PTO = Paid Time Off
This is the new buzzword/acronym to amalgamate all your Vacation, Sick time, Maternity leave, etc. Where you once had 20 days of vacation, the chances are that you have now got 19 days PTO.
Grrrr.
I find it extremely hard to define a whole set of things that want to make people stay. Most people are different and want different things from work; younger folks want money; older folks want time. But when companies institute policies that aggrevate employees they almost guarantee those people will leave.
Don't quibble about the cost of the company phone bill
Don't quibble about the photocopier use
Don't charge for coffee
Don't discriminate in the car parking
Don't put all managers in offices with doors and windows
Don't restrict access to meeting rooms
Don't go PTO with the vacation, be honest
Don't keep company secrets
Inform people when there are leavers
Inform people when new hires come in
Don't kill talk
Don't create dress codes (weighted one way or another)
Kill the company vision statement, state aims and objectives in plain English (or the local language)
Keep the doors open
Make sure everyone does a resume, if they want to...And keep it up todate
Don't stop discussion of issues
Don't hold formless, endless meetings
Don;t limit requests, but always ask for justifications
Don't kill the opportunity for training
Don't make training a given
Not all people are happy at work, it does not mean they wish to leave, nor does happiness guarantee that someone will be a lifer. 20 year olds might like foosball machines, but a 50 year old might prefer a quiet room where they can smoke.
It takes allsorts to run a company, but we also run companies through the use of quite small teams. Keeping teams effective generally ends up retaining those team members.
Not just the fact that they had co-processors, but the fact that the stupid things ran at different clock speeds to the family members they were intended to support.
Then there was the chip naming. The 8080 was just that. The 8086 was, I think, the iAPX8086. The 80286 was somthing like iAPX286, while the 80386 was the i386. Confused? None of use were, we just called them 80x86's... Which was fine until you used the CMOS versions... 80Cx86 anyone?
Just for your info...
Bradley M2 Length = 6.3M Width=3.1M Height=2.1
BMP-3 Length = 6.8M Width=3M Height=2.9M
While it is safe to say the Bradley is a mite bigger than a BMP-3, Its also safe to say that at 300Knots in an A-10, 600knots in an F-16, or through infrared googles in a sand storm at night in an AH-64, the size difference doesn't amount to a whole hill of beans.
There were programs started, looking at making cruise missiles respond to their radar warning recievers by making evasive turns. The problem was finding out where the missile was after all the turns. Seems this was a detriment to accuracy and limited the range at times.
As much as 15G turns are entertaining even laser gyros and GPS have their limits in retrieving positional data after a whirlwind of aerial gymnastics - principly because GPS may be jammed and laser gyros still do funny things at hi-G's.
Missiles still have smaller airframes than these UCAVs, so they will always be able to be made to turn higher G's, meaning UCAVs have potentially very short lives in a truely hostile environment.
I think in the heat of battle a Russian built BMP-1 looks pretty much like the next mans M-1 Bradley. Right down to the sagger equiped 76mm cannon turret, and the external fuel tanks.
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PTO = Paid Time Off
This is the new buzzword/acronym to amalgamate all your Vacation, Sick time, Maternity leave, etc. Where you once had 20 days of vacation, the chances are that you have now got 19 days PTO. Grrrr.
I find it extremely hard to define a whole set of things that want to make people stay. Most people are different and want different things from work; younger folks want money; older folks want time. But when companies institute policies that aggrevate employees they almost guarantee those people will leave.
Not all people are happy at work, it does not mean they wish to leave, nor does happiness guarantee that someone will be a lifer. 20 year olds might like foosball machines, but a 50 year old might prefer a quiet room where they can smoke.
It takes allsorts to run a company, but we also run companies through the use of quite small teams. Keeping teams effective generally ends up retaining those team members.
Not just the fact that they had co-processors, but the fact that the stupid things ran at different clock speeds to the family members they were intended to support. Then there was the chip naming. The 8080 was just that. The 8086 was, I think, the iAPX8086. The 80286 was somthing like iAPX286, while the 80386 was the i386. Confused? None of use were, we just called them 80x86's... Which was fine until you used the CMOS versions... 80Cx86 anyone?
As my feeble brain remembers this it was a clone of a DEC (remember them, now called Compaq) machine.
Nah. 80188. Even sleezier.
Just for your info... Bradley M2 Length = 6.3M Width=3.1M Height=2.1
BMP-3 Length = 6.8M Width=3M Height=2.9M
While it is safe to say the Bradley is a mite bigger than a BMP-3, Its also safe to say that at 300Knots in an A-10, 600knots in an F-16, or through infrared googles in a sand storm at night in an AH-64, the size difference doesn't amount to a whole hill of beans.
There were programs started, looking at making cruise missiles respond to their radar warning recievers by making evasive turns. The problem was finding out where the missile was after all the turns. Seems this was a detriment to accuracy and limited the range at times. As much as 15G turns are entertaining even laser gyros and GPS have their limits in retrieving positional data after a whirlwind of aerial gymnastics - principly because GPS may be jammed and laser gyros still do funny things at hi-G's. Missiles still have smaller airframes than these UCAVs, so they will always be able to be made to turn higher G's, meaning UCAVs have potentially very short lives in a truely hostile environment.
I think in the heat of battle a Russian built BMP-1 looks pretty much like the next mans M-1 Bradley. Right down to the sagger equiped 76mm cannon turret, and the external fuel tanks.