And, if you are an Oracle house, you sadly need IE, and some lame down rev, unsafe version of Java (lesson learnt - Never update Java on my work machine until they push if via config manager...)
Immigration policy has been seriously broken since the 60's and all the "Do it the legal way" folks have no idea how hard, or long of a process that is.
Here is a green card roadmap that describes how convoluted the legal route is.
The problem, how I see it, is that once enough people get burned (like the 6% of all extant BTC being stolen) they will demand quite vocally that the government prevent that from happening.
All the statements of buyer beware, this is an investment, not guaranteed etc will be tossed out the window.
What state is that? I live in a suburb of Phoenix, and water is ridiculously cheap here. Last year we had to drain, acid wash and fill out pool. Cost to refill? About $20.00. Roughly 2 acre feet of water in one throw.
Of course, 20 years ago, this was all agriculture, and I suspect that our water rates are still tied to that scale.
My mother died of COPD related effects. The last week of her life, she was in the hospital on a breathing machine. The thing that really got me was that every single one of the nurses/technicians who worked in the pulmonary ward would go out every hour for a smoke. They see the endgame every single day, and they still choose to light up.
I hope/. dies an ignoble death, and in the post mortem, all you sit around in a circle jerk and wonder what the fuck you did wrong. Perhaps you can find some ex-RIM people to commiserate with
I used to think that weight problems were endemic to the US, and that Europe pretty much skated by it. Sure, I used to see "fat" people in Europe, but far far fewer than in the US.
But I just got back from 2 weeks in Europe (Austria, Germany, and UK) and the number of muffintops, sagging beer bellies, and plumber's crack, that the gap to the US is much less than it was.
Piling on here. In sales, and particularly in enterprise SW sales, the base salary is irrelevant. Sure, $10K seem like a big deal, but good sales people, who will eat their young to close an order, who blow away quota, can easily clear $300K or more in commissions and bonuses. Oracle will be no different.
My company is moving me to Silly valley, and I will be able to comfortably afford a mortgage. Yes, it is a LOT more than my house here in Phoenix, but the pay bump will easily cover the delta in payments.
SUV's are for soccer moms that need a car that both protects themselves from their own bad driving and attempts to murder pedestrians at the same time.
Or murder me in my S2000 (I dodge three schools on my 7 mile commute with suicidal, kamikaze moms dropping kids off, running lights, blocking traffic, and pulling out blindly in to the flow of traffic.)
And if that happens, I am not likely to care that much about my data (TEOTWAWKI scenario).
I use a couple of the cloud services. Sensitive documents get encrypted (and there are surprisingly few of those that I feel compelled to encrypt), and the rest are just there. Everywhere I go I have access.
The things that probably baffle you about the leadership where you are at, the decisions that seem to make no sense, and the troglodytes that seem to have power will make more sense to you after learning a bit about business.
As someone with a physics degree, who does marketing and product management, I self taught myself a lot of what is needed to function in these spheres. It isn't hard, but it will seem alien. It doesn't require more than a modicum of common sense (once you learn to not sneer at it) and the ability to do basic arithmetic. I occasionally break out a PDE to model a pricing structure, and am met with amazement (particularly when it turns out to accurately model the true system response). But I am a geek like that.
I work for one of those companies. (not one you named) and once you have wide geographic distribution of team members, the dynamics of the process suffers. Projects that should take 100 people in a single building/campus 3 months to deliver now stretch into two years, and often deliver mediocrity. The middle managers who oversee this take it for granted that progress is slow, and those damnably slow EE's in a different state are the cause for your software team being delayed.
While this is anecdotal, there is something to be said for creating a small dedicated team with all the technical assets to finish the project in one location, even if you are a huge multinational conglomerate.
Furthermore, I have known more than a few telecommuters who were professional loafers, great at looking busy, answering emails at all hours, but when you stepped back, they delivered relatively paltry output, both in quality and quantity. But boy did they manage up well.
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And, if you are an Oracle house, you sadly need IE, and some lame down rev, unsafe version of Java (lesson learnt - Never update Java on my work machine until they push if via config manager...)
Truer words have never been said.
Damn. Wish I had mod points to give you for this.
Immigration policy has been seriously broken since the 60's and all the "Do it the legal way" folks have no idea how hard, or long of a process that is.
Here is a green card roadmap that describes how convoluted the legal route is.
The problem, how I see it, is that once enough people get burned (like the 6% of all extant BTC being stolen) they will demand quite vocally that the government prevent that from happening.
All the statements of buyer beware, this is an investment, not guaranteed etc will be tossed out the window.
What state is that? I live in a suburb of Phoenix, and water is ridiculously cheap here. Last year we had to drain, acid wash and fill out pool. Cost to refill? About $20.00. Roughly 2 acre feet of water in one throw.
Of course, 20 years ago, this was all agriculture, and I suspect that our water rates are still tied to that scale.
Damn, wish I had mod points...
My mother died of COPD related effects. The last week of her life, she was in the hospital on a breathing machine. The thing that really got me was that every single one of the nurses/technicians who worked in the pulmonary ward would go out every hour for a smoke. They see the endgame every single day, and they still choose to light up.
I hope /. dies an ignoble death, and in the post mortem, all you sit around in a circle jerk and wonder what the fuck you did wrong. Perhaps you can find some ex-RIM people to commiserate with
I am not a coder, but I made this exact same decision about 5 years ago. Been much happier since.
I used to think that weight problems were endemic to the US, and that Europe pretty much skated by it. Sure, I used to see "fat" people in Europe, but far far fewer than in the US.
But I just got back from 2 weeks in Europe (Austria, Germany, and UK) and the number of muffintops, sagging beer bellies, and plumber's crack, that the gap to the US is much less than it was.
I'm pretty sure they figured out the answer to that a LONG time ago...
I was wondering if it was in my state (Arizona) or Florida. Sadly, yes, it is that predictable
Piling on here. In sales, and particularly in enterprise SW sales, the base salary is irrelevant. Sure, $10K seem like a big deal, but good sales people, who will eat their young to close an order, who blow away quota, can easily clear $300K or more in commissions and bonuses. Oracle will be no different.
Too soon
Well put.
I am in marketing, and when you make a pricing mistake, you learn from the lesson, you fix the problem ASAP, and you deal with the lost revenue.
If you don't have enough moxie to own up to the mistake, you don't deserve to be in business.
My company is moving me to Silly valley, and I will be able to comfortably afford a mortgage. Yes, it is a LOT more than my house here in Phoenix, but the pay bump will easily cover the delta in payments.
Or a stationwagon.
SUV's are for soccer moms that need a car that both protects themselves from their own bad driving and attempts to murder pedestrians at the same time.
Or murder me in my S2000 (I dodge three schools on my 7 mile commute with suicidal, kamikaze moms dropping kids off, running lights, blocking traffic, and pulling out blindly in to the flow of traffic.)
Whoa, that escalated quickly.
Sprint planning meeting with our China team. No candy for me.
And if that happens, I am not likely to care that much about my data (TEOTWAWKI scenario).
I use a couple of the cloud services. Sensitive documents get encrypted (and there are surprisingly few of those that I feel compelled to encrypt), and the rest are just there. Everywhere I go I have access.
To be fair, it usually comes as pressure from sales.
Slightly longer answer:
The things that probably baffle you about the leadership where you are at, the decisions that seem to make no sense, and the troglodytes that seem to have power will make more sense to you after learning a bit about business.
As someone with a physics degree, who does marketing and product management, I self taught myself a lot of what is needed to function in these spheres. It isn't hard, but it will seem alien. It doesn't require more than a modicum of common sense (once you learn to not sneer at it) and the ability to do basic arithmetic. I occasionally break out a PDE to model a pricing structure, and am met with amazement (particularly when it turns out to accurately model the true system response). But I am a geek like that.
Beat me to it. I have been a subscriber for more years than I can remember. Worth every penny.
I work for one of those companies. (not one you named) and once you have wide geographic distribution of team members, the dynamics of the process suffers. Projects that should take 100 people in a single building/campus 3 months to deliver now stretch into two years, and often deliver mediocrity. The middle managers who oversee this take it for granted that progress is slow, and those damnably slow EE's in a different state are the cause for your software team being delayed.
While this is anecdotal, there is something to be said for creating a small dedicated team with all the technical assets to finish the project in one location, even if you are a huge multinational conglomerate.
Furthermore, I have known more than a few telecommuters who were professional loafers, great at looking busy, answering emails at all hours, but when you stepped back, they delivered relatively paltry output, both in quality and quantity. But boy did they manage up well.