If they could retain talent, they wouldn't have to worry as much about finding it. As far as your last sentence goes, that's got to be your problem, because I'm not making it mine.
Why would we go to that expensive effort if we didn't need too?
Is it possible that you're setting the bar too high and expect too much, too soon from your new hires? Remember, if you want people to stay with you and not jump ship quickly, you need to expect them to grow into the job because if they can already do everything you need, they're not going to be interested in what you want, they'll be looking for new challenges and new things to learn and they'll leave as soon as they find it. I don't know if this applies in the slightest to your situation, but judging only from what you've written here, it looks like a possibility.
Why? I'm not the person who made the original claim, I'm just trying to help you, and possibly others, understand what the OP was talking about. I have no idea if Sec. Clinton did or didn't do anything wrong, other than using a private email server and I'm not about to make unfounded accusations. Now, if you're done arguing against the wrong person, we can end this discussion; if not, keep going; it' won't bother me a bit one way or the other.
There's no way of answering that now, is there? And, if you'll look back over this thread, I never accused Sec. Clinton of anything, I just expanded on an earlier comparison of the deleted emails to a similar action by President Nixon. My personal opinion is that she may not have done anything wrong (other than use a private email server for official business) but it doesn't look good and she's put herself into the position of being unable to prove that the emails in question were innocuous.
If you can't hire and keep enough American talent, your first step is to ask yourself why. Is the salary you're offering too low? Are you expecting them to work too many hours? Are your other benefits, such as health care inadequate? How are working conditions at your office, compared to other companies in your field? Or, are your expectations and job requirements unreasonable? There has to be a reason, and the odds are that it's something you can fix once you've pinpointed it. But just saying that there aren't enough qualified Americans and that your company can't survive without H-1B workers isn't going to solve your long-term issues.
Whoosh! The OP was comparing the 18 missing minutes (and the notes covering that part of the meeting) to the more recent deleted emails. My own party affiliation is irrelevant to this because I'm just expanding on what somebody else wrote.
I've had several cats. I've seen one of them rush out of the house, pounce on a bird, then kill and eat it, even though its food dish was full. Recently, my current cat caught a lizard out back. He wanted to bring it in and use it as a toy, but I wouldn't let him. In about two minutes, there was nothing left but a bit of blood. Tame, mostly-indoor cats know how to hunt, and what to do with their prey. Yes, they do sometimes play with mice until they die (then leave them for you to deal with) but more often than not, they eat what they kill, at least in my experience.
I'm reasonably sure that Harvard students are qualified for government-backed student loans, which means that the federal government is, in fact, indirectly paying for those student's educations.
Actually, affirmative action is reverse discrimination because it seeks to make it easier for various minorities to get accepted than it otherwise would have been. The fact that this causes the institution to discriminate against qualified applicants who aren't members of the favored minority is just an unpleasant consequence that proponents of the scheme try to sweep under the rug.
Possibly you could paint them in an appropriate type of camo so that they blend into the landscape better, which is something that Just Won't Work with a traditional windmill.
Even if it were true that the cats eat the birds (and I'm not convinced that it is...
In case you haven't noticed this before, part of a cat's natural prey is small birds, along with rodents, lizards and large insects. Also, cats are hunters, and in the wild they only hunt for food. House cats may, of course, play with their catch or bring it back to show off but that's because they're hunting more to satisfy their instincts than because they need to. I do assure you, however, that even well-fed house cats will catch, kill and eat birds if they get the chance.
Newsreel footage of the disaster is well worth watching, if you haven't; you can easily find it on youtube. In fact, it was so impressive at the time that it was used as a cliffhanger in Atom Man vs. Superman, the second (and last) movie serial Columbia made about Superman.
I know several SF authors personally, and all of them that do military SF either know enough to get the ships and the physics right, or they know where to get help. I've never met Elizabeth Moon, but I have read enough of her works to see that she's careful to get her ships, weapons and tactics right.
The OP may be right that most sf writers don't care about the science, but most sf authors (That is, writing is their day job.) do, because that's part of being a professional.
I don't know about that, but I do know a man in his late '70s who had a pump and reservoir installed to work around certain issues that were getting in the way of proper marital relations. It worked so well that he eventually wore it out after about ten years and had it replaced.
That may be true, but it's not relevant. By requiring her to keep it with her 24/7, they're not using it to track the phone's location but hers. And unless you want to argue that she's a slave, she's not their property.
Hint: if you know a person's date and place of birth it is surprisingly easy to guess the first five of their SSN.
That might not be as easy as you think for people like me because I'm old enough that I didn't have to get my SSN until I needed it for a job. That means that my DOB isn't related to it, and unless I was still living fairly close to where my family lived when I was born, that's not a clue either.
It's not that unreasonable, because a stranger has a one in 10,000 chance of getting it right the first time and they're much more random than a user-generated PIN. Also, by only asking for the last four, they're protecting the rest of your SSN.
That's right. The VA uses your last name and "last four," and even asks for those numbers after you swipe your VA ID card. At least the new cards don't have the whole SSN printed on them like the old ones did.
From my perspective, anybody who never had to program using punched cards is an immigrant. I'd tell you to get off my lawn, but my community's security guards wouldn't let you past the gate anyway.
One of the big reasons they're happy to eat it is that they haven't learned yet (some of them never do) that they don't have to take that kind of treatment and that good managers don't need to treat their subordinates that way. And, of course, there's also the fact that there are lots of other kids out there trying to get their foot in the door making them easily replaceable and bad managers know how to play on their understandable insecurity.
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If they could retain talent, they wouldn't have to worry as much about finding it. As far as your last sentence goes, that's got to be your problem, because I'm not making it mine.
Why would we go to that expensive effort if we didn't need too?
Is it possible that you're setting the bar too high and expect too much, too soon from your new hires? Remember, if you want people to stay with you and not jump ship quickly, you need to expect them to grow into the job because if they can already do everything you need, they're not going to be interested in what you want, they'll be looking for new challenges and new things to learn and they'll leave as soon as they find it. I don't know if this applies in the slightest to your situation, but judging only from what you've written here, it looks like a possibility.
Why? I'm not the person who made the original claim, I'm just trying to help you, and possibly others, understand what the OP was talking about. I have no idea if Sec. Clinton did or didn't do anything wrong, other than using a private email server and I'm not about to make unfounded accusations. Now, if you're done arguing against the wrong person, we can end this discussion; if not, keep going; it' won't bother me a bit one way or the other.
There's no way of answering that now, is there? And, if you'll look back over this thread, I never accused Sec. Clinton of anything, I just expanded on an earlier comparison of the deleted emails to a similar action by President Nixon. My personal opinion is that she may not have done anything wrong (other than use a private email server for official business) but it doesn't look good and she's put herself into the position of being unable to prove that the emails in question were innocuous.
If you can't hire and keep enough American talent, your first step is to ask yourself why. Is the salary you're offering too low? Are you expecting them to work too many hours? Are your other benefits, such as health care inadequate? How are working conditions at your office, compared to other companies in your field? Or, are your expectations and job requirements unreasonable? There has to be a reason, and the odds are that it's something you can fix once you've pinpointed it. But just saying that there aren't enough qualified Americans and that your company can't survive without H-1B workers isn't going to solve your long-term issues.
Whoosh! The OP was comparing the 18 missing minutes (and the notes covering that part of the meeting) to the more recent deleted emails. My own party affiliation is irrelevant to this because I'm just expanding on what somebody else wrote.
I think he's referring to the infamous 18 minutes of silence in the Watergate tapes.
I've had several cats. I've seen one of them rush out of the house, pounce on a bird, then kill and eat it, even though its food dish was full. Recently, my current cat caught a lizard out back. He wanted to bring it in and use it as a toy, but I wouldn't let him. In about two minutes, there was nothing left but a bit of blood. Tame, mostly-indoor cats know how to hunt, and what to do with their prey. Yes, they do sometimes play with mice until they die (then leave them for you to deal with) but more often than not, they eat what they kill, at least in my experience.
I'm reasonably sure that Harvard students are qualified for government-backed student loans, which means that the federal government is, in fact, indirectly paying for those student's educations.
Actually, affirmative action is reverse discrimination because it seeks to make it easier for various minorities to get accepted than it otherwise would have been. The fact that this causes the institution to discriminate against qualified applicants who aren't members of the favored minority is just an unpleasant consequence that proponents of the scheme try to sweep under the rug.
Possibly you could paint them in an appropriate type of camo so that they blend into the landscape better, which is something that Just Won't Work with a traditional windmill.
Even if it were true that the cats eat the birds (and I'm not convinced that it is...
In case you haven't noticed this before, part of a cat's natural prey is small birds, along with rodents, lizards and large insects. Also, cats are hunters, and in the wild they only hunt for food. House cats may, of course, play with their catch or bring it back to show off but that's because they're hunting more to satisfy their instincts than because they need to. I do assure you, however, that even well-fed house cats will catch, kill and eat birds if they get the chance.
Newsreel footage of the disaster is well worth watching, if you haven't; you can easily find it on youtube. In fact, it was so impressive at the time that it was used as a cliffhanger in Atom Man vs. Superman, the second (and last) movie serial Columbia made about Superman.
I know several SF authors personally, and all of them that do military SF either know enough to get the ships and the physics right, or they know where to get help. I've never met Elizabeth Moon, but I have read enough of her works to see that she's careful to get her ships, weapons and tactics right.
The OP may be right that most sf writers don't care about the science, but most sf authors (That is, writing is their day job.) do, because that's part of being a professional.
Whatever it is, you can count me out! I already have ocular implants and adjustable, augmented hearing and that's as bionic as I want to be!
"Allows the small-dicked to be big-dicked,"
I don't know about that, but I do know a man in his late '70s who had a pump and reservoir installed to work around certain issues that were getting in the way of proper marital relations. It worked so well that he eventually wore it out after about ten years and had it replaced.
That may be true, but it's not relevant. By requiring her to keep it with her 24/7, they're not using it to track the phone's location but hers. And unless you want to argue that she's a slave, she's not their property.
Yes! And it's got lots and lots of sharp spikes to make it dissolve faster.
Hint: if you know a person's date and place of birth it is surprisingly easy to guess the first five of their SSN.
That might not be as easy as you think for people like me because I'm old enough that I didn't have to get my SSN until I needed it for a job. That means that my DOB isn't related to it, and unless I was still living fairly close to where my family lived when I was born, that's not a clue either.
It's not that unreasonable, because a stranger has a one in 10,000 chance of getting it right the first time and they're much more random than a user-generated PIN. Also, by only asking for the last four, they're protecting the rest of your SSN.
That's right. The VA uses your last name and "last four," and even asks for those numbers after you swipe your VA ID card. At least the new cards don't have the whole SSN printed on them like the old ones did.
From my perspective, anybody who never had to program using punched cards is an immigrant. I'd tell you to get off my lawn, but my community's security guards wouldn't let you past the gate anyway.
they take most shit and are happy eating it.
One of the big reasons they're happy to eat it is that they haven't learned yet (some of them never do) that they don't have to take that kind of treatment and that good managers don't need to treat their subordinates that way. And, of course, there's also the fact that there are lots of other kids out there trying to get their foot in the door making them easily replaceable and bad managers know how to play on their understandable insecurity.
Very good! Was this from memory, or did you have to look either of them up?