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  1. Re: Employers do that? on New Law Bans California Employers From Asking Applicants Their Prior Salary (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    Except it isn't. There are three historic governments that used the term to self describe.

    One was catholic authoritarian, two were socialist authoritarian.

    Now pull out the Mussolini quote, without mentioning that private corporations (not extensions of government) weren't legal in Fascist Italy.

  2. Re:Employers do that? on New Law Bans California Employers From Asking Applicants Their Prior Salary (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    Always freeze your credit. Especially before starting a job search.

  3. Assess you chumpiness.

  4. Re:Employers do that? on New Law Bans California Employers From Asking Applicants Their Prior Salary (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    They looked dumbfounded because your incoherent and wrong.

  5. Re:Employers do that? on New Law Bans California Employers From Asking Applicants Their Prior Salary (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    Key phrase: 'It is too early in the process for me to fairly evaluate your _INITIAL_ offer. I need to know more about the job, benefit package...then we can talk money. What is the salary range for this position?' (Don't expect an answer to the last question, at least not an honest one. They know the first person to name a number loses.)

  6. Re:Employers do that? on New Law Bans California Employers From Asking Applicants Their Prior Salary (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    It's almost always about getting a favorable workers comp insurance rate.

    Why else would they be continuing to use tests that any idiot can successfully cheat on? It's theater.

    They think it gets them compliant spineless workers, it gets them cheaters.

  7. Re: Employers do that? on New Law Bans California Employers From Asking Applicants Their Prior Salary (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    Only an idiot would give a salary requirement.

    When they ask say: 'It's is too early in the process for me to fairly evaluate your _INITIAL_ offer. I don't yet have enough information about the job and benefit package.'

  8. Re: Employers do that? on New Law Bans California Employers From Asking Applicants Their Prior Salary (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    It's nowhere near 100%. Best bet is leave it blank, if the computerized form insists you fill it in. Say 'All of it, but negotiable'.

    The first person to name a number loses. It is as simple as that. Companies that insist: 'you lose' are best avoided.

  9. Re:Slashdot moderation is best moderation! on Russian Troll Factory Paid US Activists To Fund Protests During Election (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Good job 'correcting the record'. Shill.

  10. Re:Uranium Scandal, Comey and the FBI on Russian Troll Factory Paid US Activists To Fund Protests During Election (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It's still time. Sure it looks like payback, but to do otherwise is to let the whitewash stand.

    They won't, because the DNC and RNC are in a MAD situation. Getting them to dump the dirt on each other is the best possible outcome. Trump being a loose cannon could make it happen. 'Establishment' on both sides are working to prevent it.

  11. Re:Bulletin Board of Trump / Russia Treason on Russian Troll Factory Paid US Activists To Fund Protests During Election (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    And Bill Maher used to be funny, once in a great while.

  12. Re:$80k is indeed nothing for media buys. on Russian Troll Factory Paid US Activists To Fund Protests During Election (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    There are no viable left wing candidates.

    Trump is hoping the Ds pivot left.

  13. Re: The key is not getting caught on Russian Troll Factory Paid US Activists To Fund Protests During Election (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Most violent crime is in the same race. Black victims are less likely to produce convictions. If anything the black violent crime rate is higher.

  14. Re: The key is not getting caught on Russian Troll Factory Paid US Activists To Fund Protests During Election (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    And what is the difference in violent crime rates?

    'The Guardian' is deliberately using the wrong denominator. Not population, violent criminal population.

    Black people are 30% of those shot by cops, but they commit 40% of violent crime. The black communities true bitch is not getting their fair share of police protection. That isn't solved until blacks are 40% of those shot by cops.

  15. On the other hand, I know someone who make a medium sized fortune when Oracle cancelled their Christmas party. (20 years ago now)

    He knew what it meant. Ellison has his ego tied up in that party. Cancelling the party meant the earnings were terrible.

    Not insider trading either. The party's cancellation was public, he just knew the culture well enough to know what it meant. So many out of the money puts just after the earnings date. He ultimately had to explain to the SEC, but they just said 'clever'.

  16. Re: Is anyone fired purely for performance? on Tesla Employees Detail How They Were Fired, Claim Dismissals Were Not Performance Related (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Orgs with regular scheduled cullings (rank and rate etc) end up with employees spending large amounts of effort to game the metrics.

    If you're going to do something like that, you have to not publish the metrics, but then the employees infer them and game it anyhow.

    There is no substitute for managers with a clue, rare as they are.

  17. Re:Is anyone fired purely for performance? on Tesla Employees Detail How They Were Fired, Claim Dismissals Were Not Performance Related (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Lucky? I'd expect a place that never fired for performance to be a 100% dysfunctional hellhole.

  18. The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay liquid.

    Don't short the stock in any case. Margin call can kill you. If you think it's overvalued, buy out of the money put options. Sure they are bets that the company will fail in a specific date range, but your losses are limited to the premium you paid upfront. With the kind of volatility Testa stock has, that premium won't be small.

  19. Re: All employees think they perform above-average on Tesla Employees Detail How They Were Fired, Claim Dismissals Were Not Performance Related (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    One employee making the claim you halfwit.

  20. There is more than one kind of job in the world. Working at something you're not good at, isn't a winning plan.

    Maybe the fired employees will be great ditch diggers.

  21. That's more or less, what all the good players are doing.

    But there are people that don't know odds, don't know what a pot ratio is etc. Just chumps.

  22. Re:Agile is bullshit on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Hard Truths IT Must Learn To Accept? (cio.com) · · Score: 2

    Scrum is formalized micromanagement with no flexibility for those employees who don't need constant short term goals.

    Combine that with the only part of Agile that managers comprehend ('talk to clients all time, weather vane the plans') and you are truly fucked. Be at -4 (active sabotage) on the process immaturity model in no time.

  23. And the loser can't know it, or (s)he will leave the game before being fleeced. If you know you have a bunch of tells, you don't play poker.

    Most underperforming employees don't know it either. In both cases, ego gets in the way.

  24. Re:All employees think they perform above-average on Tesla Employees Detail How They Were Fired, Claim Dismissals Were Not Performance Related (cnbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's one newly fired employee's claim. Huge grain of salt required.

    Do they even know what other employees make? Not most places. Sure you know what they project (car etc), but that's usually high interest financed bullshit.

  25. Look around the poker table, if you can't spot the chump, it's you.

    If you haven't worked with 'air thieves' you are one. It really is simple as that.