Most of the folks I know who do similar things have their albums on their hard disks. Of course, these are folks who still ahve use of the data. Imagine if they had to cart around that many CDs!
I read that too, but a poster above claimed to have paid with a credit card, and when delivery took much longer than promised, was able to cancel and get his money back.
I just thought more could have been done to really solidify the article and get into the nitty-gritty (odd...I don't believe I've ever typed that before, but it seemed to fit) of the experience.
Hey, more power to ya, but I couldn't imagine my having the additional distractions like having to pay attention to the dog and walking it.
All of the places I've worked in for the last 15 years I've been in the industry have been rather strict both dress-wise and work-environment wise. It's only been in the past three years or so that I could dress more casually at work. Then again, I've always chosen industries like banks (BofA, CalFed), utilities (Sempra Energy), government datacenters(State of California) and order-processing environments (McKesson), so as to have above-average pay and some job security. I did not get to partake in the Dot Com stuff, but I think I ended up better off anyway.
Congrats on the relaxed environment you enjoy, though bummer about the PTSD. Good luck!
My room mate worked at a gas station as a counter person. She also made all of the coffee (think a miniture Starbucks) drinks. So she did pricing, checkout, inventory, customer service, cleaning, etc. for the gas station. She made $8.50 per hour and worked her ass off.
Contrast: Albertson's is across the street, and as everyone is (at least since the strike) aware they're union. They don't stock the shelves very well, there are sticky spots on the (often dirty) floors, price-checking is needed often, and the service sucks. In my area (I was privy to job posting) they made between $14 (newbie) to $21 (incumbent) per hour, with free benefits.
So my roommate was doing everything, and getting $8.50/hr, and the union folks were doing next to nothing right and getting $14/hr (minimum) with free benefits.
Now tell me how much better and cheaper the grocery store unions make our lives.
My opinion is that unions are the end result of companies making horrible decisions, but that technology has made that point moot. If I work at Company X and get crappy hours or my boss abuses me, I'll go work at at Company B for $1/hour more. If enough people leave, either the prices will go down, the wages will go up, or the place will close. Worst-case scenario for the corp., Wall street will hear about it, the media will report it, and stocks will drop.
"...pagers are lame outdated, and totally cost inefficient...."
I beg to differ. I have a two-way text pager that allows me to handle every simple aspect of administering my systems.
My employer has invested in AlarmPoint, which is a servant to an IBM product called PEM. When an event, or series of events, happen...AlarmPoint pages me. (It'll also call my cell phone, leaving a message, call my home phone and leave a message, etc., but I've designed it so it pages me first) Anyways, once I recieve the page (and yes, I have guaranteed delivery) I can respond back with automatic instructions. Granted, the instructions have to be scripted and automated beforehand.
So if, for example, one of my servers are running low filesystem space (I'm first alerted at 75% useage) I can set Response Option #3 to empty the/temp filesystem.
You have much learning to do, grasshopper. First and foremost, any author tag should be either embeded in the background of the title page, or should be loaded as a graphic that also houses some other important bit of information.
In other words, if they delete your name, they screw up the presentation. And if they deleted your name, chances are you won't look bad as a result.
All of my text pagers (well, the last three companies I've worked) have guaranteed delivery of messages. If your pager is off or out of range, they get stored.
"If he needs to be paged at all hours and they won't allow him to use a personal phone they should make his phone a business"
My company tried that, except that I'd have to be on the company plan...which was minimal. I'd have gone over my minute allotment just with my personal calls, let alone my support calls, and I was only allowed to have my personal calls be 20% of the used minutes.
So I upgraded my (already inflated, just-in-case) personal cell phone plan ($10 per month) to allow for the increased usage, and everybody is happy.
They *should* have used a credit card to purchase a unit and review it on delivery. Barring actual delivery, they could have at least reported (first hand) on everything that went wrong during the ordering process.
The sad thing is that if folks visited some of the other informational sites that engaged the brain in an effort to educate it in the ways of attracting the opposite sex, sex would be arguably free.
(Yes, I understand that much of the money made on the internet by the 'fringe' segments of the sex market, namely the fettish sections.)
In essence, there would be no need to buy a diamond, because you could simply just pick one up off the ground.
I dunno. "I learned everything I need to know about teamwork, delegation and quality control while on the set of 'Three Bitches for Charlie' doesn't really have a nice ring to it.
It certainly depends on how the information is presented, and may heavilly depend on whether the hiring person is 'with' or 'against' Adult Entertainment.
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Most of the folks I know who do similar things have their albums on their hard disks. Of course, these are folks who still ahve use of the data. Imagine if they had to cart around that many CDs!
I read that too, but a poster above claimed to have paid with a credit card, and when delivery took much longer than promised, was able to cancel and get his money back.
I just thought more could have been done to really solidify the article and get into the nitty-gritty (odd...I don't believe I've ever typed that before, but it seemed to fit) of the experience.
Hey, more power to ya, but I couldn't imagine my having the additional distractions like having to pay attention to the dog and walking it.
All of the places I've worked in for the last 15 years I've been in the industry have been rather strict both dress-wise and work-environment wise. It's only been in the past three years or so that I could dress more casually at work. Then again, I've always chosen industries like banks (BofA, CalFed), utilities (Sempra Energy), government datacenters(State of California) and order-processing environments (McKesson), so as to have above-average pay and some job security. I did not get to partake in the Dot Com stuff, but I think I ended up better off anyway.
Congrats on the relaxed environment you enjoy, though bummer about the PTSD. Good luck!
My union story:
My room mate worked at a gas station as a counter person. She also made all of the coffee (think a miniture Starbucks) drinks. So she did pricing, checkout, inventory, customer service, cleaning, etc. for the gas station. She made $8.50 per hour and worked her ass off.
Contrast: Albertson's is across the street, and as everyone is (at least since the strike) aware they're union. They don't stock the shelves very well, there are sticky spots on the (often dirty) floors, price-checking is needed often, and the service sucks. In my area (I was privy to job posting) they made between $14 (newbie) to $21 (incumbent) per hour, with free benefits.
So my roommate was doing everything, and getting $8.50/hr, and the union folks were doing next to nothing right and getting $14/hr (minimum) with free benefits.
Now tell me how much better and cheaper the grocery store unions make our lives.
My opinion is that unions are the end result of companies making horrible decisions, but that technology has made that point moot. If I work at Company X and get crappy hours or my boss abuses me, I'll go work at at Company B for $1/hour more. If enough people leave, either the prices will go down, the wages will go up, or the place will close. Worst-case scenario for the corp., Wall street will hear about it, the media will report it, and stocks will drop.
"And the majority of computer users wouldn't have a clue how to unload the docks, either."
I think you may have misread the last part of the poster's sentance "...even if you sat them down and trained them."
There. There's your point.
You mean...you brought your DOG to work?
What kind of back-woods place do you work where you can bring an animal to work?
Or maybe I just don't get it...
"...pagers are lame outdated, and totally cost inefficient...."
/temp filesystem.
I beg to differ. I have a two-way text pager that allows me to handle every simple aspect of administering my systems.
My employer has invested in AlarmPoint, which is a servant to an IBM product called PEM. When an event, or series of events, happen...AlarmPoint pages me. (It'll also call my cell phone, leaving a message, call my home phone and leave a message, etc., but I've designed it so it pages me first) Anyways, once I recieve the page (and yes, I have guaranteed delivery) I can respond back with automatic instructions. Granted, the instructions have to be scripted and automated beforehand.
So if, for example, one of my servers are running low filesystem space (I'm first alerted at 75% useage) I can set Response Option #3 to empty the
You have much learning to do, grasshopper. First and foremost, any author tag should be either embeded in the background of the title page, or should be loaded as a graphic that also houses some other important bit of information.
In other words, if they delete your name, they screw up the presentation. And if they deleted your name, chances are you won't look bad as a result.
All of my text pagers (well, the last three companies I've worked) have guaranteed delivery of messages. If your pager is off or out of range, they get stored.
"If he needs to be paged at all hours and they won't allow him to use a personal phone they should make his phone a business"
My company tried that, except that I'd have to be on the company plan...which was minimal. I'd have gone over my minute allotment just with my personal calls, let alone my support calls, and I was only allowed to have my personal calls be 20% of the used minutes.
So I upgraded my (already inflated, just-in-case) personal cell phone plan ($10 per month) to allow for the increased usage, and everybody is happy.
I get my $10 back in many other creative ways.
Yes, exactly correct.
They *should* have used a credit card to purchase a unit and review it on delivery. Barring actual delivery, they could have at least reported (first hand) on everything that went wrong during the ordering process.
Homosexuality, or Bisexuality?
Seems that the Bisexuals would have the most success...
The sad thing is that if folks visited some of the other informational sites that engaged the brain in an effort to educate it in the ways of attracting the opposite sex, sex would be arguably free.
(Yes, I understand that much of the money made on the internet by the 'fringe' segments of the sex market, namely the fettish sections.)
In essence, there would be no need to buy a diamond, because you could simply just pick one up off the ground.
"...I'm also being touch-and-cheek..."
"Freud? Paging Mr. Freud!"
I dunno. "I learned everything I need to know about teamwork, delegation and quality control while on the set of 'Three Bitches for Charlie' doesn't really have a nice ring to it.
It certainly depends on how the information is presented, and may heavilly depend on whether the hiring person is 'with' or 'against' Adult Entertainment.
"The only thing better than surfing the internet for pr0n is getting paid to put it there."
Hm. How about getting paid to *actually take part* in the porn?
I'm more of an agnostic, myself, but I certainly meant no offense.
Irritaion, maybe, humor, definitely, but no offense.
Hahaha! Now THAT was funny.
"--As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord."
Would that be for breakfast, lunch or dinner? Would you serve him with a side salad?
Either you're extremely low on the food chain, there's a lack of intelligence, or you just don't care.
Exactly!
I don't want to pay for them to be locked up. Put THEM in the microwave. For, um, testing purposes.
I'd expect that they'd simply have the bill replaced.
Good examples, but if you look at the consumer side of each of them, there is something much larger than the trace that's supposedly in the $20 bill.
In other words, each $20 bill would probably have to be as large as your EZ-Pass in order to be read from the same distance.
Good website I found: www.doom9.org
Lots of tool-download goodness there, including an MPEG4 encoder tool I'd been looking for.
Enjoy!
I'm not sure what MS Bob would be coupled with, but it should be placed right past Go. If memory serves, they were Baltic and Mediteranian.
Either way, a cheap-ass square that only the completionists (or cheap bastards like me that nickle-and-dime you to death) would want.
I'm with you on Free Parking! That was a good one.