The same time that working through breaks and lunch and staying an extra hour every day became a thing.
As an IT support contractor I'm not allowed to work through breaks and lunch and stay an extra hour. I could get fired for doing that. It's been like that for 12+ years.
And they can "create" the right through organized action to make their present job better.
You typically do that while negotiating your contract before being hired. It's called a perk, not a right.
It has been to known to work before, and we all enjoy the benefits.
This has been brought up repeatedly on Slashdot over the years. I have never heard of anyone attempting to organize technical workers into a union. Probably because technical workers are white collar workers and not blue collar workers. Never mind that technical workers are like a herd of cats.
So because you didn't get it, fuck everyone else who did, right?
No, I asked when it became a right to work from home. If your employment contract allows you to work from home, take advantage of it. However, that's not the norm for most Silicon Valley workers.
Sounds like you're the one with sour grapes here.
I would love for the hipsters in my office to work from home so they can stop complaining about how bad their 30 minute commute from San Francisco to Palo Alto was. I commute from the opposite direction and it takes an hour on the express bus (or two hours on the local bus), but I don't go on a daily hissy fit about my commute.
But CEOs these days cannot fail anymore, no matter how stupid and destructive.
I got laid off along with 2,000+ employees from a Fortune 500 company several years ago. As for the CEO, he got 60% raise for having a lousy fiscal year. Rumor had it that he needed a new yacht to keep up with his peers, which is why these golden parachutes keep going up in value over the years.
About the same time getting 55 million dollars for tanking a company?
Golden parachutes for corporate executives has been the norm for decades. Working from home is not the norm for most Silicon Valley employees. I only had one job in the last 20+ years that allowed working from home.
If she does get fired in the next year, she can always run against Democratic Senator Diane Feinstein in the 2018 election. Maybe she will be less annoying and more successful than the last CEO who ran in California.
Can you just walk into the office with a gun in America?
Most of the time. Corporate headquarters tend to have metal detectors in the main entrance as the general public is regarded as a potential security threat. Employee entrances that are accessible by key card don't have metal detectors. Nothing prevents a determined employee from packing heat and going postal on the job.
It's against most corporations' policies to have a gun in the workplace, but I have yet to see one with a metal detector at the entrance to normal office space.
The corporate headquarters for eBay in North San Jose has revolving doors, metal detectors, armed security guards and patrol dogs at the main entrance, which is open to the public during regular business hours. Angry customers and users storming the barricades with torches and pitchforks was always a serious possibility while working there. At other eBay campuses, the security is what you would expect for a typical office building or campus.
This has been an incredibly difficult week for Apple. The company shed more than $40 billion in market capitalization on Tuesday evening following its fiscal first-quarter earnings report, which showed a much steeper decline than Wall Street was expecting in both profit and iPhone sales. Then, just one day later, tragedy struck Apple's Cupertino, California headquarters when one of the company's employees was found dead in a conference room on campus.
The first dot-com bubble at least brought us all some benefits, such as the widespread availability of the web.
The availability of the web began in 1995. It would have happened whether or not people threw money at startups with business plans written on napkins in 1999, 2000 and 2001.
This means that world population will continue to grow, and may hit 12 billion by 2100.
Maybe, maybe not. The U.N. number for Africa may be in dispute. If Africa stays poor and uneducated, fertility rates will go up. If Africa grows prosperous and education, fertility rates will decline.
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You really think those are in the same league?
You haven't enjoyed Game of Thrones until you heard it in the original Klingon.
Which kind of idiots raise their children on Klingon as their main language?
The same people would name their kids after fictional characters. Baby names based on Game of Thrones are popular these days.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3200776/Oliver-Amelia-popular-names-second-year-running.html
The same time that working through breaks and lunch and staying an extra hour every day became a thing.
As an IT support contractor I'm not allowed to work through breaks and lunch and stay an extra hour. I could get fired for doing that. It's been like that for 12+ years.
So do thousands of janitors. Sadly your experience is about as worthwhile as theirs.
If you want to make money in IT, cleaning up messes is part of the job.
Sometimes I wanted to shove that ping pong paddle right up their entitled assholes.
Now there's a fine idea. Alas, my job doesn't have a ping pong table.
And they can "create" the right through organized action to make their present job better.
You typically do that while negotiating your contract before being hired. It's called a perk, not a right.
It has been to known to work before, and we all enjoy the benefits.
This has been brought up repeatedly on Slashdot over the years. I have never heard of anyone attempting to organize technical workers into a union. Probably because technical workers are white collar workers and not blue collar workers. Never mind that technical workers are like a herd of cats.
In short people can exercise their right to set their working conditions.
They have the right to find another job. California is an at-will state after all.
So because you didn't get it, fuck everyone else who did, right?
No, I asked when it became a right to work from home. If your employment contract allows you to work from home, take advantage of it. However, that's not the norm for most Silicon Valley workers.
Sounds like you're the one with sour grapes here.
I would love for the hipsters in my office to work from home so they can stop complaining about how bad their 30 minute commute from San Francisco to Palo Alto was. I commute from the opposite direction and it takes an hour on the express bus (or two hours on the local bus), but I don't go on a daily hissy fit about my commute.
But CEOs these days cannot fail anymore, no matter how stupid and destructive.
I got laid off along with 2,000+ employees from a Fortune 500 company several years ago. As for the CEO, he got 60% raise for having a lousy fiscal year. Rumor had it that he needed a new yacht to keep up with his peers, which is why these golden parachutes keep going up in value over the years.
You don't know shit, my friend.
I have 20+ years of experience in Silicon Valley that says otherwise.
About the same time getting 55 million dollars for tanking a company?
Golden parachutes for corporate executives has been the norm for decades. Working from home is not the norm for most Silicon Valley employees. I only had one job in the last 20+ years that allowed working from home.
If she does get fired in the next year, she can always run against Democratic Senator Diane Feinstein in the 2018 election. Maybe she will be less annoying and more successful than the last CEO who ran in California.
She upended many people's lives by discontinuing the work from home option.
When did working from home became a right in Silicon Valley?
Can you just walk into the office with a gun in America?
Most of the time. Corporate headquarters tend to have metal detectors in the main entrance as the general public is regarded as a potential security threat. Employee entrances that are accessible by key card don't have metal detectors. Nothing prevents a determined employee from packing heat and going postal on the job.
It's against most corporations' policies to have a gun in the workplace, but I have yet to see one with a metal detector at the entrance to normal office space.
The corporate headquarters for eBay in North San Jose has revolving doors, metal detectors, armed security guards and patrol dogs at the main entrance, which is open to the public during regular business hours. Angry customers and users storming the barricades with torches and pitchforks was always a serious possibility while working there. At other eBay campuses, the security is what you would expect for a typical office building or campus.
For example, it takes about an hour for the OS to boot up.
Man, I thought my PC had bad boot times.
This has been an incredibly difficult week for Apple. The company shed more than $40 billion in market capitalization on Tuesday evening following its fiscal first-quarter earnings report, which showed a much steeper decline than Wall Street was expecting in both profit and iPhone sales. Then, just one day later, tragedy struck Apple's Cupertino, California headquarters when one of the company's employees was found dead in a conference room on campus.
http://bgr.com/2016/04/29/apple-suicide-cupertino-campus-recap/
There are bugs, and then there are weasels.
[...] the strategy now seems to get bought by Facebook, Google, Microsoft or some other company and cash out that way.
That strategy haven't changed at all since the dot com bust. Except this time around the focus is to build a new app and get bought out by Facebook.
A "unicorn" a delusion from licking too many hallucinogenic frogs in Silly-cone Valley.
That's Santa Cruz. You may have better delusions by licking the banana slug instead.
The first dot-com bubble at least brought us all some benefits, such as the widespread availability of the web.
The availability of the web began in 1995. It would have happened whether or not people threw money at startups with business plans written on napkins in 1999, 2000 and 2001.
Make it your habit to explain inside terms and acronyms when submitting summaries, please.
A unicorn in venture capital is a company that reaches $1B in valuation, either in the run up to and/or after the IPO.
What are the "Good Sodas"?
Water with a slice of lemon.
This means that world population will continue to grow, and may hit 12 billion by 2100.
Maybe, maybe not. The U.N. number for Africa may be in dispute. If Africa stays poor and uneducated, fertility rates will go up. If Africa grows prosperous and education, fertility rates will decline.
That tells me you are using a mac. iTunes on Windows is unusable.
Uh, no. I'm using iTunes on Windows. I do store my media files on a FreeNAS server. Not sure if that makes a difference or not.