Thats because the stringent testing that is required for medical devices.
That's what the FDA would like you to believe, but in my experience, that's bullshit. The costs go into the insane amount of red tape and hoop-jumping that it takes for FDA to grudgingly acknowledge that you've done your homework and the product performs as advertised.
Nope. I've worked in medical imaging from time to time in my career, and you'd be shocked to learn what kind of costs are imposed by government regulations. An 8-bit, 1024x1024 monochrome CRT can cost $15K easily, and it's not because the vendor wants it to cost that much.
Well, as it happens, I'm a Jew myself, and being Jewish isn't a license to throw things at people. If your hypothetical nazi threw something at me first, it would be a different situation, of course.
I guess you hate everyone who protests anything eh?
Not at all. Protest is often appropriate and necessary. I just understand the difference between civilized and uncivlized behavior, which you apparently don't.
If someone pisses you off, you're within your rights to complain or perhaps to litigate, but not to throw things at them. If you don't understand that, then you're not equipped to function in society.
I wouldn't want to work for you,
Well, that's certainly something I can be thankful for today.
Are you a scientologist or something?
As it happens, the clams put me in their black list. Scientologits aren't even allowed to load web pages where my name appears.
If this guy handled being layed off by throwing things, what are the odds that he handled any other conflict within the company in a professional manner?
Precisely. Having only "Tisha"s side of the story, in which she also bragged about nursing a grudge, I conclude that the employer was right and she was wrong. Blaming her firing on their religious differences sounds like an ego defense to me.
I find your willingness to bend over and lick the corporate boot even more revealing, by the way.
I find your fantasies about what I am or am not willing to do rather more revealing of yourself than of me. If you think it's boot licking to refrain from throwing a tantrum, then your parents must have done a very poor job of raising you.
Good question. If someone deliberately threw anything my way that was heavy enough to cause injury, I'd call the cops and swear out an assault complaint.
Focusing on the fact that essentially on his last day he did something harsh?
Try to grasp the difference between 1) saying something, 2) throwing something, and 3) throwing something at another person. If you can't recognize which of these is beyond the pale, then you're basically unemployable as far as I'm concerned.
made it my personal crusade to steer every customer away from my earlier employer
Hmm... Not just a bitch, but a vindictive bitch. Thanks for posting that, hopefully it will come up if any prospective employer in your future googles for your name.
I was with you right up until you mentioned throwing something at your former boss. You might think you were canned because you didn't subscribe to his religion, but I don't buy it. You were probably canned for being a bitch.
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Thats because the stringent testing that is required for medical devices.
That's what the FDA would like you to believe, but in my experience, that's bullshit. The costs go into the insane amount of red tape and hoop-jumping that it takes for FDA to grudgingly acknowledge that you've done your homework and the product performs as advertised.
-jcr
price gouging on medical equipment
Nope. I've worked in medical imaging from time to time in my career, and you'd be shocked to learn what kind of costs are imposed by government regulations. An 8-bit, 1024x1024 monochrome CRT can cost $15K easily, and it's not because the vendor wants it to cost that much.
-jcr
... and probably forty grand for costs of FDA compliance.
-jcr
I assumed that "threw a notepad at him" was a figure of speech
I assumed that she meant what she wrote.
-jcr
Well, as it happens, I'm a Jew myself, and being Jewish isn't a license to throw things at people. If your hypothetical nazi threw something at me first, it would be a different situation, of course.
-jcr
I see by the brevity of yours you prefer not to engage the poster's actual arguments and prefer to rely on taunts.
Once he trotted out the "what if they were nazis" gambit, there clearly wasn't any point to doing so. Google for "Godwin's law".
-jcr
Congratulations on showing your true colours today, those of an apologist for religious persecution.
I make no apologies for religious persecution. Based on her own account, it's not at all apparent that Tisha has suffered anything of the kind.
-jcr
I guess you hate everyone who protests anything eh?
Not at all. Protest is often appropriate and necessary. I just understand the difference between civilized and uncivlized behavior, which you apparently don't.
-jcr
I see by the verbosity of your response that I touched a nerve. Try to work it out in therapy.
-jcr
You don't see the extenuating circumstances here?
If someone pisses you off, you're within your rights to complain or perhaps to litigate, but not to throw things at them. If you don't understand that, then you're not equipped to function in society.
I wouldn't want to work for you,
Well, that's certainly something I can be thankful for today.
Are you a scientologist or something?
As it happens, the clams put me in their black list. Scientologits aren't even allowed to load web pages where my name appears.
-jcr
If this guy handled being layed off by throwing things, what are the odds that he handled any other conflict within the company in a professional manner?
Precisely. Having only "Tisha"s side of the story, in which she also bragged about nursing a grudge, I conclude that the employer was right and she was wrong. Blaming her firing on their religious differences sounds like an ego defense to me.
-jcr
fear of women in the workplace and general misogyny
Project much?
It would be misogynistic to accept this "Tisha" person's gender as an excuse for her childishness.
-jcr
I find your willingness to bend over and lick the corporate boot even more revealing, by the way.
I find your fantasies about what I am or am not willing to do rather more revealing of yourself than of me. If you think it's boot licking to refrain from throwing a tantrum, then your parents must have done a very poor job of raising you.
-jcr
The defendant doesn't have to take the stand. See here.
-jcr
... what about chairs?
Good question. If someone deliberately threw anything my way that was heavy enough to cause injury, I'd call the cops and swear out an assault complaint.
-jcr
It may provide some insight to know that JCR works for Apple
Not lately.
I left Apple to work on a startup. Had a pretty good time there, but I felt like taking another shot at the new company lottery.
-jcr
A license plate may not positively identify a person if they are willing to commit perjury,
What perjury? Go to court, plead "not guilty", and the burden of proof is on the state, not the defendant.
-jcr
Focusing on the fact that essentially on his last day he did something harsh?
Try to grasp the difference between 1) saying something, 2) throwing something, and 3) throwing something at another person. If you can't recognize which of these is beyond the pale, then you're basically unemployable as far as I'm concerned.
-jcr
throwing a notepad seems pretty restrained to me.
So, you approve of tantrums in the workplace? How very revealing.
By not standing up to people like that they win, period.
I agree. When someone starts throwing things in the office, it's imperative to remove them as soon as possible.
-jcr
Mark Felt did do the right thing, even though it was incredibly difficult for him at the time.
Amen. I have no idea whether I'd have the guts to do the same, I only hope that I would.
-jcr
I said nothing of the kind. In fact, any company that employs someone who throws things at their co-workers is a place I would be careful to avoid.
-jcr
made it my personal crusade to steer every customer away from my earlier employer
Hmm... Not just a bitch, but a vindictive bitch. Thanks for posting that, hopefully it will come up if any prospective employer in your future googles for your name.
-jcr
I was with you right up until you mentioned throwing something at your former boss. You might think you were canned because you didn't subscribe to his religion, but I don't buy it. You were probably canned for being a bitch.
-jcr
Did somebody buy his award, or was the committee having a joke like when they gave awards to Kissinger and Arafat?
-jcr
I'd be real nervous about someone bumping into that extra display.
-jcr