Honor your committment but expect nothing in return.
Old fart story to follow --
I was working for a -very- small company when I got hired by Apple in '86. I gave them 2 weeks notice and told them that I wanted to make sure that we had a good transition. The next morning I got a phone call from the boss and was told not to come in that day and, "oh, by the way; your last paycheck has been cancelled". Wow, I was a young father and the loss of even a single paycheck was deeply painful to my family.
I'll never forget the advice that the Apple recruiter (John Boring) gave me when I related the story to him; "Yes, you -can- take this to the labor board and you -will- win... however, you can spend your career looking forward or looking backward... it's up to you where to concentrate." I took his advice, forgot about the offense and the past and had a -GREAT- career at Apple and afterwards. I'd advise you to do the same.
I have a -very- smart friend who works in the bowels of IBM: The top management may be back slapping each other about how they're doing financially right now but, they're bleeding talent badly and they don't realize how badly they're actually harming the company's long term prospects (some would say, "don't care"). The capable tech folks left at IBM are as bummed as any of us about outsourcing in general but they're also pretty unhappy with the low quality of the "results" that they're getting from "teams" in India -and- China (not to mention the viruses). We have yet to see what the actual IBM customers will think of all of this but it doesn't yet look like it's going to make for better products.
No kidding! Now if you ping fartsnuggle.com it just sits and waits for the timeout, but if you ping fartsnuggle.org you get an immediate proper response of "ping: unknown host fartsnuggle.org"
With a credit card you DO have these rights. HOWEVER, there are few consumer protections that apply to the fake Visa/MC cards that banks issue for debit purchasing. Sometimes the banks will generously extend fraud protection to you but... they are not required to do so and may fail to do so when you really need it most. Last year someone stole my debit card CC number and had some kind of a porn-party. Bank of America rejected the charges for me, but they didn't have to. The horn-dogs could have drained my checking account and left me in a pretty exposed position when my mortgage payment came due. Think twice before using these fake CC's online since your protections are so limited compared to real CCs.
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The folx I work with often enjoy sending IM's back and forth with alternate captions for pictures we find on the internet.
I propose an alternate caption for the picture:
"Apple solves cooling problem for the G5 PowerBook; some details remain to be worked out, however."
Honor your committment but expect nothing in return.
Old fart story to follow --
I was working for a -very- small company when I got hired by Apple in '86. I gave them 2 weeks notice and told them that I wanted to make sure that we had a good transition. The next morning I got a phone call from the boss and was told not to come in that day and, "oh, by the way; your last paycheck has been cancelled". Wow, I was a young father and the loss of even a single paycheck was deeply painful to my family.
I'll never forget the advice that the Apple recruiter (John Boring) gave me when I related the story to him; "Yes, you -can- take this to the labor board and you -will- win... however, you can spend your career looking forward or looking backward... it's up to you where to concentrate." I took his advice, forgot about the offense and the past and had a -GREAT- career at Apple and afterwards. I'd advise you to do the same.
I have a -very- smart friend who works in the bowels of IBM: The top management may be back slapping each other about how they're doing financially right now but, they're bleeding talent badly and they don't realize how badly they're actually harming the company's long term prospects (some would say, "don't care"). The capable tech folks left at IBM are as bummed as any of us about outsourcing in general but they're also pretty unhappy with the low quality of the "results" that they're getting from "teams" in India -and- China (not to mention the viruses). We have yet to see what the actual IBM customers will think of all of this but it doesn't yet look like it's going to make for better products.
No kidding! Now if you ping fartsnuggle.com it just sits and waits for the timeout, but if you ping fartsnuggle.org you get an immediate proper response of "ping: unknown host fartsnuggle.org"
With a credit card you DO have these rights. HOWEVER, there are few consumer protections that apply to the fake Visa/MC cards that banks issue for debit purchasing. Sometimes the banks will generously extend fraud protection to you but... they are not required to do so and may fail to do so when you really need it most. Last year someone stole my debit card CC number and had some kind of a porn-party. Bank of America rejected the charges for me, but they didn't have to. The horn-dogs could have drained my checking account and left me in a pretty exposed position when my mortgage payment came due. Think twice before using these fake CC's online since your protections are so limited compared to real CCs.
They'rrrre heeeeerrre.