I would volunteer to go to 611 Main Street, LaCrosse, Wisconsin, 54601, but since I'm 270 miles away, maybe someone else can go and scout out the digs:-)
If you see a house with a rusty front door, run. If you see a multi-block warehouse with an air conditioner the size of a couple Mack trucks, then there might be some truth to the whole thing...
They're not required, but they will if you ask enough for it.
The law as I know it, the cut-off is $27.50 an hour. $27.51 an hour and you're straight pay.
I was making above the cut-off as a contractor (still am) and got paid overtime (1.5x) for the weeks I worked my magical 60,70,80,90 or even the ball-busting 130 hour week, out of town, travelling every week.
Now I have a new position, a raise, and work 40 hours a week. It doesn't come close to what I was pulling in, but if you ask enough you can get it. For every hour you work, you put money in their pockets. If you don't work (or work for a company that will give you 1.5x OT) for them, they get zero. It's almost clearly in their best interest to give you what you want as long as their profit does not go down.
Funny how this topic comes up couple days after someone contacted me about my domain name.
First he emails me telling me he called the phone number listed in the DB (my modem number) and he can't get through. He would "love" to have this domain (it's a three letter.com name, probably a rare find). I ignore it. Next day there's a phone message on the answering machine (he must have found my resume). Since he's being persistent I tell him I don't want to sell it.
He emails me back shortly thereafter and asks if I want to talk it over on the phone. I told him to make me an offer. That was last night. I won't be around for the weekend so I'll see how "serious" he is on Monday.
Anyway, I got the domain back in '94 (like the guy with amazing.com) and it took like 4 weeks! I just do email on it for myself and friends, so it's not like it's sitting there doing nothing, plus I think it's a cool word!:-)
The biggest fear I have is selling it and having this guy with the hotmail account selling it on eBay or putting a porno site up with it -- happened to my friend with nine11.com after he let the registration lapse!
College is necessary for some corporations such as the job I am at currently. True, college degrees are not too useful in this industry, they say "Hey, I can deal with bureaucracy and bulls*it. Plus I'm teachable, I was in a highly social area and I've worked with people before". Masters though? Not needed.
Can people make it without college though? Sure It's also easy to keep up with technology. If you can't do both, what kind of techie are you?:-)
But my friend who dropped out of college is still living in an apartment, driving a 6-year-old car, living almost week-to-week doing his job in the computer industry as a sysadmin while I have a new car, having a new house built and am also working as a sysadmin making a significant percentage more than he is. I've been out for 14 months, he's been out for about 3 years.
He's now looking at going to college at night.
The only good thing is that we both work 9-5 at our respective jobs and have been told we don't need to work on December 31st:-)
So true in most cases, however not all recruiters are morons.
But there are a couple of firms that seem to employ only the ones rejected by other firms.
I put my resume out on a job website at two different times in my life with two different phone numbers (one home, one cell). I never get calls on the later one (cell phone) and still get calls at my home phone (posted when still in college, 3 years ago!).
Interesting tidbit, I think the good agencies never call you. The two I've worked through I went to and inquired both in person and submitting an internet resume through their own website, not through these websites. Why would the good ones be wasting their time surfing the web anyway, shouldn't they be working for *ME* ???
I've always believed that people who are denied access to something they know exists, they'll overcompensate later for it.
I'm assuming for the most part, we all have seen, grown up on, whatever, Road Runner, Bugs Bunny, Tom & Jerry cartoons. (I've seen all of them numerous times when I was young.) All of those had violence in them, right? Parents were probably more involved, too, in our lives. Explaining to us that it's not real. Wile E. Coyote is dust in one scene and functioning in the next because an artist drew it.
Who hasn't seen a pr0n movie or magazine at an early age (i.e. before 15)? Don't admit it here though;-) But I'm guessing a very large amount if not all. -- Are any of us sex offenders? (Don't admit that either.) I'm guessing a very small amount if any are.
The problem isn't the content, the problem lies in explaining to children what they have seen. Glorized violence of today (in the movies, in the videogames), are no different today than then. There is more, sure. But the responsibilities lie and always have lied with the parents or guardians.
Odds are the time I hear my son or daughter see an X-rated film, I'm not going to scream to them to scare the living bejeses out of them, I'll explain it to them. see what they thought of it, and tell them that it's something "grown-ups" do.
The government is only doing the censorship thing because no one is taking responsibility for their actions anymore. It seems though it may be too late now for people to suddenly become responsibile, which is just as bad.
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I would volunteer to go to 611 Main Street, LaCrosse, Wisconsin, 54601, but since I'm 270 miles away, maybe someone else can go and scout out the digs :-)
If you see a house with a rusty front door, run. If you see a multi-block warehouse with an air conditioner the size of a couple Mack trucks, then there might be some truth to the whole thing...
They're not required, but they will if you ask enough for it.
The law as I know it, the cut-off is $27.50 an hour. $27.51 an hour and you're straight pay.
I was making above the cut-off as a contractor (still am) and got paid overtime (1.5x) for the weeks I worked my magical 60,70,80,90 or even the ball-busting 130 hour week, out of town, travelling every week.
Now I have a new position, a raise, and work 40 hours a week. It doesn't come close to what I was pulling in, but if you ask enough you can get it.
For every hour you work, you put money in their pockets. If you don't work (or work for a company that will give you 1.5x OT) for them, they get zero. It's almost clearly in their best interest to give you what you want as long as their profit does not go down.
Funny how this topic comes up couple days after someone contacted me about my domain name.
:-)
First he emails me telling me he called the phone number listed in the DB (my modem number) and he can't get through. He would "love" to have this domain (it's a three letter.com name, probably a rare find). I ignore it. Next day there's a phone message on the answering machine (he must have found my resume). Since he's being persistent I tell him I don't want to sell it.
He emails me back shortly thereafter and asks if I want to talk it over on the phone. I told him to make me an offer. That was last night. I won't be around for the weekend so I'll see how "serious" he is on Monday.
Anyway, I got the domain back in '94 (like the guy with amazing.com) and it took like 4 weeks! I just do email on it for myself and friends, so it's not like it's sitting there doing nothing, plus I think it's a cool word!
The biggest fear I have is selling it and having this guy with the hotmail account selling it on eBay or putting a porno site up with it -- happened to my friend with nine11.com after he let the registration lapse!
-m
College is necessary for some corporations such as the job I am at currently. True, college degrees are not too useful in this industry, they say "Hey, I can deal with bureaucracy and bulls*it. Plus I'm teachable, I was in a highly social area and I've worked with people before". Masters though? Not needed.
:-)
:-)
Can people make it without college though? Sure It's also easy to keep up with technology. If you can't do both, what kind of techie are you?
But my friend who dropped out of college is still living in an apartment, driving a 6-year-old car, living almost week-to-week doing his job in the computer industry as a sysadmin while I have a new car, having a new house built and am also working as a sysadmin making a significant percentage more than he is. I've been out for 14 months, he's been out for about 3 years.
He's now looking at going to college at night.
The only good thing is that we both work 9-5 at our respective jobs and have been told we don't need to work on December 31st
The "Coca-Cola" bottle design ("the contour bottle") is trademarked or copyrighted (see www.coke.com/legal.html).
Maybe Apple was smart enough in the beginning to do this to the "all-in-one" design of the iMac.
Maybe not. Anyone know?
-m
Wow... their stock price is low compared to what it used to be and now they're claiming that users pages are intellectual property?
They must really be getting desperate. I've seen some of those pages and there's nothing intellectual about it.
Sorry to those dozen people who actually have something useful there.
-- m
So true in most cases, however not all recruiters are morons.
But there are a couple of firms that seem to employ only the ones rejected by other firms.
I put my resume out on a job website at two different times in my life with two different phone numbers (one home, one cell). I never get calls on the later one (cell phone) and still get calls at my home phone (posted when still in college, 3 years ago!).
Interesting tidbit, I think the good agencies never call you. The two I've worked through I went to and inquired both in person and submitting an internet resume through their own website, not through these websites. Why would the good ones be wasting their time surfing the web anyway, shouldn't they be working for *ME* ???
-m
I've always believed that people who are denied access to something they know exists, they'll overcompensate later for it.
;-) But I'm guessing a very large amount if not all. -- Are any of us sex offenders? (Don't admit that either.) I'm guessing a very small amount if any are.
I'm assuming for the most part, we all have seen, grown up on, whatever, Road Runner, Bugs Bunny, Tom & Jerry cartoons. (I've seen all of them numerous times when I was young.) All of those had violence in them, right? Parents were probably more involved, too, in our lives. Explaining to us that it's not real. Wile E. Coyote is dust in one scene and functioning in the next because an artist drew it.
Who hasn't seen a pr0n movie or magazine at an early age (i.e. before 15)? Don't admit it here though
The problem isn't the content, the problem lies in explaining to children what they have seen. Glorized violence of today (in the movies, in the videogames), are no different today than then. There is more, sure. But the responsibilities lie and always have lied with the parents or guardians.
Odds are the time I hear my son or daughter see an X-rated film, I'm not going to scream to them to scare the living bejeses out of them, I'll explain it to them. see what they thought of it, and tell them that it's something "grown-ups" do.
The government is only doing the censorship thing because no one is taking responsibility for their actions anymore. It seems though it may be too late now for people to suddenly become responsibile, which is just as bad.
I don't get it either. For that amount of money I could get a sweet trained German Shepard that could rip a hole in the side of a Honda on command.
This thing probably couldn't scare away a mouse should it invade my home...