coudn't get the kind of money elsewhere unless I wanted to go back to school yet again and go into debt at a late age to gain a new skillset only to start at the bottom all over again. Screw that.
Face it IT still pays more than any field except medical. Medical takes a specialized education and many years. My exgf was 9 credits away from a masters and has a bachelors in clinical lab work and still only makes $16/hr so no do not believe the lie everyone makes $35/hr fresh out of school. You start at the bottom just like IT starts at $10/hr with an A+ at Geeksquad before you move up.
Learn to code and do SQL stuff and update your MS and Cisco certs. You can live quite comfortable if you are good and have references and do not stick around in one place for too long. All the places that do H1B1 last decade have rehired local IT staff again or have a mix of foreign and local resources. IT is about about process engineering as much as that pisses the MBA's off. If you are far from the process you gain less service and productivity hits. You need someone local.
Security updates will keep coming. But no driver or system updates.
You are just moved to a slower ring Ubuntu style and will get updates every 3 - 4 months after other people test them. This is the small to medium business update channel.
Go to PC Setting -> Select updates -> updates -> Choose how to update -> Notify me to schedule restart BAM. It will work just like WIndows 8.1 if you have the professional edition of 10
Dude UPDATE the VM's. Build 2400 SUCKS ass and the bugs have been fixed awhile back. WIth the latest March update for business you will see hundreds of bugs fixed.
The moral of the story is any new OS is going to have problems with the exception of Windows 7 which was Vista.1 really.
... you work in I.T. as many here do if not the vast majority. Windows 10 offers much better: 1. power usage, 2. security, 3. mobile features like Netflix and Pandora apps which are nice on a thin tablet or netbooks like my MS Surface. I hate using a browser for these. Even my desktop I use these to watch Star Trek TOS while I work on something on another monitor. 4. virtual desktops 5. run javascript better (even Google's and Firefoxes) better than 7 6. VIsual Studio 2015 community edition offers Android SDK, Linux development with Apache Cordova and other features only on 10. 7. You get 10 more years free OS support as 7 will join XP soon in the after light with win98SE 8. Fast updates to bug fixes with more agile development 9. Hyper-V is free with the professional edition if you are still on 7. Yes you can run Linux Vm's too on it without the nasty type-2 hypervisor VMware Workstaiton which is $$$ (nice for linux geeks like us)
There are downsides too which I will get to next.
First off let me summarize slashdot's view of anti WIndows 10: 1. Slashdot HATES Microsoft and views them as a competitor. Nothing can ever come good from many comments 2. Windows 10 hate ala SystemD style hate started here because it was fashionable and moderators selected the most anti Windows 10 comments 3. Other sites like Neowin.net have the exact opposite views 4. Most IT folks here after 40 HATE CHANGE. Read anything about systemD, WIndows 7 (fpre 2014), or anything else? 5. Tinfoil hat folks who think Cortana means MS must be privately reading all their documents and giving it to competitors and advertisers while they use Google Chrome and Google Android phones and think nothing of it at the same time 6. Updates must break 100% of all components 100% of the time and you will turn them off and with mcAffee you will never ever get infected even with java and flash installed?!
All these things combined together give the evolution of the worst disaster in OS history is upon un!!
If you have the professional edition of Windows 7/8.1 you will get the professional edition of WIndows 10 which you can control updates.Wind
Reasons Windows 10 may not be the best yet: 1. Windows 10 was a HORRIBLY buggy OS last August and still has some flaky issues. It is nowhere near WIndows 7, 8.1 and feels like Vista SP 1 as of current right now. The April update fixes lots of bugs on my desktop and made it usable. 2. You NEED updates to get the bug fixes. Build 2400 was terrible at launch. 3. SOme of the updates had issues. I never experienced them. As more hardware is out that must support 10 the problem seems to be going away 4. The GUI is Schzophrenic. Do you click ok? Or not. Is this a hamburger menu or a win32 control panel app? 5. Privacy concerns as does this stuff get transmitted even with Cortana off (I have it turned off) 6. Ugly white title bars. You have to turn this off 7. Some hardware and software not supported
Then they are morons. This if the freaking President of the United States needs to be somewhat competent and not a freaking Joe Six pack! I assume most sane intelligent people or semi intelligent people realize oh gee we need some smarter than me who has the integrity and prestige who is high caliber to handle the job and make correct executions of decisions on difficult choices.
Trump talks shit out of his ass and almost everything he says is WRONG. He is a coward who mocks disabled reporters and can not handle a female reporter. Jesus! How can he handle a confrontation with Russia or China? Cry it is unfair? Insult their wives?\
Americans like to look at politics like football. Vote for the team and hate the opposite party. Well, this is not freaking football and I do not care if Trump supports 100% of my beliefs or not. He is not qualified and is the most unpresidential candidate in history who is outright dangerous with his positions of ending free trade, putting up walls, regulating markets, and insulting leaders.
Yes my post is going to be modded WAY DOWN, and hopefully WAY UP too. But, this is very important and yes read what Hawkings said? Hawkings addressed trade (which will cause a worse recession than 2008 in which Walmart could go out of business with a trade war), security, and other issues. Yes, he has a brain and I wish people would use their's
Because God is a free market pro business republican to these people. Ask any southern white Christian? It is taught at the pulpit and all the religious figures endorse him because he has an R next to his name.
It is amazing how group psychology and group identity impacts brains sadly.
Mind of a Trump supporter: Hawkings is part of the system and not a fundalmentalist Christian. Therefore if he is against it then we must be for it. Go TRump
If only those of us who are afraid of change had to run cell phones on machines that were not cell phones would have me and the rest of slashdot just dying to run to get a Windows Phone! Boy, that is the ticket
Go write something besides a cute short VB client/server app and you will see problems? It is very odd and different from C style languages. It is not object oriented but object based with cutsey drag and drops. Need a few thousand functions? WOW, where do you begin.
VB is this.button1 add code here. this.button2 add other code here.
Doesn't work when you need to engineer and not put together a simple script with some gui components which is what VB really is.
Let it die. It's a terrible language and it should die a death. don't open source it or you'll just encourage a new wave of cheapskate programmers to start learning bad habits and producing crappy code.
I sooo agree man they shouldn't open it! Hold on let me finish this JavaScript project I am working on....
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Most WILL NOT issue a severance check UNTIL you sign the separation agreement. They WILL issue you your last paycheck, however - they must do that.
I think requiring companies to pay a 50% salary when a non-compete is in effect is brilliant as they can dictate for whom you can work (and, as such, the ability earn a comparable salary).
If a company determines you are no longer of value to them and they release you (fire/layoff, then the non-compete should be voided entirely. If they still deem you of value but have let you go, they need to provide compensation such as in a layoff with option to recall (as in temporary down-size), they need to pay up or release the obligation.
Or I can just outsource you all to a less socialistic and more capitalistic country like India where I won't have this problem. Be careful what you wish for as Detroit at one time thought the same thing with automaker and government workers. It is now done in Alabama for minimum wage where workers are happy to work.
H1B1 Visa workers will also be happy to sign them too and since the company is not based in the US the laws do not apply. Just saying.
I just checked and I am using IE 6 so I should be safe
They all seem so bad until you consider any alternative, and the work that goes into maintaining it over time.
Dude I can write several sites quicker without any CMS before I learn how Drupual or Joomla works. The industry wants these sites up yesterday and can not wait for you to learn anything.
I think a simple tool like Banshee or writting your own CMS is much quicker and at least you know your own tool fairly well.
Taking 5 months to learn a tool is unacceptable. We need results NOW
Techsoldaten, this is your boss.
I just promised an important client that the new site will be ready by the end of the week. I know you just downloaded Drupal, but I need you to learn the whole thing by the end of your lunch hour today so I can get this project done. I signed the contract already promising.
So learn it by 2pm today so I can start to see the code? Thanks
They did support apple. What happened?
Dude this 2016. Not 2006. Corporate sites no longer support IE 8 starting last year. Shit ADP processing is one huge corporate site for credit cards. Myaline won't even support IE 8.
Today corporations use Firefox and Chrome and MBA and PHB see sites like MSN miss render. They won't blame web developers.
In 2006 everyone used IE 6 and Firefox was a secret geek thing. It had 0 presence on corporation desktops! All the sites the PHB worked fine in IE 6. So it must be an incompetent web developer then etc. Those days are done.
Ditch IE 8. Corporations all have IE for that ancient SAP app and Firefox for everything else in 2016
They are Chinese. Unless your site needs Mandarin it is safe to ignore
At work we have Chrome everywhere now. Reason being is IE 8 in the past year has stopped working for a large number of websites!
Shit even ADP credit card processing for customers or to print out our paystubs just stopped working.
IE 8 users see the writing on the wall for the past year now and won't blame you if everyone else including IE's own default MSN page doesn't support it!
Well what would be the purpose of telemetry if not never leaves the hard disk?
Obviously there are more undocumented calls to then move that saved data locally outward.
The professional one does. You can select an update schedule or you can enable defere updates which means you will go on the business channel which is every 3 months and just get security updates.
Yeah, so I used a buzzword in the title...
I think it's time I look at an exit strategy from IT. I'm starting to lose the appetite I had for it.
I'm thinking truck driving school, then start driving trucks. Pays less, but I imagine it has less bullshit.
I'm also considering it because it would seem the IT Worker is now an Endangered Species.
Dude. My experience may not be the typical slashdotter, but I left IT and changed majors from computer science back in the early 2000's. HORRIBLE MISTAKE. All my buddies who stayed in IT got rich! I read back in 2003 on /. that no American would be doing IT by 2016. You know? They are full of ***.
I got in IT as I coudn't get the kind of money elsewhere unless I wanted to go back to school yet again and go into debt at a late age to gain a new skillset only to start at the bottom all over again. Screw that.
Face it IT still pays more than any field except medical. Medical takes a specialized education and many years. My exgf was 9 credits away from a masters and has a bachelors in clinical lab work and still only makes $16/hr so no do not believe the lie everyone makes $35/hr fresh out of school. You start at the bottom just like IT starts at $10/hr with an A+ at Geeksquad before you move up.
Learn to code and do SQL stuff and update your MS and Cisco certs. You can live quite comfortable if you are good and have references and do not stick around in one place for too long. All the places that do H1B1 last decade have rehired local IT staff again or have a mix of foreign and local resources. IT is about about process engineering as much as that pisses the MBA's off. If you are far from the process you gain less service and productivity hits. You need someone local.
#FeelTheJohnson
Wow, that didn't sound right man. I think I will stay away as that can mean something you do not intend to mean
Security updates will keep coming. But no driver or system updates.
You are just moved to a slower ring Ubuntu style and will get updates every 3 - 4 months after other people test them. This is the small to medium business update channel.
Go to PC Setting -> Select updates -> updates -> Choose how to update -> Notify me to schedule restart BAM. It will work just like WIndows 8.1 if you have the professional edition of 10
Dude UPDATE the VM's. Build 2400 SUCKS ass and the bugs have been fixed awhile back. WIth the latest March update for business you will see hundreds of bugs fixed.
The moral of the story is any new OS is going to have problems with the exception of Windows 7 which was Vista.1 really.
If you used a temp account then of course it won't be moved over. It needs a permanent account for a SID to match the conductors.
... you work in I.T. as many here do if not the vast majority. Windows 10 offers much better:
1. power usage,
2. security,
3. mobile features like Netflix and Pandora apps which are nice on a thin tablet or netbooks like my MS Surface. I hate using a browser for these. Even my desktop I use these to watch Star Trek TOS while I work on something on another monitor.
4. virtual desktops
5. run javascript better (even Google's and Firefoxes) better than 7
6. VIsual Studio 2015 community edition offers Android SDK, Linux development with Apache Cordova and other features only on 10.
7. You get 10 more years free OS support as 7 will join XP soon in the after light with win98SE
8. Fast updates to bug fixes with more agile development
9. Hyper-V is free with the professional edition if you are still on 7. Yes you can run Linux Vm's too on it without the nasty type-2 hypervisor VMware Workstaiton which is $$$ (nice for linux geeks like us)
There are downsides too which I will get to next.
First off let me summarize slashdot's view of anti WIndows 10:
1. Slashdot HATES Microsoft and views them as a competitor. Nothing can ever come good from many comments
2. Windows 10 hate ala SystemD style hate started here because it was fashionable and moderators selected the most anti Windows 10 comments
3. Other sites like Neowin.net have the exact opposite views
4. Most IT folks here after 40 HATE CHANGE. Read anything about systemD, WIndows 7 (fpre 2014), or anything else?
5. Tinfoil hat folks who think Cortana means MS must be privately reading all their documents and giving it to competitors and advertisers while they use Google Chrome and Google Android phones and think nothing of it at the same time
6. Updates must break 100% of all components 100% of the time and you will turn them off and with mcAffee you will never ever get infected even with java and flash installed?!
All these things combined together give the evolution of the worst disaster in OS history is upon un!!
If you have the professional edition of Windows 7/8.1 you will get the professional edition of WIndows 10 which you can control updates.Wind
Reasons Windows 10 may not be the best yet:
1. Windows 10 was a HORRIBLY buggy OS last August and still has some flaky issues. It is nowhere near WIndows 7, 8.1 and feels like Vista SP 1 as of current right now. The April update fixes lots of bugs on my desktop and made it usable.
2. You NEED updates to get the bug fixes. Build 2400 was terrible at launch.
3. SOme of the updates had issues. I never experienced them. As more hardware is out that must support 10 the problem seems to be going away
4. The GUI is Schzophrenic. Do you click ok? Or not. Is this a hamburger menu or a win32 control panel app?
5. Privacy concerns as does this stuff get transmitted even with Cortana off (I have it turned off)
6. Ugly white title bars. You have to turn this off
7. Some hardware and software not supported
Anyone want to feel free to reply?
Then they are morons. This if the freaking President of the United States needs to be somewhat competent and not a freaking Joe Six pack! I assume most sane intelligent people or semi intelligent people realize oh gee we need some smarter than me who has the integrity and prestige who is high caliber to handle the job and make correct executions of decisions on difficult choices.
Trump talks shit out of his ass and almost everything he says is WRONG. He is a coward who mocks disabled reporters and can not handle a female reporter. Jesus! How can he handle a confrontation with Russia or China? Cry it is unfair? Insult their wives?\
Americans like to look at politics like football. Vote for the team and hate the opposite party. Well, this is not freaking football and I do not care if Trump supports 100% of my beliefs or not. He is not qualified and is the most unpresidential candidate in history who is outright dangerous with his positions of ending free trade, putting up walls, regulating markets, and insulting leaders.
Yes my post is going to be modded WAY DOWN, and hopefully WAY UP too. But, this is very important and yes read what Hawkings said? Hawkings addressed trade (which will cause a worse recession than 2008 in which Walmart could go out of business with a trade war), security, and other issues. Yes, he has a brain and I wish people would use their's
Because God is a free market pro business republican to these people. Ask any southern white Christian? It is taught at the pulpit and all the religious figures endorse him because he has an R next to his name.
It is amazing how group psychology and group identity impacts brains sadly.
No but perhaps he has a brain
Mind of a Trump supporter: Hawkings is part of the system and not a fundalmentalist Christian. Therefore if he is against it then we must be for it. Go TRump
If only those of us who are afraid of change had to run cell phones on machines that were not cell phones would have me and the rest of slashdot just dying to run to get a Windows Phone! Boy, that is the ticket
Go write something besides a cute short VB client/server app and you will see problems? It is very odd and different from C style languages. It is not object oriented but object based with cutsey drag and drops. Need a few thousand functions? WOW, where do you begin.
VB is this.button1 add code here. this.button2 add other code here.
Doesn't work when you need to engineer and not put together a simple script with some gui components which is what VB really is.
Let it die. It's a terrible language and it should die a death. don't open source it or you'll just encourage a new wave of cheapskate programmers to start learning bad habits and producing crappy code.
I sooo agree man they shouldn't open it! Hold on let me finish this JavaScript project I am working on ....
It is badass rockstar man too!