A company party that I didn't go to ended with the supervisors being shit-faced drunk, the vice president taking off his pants to dance on the table in fish net stockings, and one of the directors throwing money at the PR girls to get them to take off their clothes. That made for a fun highlight video at the monthly company meeting, as those who were drunk didn't remember a damn thing and were quite horrified to see themselves up on the screen.
I tried that with a woman one time. The worst that could happen, my friends told me, was that she would say no. Actually, no wasn't the end but the beginning. She started a harassment campaign that lasted ten years. O_o
I don't play office politics, but I do document everything. Something that several of my bosses found out the hard way when they tried to throw me under the bus. HR loves a paper trail.
I've been working for the government for a year and my contract was extended for another year. The majority of the technical staff is white. Everyone starts work at 7:00AM and out the door at 3:30PM. Slackers find themselves on the unemployment line in a hurry regardless of their race.
Hiding in your mother's basement gets old after a while, especially if you turned 50 and your mother passed away. I'm helping a friend make that difficult transition into the big blue room with the bright light.
Watch my boss get arrested because he got caught letting an underage employee take a sip from his Kamikaze at a company event being hosted at a restaurant. Did the company fire him? Nope, they promoted him. I stopped going to company events where alcohol got served and got branded for not being a team player by the company drunks..
Sounds like a Fortune 500 company I worked for in Silicon Valley. The company is unwilling to train employees to get certified because they might leave and make more money at a competitor. Never mind that employees are training themselves to get certified and leaving the company to make more money at a competitor because of the lack of training. While the best and the brightest are leaving, the unmotivated employees are becoming more entrenched in management and discouraging others from getting certified. Corporate dysfunction at its best.
If we're playing the blame game for the Great Recession, I would blame the repeal on the Glass-Steagall Act, and, yes, the Clinton Administration. If the banks weren't at the Wall Street casino table, federally-insured deposits wouldn't have fueled and been at risk when the derivative market for mortgage-backed securities collapsed.
"As the economy improved, more Americans were working, and there was an anticipation of increased tax revenues as a result of the recovery. From 1933 to 1937, unemployment had been reduced from 25% to 14% - still a large percentage, but a vast improvement. FDR's reaction was to turn back to the fiscal orthodoxy of the time, and he began to reduce emergency relief and public works spending in an effort to truly balance the budget. The country then lurched into what is now known as the Roosevelt Recession of 1937-1938. Unemployment threatened to rise to pre-New Deal levels, and the economy came grinding to a halt."
http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/aboutfdr/budget.html
"To the great surprise of many consumers, credit card offers reappear in the mailbox within weeks following the announcement of the bankruptcy (it is a public record and published as such). A prime reason is that the consumer is not eligible for another discharge for two to eight years. Therefore, newly acquired debt must be paid. For the creditor, the offer is almost risk-free."
I don't mind helping my local credit union make a profit since they provide excellent service for a lower cost and less stress than the "too big to fail" banks.
Under the fractional reserve banking, a bank can loan out $100 for every $10 on deposit. That $100 is a bookkeeper entry that created money out of nothing. The bank pays you 0.10% on your savings, charge charge someone else 9% on the loan, and keeps the 8.90% difference as profit.
1930's make work programs, amongst other things, turned a run of the mill recession into the great depression
Cutting spending and balancing the budget in the middle of a recession prolonged the Great Depression, which also caused the double dip recession in Europe for those countries tied to the Euro during the Great Recession. Today's politicians have no excuse for ignoring the lessons of Keynesian economics. Much of the human suffering over the last six years could have easily been avoided.
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I used to keep one for the Dell Coffee Cup Holder (tm). Newer computers don't have those anymore. I wonder why.
I though Perl got replaced by Python years ago.
No surprise that the company crashed and burned when management was in a drunken stupor.
A company party that I didn't go to ended with the supervisors being shit-faced drunk, the vice president taking off his pants to dance on the table in fish net stockings, and one of the directors throwing money at the PR girls to get them to take off their clothes. That made for a fun highlight video at the monthly company meeting, as those who were drunk didn't remember a damn thing and were quite horrified to see themselves up on the screen.
I tried that with a woman one time. The worst that could happen, my friends told me, was that she would say no. Actually, no wasn't the end but the beginning. She started a harassment campaign that lasted ten years. O_o
I don't play office politics, but I do document everything. Something that several of my bosses found out the hard way when they tried to throw me under the bus. HR loves a paper trail.
She'll end up being your next ex-wife.
FTFY
I've been working for the government for a year and my contract was extended for another year. The majority of the technical staff is white. Everyone starts work at 7:00AM and out the door at 3:30PM. Slackers find themselves on the unemployment line in a hurry regardless of their race.
The company drunks ran the company into the ground. I watched my stock shares go from $20 to $0.02 in two years.
That was the very first advice that my first boss gave me when I started working at the college bookstore. Served me well over the years.
Hiding in your mother's basement gets old after a while, especially if you turned 50 and your mother passed away. I'm helping a friend make that difficult transition into the big blue room with the bright light.
And go out drinking with them.
Watch my boss get arrested because he got caught letting an underage employee take a sip from his Kamikaze at a company event being hosted at a restaurant. Did the company fire him? Nope, they promoted him. I stopped going to company events where alcohol got served and got branded for not being a team player by the company drunks..
That advice doesn't work so well in personal relationships.
Sounds like a Fortune 500 company I worked for in Silicon Valley. The company is unwilling to train employees to get certified because they might leave and make more money at a competitor. Never mind that employees are training themselves to get certified and leaving the company to make more money at a competitor because of the lack of training. While the best and the brightest are leaving, the unmotivated employees are becoming more entrenched in management and discouraging others from getting certified. Corporate dysfunction at its best.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
I thought BASIC programming died years ago.
I always though a black hole was shaped like a bathtub drain in space.
Not when you hit the event horizon.
If we're playing the blame game for the Great Recession, I would blame the repeal on the Glass-Steagall Act, and, yes, the Clinton Administration. If the banks weren't at the Wall Street casino table, federally-insured deposits wouldn't have fueled and been at risk when the derivative market for mortgage-backed securities collapsed.
"As the economy improved, more Americans were working, and there was an anticipation of increased tax revenues as a result of the recovery. From 1933 to 1937, unemployment had been reduced from 25% to 14% - still a large percentage, but a vast improvement. FDR's reaction was to turn back to the fiscal orthodoxy of the time, and he began to reduce emergency relief and public works spending in an effort to truly balance the budget. The country then lurched into what is now known as the Roosevelt Recession of 1937-1938. Unemployment threatened to rise to pre-New Deal levels, and the economy came grinding to a halt." http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/aboutfdr/budget.html
Opening a hedge fund would be easier, as the tax laws are more favorable.
Please educate yourself. I gave you enough information on economics to get started with.
"To the great surprise of many consumers, credit card offers reappear in the mailbox within weeks following the announcement of the bankruptcy (it is a public record and published as such). A prime reason is that the consumer is not eligible for another discharge for two to eight years. Therefore, newly acquired debt must be paid. For the creditor, the offer is almost risk-free."
http://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/120914/best-credit-cards-after-bankruptcy.asp
I don't mind helping my local credit union make a profit since they provide excellent service for a lower cost and less stress than the "too big to fail" banks.
You can't create something from nothing.
Under the fractional reserve banking, a bank can loan out $100 for every $10 on deposit. That $100 is a bookkeeper entry that created money out of nothing. The bank pays you 0.10% on your savings, charge charge someone else 9% on the loan, and keeps the 8.90% difference as profit.
1930's make work programs, amongst other things, turned a run of the mill recession into the great depression
Cutting spending and balancing the budget in the middle of a recession prolonged the Great Depression, which also caused the double dip recession in Europe for those countries tied to the Euro during the Great Recession. Today's politicians have no excuse for ignoring the lessons of Keynesian economics. Much of the human suffering over the last six years could have easily been avoided.