The way to beat these guys, is to call your provider, talk nicely to them, and get them to block premium services and third party billing on your account.
Completely agree that discrimination, abuse or harassment is (a) illegal and (b) not remotely acceptable in any workplace (or anywhere else) and should be stepped on, hard, whenever it occurs. My point was only that communication between (upper) management and the workforce is more often one way and less than open.
I'm not sure how discussion boards such as the ones described in the article are helpful, but maybe that's because I don't work at Google.
Taking the letter at face value, Google seems to be a complex place at which to work. I'm a maker, so I tend to focus on the deliverable, rather than spending a lot of time discussing workplace culture. But, I've said too much already:-)
It is possible there's a disconnect between management and employees.
Gee...ya think?
I don't think I've ever been in a company where management and employees were on the same wavelength...not for long, anyway. Management has their ideas of how the company's running and what the goals are. It's rare that they effectively communicate them on any consistent basis to the employees, and even rarer that they listen to and (yet rarer) act on what they hear back. Management doesn't think the employees can grasp the "subtle business nuances" that influence their decisions, and employees are reluctant to speak truth to power because they're afraid of consequences.
Sounds like Google has not only failed on "not being evil", but also on dialog between management and employees. Lots of trendy words, but an iron fist inside that velvet glove.
The senior software engineer in the communications and networking group at Data [Soul of a New Machine] General was an MIT dropout. Really smart guy and a genuinely nice person as well. Very smart people are sometimes bored with the pace of school.
When I graduated from UMass/Amherst, we had just installed a new-to-us (we got a good deal on someone else's upgrade) CDC Cyber-74. We had no PLATO terminals, but the CDC people were milking it for all the advertising value they could get out of it. I worked in the Computing Center, and took the required assembly language programming course on that monster. 60-bit word and hardware floating point was a Big Deal.
Why, yes, I *am* an antique technology junkie. Took a programming (wiring) class on the IBM 402 Accounting Machine (weighed about as much as a VW Beetle) in high school and repaired Teletypes in college.
If they really wanted to help, the APA would be organizing the pilots to see how much they would have to be paid to give up the vacation they were promised and then present that to the airline in a package-deal format. Something like "I have 1500 pilots willing to take shifts fro 150% bonus, 2500 for 250% bonus,..."
Now, THAT ^^^ makes perfect sense.
So, naturally, it won't happen.// flying to Hawaii for Christmas from Boston on American:-(///...maybe
Microsoft imposes their conception of what I use a computer for on me, once again.
I'd never want more than one window open, and why would I need more than one monitor? Just like I'd never reference data in one window and use it to create something in another. Or view a schematic while ordering parts.
Rule #1 of user interface design: "If it works, don't fix it!"
You know, it's not really fair to expect the average citizen to be able to phrase his viewpoint in legal terms. Nor is it reasonable to expect that he would spend the money to hire a lawyer, simply to express his opinion. For example, constituents routinely make their views known to their elected representatives, using plain language. Why should the FCC require a higher standard? I'd really like to see Pai get sued over this.
Oh, I'm absolutely positive that Amazon takes no responsibility for the actions of the deliveryperson, who is an independent contractor, employed by a company not associated with Amazon. If they lift something from your house, Amazon will express their regrets, and that's about all you'll ever get from them.
Heck, they've started using Amazon Logistics in my area now, and when the guy can't find my house, the order gets "lost". Then Amazon informs me that I'll need to re-place the order and they'll issue me a refund for the lost package in their own sweet time. Now, THAT's service!
Got fed up with robocalls, and since you can't block them due to spoofed caller ID, I set all my contacts to an audible ringtone and made my default ringtone a single "ding".
Now, unknown callers ring with a single "ding" and people on my contacts list ring with a normal ringtone.
Not perfect, but workable. It would be welcome, though, to see some action on the part of the telcos or the FCC/FTC in regards to the blatant ignoring of the DoNotCall list...
My company recently moved into a new facility. It has a large, glass-walled conference room. Very impressive. Whenever a client comes in, and they're going to discuss anything confidential, they tape large sheets of paper over the glass. Not so impressive.
Except...they caught the guy. Might actually help us learn more about how the Chinese do economic espionage, because they got his computers, too.
15 years max sounds on the light side. But it's Federal, which means no parole. This is totally theoretical, anyway, since if Dong is convicted, the Chinese will immediately arrest and convict a random US diplomat and then swap him for Dong.
I suggest that while *travel* may not broaden the mind, living in another country certainly does.
I lived in Belgium and Australia as a child and find America to be culturally insular. There's a whole world out there, folks, with music and books and art...shame we don't see as much of it as we could.
I'm going with a low level employee in the visa waiver checking department (Section 7G?) who had a long queue of waivers and wanted to go out to Joe's going away lunch. They either came back buzzed from a few beers or checked "DENY" on all the visas in the queue so they wouldn't miss the lunch.
This country is going to hell in a handbasket, and it's not all Trump's fault (though he's certainly doing his part). Can you imagine today's USA putting forth the kind of effort and sacrifice that won WWII? Well, aside from the fact that we have very little heavy manufacturing capability any more, and not nearly enough engineers or skilled craftspeople. Unless, of course, WWIII is a videogame war. Then we'd be all set.
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I have an EMV MasterCard. Used it today, in fact, and was asked to sign. I don't think I have a PIN for the card.
The way to beat these guys, is to call your provider, talk nicely to them, and get them to block premium services and third party billing on your account.
Completely agree that discrimination, abuse or harassment is (a) illegal and (b) not remotely acceptable in any workplace (or anywhere else) and should be stepped on, hard, whenever it occurs. My point was only that communication between (upper) management and the workforce is more often one way and less than open.
I'm not sure how discussion boards such as the ones described in the article are helpful, but maybe that's because I don't work at Google.
Taking the letter at face value, Google seems to be a complex place at which to work. I'm a maker, so I tend to focus on the deliverable, rather than spending a lot of time discussing workplace culture. But, I've said too much already :-)
It is possible there's a disconnect between management and employees.
Gee...ya think?
I don't think I've ever been in a company where management and employees were on the same wavelength...not for long, anyway. Management has their ideas of how the company's running and what the goals are. It's rare that they effectively communicate them on any consistent basis to the employees, and even rarer that they listen to and (yet rarer) act on what they hear back. Management doesn't think the employees can grasp the "subtle business nuances" that influence their decisions, and employees are reluctant to speak truth to power because they're afraid of consequences.
Sounds like Google has not only failed on "not being evil", but also on dialog between management and employees. Lots of trendy words, but an iron fist inside that velvet glove.
When I first saw this, I thought: heh! just load the stiff in the back seat, drive up, open the door & push him out, and drive off.
Even faster if you have a hatchback: ust pop the hatch and leave some rubber. Stiff slides out the back.
The senior software engineer in the communications and networking group at Data [Soul of a New Machine] General was an MIT dropout. Really smart guy and a genuinely nice person as well. Very smart people are sometimes bored with the pace of school.
Hi, Larry!
When I graduated from UMass/Amherst, we had just installed a new-to-us (we got a good deal on someone else's upgrade) CDC Cyber-74. We had no PLATO terminals, but the CDC people were milking it for all the advertising value they could get out of it. I worked in the Computing Center, and took the required assembly language programming course on that monster. 60-bit word and hardware floating point was a Big Deal.
Why, yes, I *am* an antique technology junkie. Took a programming (wiring) class on the IBM 402 Accounting Machine (weighed about as much as a VW Beetle) in high school and repaired Teletypes in college.
Good times.
If they really wanted to help, the APA would be organizing the pilots to see how much they would have to be paid to give up the vacation they were promised and then present that to the airline in a package-deal format. Something like "I have 1500 pilots willing to take shifts fro 150% bonus, 2500 for 250% bonus, ..."
Now, THAT ^^^ makes perfect sense.
So, naturally, it won't happen. // flying to Hawaii for Christmas from Boston on American :-( /// ...maybe
Microsoft imposes their conception of what I use a computer for on me, once again.
I'd never want more than one window open, and why would I need more than one monitor?
Just like I'd never reference data in one window and use it to create something in another. Or view a schematic while ordering parts.
Rule #1 of user interface design: "If it works, don't fix it!"
I decline to create joinder with you.
What, then, is the purpose of requiring a "public comment period"?
Yeah, and by "balance the interests", they mean, compare the amount of donations.
You know, it's not really fair to expect the average citizen to be able to phrase his viewpoint in legal terms. Nor is it reasonable to expect that he would spend the money to hire a lawyer, simply to express his opinion. For example, constituents routinely make their views known to their elected representatives, using plain language. Why should the FCC require a higher standard?
I'd really like to see Pai get sued over this.
Oh, I'm absolutely positive that Amazon takes no responsibility for the actions of the deliveryperson, who is an independent contractor, employed by a company not associated with Amazon. If they lift something from your house, Amazon will express their regrets, and that's about all you'll ever get from them.
Heck, they've started using Amazon Logistics in my area now, and when the guy can't find my house, the order gets "lost". Then Amazon informs me that I'll need to re-place the order and they'll issue me a refund for the lost package in their own sweet time. Now, THAT's service!
Got fed up with robocalls, and since you can't block them due to spoofed caller ID, I set all my contacts to an audible ringtone and made my default ringtone a single "ding".
Now, unknown callers ring with a single "ding" and people on my contacts list ring with a normal ringtone.
Not perfect, but workable. It would be welcome, though, to see some action on the part of the telcos or the FCC/FTC in regards to the blatant ignoring of the DoNotCall list...
I'll see your ctrl-alt-delete, and raise you a SysRq.
Seriously, has anyone ever used that key for anything?
(besides Print Screen, which shares the keytop with it)
How about Pause/Break?
(back in the DOS days, it stopped the screen from scrolling...sometimes. Break is, I think, a relic from the Teletype days)
The guy's a spy. His Canadian passport is either an excellent fake, or completely genuine and authorized by the Chinese government.
My company recently moved into a new facility. It has a large, glass-walled conference room. Very impressive. Whenever a client comes in, and they're going to discuss anything confidential, they tape large sheets of paper over the glass. Not so impressive.
Except...they caught the guy. Might actually help us learn more about how the Chinese do economic espionage, because they got his computers, too.
15 years max sounds on the light side. But it's Federal, which means no parole. This is totally theoretical, anyway, since if Dong is convicted, the Chinese will immediately arrest and convict a random US diplomat and then swap him for Dong.
Linux -- it doesn't suck any worse than Windows.
Seriously, I use it because it does what I need it to do, and lets me control when updates are done (with no telemetry or hidden controls).
// Mint MATE 17.3 at the moment...
I suggest that while *travel* may not broaden the mind, living in another country certainly does.
I lived in Belgium and Australia as a child and find America to be culturally insular. There's a whole world out there, folks, with music and books and art...shame we don't see as much of it as we could.
Wikipedia also sez:
old abandoned umbrellas turn into ghosts
...and then hide behind your dryer with the single socks to haunt you.
Although denying these students visas accomplishes nothing in that respect.
Probably soured the entire team on the US is about all they accomplished with this dumb move.
I'm going with a low level employee in the visa waiver checking department (Section 7G?) who had a long queue of waivers and wanted to go out to Joe's going away lunch. They either came back buzzed from a few beers or checked "DENY" on all the visas in the queue so they wouldn't miss the lunch.
This country is going to hell in a handbasket, and it's not all Trump's fault (though he's certainly doing his part). Can you imagine today's USA putting forth the kind of effort and sacrifice that won WWII? Well, aside from the fact that we have very little heavy manufacturing capability any more, and not nearly enough engineers or skilled craftspeople. Unless, of course, WWIII is a videogame war. Then we'd be all set.
Using other news sources and published documents means he isn't a news outlet/journalist?
If 60 minutes does the same thing without the humor, would you call it journalism ?
I could be wrong, but I think it's Oliver's sarcastic comments that Murray has a problem with.
That's not news, it's commentary, or parody, and it's protected speech.