Instead of sleeping on the factory floor to show solidarity, perhaps he should have spent his time better analyzing production lines for improvement. A good manager doesn't work harder, a good manager works smarter. Add a person here, add a person there, lighten the individual load. Cross train and move multidiscipline employees to various stations based on demand, then move elsewhere when demand lowers.
On top of all that, his vehicles are shit, but that's another story altogether.
I've seen family member after family member screwed over by unions. They simply do not care about anything other than greater dues and the methods to increase those dues.
Fortunately, I live in a lovely right to work state where a union can't prevent me from working somewhere if I refuse to join them. I personally have zero pity for any union shop that closes, only for the non union personnel also now out of work because of the union's greed.
I'd up my skillset and look for work elsewhere. They are not forced to work for at&t. There are a bunch of non at&t telcos across the US. If you're only solution is to stop working to force higher pay, have a plan for when you get replaced.
Myself, I will never work for a union shop. I'm not going to throw away money at dues that do not represent my interests or convictions.
Everything in my house is my property. I paid for it, the wife, the kids, the pets, the electronics. If I feel like bugging any of my stuff, no one can do a damn thing about it, except bring me a sandwich, beer, and lay on my lap while I watch the big sportsball game.
Patriarchal screech! REEEEE!
In all seriousness, I'll bug any damn thing I want to bug that I paid money for and is applicable with my state's laws.
or, you could be like florida, not have income tax, and have a small sales tax instead. Of course in california, i'm sure theirs income tax AND sales tax. no wonder businesses want to leave.
Pretty much this. They have decent mobile devices, and android is imo, a security nightmare. I also hate the android OS. It's probably better since the last time I tried to change IP settings, but it was pure shit when I last looked.
At this point for me, it's mobile device software investment lock-in. I've spent enough money on apps, i'd hate to through it all away.
Their laptops and desktops are still, always have been, and always will be overpriced shit.
your battery back is filled with some pretty nasty stuff, and will need disposing. Your basement battery pack will also need replacing every so many years. Making of batteries is also a very nasty process.
electric batteries are well and good until winter, when they don't perform as well, or in regions where there are recharging stations, but those are mostly relegated to a couple spots currently in downtown areas of major cities. forget about it for long drives outside those markets.
distributed generation is a fantasy. Solar cell conversion is hardly efficient, and ppl already claim that the spinning of air turbines in the middle of nowhere give them problems. Moving them into ubiquitous use in a city simply not going to happen, and if forced, would be a boon doggle that has more costs than offsets and end up generating squat in terms of electricity. Large solar fields are isolated because of the heat they generate, wind turbines aren't going to work in a city where real estate is a premium. Many will refuse to install or upkeep solar panels, and refuse to pay taxes to subsidize their use.
DinoJuice facilities can operate 24/7, regardless of sun or wind. Hydro is great, but places they can be used is limited geographically. Nuclear is optimal, but too many are scared of what they don't understand, let alone understand the imporvements in nuke tech such as pebblebed reactors. Take cell phones and wifi, there are nut jobs that think they cause cancer or cause them to break out in hives.
Codes of Conduct area bad idea to begin with. They are just vessels for intersectionalists to wield faux authority over adults that don't care about their ludicrous ideology, institutionalizing thought police and virtue signalling instead of meritocracy. It's the oppression olympics.
If a project or group has a CoC, it should merely read: 1) Don't be an asshole to other group members. 2) If you are called out for being an asshole to another member, apologize. 3) If you don't think you were being an asshole, ask someone else. If they think you were being an asshole, maybe you were, think about apologizing. 4) Repetitive assholery gets you booted. 5) Realize when a joke is just a joke, and don't be offended at every goddamn thing. 6) If you are repeatedly offended by everything, maybe you are the problem and can't get along with others. Stop harassing productive adults. 7) Don't be an asshole to other group members. Yes, this is repeated.
Quite the opposite, i'm very much pro-free speech. Also not alt-right (aka, leftists that are fed up with left authoritarianism).
I find it hilarious that twitter purports itself to be a platform of free speech when that is the absolute last thing they are with their shadow bans, zero transparency or ability to address bans, etc.
They can run their crap company into the ground however they choose, but for them to claim they are protecting the free speech of their users, that is just too much to take seriously.
I'm am probably the exact ideological opposite of you fiscally and socially, but in this we are in 100% complete agreement. Not bad for a commie;)
Additionally, the best antisceptic for rotten ideas is to expose it to sunlight. The more people out there that can see how amazingly flippant an idiot is, the more ridicule they will get.
I agree with your second point, but dress code, is important. I work completely differently in shorts and a tee than a button down shirt.
A button down puts me in a completely different mindset and attitude. Having a co-worker in sandals and ripped shorts is distracting. When I go to a client or have a client come to me, I want myself and all my co-workers looking like professional bad-asses at work, not slackers. It's all perception.
Long time ago, someone also told me to dress for the job I want, that's been somewhat successful.
Appropriate clothing for the job being done is important.
I got mine at 6. Didn't understand half of it, but had fun building the stuff with my old man who did understand it and would break down things for me in smaller bites. There was a time in elementary school where I could calc the colors bands of a resistor, a skill I sadly lost as I transitioned to the software side of the field by end of elementary.
A very large number of IT ppl would never join a union, because they have analytical minds and can see the pointlessness of giving a chunk of their paycheck to a group that only claims to look out for them, but instead makes themselves comfortable.
A lot of IT ppl believe in meritocracy, not socialism, and would rather avoid the industry destruction they've seen in the automotive market. Bad enough when an incompetent manager is kept around to lead a group, worse still when you can't shake off an incompetent team member skating by bc unions.
Not all ppl, let alone girls, are capable of IT related jobs, especially security. For most individuals, a career in IT comes from a passion about tech at a young age. If a child is not passionate about some aspect of IT, no amount of funding of gender discriminating STEM programs is going to entice someone into the field.
I'm quite proud to have written software to automate locking out striking union members from various systems at the push of a button over a decade ago for a certain checkmarked telecom.
Granted, the code was a spaghetti mess based on bad design requirements that took limited advantage of technology available at the time. And the tech at the time also sucked. I'd totally re-write it completely different now-a-days, and it would be BEAUTIFUL! Even despite the stupid design requirements.
Well, if the employee doesn't like what they are offered, or think they can get more elsewhere, damn, they can either negotiate or go elsewhere. Nothing *forcing* them to stay.
This Susan bint seems like a spaz. ATT just installed fiber in my neighborhood 2 months ago, and now I'm running at ludicrously fast speeds.Comcast was all butthurt, trying to offer a competing "faster" service after I dropped them after 5 years of shoddy "fast" net access. When they realized their own 2gigabit service wasn't available in my area, they gave up. ATT didn't even try to waste time using my existing in house connections (which sucked) and just drilled a new hole through the wall and straight into a modem. Couple days later, they came back and buried everything.
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Instead of sleeping on the factory floor to show solidarity, perhaps he should have spent his time better analyzing production lines for improvement. A good manager doesn't work harder, a good manager works smarter. Add a person here, add a person there, lighten the individual load. Cross train and move multidiscipline employees to various stations based on demand, then move elsewhere when demand lowers.
On top of all that, his vehicles are shit, but that's another story altogether.
I've seen family member after family member screwed over by unions. They simply do not care about anything other than greater dues and the methods to increase those dues.
Fortunately, I live in a lovely right to work state where a union can't prevent me from working somewhere if I refuse to join them. I personally have zero pity for any union shop that closes, only for the non union personnel also now out of work because of the union's greed.
I'd up my skillset and look for work elsewhere. They are not forced to work for at&t. There are a bunch of non at&t telcos across the US.
If you're only solution is to stop working to force higher pay, have a plan for when you get replaced.
Myself, I will never work for a union shop. I'm not going to throw away money at dues that do not represent my interests or convictions.
Everything in my house is my property. I paid for it, the wife, the kids, the pets, the electronics. If I feel like bugging any of my stuff, no one can do a damn thing about it, except bring me a sandwich, beer, and lay on my lap while I watch the big sportsball game.
Patriarchal screech! REEEEE!
In all seriousness, I'll bug any damn thing I want to bug that I paid money for and is applicable with my state's laws.
As it should be, figure out that shit at the state and local levels, don't need title II garbage.
I don't mind the property taxes so much, but income taxes are just stupid.
or, you could be like florida, not have income tax, and have a small sales tax instead. Of course in california, i'm sure theirs income tax AND sales tax. no wonder businesses want to leave.
Pretty much this. They have decent mobile devices, and android is imo, a security nightmare. I also hate the android OS. It's probably better since the last time I tried to change IP settings, but it was pure shit when I last looked.
At this point for me, it's mobile device software investment lock-in. I've spent enough money on apps, i'd hate to through it all away.
Their laptops and desktops are still, always have been, and always will be overpriced shit.
your battery back is filled with some pretty nasty stuff, and will need disposing. Your basement battery pack will also need replacing every so many years. Making of batteries is also a very nasty process.
electric batteries are well and good until winter, when they don't perform as well, or in regions where there are recharging stations, but those are mostly relegated to a couple spots currently in downtown areas of major cities. forget about it for long drives outside those markets.
distributed generation is a fantasy. Solar cell conversion is hardly efficient, and ppl already claim that the spinning of air turbines in the middle of nowhere give them problems. Moving them into ubiquitous use in a city simply not going to happen, and if forced, would be a boon doggle that has more costs than offsets and end up generating squat in terms of electricity. Large solar fields are isolated because of the heat they generate, wind turbines aren't going to work in a city where real estate is a premium. Many will refuse to install or upkeep solar panels, and refuse to pay taxes to subsidize their use.
DinoJuice facilities can operate 24/7, regardless of sun or wind. Hydro is great, but places they can be used is limited geographically. Nuclear is optimal, but too many are scared of what they don't understand, let alone understand the imporvements in nuke tech such as pebblebed reactors. Take cell phones and wifi, there are nut jobs that think they cause cancer or cause them to break out in hives.
Gasoline is one of the most compact and highly useful energy sources available. Coal is also compact and highly useful.
Sun and wind are not. They are a pain to store, huge losses during transport, not evenly distributive. Forever the pipe dream of the ideological.
For electric to really take off, you either need coal (or other dinofuel) or nuclear. Personally, i'd like more pebble bed reactors.
Codes of Conduct area bad idea to begin with. They are just vessels for intersectionalists to wield faux authority over adults that don't care about their ludicrous ideology, institutionalizing thought police and virtue signalling instead of meritocracy. It's the oppression olympics.
If a project or group has a CoC, it should merely read:
1) Don't be an asshole to other group members.
2) If you are called out for being an asshole to another member, apologize.
3) If you don't think you were being an asshole, ask someone else. If they think you were being an asshole, maybe you were, think about apologizing.
4) Repetitive assholery gets you booted.
5) Realize when a joke is just a joke, and don't be offended at every goddamn thing.
6) If you are repeatedly offended by everything, maybe you are the problem and can't get along with others. Stop harassing productive adults.
7) Don't be an asshole to other group members. Yes, this is repeated.
Quite the opposite, i'm very much pro-free speech. Also not alt-right (aka, leftists that are fed up with left authoritarianism).
I find it hilarious that twitter purports itself to be a platform of free speech when that is the absolute last thing they are with their shadow bans, zero transparency or ability to address bans, etc.
They can run their crap company into the ground however they choose, but for them to claim they are protecting the free speech of their users, that is just too much to take seriously.
It seems that only now twitter is concerned about the free speech of it's users.
Stop, this is too much. I can't take it anymore, I'm going to have liquids shoot out my nose from laughter.
I'm am probably the exact ideological opposite of you fiscally and socially, but in this we are in 100% complete agreement. Not bad for a commie ;)
Additionally, the best antisceptic for rotten ideas is to expose it to sunlight. The more people out there that can see how amazingly flippant an idiot is, the more ridicule they will get.
I agree with your second point, but dress code, is important. I work completely differently in shorts and a tee than a button down shirt.
A button down puts me in a completely different mindset and attitude. Having a co-worker in sandals and ripped shorts is distracting. When I go to a client or have a client come to me, I want myself and all my co-workers looking like professional bad-asses at work, not slackers. It's all perception.
Long time ago, someone also told me to dress for the job I want, that's been somewhat successful.
Appropriate clothing for the job being done is important.
I got mine at 6. Didn't understand half of it, but had fun building the stuff with my old man who did understand it and would break down things for me in smaller bites. There was a time in elementary school where I could calc the colors bands of a resistor, a skill I sadly lost as I transitioned to the software side of the field by end of elementary.
A very large number of IT ppl would never join a union, because they have analytical minds and can see the pointlessness of giving a chunk of their paycheck to a group that only claims to look out for them, but instead makes themselves comfortable.
A lot of IT ppl believe in meritocracy, not socialism, and would rather avoid the industry destruction they've seen in the automotive market. Bad enough when an incompetent manager is kept around to lead a group, worse still when you can't shake off an incompetent team member skating by bc unions.
Not all ppl, let alone girls, are capable of IT related jobs, especially security. For most individuals, a career in IT comes from a passion about tech at a young age. If a child is not passionate about some aspect of IT, no amount of funding of gender discriminating STEM programs is going to entice someone into the field.
I'm quite proud to have written software to automate locking out striking union members from various systems at the push of a button over a decade ago for a certain checkmarked telecom.
Granted, the code was a spaghetti mess based on bad design requirements that took limited advantage of technology available at the time. And the tech at the time also sucked. I'd totally re-write it completely different now-a-days, and it would be BEAUTIFUL! Even despite the stupid design requirements.
F Unions!
Well, if the employee doesn't like what they are offered, or think they can get more elsewhere, damn, they can either negotiate or go elsewhere. Nothing *forcing* them to stay.
This is a load of claptrap. You don't hire to fill quotas unless you're government. You hire the best candidate to do a job.
You pay what the market is willing to bear and what that employee negotiates.
If an employee doesn't ask for raises outside of normal performance increases, thats on the employee.
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This Susan bint seems like a spaz. ATT just installed fiber in my neighborhood 2 months ago, and now I'm running at ludicrously fast speeds.Comcast was all butthurt, trying to offer a competing "faster" service after I dropped them after 5 years of shoddy "fast" net access. When they realized their own 2gigabit service wasn't available in my area, they gave up. ATT didn't even try to waste time using my existing in house connections (which sucked) and just drilled a new hole through the wall and straight into a modem. Couple days later, they came back and buried everything.
You mean late 80s to the present. SNL hasn't been entertaining in DECADES.