Why should we all have to suffer at the hands of being politically correct? A bad neighborhood is what it is - BAD! It So that someone in that "bad" neighborhood isn't "offended" why should I have to risk my safety?
I wish something like this would have existed when I chose my current house. The neighborhood looks great during the day but once it becomes dark all the bums and the freaks come out. They are all drunk or high and they do things out of "boredom" (as a police officer told me). Like vandalize my car and leave bloody handprints on the glass.
Hey look, you can't have it both ways. You can either get there quickly and safely... but have to be groped by some sweaty "government employee"; or you can ride in comfort grope free... but gamble with dying in a fiery inferno. The choice is up to you.
Thanks for taking the fun out of this one. We could have all speculated about all kinds of random things that it "may" have been. You ruined my Christmas.
Sadly the "good" employees that you want to hire are staying put at the jobs that they already have. This is especially the case when you have people who are nearing retirement age - they all lost a ton of retirement investment money so they aren't going anywhere until that is recouped. With today's economy, "If it pays the bills why rock the boat?"
It seems like every job posting now has around 50-100 people who apply. To weed out this many people en masse they will make you do just about anything - tests that have little application to the job that you are applying for, bark like a dog, sing the interviewer's favorite Barbra Streisand song, paint a painting of a nice wilderness scene, tune the carburetor on the interviewer's old Triumph motorcycle... Many of the people are well-qualified and even over-qualified! To weed them out on that alone would go nowhere.
If I had to tell you how many times I've been asked something stupid and cliche like "Tell me about a time when you experienced change" or "Tell me about a time when you faced challenge" I might go postal. It's almost like HR people invent these questions to pad their interviews because they don't really understand what or who they are interviewing for. I long for the days when a hiring manager or, god forbid, the company owner/proprietor calls and asks you "So, tell me what you are about and tell me why you think I should hire you."
They can treat applicants like total bastards and get away with it. With this kind of market what is really to stop them?
What I would give to give back the mostly useless degree I earned in college and not pay payments on it. Or walk away from it. I would gladly stop admitting to having a university degree. It really isn't about the education itself anymore anyways, it's about the sheet of paper that hangs on my wall. I'll gladly mail it back. Since I went to college I still can't find anything that either pays enough to justify the degree or that even remotely uses the degree.
Years ago Mitsubishi got in trouble for hiding complaints by truck drivers and other owners/operators. Among other defects the wheels would fall off and injure/kill people or the axles would break. Frustrated owners/operators would document this and send the complaints to Mitsubishi. In some attempt to pretend they never received the complaints someone decided to secretly hide these letters and forms in a LOCKER in the MEN'S LOCKER ROOM.
I've gotten calls from some banks that use an algorithm that looks for patterns that could signal a stolen credit card or credit card #. They must have done some homework to find spending patterns that signal that a card or card # has been stolen.
One example is that a credit card is used to purchase physical goods (ie. food, coffee at Starbucks, gasoline, etc.) at a bunch of random places around the country in a relatively short period of time. I had a buddy who was a flight attendant who regularly tripped this check simply because he would fly all around America in a given day and buy a coffee or lunch in all sorts of random cities; he eventually talked them into turning off this check for him since it was always causing problems.
Will they make sneering faces at each other? Rude hand gestures? Will they "haze" the other space station? Teepee their solar collectors in the night? Will the ISS astronauts pop in from time to time to borrow a cup of sugar? Host a friendly neighborhood barbecue?
I don't give my mobile # to any bank. Once they get their hands on it there is little you can do to stop them. Oh, that and I have been telemarketed before while OVERSEAS and paying $1, $2 or $3/minute for roaming airtime. Even better I used to sell cell phones in the mall back in high school. While showing off my really neat new phone to a customer I got a call from a telemarketer. That didn't sit too well with the customer.
The only reason banks and most other commercial entities need your phone # is to get money from you or try to sell you something else. Once in a blue moon I will get a call from a credit card saying that their theft algorithm was tripped and they want to check up and make sure things are OK. But otherwise I usually have no need to hear from them. I've had my mobile # for years now and everyone that I know uses it, both friends, family and business contacts. If I had to get rid of it that would cause lots of problems.
I have a few VoIP #'s. My local VoIP landline #'s each cost $1.50/mo through Vitelity. For this price you can have a bunch of them and it won't break the bank. I have a "regular" landline VoIP #, a VoIP # that I give to credit cards/banks/other businesses and a fax #. The VoIP # that is for credit cards/banks/other businesses goes straight to a voicemail and I get the voicemails delivered by e-mail. The number is even in a different area code than my regular phone numbers. If I choose to deal with them I can always call back.
I think everyone in the US has been permanently conditioned to dislike or loathe Comcast. Comcast could truly change its ways and we would all still hate them! I almost think its time for them to be broken up a la AT&T in 1984.
This just shows how disconnected the MBAs are from the people who really have to implement it or deal with it. Only managers think that it is good practice to bombard paying customers with crap that they don't really want. It sure looks good on paper or in a Powerpoint, right? Could help get that extra 3% market share!
You guys are putting too much work into this. Maybe just have the trains "slow down" at stations so that everyone can quickly jump on and off. That would save all that energy that it takes to start from a standstill. It'll work, right?
When I worked for one of the above-listed airlines I had pilots ask all the time "Hey, can I borrow one of your computers? I gotta check my e-mail." And we politely obliged. With an iPad they can check it pretty much whenever/wherever without ever having to walk out of the aircraft. Not only e-mail but schedule and assignment updates. Rather than have to "go to" the e-mail they can now get it without leaving the aircraft. Sometimes the dispatcher has some new routing info for them or weather. Sometimes the flight crews and flight attendants get moved around to different flights and it helps to know what to expect later on that day.
Also, those Jepp books need to be updated on a regular basis. Airports regularly change. And everyone in the airline has to be up to date with new revisions. With this I would imagine that they would get instant or nearly-instant updates without any extra work. The pilots get important chart updates, nobody has to worry about being out of compliance and they don't have to lug around a huge flight bag (the Jepp book is one of the big things they have to lug around!).
There is talk about cost. Every time that the pilot has to go track down information (e-mails, charts, weather, information) that is something that takes up time and can cause delays. Delays ARE money in the airline business. There is talk about reliability. Each pilot will have an iPad; I doubt that 2 iPads would go bad at the same time if that were to be an event. This isn't going to be wired into the aircraft itself doing any work, rather it's a chart to be viewed. Pilots can always lose their Jepp books or lose pages (also known as 'plates') since they are really thin paper.
I wonder if the aircraft maintenance logbook will go automated someday. Right now if something needs to be repaired on the plane the pilots get out a logbook, fill it out (often hard to read through 5 carbon copies), call the problem into the dispatcher. This would be a neat way to automate that process, get rid of paperwork and possibly expedite the repair process.
So I have to rootkit my own phone in order to record anything but this trojan can just record everything on its own? What a scam! I'm glad it takes a virus writer to extract what I consider to be a basic functionality out of my phone.
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Why should we all have to suffer at the hands of being politically correct? A bad neighborhood is what it is - BAD! It So that someone in that "bad" neighborhood isn't "offended" why should I have to risk my safety?
I wish something like this would have existed when I chose my current house. The neighborhood looks great during the day but once it becomes dark all the bums and the freaks come out. They are all drunk or high and they do things out of "boredom" (as a police officer told me). Like vandalize my car and leave bloody handprints on the glass.
Hey look, you can't have it both ways. You can either get there quickly and safely... but have to be groped by some sweaty "government employee"; or you can ride in comfort grope free... but gamble with dying in a fiery inferno. The choice is up to you.
Thanks for taking the fun out of this one. We could have all speculated about all kinds of random things that it "may" have been. You ruined my Christmas.
Young whipper-snappers won't and don't understand the significance of ^H either.
Sadly the "good" employees that you want to hire are staying put at the jobs that they already have. This is especially the case when you have people who are nearing retirement age - they all lost a ton of retirement investment money so they aren't going anywhere until that is recouped. With today's economy, "If it pays the bills why rock the boat?"
Well I left the IT business. But I'd LOVE to try out anywhere that they drink beer and use US keyboards!
These ridiculous tests are probably how they pad their claim that they need overseas H1B labor!
It seems like every job posting now has around 50-100 people who apply. To weed out this many people en masse they will make you do just about anything - tests that have little application to the job that you are applying for, bark like a dog, sing the interviewer's favorite Barbra Streisand song, paint a painting of a nice wilderness scene, tune the carburetor on the interviewer's old Triumph motorcycle... Many of the people are well-qualified and even over-qualified! To weed them out on that alone would go nowhere.
If I had to tell you how many times I've been asked something stupid and cliche like "Tell me about a time when you experienced change" or "Tell me about a time when you faced challenge" I might go postal. It's almost like HR people invent these questions to pad their interviews because they don't really understand what or who they are interviewing for. I long for the days when a hiring manager or, god forbid, the company owner/proprietor calls and asks you "So, tell me what you are about and tell me why you think I should hire you."
They can treat applicants like total bastards and get away with it. With this kind of market what is really to stop them?
What I would give to give back the mostly useless degree I earned in college and not pay payments on it. Or walk away from it. I would gladly stop admitting to having a university degree. It really isn't about the education itself anymore anyways, it's about the sheet of paper that hangs on my wall. I'll gladly mail it back. Since I went to college I still can't find anything that either pays enough to justify the degree or that even remotely uses the degree.
Mitsubishi has kept things "quiet" in the past.
Years ago Mitsubishi got in trouble for hiding complaints by truck drivers and other owners/operators. Among other defects the wheels would fall off and injure/kill people or the axles would break. Frustrated owners/operators would document this and send the complaints to Mitsubishi. In some attempt to pretend they never received the complaints someone decided to secretly hide these letters and forms in a LOCKER in the MEN'S LOCKER ROOM.
http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20000823/NEWS/308239997
Oh wait, I thought this article was about a job interview that lasted for an hour. Hey in this economy that can't be so bad right?
You are right. With cheap takeout and dry cleaning anything is possible! Maybe that is what the space race has been missing... affordability!
I've gotten calls from some banks that use an algorithm that looks for patterns that could signal a stolen credit card or credit card #. They must have done some homework to find spending patterns that signal that a card or card # has been stolen.
One example is that a credit card is used to purchase physical goods (ie. food, coffee at Starbucks, gasoline, etc.) at a bunch of random places around the country in a relatively short period of time. I had a buddy who was a flight attendant who regularly tripped this check simply because he would fly all around America in a given day and buy a coffee or lunch in all sorts of random cities; he eventually talked them into turning off this check for him since it was always causing problems.
Will they make sneering faces at each other? Rude hand gestures? Will they "haze" the other space station? Teepee their solar collectors in the night? Will the ISS astronauts pop in from time to time to borrow a cup of sugar? Host a friendly neighborhood barbecue?
I don't give my mobile # to any bank. Once they get their hands on it there is little you can do to stop them. Oh, that and I have been telemarketed before while OVERSEAS and paying $1, $2 or $3/minute for roaming airtime. Even better I used to sell cell phones in the mall back in high school. While showing off my really neat new phone to a customer I got a call from a telemarketer. That didn't sit too well with the customer.
The only reason banks and most other commercial entities need your phone # is to get money from you or try to sell you something else. Once in a blue moon I will get a call from a credit card saying that their theft algorithm was tripped and they want to check up and make sure things are OK. But otherwise I usually have no need to hear from them. I've had my mobile # for years now and everyone that I know uses it, both friends, family and business contacts. If I had to get rid of it that would cause lots of problems.
I have a few VoIP #'s. My local VoIP landline #'s each cost $1.50/mo through Vitelity. For this price you can have a bunch of them and it won't break the bank. I have a "regular" landline VoIP #, a VoIP # that I give to credit cards/banks/other businesses and a fax #. The VoIP # that is for credit cards/banks/other businesses goes straight to a voicemail and I get the voicemails delivered by e-mail. The number is even in a different area code than my regular phone numbers. If I choose to deal with them I can always call back.
I think everyone in the US has been permanently conditioned to dislike or loathe Comcast. Comcast could truly change its ways and we would all still hate them! I almost think its time for them to be broken up a la AT&T in 1984.
Is that REALLY the ruling? Seriously? I'm sorry but Pakistan, for being a nation that owns and operates nuclear weapons, needs some tougher skin.
This just shows how disconnected the MBAs are from the people who really have to implement it or deal with it. Only managers think that it is good practice to bombard paying customers with crap that they don't really want. It sure looks good on paper or in a Powerpoint, right? Could help get that extra 3% market share!
Maybe Facebook is really the Skynet that we learned about in the Terminator movies. I fear the day that it becomes self-aware.
You guys are putting too much work into this. Maybe just have the trains "slow down" at stations so that everyone can quickly jump on and off. That would save all that energy that it takes to start from a standstill. It'll work, right?
Corporations are "people"... until it is time to prosecute them. Then nothing seems to happen.
When I worked for one of the above-listed airlines I had pilots ask all the time "Hey, can I borrow one of your computers? I gotta check my e-mail." And we politely obliged. With an iPad they can check it pretty much whenever/wherever without ever having to walk out of the aircraft. Not only e-mail but schedule and assignment updates. Rather than have to "go to" the e-mail they can now get it without leaving the aircraft. Sometimes the dispatcher has some new routing info for them or weather. Sometimes the flight crews and flight attendants get moved around to different flights and it helps to know what to expect later on that day.
Also, those Jepp books need to be updated on a regular basis. Airports regularly change. And everyone in the airline has to be up to date with new revisions. With this I would imagine that they would get instant or nearly-instant updates without any extra work. The pilots get important chart updates, nobody has to worry about being out of compliance and they don't have to lug around a huge flight bag (the Jepp book is one of the big things they have to lug around!).
There is talk about cost. Every time that the pilot has to go track down information (e-mails, charts, weather, information) that is something that takes up time and can cause delays. Delays ARE money in the airline business. There is talk about reliability. Each pilot will have an iPad; I doubt that 2 iPads would go bad at the same time if that were to be an event. This isn't going to be wired into the aircraft itself doing any work, rather it's a chart to be viewed. Pilots can always lose their Jepp books or lose pages (also known as 'plates') since they are really thin paper.
I wonder if the aircraft maintenance logbook will go automated someday. Right now if something needs to be repaired on the plane the pilots get out a logbook, fill it out (often hard to read through 5 carbon copies), call the problem into the dispatcher. This would be a neat way to automate that process, get rid of paperwork and possibly expedite the repair process.
Maybe it's time for some of the "United" States to leave the union. This is getting ridiculous.
Let me guess - he looked out the window and saw a van marked Flowers By Irene or Charlie's Independent Analysis....
So I have to rootkit my own phone in order to record anything but this trojan can just record everything on its own? What a scam! I'm glad it takes a virus writer to extract what I consider to be a basic functionality out of my phone.