Well, to be fair, my one exit "interview" (just my boss asking why I was leaving and me declining to discuss the issue, per some relevant advice I had read about the matter, along with advice about counteroffers and such, which my boss also offered me, and I also declined after reading about how counteroffers are really BS to get you to stay until it's convenient for them to fire you) was at a small company of only about 50 employees, and a small handful of engineers (most employees were laborers or mfg technicians).
At the two very large companies I worked at, I was laid off in downsizing efforts, so they had no real reason to do an exit interview, they already knew why I was leaving, and it was on their initiative anyway.
At another small company, I just told the boss when I handed in my resignation why I was leaving, which was to move to another state with my girlfriend, and that I had gotten a new job at a large company there (tip: never quit a job and move to another state for a girlfriend! As you might have guessed, the relationship didn't last...).
At the one other place I quit (medium-size company, maybe 2k employees, but only 200 at this location), I got into it with my boss, tossed my resignation letter to him, and walked out with no notice. I was a little surprised that HR never bothered to call and ask why I quit in such an abrupt and rude manner, instead just letting the boss tell the story all by himself. But that place was horribly managed anyway, and I soon after found out that the HR director left the company shortly after I did too. Very soon after that, the company was bought out by their next-larger competitor, and then broken into pieces, with the place I was working in spun off (because of antitrust concerns) into a separate entity which is not doing well today, so they obviously weren't doing that hot anyway.
I actually don't know what Arizona's laws are; I never bothered to look them up. But this still doesn't answer the question, how are they going to know, unless you tell them? Again, it's not like they have spies at Home Depot watching for people buying light fixtures and new faucets. It seems a whole lot like the situation with internet sales tax/use tax.
The only way I can see you getting burned is if your house burns down, and they determine that it was caused by faulty wiring on your part; in that case, you may be subject to fines, but far worse, your homeowner's insurance may refuse the claim. Of course, if you're not a complete moron, it really shouldn't be that hard to avoid this; installing a light fixture is not a difficult job. Same goes for plumbing, except the potential for damage is even less; if you screw it up, you'll probably just have a small leak, which is not that hard to identify and repair.
Actually, I don't think the Catholic authorities have much trouble following their standards regarding contraception. They're all men, and they're either celibate, or they molest little boys as their sexual outlet, so contraception isn't much of a concern for them.
I don't know about the bit about religion all being based on hypocrisy. I've been going to a Lutheran church lately, and all they preach about is loving your neighbor, following Jesus's examples, etc. They never talk about contraception (since that's not a problem in that church anyway), politics, etc.; it's all just about being a better person. They do talk of course about asking for forgiveness for your sins, but they never specify what is and isn't a sin, I guess they figure you should be able to figure that out for yourself.
Well I personally don't have a shitty iPhone for one, but anyway, personally, I carry my phone in a holster fitted for the phone. I don't really want to carry some extra dongle cable around in my pocket, plus if it's small it could easily fall out and get lost when I'm pulling my keys out of my pocket. I thought the whole point of iPhones was that they made it as thin and small as possible; having to carry around some stupid dongle cable kinda ruins that. It's kinda like how many laptops try to advertise how thin and sleek and lightweight they are, but they haven't mentioned the size of the power brick that you have to carry around with it.
Yep, as the other poster said, apparently they get away with having an included dongle connector. So if you have an iPhone, you're expected to carry around this stupid dongle if you want to use anyone else's charger. Lovely. So much for their phone being so thin and efficiently-designed.
With my Android phone with microUSB connector, I can plug it into any microUSB cable I come across, which is pretty frequent: friends' car chargers, etc. The iPhone buyers are going to be pretty annoyed when they find out the hard way what it's like to go back to having a proprietary and non-ubiquitous connector with iPhone 5 (unless they've somehow made it so it'll accept a microUSB cable in addition to having the extra functionality): while these days you can expect your Apple-using friends, and various charging stations to have the current dock connector just because it's so popular, that won't be the case for the new one for a while.
I live in Phoenix. It's urban. It's not ultra-dense urban, but there's absolutely no place for the kids around here to play. Neighborhoods don't have green space, everything is brown and rocks. Some people have green yards, with lots of watering, but that doesn't mean kids are allowed to go play in them (unless it's their own kids). All the yards are divided by 6-foot concrete walls, so the kids are limited to their own tiny yard. Only the old houses (30+ years) have anything resembling a "house with a yard", the newer houses have postage-stamp yards that are barely big enough for the house.
Since I don't work at IBM or EDS, I've never worn anything more than cotton polo shirts (the non-button-down kind; I always thought "polo shirt" meant a cotton pull-over shirt with a collar) and jeans. I've never seen a workplace that expected any more of software engineers than that. It doesn't take me any time at all to wash these things, just throw them in the machine, transfer them to the dryer, and hang them up.
I'll bet not even IBM requires their engineers to wear button-down shirts and ties any more.
Nothing ignorant about it. If you use contraception, you're going directly against what all the Catholic leadership tells you. So why do you even bother staying Catholic and attending services if you're going to ignore everything they tell you?
Again, where is this place you talk of? I've done all kinds of plumbing work here in Arizona back when we had rental houses, and I never bothered with permits or inspections or any such bullshit, I just went to HD or Lowe's, bought the parts, and installed them myself. For a few jobs, I've hired plumbers too, and they never did permitting or inspections either, even in one case where we added a whole bathroom. It's not like the city has code inspectors looking in everyone's house for unauthorized repairs, or spies at Lowe's watching for people buying plumbing or electrical supplies to make sure they also get permits.
Exactly; the closest you're going to get to particleboard crap is plywood, and that's a big step up in both quality and cost, and that's even with the crappiest grade of plywood.
The number is steadily increasing; small towns have been losing inhabitants for decades, and frequently their inhabitants are mostly retired, as the younger people go to cities to seek employment. Also, with the middle class, getting a college degree has become de riguer for maintaining middle-class status for the most part, and having a college degree usually means getting a professional job. Having a professional job usually means living in a city, where the corporations are located that employ those people. Back in the small town where these people may have grown up, the only jobs are local service jobs, like waitressing or working at the feed-n-seed store, along with a small number of professional jobs (GP doctors, lawyers, etc.). People who work as managers, marketing people, HR, engineers, software developers, etc. can't find work in small towns.
I'm a child of the 80s and I'm almost 40. I was born in the 70s, but I don't actually remember much that happened in that decade; my childhood was in the 80s (graduated high school in 1992), so that makes me a "child of the 80s". A "child of the 70s" would have been born in the 60s, probably early 60s.
I'm a child of the 80s too, but I grew up in rural areas, small towns or in suburbs where there were still wooded areas and places to run around outside. Maybe the OP is talking about kids who grew up in a highly urban area? Those frequently don't have a lot of places for kids to run around. I see it in this crappy subdivision I live in now; all the houses have little yards, and they're all separated by 6-foot block walls. There really isn't any place for kids to go play nearby, and they all seem to mostly stay inside, or sometimes hang out in their front yards; even that's not all that safe because of all the car traffic that goes by on this road (which seems to be a main feeder road for the subdivision). I'd never want to raise a kid in a place like this.
It is worth it to me, to take my button down shirts for work and slacks to the cleaners and have them laundered and pressed.
Going to a dry cleaner takes a lot of time, aside from the money. I found it much more worthwhile to wear clothes that I can just throw in the washing machine at home. As a bonus, these clothes (being generally 100% cotton) are far more comfortable that those horrible button-down shirts and slacks.
You need to get yourself a better car. I haven't seen a car that horrible since I looked at a mid-1990s Chrysler (which also had a battery in the wheelwell).
In any decent car, even now, the battery is right under the hood, and the spark plugs are easy to get to. Look for these things when you're car shopping; if the car is wacky, don't buy it.
It was largely driven by an EU law forcing all mobiles phones to have microUSB connectors, because people were so sick of proprietary connectors and the overpriced phone chargers that resulted.
It's been a few years IIRC, and in the tech world that's a long time. Moreover, I thought it was an EU law now that mobile phones had to have a microUSB port, so how is Apple avoiding that, unless they're not selling in the EU?
FireWire? Good for its niche, too expensive for mass adoption on the scale of USB.
There's two other factors here, IIRC. One is that Apple, owning Firewire and its patents and such, charged a ridiculously high licensing fee for anyone wanting to use it in a PC. The other factor was the theory that Intel didn't like FW and preferred USB because the latter offloaded a lot more work to the host CPU, while FW did most of its processing on-chip, so this was helpful to Intel sales. Of course, with FW having a more complex controller chip, that would raise its price too, but it's more likely the patent fees were much more significant than just the part cost.
> It's really sad that you're a fucking piece of shit moron. But we don't really care. I can appreciate that people get crazy-sensitive about their mobile phones, but "you're a fucking piece of shit" might be a tad over-the-top.
I've seen a company terminate relations with another when they hired someone from there who was an evil bitch, and they weren't warned (in fact, gave a good reference, we assume only to get rid of her). Telling the truth because it's the truth is a good thing.
1) Not if it's your competitor. Why wouldn't you want to pass a terrible employee on to your competitor? (BTW, if your answer is "that's sociopathic", these are corporations we're talking about, not humans.)
2) If the company had warned them, they could have been sued for defamation (though this doesn't explain why they gave a good reference, instead of just verifying dates of employment). Of course, if these two companies already had a good relationship, and weren't huge companies, them refusing to do more than verify employment when they're normally more communicative would have been telling.
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Well, to be fair, my one exit "interview" (just my boss asking why I was leaving and me declining to discuss the issue, per some relevant advice I had read about the matter, along with advice about counteroffers and such, which my boss also offered me, and I also declined after reading about how counteroffers are really BS to get you to stay until it's convenient for them to fire you) was at a small company of only about 50 employees, and a small handful of engineers (most employees were laborers or mfg technicians).
At the two very large companies I worked at, I was laid off in downsizing efforts, so they had no real reason to do an exit interview, they already knew why I was leaving, and it was on their initiative anyway.
At another small company, I just told the boss when I handed in my resignation why I was leaving, which was to move to another state with my girlfriend, and that I had gotten a new job at a large company there (tip: never quit a job and move to another state for a girlfriend! As you might have guessed, the relationship didn't last...).
At the one other place I quit (medium-size company, maybe 2k employees, but only 200 at this location), I got into it with my boss, tossed my resignation letter to him, and walked out with no notice. I was a little surprised that HR never bothered to call and ask why I quit in such an abrupt and rude manner, instead just letting the boss tell the story all by himself. But that place was horribly managed anyway, and I soon after found out that the HR director left the company shortly after I did too. Very soon after that, the company was bought out by their next-larger competitor, and then broken into pieces, with the place I was working in spun off (because of antitrust concerns) into a separate entity which is not doing well today, so they obviously weren't doing that hot anyway.
I actually don't know what Arizona's laws are; I never bothered to look them up. But this still doesn't answer the question, how are they going to know, unless you tell them? Again, it's not like they have spies at Home Depot watching for people buying light fixtures and new faucets. It seems a whole lot like the situation with internet sales tax/use tax.
The only way I can see you getting burned is if your house burns down, and they determine that it was caused by faulty wiring on your part; in that case, you may be subject to fines, but far worse, your homeowner's insurance may refuse the claim. Of course, if you're not a complete moron, it really shouldn't be that hard to avoid this; installing a light fixture is not a difficult job. Same goes for plumbing, except the potential for damage is even less; if you screw it up, you'll probably just have a small leak, which is not that hard to identify and repair.
Actually, I don't think the Catholic authorities have much trouble following their standards regarding contraception. They're all men, and they're either celibate, or they molest little boys as their sexual outlet, so contraception isn't much of a concern for them.
I don't know about the bit about religion all being based on hypocrisy. I've been going to a Lutheran church lately, and all they preach about is loving your neighbor, following Jesus's examples, etc. They never talk about contraception (since that's not a problem in that church anyway), politics, etc.; it's all just about being a better person. They do talk of course about asking for forgiveness for your sins, but they never specify what is and isn't a sin, I guess they figure you should be able to figure that out for yourself.
Well I personally don't have a shitty iPhone for one, but anyway, personally, I carry my phone in a holster fitted for the phone. I don't really want to carry some extra dongle cable around in my pocket, plus if it's small it could easily fall out and get lost when I'm pulling my keys out of my pocket. I thought the whole point of iPhones was that they made it as thin and small as possible; having to carry around some stupid dongle cable kinda ruins that. It's kinda like how many laptops try to advertise how thin and sleek and lightweight they are, but they haven't mentioned the size of the power brick that you have to carry around with it.
Yep, as the other poster said, apparently they get away with having an included dongle connector. So if you have an iPhone, you're expected to carry around this stupid dongle if you want to use anyone else's charger. Lovely. So much for their phone being so thin and efficiently-designed.
With my Android phone with microUSB connector, I can plug it into any microUSB cable I come across, which is pretty frequent: friends' car chargers, etc. The iPhone buyers are going to be pretty annoyed when they find out the hard way what it's like to go back to having a proprietary and non-ubiquitous connector with iPhone 5 (unless they've somehow made it so it'll accept a microUSB cable in addition to having the extra functionality): while these days you can expect your Apple-using friends, and various charging stations to have the current dock connector just because it's so popular, that won't be the case for the new one for a while.
I live in Phoenix. It's urban. It's not ultra-dense urban, but there's absolutely no place for the kids around here to play. Neighborhoods don't have green space, everything is brown and rocks. Some people have green yards, with lots of watering, but that doesn't mean kids are allowed to go play in them (unless it's their own kids). All the yards are divided by 6-foot concrete walls, so the kids are limited to their own tiny yard. Only the old houses (30+ years) have anything resembling a "house with a yard", the newer houses have postage-stamp yards that are barely big enough for the house.
Since I don't work at IBM or EDS, I've never worn anything more than cotton polo shirts (the non-button-down kind; I always thought "polo shirt" meant a cotton pull-over shirt with a collar) and jeans. I've never seen a workplace that expected any more of software engineers than that. It doesn't take me any time at all to wash these things, just throw them in the machine, transfer them to the dryer, and hang them up.
I'll bet not even IBM requires their engineers to wear button-down shirts and ties any more.
Nothing ignorant about it. If you use contraception, you're going directly against what all the Catholic leadership tells you. So why do you even bother staying Catholic and attending services if you're going to ignore everything they tell you?
Again, where is this place you talk of? I've done all kinds of plumbing work here in Arizona back when we had rental houses, and I never bothered with permits or inspections or any such bullshit, I just went to HD or Lowe's, bought the parts, and installed them myself. For a few jobs, I've hired plumbers too, and they never did permitting or inspections either, even in one case where we added a whole bathroom. It's not like the city has code inspectors looking in everyone's house for unauthorized repairs, or spies at Lowe's watching for people buying plumbing or electrical supplies to make sure they also get permits.
There should never be a "hand-finished edge" on anything in carpentry. House frames do not need hand-finished edges.
In woodworking, however, hand-finished edges are nice.
Exactly; the closest you're going to get to particleboard crap is plywood, and that's a big step up in both quality and cost, and that's even with the crappiest grade of plywood.
The number is steadily increasing; small towns have been losing inhabitants for decades, and frequently their inhabitants are mostly retired, as the younger people go to cities to seek employment. Also, with the middle class, getting a college degree has become de riguer for maintaining middle-class status for the most part, and having a college degree usually means getting a professional job. Having a professional job usually means living in a city, where the corporations are located that employ those people. Back in the small town where these people may have grown up, the only jobs are local service jobs, like waitressing or working at the feed-n-seed store, along with a small number of professional jobs (GP doctors, lawyers, etc.). People who work as managers, marketing people, HR, engineers, software developers, etc. can't find work in small towns.
I'm a child of the 80s and I'm almost 40. I was born in the 70s, but I don't actually remember much that happened in that decade; my childhood was in the 80s (graduated high school in 1992), so that makes me a "child of the 80s". A "child of the 70s" would have been born in the 60s, probably early 60s.
I'm a child of the 80s too, but I grew up in rural areas, small towns or in suburbs where there were still wooded areas and places to run around outside. Maybe the OP is talking about kids who grew up in a highly urban area? Those frequently don't have a lot of places for kids to run around. I see it in this crappy subdivision I live in now; all the houses have little yards, and they're all separated by 6-foot block walls. There really isn't any place for kids to go play nearby, and they all seem to mostly stay inside, or sometimes hang out in their front yards; even that's not all that safe because of all the car traffic that goes by on this road (which seems to be a main feeder road for the subdivision). I'd never want to raise a kid in a place like this.
It is worth it to me, to take my button down shirts for work and slacks to the cleaners and have them laundered and pressed.
Going to a dry cleaner takes a lot of time, aside from the money. I found it much more worthwhile to wear clothes that I can just throw in the washing machine at home. As a bonus, these clothes (being generally 100% cotton) are far more comfortable that those horrible button-down shirts and slacks.
You need to get yourself a better car. I haven't seen a car that horrible since I looked at a mid-1990s Chrysler (which also had a battery in the wheelwell).
In any decent car, even now, the battery is right under the hood, and the spark plugs are easy to get to. Look for these things when you're car shopping; if the car is wacky, don't buy it.
There's nothing slow about USB charging; typical USB chargers these days can do 1 or 2 amps.
So the Portuguese are all ignoring what they're told in Mass every weekend?
What would be the point of your boss conducting the interview?
I don't know, but the only time I was ever asked why I was leaving, it was my boss asking.
Great, so if you have an iPhone, you have to carry around a silly adapter cable all the time.
It was largely driven by an EU law forcing all mobiles phones to have microUSB connectors, because people were so sick of proprietary connectors and the overpriced phone chargers that resulted.
It's been a few years IIRC, and in the tech world that's a long time. Moreover, I thought it was an EU law now that mobile phones had to have a microUSB port, so how is Apple avoiding that, unless they're not selling in the EU?
FireWire? Good for its niche, too expensive for mass adoption on the scale of USB.
There's two other factors here, IIRC. One is that Apple, owning Firewire and its patents and such, charged a ridiculously high licensing fee for anyone wanting to use it in a PC. The other factor was the theory that Intel didn't like FW and preferred USB because the latter offloaded a lot more work to the host CPU, while FW did most of its processing on-chip, so this was helpful to Intel sales. Of course, with FW having a more complex controller chip, that would raise its price too, but it's more likely the patent fees were much more significant than just the part cost.
> It's really sad that you're a fucking piece of shit moron. But we don't really care.
I can appreciate that people get crazy-sensitive about their mobile phones, but "you're a fucking piece of shit" might be a tad over-the-top.
I guess he's a typical Apple fan.
I've seen a company terminate relations with another when they hired someone from there who was an evil bitch, and they weren't warned (in fact, gave a good reference, we assume only to get rid of her). Telling the truth because it's the truth is a good thing.
1) Not if it's your competitor. Why wouldn't you want to pass a terrible employee on to your competitor? (BTW, if your answer is "that's sociopathic", these are corporations we're talking about, not humans.)
2) If the company had warned them, they could have been sued for defamation (though this doesn't explain why they gave a good reference, instead of just verifying dates of employment). Of course, if these two companies already had a good relationship, and weren't huge companies, them refusing to do more than verify employment when they're normally more communicative would have been telling.