You sound like a absolutely terrible person to work for.
1. Hiring a fresh grad for 40-50k (especially one who is quick to learn) over someone with 10 years of experience for 80-90k+ will often come out ahead for those positions that do not absolutely need that 10 years. Even if it takes them a few months to get the hang of what youre doing, if they end up 75% as productive as your senior coders, you come out way ahead
2. I would take a less experienced programmer on my payroll over an outside vendor any day of the week for non-complicated tasks, and twice on monday. Anyone whos had to deal with a bad vendor will agree.
3. A new programmer will grow and learn far faster than an experienced one(especially if it is their first real job.) a new programmer could be 2 or 3 times as productive 6 months in as they were at 1 month in
Of course, since youve reduced all your employees to a number, things like these probably never cross your mind.
(PS. if all your inexperienced people miss every deadline, youre picking the wrong hires. Not only that, but dont ever assume that experience = no mistakes or failures. Or maybe the environment youve created is that detrimental to work flow.. Hiring someone with every expectation of their failure never did anyone any good)
hate to rain on your sony crusade, but the person who would end up in jail is the person who was responsible for running the check. that may be a salesman, or a manager, or whoever. when it comes to this kind of fine/jail time, there is a lot of finger pointing and assigning blame, and companies will go to great lengths to make sure the blame is placed right. granted, this is more likely to be applied to larger purchases than your 20$ book purchase off amazon.
you might think this.. but in the company i work at, we have to have training sessions every few months because people forget how to use word over time if they arent continuously retaught (these are all people that are 25-50)
Sorry to tell you that games are not sold by how good they look alone. Seems to be a common misconception nowadays.
To this date, the console that won each generation was the less powerful in graphics, so your point is shattered already. kinda not true... only the n64 started that trend both the nes and snes were more powerful than their competitors
sony still claims that ps3 will have a 10 year life.. by 2017 nintendo will be 2 or 3 generations down the road, and it would probably be the same price to buy a wii, wii2 and wii3 for the same price as it is to buy a ps3 now
By your logic, nothing other than Disney should be hosted on the Internet, since it might be against the law somewhere.
If youve ever looked close at disney films, youd know that not even they would be allowed by that logic, seeing how many "potentially offensive" things have slipped through in disney films
its not just this district. other districts are having serious financial problems too.. and for your information, i do believe the government should be responsible for making sure that the public schools are properly funded
please note the significant difference between north and south korea:
north = communist dictatorship, no individual rights south = technology hotspot, liberal, famous for their game players(at least in the gaming community)
or deposing some dictator such as Milosevic or Saddam
just what we need, another war to throw hundreds of billions of dollars at. how bout spending money somewhere that needs it.. like our failing school system? the school system where i live is so broke that they had to cut all bussing, after school programs, art, music, sports, and they are restricting the number of classes seniors can take because they have like a 10 million dollar deficit.. i know people (12th grade) who go to school for one class a day and then have to come home because the school will only let them take classes required for graduation
that isnt annoying, that is just incompetance on the part of the people they hired to be IT. i wouldnt be surprised if the rate of incompetance in IT is triple the rate in other professions
my point being.. this article isnt exactly insightful or anything, everything they say in the article is pretty much a given in any business type environment.. isnt it?
The article basically says "IT people can be annoying, and it can endanger your personal or work relationships. Never fear though, anything you do may or may not be annoying depending on who you talk to, so, for the sake of your job and your life, damit, stop being annoying!"
Whats so special about annoying IT people? arent there plenty of annoying people in any given profession?
all of their claims except one were thrown out, and the one remaining is that DC didnt file one credential in the required 30-day period, so its a minimal fine at most
I disagree. It's a lot easier to start going to www.newsearchengine.com than www.google.com than it is to switch your browser, especially if you don't own the machine you work on (e.g. work machine)
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Maybe you should do a bit of research before you try calling other people's comments bullshit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysgraphia
You sound like a absolutely terrible person to work for.
1. Hiring a fresh grad for 40-50k (especially one who is quick to learn) over someone with 10 years of experience for 80-90k+ will often come out ahead for those positions that do not absolutely need that 10 years. Even if it takes them a few months to get the hang of what youre doing, if they end up 75% as productive as your senior coders, you come out way ahead
2. I would take a less experienced programmer on my payroll over an outside vendor any day of the week for non-complicated tasks, and twice on monday. Anyone whos had to deal with a bad vendor will agree.
3. A new programmer will grow and learn far faster than an experienced one(especially if it is their first real job.) a new programmer could be 2 or 3 times as productive 6 months in as they were at 1 month in
Of course, since youve reduced all your employees to a number, things like these probably never cross your mind.
(PS. if all your inexperienced people miss every deadline, youre picking the wrong hires. Not only that, but dont ever assume that experience = no mistakes or failures. Or maybe the environment youve created is that detrimental to work flow.. Hiring someone with every expectation of their failure never did anyone any good)
hate to rain on your sony crusade, but the person who would end up in jail is the person who was responsible for running the check. that may be a salesman, or a manager, or whoever. when it comes to this kind of fine/jail time, there is a lot of finger pointing and assigning blame, and companies will go to great lengths to make sure the blame is placed right. granted, this is more likely to be applied to larger purchases than your 20$ book purchase off amazon.
the problem isnt that the trailers are being rated, its that the esrb is demanding the video be removed from the internet because they say so
you might think this.. but in the company i work at, we have to have training sessions every few months because people forget how to use word over time if they arent continuously retaught (these are all people that are 25-50)
sony still claims that ps3 will have a 10 year life.. by 2017 nintendo will be 2 or 3 generations down the road, and it would probably be the same price to buy a wii, wii2 and wii3 for the same price as it is to buy a ps3 now
By your logic, nothing other than Disney should be hosted on the Internet, since it might be against the law somewhere. If youve ever looked close at disney films, youd know that not even they would be allowed by that logic, seeing how many "potentially offensive" things have slipped through in disney films
what interests me is what norton/symantec is going to do, now that (one of) their biggest competitors is in such a position.
if a government can not even educate their youth, then they have no right to tell other countries and governments how to run their countries
its not just this district. other districts are having serious financial problems too.. and for your information, i do believe the government should be responsible for making sure that the public schools are properly funded
please note the significant difference between north and south korea:
north = communist dictatorship, no individual rights
south = technology hotspot, liberal, famous for their game players(at least in the gaming community)
or deposing some dictator such as Milosevic or Saddam
just what we need, another war to throw hundreds of billions of dollars at. how bout spending money somewhere that needs it.. like our failing school system? the school system where i live is so broke that they had to cut all bussing, after school programs, art, music, sports, and they are restricting the number of classes seniors can take because they have like a 10 million dollar deficit.. i know people (12th grade) who go to school for one class a day and then have to come home because the school will only let them take classes required for graduation
that isnt annoying, that is just incompetance on the part of the people they hired to be IT. i wouldnt be surprised if the rate of incompetance in IT is triple the rate in other professions
my point being.. this article isnt exactly insightful or anything, everything they say in the article is pretty much a given in any business type environment.. isnt it?
The article basically says "IT people can be annoying, and it can endanger your personal or work relationships. Never fear though, anything you do may or may not be annoying depending on who you talk to, so, for the sake of your job and your life, damit, stop being annoying!"
Whats so special about annoying IT people? arent there plenty of annoying people in any given profession?
ever heard of renting a game?
all of their claims except one were thrown out, and the one remaining is that DC didnt file one credential in the required 30-day period, so its a minimal fine at most
call me back when it can handle my wireless card flawlessly, only then will i consider using it
well, he would only be demoted to a "companion of honour" so i guess it isnt all that bad
that never stopped him from getting what he wanted before, im sure he could throw down a few billion to get knighted
Whats next? Thats SIR Bill Gates to you!
I disagree. It's a lot easier to start going to www.newsearchengine.com than www.google.com than it is to switch your browser, especially if you don't own the machine you work on (e.g. work machine)
Gmail is also still in beta, you know, dont come to that conclusion that fast
google.com does not have the link for me.. interesting