Pelletized coal and augers are old proven technologies. You can find them in many fancy meat smokers (not coal, but electric temp controlled augers, and wood pellets).
Blowing out your stacks with steam would replace 'rolling coal'. Think of the fun.
California, an authoritarian state in this respect, can't even get my 2 stroke mower. From my cold dead hands...
Someday, I might have to bootleg in 2 stroke oil from Nevada. They keep lowering the maximum displacement for legal 2 strokes, eventually they will ban the oil.
They've already made the parts cost a fortune, fortunately it's ridiculously simple, and almost bulletproof. Total maintenance in 20 years, a cord recoil spring, a couple of fuel primer 'squish nipple's and replaceing the washable air filters when the plastic starts to breakdown.
Have to keep it locked up, everytime I mow, every professional landscaper slows down to check out the mower. They can hear it and want it.
Eventually the battery powered ones will get decent, but they will never be light like a 2 stroke.
Waiting for good automated mowers, miss when my neighbor had a horse he would let me borrow to 'mow' the backyard. I liked that horse, in would spend all day looking at my yard, figured it deserved to do the mowing (of the sweet grass anyhow).
I ignored the fact you ignored Obama's signing statements. I figured the hypocrisy was so obvious I didn't even need to point it out. Thanks for highlighting it.
But Obama blazed the trail, the president can defund enforcement and ignore any rules he doesn't like. They're still 'rules', but nobody cares. 'Enforcement priorities' are within the preview of the executive. Sucked when Obama did it, sucks now, but too late for Ds to complain. They loved this system once.
There are decent arguments for overdressing in interviews because suits are prejudiced towards other suits and it can get you more money. Get a really nice suit if you want to play this game, half assing it won't work.
The highest performing does not set the standard, he's 'a genius', or whatever the others have to tell themselves.
The lowest performing worker that 'gets away with it' sets the standard.
At least 70% of 'new hires' (even with best effort hiring) will operate at about this level, and they test the limit, every day. The remaining 30% are: The hard workers, who at least like their jobs, most of the time. Figuring out who those are is the key task that most middle managers fail at.
Just shuffling the 70% in and out under probation is my strategy in hiring. Leave an obvious 'coworker' that appears to do next to nothing (not a hot young woman...) and watch if they're angling to drop to that level as soon as probation period is over. They not usually as sly as they think, they're all working 'hard' during the 'honeymoon'.
Never met one. I've met a few that thought they could. All useless egomaniacs. Leave them to their 'not sleeping', microdosing, uberman's sleep schedule etc, let them fail on their own. Look at their lives...
Stupid people working hard, just make big messes. I've never met anyone who didn't need downtime or they turn stupid.
If you have sense, you leave some in the tank for daily happiness AND the day/week/month you do need 100% sustained effort.
Also never hire anybody who uses the term '110%', unless you're looking for a bullshitter (marketer).
Chinese escalator. Meat grinder at the bottom...hi welcome to WalMart...have to play a conservative game, at least early, the meat grinder is always there, you can just construct your own mitigations.
Most people are too busy 'impressing each other' to notice.
Feature freeze, bug fix only time blocks are your chances to recover some sanity.
The key is to record (broken design/worked around/bodged up) crap as highest priority 'bugs' and actually get them fixed, bitching is easy.
Every team member needs to 'manage the managers'. The dumber they are, the more managing they need, best to coordinate the team, make sure 'it' gets consistent bullshit. Weekly lunch among the awake suggested.
You still need to manage your own effort. Crispy you're no use to anyone, even if you can fake it.
Look at the PHB, he was likely once a decent human being, that's what faking it gets you, long term. 'Company Man' these days means you know: This is the last decent job you'll ever have.
Six months is too long, most people are done in two, many less. Then there is the 'other half' of the death march, recovery. Many companies think 'they're smart', give people two weeks, regular hours as recovery.
At that point 100% of employees are gaming the metrics and slacking to survive. And, of course, the project managers are gaming metrics too, so no project is ever a 'failure', no matter how big a trainwreck...
What % of total corporate effort do you think is spent gaming things like 'Rank and Rate'?
Take a 'Bundy vacation' in the office. Stop working. Wear Hawaiian shirts for a week. Say 'aloha' to everyone. Believe it, you're at a luau! Have your staff instruct _everybody_ to humor you, you're 'architects'...Whoever 'they' are, 'they' will give you some time off.
All good Citizens have car payments + insurance greater than or equal to half their _rent_! Keeping any of the money you earn makes you a literal NAZI!
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Pelletized coal and augers are old proven technologies. You can find them in many fancy meat smokers (not coal, but electric temp controlled augers, and wood pellets).
Blowing out your stacks with steam would replace 'rolling coal'. Think of the fun.
California, an authoritarian state in this respect, can't even get my 2 stroke mower. From my cold dead hands...
Someday, I might have to bootleg in 2 stroke oil from Nevada. They keep lowering the maximum displacement for legal 2 strokes, eventually they will ban the oil.
They've already made the parts cost a fortune, fortunately it's ridiculously simple, and almost bulletproof. Total maintenance in 20 years, a cord recoil spring, a couple of fuel primer 'squish nipple's and replaceing the washable air filters when the plastic starts to breakdown.
Have to keep it locked up, everytime I mow, every professional landscaper slows down to check out the mower. They can hear it and want it.
Eventually the battery powered ones will get decent, but they will never be light like a 2 stroke.
Waiting for good automated mowers, miss when my neighbor had a horse he would let me borrow to 'mow' the backyard. I liked that horse, in would spend all day looking at my yard, figured it deserved to do the mowing (of the sweet grass anyhow).
I ignored the fact you ignored Obama's signing statements. I figured the hypocrisy was so obvious I didn't even need to point it out. Thanks for highlighting it.
Didn't you go to High School? Sleeping while sitting up was a Senior level elective.
You loved: 'Defund and ignore' when Obama did it. Crying about it now, just shows your hypocrisy.
The R's should pass a law banning 'defund and ignore' and have it pass on the last day of Trump's administration, in seven years and change.
Not so easy to make rules.
But Obama blazed the trail, the president can defund enforcement and ignore any rules he doesn't like. They're still 'rules', but nobody cares. 'Enforcement priorities' are within the preview of the executive. Sucked when Obama did it, sucks now, but too late for Ds to complain. They loved this system once.
He can just cut off all enforcement funds. Like Obama did for rules he didn't like.
Guess they should just cut off all enforcement funds. Which is in their discretion.
Just cut off the funds, like Obama did for immigration enforcement.
Not changing the rules, changing the 'enforcement priorities' within the 'executive's discretion'. Absolutely legal when Obama did it. Suck it.
Turnabout is _always_ fair play. If it was good for Obama, it's good for Trump.
No go back to crying. '17 will be an epic vintage for liberal tears.
Remind me, which republican was in charge when the EPA last poisoned a river?
Completely incompetent is 'close enough' to truth, all the time.
All these problems are solved by legal 75th trimester abortions.
There are decent arguments for overdressing in interviews because suits are prejudiced towards other suits and it can get you more money. Get a really nice suit if you want to play this game, half assing it won't work.
Basic worker psychology:
The highest performing does not set the standard, he's 'a genius', or whatever the others have to tell themselves.
The lowest performing worker that 'gets away with it' sets the standard.
At least 70% of 'new hires' (even with best effort hiring) will operate at about this level, and they test the limit, every day. The remaining 30% are: The hard workers, who at least like their jobs, most of the time. Figuring out who those are is the key task that most middle managers fail at.
Just shuffling the 70% in and out under probation is my strategy in hiring. Leave an obvious 'coworker' that appears to do next to nothing (not a hot young woman...) and watch if they're angling to drop to that level as soon as probation period is over. They not usually as sly as they think, they're all working 'hard' during the 'honeymoon'.
Never met one. I've met a few that thought they could. All useless egomaniacs. Leave them to their 'not sleeping', microdosing, uberman's sleep schedule etc, let them fail on their own. Look at their lives...
Stupid people working hard, just make big messes. I've never met anyone who didn't need downtime or they turn stupid.
If you have sense, you leave some in the tank for daily happiness AND the day/week/month you do need 100% sustained effort.
Also never hire anybody who uses the term '110%', unless you're looking for a bullshitter (marketer).
Chinese escalator. Meat grinder at the bottom...hi welcome to WalMart...have to play a conservative game, at least early, the meat grinder is always there, you can just construct your own mitigations.
Most people are too busy 'impressing each other' to notice.
Feature freeze, bug fix only time blocks are your chances to recover some sanity.
The key is to record (broken design/worked around/bodged up) crap as highest priority 'bugs' and actually get them fixed, bitching is easy.
Every team member needs to 'manage the managers'. The dumber they are, the more managing they need, best to coordinate the team, make sure 'it' gets consistent bullshit. Weekly lunch among the awake suggested.
You still need to manage your own effort. Crispy you're no use to anyone, even if you can fake it.
Look at the PHB, he was likely once a decent human being, that's what faking it gets you, long term. 'Company Man' these days means you know: This is the last decent job you'll ever have.
Six months is too long, most people are done in two, many less. Then there is the 'other half' of the death march, recovery. Many companies think 'they're smart', give people two weeks, regular hours as recovery.
At that point 100% of employees are gaming the metrics and slacking to survive. And, of course, the project managers are gaming metrics too, so no project is ever a 'failure', no matter how big a trainwreck...
What % of total corporate effort do you think is spent gaming things like 'Rank and Rate'?
I've worked with a few where that point was the moment they were given network credentials.
Their business model is 'Pay us to make the bad reviews go away.'
I don't know why anybody would ever trust Yelp. It's like trusting the 'Better Business Bureau'...Chump.
A little title inflation going on?
Take a 'Bundy vacation' in the office. Stop working. Wear Hawaiian shirts for a week. Say 'aloha' to everyone. Believe it, you're at a luau! Have your staff instruct _everybody_ to humor you, you're 'architects'...Whoever 'they' are, 'they' will give you some time off.
Good news! Six seconds is pretty damn slow. Sounds like you love to do the 'crawl off the line' douche nozzle thing.
All good Citizens have car payments + insurance greater than or equal to half their _rent_! Keeping any of the money you earn makes you a literal NAZI!
You weren't spending enough on tires. No fun.
MUVs...Mall utility vehicles. Like the vast majority of SUVs. 100% offroad incapable.