Snotmonkeys have strange effects on parents minds. I wouldn't assume they planned on not coming back, just once they got green shit into their systems, it was hard to walk away from.
As I said, administratively they were so clueless it didn't matter. It might have been 'year' later that I left, been a long time.
I will never again work for any company that has anything to do with insurance. Run by and for the benefit of the marketers, it's just a consequence of being in an industry that markets pure commodities. Sales are all that matter.
Also it was a California company, at the time I knew the clause wasn't valid or enforceable. But they thought they were smart and wanted to play head games. Fucking weasels.
The real blame goes on the people that hired unqualified people to improve the company image, not the people in the trenches that object to working with/carrying 'quota hires'.
The unqualified never know that they are unqualified. It's just a bunch of meanies, picking on them.
The worst thing that can happen to office morale is for an incompetent to be promoted and rewarded. I've seen it happen, it's the fastest way to wreck a working team.
I once had an employer that not only claimed any work you did on your own time, but any work you had ever done. They wanted me to list everything/idea I had _ever_ had that I wanted to keep.
I told them I'd have to look the agreement over and get back to them, then never signed the paper. Years later on my way out the door, their HR drone noticed and tried to get me to sign then. Laughed in her face.
Just say: 'I'll have my attorney look it over and get back to you', then never get back to them.
Five years later, during your exit interview, someone will say: 'Oh, you never signed your employment agreement, can you sign that now?' To which you say: 'I'll have my attorney look it over and get back to you', then never get back to them.
I have had managers waste my time in endless, useless meetings at the same time I was staring at a looming hard deadline. They knew I would have to makeup the time wasted sitting in meetings.
Is that not theft of time the same way a personal project is?
Truth is: When in that situation, I would excuse myself to go to the bathroom and never return to the meeting. Sometimes pre-arrange an 'emergency call' to have an excuse for my whole team to leave.
Been there, done that. 3 men on the floor. CEO, the IT guy and me, the coder/devops guy. (Truth there was a fourth, but 'he' was 'in between' and worked a woman's job.)
Never again. The worst part, couldn't even use the office as a dating pool, that and the coffee. (Yuban in pre measured bags, I once dared use 2 bags to try and make coffee worth drinking (failed), known as 'Mr. Twobagger' after that. Truth is, total darkness is more my M.O.)
I know an engineer who (along with 3 others) was left on an empty floor while they waited for a project to start, it was a couple of months.
When the project started, management found they had disassembled all the cubes on the floor and constructed a maze. The only way into the actual work area was crawling under a desk.
He should be fired for working on an unauthorized personal project using work equipment, because that says 'he is just too stupid'. The hours don't enter into it. How hard is it to securely terminal server to your home computer? Which would change the issue from stupidity to sneakiness, but that's another discussion.
Sony did it _wrong_ on their Xperia line of smartphones.
Two symmetrical terminals that are always hot. If you hook it up backwards you hard crash the phone. Too cheap to include a rectifier, obviously using a very dumb battery charge circuit.
Don't let the charge terminals touch anything metal. You are counting on USB to detect the overcurrent. Do it with a cheap charger and I bet you could get it to burn.
Still better than opening the 'waterproof' micro USB cover every time.
Crays were asynchronous computers. They had to be tuned occasionally, this involved adjusting signal path lengths so that signals would arrive at the same time.
They did have clocks, but things like the ALU ran async (largely). They were pretty radically different.
Very much radically different than a modern computing cluster.
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An argument for the 'lifetime of sin, deathbed repentance' plan. (Rev LoveJoy to Bart: 'Good plan'.)
The vineyard owner had better not expect any workers, at all, before 5pm the next day. And he has nobody to blame but himself.
Your a fucking idiot. Just for the record.
Why should the NSA collect a second copy?
The copy they collected from all American's email should be sufficient.
Also note: I like the term 'bosshole', started as a slip of the tongue, but when it was pointed out to me, I added it to my vocabulary.
The person that _makes_ you be an asshole is the king/queen asshole.
This applies to all relationships. They likely grew up in a family of assholes.
Snotmonkeys have strange effects on parents minds. I wouldn't assume they planned on not coming back, just once they got green shit into their systems, it was hard to walk away from.
When you're young, you often have fewer choices.
As I said, administratively they were so clueless it didn't matter. It might have been 'year' later that I left, been a long time.
I will never again work for any company that has anything to do with insurance. Run by and for the benefit of the marketers, it's just a consequence of being in an industry that markets pure commodities. Sales are all that matter.
Also it was a California company, at the time I knew the clause wasn't valid or enforceable. But they thought they were smart and wanted to play head games. Fucking weasels.
The real blame goes on the people that hired unqualified people to improve the company image, not the people in the trenches that object to working with/carrying 'quota hires'.
Anybody that makes you be an asshole, or they won't do their job, is themselves a raging, festering, prolapsed asshole.
If _every_ boss (assuming your not 18) you've ever had was an asshole, that's you.
Stats are hard to find. Last I saw, fully 50% of 'maternity leave mothers' just take the bene but _never_ come back to work at their old employer.
Remember: Ego comes first.
The unqualified never know that they are unqualified. It's just a bunch of meanies, picking on them.
The worst thing that can happen to office morale is for an incompetent to be promoted and rewarded. I've seen it happen, it's the fastest way to wreck a working team.
I once had an employer that not only claimed any work you did on your own time, but any work you had ever done. They wanted me to list everything/idea I had _ever_ had that I wanted to keep.
I told them I'd have to look the agreement over and get back to them, then never signed the paper. Years later on my way out the door, their HR drone noticed and tried to get me to sign then. Laughed in her face.
Name _any_ Texas company.
Easier than that.
Just say: 'I'll have my attorney look it over and get back to you', then never get back to them.
Five years later, during your exit interview, someone will say: 'Oh, you never signed your employment agreement, can you sign that now?' To which you say: 'I'll have my attorney look it over and get back to you', then never get back to them.
HR is universally INCOMPETENT. Use it.
When was the last time you tried to screencap something with DRM? It's possible, but the average screencap utility won't get it.
IT could also have installed a root cert on your machine and be able to decrypt your sessions.
I'm assuming 'average IT', in other words, mostly clueless digital janitors/backup monkeys.
I have had managers waste my time in endless, useless meetings at the same time I was staring at a looming hard deadline. They knew I would have to makeup the time wasted sitting in meetings.
Is that not theft of time the same way a personal project is?
Truth is: When in that situation, I would excuse myself to go to the bathroom and never return to the meeting. Sometimes pre-arrange an 'emergency call' to have an excuse for my whole team to leave.
b) you cannot afford getting fired or you live in a state/have an employment agreement where the company now owns the project.
As I said, if you 'get away with it' the issue goes from stupidity to sneakiness. Both are bad from an employers POV.
Been there, done that. 3 men on the floor. CEO, the IT guy and me, the coder/devops guy. (Truth there was a fourth, but 'he' was 'in between' and worked a woman's job.)
Never again. The worst part, couldn't even use the office as a dating pool, that and the coffee. (Yuban in pre measured bags, I once dared use 2 bags to try and make coffee worth drinking (failed), known as 'Mr. Twobagger' after that. Truth is, total darkness is more my M.O.)
I know an engineer who (along with 3 others) was left on an empty floor while they waited for a project to start, it was a couple of months.
When the project started, management found they had disassembled all the cubes on the floor and constructed a maze. The only way into the actual work area was crawling under a desk.
It's a secure terminal session. They can't prove anything.
Removes the 'fire him for being stupid' issue, but raises the 'fire him for being sneaky' issue.
Salary? Office hours?
He should be fired for working on an unauthorized personal project using work equipment, because that says 'he is just too stupid'. The hours don't enter into it. How hard is it to securely terminal server to your home computer? Which would change the issue from stupidity to sneakiness, but that's another discussion.
Sony did it _wrong_ on their Xperia line of smartphones.
Two symmetrical terminals that are always hot. If you hook it up backwards you hard crash the phone. Too cheap to include a rectifier, obviously using a very dumb battery charge circuit.
Don't let the charge terminals touch anything metal. You are counting on USB to detect the overcurrent. Do it with a cheap charger and I bet you could get it to burn.
Still better than opening the 'waterproof' micro USB cover every time.
How have you been on /. as long as your ID implies and never learned the difference between ionizing and non-ionizing radiation?
Are you just that stupid?
Citation needed. I call bullshit.
Crays were asynchronous computers. They had to be tuned occasionally, this involved adjusting signal path lengths so that signals would arrive at the same time.
They did have clocks, but things like the ALU ran async (largely). They were pretty radically different.
Very much radically different than a modern computing cluster.