I was having a phone conversation with my parish priest a few years ago about updating our parish web site. Another site had some features he felt would be appropriate for ours. He told me the address lets say www.server.com, I entered the url and was greeted with the message: "You must be 18 to enter."
So I asked the priest "Uh should I click through?".
The surprise in his voice was hilarious. "No, no, no! Stop! Get out of there." After some poking around the web we found the site he really wanted me to check out was something like www.server.net.
A couple years ago, I was working in IT, and I had just typed in what I THOUGHT was www.hotfiles.com to go to ZDNet's shareware site to look for something, when our department head (my boss's boss) came over to talk to me.
I turned around to talk to him, not looking at my screen. One of my coworkers came by, saw what was on it, and lunged across my desk to hit ALT-F4 to close it. He had to keep hitting it (as I would find out later) because it kept launching more popups. I had no idea what he was doing since I was still talking with my the department head, and it was only after he left that my coworker told me what had been on my screen...
Apparently, I had typed http://www.hotfile.com/ by mistake. Oops!
At my last job, at a particulary employee-unfriendly company, if an employee had more than three instances (multiple consecutive sick days counted as a single instance) of sickness in a fiscal year, it would result in a poor performance evaluation and no salary increase, regardless of how many days were allotted. I didn't specifically test them on this issue, but I don't recall them actually checking during performance reviews. It was the official policy though.
I always thought it was BS myself, but some employers like to wring everly last drop of productivity out of their workers, usually resulting in poor morale and lack of enthusiasm.
No, they would just be spending that money to supplant all of the money lost in the economy by taking people currently making 6 and 7 figure incomes and putting them in positions making $5-15 an hour because they have no or few marketable skills in other industries. Even the execs would be fairly useless in other industries unless they could figure out how to pull other industries into the record industry's methods, and most other industries would probably be a little less likely to listen to people that effectively pissed off most of their customers and destroyed their own industry.
Hey, now there's something that we agree on! That record execs possess no useful skills for society or industry!
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I was having a phone conversation with my parish priest a few years ago about updating our parish web site. Another site had some features he felt would be appropriate for ours. He told me the address lets say www.server.com, I entered the url and was greeted with the message: "You must be 18 to enter." .
So I asked the priest "Uh should I click through?".
The surprise in his voice was hilarious. "No, no, no! Stop! Get out of there." After some poking around the web we found the site he really wanted me to check out was something like www.server.net
A couple years ago, I was working in IT, and I had just typed in what I THOUGHT was www.hotfiles.com to go to ZDNet's shareware site to look for something, when our department head (my boss's boss) came over to talk to me.
I turned around to talk to him, not looking at my screen. One of my coworkers came by, saw what was on it, and lunged across my desk to hit ALT-F4 to close it. He had to keep hitting it (as I would find out later) because it kept launching more popups. I had no idea what he was doing since I was still talking with my the department head, and it was only after he left that my coworker told me what had been on my screen...
Apparently, I had typed http://www.hotfile.com/ by mistake. Oops!
"Which distribution do you trust most to drill into your skull?"
Certainly not RedHat...
emerge -u brain
$5 to the first surgeon to type that in.
man kill
At my last job, at a particulary employee-unfriendly company, if an employee had more than three instances (multiple consecutive sick days counted as a single instance) of sickness in a fiscal year, it would result in a poor performance evaluation and no salary increase, regardless of how many days were allotted. I didn't specifically test them on this issue, but I don't recall them actually checking during performance reviews. It was the official policy though.
I always thought it was BS myself, but some employers like to wring everly last drop of productivity out of their workers, usually resulting in poor morale and lack of enthusiasm.
No, they would just be spending that money to supplant all of the money lost in the economy by taking people currently making 6 and 7 figure incomes and putting them in positions making $5-15 an hour because they have no or few marketable skills in other industries. Even the execs would be fairly useless in other industries unless they could figure out how to pull other industries into the record industry's methods, and most other industries would probably be a little less likely to listen to people that effectively pissed off most of their customers and destroyed their own industry.
Hey, now there's something that we agree on! That record execs possess no useful skills for society or industry!
Salon has a nice article that shows how "well" Sony Music takes care of artists, at least in one instance...
This is the article.