I had to fight my mother's newest doctor to get him to comply with her living will. I am still angry 15 yrs later. He had not been through the 4-5 hospitalizations a year for failing lungs. My poor mother had. Not his call to intubate when the ICU nurses could clearly tell this was a final time. I am still grateful for their discreet and gentle support. I helped my best friend from college to pass. She had horrible, "at home" hospice with no training for her husband in how to roll her to avoid bedsores or how to keep her clean or comfortable and a nurse who came for an hour every other day. Those last weeks were hideousness I do not want imposed on me. My son has clear, written instructions and people with medical training identified and enlisted to help him understand and make decisions.
Yes.
And don't try to survive in an HMO if you have anything atypical.
Oh, and if they have just started teaching it in medical schools, you are likely more screwed than before they taught it.
For both the flu shot and the MRI, there is risk to the patient. From the flu shot -- allergic reactions are rare, but you need someone to notice it and do something.
For MRIs, someone needs to know whether the image is sufficient for what is being looked at and you have the need to be able to deal with people who are having claustrophobia reactions to the machine.
Finally, there is a comparatively limited number of diabetics from whom potentially infected used sharps need to be collected. Expand that to the general public, which includes people who cannot be bothered to put cigarette butts in trash containers or pick up their dogs' feces, and you have a serious public health issue.
It has been standard in law that any work done with tools (including systems) that belong to an employer belongs to the employer. When you start a job, you should be given a form to sign that you acknowledge that any and all work done for the employer or using the employer's systems belong to the employer and announcing that you have no reasonable expectation of privacy when using the employer's systems.
Now, if the City of SF wanted his personal password to systems he owned, supported, and housed, that would be an invasion of property. If you put anything on the systems owned by your employer, they are no longer exclusively yours. Use your own damned server to store your own things. And assume that you must hand over passwords, encryption keys, data on your phone, and any damned thing else you grabbed or created on their systems. Oh, and read the play "The Water Engine" if you think this is something new.
It sounds easy, but try to do the audit that will give you that number. I guarantee they keep very "complex" books and records that can prove just about anything.
The fine needs to cover more than what they (and the companies that knowingly hired from them) underpaid the individual workers. it needs to cover the economic damage caused by depressing salaries in those fields, as well. There are major employers in the tech field known to pay "wages only immigrant will take." They need to feel that pain as well.
It is sexist (but, yes, more in extremely bad taste and juvenile in the extreme, and unprofessional) because it further contributes to the hostile environment in the tech world. It says "NO GURLS ALLOWED. HYUCK, HYUCK. YOU HAVE TITTIES AND COOTIES" to any woman who is interested in working in tech. If that is not the intended message, then I suggest some of these emotionally 12yo gomers talk to some marketing people about branding and crafting their message.
If this is the only way you know how to do business or to demonstrate a project or idea, then you need to go home and grow the hell up
And here's the thing -- I am visibly 60, dress very conservatively, and will still have my breasts "accidentally" groped and stared at. I am not responsible for the actions of others, including those who will not see me as a person. It is not my job to make these sorts of men behave like adult humans in a business environment, And, yeah, it should be safe (if boring) to take a 9 yr old to a business conference. There should be nothing there, unless it is a medical application, that should be inappropriate for him or her to see. If there is, you are doing it wrong. Write your fake apology in advance.
It would be easier to take this as ironic if this were not the same as the rest of the toxic stew that women who want to work in tech swim in daily.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! You have clearly never run security apps (AV, IPS) on user systems or, for that matter, more than 1K user systems. There are constant departmental, special user, and monitoring apps that need to be added and configured. It seems the only thing constant about core builds is that they will need to be modified for business reasons.
Did I mention HAHAHAHA!
I am old enough that I have heard that the Social Security Trust Fund is going dry since the 70s. Hasn't yet. There are lots of easy fixes that don't hurt the poor. They could even up the payments (and not make people work until they are 70 to get a full pay-out), improve the economy, and not drain the trust fund.
You left out whether the job is one that is permanently open, round after round, as though new, uniquely qualified, dirt cheap talent is going to suddenly appear out of nowhere. After the third try, go back to the folk you rejected because they are female, possibly disabled, even possible an old, and stop wasting money and people's time.
Not to mention the eagerness of every right wing republican to increase the age at which one gets Medicare or the full payment of social security (it's at 70, now). If you younger types want the jobs you keep trying not to hire us boomers for, talk with your elected representatives and make retirement a bit less of a beg-for-healthcare, eat dog food (if one retires at 55 and lives to 85... or longer......) situation, lots of us would be able to take our eagerness to step off the treadmill with our box of tchotchkes out the door.
I was in a similar situation and had a job offer. I stayed the two weeks during which I would have given notice and wrapped up everything that needed wrapping up. I emptied my email, removed all needed files from my laptop to storage accessible by my team. I gradually removed all personal items from my desk (no one noticed or if they noticed, said anything). At the end of those two weeks, I let my team know what was going on and swore them to silence. At the end of the day, I waited until my tormentors left, sent my resignation by a timed email to arrive two hours later, put my phone and laptop in a locked drawer and left the key where the email said it would be. I turned in my badge to security on the way out and never looked back. I did this to coincide with payday, so there was little fuss about the final check.
I continued to run into my team for several years and they always greeted me warmly.
I could not face one more session of being screamed at.
Another employer nearly interfered with being hired by giving a "would not rehire" recommendation -- their policy was to give that to anyone who quit, notice or no. And I had given them the notice requested in my offer letter and long discussions with my then manager. I was only able to get that "would not rehire" disregarded by pointing out that I had to take that employer to court for my last check.
There is no guarantee, as an employer or employee, that being reasonable will result in reasonability from behaving professionally.
The number of small, simple calculations that have to be made are similar to those for banking -- which also uses a lot of big metal in the background. There are only a very few vendors of crap software that will manage those. Simplification of the process of determining who has what coverage for which service and whether that service is approved for which conditions and how much copay and what upper out-of-pocket limit and what deductible to which provider would save billions. Each large company (employees under corporate insurance will be primarily affected by the delay) has specialized, negotiated contracts for multiple choices of policies with a wide variety of copays, deductibles, formularies, etc. And they are different within each insurer. Oh, and then there are the companies that basically run their own coverage with the help of the insurance companies. And each of these calculations has to be reviewed to verify compliance with not-just-Obamacare.
Most of the larger insurers have been trying for the last 3-5 years to replace their core systems -- which will still mainly run on flat-file dbs on mainframes.
Once one sees how the sausage is made, the need to scrap the whole stupid system becomes obvious. While Americans generally pay more for core medical services (if we are not covered by payment structures negotiated by the insurance companies), but we also support an army of IT professionals just to keep the creaky thing working.
The individual may be dim (haven't read their post), but if we had unionized in the 90s on a guild-basis like the performers' unions, we would not be fighting this battle.
Isn't just India. Pakistan sends a whole lot of the same level of talent being described by ebusineemedia above. And Sri Lanka. Just a bit less organized.
I will be investigating whether I fit the class. I have had more skeevy interviews where I was a test case for being able to bring in an H1B worker. The best was the phone screen with the gent who could just barely speak English (a job in the US), who knew nothing about the job, but after asking about my Visa status, quickly started to explain about all the CANADIAN workers he has interviewed. The more poorly defined the job, the less likely any American is to be interviewed, let alone hired.
This is not news in California. The court ruling that requires California move immune compromised prisoners out of the Valley is the news. Headline is also nonsense. Bandanas and proper farming techniques that limit the amount of soil disrupted and blown away also helps minimize the infection rate.
My mother had this in the early '50s (it was called San Juaquin Valley Fever, then). She had to go to NIH (on the east coast) for diagnosis, despite it being somewhat known in CA then. Lived to age 80, but with mildly compromised lungs. It was not good, but it wasn't quite what the article suggests, either. She did pick up other lung infections more easily than others, but she was also a nearly life-long smoker.
Or perhaps he (ooooh -- or she) thinks that the employer is a complete tool and is just holder their breath until they can escape. Like someone who is arrogant, dismissive of opinions other than his, and hypocritical.
Thank you to the man who feels ashamed of the man who attacked your colleague.
The only people capable of making rape less common are men. The less this sort of behavior is treated as even remotely appropriate, the less it will provide the offending types with the sense of power and accomplishment they want.
His response is absolutely typical of a privileged male accused by someone he perceives as less established in his community.
Thank you so much for mansplaining away decades of solid research. We poor little idiot feminists (none of whom has ever been raped, because the men involved said we deserved it for, well, being women) could not possibly have done peer reviewed study. We all know that only men ever publish peer reviewed work.
And, of course, you being a man, you have read every peer reviewed study on the topic in the few minutes since you skimmed the article while reminding yourself that women are never raped, women don't belong in tech and certainly not at conferences in formerly Iron Curtain countries.
Sheesh. Do you ever get tired of yourself?
Women can be attractive and pleasant while dressed comfortably. Just in the event you have never spoken with a woman who wasn't paid to be pleasant to you.
Very true.
Not everyone in IT/tech is a programmer or developer. There are folk who keep the machines you run your programs on up and running, among other things.
All of you who claim your hiring process is pristine -- how many programmers/developers over 50 have you hired in the last 5 years? I doubt any. Or maybe one.
Even if you keep your skills current, there is the "oh, no, an **old.** They never know anything and keep wanting to do this 'testing' crap. And they suck at beer pong."
It is like physical disability -- you assume the disabled person is just whining, until you are hurt. But old is like physical injury -- it happens to all of us (if we are lucky) eventually.
The "dudes" were representing their respective companies at a professional event, thereby officially, legally at work. The companies for which they work no doubt have employment policies forbidding the creation of a hostile work environment. If not, they likely have to pay twice or three times as much for liability insurance.
The "bitch" initially followed the rules as set out by PyCon and the situation was handled quietly. She should likely not have tweeted the pictures of the "dudes," but I doubt you would consider the death penalty as handed out by offended women to be appropriate for underage upskirt shots shared on the web, so I think we can agree that death threats for posting full-clothed pictures of people who offended her can be considered too much.
Men who react the way you do are precisely why women will not "simply turn around and ask" people to stop being 12 during a presentation. Every single woman I know has the experience of being threatened with physical or sexual assault for doing so. Most of us stop after the third or fourth threat. Or after someone does more than threaten.
If you cannot act professionally at a conference where you represent the company that sent you (with the company's name on your badge), perhaps you should just stay home.
Serious question -- why do you think it is alright to threaten physical harm to someone because they want you to modify your behavior for a few minutes? You appear to want every woman on the planet to change her behavior to meet your needs, but think it is a death penalty worthy offense for anyone woman to ask you to modify yours. What is up with that, dude?
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I had to fight my mother's newest doctor to get him to comply with her living will. I am still angry 15 yrs later. He had not been through the 4-5 hospitalizations a year for failing lungs. My poor mother had. Not his call to intubate when the ICU nurses could clearly tell this was a final time. I am still grateful for their discreet and gentle support. I helped my best friend from college to pass. She had horrible, "at home" hospice with no training for her husband in how to roll her to avoid bedsores or how to keep her clean or comfortable and a nurse who came for an hour every other day. Those last weeks were hideousness I do not want imposed on me. My son has clear, written instructions and people with medical training identified and enlisted to help him understand and make decisions.
Yes. And don't try to survive in an HMO if you have anything atypical. Oh, and if they have just started teaching it in medical schools, you are likely more screwed than before they taught it.
For both the flu shot and the MRI, there is risk to the patient. From the flu shot -- allergic reactions are rare, but you need someone to notice it and do something. For MRIs, someone needs to know whether the image is sufficient for what is being looked at and you have the need to be able to deal with people who are having claustrophobia reactions to the machine. Finally, there is a comparatively limited number of diabetics from whom potentially infected used sharps need to be collected. Expand that to the general public, which includes people who cannot be bothered to put cigarette butts in trash containers or pick up their dogs' feces, and you have a serious public health issue.
It has been standard in law that any work done with tools (including systems) that belong to an employer belongs to the employer. When you start a job, you should be given a form to sign that you acknowledge that any and all work done for the employer or using the employer's systems belong to the employer and announcing that you have no reasonable expectation of privacy when using the employer's systems. Now, if the City of SF wanted his personal password to systems he owned, supported, and housed, that would be an invasion of property. If you put anything on the systems owned by your employer, they are no longer exclusively yours. Use your own damned server to store your own things. And assume that you must hand over passwords, encryption keys, data on your phone, and any damned thing else you grabbed or created on their systems. Oh, and read the play "The Water Engine" if you think this is something new.
It sounds easy, but try to do the audit that will give you that number. I guarantee they keep very "complex" books and records that can prove just about anything. The fine needs to cover more than what they (and the companies that knowingly hired from them) underpaid the individual workers. it needs to cover the economic damage caused by depressing salaries in those fields, as well. There are major employers in the tech field known to pay "wages only immigrant will take." They need to feel that pain as well.
It is sexist (but, yes, more in extremely bad taste and juvenile in the extreme, and unprofessional) because it further contributes to the hostile environment in the tech world. It says "NO GURLS ALLOWED. HYUCK, HYUCK. YOU HAVE TITTIES AND COOTIES" to any woman who is interested in working in tech. If that is not the intended message, then I suggest some of these emotionally 12yo gomers talk to some marketing people about branding and crafting their message. If this is the only way you know how to do business or to demonstrate a project or idea, then you need to go home and grow the hell up And here's the thing -- I am visibly 60, dress very conservatively, and will still have my breasts "accidentally" groped and stared at. I am not responsible for the actions of others, including those who will not see me as a person. It is not my job to make these sorts of men behave like adult humans in a business environment, And, yeah, it should be safe (if boring) to take a 9 yr old to a business conference. There should be nothing there, unless it is a medical application, that should be inappropriate for him or her to see. If there is, you are doing it wrong. Write your fake apology in advance. It would be easier to take this as ironic if this were not the same as the rest of the toxic stew that women who want to work in tech swim in daily.
Thank you. Increases my bafflement at whether the folk promulgating "he had to be brilliant to do what he did" story line are ignorant or bought.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! You have clearly never run security apps (AV, IPS) on user systems or, for that matter, more than 1K user systems. There are constant departmental, special user, and monitoring apps that need to be added and configured. It seems the only thing constant about core builds is that they will need to be modified for business reasons. Did I mention HAHAHAHA!
I am old enough that I have heard that the Social Security Trust Fund is going dry since the 70s. Hasn't yet. There are lots of easy fixes that don't hurt the poor. They could even up the payments (and not make people work until they are 70 to get a full pay-out), improve the economy, and not drain the trust fund.
You left out whether the job is one that is permanently open, round after round, as though new, uniquely qualified, dirt cheap talent is going to suddenly appear out of nowhere. After the third try, go back to the folk you rejected because they are female, possibly disabled, even possible an old, and stop wasting money and people's time.
Not to mention the eagerness of every right wing republican to increase the age at which one gets Medicare or the full payment of social security (it's at 70, now). If you younger types want the jobs you keep trying not to hire us boomers for, talk with your elected representatives and make retirement a bit less of a beg-for-healthcare, eat dog food (if one retires at 55 and lives to 85... or longer......) situation, lots of us would be able to take our eagerness to step off the treadmill with our box of tchotchkes out the door.
I was in a similar situation and had a job offer. I stayed the two weeks during which I would have given notice and wrapped up everything that needed wrapping up. I emptied my email, removed all needed files from my laptop to storage accessible by my team. I gradually removed all personal items from my desk (no one noticed or if they noticed, said anything). At the end of those two weeks, I let my team know what was going on and swore them to silence. At the end of the day, I waited until my tormentors left, sent my resignation by a timed email to arrive two hours later, put my phone and laptop in a locked drawer and left the key where the email said it would be. I turned in my badge to security on the way out and never looked back. I did this to coincide with payday, so there was little fuss about the final check. I continued to run into my team for several years and they always greeted me warmly. I could not face one more session of being screamed at. Another employer nearly interfered with being hired by giving a "would not rehire" recommendation -- their policy was to give that to anyone who quit, notice or no. And I had given them the notice requested in my offer letter and long discussions with my then manager. I was only able to get that "would not rehire" disregarded by pointing out that I had to take that employer to court for my last check. There is no guarantee, as an employer or employee, that being reasonable will result in reasonability from behaving professionally.
The number of small, simple calculations that have to be made are similar to those for banking -- which also uses a lot of big metal in the background. There are only a very few vendors of crap software that will manage those. Simplification of the process of determining who has what coverage for which service and whether that service is approved for which conditions and how much copay and what upper out-of-pocket limit and what deductible to which provider would save billions. Each large company (employees under corporate insurance will be primarily affected by the delay) has specialized, negotiated contracts for multiple choices of policies with a wide variety of copays, deductibles, formularies, etc. And they are different within each insurer. Oh, and then there are the companies that basically run their own coverage with the help of the insurance companies. And each of these calculations has to be reviewed to verify compliance with not-just-Obamacare. Most of the larger insurers have been trying for the last 3-5 years to replace their core systems -- which will still mainly run on flat-file dbs on mainframes. Once one sees how the sausage is made, the need to scrap the whole stupid system becomes obvious. While Americans generally pay more for core medical services (if we are not covered by payment structures negotiated by the insurance companies), but we also support an army of IT professionals just to keep the creaky thing working.
The individual may be dim (haven't read their post), but if we had unionized in the 90s on a guild-basis like the performers' unions, we would not be fighting this battle.
Isn't just India. Pakistan sends a whole lot of the same level of talent being described by ebusineemedia above. And Sri Lanka. Just a bit less organized.
I will be investigating whether I fit the class. I have had more skeevy interviews where I was a test case for being able to bring in an H1B worker. The best was the phone screen with the gent who could just barely speak English (a job in the US), who knew nothing about the job, but after asking about my Visa status, quickly started to explain about all the CANADIAN workers he has interviewed. The more poorly defined the job, the less likely any American is to be interviewed, let alone hired.
This is not news in California. The court ruling that requires California move immune compromised prisoners out of the Valley is the news. Headline is also nonsense. Bandanas and proper farming techniques that limit the amount of soil disrupted and blown away also helps minimize the infection rate. My mother had this in the early '50s (it was called San Juaquin Valley Fever, then). She had to go to NIH (on the east coast) for diagnosis, despite it being somewhat known in CA then. Lived to age 80, but with mildly compromised lungs. It was not good, but it wasn't quite what the article suggests, either. She did pick up other lung infections more easily than others, but she was also a nearly life-long smoker.
SF isn't terrible to raise kids in if one is not wildly wealthy, but it is a challenge. If you have arts kids, it is very good, in fact.
Or perhaps he (ooooh -- or she) thinks that the employer is a complete tool and is just holder their breath until they can escape. Like someone who is arrogant, dismissive of opinions other than his, and hypocritical.
Thank you to the man who feels ashamed of the man who attacked your colleague. The only people capable of making rape less common are men. The less this sort of behavior is treated as even remotely appropriate, the less it will provide the offending types with the sense of power and accomplishment they want. His response is absolutely typical of a privileged male accused by someone he perceives as less established in his community.
Thank you so much for mansplaining away decades of solid research. We poor little idiot feminists (none of whom has ever been raped, because the men involved said we deserved it for, well, being women) could not possibly have done peer reviewed study. We all know that only men ever publish peer reviewed work. And, of course, you being a man, you have read every peer reviewed study on the topic in the few minutes since you skimmed the article while reminding yourself that women are never raped, women don't belong in tech and certainly not at conferences in formerly Iron Curtain countries. Sheesh. Do you ever get tired of yourself?
Women can be attractive and pleasant while dressed comfortably. Just in the event you have never spoken with a woman who wasn't paid to be pleasant to you.
And then she said "Oh... OH!... So that's why people do this!
Really? You had to go *here*? And, yeah, it's "that's" -- at least in English.
Very true. Not everyone in IT/tech is a programmer or developer. There are folk who keep the machines you run your programs on up and running, among other things. All of you who claim your hiring process is pristine -- how many programmers/developers over 50 have you hired in the last 5 years? I doubt any. Or maybe one. Even if you keep your skills current, there is the "oh, no, an **old.** They never know anything and keep wanting to do this 'testing' crap. And they suck at beer pong." It is like physical disability -- you assume the disabled person is just whining, until you are hurt. But old is like physical injury -- it happens to all of us (if we are lucky) eventually.
The "dudes" were representing their respective companies at a professional event, thereby officially, legally at work. The companies for which they work no doubt have employment policies forbidding the creation of a hostile work environment. If not, they likely have to pay twice or three times as much for liability insurance. The "bitch" initially followed the rules as set out by PyCon and the situation was handled quietly. She should likely not have tweeted the pictures of the "dudes," but I doubt you would consider the death penalty as handed out by offended women to be appropriate for underage upskirt shots shared on the web, so I think we can agree that death threats for posting full-clothed pictures of people who offended her can be considered too much. Men who react the way you do are precisely why women will not "simply turn around and ask" people to stop being 12 during a presentation. Every single woman I know has the experience of being threatened with physical or sexual assault for doing so. Most of us stop after the third or fourth threat. Or after someone does more than threaten. If you cannot act professionally at a conference where you represent the company that sent you (with the company's name on your badge), perhaps you should just stay home. Serious question -- why do you think it is alright to threaten physical harm to someone because they want you to modify your behavior for a few minutes? You appear to want every woman on the planet to change her behavior to meet your needs, but think it is a death penalty worthy offense for anyone woman to ask you to modify yours. What is up with that, dude?