What you really mean is, "Don't sign up to be on call without working out a decent employment contract."
This joker basically took whatever they offered him, and now he doesn't like it. Well, that's not exactly a surprise. He signed up for unlimited unpaid overtime.
There are a lot of ways you can get compensated for time spent on call. I've worked at places where the time was counted as actual work time at time and a half, so if I work 20 hours of on call, I get credited for 30 hours of work, and can work a one-day week to catch up. Likewise, I've worked places where its factored into the base salary.
Well, if a tech superpower like Denmark has unionized...Oh wait. And it's not even remotely relevant in this case because the guy is an independent contractor, which is basically the lowest tier of employee. If he doesn't like it, he's pretty much out of luck.
If you're salaried, and working on call, you should have bargained for a higher salary. I'm on call, and I get all kinds of perks (new company laptop every year, paid-for top-tier internet at my house, etc) not to mention a nice bump in the salary.
It wasn't Bush's fault that the levies failed. The whole levy issue shouldn't have even been raised to the federal level...It's clearly a local problem.
The part that is Bush's fault is the utter and complete cock-up at FEMA. The disaster response was atrocious, flat out incompetent, and that's just not excusable.
Note the psychology I related above. I'm talking about how it might be viewed in such a manner as to cause someone to go out of their way in order to hunt down a poster.
Well, I work at a newspaper and given the amount of rage and angst in the industry it doesn't surprise me at all that he hunted the guy for reposting his comment. Posting one time is funny, ha ha, posting twice is a big "Fuck you, I'm gonna make your life difficult! haha lookit me I'm so fucking funny!"
And then, turns out its from a local school? Those perpetual pain in the ass bastards who won't give you any information, and are always pitching a whiny little bitch about everything you writ that is peripherally related to education?
No, I know it's do-able, and I've actually been agitating in that direction for a long time. Re-enriching nuclear waste makes more sense (to me) than dumping tons of usable, highly radioactive, quarter-spent fuel in landfills that no one wants within a million miles of their house.
But the problem is mainly that re-enrichment is frowned upon because it creates tons of weapons-grade plutonium, so the only plants we have are clunky, inefficient, research plants. We'd have to redesign them for commercial use.
Not like our infrastructure is in good shape anyway; a lot of it is overdue for replacement. Might as well build new thorium plants as opposed to building new uranium plants.
Anyway, it's never FREE. Even if the process is better than break even, that doesn't mean FREE. Oil wells are better than break even, and you don't hear anyone talking about "free oil". The best you're ever going to get with energy is cheap, not free.
You'd have to re-enrich, which is the whole problem. We're not geared to do that on a large scale right now, and we won't be for a while.
Hopefully this will kick some asses into actually looking into re-enrichment. Most of the waste problems we have are due to our refusal to use the existing methods.
I actually had the same thing happen to me, though I found out about the suspension when I went to get my license renewed, and when I called the courthouse to explain, they checked the ticket, saw that I'd given a different address than they one they'd sent the ticket to, and let me pay the original fine, with no penalty.
You horde your information because experience tells you that when you share it, bad things happen.
You always give a bullshit answer, because you've been nailed to the wall before because something that you thought to be the case turned out to be wrong, and, in the meantime, the phb you told that poisonous factoid to, turned around and told everyone up the food chain, and now YOU have to find a way to make something happen, which you've just learned is impossible.
If upper management wants open, clear, and honest answers, they need to understand the complexity of the question, and the reality that expensive problems can crop up in routine-seeming tasks.
It's not bad it's just not written for techies. The point of the article is to inform the average schmuck that there is a possible alternative to dumping fertilizer all over the place, not to make their brains shut down by talking about anaerobic nitrogen fixers.
Yea, if I read the final books of the goddamn wheel of time series, it'll be because I'm into Sanderson, not because of any lingering interest in Jordan...That burned out years ago...I want to say "a decade" but I don't think that the 5th book was published that long ago...Oh wait, my bad, the 5th book was published in 1993. Yea, not just a decade ago, a decade and a half.
I felt the same way. It's funny. When I first read it I thought it was great, but I went back and tried to read it a few years ago, and I couldn't believe how slowly it moved, or how it managed to fill so many pages with so little going on.
There were really nice elements in the series, things that were unusual and fresh. But the whole thing moved far too slowly, and bogged down in things that it was impossible to care about.
I have. I was driving home from college and passed a car which, like mine was packed with crap with a hugungous mattress-thing on top, but, unlike mine, was on FIRE.
For the next 1100 miles, I was sanguine about every set back on the road..."Well, at least I'm not on fire."
The thing that pisses me off is people who think that there is only room for 1 energy solution. If we can get wind and solar up to 10% of the whole, we'll be doing very nicely, and there will still be plenty of room for nuclear power.
Right now 50% of our power generation is fricking COAL. Coal plus petrolem, plus natural gas...that runs about 75%! Anything we can do to lower that will be a good thing.
You know why the government has hardly any web presence? It's because the requirements you're talking about, the requirements 99% of the world just happily ignores, are so arduous, so much of a pain in the ass to implement, that they just don't bother to do anything at all.
I submit that the purpose of the regulations, while noble, needs to bow out long enough for the government to at least get started with the web.
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What you really mean is, "Don't sign up to be on call without working out a decent employment contract."
This joker basically took whatever they offered him, and now he doesn't like it. Well, that's not exactly a surprise. He signed up for unlimited unpaid overtime.
There are a lot of ways you can get compensated for time spent on call. I've worked at places where the time was counted as actual work time at time and a half, so if I work 20 hours of on call, I get credited for 30 hours of work, and can work a one-day week to catch up. Likewise, I've worked places where its factored into the base salary.
Well, if a tech superpower like Denmark has unionized...Oh wait. And it's not even remotely relevant in this case because the guy is an independent contractor, which is basically the lowest tier of employee. If he doesn't like it, he's pretty much out of luck.
If you're salaried, and working on call, you should have bargained for a higher salary. I'm on call, and I get all kinds of perks (new company laptop every year, paid-for top-tier internet at my house, etc) not to mention a nice bump in the salary.
It wasn't Bush's fault that the levies failed. The whole levy issue shouldn't have even been raised to the federal level...It's clearly a local problem.
The part that is Bush's fault is the utter and complete cock-up at FEMA. The disaster response was atrocious, flat out incompetent, and that's just not excusable.
It's not a federal problem. Period. Why should my tax money be taken to pay for levees in a rich tourist town?
The GWB problem was purely about the incompetence at FEMA.
If they're unpleasant/profane enough to be removed, sure.
The Newspaper industry is a seething kettle of rage. Tap it at your own risk.
Note the psychology I related above. I'm talking about how it might be viewed in such a manner as to cause someone to go out of their way in order to hunt down a poster.
Well, I work at a newspaper and given the amount of rage and angst in the industry it doesn't surprise me at all that he hunted the guy for reposting his comment. Posting one time is funny, ha ha, posting twice is a big "Fuck you, I'm gonna make your life difficult! haha lookit me I'm so fucking funny!"
And then, turns out its from a local school? Those perpetual pain in the ass bastards who won't give you any information, and are always pitching a whiny little bitch about everything you writ that is peripherally related to education?
Hell yea, I can see it.
Well magical thinking is magical thinking. Makes you wonder how many people think all the shows on TV are documentaries?
No, I know it's do-able, and I've actually been agitating in that direction for a long time. Re-enriching nuclear waste makes more sense (to me) than dumping tons of usable, highly radioactive, quarter-spent fuel in landfills that no one wants within a million miles of their house.
But the problem is mainly that re-enrichment is frowned upon because it creates tons of weapons-grade plutonium, so the only plants we have are clunky, inefficient, research plants. We'd have to redesign them for commercial use.
Exactly. I'd like to think we weren't so naive anymore. There is a cost to everything, and a downside to every type of energy generation.
Not like our infrastructure is in good shape anyway; a lot of it is overdue for replacement. Might as well build new thorium plants as opposed to building new uranium plants.
Blah blah U233, blah blah, weapons grade, blah blah blah.
In terms of pure science, all this stuff is common sense, but you have to overcome the political angle as well.
Too bad we're talking about FISSION.
Anyway, it's never FREE. Even if the process is better than break even, that doesn't mean FREE. Oil wells are better than break even, and you don't hear anyone talking about "free oil". The best you're ever going to get with energy is cheap, not free.
You'd have to re-enrich, which is the whole problem. We're not geared to do that on a large scale right now, and we won't be for a while.
Hopefully this will kick some asses into actually looking into re-enrichment. Most of the waste problems we have are due to our refusal to use the existing methods.
I actually had the same thing happen to me, though I found out about the suspension when I went to get my license renewed, and when I called the courthouse to explain, they checked the ticket, saw that I'd given a different address than they one they'd sent the ticket to, and let me pay the original fine, with no penalty.
Want some fish with that chip on your shoulder?
You horde your information because experience tells you that when you share it, bad things happen.
You always give a bullshit answer, because you've been nailed to the wall before because something that you thought to be the case turned out to be wrong, and, in the meantime, the phb you told that poisonous factoid to, turned around and told everyone up the food chain, and now YOU have to find a way to make something happen, which you've just learned is impossible.
If upper management wants open, clear, and honest answers, they need to understand the complexity of the question, and the reality that expensive problems can crop up in routine-seeming tasks.
It's not bad it's just not written for techies. The point of the article is to inform the average schmuck that there is a possible alternative to dumping fertilizer all over the place, not to make their brains shut down by talking about anaerobic nitrogen fixers.
I can't believe this unsupported crap got modded up. Citation Needed.
You forgot, "OMFG Tam's not my father!"
Otherwise, perfect.
Yea, if I read the final books of the goddamn wheel of time series, it'll be because I'm into Sanderson, not because of any lingering interest in Jordan...That burned out years ago...I want to say "a decade" but I don't think that the 5th book was published that long ago...Oh wait, my bad, the 5th book was published in 1993. Yea, not just a decade ago, a decade and a half.
I felt the same way. It's funny. When I first read it I thought it was great, but I went back and tried to read it a few years ago, and I couldn't believe how slowly it moved, or how it managed to fill so many pages with so little going on.
There were really nice elements in the series, things that were unusual and fresh. But the whole thing moved far too slowly, and bogged down in things that it was impossible to care about.
I have. I was driving home from college and passed a car which, like mine was packed with crap with a hugungous mattress-thing on top, but, unlike mine, was on FIRE.
For the next 1100 miles, I was sanguine about every set back on the road..."Well, at least I'm not on fire."
The thing that pisses me off is people who think that there is only room for 1 energy solution. If we can get wind and solar up to 10% of the whole, we'll be doing very nicely, and there will still be plenty of room for nuclear power.
Right now 50% of our power generation is fricking COAL. Coal plus petrolem, plus natural gas...that runs about 75%! Anything we can do to lower that will be a good thing.
In a word: crap.
You know why the government has hardly any web presence? It's because the requirements you're talking about, the requirements 99% of the world just happily ignores, are so arduous, so much of a pain in the ass to implement, that they just don't bother to do anything at all.
I submit that the purpose of the regulations, while noble, needs to bow out long enough for the government to at least get started with the web.
Special Ross...
Geez.