You should have talked to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Threatening to not pay you is a large no-no and the NLRB doesn't take crap from anyone.
And I'm not going to say anything about being audited.
Considering that the FBI and CIA have told the president to go take a leap before, they might let him run on that campaign, but he'd never be able to actually release them.
They started doing the The Ohio State University thing because of the legal battle they lost with my alma mater (Ohio University). OSU was trying to just use Ohio for a lot of their stuff, and OU had the rights to it (Ohio University was founded in 1804 and was the first college in the Northwest Territory).
There was a local farmer where I grew up in Ohio that painted "COW" on both sides of his cows in bright letters. Most of the local farmers (my family included when they had a modest herd) insured their cattle, and there were a lot of claims every year.
The best story I've heard locally so far, though, has to be the people who shot, field dressed, and tried to check in a *goat*.
I find it amusing that I have the makings for HR confusion.
You wouldn't think that my name is that common, but apparently it seems to draw people who are interested in tech. There are three of us - me, another software developer, and a former VP at Sun.
I once decided to email "myself" at Sun but he wasn't there anymore. =]
I've always applauded people who give a little something back, and usually try to do so myself (Toys for Tots, food for the local soup kitchen, etc). There are years that there isn't a lot to give, but you do what you can.
About 10 years ago, that gained a bit more of a close-to-home meaning. I met someone who I came to love very much. When she was younger, she was one of the kids that was in that sort of situation for most of her childhood.
I advocate parties under the condition that they aren't opressive or morale dampening in nature (which, frighteningly, a lot of office parties tend to be).
There is a simple reason - if done properly, they can help raise morale and build team spirit. Unfortunately, the only places that tend to do them properly (if they do them at all) are the ones that already foster good morale and team spirit.
As for bonuses, they're nice unless they're small and insulting. In the latter case, the company might as well not even bother because it actually dashes morale to find out that your company only thinks you're worth $10 or $20.
I don't carry my swords everywhere with me (though I admit that there is generally a bokku-to in the car just in case I get the itch to train without planning for it). As a general rule, my armory stays at the house unless I am planning on using some part of it - and after 16 years or so, it does turn into an armory.
I actually found mine when I was hiking one day, and carried it pretty much every day since up until a few years ago. I still have it. I just sort of retired it because the other knife that I started carrying fit my needs better at that point.
I've taken it over many hundreds of miles of hiking and more campsites that I can remember.
The blade held a decent edge, and the screwdrivers were extremely useful. It also had one of the best can openers on it that I've seen.
As far as weapon status here goes, you can carry pretty much any non-concealed non firearm where I am. Though I will admit that the sword gets a bit of a weird look from the local constabulary when I go to train at the lake.
Only the cheaply made ones are pieces of crap. I had a well made Vic that I used heavily for years. They made them to be useful instead of having a bunch of things on it (mine only had a blade, small and large screw drivers, punch, can opener, and bottle opener).
As a general rule, your best bets in my experience for swiss army knives are Victrinox and Gerber.
Frighteningly enough, it would be right up Uwe's alley because they *did* make a Wargames game based on the movie.
I actually have it around here somewhere. The computer AI was awful. At one point, I found a jeep going down the river (where it wasn't even supposed to be able to get to).
You don't understand. It's really not the game. It's the people playing it.
They whine and gripe when someone makes them pay rent in monopoly. I hate playing games with them. The only time they enjoy it is when they're winning, and then they like to rub it in everyone else's face, so really the only person having fun is the one who's winning no matter who's winning unless it's me and then I don't have fun because I'm sick of listening to them whine.
I just don't play games with my family minus a couple of my cousins that I almost never get to see.
My family isn't fun enough for that sort of thing. It's a shame, really.
The most exciting thing you can get any of them to play is the occasional game of monopoly or poker. Even then, you get to hear whining about how badly they're doing. There have been games where I've just gotten up and left because I was sick and tired of the "poor me" comments.
Then you have me. I love games (win or lose) as long as I'm having fun (which generally happens if I'm playing with a fun group). But then, I'm also the person who makes one of the "bleeding heart" jello dishes (where it bleeds red sauce when you stab it) for Halloween only mine isn't a heart - it's an anatomically correct brain =]
Played Munchkin for the first time in a couple of years the other night (there's nobody around here to play it with).
I nearly fell over laughing when we ended up looking at a Toothless Sabertoothed Snot Elemental.
For some reason, our games always ended up being not so much "what will you give me if I help you" but rather "what will you give me if I don't help the monster?" heh
That was kind of my first thought as well. They're coming out with the new versions awfully fast lately.
Normally this would not be a problem, but because of JVM version dependancy, and because Java quite often changes just a little in important places for each new release, it becomes a bit of a headache.
When I reply that I am quite passionate about my job, but before I get the chance to put a caveat in there that certain other things in my life take a priority (in fact, I believe in working to live, not living to work, but I don't phrase it that way to them), they often fire off the next question of how much time after work I spend working on projects.
The general translation of that sort of thing is that they want people who only care about tech, and a lot of them figure that, if you work on things in your own time, they can get you to work on their stuff then instead.
I will do my job and do it well. However, I will bloody well have a life outside of work.
My solution to that little problem was to get cheap hosting for my website. No problem with the ToS from my ISP, my uptime is good, I have a more professional looking email address than my isp would provide, and if there's a problem, the admins at the hosting company take care of it quickly and politely.
At $5/month for hosting (150MB space and 10GB bandwidth which, at the moment, is more than enough), it's also affordable. They even take care of re-registering my domain for me every year at an expense of a whopping $15 (and have sane terms for my taking it with me. All I have to do is say I want to leave).
You go to a theater to watch the movie, not to talk on your phone or send text messages. That's not only completely silly on your part, but extremely rude to everyone around you. I don't care if you think it's "addictive". There are times and places to not use it.
There has been one time in my life that I've used my phone in a theater. I was on alert from a client that I might have to be called in if something they were doing during that time went south. I set that incomming number on vibrate and all other incomming numbers on silent.
The phone buzzed in my pocket, I got up, left the theater, and then called them to say I'd be in shortly.
Apart from that one time, the phone has either been off, on silent, or left in the car.
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You should have talked to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Threatening to not pay you is a large no-no and the NLRB doesn't take crap from anyone.
And I'm not going to say anything about being audited.
Considering that the FBI and CIA have told the president to go take a leap before, they might let him run on that campaign, but he'd never be able to actually release them.
They started doing the The Ohio State University thing because of the legal battle they lost with my alma mater (Ohio University). OSU was trying to just use Ohio for a lot of their stuff, and OU had the rights to it (Ohio University was founded in 1804 and was the first college in the Northwest Territory).
They've been bitchy about it ever since.
There was a local farmer where I grew up in Ohio that painted "COW" on both sides of his cows in bright letters. Most of the local farmers (my family included when they had a modest herd) insured their cattle, and there were a lot of claims every year.
The best story I've heard locally so far, though, has to be the people who shot, field dressed, and tried to check in a *goat*.
I find it amusing that I have the makings for HR confusion.
You wouldn't think that my name is that common, but apparently it seems to draw people who are interested in tech. There are three of us - me, another software developer, and a former VP at Sun.
I once decided to email "myself" at Sun but he wasn't there anymore. =]
Some businesses that give out bonuses cover the taxes on it. That's why, when we're told we're getting a bonus of $x, we actually expect to get $x.
I've always applauded people who give a little something back, and usually try to do so myself (Toys for Tots, food for the local soup kitchen, etc). There are years that there isn't a lot to give, but you do what you can.
About 10 years ago, that gained a bit more of a close-to-home meaning. I met someone who I came to love very much. When she was younger, she was one of the kids that was in that sort of situation for most of her childhood.
Now every time I give, I tend to think of her.
As I sit here and ponder the fun I could have with a killer monkey.
Or better yet - a trained war ape armed with a pair of mellon style maces *wicked laugh*
Though the monkey would probably be cheaper to care for...
I advocate parties under the condition that they aren't opressive or morale dampening in nature (which, frighteningly, a lot of office parties tend to be).
There is a simple reason - if done properly, they can help raise morale and build team spirit. Unfortunately, the only places that tend to do them properly (if they do them at all) are the ones that already foster good morale and team spirit.
As for bonuses, they're nice unless they're small and insulting. In the latter case, the company might as well not even bother because it actually dashes morale to find out that your company only thinks you're worth $10 or $20.
I always loved that quote.
I had the "Hallelujah. Holy shit" portion as my critical error beep for quite a while.
Here's a piece of information that you may value then. Gerber makes multi-tools as well and they tend to be better made than the leatherman is.
Gerber makes good stuff in general.
That's kind of funny.
I don't carry my swords everywhere with me (though I admit that there is generally a bokku-to in the car just in case I get the itch to train without planning for it). As a general rule, my armory stays at the house unless I am planning on using some part of it - and after 16 years or so, it does turn into an armory.
I actually found mine when I was hiking one day, and carried it pretty much every day since up until a few years ago. I still have it. I just sort of retired it because the other knife that I started carrying fit my needs better at that point.
I've taken it over many hundreds of miles of hiking and more campsites that I can remember.
The blade held a decent edge, and the screwdrivers were extremely useful. It also had one of the best can openers on it that I've seen.
As far as weapon status here goes, you can carry pretty much any non-concealed non firearm where I am. Though I will admit that the sword gets a bit of a weird look from the local constabulary when I go to train at the lake.
Only the cheaply made ones are pieces of crap. I had a well made Vic that I used heavily for years. They made them to be useful instead of having a bunch of things on it (mine only had a blade, small and large screw drivers, punch, can opener, and bottle opener).
As a general rule, your best bets in my experience for swiss army knives are Victrinox and Gerber.
Somehow that doesn't surprise me. The one I have is a RTS for the PC. Not sure of the date.
Frighteningly enough, it would be right up Uwe's alley because they *did* make a Wargames game based on the movie.
I actually have it around here somewhere. The computer AI was awful. At one point, I found a jeep going down the river (where it wasn't even supposed to be able to get to).
You don't understand. It's really not the game. It's the people playing it.
They whine and gripe when someone makes them pay rent in monopoly. I hate playing games with them. The only time they enjoy it is when they're winning, and then they like to rub it in everyone else's face, so really the only person having fun is the one who's winning no matter who's winning unless it's me and then I don't have fun because I'm sick of listening to them whine.
I just don't play games with my family minus a couple of my cousins that I almost never get to see.
My family isn't fun enough for that sort of thing. It's a shame, really.
The most exciting thing you can get any of them to play is the occasional game of monopoly or poker. Even then, you get to hear whining about how badly they're doing. There have been games where I've just gotten up and left because I was sick and tired of the "poor me" comments.
Then you have me. I love games (win or lose) as long as I'm having fun (which generally happens if I'm playing with a fun group). But then, I'm also the person who makes one of the "bleeding heart" jello dishes (where it bleeds red sauce when you stab it) for Halloween only mine isn't a heart - it's an anatomically correct brain =]
My family tends to think I'm "a little weird"
Played Munchkin for the first time in a couple of years the other night (there's nobody around here to play it with).
I nearly fell over laughing when we ended up looking at a Toothless Sabertoothed Snot Elemental.
For some reason, our games always ended up being not so much "what will you give me if I help you" but rather "what will you give me if I don't help the monster?" heh
That was kind of my first thought as well. They're coming out with the new versions awfully fast lately.
Normally this would not be a problem, but because of JVM version dependancy, and because Java quite often changes just a little in important places for each new release, it becomes a bit of a headache.
I, for one, fear for the future =]
When I reply that I am quite passionate about my job, but before I get the chance to put a caveat in there that certain other things in my life take a priority (in fact, I believe in working to live, not living to work, but I don't phrase it that way to them), they often fire off the next question of how much time after work I spend working on projects.
The general translation of that sort of thing is that they want people who only care about tech, and a lot of them figure that, if you work on things in your own time, they can get you to work on their stuff then instead.
I will do my job and do it well. However, I will bloody well have a life outside of work.
Well, you're either extremely happy for the misspellings or Scottish. =]
My solution to that little problem was to get cheap hosting for my website. No problem with the ToS from my ISP, my uptime is good, I have a more professional looking email address than my isp would provide, and if there's a problem, the admins at the hosting company take care of it quickly and politely.
At $5/month for hosting (150MB space and 10GB bandwidth which, at the moment, is more than enough), it's also affordable. They even take care of re-registering my domain for me every year at an expense of a whopping $15 (and have sane terms for my taking it with me. All I have to do is say I want to leave).
You go to a theater to watch the movie, not to talk on your phone or send text messages. That's not only completely silly on your part, but extremely rude to everyone around you. I don't care if you think it's "addictive". There are times and places to not use it.
There has been one time in my life that I've used my phone in a theater. I was on alert from a client that I might have to be called in if something they were doing during that time went south. I set that incomming number on vibrate and all other incomming numbers on silent.
The phone buzzed in my pocket, I got up, left the theater, and then called them to say I'd be in shortly.
Apart from that one time, the phone has either been off, on silent, or left in the car.