Or they could just ignore all metatags and links to outside content, and... you know... evaluate the content based on its' own merits.
Add to that a negative-only modifier for keyword stuffing, bad descriptions, and too many links to crap.
So, with pagerank out the door, no more link farming, and no more meta-tag foolishness, content becomes king again, all those doorway pages disappear, and everyone but the seo scumbags is happier.
It's no different from going bankrupt, then finding out that you have to declare the portion of any loans you never paid back as "income". Plenty of people got bitten by that when they were foreclosed on, and plenty of students will get bitten by that in the future, now that student loans are a bubble.
I'm tired of our industry's all-hours, fully tethered nonsense.
Tired enough to take this article and shove it under your boss's nose and show him how overly long hours is costing the company real money, even if they don't pay a penny more in salary?
There's only 168 hours in a week. If you could somehow redefine a week to be longer than 7 days...then you'd have your 180 hour work week.
Lawyers can bill 180-hour work weeks, thanks to the fraud known as "minimum billing unit." Why do you think they have an all-hands partners meeting every morning? They can discuss a dozen clients in 10 minutes, then each one gets to bill 15 minutes * 12, or 3 hours.
Then each one works the phones for half an hour during lunch, to call back a dozen clients (they call during lunch time in the hope you won't answer) - and gets to bill another 15 minutes * 12, or 3 hours for "client communications" for 15 minutes of "work".
So, they've each done 6 billable hours in 25 minutes or less. Throw in double-billing, rounding up, etc., and 180 hours a week is easy-peasy.
Well, where am I supposed to pull shit out of, then?
Managements, dummy! It's the law of supply and demand - they have the supply, and they make the demands. And remember to include that in your TPS reports as "facilitating managerial functions and mandates related to job code # (pick random client job code)!" It's all billable hours.
he single handedly runs operations for a multimillion dollar corporation that basically crumples like a paper bag every time he takes a sick day
In other words, both he and his boss are so incompetent that they should both be fired for allowing such a situation to persist for so long.
I know because I work with him,
So how is your job, and your co-workers jobs, going to last when he dies of a heart attack or is laid up by some catastrophic disease or accident? All of a sudden, the whole company is non-competitive, loses contracts, and you're out on the street as well.
For example: The linked article has this bogus narrative about how Silicon Valley broke overtime taboos etc. Really? That's how it happened?
Since you obviously couldn't understand it when she wrote it politely, allow me to translate into terms you might grok - the industry attracted a generation of socially misfit, inept, geeky young workers who didn't have a life outside of being social misfits and geeky nerdlings, so for them staying at work 24/7 and things like hygeine and clean clothes being optional was their social life, because it beat staying at home on a Saturday night in mom's basement playing with their *cough* dungeons and dragons.
All major public accounting firms have 60hour minimum work-weeks for Jan-April ("busy season") every year....
So what are you doing fucking off reading Slashdot for?
If you had bothered to read the find article, you would have found that the longer the hours worked, the more time people spend in non-productive activities. You simply can't be "in the zone" continuously, 16 hours a day, day after day, week after week, month after month.
Do you really believe those FoxConn workers are working at their peak potential during those 12-hour day 6-day shifts? The owners accept lower per-hour productivity in return for the employees not having free time for "distractions", like having a life.
In my industry the customer gets impatient and DEMANDS the the workers come-in on Saturdays. "Our employees are working the weekends; why aren't your employees?"
1. "Because we don't have incompetent managers."
2. "Because we work more efficiently" == polite way to say "Because we don't hire incompetent managers."
3. "Because we maintain adequate staffing levels to ensure high quality and the minimum of mistakes." == another polite way to say "Because we don't hire incompetent managers."
4. "We're unionized." (even if it's not true, it will get them to ST*U).
So, you're advocating that customers be cheated? They should pay for a lot of unproductive hours just because you can bill them by the hour?
It must be legal - after all, lawyers do it, lobbyists do it, teachers do it, construction contractors do it, social media marketing "experts" whole careers are just a collection of unproductive hours selling horse manure...
Thanks. You could stick it on your lock screen, but some feature phones let you use any picture as a background on the main screen - a QR code there is as easy to share as flipping your phone open.
You can show a QR Code on the home screen, so anyone with a phone with a camera can just snap a pic - smartphones will interpret the pic, feature phones will store it for decoding later (either email it to your pc or laptop, or use a webcam to interpret it on your pc or laptop).
The good thing about QR codes is that you don't have to type in a web address or email url or whatever - so even if all you have is a feature phone, leverage it. Anyone you run into with a smart phone will be able to get your contact info from your QR code, and you can snap a pic of theirs, and use a webcam to decode it later.
They've got that cardboard taste of something that was left in the fridge overnight. I used to go and buy a dozen Boston Creams, and sit in the parking lot and share them with the dog (Newfies can eat 2-3 in one gulp) - not any more. Sure, the dogs will still eat them, but I'm not paying that price for what is basically "dog food."
It's better just to go to the supermarket, buy a half-dozen honey glazed, put one in the nuker lightly covered with a paper towel, and nuke it for 10 - 15 seconds to "refresh" it.
Wasn't the point. Read my original post. Fact remains; no good can, will or has come of for profit corporations who are obligated to maximize sharholder value ONLY.
Read my original reply. You made the false claim that corporations were required by law to maximize profits. You are now yourself lying in claiming it wasn't your point, just like it was a lie then, and is still a lie now, to claim that they are "obligated to maximize shareholder value ONLY" - your words. Provide a SINGLE citation - a single jurisdiction anywhere in the known universe where this is, as you claimed in your original post, the law.
Or admit that you're lying, and that your "fact" is not a fact.
Don't use powerpoint. Even the military has acknowledged that powerpoint makes you stupid (just google it).
If you can't speak without anything more than a list of the main points you want to cover, and maybe a marker board to draw diagrams on, then please ST*U and get someone else to do the presentation.
And try to keep it under 10 minutes - you can use the other 20 for Q and A.
The 3 rules:
1. Tell them what you're going to tell them (30 seconds to 1 minute, the "Intro")
2. Tell them what you're there to tell them (8 minutes - the "meat and potatoes")
3. Tell them what you just told them (1 minute - "the summary")
Tim Horton's "Always Fresh" is a lie, and has been documented to be a lie in court. The only problem is, it's legal to lie when "it's marketing."
citation 1
The cost of purchasing a frozen doughnut from Maidstone, which flash-freezes them using the âoepar-bakeâ method, is approximately double what it would cost franchisees to bake them from scratch on-site, according to court documents. Jollymore says this process ate into profit margins so much that he and his wife (both franchise owners) were forced to âoeeliminate or reduce free product donations to charities, school fundraisers and community events.â
Tim Hortons co-founder Ron Joyce admitted the famous donuts ainâ(TM)t what they used to be. When the frozen method was introduced after he stepped down, he said, âoeIâ(TM)ve tried them, and theyâ(TM)re certainly not the same.â One franchise owner who backs the lawsuit even calculated that the âoealways freshâ donuts are 14.3 per cent smaller than the actual fresh ones.
As for that other imageâ"frozen fritters in the back of a transport truckâ"it gets plenty of mention in the court file. One owner who supports the suit (and, like Jollymore, was a senior executive under Joyce) goes so far as to claim that some of the new donuts are âoe14.3 per centâ smaller than the originals. âoeI only have this information,â Cyril Garland wrote, âoebecause having noticed what seemed to me to be smaller donuts, I instructed my bakers to periodically weigh each donut in randomly selected boxes as they unpacked them.â
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Add to that a negative-only modifier for keyword stuffing, bad descriptions, and too many links to crap.
So, with pagerank out the door, no more link farming, and no more meta-tag foolishness, content becomes king again, all those doorway pages disappear, and everyone but the seo scumbags is happier.
Without link-backs, it's only you who would get penalized, since what you're doing falls under the "dodgy SEO" criteria.
So you're the one stealing yesterday's leftovers from the fridge. Time to make a chocolate-exlax cream pie.
It's no different from going bankrupt, then finding out that you have to declare the portion of any loans you never paid back as "income". Plenty of people got bitten by that when they were foreclosed on, and plenty of students will get bitten by that in the future, now that student loans are a bubble.
The article is flat-out stupid.
What next, "discovering" that guys behaviour can be "soft-controlled" (what a non-word) by anything that een vaguely suggests boobs?
It actually makes a decent additive to coffee.
Of course, what they sell as Screech today (80 proof) is a pale imitation of the real thing. What can you do, eh?
My current Newfie is also getting up there in years, also has tumours (we've really messed up the environment), but so far, so good.
My St Bernard lived a bit longer than the average.
Also note that these stats don't include all the dogs put down at shelters. The average lifespan of a dog is actually much lower - 3 to 5 years.
Let me guess - you work in the porn industry as a submissive in BDSM fantasies?
Tired enough to take this article and shove it under your boss's nose and show him how overly long hours is costing the company real money, even if they don't pay a penny more in salary?
Marriage is in a permanent decline - and it's the women who are saying "No thanks, don't need the hassles. Mess around and you're outa here, sucka!"
Maybe it was your aftershave?
Lawyers can bill 180-hour work weeks, thanks to the fraud known as "minimum billing unit." Why do you think they have an all-hands partners meeting every morning? They can discuss a dozen clients in 10 minutes, then each one gets to bill 15 minutes * 12, or 3 hours.
Then each one works the phones for half an hour during lunch, to call back a dozen clients (they call during lunch time in the hope you won't answer) - and gets to bill another 15 minutes * 12, or 3 hours for "client communications" for 15 minutes of "work".
So, they've each done 6 billable hours in 25 minutes or less. Throw in double-billing, rounding up, etc., and 180 hours a week is easy-peasy.
Managements, dummy! It's the law of supply and demand - they have the supply, and they make the demands. And remember to include that in your TPS reports as "facilitating managerial functions and mandates related to job code # (pick random client job code)!" It's all billable hours.
In other words, both he and his boss are so incompetent that they should both be fired for allowing such a situation to persist for so long.
So how is your job, and your co-workers jobs, going to last when he dies of a heart attack or is laid up by some catastrophic disease or accident? All of a sudden, the whole company is non-competitive, loses contracts, and you're out on the street as well.
Since you obviously couldn't understand it when she wrote it politely, allow me to translate into terms you might grok - the industry attracted a generation of socially misfit, inept, geeky young workers who didn't have a life outside of being social misfits and geeky nerdlings, so for them staying at work 24/7 and things like hygeine and clean clothes being optional was their social life, because it beat staying at home on a Saturday night in mom's basement playing with their *cough* dungeons and dragons.
If you had bothered to read the find article, you would have found that the longer the hours worked, the more time people spend in non-productive activities. You simply can't be "in the zone" continuously, 16 hours a day, day after day, week after week, month after month.
Do you really believe those FoxConn workers are working at their peak potential during those 12-hour day 6-day shifts? The owners accept lower per-hour productivity in return for the employees not having free time for "distractions", like having a life.
1. "Because we don't have incompetent managers."
2. "Because we work more efficiently" == polite way to say "Because we don't hire incompetent managers."
3. "Because we maintain adequate staffing levels to ensure high quality and the minimum of mistakes." == another polite way to say "Because we don't hire incompetent managers."
4. "We're unionized." (even if it's not true, it will get them to ST*U).
It must be legal - after all, lawyers do it, lobbyists do it, teachers do it, construction contractors do it, social media marketing "experts" whole careers are just a collection of unproductive hours selling horse manure ...
Thanks. You could stick it on your lock screen, but some feature phones let you use any picture as a background on the main screen - a QR code there is as easy to share as flipping your phone open.
You can show a QR Code on the home screen, so anyone with a phone with a camera can just snap a pic - smartphones will interpret the pic, feature phones will store it for decoding later (either email it to your pc or laptop, or use a webcam to interpret it on your pc or laptop).
The good thing about QR codes is that you don't have to type in a web address or email url or whatever - so even if all you have is a feature phone, leverage it. Anyone you run into with a smart phone will be able to get your contact info from your QR code, and you can snap a pic of theirs, and use a webcam to decode it later.
Why not go a step further and just embed your QR code into your screen wallpaper? Even works for those non-smart "feature phones".
It's better just to go to the supermarket, buy a half-dozen honey glazed, put one in the nuker lightly covered with a paper towel, and nuke it for 10 - 15 seconds to "refresh" it.
Read my original reply. You made the false claim that corporations were required by law to maximize profits. You are now yourself lying in claiming it wasn't your point, just like it was a lie then, and is still a lie now, to claim that they are "obligated to maximize shareholder value ONLY" - your words. Provide a SINGLE citation - a single jurisdiction anywhere in the known universe where this is, as you claimed in your original post, the law.
Or admit that you're lying, and that your "fact" is not a fact.
Don't use powerpoint. Even the military has acknowledged that powerpoint makes you stupid (just google it).
If you can't speak without anything more than a list of the main points you want to cover, and maybe a marker board to draw diagrams on, then please ST*U and get someone else to do the presentation.
And try to keep it under 10 minutes - you can use the other 20 for Q and A.
The 3 rules:
1. Tell them what you're going to tell them (30 seconds to 1 minute, the "Intro")
2. Tell them what you're there to tell them (8 minutes - the "meat and potatoes")
3. Tell them what you just told them (1 minute - "the summary")
Tim Horton's "Always Fresh" is a lie, and has been documented to be a lie in court. The only problem is, it's legal to lie when "it's marketing." citation 1
citation 2