In the US the cut point is at 50 employees, for regulatory and tax purposes. And I agree, more than 50 and you can start losing the personal relationships which are characteristic of small businesses.
There is a bias in the media and in culture to not take businesses with less than hundreds of employees seriously "Bigger is better" is the bias but it small business which drive innovation (e.g. Apple in the early days) and employment.
And no one in the companies are commenting about why they did it or what they plan to do with it. It's like waking up in a hotel suite with half a dozen naked people after a night of coke, weed, cheap vodka, and hookers and wondering just what the hell happened.
I for one smell desperation. See the recent article on SQL Server for Linux. They are losing mindshare and to remain relevant they need to get a footprint in the OSS space. They can no longer concede it to the competition.
"I am a person that is historically very loyal to the company that I work for"
That's part of your problem right there. I have never seen loyalty rewarded. Remember, it is a business relationship. You should use a company just like they use you. That at least is what economists tell us to do.
Replacing the hardware is easy. Making sure you do not throw away what probably amounts to hundreds of years of business rules knowledge is the hard part. Time and again I have seen systems discarded, along with the people running them, and the replacement systems and code monkeys screwing up things like payroll and billing. Do you want to piss people off? Screw up their pay check. What to spend lots of $$$$$? Pay large amounts of fees and penalties because you POS ERP system (*cough* PeopleSoft *cough*SAP) doesn't know how to handle the unique business rules of your industry or your business.
Then pay for years of customization and bug fixes.
Then it becomes 01d Sk3wl and legacy and the cycle repeats.
You can only have anything approaching a Free Market[1] with good information flow. This will help the labor market immensely.
[1] Whether it can ever truly exist is a matter of debate and I am dubious on the matter [2]
[2] By the way, do not confuse a Free Market with an unregulated market. Often well regulated markets can approach Free Market conditions. Unregulated markets often become captured markets, e.g. monopolies.
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Self euthanize at 40. After all, over 40 you're over the hill anyway. Just a waste of resources.
In the US the cut point is at 50 employees, for regulatory and tax purposes. And I agree, more than 50 and you can start losing the personal relationships which are characteristic of small businesses.
There is a bias in the media and in culture to not take businesses with less than hundreds of employees seriously "Bigger is better" is the bias but it small business which drive innovation (e.g. Apple in the early days) and employment.
I actually think in the beginning you might see a surge in street corner Honda generator charging stations.
Then learn to code. If you do not know what you are doing coding is pointless.
I prefer the Disney her to "engineers", "imagineers". as in "Imagine if I could get this code to work".
And no one in the companies are commenting about why they did it or what they plan to do with it. It's like waking up in a hotel suite with half a dozen naked people after a night of coke, weed, cheap vodka, and hookers and wondering just what the hell happened.
I'd like to go there real soon.
no, it would be a small moon.
you forgot make vauge promises, realign to be buzzword compliant a few times, and burn through investor money before management bails.
If you add in the cost of a smart phone it's not so low anymore. Sounds like a gimmick.
when I forget my meds.....
Microsoft could develop it.
Trump is an American Inevitability.
He even offshore his wives.
If you don't try you'll never know now will you?
In case you want to see his CV
https://honors.uoregon.edu/fac...
If Mark Carey et. al. can't make it in Science there is a bright career for them in tech as "Evangelists"
The paper was written by a man.The women is on the bottom of the list and therefore (supposedly) contributed the least.
I for one smell desperation. See the recent article on SQL Server for Linux. They are losing mindshare and to remain relevant they need to get a footprint in the OSS space. They can no longer concede it to the competition.
"I am a person that is historically very loyal to the company that I work for"
That's part of your problem right there. I have never seen loyalty rewarded. Remember, it is a business relationship. You should use a company just like they use you. That at least is what economists tell us to do.
A job is pretty much a McJob these days.
What is this "training" of which you speak? I have never seen any.
Replacing the hardware is easy. Making sure you do not throw away what probably amounts to hundreds of years of business rules knowledge is the hard part. Time and again I have seen systems discarded, along with the people running them, and the replacement systems and code monkeys screwing up things like payroll and billing. Do you want to piss people off? Screw up their pay check. What to spend lots of $$$$$? Pay large amounts of fees and penalties because you POS ERP system (*cough* PeopleSoft *cough*SAP) doesn't know how to handle the unique business rules of your industry or your business.
Then pay for years of customization and bug fixes.
Then it becomes 01d Sk3wl and legacy and the cycle repeats.
You can only have anything approaching a Free Market[1] with good information flow. This will help the labor market immensely.
[1] Whether it can ever truly exist is a matter of debate and I am dubious on the matter [2]
[2] By the way, do not confuse a Free Market with an unregulated market. Often well regulated markets can approach Free Market conditions. Unregulated markets often become captured markets, e.g. monopolies.
It's like any other review system, one person abuses it but is outweighed by dozens of others also reviewing employers.
don't forget leap years and Y2K problems.