This is something I never could understand. Why is it unprofessional to point out how unprofessionally a company treated you? Why is it unprofessional to simply walk out the door instead of giving two weeks notice even though the company would not have given you any notice if they fired you? Why must the professionalism all be on the side of the employee? Shouldn't the company have to also display professionalism?
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On the other hand, if you don't have a decent and convincing online presence yourself, I may not even consider you, and you'll never know.
Wow, I guess it depends on what you are hiring for, but as a manager myself, I wouldn't deduct any points for NOT having an online presence, and in fact, the candidate would probably lose credibility with me if they DID have a myspace account. Linkedin and Plaxo, I am completely neutral about. Facebook is less negative than myspace to me.
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Yeah, but most of these "friends" aren't real.
Certainly all of MY contacts (they're not all friends) are real. I have never attempted to contact someone whom I have not worked with, am related to, or have socialized with outside of the internet. This is not like Myspace where people are friending back and forth just to bump up the number of supposed friends they have. Linkedin tells you specifically NOT to send invites to people you don't know.
Just mandate that every insured driver also carry "uninsured driver coverage" as part of their insurance.
Of course you were being faceticious, but I still say, why should I, as a law abiding citizen, have to pay extra for my insurance to cover those people who refuse to obey they law? If they can't afford the insurance, perhaps they shouldn't have a car? They've lived in several other states and nobody there believes them when they say that they've never paid more taxes and fees than they do in Wisconsin.
I agree here, too. I paid $7200 a year in property taxes when I lived there, even more than when I lived in DuPage County Illinois, which is notorious for their ridiculously high taxes. Furthermore, I had a small business and was putting money into separate IRA accounts for my wife and stepson. Wisconsin found out, and insisted that I had to have unemployment insurance for both of them (even though they didn't actually do any work for me, and were family), and furthermore because I didn't already have that insurance, I had to pay a fine of $700, all for the sin of trying to provide for my wife's and stepson's retirement.BR>
After 9/11, I lost my job, and earned no money in Wisconsin. In the middle of the next year, I moved to Oklahoma, where I earned about $20k. Oklahoma taxed me on the $20k because I earned it all in Oklahoma. Wisconsin taxed me on $10k because I lived half the year in Wisconsin. Wisconsin provided me no job, no unemployment (despite having paid in thanks to them), no welfare, no insurance, etc. So altogether that year, I made $20k and was taxed on $30k. I could go on about how the insurance companies in Wisconsin were very powerful, as were the Doctor's associations, and they were constantly battling it out, and the patient's suffered. I used to pay more in insurance premiums in Wisconsin for my wife and myself that I do now for my wife, myself and four kids. I eventually had to cancel my insurance because I couldn't afford to pay both insurance and all the doctor's bills (as insurance never paid anything unless you argued with them on the phone for hours).
Never EVER live in Wisconsin.
That's okay. Thanks to another article on/. I was googling myself and found out that I am already ON Facebook. Well, someone with my name anyway.
But I was pleased to reminisce on some old posts I had written on Usenet as I found that several people have some of my quips in fortune files and signatures.
Oh, lordy. I was inspired to go google my name, and discovered to my dismay that I have a Facebook account. Or rather someone else with my name does. Thankfully they don't look like me, because I would think having a Facebook account would be an immediate turnoff to a recruiter.
Technically HR can not ask your age, picture, marital status, race, and a few other things until after you are offered a position. This article was a warning to HR people.
While that is technically true, they can legally ask you for your birthdate, which can obviously be used to ascertain your age. Also, most larger companies ask you to "voluntarily" put down your race. Though this is usually just to weed out the white males so they can make their Affirmative Action quota.
I could never put my slashdot ID on a resume. I have made way too many comments about the way that employers ought to treat employees. Employers don't like potential employees who think they ought to be treated like human beings.
I've made way too many comments period, really. But given that it is now 11:41 PM, and I am just taking a break from the work I have been doing since 9:00 AM, I don't think they could fault me. Though I will go ahead and badmouth my employer for making me work about 120 hours in the last 8 days, including a supposed 3 day weekend.
They're just lucky I don't have time to search for another job because of all the overtime.
I would think that you are although I sympathize with you as I also have a common name whereby my first middle & last in quotes returns 5,140 hits in Google.
I got only 3, and they are all me. Good thing I am not a pedophile. Oddly, two of them seem to be some kind of search site for executives and businesses which I don't believe I have ever even visited, let alone put my information on.
That does suck. I had the same thing happen to me, except that it was my sister. I gave her my car, but she never titled it in her name, got some parking tickets in some town I never go to. When it came time to buy a home, they wouldn't lend to me until I satisfied "my" debt to the city that I hadn't been to. Of course, my sister was broke, so she couldn't pay the bill.
I would use Myspace to screen individuals too. "What's your Myspace id? Oh, I'm sorry. The correct answer should have been 'Myspace? Are you kidding me?'. But we'll keep your resume on file for 6 months (under breath: not bloody likely)."
I hate companies like that. Even worse when it is web based. They want me to spend an hour of my life going through their complicated web form, many of which fields are inadequate or inapplicable for the data they wish you to provide, and then at the end of that you have a 1 in 100 shot of it getting looked at and a 1 in 1000 shot at getting hired. I wonder how many brilliant people got halfway through, looked at their watch, sighed, and killed the browser.
Also, why do companies prefer to steal employees from one another rather than hire someone with equal or better qualifications who is out of a job?
Also, why do companies discount me for my lack of recent experience as a DBA? Sybase hired me with no SQL database experience, and less than a year later I was offered a position as Senior Consultant, and was working as Team Leader on one of the largest financial Datawarehouses with datamarts all over the world. If I can go from zero to that in a year, is it really going to matter that I haven't had the title of DBA for a couple of years (although I still do performance and tuning, query analysis and SQL development)?
I've been to a few places that use biometric security. They are nothing but a toy to impress the rich dummy customers. I've had to deal with thumbprint scanners on entry doors. You have to scan your thumb AND enter a code. Why? Because it can't readily enough tell the difference between your thumb and someone else's but if you provide a security code as well, then it is reasonably satisfied that it is really you. Of course, if you just entered the code by itself, that would have been just as good. What was annoying was late in the evenings at certain times of the year when glare made it not recognize thumbprints reliably and you had to sit out in the shivering cold trying to shield the sun from hitting the lens while you positioned your thumb just so and keyed the code with your third hand, or told your code to a passerby so he could key it in. Smarter to ask him to shield the kens, but he's gonna see the code anyway at that point.
Obgripe: Stupid banks and their stupid audits. Thanks to some stupid bank, our company just turned on password expiration again. Our policy requires a mixture of uppercase, lowercase, numbers and symbols, must be 8 characters or longer and can't be among the last 12 used. So I have failed login every time I have tried to log in for the last week, because the password that I have to type in is not "my" password but some password that I had to choose to meet the criteria, and of course, I have a hard time remembering it. Why do people seem to think it is a bad idea to let people keep the same password forever? I have had the same password for over 15 years and never had any trouble because... I don't tell it to anyone. The problem with passwords is when people do dumb things like share them with someone else, or worse, write them down. Of course, there is no reason to write them down because if is "your" password, you will always remember it. The only reason to write it down is because your idiot company requires you to change it every 30 days and you won't be able to remember it unless you write it down. So for password expiration to be really effective, it needs to expire every 5 minutes, because it will probably take them that long to choose a password that the system will accept, and then write it down.
This from a company where I haven't been told what my login is for the ASP but they want me to use it, so whenever I am forced to use it by someone and I tell them I don't have a login, they tell me "Oh, just use mine. The password is 12345". Sigh.
I'm torn. I would never join Facebook, but now I want to so I can be part of this group. Is there also a group for people who will never join Facebook?
Maybe I'm missing something. If the purpose of Digital TV was to free up UHF frequencies, then shouldn't it be possible for the stations to continue broadcasting on the UHF frequency for a couple of months? Of course, not actual programming, but some message like "I told you so" only maybe more helpful? They obviously have been broadcasting both digital and analog for awhile now (at least in my area), so they have both transmitters.
Well, is it not also possible that the plants now found only in the Americas may once have existed in Egypt and died out when the climate changed (which it has significantly in the last few thousand years).
How about taxation without representation? Technically, they are not taxing the retailer, they are taxing the purchaser, they are just making the retailer do all the leg work for no benefit. Legally, they can't make you do this unless your state agrees to let them do this, and you can sure bet that they will do the same to New York, so it will have a net benefit of zero. But at least it will kill off some of those troublesome small businesses who will now have to keep track of the tax rates of thousands upon thousands of taxing districts.
Maybe I'm just lame with your annoying legal policies, but I fail to see how materially, a tax shouldn't be applied on internet purchases vs. store-fronts.
It already is, but it is difficult to collect. You are supposed to pay Use Tax on most online purchases and indeed on most purchases outside of state whether it be by phone, by travel, or by internet. It is normally the difference of your local tax rate minus any taxes you may have already paid to the jurisdiction where you bought the product.
The difference in New York is that since New York has a hard time getting New Yorkers to admit to these out-of-state purchases, New York now wants out-of-state retailers to do all the necessary paperwork to keep track of New York purchases and tax rates, collect the taxes for the state of New York, and then send them a check. Well, my business is in Oklahoma, so New York needs to come point out in the Oklahoma Statutes where it says that I need to withhold sales tax for New York and send them a check.
Basically, it comes down to New York has some dishonest citizens and New York wants businesses all across the country to do their collections work for them.
...go take some pictures of some nice copyrighted work like a Disney movie, post them on Facebook, and then ring up Michael Eisner and tell them Facebook is claiming copyright on Disney material. If they want the copyright on all this stuff, they can foot the bill for the legal research to determine any prior ownership.
Secondly, you can't change a contract without active consent from both parties. Indicating in the first contract that you agree to any changes in terms in the future doesn't work. Therefore they need to provide me with the proper mechanism to indicate my terms to counter their proposed terms. If they are going to own this content, it seems reasonable to me that I should be able to backup my entire network onto their site, and demand retrieval at any time that I need it, and large monetary sums if they ever lose it.
Of course, this is all moot since I don't now and never will have a facebook or myspace account.
I've never been able to figure out why more people don't seem to be bothered by the inferior audio quality.
Are you kidding? People rip CDs to mp3 all day long and congratulate themselves on saving space. They don't seem to acknowledge that the savings has to come from somewhere, and they don't seem to notice the quality change, so why would they notice the poor quality from satellite?
I hope they figure something out, because I for one, do not want to go back to "commercial" radio where you have more commercials than music.
Oh, they'll figure something out all right. They'll figure out that they can charge you AND make you listen to commercials, just like cable did.
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This is something I never could understand. Why is it unprofessional to point out how unprofessionally a company treated you? Why is it unprofessional to simply walk out the door instead of giving two weeks notice even though the company would not have given you any notice if they fired you? Why must the professionalism all be on the side of the employee? Shouldn't the company have to also display professionalism?
On the other hand, if you don't have a decent and convincing online presence yourself, I may not even consider you, and you'll never know.
Wow, I guess it depends on what you are hiring for, but as a manager myself, I wouldn't deduct any points for NOT having an online presence, and in fact, the candidate would probably lose credibility with me if they DID have a myspace account. Linkedin and Plaxo, I am completely neutral about. Facebook is less negative than myspace to me.
Yeah, but most of these "friends" aren't real.
Certainly all of MY contacts (they're not all friends) are real. I have never attempted to contact someone whom I have not worked with, am related to, or have socialized with outside of the internet. This is not like Myspace where people are friending back and forth just to bump up the number of supposed friends they have. Linkedin tells you specifically NOT to send invites to people you don't know.
Just mandate that every insured driver also carry "uninsured driver coverage" as part of their insurance.
Of course you were being faceticious, but I still say, why should I, as a law abiding citizen, have to pay extra for my insurance to cover those people who refuse to obey they law? If they can't afford the insurance, perhaps they shouldn't have a car?
They've lived in several other states and nobody there believes them when they say that they've never paid more taxes and fees than they do in Wisconsin.
I agree here, too. I paid $7200 a year in property taxes when I lived there, even more than when I lived in DuPage County Illinois, which is notorious for their ridiculously high taxes. Furthermore, I had a small business and was putting money into separate IRA accounts for my wife and stepson. Wisconsin found out, and insisted that I had to have unemployment insurance for both of them (even though they didn't actually do any work for me, and were family), and furthermore because I didn't already have that insurance, I had to pay a fine of $700, all for the sin of trying to provide for my wife's and stepson's retirement.BR> After 9/11, I lost my job, and earned no money in Wisconsin. In the middle of the next year, I moved to Oklahoma, where I earned about $20k. Oklahoma taxed me on the $20k because I earned it all in Oklahoma. Wisconsin taxed me on $10k because I lived half the year in Wisconsin. Wisconsin provided me no job, no unemployment (despite having paid in thanks to them), no welfare, no insurance, etc. So altogether that year, I made $20k and was taxed on $30k. I could go on about how the insurance companies in Wisconsin were very powerful, as were the Doctor's associations, and they were constantly battling it out, and the patient's suffered. I used to pay more in insurance premiums in Wisconsin for my wife and myself that I do now for my wife, myself and four kids. I eventually had to cancel my insurance because I couldn't afford to pay both insurance and all the doctor's bills (as insurance never paid anything unless you argued with them on the phone for hours). Never EVER live in Wisconsin.
"I'm aware of the irony of appearing on TV in order to decry it. So don't bother pointing that out." - Sideshow Bob
That's okay. Thanks to another article on /. I was googling myself and found out that I am already ON Facebook. Well, someone with my name anyway.
But I was pleased to reminisce on some old posts I had written on Usenet as I found that several people have some of my quips in fortune files and signatures.
Oh, lordy. I was inspired to go google my name, and discovered to my dismay that I have a Facebook account. Or rather someone else with my name does. Thankfully they don't look like me, because I would think having a Facebook account would be an immediate turnoff to a recruiter.
Technically HR can not ask your age, picture, marital status, race, and a few other things until after you are offered a position. This article was a warning to HR people.
While that is technically true, they can legally ask you for your birthdate, which can obviously be used to ascertain your age. Also, most larger companies ask you to "voluntarily" put down your race. Though this is usually just to weed out the white males so they can make their Affirmative Action quota.
Of course. All the other kids are named Aiden, Caiden, Braiden or some crap like that.
I could never put my slashdot ID on a resume. I have made way too many comments about the way that employers ought to treat employees. Employers don't like potential employees who think they ought to be treated like human beings.
I've made way too many comments period, really. But given that it is now 11:41 PM, and I am just taking a break from the work I have been doing since 9:00 AM, I don't think they could fault me. Though I will go ahead and badmouth my employer for making me work about 120 hours in the last 8 days, including a supposed 3 day weekend.
They're just lucky I don't have time to search for another job because of all the overtime.
I would think that you are although I sympathize with you as I also have a common name whereby my first middle & last in quotes returns 5,140 hits in Google.
I got only 3, and they are all me. Good thing I am not a pedophile. Oddly, two of them seem to be some kind of search site for executives and businesses which I don't believe I have ever even visited, let alone put my information on.
That does suck. I had the same thing happen to me, except that it was my sister. I gave her my car, but she never titled it in her name, got some parking tickets in some town I never go to. When it came time to buy a home, they wouldn't lend to me until I satisfied "my" debt to the city that I hadn't been to. Of course, my sister was broke, so she couldn't pay the bill.
I would use Myspace to screen individuals too. "What's your Myspace id? Oh, I'm sorry. The correct answer should have been 'Myspace? Are you kidding me?'. But we'll keep your resume on file for 6 months (under breath: not bloody likely)."
I hate companies like that. Even worse when it is web based. They want me to spend an hour of my life going through their complicated web form, many of which fields are inadequate or inapplicable for the data they wish you to provide, and then at the end of that you have a 1 in 100 shot of it getting looked at and a 1 in 1000 shot at getting hired. I wonder how many brilliant people got halfway through, looked at their watch, sighed, and killed the browser.
Also, why do companies prefer to steal employees from one another rather than hire someone with equal or better qualifications who is out of a job?
Also, why do companies discount me for my lack of recent experience as a DBA? Sybase hired me with no SQL database experience, and less than a year later I was offered a position as Senior Consultant, and was working as Team Leader on one of the largest financial Datawarehouses with datamarts all over the world. If I can go from zero to that in a year, is it really going to matter that I haven't had the title of DBA for a couple of years (although I still do performance and tuning, query analysis and SQL development)?
I've been to a few places that use biometric security. They are nothing but a toy to impress the rich dummy customers. I've had to deal with thumbprint scanners on entry doors. You have to scan your thumb AND enter a code. Why? Because it can't readily enough tell the difference between your thumb and someone else's but if you provide a security code as well, then it is reasonably satisfied that it is really you. Of course, if you just entered the code by itself, that would have been just as good. What was annoying was late in the evenings at certain times of the year when glare made it not recognize thumbprints reliably and you had to sit out in the shivering cold trying to shield the sun from hitting the lens while you positioned your thumb just so and keyed the code with your third hand, or told your code to a passerby so he could key it in. Smarter to ask him to shield the kens, but he's gonna see the code anyway at that point. ... I don't tell it to anyone. The problem with passwords is when people do dumb things like share them with someone else, or worse, write them down. Of course, there is no reason to write them down because if is "your" password, you will always remember it. The only reason to write it down is because your idiot company requires you to change it every 30 days and you won't be able to remember it unless you write it down. So for password expiration to be really effective, it needs to expire every 5 minutes, because it will probably take them that long to choose a password that the system will accept, and then write it down.
Obgripe: Stupid banks and their stupid audits. Thanks to some stupid bank, our company just turned on password expiration again. Our policy requires a mixture of uppercase, lowercase, numbers and symbols, must be 8 characters or longer and can't be among the last 12 used. So I have failed login every time I have tried to log in for the last week, because the password that I have to type in is not "my" password but some password that I had to choose to meet the criteria, and of course, I have a hard time remembering it. Why do people seem to think it is a bad idea to let people keep the same password forever? I have had the same password for over 15 years and never had any trouble because
This from a company where I haven't been told what my login is for the ASP but they want me to use it, so whenever I am forced to use it by someone and I tell them I don't have a login, they tell me "Oh, just use mine. The password is 12345". Sigh.
I'm torn. I would never join Facebook, but now I want to so I can be part of this group. Is there also a group for people who will never join Facebook?
Well, I for one remember lots of people complaining on this august forum about how congress was dragging its feet on Digital TV conversion.
Maybe I'm missing something. If the purpose of Digital TV was to free up UHF frequencies, then shouldn't it be possible for the stations to continue broadcasting on the UHF frequency for a couple of months? Of course, not actual programming, but some message like "I told you so" only maybe more helpful? They obviously have been broadcasting both digital and analog for awhile now (at least in my area), so they have both transmitters.
But...but...but they might miss American Idol, The Bachelor or Dancing With The Stars!!!!
How can I miss them if they won't go away?
Well, is it not also possible that the plants now found only in the Americas may once have existed in Egypt and died out when the climate changed (which it has significantly in the last few thousand years).
How about taxation without representation?
Technically, they are not taxing the retailer, they are taxing the purchaser, they are just making the retailer do all the leg work for no benefit. Legally, they can't make you do this unless your state agrees to let them do this, and you can sure bet that they will do the same to New York, so it will have a net benefit of zero. But at least it will kill off some of those troublesome small businesses who will now have to keep track of the tax rates of thousands upon thousands of taxing districts.
Maybe I'm just lame with your annoying legal policies, but I fail to see how materially, a tax shouldn't be applied on internet purchases vs. store-fronts.
It already is, but it is difficult to collect. You are supposed to pay Use Tax on most online purchases and indeed on most purchases outside of state whether it be by phone, by travel, or by internet. It is normally the difference of your local tax rate minus any taxes you may have already paid to the jurisdiction where you bought the product.
The difference in New York is that since New York has a hard time getting New Yorkers to admit to these out-of-state purchases, New York now wants out-of-state retailers to do all the necessary paperwork to keep track of New York purchases and tax rates, collect the taxes for the state of New York, and then send them a check. Well, my business is in Oklahoma, so New York needs to come point out in the Oklahoma Statutes where it says that I need to withhold sales tax for New York and send them a check.
Basically, it comes down to New York has some dishonest citizens and New York wants businesses all across the country to do their collections work for them.
...go take some pictures of some nice copyrighted work like a Disney movie, post them on Facebook, and then ring up Michael Eisner and tell them Facebook is claiming copyright on Disney material. If they want the copyright on all this stuff, they can foot the bill for the legal research to determine any prior ownership.
Secondly, you can't change a contract without active consent from both parties. Indicating in the first contract that you agree to any changes in terms in the future doesn't work. Therefore they need to provide me with the proper mechanism to indicate my terms to counter their proposed terms. If they are going to own this content, it seems reasonable to me that I should be able to backup my entire network onto their site, and demand retrieval at any time that I need it, and large monetary sums if they ever lose it.
Of course, this is all moot since I don't now and never will have a facebook or myspace account.
I've never been able to figure out why more people don't seem to be bothered by the inferior audio quality.
Are you kidding? People rip CDs to mp3 all day long and congratulate themselves on saving space. They don't seem to acknowledge that the savings has to come from somewhere, and they don't seem to notice the quality change, so why would they notice the poor quality from satellite?
I hope they figure something out, because I for one, do not want to go back to "commercial" radio where you have more commercials than music.
Oh, they'll figure something out all right. They'll figure out that they can charge you AND make you listen to commercials, just like cable did.