My job title makes clear to anyone paying attention. As would the total lack of pen or paper near me. You have to be actively ignoring me to assume I want your card. I have asked in many cases, mostly they just want to make a show about handing out cards. That is when I toss them out.
Our CEO is very much an older person, he would laugh at anyone in the position who wanted to use paper.
People in Marketing are also just doing their jobs, they should take Bill Hicks advice. Just doing your job is probably the excuse for lots of terrible things happening.
I only buy technical stuff, 99% of the time the sales guy cannot answer any questions and is a total waste of my time. If you want to sell a technical product why send out a guy who can't answer any questions?
Even worse are when they think they can and give you the wrong answers.
Throwing away a business card is a tough guy thing? I really do that. They are pointless. I am not going to waste my time typing them in when they can send me an email that has their contact data already as their signature.
I would fall into the leader role, and again "none of us is as dumb as all of us". Good leadership is always better than trying to get everyone to agree on a plan, that plan will suck.
My experience is that someone who makes assumptions like you just did is probably a blowhard who wastes others time with meetings because he needs to appear busy.
Which in many cases will look like your company is out of date. I make a point of throwing out business cards in front of sales drones who hand them to me. Send me your contact details via some more modern method or do not bother, I am not your secretary.
No meetings are about powerpoint, useless droning on and wasting everyone's time. Meetings are the alternative to work for the people who schedule them.
The simple solution is to uncouple maintenance and power costs. Let the state own and maintain the grid while many providers including individuals with panels provide power.
I cannot turn off the electricity to my home without having it condemned. I cannot select another provider. I cannot buy power upfront for a lower cost.
There is simply no real market activity for anyone in this arrangement.
Political ploy? If they charge that they should pay it, or damn near it. A utility should have severe restrictions, you get those when you are a monopoly. I would prefer if the lines were owned by the state and the power provided by many providers.
It is fine to talk about them, it is not fine to fund FUD from far right wing groups.
Those things are sometimes more important that getting it working. No point in having a working solution if it can't be maintained. Might as well take more time to get it working and have efficient, good looking code with great documentation.
Those things are boring, but that is why it is called work and not play.
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My job title makes clear to anyone paying attention. As would the total lack of pen or paper near me. You have to be actively ignoring me to assume I want your card. I have asked in many cases, mostly they just want to make a show about handing out cards. That is when I toss them out.
Our CEO is very much an older person, he would laugh at anyone in the position who wanted to use paper.
People in Marketing are also just doing their jobs, they should take Bill Hicks advice. Just doing your job is probably the excuse for lots of terrible things happening.
I only buy technical stuff, 99% of the time the sales guy cannot answer any questions and is a total waste of my time. If you want to sell a technical product why send out a guy who can't answer any questions?
Even worse are when they think they can and give you the wrong answers.
You can get the same thing done in an hour in email without the meeting 90% of the time.
I have been to a few in my life, they lasted maybe 15 minutes and were for dealing with a crisis.
Stop trying to make me your secretary, is email that damn hard for you?
Perhaps you have heard of Vcard? Or dozens of other actually useful methods of sharing contact information?
No, because they are wasting my time. If they cared about swapping contact details their are a myriad of ways that are convenient and not showy.
Their job is generally to distort the truth and make purchasing based on feelings and shininess instead of facts and useful features.
Throwing away a business card is a tough guy thing?
I really do that. They are pointless. I am not going to waste my time typing them in when they can send me an email that has their contact data already as their signature.
I would fall into the leader role, and again "none of us is as dumb as all of us". Good leadership is always better than trying to get everyone to agree on a plan, that plan will suck.
My experience is that someone who makes assumptions like you just did is probably a blowhard who wastes others time with meetings because he needs to appear busy.
Oh look an internet tough guy!
Tell us more stories about how you will hurt the man that made you feel bad.
Which in many cases will look like your company is out of date. I make a point of throwing out business cards in front of sales drones who hand them to me. Send me your contact details via some more modern method or do not bother, I am not your secretary.
No meetings are about powerpoint, useless droning on and wasting everyone's time. Meetings are the alternative to work for the people who schedule them.
None of us is as dumb as all of us.
He invented the protocol not the poor implementations.
I have, and I fail to see how this is not a solution to the problem at hand.
I assumed AZ did not have such a fee if this was an issue for them.
Then charge a distribution fee. The should buy and sell power at the same rate and only charge for infrastructure use.
Utilities as they are monopolies the law forces me to buy from should not be for profit.
Then the city will condemn my house.
I must have water and electric connection as well as some form of heat in the winter.
In science yes, the other 99% of coding done for pay is not like that.
The simple solution is to uncouple maintenance and power costs. Let the state own and maintain the grid while many providers including individuals with panels provide power.
Solar thermal can run at night just fine.
If night is half the demand of the daytime then you could have half your power via solar voltaics.
And you are forced by law to buy his power.
I cannot turn off the electricity to my home without having it condemned. I cannot select another provider. I cannot buy power upfront for a lower cost.
There is simply no real market activity for anyone in this arrangement.
Political ploy? If they charge that they should pay it, or damn near it. A utility should have severe restrictions, you get those when you are a monopoly. I would prefer if the lines were owned by the state and the power provided by many providers.
It is fine to talk about them, it is not fine to fund FUD from far right wing groups.
Those things are sometimes more important that getting it working. No point in having a working solution if it can't be maintained. Might as well take more time to get it working and have efficient, good looking code with great documentation.
Those things are boring, but that is why it is called work and not play.
Those are painfully simple concepts.
You have basically just added "on a computer" and claimed this is some huge change.
Because the patent office will allow any damn thing.
He would buy the island outside the USA and the yacht at the island. Thus avoiding all taxation.
A flat sales tax is a regressive scheme and one in which the rich can avoid nearly all taxation.
It is a public company, not a private venture. The owners, the stockholders, should make those decisions.
Which is so painfully obvious the phonebook is prior art.
You go look under plumber and with the listing you see advertising.