These companies are not dumb. They know that people come to rely on their jobs and that the market is such that they can't just quit the moment they feel undervalued.
My previous employer, for whom I worked diligently and above the call of duty for years, came to treat me that way. They assumed that because I need flexibility because of my family situation I would put up with bullying and stay forever as a mohawked asshole moved in and played empire builder. They were wrong.
That's why they force them to become contractors and offer low pay. The market is broken because of a lack of supply and inflexibility due to, you know, life and family. Libtards imagine that people can be perfect rational actors and will rip their kids out of school and away from their friends at the drop of a hat, but reality isn't like that.
My current company is rife with contractors, more than I've ever seen before. I suspect that there are multiple reasons for this, including
1) The hiring process is massively ossified: people extended FTE positions have often given up and gone elsewhere by the time the company gets around to making the offer.
but likely even more
2) Contractors don't get benefits, insurance, bonus.
which is a convenient dodge around discriminatory hiring laws, effectively avoiding people with families or souls, those over 25, and citizens.
Re expectations of working unpaid overtime: exactly the opposite in my department, contractors work 40 / week, period. Overtime has to be approved by management and is not common.
[quote]As a contractor, you get higher pay which more than compensates the additional taxes you need to pay and your health care costs. Unless you are stupid[/quote]... right after someone noted that this may have once been true, but no longer is. Even back in the 1980's the contracting rates I saw did not compensate for the lack of benefits. Add in the 2+ weeks of vacation you don't get, the cost of non-token healthcare for one's family, no 401k matching, etc. and for most people it doesn't compensate.
Service people, including teachers, do not withhold services, they just spend increasing amounts of time and money commuting. Can you get your toilets scrubbed in Cupertino? Sure, no matter that Inez commutes two hours each way to do it.
By staying next to the student throughout the school day?? Think about it. Also think about kids who are very young or otherwise not able to look after themselves.
A Sharp 60" is less than a grand. Forget the 3D bullshit, yellow pixels, and 240hz refresh bullshit that serves only to sell into a saturated market.
For real pissing away of $, skip the meat, tobacco, booze, weed, and other drugs.
Maybe his bat-shit crazy abusive ex bled him dry. Maybe one of his kids has special needs. Plus he obviously lives in NYC or the Silly Valley where housing leeches $5k/mo or more. You don't don't his situation, you don't know that he doesn't have half a million in a 401k that he can't touch in any viable way until retirement.
Think before you judge.
From organizations that aren't large enough to warrant the dedicated in-house resources necessary for effectively being one's own hardware vendor, and the volumes to warrant a direct relationship with Quanta / Foxconn.
Have a problem with iLO? Ask the Google or better yet HP's forums.
Have a problem with generic beige-box hardware? Better have in-house resources and a Cantonese phrasebook.
Men being cavemen is reinforced by women -- regressive / aggressive behavior is rewarded by them. They like to bitch about knuckledragger behavior, yet men who don't exhibit it are ignored in the dating / mating arena.
LGA could expand onto the water, either by fill or float. Every time I've had to fly to that area, it's been into LGA or Newark; I'm unconvinced that JFK actually exists.
Agree that light rail is bullshit.
Increase of expected hours/week, and in 24x7 services that effectively keep us "on" around the clock. No raises, not even COLA, so earning power is decreasing constantly. Eroding benefits.
Contracts are also a way to discriminate against people with families and lives and mortgages -- we need benefits and income, 22 year old singles don't.
My experience in the CA silly valley is that everyone and everything is "on" 24/7, nonstop racing and contention, where $125k/yr lets you rent a shitty apt an hour from the office.
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These companies are not dumb. They know that people come to rely on their jobs and that the market is such that they can't just quit the moment they feel undervalued.
My previous employer, for whom I worked diligently and above the call of duty for years, came to treat me that way. They assumed that because I need flexibility because of my family situation I would put up with bullying and stay forever as a mohawked asshole moved in and played empire builder. They were wrong.
That's why they force them to become contractors and offer low pay. The market is broken because of a lack of supply and inflexibility due to, you know, life and family. Libtards imagine that people can be perfect rational actors and will rip their kids out of school and away from their friends at the drop of a hat, but reality isn't like that.
My current company is rife with contractors, more than I've ever seen before. I suspect that there are multiple reasons for this, including 1) The hiring process is massively ossified: people extended FTE positions have often given up and gone elsewhere by the time the company gets around to making the offer. but likely even more 2) Contractors don't get benefits, insurance, bonus. which is a convenient dodge around discriminatory hiring laws, effectively avoiding people with families or souls, those over 25, and citizens. Re expectations of working unpaid overtime: exactly the opposite in my department, contractors work 40 / week, period. Overtime has to be approved by management and is not common. [quote]As a contractor, you get higher pay which more than compensates the additional taxes you need to pay and your health care costs. Unless you are stupid[/quote] ... right after someone noted that this may have once been true, but no longer is. Even back in the 1980's the contracting rates I saw did not compensate for the lack of benefits. Add in the 2+ weeks of vacation you don't get, the cost of non-token healthcare for one's family, no 401k matching, etc. and for most people it doesn't compensate.
Service people, including teachers, do not withhold services, they just spend increasing amounts of time and money commuting. Can you get your toilets scrubbed in Cupertino? Sure, no matter that Inez commutes two hours each way to do it.
If you were ass-raping your daughter, would I be uncaring to say that's a bad thing?
By staying next to the student throughout the school day?? Think about it. Also think about kids who are very young or otherwise not able to look after themselves.
^would^wouldn't
If the humans in CA valued themselves they would live there.
Caucasians were uninvited.
I must admit thinking "Why weren't you putting all this on a wiki as you went"? Which would be simple to have set up.
This. You have done your due diligence.
A Sharp 60" is less than a grand. Forget the 3D bullshit, yellow pixels, and 240hz refresh bullshit that serves only to sell into a saturated market. For real pissing away of $, skip the meat, tobacco, booze, weed, and other drugs.
There's something to that. After my son's diagnosis I got snipped partly for this reason.
Maybe his bat-shit crazy abusive ex bled him dry. Maybe one of his kids has special needs. Plus he obviously lives in NYC or the Silly Valley where housing leeches $5k/mo or more. You don't don't his situation, you don't know that he doesn't have half a million in a 401k that he can't touch in any viable way until retirement. Think before you judge.
From organizations that aren't large enough to warrant the dedicated in-house resources necessary for effectively being one's own hardware vendor, and the volumes to warrant a direct relationship with Quanta / Foxconn. Have a problem with iLO? Ask the Google or better yet HP's forums. Have a problem with generic beige-box hardware? Better have in-house resources and a Cantonese phrasebook.
Wonder how large a percentage of GDP pr0n origination is for Ukraine, Hungary, and the Czech republic?
Beat me to it. RAID5 is almost always the wrong answer.
Men being cavemen is reinforced by women -- regressive / aggressive behavior is rewarded by them. They like to bitch about knuckledragger behavior, yet men who don't exhibit it are ignored in the dating / mating arena.
The former totally describes my former boss, who swore that he wasn't an elitist, yet he'd describe Hispanics as the "underclass".
LGA could expand onto the water, either by fill or float. Every time I've had to fly to that area, it's been into LGA or Newark; I'm unconvinced that JFK actually exists. Agree that light rail is bullshit.
Oh, so you've met my ex-wife.
Increase of expected hours/week, and in 24x7 services that effectively keep us "on" around the clock. No raises, not even COLA, so earning power is decreasing constantly. Eroding benefits.
Contracts are also a way to discriminate against people with families and lives and mortgages -- we need benefits and income, 22 year old singles don't.
Some of my interviews with Amazon have smelled suspiciously like this
My experience in the CA silly valley is that everyone and everything is "on" 24/7, nonstop racing and contention, where $125k/yr lets you rent a shitty apt an hour from the office.
#1 sounds like all the interviews I've had with Google.
Why do you care where the employer is?