This is just a stupid move, and someone at Corel should almost certainly be fired over it.
No. People don't get fired for reasons any more. They just get fired. Look at the Apprentice. The suffering and misfortune of the powerless is sport now. Televised sport.
have long been criticized by analysts and investors as an expensive drag on cash flow because of lease costs and the difficulty of managing inventories
According to analysts and investors, "it would be so much easier to make money if we didn't have to build stuff, sell stuff and pay people."
I've been working with Linux for over five years. It is too difficult and too buggy to upgrade or install something like Gnome or Gimp or KDE.
Gnome (and GIMP and KDE) needs a "double-click to install" program. I spent large portions of three days last week trying to compile and install GIMP 2.0. The dependencies were impossible. It still doesn't work.
At least one-third of the daily broadcast schedule is infomercials. Most of the "cable" channels run only popular shows from other networks, or heavily edited movies over and over and over again, basically just to fill time.
Television advertising is grating, patronizing, lowest-denominator sludge which subtly insults as it offers suburban paradise with five-figure price tags to minimum-wage consumers, and interrupts the crappy programming eight times an hour to do so.
Sitcoms aren't funny. Dramas are political speeches. The local news is a carnival barker, and reality programming is nothing but a metaphor of a society fascinated by the misfortune of the powerless.
There hasn't been a meaningful sentence spoken on television in decades.
We're still below unemployment levels I was told were theorical minimums in economics classes in the early 90s. The unemploment rate has remained so low for the last decade that most unemployment theory has had to be rewritten.
The unemployment rate is so far abstracted from the real world that the number is practically meaningless. The real unemployment rate (any able person not regularly cashing a paycheck) is probably close to 20% and that's very conservative.
Half of the adult working population in this country is either:
1) Unemployed 2) Working part-time 3) Out of the work force completely 4) Working as a temp.
9 out of 10 small businesses fail within the first year, 9 of 10 remaining fail within 5 years
Myth.
she started her own mortgage brokerage firm in less than a year. She's doing good know, and even has a staff of ten people. That's right, she CREATED jobs!
Good for her. Did she get a preferred (read: near-automatically approved) guaranteed business loan as a female business owner? Almost certainly. Are such loans available to the rest of us? No.
So how does Joe Unemployed start his mortgage brokerage firm (since he ain't findin' no job anytime soon)? Fill out an application at the bank? lol
I hear that in 2010 the US will face a shortage of 10 million-odd workers, though I haven't heard what industries those shortages will be in.
That's when they plan to replace the state of Idaho with a new Wal-Mart "Continent-Center" which will include a grocery store, bank, library, several hundred housing tracts, four parks, a University, power plant, hospital, two sports arenas and a drive-through interstate highway.
Most of northern Utah and portions of Wyoming will be sold to build a parking lot which will be visible from orbit.
Just why exactly would an employer needing to fill a position that requires only
"Customer Service, Phone Etiquette, Basic HTML, Photoshop and/or similar graphics programs, must be comfortable with Internet Protocol and Web based Software Applications"
pay more than 10.00 an hour to -anyone-???
Because it ALSO requires:
Two Years of College, Associates Degree or Equivalent Experience
That's worth more than $10/hour. $10 is an entry-level job. If that's the pay, fine. Then drop the bullshit "Associates Degree/equivalent" or offer a graduate-level wage.
If you are a good programmer, you likely have not had trouble finding work,
I know eight programming languages, three of them cold. I've been unemployed for over three years. I couldn't rent a job with a coupon.
you won't have a job when you graduate. You will have a job.
Until you get laid off. Then the mortgage falls through, and your wife goes into labor in the parking lot because there isn't any room in the ER, and you find you have to choose between food and electricity, or dignity and a paycheck, or rent and car payment.
Then you find out just how much your former employer doesn't give a shit, and how they precisely timed your layoff for maximum cruelty, plus maximum hype for the announcement (the following day, naturally) that they had reached record profits for the quarter and the new product (that you helped build) was projected to increase sales 500%.
And so you're back at Poverty-Mart, stocking shelves to pay off your five-figure student loans for your useless Magna Cum Laude degree. Until you get laid off again, of course.
I share the same hope as many of the other posters that the quality of graduates will improve. It would save me a lot of time and improve the quality of my day if I didn't have to look at a pseudo-programmer's resume.
Really? Degreed candidates are "pseudo-programmers" now? Well, I guess that proves my argument about the usefulness of a college degree.
See, here a degree used to qualify someone ON ITS FACE for their job. Now, it's "well, it's nice you have a degree, but I still don't believe you, so get out."
Yeah. The future's bright in them cubicles, ain't it?
Every one is looked at as a little commodity and a little individual. The balace of how much eaither way is determined by your skill set and how you set yourself apart from others in the workplace.
And the moment you "set yourself apart" you get fired.
If you do something that anybody and their brother can do and you don't have some execptional level of skill, dedication, (add some other positive things), etc.. then
management feels completely justified in firing you without notice or reason.
If you don't like what your getting, what are you doing to improve your self?
Well, I suppose they could be working on their fourth Doctorate by the time they start looking for a house.
Remember when it used to be 8 hours of WORK instead of 8 pages of BULLSHIT for a paycheck? The modern workplace is a popularity contest. Nothing more.
bring your own lunch and eat at your desk from now on... I'm going off to type a memo about people remaining on duty at the desks at all times, no exceptions and still no cell phones.
I've rarely seen a situation where locking down a computer, when done properly and with attention to the task(s) which that computer is to perform, hampers the user.
Probably because you're not the user.
The few times that it has, rectifying the problem is easily accomplished.
Yes. Something along the lines of "Tough. That's the policy," with arms folded and $DIVISION_VP phone number on speed dial usually seems to work with little effort.
Most times, the people that resent not having full access to "their" computer are exactly the ones that shouldn't have it in the first place, either because they lack an understanding of how it fits into the rest of the network, are by nature inclined to play around with it and cause headaches for those that have to correct the resulting problems, or both.
Ah, yes. IT people know all and the developers are only there to make IT's job of keeping the cubicles the proper shade of gray more difficult.
Nice and adversarial. Just the way corporate management likes it. That way, when you have a good, smart programmer, management will always be able to find someone who will say "they aren't a team player because they changed their start menu" as support to fire them and destroy their career.
Just for reference, most programmers are far FAR more clueful than assumed by most IT people. Everything else is just a pissing contest.
But if you're doing that, it's very unlikely that the PC that is assigned to you for that task is locked down.
This presumes a level of management cluefulness that is unknown in normal space.
It's more likely that you're a user that discovered that he/she doesn't have full access to "their" computer, resent what you think impugns your technical knowledge, and worse, prevents you from using "your" computer for things other than those for which it was assigned to you.
And most IT people have discovered that some user is screwing up "their" computer, resents what they think impugns "their" policy and worse, prevents them from having total control over "their" computer for things other than those for which "they" think it should be used for.
That's why there are no such policies in this company. When I discover such a policy, I overrule it and throw it in the trash. If the people who build things that we sell need something, they'll have it by lunch, period.
swf is an open format. Ain't much else (Java, maybe) that exports to Linux Mac and Windows in the same file.
The Linux Flash player would probably run on OpenBSD, Solaris x86, and numerous Linux/PPC distributions with very little work, since there are already Flash players for both Linux x86 and Mac PPC (Classic and OS X).
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less deserving than the person in your country?
That's not the point. It's not a competition between which country deserves more jobs. It's business ignoring their responsibilities.
They do get fired for reasons - they screw up.
No, they get fired for entertainment. It's sport made of other people's suffering. A rather apt metaphor for the current employment environment.
This is just a stupid move, and someone at Corel should almost certainly be fired over it.
No. People don't get fired for reasons any more. They just get fired. Look at the Apprentice. The suffering and misfortune of the powerless is sport now. Televised sport.
have long been criticized by analysts and investors as an expensive drag on cash flow because of lease costs and the difficulty of managing inventories
According to analysts and investors, "it would be so much easier to make money if we didn't have to build stuff, sell stuff and pay people."
I've been working with Linux for over five years. It is too difficult and too buggy to upgrade or install something like Gnome or Gimp or KDE.
Gnome (and GIMP and KDE) needs a "double-click to install" program. I spent large portions of three days last week trying to compile and install GIMP 2.0. The dependencies were impossible. It still doesn't work.
Face it, folks. Television is 99% crap.
At least one-third of the daily broadcast schedule is infomercials. Most of the "cable" channels run only popular shows from other networks, or heavily edited movies over and over and over again, basically just to fill time.
Television advertising is grating, patronizing, lowest-denominator sludge which subtly insults as it offers suburban paradise with five-figure price tags to minimum-wage consumers, and interrupts the crappy programming eight times an hour to do so.
Sitcoms aren't funny. Dramas are political speeches. The local news is a carnival barker, and reality programming is nothing but a metaphor of a society fascinated by the misfortune of the powerless.
There hasn't been a meaningful sentence spoken on television in decades.
Monday: Open source Java
Tuesday: Forked
Thursday: Enormous whirling clusterfuck
Saturday: Start on new language
We're still below unemployment levels I was told were theorical minimums in economics classes in the early 90s. The unemploment rate has remained so low for the last decade that most unemployment theory has had to be rewritten.
The unemployment rate is so far abstracted from the real world that the number is practically meaningless. The real unemployment rate (any able person not regularly cashing a paycheck) is probably close to 20% and that's very conservative.
Half of the adult working population in this country is either:
1) Unemployed
2) Working part-time
3) Out of the work force completely
4) Working as a temp.
One HALF.
9 out of 10 small businesses fail within the first year, 9 of 10 remaining fail within 5 years
Myth.
she started her own mortgage brokerage firm in less than a year. She's doing good know, and even has a staff of ten people. That's right, she CREATED jobs!
Good for her. Did she get a preferred (read: near-automatically approved) guaranteed business loan as a female business owner? Almost certainly. Are such loans available to the rest of us? No.
So how does Joe Unemployed start his mortgage brokerage firm (since he ain't findin' no job anytime soon)? Fill out an application at the bank? lol
I hear that in 2010 the US will face a shortage of 10 million-odd workers, though I haven't heard what industries those shortages will be in.
That's when they plan to replace the state of Idaho with a new Wal-Mart "Continent-Center" which will include a grocery store, bank, library, several hundred housing tracts, four parks, a University, power plant, hospital, two sports arenas and a drive-through interstate highway.
Most of northern Utah and portions of Wyoming will be sold to build a parking lot which will be visible from orbit.
Just why exactly would an employer needing to fill a position that requires only
"Customer Service, Phone Etiquette, Basic HTML, Photoshop and/or similar graphics programs, must be comfortable with Internet Protocol and Web based Software Applications"
pay more than 10.00 an hour to -anyone-???
Because it ALSO requires:
Two Years of College, Associates Degree or Equivalent Experience
That's worth more than $10/hour. $10 is an entry-level job. If that's the pay, fine. Then drop the bullshit "Associates Degree/equivalent" or offer a graduate-level wage.
It's really rather simple.
The reality is that the job situation is fine.
Says the employed programmer.
If you are a good programmer, you likely have not had trouble finding work,
I know eight programming languages, three of them cold. I've been unemployed for over three years. I couldn't rent a job with a coupon.
you won't have a job when you graduate. You will have a job.
Until you get laid off. Then the mortgage falls through, and your wife goes into labor in the parking lot because there isn't any room in the ER, and you find you have to choose between food and electricity, or dignity and a paycheck, or rent and car payment.
Then you find out just how much your former employer doesn't give a shit, and how they precisely timed your layoff for maximum cruelty, plus maximum hype for the announcement (the following day, naturally) that they had reached record profits for the quarter and the new product (that you helped build) was projected to increase sales 500%.
And so you're back at Poverty-Mart, stocking shelves to pay off your five-figure student loans for your useless Magna Cum Laude degree. Until you get laid off again, of course.
I share the same hope as many of the other posters that the quality of graduates will improve. It would save me a lot of time and improve the quality of my day if I didn't have to look at a pseudo-programmer's resume.
Really? Degreed candidates are "pseudo-programmers" now? Well, I guess that proves my argument about the usefulness of a college degree.
See, here a degree used to qualify someone ON ITS FACE for their job. Now, it's "well, it's nice you have a degree, but I still don't believe you, so get out."
Yeah. The future's bright in them cubicles, ain't it?
And another writer goes without a paycheck.
Way to go! Billions of dollars and they simply cannot greenlight a new idea.
"Look, someone's trying to make money again."
"Do they use, manufacture or make products for computers?"
"Yes."
"Stop them. I don't care what it costs."
Who said it was a right?
NOBODY HAS RIGHTS AT WORK!
Is that better?
Know what's funny? It's true.
Every one is looked at as a little commodity and a little individual. The balace of how much eaither way is determined by your skill set and how you set yourself apart from others in the workplace.
And the moment you "set yourself apart" you get fired.
If you do something that anybody and their brother can do and you don't have some execptional level of skill, dedication, (add some other positive things), etc.. then
management feels completely justified in firing you without notice or reason.
If you don't like what your getting, what are you doing to improve your self?
Well, I suppose they could be working on their fourth Doctorate by the time they start looking for a house.
Remember when it used to be 8 hours of WORK instead of 8 pages of BULLSHIT for a paycheck? The modern workplace is a popularity contest. Nothing more.
The word is "dignity."
Also, why were the cellphones banned?
To exercise arbitrary control, make the workplace as miserable as possible and make it difficult for people to do their jobs.
bring your own lunch and eat at your desk from now on... I'm going off to type a memo about people remaining on duty at the desks at all times, no exceptions and still no cell phones.
Correct response:
"Take your memo and park it."
followed by:
"I quit."
have you explained the importance of your cell phone to your boss or HR person?
lol
Like either of them would give a shit.
two studios with rights to the film, to battle it out for rights to make the prequel.
In other words, waiting for eight dozen corporate executives and lawyers to agree who gets paid how much and when?
Buy the book.
I've rarely seen a situation where locking down a computer, when done properly and with attention to the task(s) which that computer is to perform, hampers the user.
Probably because you're not the user.
The few times that it has, rectifying the problem is easily accomplished.
Yes. Something along the lines of "Tough. That's the policy," with arms folded and $DIVISION_VP phone number on speed dial usually seems to work with little effort.
Most times, the people that resent not having full access to "their" computer are exactly the ones that shouldn't have it in the first place, either because they lack an understanding of how it fits into the rest of the network, are by nature inclined to play around with it and cause headaches for those that have to correct the resulting problems, or both.
Ah, yes. IT people know all and the developers are only there to make IT's job of keeping the cubicles the proper shade of gray more difficult.
Nice and adversarial. Just the way corporate management likes it. That way, when you have a good, smart programmer, management will always be able to find someone who will say "they aren't a team player because they changed their start menu" as support to fire them and destroy their career.
Just for reference, most programmers are far FAR more clueful than assumed by most IT people. Everything else is just a pissing contest.
But if you're doing that, it's very unlikely that the PC that is assigned to you for that task is locked down.
This presumes a level of management cluefulness that is unknown in normal space.
It's more likely that you're a user that discovered that he/she doesn't have full access to "their" computer, resent what you think impugns your technical knowledge, and worse, prevents you from using "your" computer for things other than those for which it was assigned to you.
And most IT people have discovered that some user is screwing up "their" computer, resents what they think impugns "their" policy and worse, prevents them from having total control over "their" computer for things other than those for which "they" think it should be used for.
That's why there are no such policies in this company. When I discover such a policy, I overrule it and throw it in the trash. If the people who build things that we sell need something, they'll have it by lunch, period.
a cheer is heard from millions of Macromedia Flash developers everywhere
But, but, how can an idea be stolen? Isn't the whole point that ideas are supposed to be valueless since they can be copied effortlessly?
swf is an open format. Ain't much else (Java, maybe) that exports to Linux Mac and Windows in the same file.
The Linux Flash player would probably run on OpenBSD, Solaris x86, and numerous Linux/PPC distributions with very little work, since there are already Flash players for both Linux x86 and Mac PPC (Classic and OS X).