Sure there will be bad traffic once in a while, but not often enough for the 3 time rule to kick in. Most companies will have a lot of folks late on that day and strike it from your record.
Your guidlines don't apply to large cities.
The trafic jam scene in Office Space was shot in Dallas, where I live, and believe me, it's actually much worse.
By your rules, I would be showing up to work an hour early 2.5 times a week, Plus due to the trafic conditions, I would need to leave at least 1.5 to 2 hours earlier. That is 7 hours a week or more unpaid time out of my life.
The Dallas metro area drive times often vary an hour or more daily. There is very low hysteresis, the 1 hour drive of today may be 30 minutes or 3 hours tomorrow. Due to the central city congestion during peak drive times, to get to work 15 minutes early, you may need to leave 45 minutes early, so that you can suck exhaust fumes at 0.1 mph for 30 minutes.
Shifting your work hours in the metroplex can easily save you 4-10 hours a week in drive-time. And since this is _your_ unpaid time it is a serious perk.
My company respects my abilitys, and gives me flextime. I just have to be in 10:30, and put in 8 + lunch. Typically I put in about 45-50 hrs a week, but it's still less total time than a strict 40 hour week with a 7:30 start time.
My company get 5-10 free hours a week, plus lots of loyalty and a _much_ better mental state in the morning.
RH 9 has some problems. The biggest one is shares with RH 8, and that is focus. When I first installed RH 8 it was an updated from my 7.3 desktop, and my first reaction was WTF happend to my menu. Second, WTF happened to my desktop, Third, WTF happened to MP3 sound support. You can't tell me RH can't afford the distribution licens for the MP3 codec.
The effect I saw was to turn experienced admins away, and to be more windowesque (bluecurve my @ss) for the new user.
For me as a long time roll your own linux user, the new rpm tools are useless. I have yet to get them to work. Tried the cmd line rpm command lately? You only need 140 flags, and 50 runs for dependancys of dependancys of dependancys.
gnorpm sucked, but it was better than this.
The message is clear. Do it the up2date way, with only the redhat approved list, and everything works easy. Anything else, and your in the wrong OS.
To top it all, the software raid 5 is unstable. Known good disks from a previous SW raid 5 now cannot keep syncronus event tags, And god help you if you have a hot spare configured.
We have about 16000 users with a complete IT staff of ~200 (incuding managers) programmers 80 systech 8 admins 5
~8 VMS ~5 SCO ~12 Unixware ~12 Linux ~15 other.
The last few years have seen us shrink by about 50% The worst thing is all the travel for the systechs, they are on the road now about 80% now. Actually its not so bad, As we are a MUMPS/CACHE/COBOL shop, we don't need as many people/machines to support a large user base as you would with C or.NET etc. Thankfully we don't do anything serious with Micro$oft. That really helps.
True no busses between FW and Dallas, we use the trains instead.
NASA, Texas Industries, Dell Computer, EDS, etc., etc.
65% of all Defense Industry is here (now that is really a booming industry!)
Yesterday
80's down in the south 6 inches snow in the north pleasant 70's and dry in the west Rain/floods in the east. Pick your climate, you can have it. (except in summer. then its hot, hottest, hell, and death)
Why would you want to live in a state small enough to drive out of without running out of gas? (85% of which is refined in Texas btw. Theres a reason Houston has the worst air quality)
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Sure there will be bad traffic once in a while, but not often enough for the 3 time rule to kick in. Most companies will have a lot of folks late on that day and strike it from your record.
Your guidlines don't apply to large cities.
The trafic jam scene in Office Space was shot in Dallas, where I live, and believe me, it's actually much worse.
By your rules, I would be showing up to work an hour early 2.5 times a week, Plus due to the trafic conditions, I would need to leave at least 1.5 to 2 hours earlier. That is 7 hours a week or more unpaid time out of my life.
The Dallas metro area drive times often vary an hour or more daily. There is very low hysteresis, the 1 hour drive of today may be 30 minutes or 3 hours tomorrow.
Due to the central city congestion during peak drive times, to get to work 15 minutes early, you may need to leave 45 minutes early, so that you can suck exhaust fumes at 0.1 mph for 30 minutes.
Shifting your work hours in the metroplex can easily save you 4-10 hours a week in drive-time. And since this is _your_ unpaid time it is a serious perk.
My company respects my abilitys, and gives me flextime. I just have to be in 10:30, and put in 8 + lunch. Typically I put in about 45-50 hrs a week, but it's still less total time than a strict 40 hour week with a 7:30 start time.
My company get 5-10 free hours a week, plus lots of loyalty and a _much_ better mental state in the morning.
RH 9 has some problems. The biggest one is shares with RH 8, and that is focus.
When I first installed RH 8 it was an updated from my 7.3 desktop, and my first reaction was WTF happend to my menu. Second, WTF happened to my desktop, Third, WTF happened to MP3 sound support. You can't tell me RH can't afford the distribution licens for the MP3 codec.
The effect I saw was to turn experienced admins away, and to be more windowesque (bluecurve my @ss) for the new user.
For me as a long time roll your own linux user, the new rpm tools are useless. I have yet to get them to work. Tried the cmd line rpm command lately? You only need 140 flags, and 50 runs for dependancys of dependancys of dependancys.
gnorpm sucked, but it was better than this.
The message is clear. Do it the up2date way, with only the redhat approved list, and everything works easy. Anything else, and your in the wrong OS.
To top it all, the software raid 5 is unstable. Known good disks from a previous SW raid 5 now cannot keep syncronus event tags, And god help you if you have a hot spare configured.
Guess it's time to see if yast works now.
Y tu madre tambien
Sorry, gotta go tap myself a hit of the old red jack
We have about 16000 users
.NET etc.
with a complete IT staff of ~200 (incuding managers)
programmers 80
systech 8
admins 5
~8 VMS
~5 SCO
~12 Unixware
~12 Linux
~15 other.
The last few years have seen us shrink by about 50% The worst thing is all the travel for the systechs, they are on the road now about 80% now.
Actually its not so bad, As we are a MUMPS/CACHE/COBOL shop, we don't need as many people/machines to support a large user base as you would with C or
Thankfully we don't do anything serious with Micro$oft. That really helps.
lb
Good things about Texas/Dallas
First Saturday sale.
No state income tax.
Jobs
True no busses between FW and Dallas, we use the trains instead.
NASA, Texas Industries, Dell Computer, EDS, etc., etc.
65% of all Defense Industry is here
(now that is really a booming industry!)
Yesterday
80's down in the south
6 inches snow in the north
pleasant 70's and dry in the west
Rain/floods in the east.
Pick your climate, you can have it.
(except in summer. then its hot, hottest, hell, and death)
Why would you want to live in a state small enough to drive out of without running out of gas?
(85% of which is refined in Texas btw. Theres a reason Houston has the worst air quality)
He means today.