Not through hard work, dedication, loyalty, or even skill, but rather by managing their "persona".
If you want to have a successful tech career, you need to manage your persona. Hard work, dedication, loyalty and even skill can take you only so far.
In the business world, perception trumps everything.
This is one of the reasons why I don't get hired after an in-person interview. No one wants to hire a fat white boy. However, if I get hired over the phone and report to the office, the manager will often look at me, my resume and wonder if he made a mistake. It doesn't take long to prove that I can get the job done and my stellar resume is well-earned.
The story of Go, the first company that tried to introduced pen-based handhelds in the late 1980's, can be found in "Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure" by Jerry Kaplan. A great book about a small company that got screwed over by "partners" Microsoft, Apple and IBM.
In other words, working smarter paid off for your employer but didn't do you a damned bit of good.
Working smarter means I get the job done while commenting on Slashdot at work.;)
However, I did get laid off one job from being too productive. My manager let me go because I was doing the work of six people and he didn't want to lay off five people during a slow period because there wasn't enough work to keep everyone busy. Not long after I was let go, upper management decided they didn't need those five other people anyway and started a "more work with fewer people" death spiral for the department.
With the ACA, the plans he can now get as an small business owner due to the new regulations are too expensive for him. And with the tax on not having a plan, there's no way out. Admittedly, there's no way he'd go without a plan, but he has only one option. Pay more.
My small business employer kept changing HR providers until we got a good deal. I'm now getting dental, vision and heath for $180 per month. Prior to ACA, I used to pay $500 per month for comparable coverage.
They don't get a tax subsidy. Please stop posting that bullshit.
Please educate yourself.
Taxpayers currently subsidize the oil industry by as much as $4.8 billion a year, with about half of that going to the big five oil companies—ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, BP, and ConocoPhillips—which get an average tax break of $3.34 on every barrel of domestic crude they produce.
The rise of government regulations on private employers contributes to the decline in overall productivity.
I hear that complaint all the time in the small business circles. When pressed to cite one specific regulation, most owners can't mention a specific regulation that impact their business in any meaningful way.
"Working smarter" is management jargon which means "this problem can't be solved, so I'm going to blame you for not solving it. No raise this year, and put in more unpaid overtime."
Working smarter on my IT job means writing a script to perform a task in the background while doing something else. My employment contracts for the last 10+ years have prohibited me from working more than 40 hours per week. No Fortune 500 company wants to pay overtime for anything these days.
A person works to make $100; they can expect to end up with $70 in their paycheck.
Earned income has the highest tax rates. Most people who are familiar with the tax laws try to derive most of their income from portfolio (investments) and passive (real estate) income.
If someone's rich relative gives them $100, they get $80.
Under the IRS rules, the gift has to be over $14,000 before taxes come into play. So your example is bogus.
His motivation was money, not the love of science and technology.
Thomas Edison built things that benefited people and he made money in the process. A Wall Street MBA creating an algorithm to squeeze a tenth of a penny out of each financial transaction doesn't do anything for the overall economy.
There are no consequences to failing in government.
That may be true for political appointees and their cronies, but not for the typical government worker. The agency I worked for hired several IT workers who thought this was a "gubermint" job, did nothing when they reported to work, and were shocked to discover themselves unemployed in short order. Most of my coworkers are ex-military folks with zero tolerance for slackers.
This is a good time to be in government IT. I'm finishing my second year in my current job as a security remediation technician, getting paid holidays, 20 Paid Time Off (PTO) days, and a decent benefit package (401K/health/dental/vision), and the prime contract is fully funded for another three years. As the recruiter told me, once you start working for the government, you're in for life. Most of my coworkers are ex-military and been here for 10+ years. Alas, the downside is that I could be making 40% more in the private sector without any guaranteed job security.
I could not collect unemployment insurance even though I paid into the system for quite some time?!?!?
I think you need to be a C-corp to have your company lay you off to claim unemployment benefits as an individual. My old boss used to do that from time to time when constructor work slowed down.
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Not through hard work, dedication, loyalty, or even skill, but rather by managing their "persona".
If you want to have a successful tech career, you need to manage your persona. Hard work, dedication, loyalty and even skill can take you only so far.
In the business world, perception trumps everything.
This is one of the reasons why I don't get hired after an in-person interview. No one wants to hire a fat white boy. However, if I get hired over the phone and report to the office, the manager will often look at me, my resume and wonder if he made a mistake. It doesn't take long to prove that I can get the job done and my stellar resume is well-earned.
The story of Go, the first company that tried to introduced pen-based handhelds in the late 1980's, can be found in "Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure" by Jerry Kaplan. A great book about a small company that got screwed over by "partners" Microsoft, Apple and IBM.
And your point being?
In other words, working smarter paid off for your employer but didn't do you a damned bit of good.
Working smarter means I get the job done while commenting on Slashdot at work. ;)
However, I did get laid off one job from being too productive. My manager let me go because I was doing the work of six people and he didn't want to lay off five people during a slow period because there wasn't enough work to keep everyone busy. Not long after I was let go, upper management decided they didn't need those five other people anyway and started a "more work with fewer people" death spiral for the department.
With the ACA, the plans he can now get as an small business owner due to the new regulations are too expensive for him. And with the tax on not having a plan, there's no way out. Admittedly, there's no way he'd go without a plan, but he has only one option. Pay more.
My small business employer kept changing HR providers until we got a good deal. I'm now getting dental, vision and heath for $180 per month. Prior to ACA, I used to pay $500 per month for comparable coverage.
Are you suggesting that there is a conspiracy between UC Davis and city of New York?
Re-read my comment. It's Wall Street and New York state.
Facebook as a company should stay out of it and let the democratic process work.
Didn't you get the 2012 memo? Corporations are people too!
Wall Street MBAs don't write algorithms. STEM people do.
I think STEM people would have a very different mindset than Wall Street Quants.
They don't get a tax subsidy. Please stop posting that bullshit.
Please educate yourself.
Taxpayers currently subsidize the oil industry by as much as $4.8 billion a year, with about half of that going to the big five oil companies—ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, BP, and ConocoPhillips—which get an average tax break of $3.34 on every barrel of domestic crude they produce.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/04/oil-subsidies-renewable-energy-tax-breaks/
The gas and oil industry would be so much more productive if they didn't get a $4B tax subsidy from US tax payers each year.
The rise of government regulations on private employers contributes to the decline in overall productivity.
I hear that complaint all the time in the small business circles. When pressed to cite one specific regulation, most owners can't mention a specific regulation that impact their business in any meaningful way.
"Working smarter" is management jargon which means "this problem can't be solved, so I'm going to blame you for not solving it. No raise this year, and put in more unpaid overtime."
Working smarter on my IT job means writing a script to perform a task in the background while doing something else. My employment contracts for the last 10+ years have prohibited me from working more than 40 hours per week. No Fortune 500 company wants to pay overtime for anything these days.
A person works to make $100; they can expect to end up with $70 in their paycheck.
Earned income has the highest tax rates. Most people who are familiar with the tax laws try to derive most of their income from portfolio (investments) and passive (real estate) income.
If someone's rich relative gives them $100, they get $80.
Under the IRS rules, the gift has to be over $14,000 before taxes come into play. So your example is bogus.
https://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-Businesses-&-Self-Employed/Frequently-Asked-Questions-on-Gift-Taxes#5
The person doing nothing gets more, and they procreate, breeding more people who provide no benefit.
They're the ones who are cleaning your toilets, harvesting your food and doing the jobs you don't want to do.
So does Donald Trump.
We are talking about business, not politics.
His motivation was money, not the love of science and technology.
Thomas Edison built things that benefited people and he made money in the process. A Wall Street MBA creating an algorithm to squeeze a tenth of a penny out of each financial transaction doesn't do anything for the overall economy.
Thomas Edison was a businessman.
Thomas Edison built things. Most business people today, especially the Wall Street MBAs, are too busy slicing and dicing a smaller financial pie.
So they worked harder and harder.
That's the problem. They need to work smarter. Working harder will only get you so far.
Wall Street has never had a problem rewriting, rebooting, or painting over history.
It's the New York way.
FTFY
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Investing != Investigating Pretty sure the title is incorrect.
The CIA is investigating the books of these companies. The appropriate CIA front company will provide investment funding.
There are no consequences to failing in government.
That may be true for political appointees and their cronies, but not for the typical government worker. The agency I worked for hired several IT workers who thought this was a "gubermint" job, did nothing when they reported to work, and were shocked to discover themselves unemployed in short order. Most of my coworkers are ex-military folks with zero tolerance for slackers.
This is a good time to be in government IT. I'm finishing my second year in my current job as a security remediation technician, getting paid holidays, 20 Paid Time Off (PTO) days, and a decent benefit package (401K/health/dental/vision), and the prime contract is fully funded for another three years. As the recruiter told me, once you start working for the government, you're in for life. Most of my coworkers are ex-military and been here for 10+ years. Alas, the downside is that I could be making 40% more in the private sector without any guaranteed job security.
Well I guess if "unemployment rate" does not mean unemployment rate, then "full employment" might as well not mean full employment.
You need to be an economist to understand.
I could not collect unemployment insurance even though I paid into the system for quite some time?!?!?
I think you need to be a C-corp to have your company lay you off to claim unemployment benefits as an individual. My old boss used to do that from time to time when constructor work slowed down.
My 'employer' didn't pay unemployment or medical premiums for me - nor did they pay the employer's share of social security taxes.
Translation: You're a sole proprietor, not a corporation. Sucker!
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