I've been a Recruiter/Staffer in the industry for 5 years now, and I am shocked at both the article and the responses to it. I'm shocked at the article because someone actually had the huevos to write it (and did a great job of it!) and shocked at the responses because of their (mostly) lack of blind Temp agency bashing.
IMHO, there is always a time to say "enough". It's just different for everyone, and they must have the balls to do it.
For Temp agencies, they must be able to turn away that business, and that money, when their temps are being treated badly. This is a very hard thing to do when your Parent company is demanding sales numbers be met.
For the workers, they must be able to sacrifice the easy job (as in easy to get and quit) and put long days and nights into education to qualify for higher paying and permanent work. This is also hard, when you can't feed your kids.
Finally, the Company must be able to lower profits and raise expenses by hiring high quality, permanent employees at or above market rate. Again...not easy to do, especially when profit are low.
Every agency, company and worker has done this at some time in my career. My agency has walked from business and paid for it, sometimes for years. But we did it knowing that we would come out ahead in the end (there is a reason my agency is NOT the one in this article) but in the meantime, things are harder, not easier.
Until one of the three parties in this plant says enough...it will be an embarrasment for all.
From the article: "The microscopic computer's input, output and software are made up of DNA molecules -- which store and process encoded information in living organisms."
Now the mice can build the Earth Mark Two after the Vogons blow this one up!
And we can finally know the Question to the Ultimate Answer....
On Wil's comment about his disapointment in not being in the next STNG movie:
"Especially if there's a wedding in the script. I think it'd give some nice closure to the character."
Huh?? Did Wil let something slip, or is this a rumor I've not heard? What wedding would affect the closure of his character execept for his own...or more importantly, his mother's. Interesting possibilities here...
You got me to thinking about the physical aspect of the brain as opposed to the "soul" for lack of a better word. The best example I can think of to illustrate my point is amnesia.
Some times amnesia is the result of physical damage to the brain, but it also can be the result of psychological damage that has nothing to do with the actual, physical brain. The brain can be completely undamaged, no tissue damage, no cellular damage, but the memory is gone. Now imagine a brain taken apart molocule by molocule and the re-assembled.
Will our memories survive this? It seems they aren't really a part of the actual cells and molocules and atoms that compose the physical brain...but something else. Something that even scientists can't quite put their finger on. And if we're not sure what it is that really makes us who we are, how can we transport it?
The potentials, of course, are staggering, but I have one question. Should the ability to teleport/transport matter between two points become reality, what of that vaporous non-matter that is so imporant? Our memories, our knowledge, all that is us? How do you transport something like that? Even if it's a duplication and not a true teleportation, how do you duplicate something like that? Wouldn't we just be transporting empty shells...the skin and bones and blood...but not the soul?
In anycase I guess my commute won't be shortened anytime soon.
I remember being a die-hard TOS fan...refusing to even watch the premier episode of STNG. Now of course I'm a STNG fan and leery of the new series. However I will watch it, and try and remember how dorky Farpoint looks in relationship to the later episodes of STNG.
I'll be shocked if the first episode is awesome, but I'll keep watching. Gene lives on through these series afterall. And after the space opera that was Voyager, I have to believe that they've learned some lessons!
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2. Things go wrong only if you fail to take action to prevent them.
I have never seen a well-planned fiasco.
You've obviously never been to a wedding.
Am I the only one who noticed the 60 gig hard drive is 4500 rpm?? WTF?
I've been a Recruiter/Staffer in the industry for 5 years now, and I am shocked at both the article and the responses to it. I'm shocked at the article because someone actually had the huevos to write it (and did a great job of it!) and shocked at the responses because of their (mostly) lack of blind Temp agency bashing.
IMHO, there is always a time to say "enough". It's just different for everyone, and they must have the balls to do it.
For Temp agencies, they must be able to turn away that business, and that money, when their temps are being treated badly. This is a very hard thing to do when your Parent company is demanding sales numbers be met.
For the workers, they must be able to sacrifice the easy job (as in easy to get and quit) and put long days and nights into education to qualify for higher paying and permanent work. This is also hard, when you can't feed your kids.
Finally, the Company must be able to lower profits and raise expenses by hiring high quality, permanent employees at or above market rate. Again...not easy to do, especially when profit are low.
Every agency, company and worker has done this at some time in my career. My agency has walked from business and paid for it, sometimes for years. But we did it knowing that we would come out ahead in the end (there is a reason my agency is NOT the one in this article) but in the meantime, things are harder, not easier.
Until one of the three parties in this plant says enough...it will be an embarrasment for all.
From the article: "The microscopic computer's input, output and software are made up of DNA molecules -- which store and process encoded information in living organisms."
Now the mice can build the Earth Mark Two after the Vogons blow this one up!
And we can finally know the Question to the Ultimate Answer....
On Wil's comment about his disapointment in not being in the next STNG movie:
"Especially if there's a wedding in the script. I think it'd give some nice closure to the character."
Huh?? Did Wil let something slip, or is this a rumor I've not heard? What wedding would affect the closure of his character execept for his own...or more importantly, his mother's. Interesting possibilities here...
You got me to thinking about the physical aspect of the brain as opposed to the "soul" for lack of a better word. The best example I can think of to illustrate my point is amnesia.
Some times amnesia is the result of physical damage to the brain, but it also can be the result of psychological damage that has nothing to do with the actual, physical brain. The brain can be completely undamaged, no tissue damage, no cellular damage, but the memory is gone. Now imagine a brain taken apart molocule by molocule and the re-assembled.
Will our memories survive this? It seems they aren't really a part of the actual cells and molocules and atoms that compose the physical brain...but something else. Something that even scientists can't quite put their finger on. And if we're not sure what it is that really makes us who we are, how can we transport it?
The potentials, of course, are staggering, but I have one question. Should the ability to teleport/transport matter between two points become reality, what of that vaporous non-matter that is so imporant? Our memories, our knowledge, all that is us? How do you transport something like that? Even if it's a duplication and not a true teleportation, how do you duplicate something like that? Wouldn't we just be transporting empty shells...the skin and bones and blood...but not the soul?
In anycase I guess my commute won't be shortened anytime soon.
I remember being a die-hard TOS fan...refusing to even watch the premier episode of STNG. Now of course I'm a STNG fan and leery of the new series. However I will watch it, and try and remember how dorky Farpoint looks in relationship to the later episodes of STNG.
I'll be shocked if the first episode is awesome, but I'll keep watching. Gene lives on through these series afterall. And after the space opera that was Voyager, I have to believe that they've learned some lessons!