I think you are choosing NOT to consume the whole meal because of your weight.
That's correct.
Don't try to lie and say that it fills you up fast.
Which I didn't.
Because if you are 350+ pounds, I highly doubt you get full from a meal at a restaurant.
I feel full 20 minutes after I finish a small meal. Most people overeat because they're waiting to feel full and often end up feeling bloated instead. You're making the assumption that because I'm overweight that I must be a glutton.
I think the time of double digit raises in IT is past, except for really special circumstances.
I could make 40% more money if I took a job in the private sector. The nice thing about working for government IT is that benefit package is sweet and the prime contract is fully funded for the next four years. So I'm taking a break from the rat race of hustling for a new job every year to earn my technical certifications while I got job security for the next few years. When I do re-enter the private sector, I'll be making two to four times what I'm making now.
I've never been in a company where they actually want to train you and promote from within (at least on the IT side of things) which is very sad I think.
One company I worked for wanted the help desk to get ITIL certified but didn't want to pay for the certification exams. None of the help desk folks wanted to pay for the certification because they knew they weren't going to get compensated for having the certification. This became another "good intentions" initiative that fell to the wayside.
The company was in NY and had a NY labor attorney. I was a contract worker in CA and CA labor laws applied to me. If I sued them, it would be from a CA court. I'm presuming that they would have to sue me in a CA court and not a NY court.
I wouldn't be surprised if you'd said coders, developers, managers, etc.
Based on my experience from working at software-based Fortune 500 companies, HR classifies coders, developers or managers as computer engineers. My own company classifies me as a computer engineer doing system admin work at an IT specialist pay rate, which I occasionally badger my manager about because the title implies I should be making two to four times my current salary in Silicon Valley.
The problem is that NOBODY FUCKING KNOWS HOW COMPUTERS WORK.
I was working the help desk at Google in 2008 when I got call from a university graduate who didn't know how to turn on a workstation. I literally had to walk him through pushing the power button on his workstation, as no one stood around to turn on his computer like they did at the university computer labs. You're be surprised by how many computer engineers don't know much about hardware.
Cisco has completely revamped themselves with their Nexus product line which is still the same from IOS yet a completely different beast.
Cisco was the one company where I was explicitly told by my manager not to expect any certification training because I would take my certification to get a job at a competitor and make more money. Since Cisco didn't provide certification training, many employees trained themselves (sometimes with borrowed equipment), got certified on their own time, got a job at a competitor and made more money.
Obese peoples do not grow bigger, they are still tiny under all that fat.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is considered "morbidly obese" because of his BMI score. I'm sure he is very skinny under all that fat.
Bring back the bullies, cure child obesity, save the next generation.
The only thing bullies ever taught me was to stand up to them, hit them harder and hit them where it hurts the most. Bullies are cowards. They run when they get their ass handed back to them.
A small consulting company I worked for asked me after about two years to sign a non-compete agreement.
I had an employer who used to threaten me with the contract I signed. One day I told them to stop threatening me because the contract was unenforceable in CA. Their NY attorney reassured that it was enforceable in CA. After I insisted that they review it with a CA labor attorney, they discovered that the contract was unenforceable and I should have been threatening them with a lawsuit.
The reason there are more obese peoples every years it is because of the fat acceptance movement.
Farmers and ranchers use growth hormones and antibiotics in feed grain to fatten up cattle from birth to slaughter house in six months. (Grass-fed cattle from birth to slaughter house takes two years.) No surprise that those growth hormones in the food chain are responsible for making American fatter. Your federal tax dollars at work.
Have you been in a restaurant in recent years? Everything is big. I order the smallest menu item, eat one-third at the restaurant and the other two-thirds over the next several days at home.
For example, if you're 800 lbs and require a $10,000 office chair to hold your weight, the company pays $500 or whatever they would have for standard furniture, the employee pays the rest.
I weigh 350 pounds and get along just fine with a regular office chair. Skinny coworkers are the ones who are demanding a $10,000 ergonomic chair for their delicate bodies.
The overweight should be protected from harassment at work due to their condition.
I may be overweight but I'm not having a baby — or even eating for two, as I'm on a low-carb diet and eat less than many of my skinny coworkers.
FWIW, I'm an obese IT guy myself (about 295 lbs) and I have not experienced any issues at work regarding my weight, from colleagues or in any other fashion.
I find it easier to go to the gym to add 50 pounds of muscle of mass. Besides weighing 400 pounds, I find it difficult to find t-shirts that large. Dropping below 350 pounds has proven problematic over the years.
Think about that next time Trump or other corporatist/big government types try to give you something for "free" or suddenly discover a new "tax break" that they will provide for you.
This bit of malware is reported to look for and encrypt/corrupt any Time Machine backups.
That's one form of backup, but it shouldn't be your only backup. I periodically clone the drive partition to external hard drives and copy disk images to the file server.
Are you suggesting there is more money to be made developing for the PC?
All it takes is a single best selling PC game that takes advantage of hardware not available on the current gen consoles to convince developers that a pot of gold lies over yonder. Let's call it the Deadpool Effect. Now that Fox brought out an R-rated comic book movie that made a pot of gold, every wannabe studio will make R-rated comic book movies. Most will be terrible, a few will shine.
Re-imaging is a horrible solution unless you store the user files on a separate partition, or separate disk, from system files.
In most corporate environments, the user profile is stored on the network. As long as the user doesn't store data outside the profile (C:\ is a favorite spot) and don't have too many special applications, re-imaging is a fairly straight forward process.
A computer for non-IT users should be as easy and maintenance free as a smart-phone.
My father's solution was to buy a new $500 Dell box every other year when his computer slows down from all the naughty bits he looks at. I take his old Dell boxes home and use them for another five years before I recycle them.
[...] these are puzzles that bear such strong resemblance in their central clues and answers to puzzles [...]
My parents gave me a Coleco Quiz Wiz game in the late 1970's. The trivia book had 1,001 questions with an electronic keyboard that could plug into different trivia books. I went through three trivia books before I discovered that I had a memorized the answers for all 1,001 questions, which were identical for all the trivia books. In fact, you don't even need a trivia book. You could punch in the same numbers and letters to get the correct answer. I threw it away in disgust because I expected the answers for each trivia book to be different. As an adult who have gotten back into electronics as a hobby, the circuits in many electronic games from that era were quite simple to implement repetitive game play.
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Keep making excuses for your life of excess. The blame falls squarely on your shoulders, brother.
I'm on a low-carb diet and I go to the gym. I'm doing more than what many of my skinny friends are doing. What more would you have me do?
If you're living on 1500 calories for "several days" then you should be razor thin.
No, thanks. I want to keep my muscle mass, which makes toning down a bitch.
I think you are choosing NOT to consume the whole meal because of your weight.
That's correct.
Don't try to lie and say that it fills you up fast.
Which I didn't.
Because if you are 350+ pounds, I highly doubt you get full from a meal at a restaurant.
I feel full 20 minutes after I finish a small meal. Most people overeat because they're waiting to feel full and often end up feeling bloated instead. You're making the assumption that because I'm overweight that I must be a glutton.
I think the time of double digit raises in IT is past, except for really special circumstances.
I could make 40% more money if I took a job in the private sector. The nice thing about working for government IT is that benefit package is sweet and the prime contract is fully funded for the next four years. So I'm taking a break from the rat race of hustling for a new job every year to earn my technical certifications while I got job security for the next few years. When I do re-enter the private sector, I'll be making two to four times what I'm making now.
I've never been in a company where they actually want to train you and promote from within (at least on the IT side of things) which is very sad I think.
One company I worked for wanted the help desk to get ITIL certified but didn't want to pay for the certification exams. None of the help desk folks wanted to pay for the certification because they knew they weren't going to get compensated for having the certification. This became another "good intentions" initiative that fell to the wayside.
The company was in NY and had a NY labor attorney. I was a contract worker in CA and CA labor laws applied to me. If I sued them, it would be from a CA court. I'm presuming that they would have to sue me in a CA court and not a NY court.
I'd like to know where they're finding this pool of selfless employees who are loyal and expect to be with the company long enough to grow with it.
The people who spent 8+ years in the same position, collecting the same 2% raise each year, and are terrified of being laid off.
I wouldn't be surprised if you'd said coders, developers, managers, etc.
Based on my experience from working at software-based Fortune 500 companies, HR classifies coders, developers or managers as computer engineers. My own company classifies me as a computer engineer doing system admin work at an IT specialist pay rate, which I occasionally badger my manager about because the title implies I should be making two to four times my current salary in Silicon Valley.
Where are you getting those fabricated numbers?
My late father who grew up with nine other siblings on a farm in Idaho to raise cows and a prize-winning bull.
The problem is that NOBODY FUCKING KNOWS HOW COMPUTERS WORK.
I was working the help desk at Google in 2008 when I got call from a university graduate who didn't know how to turn on a workstation. I literally had to walk him through pushing the power button on his workstation, as no one stood around to turn on his computer like they did at the university computer labs. You're be surprised by how many computer engineers don't know much about hardware.
Cisco has completely revamped themselves with their Nexus product line which is still the same from IOS yet a completely different beast.
Cisco was the one company where I was explicitly told by my manager not to expect any certification training because I would take my certification to get a job at a competitor and make more money. Since Cisco didn't provide certification training, many employees trained themselves (sometimes with borrowed equipment), got certified on their own time, got a job at a competitor and made more money.
Just because they put it on your plate doesn't mean you have to eat it.
I very rarely eat out at restaurants because the portions for their smallest plates are too still large for me to eat in one sitting.
Obese peoples do not grow bigger, they are still tiny under all that fat.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is considered "morbidly obese" because of his BMI score. I'm sure he is very skinny under all that fat.
Bring back the bullies, cure child obesity, save the next generation.
The only thing bullies ever taught me was to stand up to them, hit them harder and hit them where it hurts the most. Bullies are cowards. They run when they get their ass handed back to them.
A small consulting company I worked for asked me after about two years to sign a non-compete agreement.
I had an employer who used to threaten me with the contract I signed. One day I told them to stop threatening me because the contract was unenforceable in CA. Their NY attorney reassured that it was enforceable in CA. After I insisted that they review it with a CA labor attorney, they discovered that the contract was unenforceable and I should have been threatening them with a lawsuit.
The reason there are more obese peoples every years it is because of the fat acceptance movement.
Farmers and ranchers use growth hormones and antibiotics in feed grain to fatten up cattle from birth to slaughter house in six months. (Grass-fed cattle from birth to slaughter house takes two years.) No surprise that those growth hormones in the food chain are responsible for making American fatter. Your federal tax dollars at work.
Don't have a super sized menu.
Have you been in a restaurant in recent years? Everything is big. I order the smallest menu item, eat one-third at the restaurant and the other two-thirds over the next several days at home.
For example, if you're 800 lbs and require a $10,000 office chair to hold your weight, the company pays $500 or whatever they would have for standard furniture, the employee pays the rest.
I weigh 350 pounds and get along just fine with a regular office chair. Skinny coworkers are the ones who are demanding a $10,000 ergonomic chair for their delicate bodies.
The overweight should be protected from harassment at work due to their condition.
I may be overweight but I'm not having a baby — or even eating for two, as I'm on a low-carb diet and eat less than many of my skinny coworkers.
FWIW, I'm an obese IT guy myself (about 295 lbs) and I have not experienced any issues at work regarding my weight, from colleagues or in any other fashion.
I find it easier to go to the gym to add 50 pounds of muscle of mass. Besides weighing 400 pounds, I find it difficult to find t-shirts that large. Dropping below 350 pounds has proven problematic over the years.
Think about that next time Trump or other corporatist/big government types try to give you something for "free" or suddenly discover a new "tax break" that they will provide for you.
FTFY
Your so-called freedom to choose doesn't make much sense when you cause problems for everyone around you.
Are you talking about the fat person who eats less because they are on a diet or the skinny person who eats too much from a super-size menu?
Some comic book stores have an area for playing board games. ;)
This bit of malware is reported to look for and encrypt/corrupt any Time Machine backups.
That's one form of backup, but it shouldn't be your only backup. I periodically clone the drive partition to external hard drives and copy disk images to the file server.
You wipe your hard drive and restore from a backup.
Why would anyone want to co-own a Starbucks?
Are you suggesting there is more money to be made developing for the PC?
All it takes is a single best selling PC game that takes advantage of hardware not available on the current gen consoles to convince developers that a pot of gold lies over yonder. Let's call it the Deadpool Effect. Now that Fox brought out an R-rated comic book movie that made a pot of gold, every wannabe studio will make R-rated comic book movies. Most will be terrible, a few will shine.
Re-imaging is a horrible solution unless you store the user files on a separate partition, or separate disk, from system files.
In most corporate environments, the user profile is stored on the network. As long as the user doesn't store data outside the profile (C:\ is a favorite spot) and don't have too many special applications, re-imaging is a fairly straight forward process.
A computer for non-IT users should be as easy and maintenance free as a smart-phone.
My father's solution was to buy a new $500 Dell box every other year when his computer slows down from all the naughty bits he looks at. I take his old Dell boxes home and use them for another five years before I recycle them.
[...] these are puzzles that bear such strong resemblance in their central clues and answers to puzzles [...]
My parents gave me a Coleco Quiz Wiz game in the late 1970's. The trivia book had 1,001 questions with an electronic keyboard that could plug into different trivia books. I went through three trivia books before I discovered that I had a memorized the answers for all 1,001 questions, which were identical for all the trivia books. In fact, you don't even need a trivia book. You could punch in the same numbers and letters to get the correct answer. I threw it away in disgust because I expected the answers for each trivia book to be different. As an adult who have gotten back into electronics as a hobby, the circuits in many electronic games from that era were quite simple to implement repetitive game play.
https://steveffisher.wordpress.com/2011/03/31/retro-coleco-quiz-wiz-computer-game/