I'm as conservative as they come, but he's right.. Wasting money on bombs..... Like, if some country is an actual threat, I'm all for bombing them to dust, but that's not the case in almost all of our recent wars....
I dunno.. I have been in several positions in my life where my manager was "promoted from the line" to use military parlance. They were guys who had done the job and worked their way up. Not the typical MBA assholes... To me, that's the best kind of manager. They know the job, so they're going to know who is good at the job and who isn't pulling their weight. Generally these were older guys (not old, just older) and maybe they had passed peak physical, so they took a desk job, but they still knew the job inside and out and most would be out in the field at least a few days a month keeping up to speed.
In all honesty, the best managers I've ever had were these line guys.. The worst were MBAs who just stepped into the job and didn't know their ass from a hole in the ground.
Correction, even though you were just dead weight to the family, your parents practiced communism and you are an infant. Prioritizing the needs of the community ( a family unit is a micro-community) over the pleasures and desires of the individuals with the most Financial income.
You're on drugs. My parents had me due to some instinct to continue their genetic line. I wasn't consulted. They knew the facts and chose to act. When people have children it is a selfish act. I do not mean that negatively, just factually. It can't be anything but a selfish act since the other party is not yet here to be consulted.
A family unit is not a micro-community. It is a FAMILY. The family is the only genetic/instinctual community we have. Don't conflate it with other political divisions. All of human history recognizes the supremacy of the family unit. In the western world, for example, generally a wife cannot be compelled to testify against a husband. Parents can make choices for their children that fall outside of the accepted practices (refusal to vaccinate for example).. So take your "collectivism" and piss off.
Bullshit, you commie. Profit sharing is fine if you are also going to have LOSS sharing. When the company has a bad quarter are you going to pony up to cover the losses? Of course you aren't.. Typical liberals.. Wants everything for free with no requirement to contribute.. Fuck off.
Now a simple dispute:
someone "ghost" on Monday, payroll is Wednesday ( direct deposit morning hit ).
who owes who for Monday and maybe Tuesday
Well, you're getting pretty complicated and I'm not an employment expert.. I can only recite anecdotes.. I have been an employer in the past, so all I can say is how I'd handle your scenario..
California (and Federal) law have terms.. I don't remember the legal latin term for it, but basically your employer is under no obligation to pay you for time not spent working. Generally speaking, if one is paid on Wednesday, it's does not include the two preceding days.. There's not enough time to do the paperwork, get the taxes withheld, and cut checks (or direct deposit).
I'm not claiming this is universal, but everywhere I have ever worked (AT&T included) the paycheck that you get on Friday is for the preceding two weeks. Pay for the current week is not included.. It'll be on the NEXT paycheck.
So, if I had an employee not show up on Monday and/or Tuesday.. no matter.. He's not getting paid for those days.. And even if you're in a construction job (they typically pay each week) you still don't cut a check for time not worked... Being an employer, by definition, involves figuring out what you owe someone and paying them the proper and legal amount..
Under CA law, if you quit your job, the employer may legally pay you on the next scheduled payday.. If you are fired he/she must cut you a check (I think the law gives 2 hours) right then. So... I have never been in any situation where an employer didn't know what they owed you. You work or you don't...
I understand your point, but being a good manager means dealing with.. x number of humans.. AND you should know the job you are managing.. i.e. A "good" grill cook manager should be able to manage the cooks and know the job well enough to know if his cooks are, in fact, good cooks..
No. It's demonstrably more than that. I'm not claiming any religious justification for it.. But morals and right/wrong are more than ideas... I'm not a philosopher so it's hard to explain.. and this isn't probably the best example or analogy, but maybe it'll at least clarify how I view it..
It's like Karma.. I believe in Karma.. Not because of God or Buddah or whatever, but a simple truth is that if you are an asshole, pretty soon non-assholes aren't going to want to be around you.. Your inner circle will devolve to just assholes.. Assholes are assholes.. Assholes tend to treat each other poorly.. That's why they're assholes..
Good people tend to treat each other well. They generally don't tolerate assholes for long.. Eventually your inner circle is other good people.. Good people don't fuck each other over.. i.e. they aren't assholes to one another.
If you make a habit of screwing over your friends/neighbors/coworkers, you're an asshole.. Eventually only assholes will associate with you and, sooner or later, one will fuck you over... Karma!
Morals have been observed in the other higher primates (Chimps, Orangutans, etc). Give two Chimps the same task but pay one with more pieces of fruit and they know they're getting screwed. They get angry.... Chimps even demand fairness from each other. Not just from humans..
Fairness is not a human construction.. It's a natural phenomenon.
2. Everyone should get what they deserve, and we deserve a good life. Not because of who we are or who are dad is but because we're human beings.
Why? Because you breathe? Why are you trying to be in conflict with all of nature? You get what you earn. You "deserve" nothing other than the opportunity. If a mouse doesn't work, it doesn't eat. If a wolf doesn't work it doesn't eat. This idea that you deserve anything because you exist is in conflict with the laws of nature. You're here because two people fucked. That's it. Your existence contributes nothing to society but a drain on resources UNTIL you start pulling your own weight.
That is an absurd statement that pretends wealth and resources aren't limited. It only feels that way because you have plenty of them.
BULL.....SHIT.
Wealth is NOT limited. Getting rich or doing well does not have to involve exploiting others nor gaining at their expense.. So tired of this demonstrably false statements being barfed out of the mouth of liberals too goddamn lazy to take charge of their own destiny. If wealth is limited then how the fuck did 1 billion people get lifted up out of extreme poverty in the last 20 years?
Resources are NOT limited. New resources are created all of the time. New resources are discovered all the time.
I'd be willing to bet that you're one of those fools who bought into the whole "peak oil" warnings of two decades ago... Then what happened? Oh yeah, the price of oil rose to a point where it became viable to extract it from other sources. Now the United States is a goddamn oil EXPORTER.
Years ago solar was considered economically nonviable in comparison to coal. Then what happened? Electrical rates rose to the point where solar became affordable... Once the drive started and the plants started churning out panels by the millions the economics of scale kicked in and the prices on solar began to plummet.. $2/watt.... $1/watt... $0.75/watt.. down and down and down... I just purchased two 180 watt panels for $100.. That's $0.55/watt. 50 years ago solar wasn't an option.. It wasn't a resource.. Today it's being mandated.. That's going to push the price down even further.. I see $0.25/watt being here in the not too distant future..
Liberals are lazy. They don't have a grasp of the concept that good results require work and investment.. I'm watching a TV show the other day about extreme poverty in Africa.. The narrator is going on about how, in this particular village, the people live on less than $2/day and a lot of it involves fairly dangerous diamond scavenging. And yeah, it's pretty awful.. Then the narrator mentions how some German electronics firm was opening a factory nearby. The going rate was something like $10/day to start work there..
Liberal friend: "Look at how the company is exploiting those poor people."
Me: Are you serious? Those people are going to get a 500% boost to their income, doing work that is way less dangerous that they are doing now. The money will be spent locally.. These workers will have the money to spend on things they may not have the time to do anymore, like cook.. Food shops will see more business...
Point is, it starts small.. But you have to start small to grow properly.
No it's NOT. Inflation is not a healthy thing. Inflation destroys savings. Inflation is, in large part, directly due to your (our) government destroying the value of the currency. Inflation chips away at the value of the money you have saved....
Your rant aside, nobody picks a company and works there until they die anymore. I don't recall the exact numbers, but it was something like "The average US worker will work at 7 jobs during their career".
We've created a system where the best easiest course of action
And that's a problem.... We've gotten to the point where the average person takes the easy way and then bitches about the outcome. I say GOOD! My last job was fairly difficult. Working at height, heavy lifting, long hours.. etc... I'm fairly sure my boss overheard me muttering some bitching about it one day, because he said "If it was easy, everybody would do it and then we wouldn't be paid a premium for this work". I realized that statement held a lot of truth... The harder the job the smaller the pool of candidates and the higher the income. I don't just mean physically hard, mental difficulty is the more important factor and when you couple that with a physically demanding job...
If you want "easy", then don't fucking bitch about how the result isn't the best. Good results take work..
Yeah, I think your data is way out of date. I believe there was a time when your statement was correct, but not any more..
In January 2017, the California Legislative Analyst’s Office said by several measures California is, indeed, a donor state, but just barely. It receives $0.99 in federal expenditures per dollar of taxes paid, which is below the national average return for states of $1.22 per dollar paid, according to its review of a 2015 New York Comptroller study.
I have, however, heard all sorts of variations of the "xxx is more than enough" in the computer industry. It's always b.s. Any time some asshole says "insert-something is enough", I write them off as a moron.
I'll have to add a correction, as I was recently corrected.. I was in error when I said 80% of people are employed by small business. That was incorrect. 80% of businesses are small businesses, but apparently slightly over half of Americans (I don't have info on other countries) are employed by big business (500+ employees). I think the percentage was 52% or 53%. It's fairly close to a 50/50 split, but does tip in the favor of large business being the dominant employer.
Bullcrap. Morals are more than that. Morals are also set by the community. Morals are a manifestation of good/evil or right/wrong. But whatever you've got to tell yourself to make up for a lack of a spine.....
I'll also add that I have 30+ years in California's employment market.. I can speak from the personal "authority" of experience. You can't get into any trouble by "ghosting". It's a shitty thing to do and borders on immoral (from my point of view) without serious justification..
Generally, California employees are not required by law to give any advance notice to their employer before they quit their job..
I know people who quit a job by simply not showing up. I've also known people who were fired for not showing up to a job.... I suppose from the viewpoint of the employer it doesn't really matter. You can't be compelled to show up at your job, so if you don't show up, you'd be fired anyhow..
Slashdot Mirror
I'm as conservative as they come, but he's right.. Wasting money on bombs..... Like, if some country is an actual threat, I'm all for bombing them to dust, but that's not the case in almost all of our recent wars....
I dunno.. I have been in several positions in my life where my manager was "promoted from the line" to use military parlance. They were guys who had done the job and worked their way up. Not the typical MBA assholes... To me, that's the best kind of manager. They know the job, so they're going to know who is good at the job and who isn't pulling their weight. Generally these were older guys (not old, just older) and maybe they had passed peak physical, so they took a desk job, but they still knew the job inside and out and most would be out in the field at least a few days a month keeping up to speed.
In all honesty, the best managers I've ever had were these line guys.. The worst were MBAs who just stepped into the job and didn't know their ass from a hole in the ground.
Correction, even though you were just dead weight to the family, your parents practiced communism and you are an infant. Prioritizing the needs of the community ( a family unit is a micro-community) over the pleasures and desires of the individuals with the most Financial income.
You're on drugs. My parents had me due to some instinct to continue their genetic line. I wasn't consulted. They knew the facts and chose to act. When people have children it is a selfish act. I do not mean that negatively, just factually. It can't be anything but a selfish act since the other party is not yet here to be consulted.
A family unit is not a micro-community. It is a FAMILY. The family is the only genetic/instinctual community we have. Don't conflate it with other political divisions. All of human history recognizes the supremacy of the family unit. In the western world, for example, generally a wife cannot be compelled to testify against a husband. Parents can make choices for their children that fall outside of the accepted practices (refusal to vaccinate for example).. So take your "collectivism" and piss off.
Bullshit, you commie. Profit sharing is fine if you are also going to have LOSS sharing. When the company has a bad quarter are you going to pony up to cover the losses? Of course you aren't.. Typical liberals.. Wants everything for free with no requirement to contribute.. Fuck off.
Now a simple dispute: someone "ghost" on Monday, payroll is Wednesday ( direct deposit morning hit ). who owes who for Monday and maybe Tuesday
Well, you're getting pretty complicated and I'm not an employment expert.. I can only recite anecdotes.. I have been an employer in the past, so all I can say is how I'd handle your scenario..
California (and Federal) law have terms.. I don't remember the legal latin term for it, but basically your employer is under no obligation to pay you for time not spent working. Generally speaking, if one is paid on Wednesday, it's does not include the two preceding days.. There's not enough time to do the paperwork, get the taxes withheld, and cut checks (or direct deposit).
I'm not claiming this is universal, but everywhere I have ever worked (AT&T included) the paycheck that you get on Friday is for the preceding two weeks. Pay for the current week is not included.. It'll be on the NEXT paycheck.
So, if I had an employee not show up on Monday and/or Tuesday.. no matter.. He's not getting paid for those days.. And even if you're in a construction job (they typically pay each week) you still don't cut a check for time not worked... Being an employer, by definition, involves figuring out what you owe someone and paying them the proper and legal amount..
Under CA law, if you quit your job, the employer may legally pay you on the next scheduled payday.. If you are fired he/she must cut you a check (I think the law gives 2 hours) right then. So... I have never been in any situation where an employer didn't know what they owed you. You work or you don't...
I understand your point, but being a good manager means dealing with.. x number of humans.. AND you should know the job you are managing.. i.e. A "good" grill cook manager should be able to manage the cooks and know the job well enough to know if his cooks are, in fact, good cooks..
Morality is a an idea. Nothing more nothing less.
No. It's demonstrably more than that. I'm not claiming any religious justification for it.. But morals and right/wrong are more than ideas... I'm not a philosopher so it's hard to explain.. and this isn't probably the best example or analogy, but maybe it'll at least clarify how I view it..
It's like Karma.. I believe in Karma.. Not because of God or Buddah or whatever, but a simple truth is that if you are an asshole, pretty soon non-assholes aren't going to want to be around you.. Your inner circle will devolve to just assholes.. Assholes are assholes.. Assholes tend to treat each other poorly.. That's why they're assholes..
Good people tend to treat each other well. They generally don't tolerate assholes for long.. Eventually your inner circle is other good people.. Good people don't fuck each other over.. i.e. they aren't assholes to one another.
If you make a habit of screwing over your friends/neighbors/coworkers, you're an asshole.. Eventually only assholes will associate with you and, sooner or later, one will fuck you over... Karma!
Morals have been observed in the other higher primates (Chimps, Orangutans, etc). Give two Chimps the same task but pay one with more pieces of fruit and they know they're getting screwed. They get angry.... Chimps even demand fairness from each other. Not just from humans..
Fairness is not a human construction.. It's a natural phenomenon.
https://www.livescience.com/26...
Why did a single Senator qualify as "lawmakers"?
Welcome to the end of 2018.
https://wallethub.com/edu/stat...
Mar 20, 2018 | John S Kiernan, Senior Writer & Editor
https://www.money-rates.com/fe...
Richard Barrington | MoneyRates.com Senior Financial Analyst, CFA
Posted: April 3, 2018
I don't think either of those two dates qualifies as "The End of 2018"
A good grill cook is more rare than a good manager.
Oh bullshit... Finding someone who is a GOOD manager (your words) is not easy. Managing people is godawful difficult.
2. Everyone should get what they deserve, and we deserve a good life. Not because of who we are or who are dad is but because we're human beings.
Why? Because you breathe? Why are you trying to be in conflict with all of nature? You get what you earn. You "deserve" nothing other than the opportunity. If a mouse doesn't work, it doesn't eat. If a wolf doesn't work it doesn't eat. This idea that you deserve anything because you exist is in conflict with the laws of nature. You're here because two people fucked. That's it. Your existence contributes nothing to society but a drain on resources UNTIL you start pulling your own weight.
That is an absurd statement that pretends wealth and resources aren't limited. It only feels that way because you have plenty of them.
BULL.....SHIT.
Wealth is NOT limited. Getting rich or doing well does not have to involve exploiting others nor gaining at their expense.. So tired of this demonstrably false statements being barfed out of the mouth of liberals too goddamn lazy to take charge of their own destiny. If wealth is limited then how the fuck did 1 billion people get lifted up out of extreme poverty in the last 20 years?
Resources are NOT limited. New resources are created all of the time. New resources are discovered all the time.
I'd be willing to bet that you're one of those fools who bought into the whole "peak oil" warnings of two decades ago... Then what happened? Oh yeah, the price of oil rose to a point where it became viable to extract it from other sources. Now the United States is a goddamn oil EXPORTER.
Years ago solar was considered economically nonviable in comparison to coal. Then what happened? Electrical rates rose to the point where solar became affordable... Once the drive started and the plants started churning out panels by the millions the economics of scale kicked in and the prices on solar began to plummet.. $2/watt.... $1/watt... $0.75/watt.. down and down and down... I just purchased two 180 watt panels for $100.. That's $0.55/watt. 50 years ago solar wasn't an option.. It wasn't a resource.. Today it's being mandated.. That's going to push the price down even further.. I see $0.25/watt being here in the not too distant future..
Liberals are lazy. They don't have a grasp of the concept that good results require work and investment.. I'm watching a TV show the other day about extreme poverty in Africa.. The narrator is going on about how, in this particular village, the people live on less than $2/day and a lot of it involves fairly dangerous diamond scavenging. And yeah, it's pretty awful.. Then the narrator mentions how some German electronics firm was opening a factory nearby. The going rate was something like $10/day to start work there..
Liberal friend: "Look at how the company is exploiting those poor people."
Me: Are you serious? Those people are going to get a 500% boost to their income, doing work that is way less dangerous that they are doing now. The money will be spent locally.. These workers will have the money to spend on things they may not have the time to do anymore, like cook.. Food shops will see more business...
Point is, it starts small.. But you have to start small to grow properly.
No it's NOT. Inflation is not a healthy thing. Inflation destroys savings. Inflation is, in large part, directly due to your (our) government destroying the value of the currency. Inflation chips away at the value of the money you have saved....
It's logic like yours......
Employees seek to sell their labor for more than it is worth to them.
Your rant aside, nobody picks a company and works there until they die anymore. I don't recall the exact numbers, but it was something like "The average US worker will work at 7 jobs during their career".
We've created a system where the best easiest course of action
And that's a problem.... We've gotten to the point where the average person takes the easy way and then bitches about the outcome. I say GOOD!
My last job was fairly difficult. Working at height, heavy lifting, long hours.. etc... I'm fairly sure my boss overheard me muttering some bitching about it one day, because he said "If it was easy, everybody would do it and then we wouldn't be paid a premium for this work". I realized that statement held a lot of truth... The harder the job the smaller the pool of candidates and the higher the income. I don't just mean physically hard, mental difficulty is the more important factor and when you couple that with a physically demanding job...
If you want "easy", then don't fucking bitch about how the result isn't the best. Good results take work..
Yeah, I think your data is way out of date. I believe there was a time when your statement was correct, but not any more..
In January 2017, the California Legislative Analyst’s Office said by several measures California is, indeed, a donor state, but just barely. It receives $0.99 in federal expenditures per dollar of taxes paid, which is below the national average return for states of $1.22 per dollar paid, according to its review of a 2015 New York Comptroller study.
I'll concede that.
I have, however, heard all sorts of variations of the "xxx is more than enough" in the computer industry. It's always b.s. Any time some asshole says "insert-something is enough", I write them off as a moron.
I'll have to add a correction, as I was recently corrected.. I was in error when I said 80% of people are employed by small business. That was incorrect. 80% of businesses are small businesses, but apparently slightly over half of Americans (I don't have info on other countries) are employed by big business (500+ employees). I think the percentage was 52% or 53%. It's fairly close to a 50/50 split, but does tip in the favor of large business being the dominant employer.
Bullcrap. Morals are more than that. Morals are also set by the community. Morals are a manifestation of good/evil or right/wrong. But whatever you've got to tell yourself to make up for a lack of a spine.....
Sorry, I don't engage in debate with communists.
I'll also add that I have 30+ years in California's employment market.. I can speak from the personal "authority" of experience. You can't get into any trouble by "ghosting". It's a shitty thing to do and borders on immoral (from my point of view) without serious justification..
I did read it.
Generally, California employees are not required by law to give any advance notice to their employer before they quit their job..
I know people who quit a job by simply not showing up. I've also known people who were fired for not showing up to a job.... I suppose from the viewpoint of the employer it doesn't really matter. You can't be compelled to show up at your job, so if you don't show up, you'd be fired anyhow..
The state did not require this. I guess you can't even be bothered to read a fucking summary.
No joke. That was his point. We didn't need a visit from Captain Obvious.
https://www.worklawyers.com/two-weeks-notice-requirements-california/
First paragraph. :)