Addressing the point made above, severance packages are not mandatory, and acceptance of them isn't mandatory either.
In the US. There, severance isn't just generosity (though it may be); its also an arrangement for the company to 'reach beyond the grave' and prevent you being a true free agent (i.e getting a job with the competition, contacting your company's customers, writing about problems with the company and its products)
I'm thankful to work in another nation where my severance (close to half my annual salary at this point) is mandatory by law. And I don't have to sign away my rights to get that money.
Yea, folks. Remember it for whatever reason - just remember it.
Some may think I'm an optimist. I just think you're jaded.
This may sound funny to you, but I actually consider myself both fortunate and an optimist. I've worked a decade and a half in my current job, in a country with a good economy, am well paid, am personally at low risk of layoff, and will get about 1/2 year's severance - by law - if laid off.
But being fortunate does not mean I lose my eyes and ears - I can hear and see what happening. Companies _are_ getting harsher; jobs harder to find and to keep.
If you think you think you can just work with no backup plan for wealth creation, you're not optimistic, you're naive.
Good for your friend with the 3/4 salary severance - he was fortunate. And I have a similar anecdote about my friend with similar severance too. But you see, a $30K severance on a $45K pay-packet doesn't last that long. There are some fundamental costs to living (rent, petrol, utilities.) If you can't get a job again soon, that happiness (and money) evaporates. Hence this advice:
Everyone working for someone - and I mean everyone - needs a backup plan to create wealth. Not an MLM - something where you get paid to create actual value. This could be selling cupcakes off your Facebook page, freelancing on guru.com, selling artwork on odesk.com, tutoring math classes, mowing lawns... Even if you make only $10/month, its a skill kept sharp for when you really need to depend on that next arrow in your quiver.
> Or rather, both sides are correct even though they are in direct disagreement.
Ah, the usual AC handwringing recipe -- "it all hopeless... no one's right" -- along with a dash of zesty "job creator" myth thrown in.
> People with an employee mindset naturally want job security, and consider the provision of such to be a moral obligation of employers. The reasons are obvious.
No, its not, Capn. obvious! Most employees actually want to work hard AND realise that there are limits to their employment.
> Employers, [...] morally obligatory that they hire the best and get rid of people who are becoming dead weight.
There. Now you've defined your own morality. Perhaps you think of yourself as an employer with such a 'moral obligation'. All the best not disgusting your 'good' employees who know how you treat 'deadwood' and wonder when their time will come.
The second conversation took place in 2002, a few months after our IPO. Laura, our bookkeeper, was bright, hardworking, and creative. She’d been very important to our early growth, having devised a system for accurately tracking movie rentals so that we could pay the correct royalties. But now, as a public company, we needed CPAs and other fully credentialed, deeply experienced accounting professionals—and Laura had only an associate’s degree from a community college. Despite her work ethic, her track record, and the fact that we all really liked her, her skills were no longer adequate. Some of us talked about jury-rigging a new role for her, but we decided that wouldn’t be right.
So I sat down with Laura and explained the situation—and said that in light of her spectacular service, we would give her a spectacular severance package. I’d braced myself for tears or histrionics, but Laura reacted well [...]
[Talking about another employee that no longer 'fit']
Give her a great severance package—which, when she signs the documents, will dramatically reduce (if not eliminate) the chance of a lawsuit.”
Folks - remember the snippets above in your dealings with any company. This is the nature of the employer-employee contract these days.
A spectacular severance supposedly balances out any disquiet at 'pump-and-dump' treatment of employees. Of course, "spectacular" may mean they pay $4,000 instead of $2,330.02 legally due - i.e. 200% of something which probably won't get you very far in the first place. And 'extra' documents they have you sign as a quid pro quo, also sign away review rights regarding unfair dismissal, etc.
Everyone working for someone - and I mean everyone - needs a backup plan to create wealth. Not an MLM - something where you get paid to create actual value. This could be selling cupcakes off your Facebook page, freelancing on guru.com, selling artwork on odesk.com, tutoring math classes, mowing lawns... Even if you make only $10/month, its a skill kept sharp for when you really need to depend on that next arrow in your quiver.
Before doing this, check your work contract - and speak with your attorney. Many jobs - specially IT roles - have a catchall 'all your efforts/patents/ideas/code belong to us' clause. Even for what you do on your own time and dime. Such clauses may or may not be lawful.
All that needs doing is adding a helium ballon with additional battery payload. As long as the entire system is neutrally bouyant, this could hover for hours, streaming video. Even follow its owner around... Kinda like the "kino" orb in the Stargate Universe TV series, but with wings:)
> I'd rather have a competent driver in a bare-bones sports car on the road with me than a clueless housewife...
"Roger Rodas was a highly skilled driver who would not have taken a risk with his friend and client Paul Walker’s life, an engineer for Rodas’ race team said Tuesday."
...offering employment contracts which don't bind employees in intellectual slavery. Some employers - especially tech employers - lay claim to every thought, word and deed of value that the employee creates during his term of employment - even if done in his own time and on his own dime.
Whether its real call for violence or not, its indicates an attitude problem with the owner. And attitude is everything in hospitality - it informs everything: the staff you hire, the ingredients you procure, how kind you are to customers that make a mistake, or disagree with you... This guys attitude is Not that of a hospitable restauranteur.
I see the problem with GG in restaurants. I support the ban. After all, its for the benefit of the OTHER patrons in the place. But I still prefer not to eat at venues where attitudes like this flow from the top down.
Feel free to disagree - just remember its your ass kicking he may call for tomorrow because of a bad tip or Yelp review.
> Plans went from 600$ a month to 900$ a month for gold.
Wow - that seems a lot. I live in Australia. Here private health insurance plans go for much cheaper - even when you factor out a rebate the Government provides for taking private insurance (i.e. a rebate for not using the public health system.)
E.g.: http://www.frankhealthinsurance.com.au/quote -- (Select zip code 2000) You're a family living in NSW with adults aged 35 and 32. Your Private Health Insurance Rebate tier is 'don't apply rebate'.
-- Better Hospital and Some Extras with 50% Back = AU $244.40/month
-- Best Hospital and Lots Extras with 50% Back = AU 359.20/month
And he can say "Have some corporate accountability" - its a small amount and a company representative made a committment (..."simply honored their CSRs original promise")
... and install a hollow cube outfitted with kinect 2, that would measure your hands and recommend a suitable sized controller for you?
$100 million is a lot of money.
What about addressing the tons of us, who still prefer a KB/mouse combo to thumbsticks on a XBox controller? There are even XBox mouse/kb adapters out there to fulfill this demand.
Around $100/year has them receiving your US online purchases at your personal US address (their Florida warehouse). They scan shipment invoices -- you view the invoices in a web interface and tell them which shipments to 'consolidate' and ship, They stuff everything together and ship Fedex or UPS. An 12"x8"x6" box costs about $50-$60 -- you save money when you've consolidated multiple shipments.
In Australia, any import under $1000 is duty free.
Hmm... All those print-head nozzles, heating elements, food containers, refrigeration requirements, loading of raw materials.
And I dread the washing up:D At the very least, dishwashers will need to be totally reinvented. Or you'll have to print out a 'cleaning run' after printing food - which may not clean hygienically enough.
No, I think food printing will remain a niche technology; maybe, used in molecular gastronomy. Elements may be incorporated into modern cookery, but Star-Trek like food synthesisers certainly won't be able to print anything close to strawberries and cream, chicken wings, or even a serving of rice in the medium term.
I like the spirit behind this tutorial. Technically, its an excellent, creative solution to a real problem - having emails annotated with additional context of our liking. Their only mistake is the overarching reach of the solution (i.e. send all your mail to LinkedIn). That makes it basically DoA.The 'proper' solution for this would be for their app to run the IMAP proxy in the background on your *local* device (i.e. listening localhost:), under *your* control. The VPN profile would then direct mail retrieval traffic to localhost:. The app would also give you control over rules and webservices used to annotate your email. Additional points if the app was open source.
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Good on you! :D They met their needs, and you met yours.
Your example is fair enough.
Addressing the point made above, severance packages are not mandatory, and acceptance of them isn't mandatory either.
In the US. There, severance isn't just generosity (though it may be); its also an arrangement for the company to 'reach beyond the grave' and prevent you being a true free agent (i.e getting a job with the competition, contacting your company's customers, writing about problems with the company and its products)
See AC's post here http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4595209&cid=45781805 for another perspective.
I'm thankful to work in another nation where my severance (close to half my annual salary at this point) is mandatory by law. And I don't have to sign away my rights to get that money.
Yea, folks. Remember it for whatever reason - just remember it.
Some may think I'm an optimist. I just think you're jaded.
This may sound funny to you, but I actually consider myself both fortunate and an optimist. I've worked a decade and a half in my current job, in a country with a good economy, am well paid, am personally at low risk of layoff, and will get about 1/2 year's severance - by law - if laid off.
But being fortunate does not mean I lose my eyes and ears - I can hear and see what happening. Companies _are_ getting harsher; jobs harder to find and to keep.
If you think you think you can just work with no backup plan for wealth creation, you're not optimistic, you're naive.
Good for your friend with the 3/4 salary severance - he was fortunate. And I have a similar anecdote about my friend with similar severance too. But you see, a $30K severance on a $45K pay-packet doesn't last that long. There are some fundamental costs to living (rent, petrol, utilities.) If you can't get a job again soon, that happiness (and money) evaporates. Hence this advice:
Everyone working for someone - and I mean everyone - needs a backup plan to create wealth. Not an MLM - something where you get paid to create actual value. This could be selling cupcakes off your Facebook page, freelancing on guru.com, selling artwork on odesk.com, tutoring math classes, mowing lawns... Even if you make only $10/month, its a skill kept sharp for when you really need to depend on that next arrow in your quiver.
> Or rather, both sides are correct even though they are in direct disagreement.
Ah, the usual AC handwringing recipe -- "it all hopeless... no one's right" -- along with a dash of zesty "job creator" myth thrown in.
> People with an employee mindset naturally want job security, and consider the provision of such to be a moral obligation of employers. The reasons are obvious.
No, its not, Capn. obvious! Most employees actually want to work hard AND realise that there are limits to their employment.
> Employers, [...] morally obligatory that they hire the best and get rid of people who are becoming dead weight.
There. Now you've defined your own morality. Perhaps you think of yourself as an employer with such a 'moral obligation'. All the best not disgusting your 'good' employees who know how you treat 'deadwood' and wonder when their time will come.
From the article:
The second conversation took place in 2002, a few months after our IPO. Laura, our bookkeeper, was bright, hardworking, and creative. She’d been very important to our early growth, having devised a system for accurately tracking movie rentals so that we could pay the correct royalties. But now, as a public company, we needed CPAs and other fully credentialed, deeply experienced accounting professionals—and Laura had only an associate’s degree from a community college. Despite her work ethic, her track record, and the fact that we all really liked her, her skills were no longer adequate. Some of us talked about jury-rigging a new role for her, but we decided that wouldn’t be right.
So I sat down with Laura and explained the situation—and said that in light of her spectacular service, we would give her a spectacular severance package. I’d braced myself for tears or histrionics, but Laura reacted well
[...]
[Talking about another employee that no longer 'fit']
Give her a great severance package—which, when she signs the documents, will dramatically reduce (if not eliminate) the chance of a lawsuit.”
Folks - remember the snippets above in your dealings with any company. This is the nature of the employer-employee contract these days.
A spectacular severance supposedly balances out any disquiet at 'pump-and-dump' treatment of employees. Of course, "spectacular" may mean they pay $4,000 instead of $2,330.02 legally due - i.e. 200% of something which probably won't get you very far in the first place. And 'extra' documents they have you sign as a quid pro quo, also sign away review rights regarding unfair dismissal, etc.
Everyone working for someone - and I mean everyone - needs a backup plan to create wealth. Not an MLM - something where you get paid to create actual value. This could be selling cupcakes off your Facebook page, freelancing on guru.com, selling artwork on odesk.com, tutoring math classes, mowing lawns... Even if you make only $10/month, its a skill kept sharp for when you really need to depend on that next arrow in your quiver.
Before doing this, check your work contract - and speak with your attorney. Many jobs - specially IT roles - have a catchall 'all your efforts/patents/ideas/code belong to us' clause. Even for what you do on your own time and dime. Such clauses may or may not be lawful.
Also, it's Bruce Perens. Hi!
Also, while we are still in 'appeal to authority' mode, the coauthor of the paper is Adi Shamir, the 'S' in RSA.
I don't knock their work ... :)
All that needs doing is adding a helium ballon with additional battery payload. As long as the entire system is neutrally bouyant, this could hover for hours, streaming video. Even follow its owner around... Kinda like the "kino" orb in the Stargate Universe TV series, but with wings :)
Grasshoppers can be swept up in updrafts, you know.
Trees and children aren't.
> I'd rather have a competent driver in a bare-bones sports car on the road with me than a clueless housewife ...
"Roger Rodas was a highly skilled driver who would not have taken a risk with his friend and client Paul Walker’s life, an engineer for Rodas’ race team said Tuesday."
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2013/12/03/paul-walker-roger-rodas-porsche/
...offering employment contracts which don't bind employees in intellectual slavery. Some employers - especially tech employers - lay claim to every thought, word and deed of value that the employee creates during his term of employment - even if done in his own time and on his own dime.
Do 'em a good turn... you will.
Whether its real call for violence or not, its indicates an attitude problem with the owner. And attitude is everything in hospitality - it informs everything: the staff you hire, the ingredients you procure, how kind you are to customers that make a mistake, or disagree with you ... This guys attitude is Not that of a hospitable restauranteur.
I see the problem with GG in restaurants. I support the ban. After all, its for the benefit of the OTHER patrons in the place. But I still prefer not to eat at venues where attitudes like this flow from the top down.
Feel free to disagree - just remember its your ass kicking he may call for tomorrow because of a bad tip or Yelp review.
What about wearing your GG in the restaurant bathroom, urinating in the stalls? Is that a freedom you cherish too? I don't.
Then try it on day 3 of the disaster, when your battery is nearly flat and it gives out after the first ring. :}
Or more likely -- try it when just misplaced your mobile phone (you know, because you've been carrying it around everywhere).
> Plans went from 600$ a month to 900$ a month for gold.
Wow - that seems a lot. I live in Australia. Here private health insurance plans go for much cheaper - even when you factor out a rebate the Government provides for taking private insurance (i.e. a rebate for not using the public health system.)
E.g.: http://www.frankhealthinsurance.com.au/quote
--
(Select zip code 2000)
You're a family living in NSW with adults aged 35 and 32. Your Private Health Insurance Rebate tier is 'don't apply rebate'.
-- Better Hospital and Some Extras with 50% Back = AU $244.40/month
-- Best Hospital and Lots Extras with 50% Back = AU 359.20/month
> Have some personal accountability.
And he can say "Have some corporate accountability" - its a small amount and a company representative made a committment (..."simply honored their CSRs original promise")
Its not a study.
Only dogs do that!
... and install a hollow cube outfitted with kinect 2, that would measure your hands and recommend a suitable sized controller for you?
$100 million is a lot of money.
What about addressing the tons of us, who still prefer a KB/mouse combo to thumbsticks on a XBox controller? There are even XBox mouse/kb adapters out there to fulfill this demand.
He didn't need to , but was still a rapist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAFO#Development_in_the_United_States
Around $100/year has them receiving your US online purchases at your personal US address (their Florida warehouse). They scan shipment invoices -- you view the invoices in a web interface and tell them which shipments to 'consolidate' and ship, They stuff everything together and ship Fedex or UPS. An 12"x8"x6" box costs about $50-$60 -- you save money when you've consolidated multiple shipments.
In Australia, any import under $1000 is duty free.
Won't work unless you also remove the monopoly-like stranglehold medical associations have over who can work in medicine
Hmm... All those print-head nozzles, heating elements, food containers, refrigeration requirements, loading of raw materials.
And I dread the washing up :D At the very least, dishwashers will need to be totally reinvented. Or you'll have to print out a 'cleaning run' after printing food - which may not clean hygienically enough.
No, I think food printing will remain a niche technology; maybe, used in molecular gastronomy. Elements may be incorporated into modern cookery, but Star-Trek like food synthesisers certainly won't be able to print anything close to strawberries and cream, chicken wings, or even a serving of rice in the medium term.
I think we should put the knives away for now.
Someone else has pointed out LinkedIn's explain of their solution here:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4379177&cid=45241665
I like the spirit behind this tutorial. Technically, its an excellent, creative solution to a real problem - having emails annotated with additional context of our liking. Their only mistake is the overarching reach of the solution (i.e. send all your mail to LinkedIn). That makes it basically DoA.The 'proper' solution for this would be for their app to run the IMAP proxy in the background on your *local* device (i.e. listening localhost:), under *your* control. The VPN profile would then direct mail retrieval traffic to localhost:. The app would also give you control over rules and webservices used to annotate your email. Additional points if the app was open source.