They aren't holding you hostage... they can as easily reject you for other reasons. People on drugs are less stable, less dependable, and in the long run, less useful... as for legal drugs - severe alcoholism will punch a golfball sized hole in your brain in about 20 years. Many drugs act on dopamine or seratonin receptors, and either damage the receptors or producers enough that it causes imbalance later on. Try Extacy twice, and you've increased your chances of middle aged depression (and possibly suicide) by a very large factor. Merry Fuckin Christmas. Marijuana causes long term memory problems. Cocaine does all sorts of fun things to your neuro-chemical balance (dopamine agonist).
Don't work for them if you don't want to, but don't complain if they don't hire you because you refuse the test. There's plenty of places looking for good people that don't test, and there's plenty of good people who will pass and don't care about the test. Everybody should end up happy.
As an employer, I have the right to hire who I think is qualified. As a public company, I have a responsibility to maintain/increase stockholders share value. Making decisions for other people involves careful thought and process. I don't see the problem in screening out potential problems. Give them a chance to explain, but take note of this. I won't decide your guilt or innocence - if you have a criminal record, I'm just looking at what the courts have already written. It's like part of your transcript. Oh, look - johnny got an F in [subject], even though his GPA is 3.5... let's ask him what this is about. Look - johnny has a felony 5 years ago... let's ask him what this is all about. Very little difference, IMNSHO.
The drug tests I've taken haven't actually involved anyone watching me while giving the specimen. If they did, I might feel a hit to my dignity. Seems no different than the urine sample at the doctor's office to me. Me, a cup, a closed bathroom (with funny colored toilet water).
Like I said, you don't have to interview or accept jobs where this is a pre-qual, that's up to you.
I would expect similar testing before every employee is hired. This is a choice ahead of time. Once you are working, they shouldn't force it on you. That isn't 'right' (whatever that is)...
Large corps do get their books audited by outside firms (PWC, for example). All of that information should be disclosed for a publicly traded company. Private companies can do whatever they want (with respect to divulging information to the public).
hehe - wasting copius amounts of money to get a flag pre-sown onto the same jeans or t-shirt you can get at Walmart for 1/3 the price should be a felony... well, at least subject the person to public ridicule...
that goes for boxer shorts too... who the hell needs $30 boxers... trust me, she'll have made up her mind long before she sees whether or not they are 'Tommy' boxers...
That *does* sound like fun... hmmm... no. Most things don't require repeated phone taps. That breaks my limit on invasion of privacy. Background checks don't really invade much (unless you've done something to invade). I know many ppl who have various clearances - none of them have (knowingly) had their phone tapped for a month. That could be a little extreme...
Ummm, I don't see them asking for a drug test as a 'right' that I'm giving up. They do it once, it's not a random/constant monitoring thing (like the NFL). They aren't required to give me a job unless I meet their criteria. One (extremely reasonable) criterion might be that I haven't been high on something for a span of a week or two (depending on the life of the metabolized drug). Big deal. That's hardly a right, for them to give you a job if you won't give a tiny bit of proof.
As for background checks, there are certainly different levels there... a quick, cursory check (like the large companies do) all the way to the interview half the people you've ever known level (various security clearances). Those can seem more invasive... I've never considered that any harm to my dignity or freedom. Hell, a free society, everyone should be able to know about everyone elses criminal record - a lot of papers list all of the violations/fines there (like speeding tickets and domestics) and courthouse records contain this information, so it's public knowledge anyway. Part of a free society is everyone taking responsibility for their own actions. I'd like to be able to take responsibility for the people I hire, and certainly I'd hope that people in strategic places would do the same. If you have done anything that the test or search would turn up as a problem, then explain it, or piss off. Doesn't bother me one bit.
I fail to see how you are offended by either of these actions. Wouldn't you like a crackhead/murderer/rapist free workplace? "Yeah... We hired Joe last week. Smart guy, knows systems like the back of his hand. No, we weren't aware that he was jailed twice for pedophilia, and arrested two other times for drug use..." Screw that - employers have the right to know about unlawful activities of their (potential) employees.
It's not about being bought. I've never heard anyone complain about loss of dignity or freedom from a drug/background check before. That includes a lot of people with a lot of interviews. I didn't apply for a couple jobs that would have done the more comprehensive background check (interviewing third grade teachers and all that) - that was my choice. It's your choice to not want anything that requires a check of any sort. Good for you (not sarcastic - people should stand up for what they believe). I just don't see a problem with it. Not even a minor inconvenience for most people.
If you are happy where you are, great. If you see oportunity and the only thing between you an it is a plastic cup and a quick check to make sure you are a major detriment to society... I don't see an issue.
Too bad, there's a lot of cool stuff that goes on that you'd miss out on... Any division of UTC (Lockheed, etc (especially Sanders)), any large company (IBM in my case), or anyplace where you might ever need to get a clearance of some sort performs these. There's a lot of cool things elsewhere, but hey, it's up to you. Usually, a place would interview you about the problem first, rather than just say "We found something, take a hike". Heck, it's almost as bad as a credit report, half of the problems on people's reports are insubstantial or the result of a stolen card #...
I know there have been several other baseball players (Wade Boggs for example) who had 20/12ish vision, and then worsened to 20/20... he had won a number of batting championships, and then hit.256 (pretty lame). Got contacts to correct him to 20/15 or so, and his average went back up.
Judging by the number of strikeouts Sosa has compared to his homeruns (2.5:1 one time I checked), his vision isn't all that spectacular, but he swings really hard....
Yup, IBM has two tracks this way... you can work up the ladder on the technology or management side, and people switch between (tech -> management, but also management back to tech). Any higher level technologist will have many other responsibilities, of course, including project leadership, but the idea is to get the best people into the higher level technical design and organization, and still let them do implementation. Looking around my area, it seems to work well.
Even with just minor power flucuations (dimming lights from vaccuum/fridge/AC starting up), it's a pretty good investment...especially if you are seeing reboots. My UPS actually made my NT box more stable (the linux box has far more power supply than it needs, the NT box is a little spindle heavy, so it tends to be a little more sensitive about those sorts of things)...
Of course, maybe your VCR was cracked... they've got those power-line networks now... soon your toaster and microwave will be cracked, too - you'll be standing there, cold bread all over your face while the rest of your body gets heated into oblivion (muhahahaha)...
You don't have to e-mail them plaintext, you could always PGP encode them (or anything else)...
Best case would be to log everything to a serial port that is connected to a stand-alone box. Saves paper, logs everything, needs physical access to break into.
eieio is an assembly instruction for the PowerPC (enforce in order execution of I/O), too (I laugh everytime I see it...... I know, I'm easily amused...)
Ummm.... the point is that it shouldn't have been designed so poorly in the first place. You shouldn't need several workarounds to make a basic piece of software function.
Also, the icons (especially the volume) don't follow the normal conventions - particularly concerning visual information about whether or not the button is enabled... ah yes - Grey32, that's on, but Grey33 is disabled.......
or if you are drinking Dew/coffee/jolt with one hand, or eating a snack, or are just feeling lazy... half the time for short bursts I just type with my left hand, since the right one is on the trackball or helping with food/drink...
The only time I've ever had anyone take any exception with my signature was when I closed my old checking account (after moving 1200 miles away). I had signed the signature card ~8 years earlier (at the age of 14), and my signature had undergone several evolutions since then... so I showed them my license with my photo and new signature, and they let me go.
Heck, most restaurants just bring back the slip, tell you to sign it and leave it on the table... pay-at-the-pump doesn't offer much in the way of sig checking either...
And even if they did, I'm barely consistent enough to be sure it's really me 8^)
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They aren't holding you hostage... they can as easily reject you for other reasons. People on drugs are less stable, less dependable, and in the long run, less useful... as for legal drugs - severe alcoholism will punch a golfball sized hole in your brain in about 20 years. Many drugs act on dopamine or seratonin receptors, and either damage the receptors or producers enough that it causes imbalance later on. Try Extacy twice, and you've increased your chances of middle aged depression (and possibly suicide) by a very large factor. Merry Fuckin Christmas. Marijuana causes long term memory problems. Cocaine does all sorts of fun things to your neuro-chemical balance (dopamine agonist).
Don't work for them if you don't want to, but don't complain if they don't hire you because you refuse the test. There's plenty of places looking for good people that don't test, and there's plenty of good people who will pass and don't care about the test. Everybody should end up happy.
Hey, it was enough of an OS to allow you load other programs, an access hardware directly (peek/poke). That's goodness.
As an employer, I have the right to hire who I think is qualified. As a public company, I have a responsibility to maintain/increase stockholders share value. Making decisions for other people involves careful thought and process. I don't see the problem in screening out potential problems. Give them a chance to explain, but take note of this. I won't decide your guilt or innocence - if you have a criminal record, I'm just looking at what the courts have already written. It's like part of your transcript. Oh, look - johnny got an F in [subject], even though his GPA is 3.5... let's ask him what this is about. Look - johnny has a felony 5 years ago... let's ask him what this is all about. Very little difference, IMNSHO.
The drug tests I've taken haven't actually involved anyone watching me while giving the specimen. If they did, I might feel a hit to my dignity. Seems no different than the urine sample at the doctor's office to me. Me, a cup, a closed bathroom (with funny colored toilet water).
Like I said, you don't have to interview or accept jobs where this is a pre-qual, that's up to you.
I would expect similar testing before every employee is hired. This is a choice ahead of time. Once you are working, they shouldn't force it on you. That isn't 'right' (whatever that is)...
Large corps do get their books audited by outside firms (PWC, for example). All of that information should be disclosed for a publicly traded company. Private companies can do whatever they want (with respect to divulging information to the public).
Right, they should tell at/before your interview/offer. Then there's no problem. I would have a problem with them asking me now, randomly.
hehe - wasting copius amounts of money to get a flag pre-sown onto the same jeans or t-shirt you can get at Walmart for 1/3 the price should be a felony... well, at least subject the person to public ridicule...
that goes for boxer shorts too... who the hell needs $30 boxers... trust me, she'll have made up her mind long before she sees whether or not they are 'Tommy' boxers...
That *does* sound like fun... hmmm... no. Most things don't require repeated phone taps. That breaks my limit on invasion of privacy. Background checks don't really invade much (unless you've done something to invade). I know many ppl who have various clearances - none of them have (knowingly) had their phone tapped for a month. That could be a little extreme...
Ummm, I don't see them asking for a drug test as a 'right' that I'm giving up. They do it once, it's not a random/constant monitoring thing (like the NFL). They aren't required to give me a job unless I meet their criteria. One (extremely reasonable) criterion might be that I haven't been high on something for a span of a week or two (depending on the life of the metabolized drug). Big deal. That's hardly a right, for them to give you a job if you won't give a tiny bit of proof.
As for background checks, there are certainly different levels there... a quick, cursory check (like the large companies do) all the way to the interview half the people you've ever known level (various security clearances). Those can seem more invasive... I've never considered that any harm to my dignity or freedom. Hell, a free society, everyone should be able to know about everyone elses criminal record - a lot of papers list all of the violations/fines there (like speeding tickets and domestics) and courthouse records contain this information, so it's public knowledge anyway. Part of a free society is everyone taking responsibility for their own actions. I'd like to be able to take responsibility for the people I hire, and certainly I'd hope that people in strategic places would do the same. If you have done anything that the test or search would turn up as a problem, then explain it, or piss off. Doesn't bother me one bit.
I fail to see how you are offended by either of these actions. Wouldn't you like a crackhead/murderer/rapist free workplace? "Yeah... We hired Joe last week. Smart guy, knows systems like the back of his hand. No, we weren't aware that he was jailed twice for pedophilia, and arrested two other times for drug use..." Screw that - employers have the right to know about unlawful activities of their (potential) employees.
It's not about being bought. I've never heard anyone complain about loss of dignity or freedom from a drug/background check before. That includes a lot of people with a lot of interviews. I didn't apply for a couple jobs that would have done the more comprehensive background check (interviewing third grade teachers and all that) - that was my choice. It's your choice to not want anything that requires a check of any sort. Good for you (not sarcastic - people should stand up for what they believe). I just don't see a problem with it. Not even a minor inconvenience for most people.
If you are happy where you are, great. If you see oportunity and the only thing between you an it is a plastic cup and a quick check to make sure you are a major detriment to society... I don't see an issue.
Too bad, there's a lot of cool stuff that goes on that you'd miss out on... Any division of UTC (Lockheed, etc (especially Sanders)), any large company (IBM in my case), or anyplace where you might ever need to get a clearance of some sort performs these. There's a lot of cool things elsewhere, but hey, it's up to you. Usually, a place would interview you about the problem first, rather than just say "We found something, take a hike". Heck, it's almost as bad as a credit report, half of the problems on people's reports are insubstantial or the result of a stolen card #...
I know there have been several other baseball players (Wade Boggs for example) who had 20/12ish vision, and then worsened to 20/20... he had won a number of batting championships, and then hit .256 (pretty lame). Got contacts to correct him to 20/15 or so, and his average went back up.
Judging by the number of strikeouts Sosa has compared to his homeruns (2.5:1 one time I checked), his vision isn't all that spectacular, but he swings really hard....
Now if you could have only told them that about four years ago...
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Hey - I'm that flunky! (well, I've been here less than a year still - there's only so quickly you can move up the ladder...)
... it will all be mine... excellent!
Someday... [tapping fingers ala Mr. Burns]
Yup, IBM has two tracks this way... you can work up the ladder on the technology or management side, and people switch between (tech -> management, but also management back to tech). Any higher level technologist will have many other responsibilities, of course, including project leadership, but the idea is to get the best people into the higher level technical design and organization, and still let them do implementation. Looking around my area, it seems to work well.
Sounds like you need a UPS...
Even with just minor power flucuations (dimming lights from vaccuum/fridge/AC starting up), it's a pretty good investment...especially if you are seeing reboots. My UPS actually made my NT box more stable (the linux box has far more power supply than it needs, the NT box is a little spindle heavy, so it tends to be a little more sensitive about those sorts of things)...
Of course, maybe your VCR was cracked... they've got those power-line networks now... soon your toaster and microwave will be cracked, too - you'll be standing there, cold bread all over your face while the rest of your body gets heated into oblivion (muhahahaha)...
or not...
You'd have to mount the spools separately, though... otherwise you'd have all sorts of fun with mail, etc....
You don't have to e-mail them plaintext, you could always PGP encode them (or anything else)...
Best case would be to log everything to a serial port that is connected to a stand-alone box. Saves paper, logs everything, needs physical access to break into.
CD-Rs? You can do it for CD-RWs, but I haven't seen that for CD-Rs...
# strip -easter_egg ?
This was especially good in invisible mode ;-)
Oh, how I loved those games... I went through so many joysticks... they just wouldn't hold up.
eieio is an assembly instruction for the PowerPC (enforce in order execution of I/O), too (I laugh everytime I see it...... I know, I'm easily amused...)
That has got to be the best thing I've heard of yet - wow. 8^)
Gives me some ideas.......
Ummm.... the point is that it shouldn't have been designed so poorly in the first place. You shouldn't need several workarounds to make a basic piece of software function.
Also, the icons (especially the volume) don't follow the normal conventions - particularly concerning visual information about whether or not the button is enabled... ah yes - Grey32, that's on, but Grey33 is disabled.......
or if you are drinking Dew/coffee/jolt with one hand, or eating a snack, or are just feeling lazy... half the time for short bursts I just type with my left hand, since the right one is on the trackball or helping with food/drink...
this is just a bad idea...
The only time I've ever had anyone take any exception with my signature was when I closed my old checking account (after moving 1200 miles away). I had signed the signature card ~8 years earlier (at the age of 14), and my signature had undergone several evolutions since then... so I showed them my license with my photo and new signature, and they let me go.
Heck, most restaurants just bring back the slip, tell you to sign it and leave it on the table... pay-at-the-pump doesn't offer much in the way of sig checking either...
And even if they did, I'm barely consistent enough to be sure it's really me 8^)