Before you respond, ask yourself: Are you and your co-workers truly using your time optimally today? What does that mean? Well: little to no foozball, recreational web browsing, personal phone calls, facebooking, twitter, phone calls, long lunches, late breakfasts, early dinners, personal business, etc.
I find it takes me a lot of self control to limit myself from these things, but when I do, I find myself giving it my all. I also find there's no way to give it my all more than about 6 hours a day, day after day. It's like a professional athlete: recovery is very very important. If you are constantly working without a recovery, you will burn out.
In my 6 hour days, I end up getting about 2 hours of mandatory recovery in there, and even then, it's structured recovery time. I don't hang out with my co-workers or my "boss" - I actually get the hell out of there and talk to sales, marketing, or biz-dev. Otherwise the conversations always degrade into the problem at hand and I lack a fresh perspective.
It's a marathon, not a sprint. But sometimes you have to sprint. If you have a product launch in 5 days and it's pivotal for the company, then you better sprint for at least the next 3 days - pulling longer days. After that, you'll need a proportional recovery. To do otherwise is unsustainable.
That last bit is what has me most concerned about your question - does your manager realize it's a marathon, and not a sprint? He can't just run the engine harder and expect it to perform. Otherwise, good luck in your job search.
Wrong. Teamwork skills learned through sports would be lost. Not all people can be part of a math-club team, or robotics team. How will they learn these skills to become good team-workers later in life? How would they learn to lead a group of people?
Sports in school allows for greater diversity in experiences, even for geeks and nerds. If it is passed up by those geeks and nerds, they will not have the experience they need to be leaders or even efficient workers.
> Is it the mid-90s again? That's the only possibility if someone is making that much with only 2-4 > years experience. And 100k+, even in an expensive city as Seattle, is still awesome money.
Nope, it's 2007, 8 years later, with 8 years of inflation behind it. $100k/year is no longer special. At the same time, the 'Net is hot again, and people are hiring all over, which adds to wage hikes.
Come on boys and girls, it's time to find a new job (if you're mobile, and not an H1-B that is)!
Age discrimination is illegal, just as paying H1-B's less than the natives.
If H1-B's were hired at market rate two years ago, and those rates went up, they're screwed. Assuming the average H1-B getting a greencard is paid $70k/year, those H1-Bs are paying $30k/year (minimum) to get the greencard. (100-70=30)
What's not said in the article is that market rates change. Typically market rates go up (and I'd argue that they are up quite a bit right now). The greencard application process takes some time, and rates likely change in that time. If the greencard takes 2 years to apply for, and it's in process, then those H1-Bs don't want to change jobs and restart the application process. These aren't typical highly-mobile employees: they don't want to change jobs because the application process starts all over again. So, salaries of H1-B employees are likely to be considerably lower than current market rates.
From another perspective, Gates is saying that current market rates are ~100k. This is about right for mid-level software engineers with 2-4 years of experience, in that area.
It's not the same as looking at H1-B applications and trying to figure current rates, as they will reflect market conditions from 1-4 years ago (depending on when the H1-B process started for that individual).
Or, maybe the're ignorant that the person is "VIP" as you say. So it could easily happen, it depends how you define VIP.
With many CEO's taking $1/yr annual pay (other than their copious options), depending on where your fraudulent data comes from, you may not get the whole picture of the person you're trying to impersonate.
Someone needs to create a Reverse CRM app, that runs on a consumer's local machine, that is used to log interactions with companies/government. I found a simple example of what I'm talking about, via AJAX-excel, here: http://numsum.com/spreadsheet/show/11573
I'd like to log all personally identifiable info, ssn, dob, phone, address, email, mother's maiden name, etc that I choose to give to each company in this app. Note: I may not log the REAL values for each item.
The app should also let me create a log of interactions with the company. Whenever I'm on the phone with the company, I should be able to create a Reverse CRM entry to record the outcome. I'd collect date, phone number used, name of customer service rep, time of call, comments, and personal information used.
TOS/EULA collection should also be a feature: I should be able to save a copy of any online or offline agreement that I sign or "click-through" into this app. If it's a paper agreement, I should be able to scan a copy into the app (via PDF or whatever). The agreement will be bound to my Reverse CRM interaction record with the company.
All of this information in this self-created Reverse CRM app should be searchable. All of the data should be encrypted, and bound to this my computer with strong digital rights management (DRM) techniques. This would reduce it's usefulness when a trojan invades and copies all files into the ether.
This application should be created as a Free and Open Source application. It's development should be funded by the credit bureaus. Funding and support should be mandated by a federal law.
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Before you respond, ask yourself: Are you and your co-workers truly using your time optimally today? What does that mean? Well: little to no foozball, recreational web browsing, personal phone calls, facebooking, twitter, phone calls, long lunches, late breakfasts, early dinners, personal business, etc.
I find it takes me a lot of self control to limit myself from these things, but when I do, I find myself giving it my all. I also find there's no way to give it my all more than about 6 hours a day, day after day. It's like a professional athlete: recovery is very very important. If you are constantly working without a recovery, you will burn out.
In my 6 hour days, I end up getting about 2 hours of mandatory recovery in there, and even then, it's structured recovery time. I don't hang out with my co-workers or my "boss" - I actually get the hell out of there and talk to sales, marketing, or biz-dev. Otherwise the conversations always degrade into the problem at hand and I lack a fresh perspective.
It's a marathon, not a sprint. But sometimes you have to sprint. If you have a product launch in 5 days and it's pivotal for the company, then you better sprint for at least the next 3 days - pulling longer days. After that, you'll need a proportional recovery. To do otherwise is unsustainable.
That last bit is what has me most concerned about your question - does your manager realize it's a marathon, and not a sprint? He can't just run the engine harder and expect it to perform. Otherwise, good luck in your job search.
Wrong. Teamwork skills learned through sports would be lost. Not all people can be part of a math-club team, or robotics team. How will they learn these skills to become good team-workers later in life? How would they learn to lead a group of people?
Sports in school allows for greater diversity in experiences, even for geeks and nerds. If it is passed up by those geeks and nerds, they will not have the experience they need to be leaders or even efficient workers.
> Is it the mid-90s again? That's the only possibility if someone is making that much with only 2-4
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> years experience. And 100k+, even in an expensive city as Seattle, is still awesome money.
Nope, it's 2007, 8 years later, with 8 years of inflation behind it. $100k/year is no longer special. At the same time, the 'Net is hot again, and people are hiring all over, which adds to wage hikes.
Come on boys and girls, it's time to find a new job (if you're mobile, and not an H1-B that is)!
Age discrimination is illegal, just as paying H1-B's less than the natives.
If H1-B's were hired at market rate two years ago, and those rates went up, they're screwed. Assuming the average H1-B getting a greencard is paid $70k/year, those H1-Bs are paying $30k/year (minimum) to get the greencard. (100-70=30)
That's a fricking expensive process!
I love America!
What's not said in the article is that market rates change. Typically market rates go up (and I'd argue that they are up quite a bit right now). The greencard application process takes some time, and rates likely change in that time. If the greencard takes 2 years to apply for, and it's in process, then those H1-Bs don't want to change jobs and restart the application process. These aren't typical highly-mobile employees: they don't want to change jobs because the application process starts all over again. So, salaries of H1-B employees are likely to be considerably lower than current market rates.
From another perspective, Gates is saying that current market rates are ~100k. This is about right for mid-level software engineers with 2-4 years of experience, in that area.
It's not the same as looking at H1-B applications and trying to figure current rates, as they will reflect market conditions from 1-4 years ago (depending on when the H1-B process started for that individual).
Or, maybe the're ignorant that the person is "VIP" as you say. So it could easily happen, it depends how you define VIP.
With many CEO's taking $1/yr annual pay (other than their copious options), depending on where your fraudulent data comes from, you may not get the whole picture of the person you're trying to impersonate.
It's bound to happen to a VIP.
http://numsum.com/spreadsheet/show/11573
I'd like to log all personally identifiable info, ssn, dob, phone, address, email, mother's maiden name, etc that I choose to give to each company in this app. Note: I may not log the REAL values for each item.
The app should also let me create a log of interactions with the company. Whenever I'm on the phone with the company, I should be able to create a Reverse CRM entry to record the outcome. I'd collect date, phone number used, name of customer service rep, time of call, comments, and personal information used.
TOS/EULA collection should also be a feature: I should be able to save a copy of any online or offline agreement that I sign or "click-through" into this app. If it's a paper agreement, I should be able to scan a copy into the app (via PDF or whatever). The agreement will be bound to my Reverse CRM interaction record with the company.
All of this information in this self-created Reverse CRM app should be searchable. All of the data should be encrypted, and bound to this my computer with strong digital rights management (DRM) techniques. This would reduce it's usefulness when a trojan invades and copies all files into the ether.
This application should be created as a Free and Open Source application. It's development should be funded by the credit bureaus. Funding and support should be mandated by a federal law.