People keep saying that, but the evidence doesn't really support it. After all, if that was feasible, why would any of them have any programmers working in the US? Especially H1B's, who they have to pay extra government fees to even consider? If outsourcing was realistic, why outsource to India, which has maybe two hours of overlap with the US in terms of waking hours, and not outsource to Alabama, where everybody (well ok, most everybody) speaks English? Why insist on concentrating everybody in the most expensive places in the world to get office space?
Travelocity was acquired by Expedia years ago, so if you're shopping both thinking that you're comparison shopping, you're wasting time. Load them both in separate tabs and compare them side-by-side, you'll see it's the same site with slightly different branding (even the source code for the current Travelocity web site includes comments like "Expedia header here").
Yeah, haven't you noticed how doctors, lawyers and entertainers have seen their positions reduced and removed due to professional licensing/mandatory professional membership requirements?
Because as long as even one person has less than you have, you don't deserver anything. You won't deserve anything until everybody has more than you have. Then you'll deserve something. Until you get it, and then there will be somebody with less than you again and you'll be back to not deserving anything.
The general reason girl don't get into STEM is a social sigma
People like to keep saying that as if there's a positive social stigma surrounding boys who are good at math and like to program computers. There are actually a few term for boys like that, and they aren't flattering ones...
they might note that STEM degrees are in decline overall. ( Unless you're in India )
Even in America, it's Indians that are keeping STEM degrees around at all. I (plain old boring white guy) did a MS in CS at an American university about 10 years ago and in most of my classes, I was the only non-Indian (as in, born in India, here on a student visa) in the class. Once I saw a Chinese guy. And funny enough, the gender ratio was pretty close to 50/50 - I'm almost positive that the people who are wringing their hands about the gender gap in technology are actually excluding Indians from the accounting.
If you say so, but they've been pushing the "girls rule, boys drool" dogma since I was a little kid back in the 80's. Even after 40 years of insisting that "girls can do anything boys can do, but better", girls still don't seem all that interested in technology and surprisingly, boys haven't lost interest.
As far as I can tell, the only "solution" to trolling is the heavy-handed reddit-style safe-space morality police one where we trade trolls for the massively high and mighty self-righteous. I'll take trolls, actually, thanks.
"The lesson here is that it is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics. Encryption is too important to be left solely to governments." -- Bruce Schneier
No, this infuriates you just the right amount (or not enough). These people aren't even "bouncing ideas", they're asking "how do I..." They provide nothing and actually create negative productivity: if they just did nothing, they'd add no value, but they actually take time and value away from people who would otherwise create actual value. They're mostly functionally illiterate - that's why they need you to read the documentation to them instead of just reading it themselves. They have massive ADD, so they can't concentrate on anything for more than 30 seconds, which is why they have to interrupt everybody around them.
Well, in OP's case - they don't have admin rights on their computers and they have limited storage space. Open office, no headphones, no chairs or A/C and random air horn noises throughout the day probably won't hurt their productivity any more than it already is. You can't go down much from 0.
Now, can we please fund some studies on how bad "open workspace" offices are for productivity?
There has been, and every single study suggests that same thing, that they're terrible for productivity. It doesn't matter, they don't care. They want control, and cheapness.
So, yet another "brilliant" MBA idea, like open offices, forced-ranking, goal-setting and scrum has been demonstrated to be ineffective? Too bad all of these decisions are made on instinct and emotion rather than on what the actual data suggests.
Yeah! If you can't get anything done in an open-plan office for this employer, you should go try to get something done in an open-plan office for a different employer!
The first 8 hours are so that you get paid. The next 2 hours are so that you don't get fired in the next round of layoffs. Doesn't it feel great to be in a profession that's so "in demand"?
Slashdot Mirror
You didn't write it, you plagiarized it.
Corporations will now just outsource
People keep saying that, but the evidence doesn't really support it. After all, if that was feasible, why would any of them have any programmers working in the US? Especially H1B's, who they have to pay extra government fees to even consider? If outsourcing was realistic, why outsource to India, which has maybe two hours of overlap with the US in terms of waking hours, and not outsource to Alabama, where everybody (well ok, most everybody) speaks English? Why insist on concentrating everybody in the most expensive places in the world to get office space?
Travelocity was acquired by Expedia years ago, so if you're shopping both thinking that you're comparison shopping, you're wasting time. Load them both in separate tabs and compare them side-by-side, you'll see it's the same site with slightly different branding (even the source code for the current Travelocity web site includes comments like "Expedia header here").
the market will work around you.
Yeah, haven't you noticed how doctors, lawyers and entertainers have seen their positions reduced and removed due to professional licensing/mandatory professional membership requirements?
Yeah, "complex or specialized" means, "we can't find anybody who'll do it for $10/hr".
OP is a rich white kid who grew up in private schools and assumes that everybody else in America was the same.
Because as long as even one person has less than you have, you don't deserver anything. You won't deserve anything until everybody has more than you have. Then you'll deserve something. Until you get it, and then there will be somebody with less than you again and you'll be back to not deserving anything.
He actually meant that he's happier with you taking a lower salary.
Who the hell ever said otherwise? Nothing makes it easier to make a point than to attack an argument that nobody is making.
their own life choices
Well, you know how liberals feel about a woman's right to choose...
The general reason girl don't get into STEM is a social sigma
People like to keep saying that as if there's a positive social stigma surrounding boys who are good at math and like to program computers. There are actually a few term for boys like that, and they aren't flattering ones...
SJWs can't hurt me though. I am a man
Or rather, there's nothing you can do or not do that will make them want to hurt you any less.
That's exactly what a robot would say if it had killed the CEO of general electric and taken his place.
they might note that STEM degrees are in decline overall. ( Unless you're in India )
Even in America, it's Indians that are keeping STEM degrees around at all. I (plain old boring white guy) did a MS in CS at an American university about 10 years ago and in most of my classes, I was the only non-Indian (as in, born in India, here on a student visa) in the class. Once I saw a Chinese guy. And funny enough, the gender ratio was pretty close to 50/50 - I'm almost positive that the people who are wringing their hands about the gender gap in technology are actually excluding Indians from the accounting.
If you say so, but they've been pushing the "girls rule, boys drool" dogma since I was a little kid back in the 80's. Even after 40 years of insisting that "girls can do anything boys can do, but better", girls still don't seem all that interested in technology and surprisingly, boys haven't lost interest.
As far as I can tell, the only "solution" to trolling is the heavy-handed reddit-style safe-space morality police one where we trade trolls for the massively high and mighty self-righteous. I'll take trolls, actually, thanks.
"The lesson here is that it is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics. Encryption is too important to be left solely to governments." -- Bruce Schneier
This infuriates me more than it probably should.
No, this infuriates you just the right amount (or not enough). These people aren't even "bouncing ideas", they're asking "how do I..." They provide nothing and actually create negative productivity: if they just did nothing, they'd add no value, but they actually take time and value away from people who would otherwise create actual value. They're mostly functionally illiterate - that's why they need you to read the documentation to them instead of just reading it themselves. They have massive ADD, so they can't concentrate on anything for more than 30 seconds, which is why they have to interrupt everybody around them.
Well, in OP's case - they don't have admin rights on their computers and they have limited storage space. Open office, no headphones, no chairs or A/C and random air horn noises throughout the day probably won't hurt their productivity any more than it already is. You can't go down much from 0.
He's a "proactive team player with a scrappy, go-getter attitude who rolls up his sleeves and gets things done while leveraging synergy!"
don't practice what they preach
You can hold any viewpoint you like, as long as it's been vetted by feminism.
Now, can we please fund some studies on how bad "open workspace" offices are for productivity?
There has been, and every single study suggests that same thing, that they're terrible for productivity. It doesn't matter, they don't care. They want control, and cheapness.
So, yet another "brilliant" MBA idea, like open offices, forced-ranking, goal-setting and scrum has been demonstrated to be ineffective? Too bad all of these decisions are made on instinct and emotion rather than on what the actual data suggests.
look for work elsewhere
Yeah! If you can't get anything done in an open-plan office for this employer, you should go try to get something done in an open-plan office for a different employer!
The first 8 hours are so that you get paid. The next 2 hours are so that you don't get fired in the next round of layoffs. Doesn't it feel great to be in a profession that's so "in demand"?