Or they could pull their thumbs out of their asses and put in the dozen lines of code that would be needed for a volume limit.
Don't tell me it's already there, it isn't. Headphones != speakers.
Until your WAP dies and you send it in to Ubiquiti, and it takes three months for them to send you a replacement because they say they don't have any stock.
Mine was always flaky and official firmware updates seldom. One had to troll their forums looking for pointers to slightly less infrequent beta updates.
I eventually ditched the thing and got an ASUS that has worked flawlessly.
The H1B's I've had to work with over the last 3 years have by and large been unable to find their asses with both hands. I've been forced to spend hours upon hours in futile "training", after which they are no more capable than before. What they are is *submissive*, which is what's important to a certain low caliber of manager.
The executives of this company suck in tens of millions. They all have enough money to live in luxury for the rest of their lives. If they truly gave a shit about being cost effective they'd cut their own salaries back to $100k or less.
http://www.modernhealthcare.co...
If I end up with a 2016 for my work refresh, I'll try to expense an OWC dock, though the company would likely include a full set of single dongles. The OWC one is the first I've seen that offers a tolerably complete set of functionality.
Same here. Currently have two 27" Dells connected to my Early 2013 MBPR. I don't have a major problem with the builtin keyboard. I am less satisfied with the A1243 I'm using on my 2009 MP to type this, but I spend far less time using it.
One issue I have with an external keyboard is that many of them are absurdly tall, which would require me to use the awkward keyboard slider on my desk. Another is that I've yet to find one that don't hate. Tried a Logitech ergo and an MSFT Sculpt. Would like to try a Gold Touch, but they seem to be available for a touch test exactly nowhere, and I'm not going to drop that kind of cash without trying it out first.
My employer is pressuring me for an early refresh of my 2013 MBPR so they can lease-return by EOY. Trying to figure out if I want to act now and get a 2015 MBPR, or try to hang on long enough to get a 2016 MBP. Puzzled that there are no benchmarks at all yet for the 15". The touchbar is cute, but not something I'd use a bunch.
Another reason I'm using both my builtin LCD and external is WebEx sharing. I don't necessarily want to share IM's, mail notifications, etc. with co-workers, so I place them on the external.
Do we get less than they do? AFAIK at my company all direct employees get the same number of days regardless of grade or length of service, though I suspect this is atypical.
I'm saying nothing of the sort you imply.
As for siphoning, refuse to live in the silly valley or in NYC, that'd be a start.
The medical system overpays hospital parasites including administrators and big pharma, but vacation and sick leave policies are nothing onerous.
The big problems are the cost of housing and the siphoning of $ to the 1%.
This has always been my experience as well -- use sick days, then vacation.
At previous companies I always had separate designated sick, personal, and vacation days. Sick/personal days were IIRC use them or lose them; vacation days of course one has to be paid for if unused when leaving the company. My current employer when extending and offer quoted me a number of days, which they call PTO perhaps because of a fondness for tractors or something. But they neglected to tell me that there were no separate sick days, it was all one pool. Between that and other unvoiced weird policies I effectively lost a week per year in the transition. The solution is often to just not submit sick days.
My employer is going this direction at the HQ location. A post above describes a bay area, but doesn't say which one. I suspect it's the same.
If I had to regularly work there I just couldn't do it. Too much stimulus. But between a combination of layoffs and lots of people working at home anyway, I've yet to see the floor my team currently occupies more than 25% occupied on a given day. So I guess I could understand density and minimal furniture given a low duty cycle, but the weird thing is that the clumps of desks are spaced fairly widely, for an agglutinated cells kind of effect. With each team given a dedicated scrum room that's used what, 15 minutes per day? Except that the acoustics are so bad that my team doesn't even use ours. There are also randomly placed clusters of elevated counters that are rarely used and filing cabinets that are *never* used, so the ammortized of floor space dedicated per employee is actually larger than some places I've been that had real offices with walls.
I'm not sure if it's the limited number of people there, acoustic deadening, or what, but the place is actually preternaturally quiet, which is kind of spooky. I've been told that it's because it's cheaper than cubes, but then every desk is adjustable height, which sure can't be cheap.
Contrast with our local office. Weird boomerang-shaped semi-cubicles. One jackass I fortunately no longer have to work with has a diploma-mill foreign-government-purchased PhD in an unrelated field which reinforces his narcissism. Despite the ubiquitous use of headsets he shouts on every call, and our company is call/meeting obsessed. It's so bad that I gave up going in at all because Stentor made it impossible for me to concentrate or be on any call, especially one that he was one because I'd hear him directly, then again with a half second reverb as his voice propagated digitally.
I've been fortunate to telecommute for a number of years, and before that I was almost exclusively in places with single or dual offices. Given my personal sensory issues, I couldn't handle a work environment like this and dread a job change that would force me into one. When I left my previous employer I turned down one offer in part because I would have been expected to fight traffic every day to sit at a desk cluster not 8 feet from the main door into the suite. There was just no fscking way.
Mine is $100/wk for being on-call. If invoked, converts in $250 increments based on how many hours. I got a 30min call last Memorial Day which got me $750 for doing my job. Could be worse.
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I had no idea browsers would even emulate more(1) in this way. I've been scrolling via my trackpad for years.
States are sophistry. The citizens of this country are people, not states.
As opposed to getting only people who can tolerate living in SC?
Or they could pull their thumbs out of their asses and put in the dozen lines of code that would be needed for a volume limit. Don't tell me it's already there, it isn't. Headphones != speakers.
Until your WAP dies and you send it in to Ubiquiti, and it takes three months for them to send you a replacement because they say they don't have any stock. Mine was always flaky and official firmware updates seldom. One had to troll their forums looking for pointers to slightly less infrequent beta updates. I eventually ditched the thing and got an ASUS that has worked flawlessly.
? Why the fuck would someone not just buy the PoS from Google directly instead of some reseller?
And here I had managed to mostly forget that disaster. Thanks a bunch.
A temporary one at best.
Thank you, AC.
Upper management and salescritters. Companies will pay for them. I've seen a manager at an ostensible non-profit take a $10k itinerary
This jackass who was the manager of the group I worked with was just like that. I did not weep when he was laid off.
The H1B's I've had to work with over the last 3 years have by and large been unable to find their asses with both hands. I've been forced to spend hours upon hours in futile "training", after which they are no more capable than before. What they are is *submissive*, which is what's important to a certain low caliber of manager. The executives of this company suck in tens of millions. They all have enough money to live in luxury for the rest of their lives. If they truly gave a shit about being cost effective they'd cut their own salaries back to $100k or less. http://www.modernhealthcare.co...
If I end up with a 2016 for my work refresh, I'll try to expense an OWC dock, though the company would likely include a full set of single dongles. The OWC one is the first I've seen that offers a tolerably complete set of functionality.
Same here. Currently have two 27" Dells connected to my Early 2013 MBPR. I don't have a major problem with the builtin keyboard. I am less satisfied with the A1243 I'm using on my 2009 MP to type this, but I spend far less time using it. One issue I have with an external keyboard is that many of them are absurdly tall, which would require me to use the awkward keyboard slider on my desk. Another is that I've yet to find one that don't hate. Tried a Logitech ergo and an MSFT Sculpt. Would like to try a Gold Touch, but they seem to be available for a touch test exactly nowhere, and I'm not going to drop that kind of cash without trying it out first. My employer is pressuring me for an early refresh of my 2013 MBPR so they can lease-return by EOY. Trying to figure out if I want to act now and get a 2015 MBPR, or try to hang on long enough to get a 2016 MBP. Puzzled that there are no benchmarks at all yet for the 15". The touchbar is cute, but not something I'd use a bunch. Another reason I'm using both my builtin LCD and external is WebEx sharing. I don't necessarily want to share IM's, mail notifications, etc. with co-workers, so I place them on the external.
Those drives though prevent full sleep and suck battery, which limits their utility.
That referenced "system76" model is twice as big and weighs a pound more.
The CPU being a generation old has been refuted multiple times. It is the best that's actually available.
I'm surprised at how many people care about the SD slot.
Do we get less than they do? AFAIK at my company all direct employees get the same number of days regardless of grade or length of service, though I suspect this is atypical. I'm saying nothing of the sort you imply. As for siphoning, refuse to live in the silly valley or in NYC, that'd be a start.
The medical system overpays hospital parasites including administrators and big pharma, but vacation and sick leave policies are nothing onerous. The big problems are the cost of housing and the siphoning of $ to the 1%.
This has always been my experience as well -- use sick days, then vacation. At previous companies I always had separate designated sick, personal, and vacation days. Sick/personal days were IIRC use them or lose them; vacation days of course one has to be paid for if unused when leaving the company. My current employer when extending and offer quoted me a number of days, which they call PTO perhaps because of a fondness for tractors or something. But they neglected to tell me that there were no separate sick days, it was all one pool. Between that and other unvoiced weird policies I effectively lost a week per year in the transition. The solution is often to just not submit sick days.
My employer is going this direction at the HQ location. A post above describes a bay area, but doesn't say which one. I suspect it's the same. If I had to regularly work there I just couldn't do it. Too much stimulus. But between a combination of layoffs and lots of people working at home anyway, I've yet to see the floor my team currently occupies more than 25% occupied on a given day. So I guess I could understand density and minimal furniture given a low duty cycle, but the weird thing is that the clumps of desks are spaced fairly widely, for an agglutinated cells kind of effect. With each team given a dedicated scrum room that's used what, 15 minutes per day? Except that the acoustics are so bad that my team doesn't even use ours. There are also randomly placed clusters of elevated counters that are rarely used and filing cabinets that are *never* used, so the ammortized of floor space dedicated per employee is actually larger than some places I've been that had real offices with walls. I'm not sure if it's the limited number of people there, acoustic deadening, or what, but the place is actually preternaturally quiet, which is kind of spooky. I've been told that it's because it's cheaper than cubes, but then every desk is adjustable height, which sure can't be cheap. Contrast with our local office. Weird boomerang-shaped semi-cubicles. One jackass I fortunately no longer have to work with has a diploma-mill foreign-government-purchased PhD in an unrelated field which reinforces his narcissism. Despite the ubiquitous use of headsets he shouts on every call, and our company is call/meeting obsessed. It's so bad that I gave up going in at all because Stentor made it impossible for me to concentrate or be on any call, especially one that he was one because I'd hear him directly, then again with a half second reverb as his voice propagated digitally. I've been fortunate to telecommute for a number of years, and before that I was almost exclusively in places with single or dual offices. Given my personal sensory issues, I couldn't handle a work environment like this and dread a job change that would force me into one. When I left my previous employer I turned down one offer in part because I would have been expected to fight traffic every day to sit at a desk cluster not 8 feet from the main door into the suite. There was just no fscking way.
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Marklar.
Mine is $100/wk for being on-call. If invoked, converts in $250 increments based on how many hours. I got a 30min call last Memorial Day which got me $750 for doing my job. Could be worse.