Having been hit by the WARN Act... you absolutely CAN inform 1/3 of the employees they are being laid off. Saw it happen until there was no one left. Imagine being told that a plant was shutting down but that YOU have to stay. I went. My boss, age 60, had to stay for a year in a skeleton crew.
But your point is right on target -- which is why when we were told that our jobs were eliminated, we were also told that we didn't have to report to work for those 60 days either.
The real answer will likely come on Monday when the immediate results of this weekends meetings will be made clear. (see Cats blog) Comcast can broadcast reruns from anywhere.
"Good day sir! We are conducting a poll to better... yada yada yada. Do you use... yada yada yada?"
"I currently charge $250.00 for each poll-minute of time. Will you accept these charges? Are you authorized to accept this charge? "
Name:
Billing Address:
Phone Number:
"Billing begins... now. Poll away!"
I do have to admit that I've had lots of fun with telemarketers. Because the calls come during dinner-time, my kids have a consistant source of "dinner and a show". I normally engage my Memphis, TN accent (developed while I lived in Minneapolis) because there is a lot of imputed sincerity in that accent. Little do they know...
"Haylo?... Uh-huh.... Course I got windows. Whut kinda idjiot do you think I am?... Whut?... Oh! You sellin' windows. HEY! You got them R-gone gas windows? Me and my boy watch that Bob Vila feller... you know him?... Yeah, that's right. We watch him just all the time on a counta he's in reruns now, and he always talks about these here great windows with R-gone gas in them. You got that?"
I talked to this one guy for twenty minutes like that. I figured I better end it because the ice cream was about to come out.
"You want to do what?... Come out here? To my place? What for?... Oh you want ME to buy the windows. Well, I can't buy no windows.... Why not? Cause I don't have a place to put them, that's why! I don't own this here place, I just rent it."
The caller bust out laughing and wished me a good night. And I got high fives all around the room AND an extra scoop of ice cream!
But I also signed the DO NOT CALL list, and routinely ask telemarketers to put me on THEIR Do Not Call list. But I still keep getting calls. The worst is if you are home sick and you leave the phone on so that work CAN reach you if the have to. I look forward to having peace and quiet. It IS my phone, not THEIR marketing tool.
We have LOTS of the Linux distros to meet the MANY diverse needs of this community. But...
If I was going to have my own distro, it would focus on making that distro EXCEL on a specific set of hardware, and then sell that hardware.
I would tweak and tune and develop hardware relationships where there would be MANY win-win (no pun intended, no "R" required) situations. And I would NOT EVER worry about making my distro work on some bizarre hardware, but WOULD make all of the advances of my CHOSEN hardware available to everyone.
I'd make the software choices for them in the form of a package... the Gnome package, the KDE package, the Mail server package, the Apache package, the SAMBA package... Just choose!
Kinda sounds like Apple, but it would not BE Apple.
We just purchased a Starview 4-port from StarTech.com. We had been using a couple of Belkin Omniview Pro.
The Starview lets me select which port by pushbutton. The Omniview has only one button which requires me to run through each port sequentially, whether used or not, to get to what I want to get to.
These guys don't get a lot of use, they are for working servers. The Starview is new and I like it. We purchased it based on a local distributor's recommendation. I trust him. The Belkin's (which he also sold me) have let me down on too many occasions to be allowed back into the shop. I'd get video, but either the mouse or keyboard would simply give up on a given port. Power cycling the unit was no help whatsoever.
The face of Al was awesome. I actually sat forward in my seat to get a better look (like that would help - duh!) because I was SO surprised. I was therefore completely disappointed at the animation in all of Al's Cadillac sequences. They were amatuerish compared to almost ANYTHING else that Pixar has done. My only conclusion was that this must have been one of the area's that they chose NOT to revamp when the decision was made to go from a video to a full length movie. Aside from an FX junkie like me, rest assured, this faux paux didn't detract from an awesome movie. My wife and I took 5 kids to see it. We also waited until the bitter end of the credits for... anything. There isn't anything extra. Don't wait unless you are looking for something specific like "Who was the voice of the prospector?" Great flik!
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Having been hit by the WARN Act ... you absolutely CAN inform 1/3 of the employees they are being laid off. Saw it happen until there was no one left. Imagine being told that a plant was shutting down but that YOU have to stay. I went. My boss, age 60, had to stay for a year in a skeleton crew.
But your point is right on target -- which is why when we were told that our jobs were eliminated, we were also told that we didn't have to report to work for those 60 days either.
The real answer will likely come on Monday when the immediate results of this weekends meetings will be made clear. (see Cats blog) Comcast can broadcast reruns from anywhere.
This might work ...
... yada yada yada. Do you use ... yada yada yada?"
... now. Poll away!"
...
... Uh-huh. ... Course I got windows. Whut kinda idjiot do you think I am? ... Whut? ... Oh! You sellin' windows. HEY! You got them R-gone gas windows? Me and my boy watch that Bob Vila feller ... you know him? ... Yeah, that's right. We watch him just all the time on a counta he's in reruns now, and he always talks about these here great windows with R-gone gas in them. You got that?"
... Come out here? To my place? What for? ... Oh you want ME to buy the windows. Well, I can't buy no windows. ... Why not? Cause I don't have a place to put them, that's why! I don't own this here place, I just rent it."
"Hello?"
"Good day sir! We are conducting a poll to better
"I currently charge $250.00 for each poll-minute of time. Will you accept these charges? Are you authorized to accept this charge? "
Name:
Billing Address:
Phone Number:
"Billing begins
I do have to admit that I've had lots of fun with telemarketers. Because the calls come during dinner-time, my kids have a consistant source of "dinner and a show". I normally engage my Memphis, TN accent (developed while I lived in Minneapolis) because there is a lot of imputed sincerity in that accent. Little do they know
"Haylo?
I talked to this one guy for twenty minutes like that. I figured I better end it because the ice cream was about to come out.
"You want to do what?
The caller bust out laughing and wished me a good night. And I got high fives all around the room AND an extra scoop of ice cream!
But I also signed the DO NOT CALL list, and routinely ask telemarketers to put me on THEIR Do Not Call list. But I still keep getting calls. The worst is if you are home sick and you leave the phone on so that work CAN reach you if the have to. I look forward to having peace and quiet. It IS my phone, not THEIR marketing tool.
Lou
We have LOTS of the Linux distros to meet the MANY diverse needs of this community. But ...
... the Gnome package, the KDE package, the Mail server package, the Apache package, the SAMBA package ... Just choose!
If I was going to have my own distro, it would focus on making that distro EXCEL on a specific set of hardware, and then sell that hardware.
I would tweak and tune and develop hardware relationships where there would be MANY win-win (no pun intended, no "R" required) situations. And I would NOT EVER worry about making my distro work on some bizarre hardware, but WOULD make all of the advances of my CHOSEN hardware available to everyone.
I'd make the software choices for them in the form of a package
Kinda sounds like Apple, but it would not BE Apple.
The Starview lets me select which port by pushbutton. The Omniview has only one button which requires me to run through each port sequentially, whether used or not, to get to what I want to get to.
These guys don't get a lot of use, they are for working servers. The Starview is new and I like it. We purchased it based on a local distributor's recommendation. I trust him. The Belkin's (which he also sold me) have let me down on too many occasions to be allowed back into the shop. I'd get video, but either the mouse or keyboard would simply give up on a given port. Power cycling the unit was no help whatsoever.
Hope that helps.
The face of Al was awesome. I actually sat forward in my seat to get a better look (like that would help - duh!) because I was SO surprised. I was therefore completely disappointed at the animation in all of Al's Cadillac sequences. They were amatuerish compared to almost ANYTHING else that Pixar has done. My only conclusion was that this must have been one of the area's that they chose NOT to revamp when the decision was made to go from a video to a full length movie. Aside from an FX junkie like me, rest assured, this faux paux didn't detract from an awesome movie. My wife and I took 5 kids to see it. We also waited until the bitter end of the credits for ... anything. There isn't anything extra. Don't wait unless you are looking for something specific like "Who was the voice of the prospector?" Great flik!