I do think employers should be forbidden from examining what you do off the clock...
Well, while that would be nice..that just isn't the case.
I just saw on a 60 minutes rerun..about a company, that gave all it's employees one year from notification...to stop smoking cigarettes, or be fired.
At the end of one year...if you still smoked...even at home away from the office on your own time, and they found out about it...you were fired.
I believe they actually tested employees' hair samples or whatever for nicotine, and if you were "+"...you were fired.
I've heard people have been fired for drinking the wrong beer after work....so, yes, you can in most states, be fired for legal activities you do outside of work.
When we decline someone we actually give them a list of specific things that they were deficient in when compared to our requirements for the position.
That IS very nice of you.....but, VERY unusual.
Most interviews...they just never call you back at all if you didn't get the job.
People should move back a bit and remember you do not have a right to work for me....
Really though it is not. If I had spent 5 years doing 100 hour weeks to build a business I would rather burn it down than put some fucking "club rat" or "thug" where a customer can ever see them. It just is not worth the risk to me. You can go get a job at a club or working with real thugs. Your rights end where they threaten mine.
Trouble is...you're starting to now have to deal with the entitlement generation, they don't understand that it isn't their right to have everything they want, and that they deserve everything to go their way, and that life (or maybe the US) owes them a good if not more than comfortable living.
I'm against the FB questions myself...but hey, if an employer wants to us these methods to screen people, well, it is my choice to not work for that employer.
On the other hand...I just don't bother having a FB account, and have worked fairly hard (not obsessively) to keep my internet footprint small, ever since I got on in about '92-'93 sometime....
So...what happens when you tell them you do not have a Facebook or other social website account?
I mean, I don't have one, I have no need for one...and I value my privacy.
Kind of hard to prove a negative, eh?
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I just assumed US....
I didn't know Blockbuster operated outside the US either....so....
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...DSLR in your closet at home.
Hmm...I'd guess anyone that would drop some serious cash to get a DSLR, would likely be invested and interested enough to carry it around with them...especially on vacations, where people often see new sites and take lots of pictures.
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So if you go to family functions in a foreign country...
How many people go to foreign countries for family functions?
I'd have to guess that would be a very , very tiny niche market? Don't most people in the world, live in the same country as the majority of their family?
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...it's getting harder to find sources for Blu-ray disc rentals
Err...Netflix? I get blurays from them, and they work out great!!
But, honestly, no one needs an SUV or a pickup truck. Let's agree on that.
Well, except those people who need to haul stuff around, or tow things..boats are big down here for example.
Me?
I don't need one...2 seater sports car for me.
But I'm damned glad I have friends with trucks, Jeeps, etc...I trade keys with them, to borrow them when I need to move stuff around, or buy something that can't fit in my car, from a place that won't deliver.
All the SUV's out there? Likely as not...not needed that much, especially the ones driven around town by one woman, talking on the phone...'measuring' the lanes from side to side as they talk and try to drive.
But for people moving things around a lot, and with boats, or need to move 4 wheelers and the like (fishing and hunting camps)...sure, there is a need for them, especially pickup trucks.
Well....just thinking of it, it might not be that hard to do.
First, just start off with the old Atari Asteroids code...then modify it to capture tumbling objects, rather than shoot at them to blow them into smaller tumbling objects....
You know.....most people, like myself, that could afford a $40K car....aren't worried about gas prices.
Hell, put a few more $$'s with that $40K and you can get a Vette or a used Porsche Cayman...and have something FUN to drive....that doesn't look fugly.
It's a credit, not a deduction, so you get the $7500 regardless. Take my word as someone who bought a Leaf and is in the process of filling out the tax forms.
Great...
So, the rest of us US taxpayers are subsidizing you to buy a car??
Ok...time to start over from scratch on taxes....this is BS.
Even if the number is close to that...which ones cost us the most money for public healthcare....remember, we're going to universal healthcare...which is more costly?
Ok...strange argument, but really...is it the federal govt. (in the US) responsibility to censor our media and commercials because someone too pretty might influence someone that doesn't have the self control to be their own person and try to be healthy?
There's always going to be fringe cases on pretty much any health issue...do we now cater to the lowest common denominator?
I know when I see healthy men in magazines....I do think, "Hey...maybe if I ate less, ate properly and exercised...I could look better too". Is that unhealthy?
No...someone that takes it to the other extreme has a mental problem. People that do most any activity to the extreme do it due to mental problems. So, because some people out there are on the fringe....normal people (the majority) have to suffer and give up...?
People are always saying don't make fun of fat people and if someone does they are treated like a racist.
Really?
What part of the country do you live...? I've never seen this happen. Have you never seen the emails forwarded around with all the lardo's waddling around WalMarts is scarily scantily clothes?? Everyone I know sends those around for a good laugh.
Frankly, considering that the majority of women I see are obese, often morbidly so....is this really a problem with the skinny models?!?!
No, men aren't off the line either...but from looking on a daily basis at typical people in the US any time I go out.....skinny models causing anorexia is NOT a problem....I can't remember the last time I saw anyone, particularly a chick that looked anywhere or any way too skinny....
Hell, its hard to find anyone out there that looks anywhere close to 'fit'....
I was that way...at least I'm trying with better diet, proper portions...and yes...exercise.
Hopefully, we can get the rest of the liberal progressives out of congress this time around.
Frankly, I think they all need to leave, and let us start over. No one from congress can run again...start fresh. But hopefully on a more realistic thought...lets at least get out the people that are trying to grow the federal govt in size and influence over the states....repeal the obamacare laws, and try to honestly start cutting govt and reducing the deficit.
I don't hold that much hope for the Reps, but anything has got to be better than what we've dealt with the past 3+ years.
You know, it seems you can do anything you set your mind to.
However, given with where I live and the climate (very hot and humid and often rainy) for most of the year here, I still can find no compelling reason to go from the easy quick method of jumping in my car, turning on the AC, and whizzing straight into work.
I don't want to have to work and plan all that hard...just to go to work...?
I have better things to do with my limited time man....
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Well, while that would be nice..that just isn't the case.
I just saw on a 60 minutes rerun..about a company, that gave all it's employees one year from notification...to stop smoking cigarettes, or be fired.
At the end of one year...if you still smoked...even at home away from the office on your own time, and they found out about it...you were fired.
I believe they actually tested employees' hair samples or whatever for nicotine, and if you were "+"...you were fired.
I've heard people have been fired for drinking the wrong beer after work....so, yes, you can in most states, be fired for legal activities you do outside of work.
I believe most states are "right to work" states...unions would not be part of the equation at all.
That IS very nice of you.....but, VERY unusual.
Most interviews...they just never call you back at all if you didn't get the job.
Trouble is...you're starting to now have to deal with the entitlement generation, they don't understand that it isn't their right to have everything they want, and that they deserve everything to go their way, and that life (or maybe the US) owes them a good if not more than comfortable living.
I'm against the FB questions myself...but hey, if an employer wants to us these methods to screen people, well, it is my choice to not work for that employer.
On the other hand...I just don't bother having a FB account, and have worked fairly hard (not obsessively) to keep my internet footprint small, ever since I got on in about '92-'93 sometime....
I really don't have one.
They can search high and low and they won't find me on one...that's the point I was making.
What if they don't believe it either?
Or...am "I" the only one left in the world now, that isn't on FB ?
I mean, I don't have one, I have no need for one...and I value my privacy.
Kind of hard to prove a negative, eh?
I didn't know Blockbuster operated outside the US either....so....
Hmm...I'd guess anyone that would drop some serious cash to get a DSLR, would likely be invested and interested enough to carry it around with them...especially on vacations, where people often see new sites and take lots of pictures.
How many people go to foreign countries for family functions?
I'd have to guess that would be a very , very tiny niche market? Don't most people in the world, live in the same country as the majority of their family?
Err...Netflix? I get blurays from them, and they work out great!!
Well, except those people who need to haul stuff around, or tow things..boats are big down here for example.
Me?
I don't need one...2 seater sports car for me.
But I'm damned glad I have friends with trucks, Jeeps, etc...I trade keys with them, to borrow them when I need to move stuff around, or buy something that can't fit in my car, from a place that won't deliver.
All the SUV's out there? Likely as not...not needed that much, especially the ones driven around town by one woman, talking on the phone...'measuring' the lanes from side to side as they talk and try to drive.
But for people moving things around a lot, and with boats, or need to move 4 wheelers and the like (fishing and hunting camps)...sure, there is a need for them, especially pickup trucks.
First, just start off with the old Atari Asteroids code...then modify it to capture tumbling objects, rather than shoot at them to blow them into smaller tumbling objects....
How are they subsidized directly by my tax dollars (state or federal)?
2. No....there should be no subsidies.
Hell, put a few more $$'s with that $40K and you can get a Vette or a used Porsche Cayman...and have something FUN to drive....that doesn't look fugly.
Great...
So, the rest of us US taxpayers are subsidizing you to buy a car??
Ok...time to start over from scratch on taxes....this is BS.
I mean..the Volt only goes about what...26 miles on electric alone before the gas engine has to kick in?
So GLAD that we the US taxpayers spent a load of $$ to try to force this thing down our own necks.
Yep, the feds know more about marketing and markets that we do in the private sector.....
At some point, a person has to deal with themselves.....themselves.
Even if the number is close to that...which ones cost us the most money for public healthcare....remember, we're going to universal healthcare...which is more costly?
Ok...strange argument, but really...is it the federal govt. (in the US) responsibility to censor our media and commercials because someone too pretty might influence someone that doesn't have the self control to be their own person and try to be healthy?
There's always going to be fringe cases on pretty much any health issue...do we now cater to the lowest common denominator?
I know when I see healthy men in magazines....I do think, "Hey...maybe if I ate less, ate properly and exercised...I could look better too". Is that unhealthy?
No...someone that takes it to the other extreme has a mental problem. People that do most any activity to the extreme do it due to mental problems. So, because some people out there are on the fringe....normal people (the majority) have to suffer and give up...?
Really?
What part of the country do you live...? I've never seen this happen. Have you never seen the emails forwarded around with all the lardo's waddling around WalMarts is scarily scantily clothes?? Everyone I know sends those around for a good laugh.
Deservedly so.....
No, men aren't off the line either...but from looking on a daily basis at typical people in the US any time I go out.....skinny models causing anorexia is NOT a problem....I can't remember the last time I saw anyone, particularly a chick that looked anywhere or any way too skinny....
Hell, its hard to find anyone out there that looks anywhere close to 'fit'....
I was that way...at least I'm trying with better diet, proper portions...and yes...exercise.
Frankly, I think they all need to leave, and let us start over. No one from congress can run again...start fresh. But hopefully on a more realistic thought...lets at least get out the people that are trying to grow the federal govt in size and influence over the states....repeal the obamacare laws, and try to honestly start cutting govt and reducing the deficit.
I don't hold that much hope for the Reps, but anything has got to be better than what we've dealt with the past 3+ years.
I'd vote for a small soap dish over BHO....
However, I don't see a lot of new city growth...and we're stuck with the entrenched city architecture and infrastructure.
All the pie in the sky plans for mass transit and all...won't work with the current system of cities that is currently here.
It may over time...but that time would be at least 2-3 lifetimes before it was something manageable and useable.
However, given with where I live and the climate (very hot and humid and often rainy) for most of the year here, I still can find no compelling reason to go from the easy quick method of jumping in my car, turning on the AC, and whizzing straight into work.
I don't want to have to work and plan all that hard...just to go to work...?
I have better things to do with my limited time man....