People are stupid and can't be bothered to take their time and read instructions.
Dell even print the directions on the box for unpacking and assembling an all-in-one computer. I've seen newly hired IT techs screw the pooch on that one.
The fed raised finally rates the littlest they could because they'd spent so long saying "this time I'm really going to do it" that they were almost out of credibility.
The Fed are trying to avoid repeating the mistakes that the European Union Central Bank did: raise rates, watch the economy crater, reverse rates, and damage the economy further. If the Fed raises interest rates, they have no intention of reversing the rate increase soon. Their credibility in the short term will take a hit as they take their time to determine when to raise rates.
Yes. The average entrepreneur will have a half-dozen business failures before one takes off. The sooner you fail, the sooner you can succeed.
The taxation, accounting, and regulatory hoops you have to jump through are arcane and take up a huge amount of time.
That doesn't apply to every kind of business. A side business should never distract you from a full-time job. When you're ready to quit your full-time job and take the business full-time, you can grapple with the issues to expand beyond yourself.
There's a reason companies have employees dedicated to dealing with all that crap.
Outsourcing also works for small businesses.
Now try doing that while working a full-time factory job, commuting, and having a family at home.
You can either use that as an excuse to be a wage slave or a motivator to own the corporate ladder.
And with the rent being so high that you don't have any real savings, where are you going to get the capital to start the business?
There are many types of small business that are not capital intensive. Start off small, reinvest the profits into the business, and do that for years on end until you're ready to take the business full-time.
$300 per ticket would have been lunacy in my 20's, now it is just a few hours of work.
Wait until these productions go on tour out in the boonies. I don't think I've paid more than $65 per ticket to see a production that was insanely popular a few years earlier.
Shocking that AAA game companies still don't get the single most important fact about selling games.
Hollywood has opened AAA movies in China first and made more money than opening in the USA a week later. If that trend continues, Hollywood will make movies that satisfies Chinese audiences first and foremost. The USA will no longer be a trendsetter.
they also want people to dumb to know that they are being ripped off with the 60-80 hour work weeks with no OT.
My IT support contracts for the last 10+ years state that I'm prohibited from working more than 40 hours per week. No one wants to pay overtime. If I want to work more hours, I need to get a weekend job.
Some tech companies hire on things nothing related to actual competency.
Robert Half sent me to biotech firm to interview for a tech position, told me to dress up a suit. I sat in the empty lobby for 90 minutes, watching people go on by and fielding phone calls from the recruiter asking where the hell I was. Someone that I've seen several times walked through the lobby asked me who I was and he introduced himself as the IT manager. After the interview, I met the CEO who was dressed in a t-shirt and jeans. Everyone, including the passing scientists in white coats, thought I was a venture capitalist making an unannounced visit.
It's a LOT easier, emotionally, when you're struggling but you also know everyone else is as well, and you're all trying to work for something better. When all you're told is that everything is fine, there is not problem, and YOU lose your job or your house or start missing payments on bills - it feels like it's just YOU and it's you against everyone else.
"A recession is when your neighbor is out of work. A depression is when you're out of work." - Ronald Reagan
Every single thing got junked and we just walked away....crazy.
Roommates and I moved out a triplex that we rented for six years. We decided to junk everything. So I ordered a large dumpster to be delivered in the back alley. A homeless person came by, lit a cigarette and tossed the match into the fully loaded dumpster. That went up in smoke. We didn't have to worry about leveling off the top since the fire reduced everything down to two feet of ash.
I'm not sure I would consider 6% likelihood of a raise in september a significant possibility.
Where did my "possible go" become your "significant possibility"? The circumstances are favorable that a rate increase will happen in September. But a lot of things can happen between now and then that might dash a rate increase. If not September, then December becomes a possible go. So forth and so on.
If we used the same inflation metric as back in the 1970s and 1980s we'd still be officially in a recession - since 2006
The traditional definition of a recession is a decline in GDP for two consecutive quarters. That haven't happened since the Great Recession ended in 2009.
We're "doing well" in the stock simply because of the massive influx of cash from the Federal Reserve, and it's papered over as "good" by fudging the inflation and unemployment numbers.
The Feds ended quantitative easing and raised interest rates in 2015. September is looking like a go for raising interest rates again. Easy money is on the way out.
It does seem like the market will continue to inflate as long as the Fed continues to keep the interest rates at zero.
You're not current on Fed policy. If the Feds can get away with it, they want to raise interest rates by a quarter-percentage four times a year. The first interest rate increase was December 2015 — and the financial world didn't come to a cataclysmic end. Financial data and political events cancelled interest rate hikes so far this year. September looks like a possible go for an interest rate hike.
A recruiter submitted my resume and a half-dozen other resumes to a law firm in Palo Alto for a contract tech position. The hiring manager rejected all the resumes out of hand for "lacking tenure" (i.e., 3+ years in each of the last three positions). The recruiter was incredulous. Following the Great Recession, contractors had to work multiple assignments and/or positions to stay afloat. If anyone had 3+ years in each of the last three positions, they wouldn't be applying for a contract position.
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Stop playing the latest video games.
Last year's AAA title for $60 may be available for five bucks at Steam's Black Friday sale. I haven't paid full retail for a video game in 10+ years.
People are stupid and can't be bothered to take their time and read instructions.
Dell even print the directions on the box for unpacking and assembling an all-in-one computer. I've seen newly hired IT techs screw the pooch on that one.
The fed raised finally rates the littlest they could because they'd spent so long saying "this time I'm really going to do it" that they were almost out of credibility.
The Fed are trying to avoid repeating the mistakes that the European Union Central Bank did: raise rates, watch the economy crater, reverse rates, and damage the economy further. If the Fed raises interest rates, they have no intention of reversing the rate increase soon. Their credibility in the short term will take a hit as they take their time to determine when to raise rates.
Have you ever tried actually starting a business?
Yes. The average entrepreneur will have a half-dozen business failures before one takes off. The sooner you fail, the sooner you can succeed.
The taxation, accounting, and regulatory hoops you have to jump through are arcane and take up a huge amount of time.
That doesn't apply to every kind of business. A side business should never distract you from a full-time job. When you're ready to quit your full-time job and take the business full-time, you can grapple with the issues to expand beyond yourself.
There's a reason companies have employees dedicated to dealing with all that crap.
Outsourcing also works for small businesses.
Now try doing that while working a full-time factory job, commuting, and having a family at home.
You can either use that as an excuse to be a wage slave or a motivator to own the corporate ladder.
And with the rent being so high that you don't have any real savings, where are you going to get the capital to start the business?
There are many types of small business that are not capital intensive. Start off small, reinvest the profits into the business, and do that for years on end until you're ready to take the business full-time.
The reality is that they are a tiny minority in a large population.
That sums up the Republican base in a nutshell.
This is probably the reason Twitter doesn't ban the neo-nazis that are running wild on their system.
How far would the Trump campaign have gotten without the neo-Nazis on Twitter?
Never mind that the GP complained about users opening support tickets for broken links. Swoosh!
Like Kung Fu Panda?
https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2016/jun/14/hollywood-films-in-china-asia-market-warcraft-the-beginning
The main difference is Android lets you go to a menu to disable the security checks while iOS requires a jailbreak.
I stand corrected. Stupidity is optional but not mandatory on Android. ;)
$300 per ticket would have been lunacy in my 20's, now it is just a few hours of work.
Wait until these productions go on tour out in the boonies. I don't think I've paid more than $65 per ticket to see a production that was insanely popular a few years earlier.
Shocking that AAA game companies still don't get the single most important fact about selling games.
Hollywood has opened AAA movies in China first and made more money than opening in the USA a week later. If that trend continues, Hollywood will make movies that satisfies Chinese audiences first and foremost. The USA will no longer be a trendsetter.
Android has no walled garden to protect users from their own stupidity.
lemmings was on everything.
Until they fell off and died a horrible death.
Solution: Take your trash with you to work.
We were college students. Most of us didn't have jobs. It was easier to split the household into three smaller households.
The Fed wants the market to think that the Fed wants to raise rates ... the Fed (in aggregate) does NOT want to raise rates.
Yet the Fed raised interest rates in December 2015.
they also want people to dumb to know that they are being ripped off with the 60-80 hour work weeks with no OT.
My IT support contracts for the last 10+ years state that I'm prohibited from working more than 40 hours per week. No one wants to pay overtime. If I want to work more hours, I need to get a weekend job.
That was ftp://ftp.example.com/file.zip [example.com] before slashdot helpfully linkified it and dropped the user@ portion.
File a support ticket.
Some tech companies hire on things nothing related to actual competency.
Robert Half sent me to biotech firm to interview for a tech position, told me to dress up a suit. I sat in the empty lobby for 90 minutes, watching people go on by and fielding phone calls from the recruiter asking where the hell I was. Someone that I've seen several times walked through the lobby asked me who I was and he introduced himself as the IT manager. After the interview, I met the CEO who was dressed in a t-shirt and jeans. Everyone, including the passing scientists in white coats, thought I was a venture capitalist making an unannounced visit.
It's a LOT easier, emotionally, when you're struggling but you also know everyone else is as well, and you're all trying to work for something better. When all you're told is that everything is fine, there is not problem, and YOU lose your job or your house or start missing payments on bills - it feels like it's just YOU and it's you against everyone else.
"A recession is when your neighbor is out of work. A depression is when you're out of work." - Ronald Reagan
Maybe they want some who say worked for same base firm aka robert half / SmartSource / etc for years.
Those are the kind of people who weren't looking for a new job at the time.
Every single thing got junked and we just walked away....crazy.
Roommates and I moved out a triplex that we rented for six years. We decided to junk everything. So I ordered a large dumpster to be delivered in the back alley. A homeless person came by, lit a cigarette and tossed the match into the fully loaded dumpster. That went up in smoke. We didn't have to worry about leveling off the top since the fire reduced everything down to two feet of ash.
I'm not sure I would consider 6% likelihood of a raise in september a significant possibility.
Where did my "possible go" become your "significant possibility"? The circumstances are favorable that a rate increase will happen in September. But a lot of things can happen between now and then that might dash a rate increase. If not September, then December becomes a possible go. So forth and so on.
If we used the same inflation metric as back in the 1970s and 1980s we'd still be officially in a recession - since 2006
The traditional definition of a recession is a decline in GDP for two consecutive quarters. That haven't happened since the Great Recession ended in 2009.
We're "doing well" in the stock simply because of the massive influx of cash from the Federal Reserve, and it's papered over as "good" by fudging the inflation and unemployment numbers.
The Feds ended quantitative easing and raised interest rates in 2015. September is looking like a go for raising interest rates again. Easy money is on the way out.
It does seem like the market will continue to inflate as long as the Fed continues to keep the interest rates at zero.
You're not current on Fed policy. If the Feds can get away with it, they want to raise interest rates by a quarter-percentage four times a year. The first interest rate increase was December 2015 — and the financial world didn't come to a cataclysmic end. Financial data and political events cancelled interest rate hikes so far this year. September looks like a possible go for an interest rate hike.
There's a lot of snobbery in this profession now.
A recruiter submitted my resume and a half-dozen other resumes to a law firm in Palo Alto for a contract tech position. The hiring manager rejected all the resumes out of hand for "lacking tenure" (i.e., 3+ years in each of the last three positions). The recruiter was incredulous. Following the Great Recession, contractors had to work multiple assignments and/or positions to stay afloat. If anyone had 3+ years in each of the last three positions, they wouldn't be applying for a contract position.
AFAIK, the position was still open a year later.