And we didn't have laptops, either! We carried our lunchbox portables to school! Up the hill! Both ways! In the snow in the middle of July! Those things weighed 6 kilos let me tell you....
Ha! You should try carrying a pdp-11 while trying to outrun the velociraptors.
It doesn't matter anyway. If I had the internet, with all the pron, all I would have done is one handed web browsing anyway. I never would have made it to basic.
There is no "company", a single malevolent entity that is treating you like dirt.
No, but there sure is a small circle of executives who make those tough decisions while on the way to the golf club in their 7 series BMW for a nice lobster dinner. The company I work for just cut vacation. I get 1 week a year now. I also have to take it before the fiscal year end on 9/1. So there's now no time to accrue vacation before christmas. How nice. And those altruistic beings who are just looking out for the company? Let's see how quick they are to give back that benefit once the economy turns around.
There are a lot of individuals involved in the decisions to ask more hours of you, put you on call w/o extra compensation, etc.. Right now, one of your managers is probably talking to his superior, saying "well, I guess we could ask W and X to handle those few extra on-call hours... it sure sucks, but they seem to be okay with the increases so far, and someone has to do it. That should keep customers Y and Z with us, so we'll be okay on payroll through this quarter, at least."
Talk about a major case of rose colored glasses. When these wonderful managers mismanage the company into the ground, then ask me to clean up their mess, should I? You have to ASSUME that everyone is on your side from the very beginning, and start talking to your manager, their manager, etc.. Let them know that you and the other grunts are starting to give under the strain. Find out what the problems of the company are, and talk about how the company is dealing with them.
Have you ever had a paycheck bounce? I have. Have you ever had your employer siezed by the IRS for failure to pay payroll taxes? I have. Have you ever been promised bonueses on eight separate occaisions and received a fraction on one only once? I have. Have you ever been fired because your manager thought you were better than him? I have. Have you ever gotten in trouble for not predicting the future or reading someone's mind? I have. Have you ever predicted a project's failure months and millions of dollars in advance? I have.
Have you ever been warned before your employer goes out of business? I never have. Employers are not on your side. Ever. There are only two possibilities. If it's a private company, they're on the owner's side. If it's a public company, they're on the shareholder's side. Never yours. You are a commodity to be exploited however possible, no matter what the HR propaganda says.
Instead, decide where your breaking point would be, and discuss it reasonably ("if this happens, I'd really have to leave, and neither of us wants that to happen"). You are NOT making threats. Make this clear. Explain that you will keep your manager informed as the situation evolves, and that you will not leave without warning.
And you'll be the first to be laid off. Employers want sheep. If you want to keep your job, act like one. Tell them nothing because they're certainly not volunteering any information. If you don't like your job, find another one. But never let them know you're looking. Otherwise, they'll remove you before you have the next job lined up.
Like it or not, you're in a business relationship with your employer. One in which you're at an extreme disadvantage. If your employer wants to cut your benefits, they simply say, "Well, things are tight, so we're zapping vacation this year." Can you imagine what would happen if you did that? "Well boss, you've been working me harder so I'm going to take an extra week of vacation this year." After the laughter subsides, they'll replace you.
The work culture in this country sucks. And it's time for a change.
This will raise doubts in the mind of the interviewer as to whether you're a person who can help an organization weather tough times...
What is the matter with everyone? I know who I am, do you know who you are? What do you want from life? This discussion reminds me of a commercial that's currently playing on the radio. It's a world wide wireless commercial where this guy is playing golf with his boss. The narrator describes the perfect ass-kissing session. Then wraps up with the boss making a condescending comment to the employee. "He's getting noticed!" I say bull-shit! Life is not about climbing the corporate ladder, or kissing the right asses, or doing what's "proper" (something my step father always harped on). It's about friends, family, personal growth, and happiness. Are your priorities straight? What will you tell your kids after 20 years of 60 hour work weeks and three heart attacks when they hate you? I was providing for you? More important than paying the bills, or climbing the ladder, or saying the right thing in a meeting, or working long hours is simply being present for your children. Who will be your friends when you retire? Your boss? Your indian coworkers? What goals are you working toward? To make director by age 40? I have two main goals right now. One is to sell my house for enough money to pay cash for my next place to live. The other is to support my five kids while only working 75% of the year so that I can take month long RV trips with them in the summers and be home for every christmas vacation. These are attainable goals if you set your priorities correctly. If you hate your job, quit. It's not worth it. Find another one. Or change careers. But never lose sight of what's important. Like the other poster said, if you act like a door matt, people will walk all over you. The answer to the question above is perfectly acceptable. They treated me badly, I left. Saying this sends a message to the new employer that they can't treat you like dirt, which is what you want, right? Being a pussy and bending over for the new employer will set you up to be treated that way. If they don't hire you, so be it. Find something else. I've lost jobs because of this attitude. But I've been unemployed for only about 6 weeks total over the last three years. When I interviewed for my current position, I made it clear. Jerk me around and I'll leave. So far, I've been treated with respect. And I'll continue to work here as long as that doesn't change.
Instead, instruction is centered on learning American culture, and "losing the British accents they all pick up in school,"
Repeat after me: Indians do not have British accents. They have Indian accents. They may have been taught the British dialect of english, but that's not the same thing.
Step 1: Lock the Cable Companies out of providing content on demand, or at least raise more barriers to entry so that they don't crash the party later.
Step 2: Push the Windows Media edition and provide tv schedule info free over the internet
I dont know if a prosecuter would look like walking around with a garment on thats potentially lethal to anyone who touches it would count as "reckless disregard for human life" or "negligence".
There's a huge market for things like this in South Africa.
Better still, you could put one on each window and augment reality to keep the drive more interesting. For example, the other day, I found a link to a bicycle with a mechanical dildo protruding through the seat. (See $$$$$exyGal's journel here on slashdot) Imagine a few of those girls stopped at red lights next to you!
Have faith. There's an element of truth to what he said. The achilles heel of the indians isn't poor people skills, poor communication skills, poor hygiene, or 3rd world code, (to quote a few common complaints) it's their culture. In general, they're all climbing the ladder. I've noticed that a lot work as programmers for only five years or so before becomming managers. So there aren't many indians with 10 or 15 years of experience. To quote morpheus, they will never be as strong or as fast as you can be. This will be amplified by the lack of people coming out of college. It will be more expensive (because of low wages) to get to the 10 year mark. After that, you're employable again. You'll do the design and fix whatever 3rd world code comes back. That's your niche now. Exploit it. Avoid indian dominated technologies like oracle and java. Learn new technologies before they make it to the schools in india. I think things will return somewhat for the more experienced people. The new grads are still fucked.
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hope I interview against you...
Remember: In a situation like this, you wouldn't be interviewing against her abilities. You'd be interviewing against her breasts.
Ok.. I wish people would get this through thier heads. A 64 bit chip is _NOT_ inherently faster than a 32 bit chip
Yeah, but how many libraries of congress can it fit in a volkswagen?
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Yes, we certainly do use AIX, and it is a fine, reliable, stable and high-performance *nix.
Hey smarty-pants, try this one:
#include"stdio.h"
int main() {
int x,y,z;
x=1;
y=0;
z=x/y;
printf("z=%d\n",z);
}
Care to guess what you get when you run it? HP and Sun give you Floating Point Exception and dump the core. Which is correct. AIX gives you... 15. I guess not all zeros are in fact zero. Technically, IBM is probably right since dividing by zero is undefined. But you'd think they would at least make a minor attempt to make the developer's life easier. I haven't tried this in about two years, but I bet it still works.
Everything I learned about nanotechnology I learned from 7 of 9. Every time someone gets hurt, she injects a little of that nanotechnology luvin' into them and they're better before the end of the episode. I have some microscopic organizms I'd like to inject into her.
Sheesh, in MSN you can "crack" this setting by going into Options...
In AIM it's MyAim->EditOptions->EditPreferences->Privacy , then unckeck how long I've been idle.
I use AIM to get out of work a different way though. I created an AIM id that's nearly identical to my boss' id. Then I sent a message to everyone saying that everyone could leave early to go see the matrix reloaded. He even offered to pay for the popcorn! What a great boss.
AP Sunnyvale Ca. - Today, Mr Jeff Bezos, President and CEO of amazon.com announced that amazon.com is withdrawing his patent suit against Chinpokomon Japan Ltd. Mr. Bezos commented, "We had contacted Chinpokomon Japan Ltd to inform them of our civil action. But after my conversation with Mr. Hirohito, I now have a different perspective. Mr Hirohito assured me that I have a large bulbous penis. And that my penis, which is gargantuan in size, was much larger than his small Japanese penis." Mr Bezos later announced the sale of amazon.com to Chinpokomon Japan Ltd for 5c a share. Mr Hirohito, in a statement released this afternoon, stated that the assets of amazon.com will be sold off to fund the purchase of 22 surplus U.S. B52 bombers. The purpose of the bombers is unknown.
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And we didn't have laptops, either! We carried our lunchbox portables to school! Up the hill! Both ways! In the snow in the middle of July! Those things weighed 6 kilos let me tell you....
Ha! You should try carrying a pdp-11 while trying to outrun the velociraptors.
No programming language ... or BASIC.
It doesn't matter anyway. If I had the internet, with all the pron, all I would have done is one handed web browsing anyway. I never would have made it to basic.
There is no "company", a single malevolent entity that is treating you like dirt.
No, but there sure is a small circle of executives who make those tough decisions while on the way to the golf club in their 7 series BMW for a nice lobster dinner. The company I work for just cut vacation. I get 1 week a year now. I also have to take it before the fiscal year end on 9/1. So there's now no time to accrue vacation before christmas. How nice. And those altruistic beings who are just looking out for the company? Let's see how quick they are to give back that benefit once the economy turns around.
There are a lot of individuals involved in the decisions to ask more hours of you, put you on call w/o extra compensation, etc.. Right now, one of your managers is probably talking to his superior, saying "well, I guess we could ask W and X to handle those few extra on-call hours... it sure sucks, but they seem to be okay with the increases so far, and someone has to do it. That should keep customers Y and Z with us, so we'll be okay on payroll through this quarter, at least."
Talk about a major case of rose colored glasses. When these wonderful managers mismanage the company into the ground, then ask me to clean up their mess, should I?
You have to ASSUME that everyone is on your side from the very beginning, and start talking to your manager, their manager, etc.. Let them know that you and the other grunts are starting to give under the strain. Find out what the problems of the company are, and talk about how the company is dealing with them.
Have you ever had a paycheck bounce? I have. Have you ever had your employer siezed by the IRS for failure to pay payroll taxes? I have. Have you ever been promised bonueses on eight separate occaisions and received a fraction on one only once? I have. Have you ever been fired because your manager thought you were better than him? I have. Have you ever gotten in trouble for not predicting the future or reading someone's mind? I have. Have you ever predicted a project's failure months and millions of dollars in advance? I have.
Have you ever been warned before your employer goes out of business? I never have.
Employers are not on your side. Ever. There are only two possibilities. If it's a private company, they're on the owner's side. If it's a public company, they're on the shareholder's side. Never yours. You are a commodity to be exploited however possible, no matter what the HR propaganda says.
Instead, decide where your breaking point would be, and discuss it reasonably ("if this happens, I'd really have to leave, and neither of us wants that to happen"). You are NOT making threats. Make this clear. Explain that you will keep your manager informed as the situation evolves, and that you will not leave without warning.
And you'll be the first to be laid off. Employers want sheep. If you want to keep your job, act like one. Tell them nothing because they're certainly not volunteering any information. If you don't like your job, find another one. But never let them know you're looking. Otherwise, they'll remove you before you have the next job lined up.
Like it or not, you're in a business relationship with your employer. One in which you're at an extreme disadvantage. If your employer wants to cut your benefits, they simply say, "Well, things are tight, so we're zapping vacation this year." Can you imagine what would happen if you did that? "Well boss, you've been working me harder so I'm going to take an extra week of vacation this year." After the laughter subsides, they'll replace you.
The work culture in this country sucks. And it's time for a change.
This will raise doubts in the mind of the interviewer as to whether you're a person who can help an organization weather tough times...
What is the matter with everyone? I know who I am, do you know who you are? What do you want from life? This discussion reminds me of a commercial that's currently playing on the radio. It's a world wide wireless commercial where this guy is playing golf with his boss. The narrator describes the perfect ass-kissing session. Then wraps up with the boss making a condescending comment to the employee. "He's getting noticed!" I say bull-shit! Life is not about climbing the corporate ladder, or kissing the right asses, or doing what's "proper" (something my step father always harped on). It's about friends, family, personal growth, and happiness. Are your priorities straight? What will you tell your kids after 20 years of 60 hour work weeks and three heart attacks when they hate you? I was providing for you? More important than paying the bills, or climbing the ladder, or saying the right thing in a meeting, or working long hours is simply being present for your children. Who will be your friends when you retire? Your boss? Your indian coworkers? What goals are you working toward? To make director by age 40? I have two main goals right now. One is to sell my house for enough money to pay cash for my next place to live. The other is to support my five kids while only working 75% of the year so that I can take month long RV trips with them in the summers and be home for every christmas vacation. These are attainable goals if you set your priorities correctly. If you hate your job, quit. It's not worth it. Find another one. Or change careers. But never lose sight of what's important. Like the other poster said, if you act like a door matt, people will walk all over you. The answer to the question above is perfectly acceptable. They treated me badly, I left. Saying this sends a message to the new employer that they can't treat you like dirt, which is what you want, right? Being a pussy and bending over for the new employer will set you up to be treated that way. If they don't hire you, so be it. Find something else. I've lost jobs because of this attitude. But I've been unemployed for only about 6 weeks total over the last three years. When I interviewed for my current position, I made it clear. Jerk me around and I'll leave. So far, I've been treated with respect. And I'll continue to work here as long as that doesn't change.
Instead, instruction is centered on learning American culture, and "losing the British accents they all pick up in school,"
Repeat after me: Indians do not have British accents. They have Indian accents. They may have been taught the British dialect of english, but that's not the same thing.
"Hey! This article is great! Imagine how BitTorrent would help it!"
Yeah, especially if it were the size of a volkswagen.
Step 1: Lock the Cable Companies out of providing content on demand, or at least raise more barriers to entry so that they don't crash the party later.
Step 2: Push the Windows Media edition and provide tv schedule info free over the internet
Step 3: Drive Tivo out of business
Step 4: Profit!
Sharman _has_ shown some shrewd business sense in the past.
Yeah, just don't squeeze him.
I though this article was about three very attractive women.
Nor can democracy stop a thousand nuclear warheads.
Nor can it stop a volkswagen.
I dont know if a prosecuter would look like walking around with a garment on thats potentially lethal to anyone who touches it would count as "reckless disregard for human life" or "negligence".
There's a huge market for things like this in South Africa.
I can surf pr0n while driving!
Better still, you could put one on each window and augment reality to keep the drive more interesting. For example, the other day, I found a link to a bicycle with a mechanical dildo protruding through the seat. (See $$$$$exyGal's journel here on slashdot) Imagine a few of those girls stopped at red lights next to you!
I hope you speak Hindi.
Have faith. There's an element of truth to what he said. The achilles heel of the indians isn't poor people skills, poor communication skills, poor hygiene, or 3rd world code, (to quote a few common complaints) it's their culture. In general, they're all climbing the ladder. I've noticed that a lot work as programmers for only five years or so before becomming managers. So there aren't many indians with 10 or 15 years of experience. To quote morpheus, they will never be as strong or as fast as you can be. This will be amplified by the lack of people coming out of college. It will be more expensive (because of low wages) to get to the 10 year mark. After that, you're employable again. You'll do the design and fix whatever 3rd world code comes back. That's your niche now. Exploit it. Avoid indian dominated technologies like oracle and java. Learn new technologies before they make it to the schools in india. I think things will return somewhat for the more experienced people. The new grads are still fucked.
hope I interview against you...
Remember: In a situation like this, you wouldn't be interviewing against her abilities. You'd be interviewing against her breasts.
All us computer science students (yes, I'm one too) have realized that as soon as we get our degrees, the industry will be profitable again. =)
So how are things in India these days?
Ok.. I wish people would get this through thier heads. A 64 bit chip is _NOT_ inherently faster than a 32 bit chip
Yeah, but how many libraries of congress can it fit in a volkswagen?
Yes, we certainly do use AIX, and it is a fine, reliable, stable and high-performance *nix.
Hey smarty-pants, try this one:
#include"stdio.h"
int main() {
int x,y,z;
x=1;
y=0;
z=x/y;
printf("z=%d\n",z);
}
Care to guess what you get when you run it? HP and Sun give you Floating Point Exception and dump the core. Which is correct. AIX gives you... 15. I guess not all zeros are in fact zero. Technically, IBM is probably right since dividing by zero is undefined. But you'd think they would at least make a minor attempt to make the developer's life easier. I haven't tried this in about two years, but I bet it still works.
Some guy in Nambla might discover a bug that could save a mission.
I didn't realize the National Marlon Brando Look-alike Association had that many geeks.
Everything I learned about nanotechnology I learned from 7 of 9. Every time someone gets hurt, she injects a little of that nanotechnology luvin' into them and they're better before the end of the episode. I have some microscopic organizms I'd like to inject into her.
Mork had Nano technology back in the 70s.
"Nano Nano"
Sheesh, in MSN you can "crack" this setting by going into Options...
In AIM it's MyAim->EditOptions->EditPreferences->Privacy , then unckeck how long I've been idle.
I use AIM to get out of work a different way though. I created an AIM id that's nearly identical to my boss' id. Then I sent a message to everyone saying that everyone could leave early to go see the matrix reloaded. He even offered to pay for the popcorn! What a great boss.
AP Sunnyvale Ca. - Today, Mr Jeff Bezos, President and CEO of amazon.com announced that amazon.com is withdrawing his patent suit against Chinpokomon Japan Ltd. Mr. Bezos commented, "We had contacted Chinpokomon Japan Ltd to inform them of our civil action. But after my conversation with Mr. Hirohito, I now have a different perspective. Mr Hirohito assured me that I have a large bulbous penis. And that my penis, which is gargantuan in size, was much larger than his small Japanese penis." Mr Bezos later announced the sale of amazon.com to Chinpokomon Japan Ltd for 5c a share. Mr Hirohito, in a statement released this afternoon, stated that the assets of amazon.com will be sold off to fund the purchase of 22 surplus U.S. B52 bombers. The purpose of the bombers is unknown.
That spells out the word God.
Coincidence?
I think not!
Louis Farakhan, is that you?!
This will be a boon for counter fitters.
:-) I work in lady's undergarment stores and say, "Dees'll fit her."
I'm not sure what a counter fitter is, but I'm a trained Diesel Fitter.
BTW - Radio Shack sells an RCA to stereo plug convertor
I hear they sell subway cars also.