Trump is actually killing it given the extraordinary media bias against him and for Hillary and his own party not supporting him.
Trump is killing himself by being himself. This has nothing to do with media bias, Hillary or the Republican Party.
Its really going to come down to nothing more than the Democrat voter fraud machine, if they rev it up (and they certainly will try) then Hillary will win.
The only widespread fraud in this race is Donald Trump. The more he talks about the election being rigged, the more likely his voters will stay home.
I sure hope that the D's get caught red handed enough times in this election that they end up sunk.
Republicans are more likely to get caught red handed with these schemes to mislead voters by voting online or by phone, go to the wrong polling place, or list the wrong date for the election.
from outside (I'm Brazillian), I'm everyday less certain of this: the Hillary rejection only seems to climb...
Based on what? POTUS is decided by the electoral college vote and not the popular vote. Hillary started off with ~350 electoral votes. The only way Trump can get the minimum 271 electoral votes is to win Florida (can go either way), Ohio (no Republican has ever won without this state) and Pennsylvania (last voted Republican in 1988). If he fails to win all three states, the election is over. Based on current polls in those states, he's not going to win the election.
I work in government IT. My contract prohibits me from working more than 40 hours a week. I get paid federal holidays, 20 Paid Time Off (PTO) days and five unpaid day offs. No gold-plated pension and/or watch, however. I also make 50% less than my Silicon Valley counterparts in the public sector. But I'm well rested.;)
Wow, what a dolt. Thankfully partisan idiots like you are so exceptionally stupid that they color all partisans in an ill light.
You are aware that Trump has absolutely no chance of winning the election? Since the 2016 electoral map is identical to 2008 and 2012, Trump has to perform better than John McCain and Mitt Romney. Trump, being an equal opportunity offender, isn't performing at all. He might make history as the biggest loser in modern times with less than 40% of the votes.
Probably for the same reason any president thinks they represent ALL of America. 30% voter turn out means that at the very least the president earned the vote of 16% of people. Awesome.
If you are still working with computers and end users in information security you are still low-tier. Mid-level it's all design paperwork, analysis, and auditing.
I deal with 80,000+ workstations. I don't deal with 80,000+ end users. The few users I've dealt with thought I was hacker and called security. Always fun.
However, you gotta update your LinkedIn photo my friend. You look so angry.
That's how I look on a normal day. You don't want to see me get angry.
Smile and a nice suit goes a long way to "he looks like a nice guy, let's bring him in for an interview". =)
A recruiter told me to go to a job interview at a biomedical company in a suit and tie. The lobby had no receptionist. I dialed the phone and left a message. For the next 90 minutes, I waited for the hiring manager as people went in and out. The recruiter kept calling me and asking where the hell I was. A man in a jogging outfit asked me who I was and why I was waiting. Turned out he was the hiring manager. He thought I was a venture capitalist. I was better dressed then the CEO. The scientists gave me more respect than the CEO. A very odd experience.
Jobs will be replaced by other jobs, but the point is *they will always be less*.
I haven't seen that in my own career. Newer jobs tend to be better and offer more benefits. Of course, I'm climbing upward on my career. I've known many people who stayed still or climbed down the ladder just because they stopped learning after college.
What you did give paints you as worthless and incompetent when I was seeing idiots get job with little effort in the same time span.
What I've seen every time I post my unemployment story on Slashdot, the peanut gallery jeers that I must be incompetent for having such a string of bad luck. It's easy to put someone down, better them than you, especially if you're one of the fortunate ones who hung on to their job during the Great Recession. I feel sorry for you. Hardship builds character — and you have none.
Most of my coworkers are in their 50's and 60's. Everyone has 20+ years of IT experience, as we're responsible for 80,000+ workstations across the Western US. No ten-year-old can do our jobs.
I got laid off in mid-November of 2009 and had a job in February, and that was at the worst possible time, because nobody hires in December or January.
I've started many jobs in January and a few in December. It takes more effort to go after a job during those months because everyone is on vacation. Whenever a recruiter tells me that they had an "urgent" position, I tell them to check when the hiring manager will get back from vacation and they're shocked to discover that the hiring manager will be gone for two- to six-weeks.
The problem is the employers being too lazy to train people, and using it as an excuse to outsource.
I worked at Cisco for nine months in 2013. My manager said he could train but it would be a waste of his time since I'll take the training to get a job at a competitor who will pay more than Cisco. Never mind that many people were learning the Cisco certification on company time, getting certified, and finding higher paid jobs at competitors. I was subsequently laid off with 10% of the workforce (my contract came up for renewal and my supervisor got locked out of the HR system) and the CEO got a 60% raise for having a lousy fiscal year.
You couldn't be more wrong. I've done quite a bit of hiring. I guarantee you it was the number one reason you weren't chosen.
You're assuming that employers check the applicant's credit report. I've checked the box on every job application I ever filled out to have a copy of my credit report sent to me. The only time I ever got copies of my credit report was when I got my security clearance two years ago for my current government IT job.
Government IT. I'm two years into a five-year contract that's fully paid for (i.e., I'll still be working if Congress shut down the government). Your tax dollars at work.
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Given the choice between a Switch or my Wii, I know which one I want to play with.
Glossy toilet paper. For those with better tastes in wiping.
The vast majority of my 800+ contacts are IT recruiters that I've talked to and/or interviewed with in my 20+ year career.
Trump is actually killing it given the extraordinary media bias against him and for Hillary and his own party not supporting him.
Trump is killing himself by being himself. This has nothing to do with media bias, Hillary or the Republican Party.
Its really going to come down to nothing more than the Democrat voter fraud machine, if they rev it up (and they certainly will try) then Hillary will win.
The only widespread fraud in this race is Donald Trump. The more he talks about the election being rigged, the more likely his voters will stay home.
I sure hope that the D's get caught red handed enough times in this election that they end up sunk.
Republicans are more likely to get caught red handed with these schemes to mislead voters by voting online or by phone, go to the wrong polling place, or list the wrong date for the election.
from outside (I'm Brazillian), I'm everyday less certain of this: the Hillary rejection only seems to climb...
Based on what? POTUS is decided by the electoral college vote and not the popular vote. Hillary started off with ~350 electoral votes. The only way Trump can get the minimum 271 electoral votes is to win Florida (can go either way), Ohio (no Republican has ever won without this state) and Pennsylvania (last voted Republican in 1988). If he fails to win all three states, the election is over. Based on current polls in those states, he's not going to win the election.
You are aware that you are a fucking idiot, and no one came here to read your shit about politics.
Yet here you are replying to my comment.
So go back to Hillaries snatch and suck some more fucking retard.
Thank God I'm not a Trump supporter like yourself.
I work in government IT. My contract prohibits me from working more than 40 hours a week. I get paid federal holidays, 20 Paid Time Off (PTO) days and five unpaid day offs. No gold-plated pension and/or watch, however. I also make 50% less than my Silicon Valley counterparts in the public sector. But I'm well rested. ;)
Wow, what a dolt. Thankfully partisan idiots like you are so exceptionally stupid that they color all partisans in an ill light.
You are aware that Trump has absolutely no chance of winning the election? Since the 2016 electoral map is identical to 2008 and 2012, Trump has to perform better than John McCain and Mitt Romney. Trump, being an equal opportunity offender, isn't performing at all. He might make history as the biggest loser in modern times with less than 40% of the votes.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/donald-trump-polling-229916
Probably for the same reason any president thinks they represent ALL of America. 30% voter turn out means that at the very least the president earned the vote of 16% of people. Awesome.
That sounds about right for Donald Trump.
Since when is 30 in 100 equal to 1 in 2, as the headline suggests?
Probably the same reason that Donald Trump and the Republican Party think they represent ALL of America.
If you are still working with computers and end users in information security you are still low-tier. Mid-level it's all design paperwork, analysis, and auditing.
I deal with 80,000+ workstations. I don't deal with 80,000+ end users. The few users I've dealt with thought I was hacker and called security. Always fun.
However, you gotta update your LinkedIn photo my friend. You look so angry.
That's how I look on a normal day. You don't want to see me get angry.
Smile and a nice suit goes a long way to "he looks like a nice guy, let's bring him in for an interview". =)
A recruiter told me to go to a job interview at a biomedical company in a suit and tie. The lobby had no receptionist. I dialed the phone and left a message. For the next 90 minutes, I waited for the hiring manager as people went in and out. The recruiter kept calling me and asking where the hell I was. A man in a jogging outfit asked me who I was and why I was waiting. Turned out he was the hiring manager. He thought I was a venture capitalist. I was better dressed then the CEO. The scientists gave me more respect than the CEO. A very odd experience.
Did you eat the guy who took your picture?
No. I had his mother. Next stupid question?
Jobs will be replaced by other jobs, but the point is *they will always be less*.
I haven't seen that in my own career. Newer jobs tend to be better and offer more benefits. Of course, I'm climbing upward on my career. I've known many people who stayed still or climbed down the ladder just because they stopped learning after college.
What you did give paints you as worthless and incompetent when I was seeing idiots get job with little effort in the same time span.
What I've seen every time I post my unemployment story on Slashdot, the peanut gallery jeers that I must be incompetent for having such a string of bad luck. It's easy to put someone down, better them than you, especially if you're one of the fortunate ones who hung on to their job during the Great Recession. I feel sorry for you. Hardship builds character — and you have none.
And aside from that even if you do divulge your great skills it's still a bit suspect.
Here's my LinkedIn profile. Read it and weep. ;)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-reimer-b3706928
So a job a 10 year old could do?
Most of my coworkers are in their 50's and 60's. Everyone has 20+ years of IT experience, as we're responsible for 80,000+ workstations across the Western US. No ten-year-old can do our jobs.
I got laid off in mid-November of 2009 and had a job in February, and that was at the worst possible time, because nobody hires in December or January.
I've started many jobs in January and a few in December. It takes more effort to go after a job during those months because everyone is on vacation. Whenever a recruiter tells me that they had an "urgent" position, I tell them to check when the hiring manager will get back from vacation and they're shocked to discover that the hiring manager will be gone for two- to six-weeks.
Just belittle the people you have screwed.
I haven't belittled anyone in my career. That would be very unprofessional.
Karma will pay it back to you and your ilk.
With better jobs and better benefits.
The problem is the employers being too lazy to train people, and using it as an excuse to outsource.
I worked at Cisco for nine months in 2013. My manager said he could train but it would be a waste of his time since I'll take the training to get a job at a competitor who will pay more than Cisco. Never mind that many people were learning the Cisco certification on company time, getting certified, and finding higher paid jobs at competitors. I was subsequently laid off with 10% of the workforce (my contract came up for renewal and my supervisor got locked out of the HR system) and the CEO got a 60% raise for having a lousy fiscal year.
Above you admitted to essentially being the "Did you turn it off and on again?" guy.
That's Tier 1 (call center). I was doing Tier 2 (desktop). These days I'm doing computer security by consoling hurt computers and fixing broken users.
Clearly not when you couldn't get a job for two years until anyone else competent was hired first.
No. You are being deliberately stupid about the circumstances of my two-year unemployment. If that makes you feel, I'm not going to burst your bubble.
You couldn't be more wrong. I've done quite a bit of hiring. I guarantee you it was the number one reason you weren't chosen.
You're assuming that employers check the applicant's credit report. I've checked the box on every job application I ever filled out to have a copy of my credit report sent to me. The only time I ever got copies of my credit report was when I got my security clearance two years ago for my current government IT job.
So you were incompetent and useless.
Uh, no. I'm doing the work that no one else wants to do. IT will always need people to do those kind of jobs.
So which glory holes do you service these days?
Government IT. I'm two years into a five-year contract that's fully paid for (i.e., I'll still be working if Congress shut down the government). Your tax dollars at work.