At one company I worked at, the bean counters figured that every email sent company-wide cost the company $700 in lost productivity for 3,000+ workers who had to stop, read the email, and read the subsequent reply-all emails. That didn't stop the management team from sending out company-wide emails.
I've been an IT support contractor for ten years, working anywhere from one day to one year. I recently ran into a former coworker during a job interview last year. He's still making the same amount of money that I made nine years ago when we worked together. Since I worked all over Silicon Valley for Fortune 500 companies and exposed to a wide variety of experiences and technologies, I made 80% than my former coworker. Those 2% raises for staying put in one job over the years doesn't add up to much.
I was studying electronics at the community college in the early 1990's when I came to the conclusion that future electronic devices won't be repairable and being an electronic technician was a dead end job. General electronics, repairing TVs and lasers were still big back then, taking up a whole building and five pages in the schedule catalog. I switched my major and didn't look back. When I came back ten years later to learn computer programming, The electronics program was a former shadow of itself, taking up several classrooms and one page in the schedule catalog. They taught general electronics for laser techs..
I had to go to college to learn fractions. I was misdiagnosed as being mentally retarded as a young child and the Special Ed classes emphasized babysitting over learning to collect the extra funding from the state. Well behaved idiots are greatly prized in the Special Ed classes.
Seems like every Indian tribe in California has a casino. I was under the impression that the Indian tribes in Alaska got their money from the oil fund.
Since he's 1/4 Native American, he probably got his money from one of the native corporations. I doubt the native corporations got their money from operating casinos on the tundra.
Not necessarily. I had a college roommate who was 1/4 Native American who collected a small check from the Alaskan fund. Never mind that he was born in California, grew up in California, went to college in California, and only saw snow when he went up to Lake Tahoe in California. Not sure if his parents or grandparents came from Alaska. Otherwise, he's 3/4 Irish with the crazy red hair and identifies as being white. I guess that's what you call white privilege these days.
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I must be lucky then. The government network I work for is no different than the average Fortune 500 corporate network. The only drawback is that I get up at 4:30AM to catch the express bus to start work at 7:00AM.
Thank God I'm working IT in the government sector. I'm 46-years-old and surrounded by other gray beards like myself. Can't outsource my job when a security clearance is involved.
The Sacramento Valley had a severe rainstorm about ten years ago (IIRC), where the river went over the top of the levee. A television crew filmed fish flopping across a foot bridge on top of the levee. The funny thing is that the levee was supposed to be tall enough to prevent the river from ever going over the top.
The problem is that too many people have a short-term focus and an unwillingness to consider the long-term consequences. Flood plains are called flood plains for a reason. Building houses on a flood plain without paying for flood prevention and requiring homeowners to buy flood insurance is plain stupidity. But, hey, that's a problem for future taxpayers to pay for.
The flood plain that my apartment complex sits on drains into the San Francisco Bay Area. If sea level rises, the water level in the bay rises and floods the flood plains. See map in the link below.
The map clearly shows that a sea level rise of only a few meters would inundate hundreds of square miles of land. San Francisco Bay and San Pablo Bay would enlarge, covering industry, residences and infrastructure. More surprising would be the enormous area of flooding that would occur in the Sacramento Valley. Hundreds of square miles would be underwater there and the intrusion of this salt water would have major environmental impacts.
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At one company I worked at, the bean counters figured that every email sent company-wide cost the company $700 in lost productivity for 3,000+ workers who had to stop, read the email, and read the subsequent reply-all emails. That didn't stop the management team from sending out company-wide emails.
I've been an IT support contractor for ten years, working anywhere from one day to one year. I recently ran into a former coworker during a job interview last year. He's still making the same amount of money that I made nine years ago when we worked together. Since I worked all over Silicon Valley for Fortune 500 companies and exposed to a wide variety of experiences and technologies, I made 80% than my former coworker. Those 2% raises for staying put in one job over the years doesn't add up to much.
Appliance repair wasn't listed in the course catalog.
I was studying electronics at the community college in the early 1990's when I came to the conclusion that future electronic devices won't be repairable and being an electronic technician was a dead end job. General electronics, repairing TVs and lasers were still big back then, taking up a whole building and five pages in the schedule catalog. I switched my major and didn't look back. When I came back ten years later to learn computer programming, The electronics program was a former shadow of itself, taking up several classrooms and one page in the schedule catalog. They taught general electronics for laser techs..
It helps to live a large apartment complex near a college. Dryers in busy laundry rooms spits out all kinds of interesting stuff.
In an OOP world every sock would have an attached drying machine.
FTFY - From my experience, I typically find a stray sock or panties in the dryer machine.
If they did, they would've ripped off $1M in donuts.
http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Donuts
I had to go to college to learn fractions. I was misdiagnosed as being mentally retarded as a young child and the Special Ed classes emphasized babysitting over learning to collect the extra funding from the state. Well behaved idiots are greatly prized in the Special Ed classes.
Seems like every Indian tribe in California has a casino. I was under the impression that the Indian tribes in Alaska got their money from the oil fund.
Since he's 1/4 Native American, he probably got his money from one of the native corporations. I doubt the native corporations got their money from operating casinos on the tundra.
Not necessarily. I had a college roommate who was 1/4 Native American who collected a small check from the Alaskan fund. Never mind that he was born in California, grew up in California, went to college in California, and only saw snow when he went up to Lake Tahoe in California. Not sure if his parents or grandparents came from Alaska. Otherwise, he's 3/4 Irish with the crazy red hair and identifies as being white. I guess that's what you call white privilege these days.
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Who is going to write the code that writes itself?
Until the code gremlins eat the magical elves and poops on the development schedule.
I must be lucky then. The government network I work for is no different than the average Fortune 500 corporate network. The only drawback is that I get up at 4:30AM to catch the express bus to start work at 7:00AM.
The short answer is that management, project management, testing and UI design aren't 100% programming.
Thank God I'm working IT in the government sector. I'm 46-years-old and surrounded by other gray beards like myself. Can't outsource my job when a security clearance is involved.
Or that 95% of the male programmers probably don't want to work in management, project management, testing and UI design?
The same pen will be needed to raise taxes to pay for flood control and/or pay homeowners to abandon their homes.
The Sacramento Valley had a severe rainstorm about ten years ago (IIRC), where the river went over the top of the levee. A television crew filmed fish flopping across a foot bridge on top of the levee. The funny thing is that the levee was supposed to be tall enough to prevent the river from ever going over the top.
You do NOT live on a flood plain.
According to the government, I live on a flood plain. In fact, most of Silicon Valley is a flood plain.
http://resilience.abag.ca.gov/floods/
The problem is that too many people have a short-term focus and an unwillingness to consider the long-term consequences. Flood plains are called flood plains for a reason. Building houses on a flood plain without paying for flood prevention and requiring homeowners to buy flood insurance is plain stupidity. But, hey, that's a problem for future taxpayers to pay for.
The flood plain that my apartment complex sits on drains into the San Francisco Bay Area. If sea level rises, the water level in the bay rises and floods the flood plains. See map in the link below.
The map clearly shows that a sea level rise of only a few meters would inundate hundreds of square miles of land. San Francisco Bay and San Pablo Bay would enlarge, covering industry, residences and infrastructure. More surprising would be the enormous area of flooding that would occur in the Sacramento Valley. Hundreds of square miles would be underwater there and the intrusion of this salt water would have major environmental impacts.
http://geology.com/sea-level-rise/san-francisco.shtml
Now you want to blame some mythical real estate developer for you buying swamp land in Florida!!!
Actually, I would. Southern Florida is expected to be underwater by the end of the century.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-the-city-of-miami-is-doomed-to-drown-20130620