The company offers you 1 week pay per year you have been there in these cases plus you get to work while training your replacement for 12-16 weeks.
So your choice is "get laid off right now and get nothing" or get about three months work with salary. Plus you have a job while you look for a job which makes it easier to get a job. Companies don't like to hire unemployed workers but will hire the same worker with the same experience if they still have a job.
The nasty bit is that if you get a job at 11 weeks and the new company won't wait, you have to skip the new job or take it but lose your severance pay.
Anyway... the short story is "Out of work immediately with no severance or $10,000 to $40,000 compensation and 3-4 months more work while you look for a job."
Fuck those poor indians who get to live in a protected market where they can buy cheap food, drugs, movies, computer development software, computers while getting to earn income in a different country with higher costs where poverty level income is thousands of dollars higher than middle class income in india due to those lower costs.
If u.s. workers were allowed to reimport all the items sold for cheaper in india, it would still be difficult to compete (higher property costs here) . Heck, my blood pressure medicine is $5 a pill. The same pill "illegally" on line can be had from india for 10 cents. The same movie I pay $16 for, they pay $2.49 for. The same movie I pay $12 to see in theaters, they pay $.50 for.
In the long run it doesn't matter. By 2055, wage stagnation here, and much higher inflation there will equalize wages to the point where the advantage is lost. But it should darn well matter to voters here now who should be aware politicians are not enforcing the law. It's illegal to replace existing u.s. workers directly with h1b workers. At a minimum, when this is occurring, the limits on H1B's should be reduced- not increased.
If airlines of 2026 lose 20% of their passengers to a competing service that charges 87% of airline ticket prices, then airlines will not continue to charge those prices.
We subsidized security for the oil companies. Oil prices would be (much) higher if they had to pay their own security costs. As a result, there would be a higher incentive to conserve oil and to develop alternatives to oil. The security costs to oil are lower than they should be because they are almost all provided at tax payer expense.
Yes, but I'm data driven. Facts won't sway people who decided emotionally that solar sucks immediately but over time they will have an effect. Statements of opinion won't ever sway them.
We really should dump about 100 billion into alternative energy and batteries. The subsequent reduction of oil demand, and reduction in oil prices would have enormous payoffs to future defense savings. Just imagine if oil demand was permanently cut by 50%. The "fair" price of oil would probably drop to $30 a barrel.
A large part of the current drop in prices was due to demand destruction. The majority was due to overproduction called on by an excessively high price sustained for too long.
That's hysterical. So why haven't we invaded any other country where they are committing genocide? There are plenty of them.
Because iraq was an oil country.
If we had 10% solar in the mix and oil collapsed to 25 dollars a barrel because the marginally most expensive oil sets the price, the strategic value of oil countries would drop significantly.
It's already happening. Alternative energy (and solar specifically) only needs to destroy demand for 1 to 2 % of oil and gas to drop the price by 50%.
As an old timer- I don't view it as whining. It is MUCH harder for 20 to early 30 year old people today than it was for me when I was that age. There was no offshoring, outsourcing, etc. There were layoffs but only when the economy was really bad. Now things can be going fine, your company is making a profit- and you STILL get laid off and forced to train your replacement (which is humiliating) and you get the joy of knowing it is illegal since h1b's are only supposed to be used when local resources are unavailable.
Not so much for California Utilities, Disney, etc. who lay off workers and replace them with offshore and onshore h1b resources. Companies no longer have loyalty and in many cases the severance is pitiful.
Another factor is skill sets. I learned a skillset in IT and it was good for 20 years. The one after that was good for 15 years. The one after that was good for 5 years. I think you can see the trend. Constant training at high expense on your own time. No personal life.
Back when I started, IT were the fucking priest kings. We made good money, worked long 55 hour weeks, and had high status. Today, IT has low status, makes good money, works crazy long 60-70+ hour weeks. At my last place we had multiple divorces and heart attacks. There were 30 year olds walking around with black eyes (DEEP black- not just a little dark under the eyes) from lack of sleep.
It is much much worse for young IT folks today. It's worse for all of them in general. It's taking them much longer to get their careers established and even when they established they are never safe. It's much riskier to buy a house or a new car. Things my generation took for granted are gone.
And then on top of that, the safety net we had, the inexpensive college we had, etc. etc. is all gone. Heck- tho I didn't avail myself of it- when I was in school until very near the end, any debt I took on could have been erased by bankruptcy.
They also don't consider that development programmers and maintenance programmers have very different value sets.
Developers pile stuff together and move on to something else. It's not necessarily well structured, documented, or maintainable.
Maintenance programmers love to refactor, document, and polish code so that over time, it becomes much easier to maintain.
Unfortunately, current tax laws heavily incent companies to toss out existing code and write new code (it's tax deductible as a capital expense while maintenance programming is not tax deductible.).
I've found that one K-Cup produces a third of a pot of coffee.
I especially like 2 scoops of Kroger plus 1 K-Cup (Southern Pecan or Breakfast Blend). There is less coffee in the k-cup but it is ground much finer.
I don't own a keurig brewing machine. But I work at a place that does. Sometimes, I'll brew a cup fpr the road and some times I'll just take a k-cup instead of brewing a cup.
It's interesting that Infosys doesn't care about the year you graduated from college but they require your high school graduation date on the resume to consider it.
Blatantly illegal-- I hope they get burned hard on it.
Police studies (linked above) show... Officers who are not properly trained are more likely to shoot blacks and to do so with less hesitation. Officers who are properly trained, take longer to decide not to shoot blacks.
Studies show officers judge black children to be much older than white children of the same age. And more willing to shoot a threatening "20 year old" who is actually a 12 year old with a toy gun than a white 12 year old.
The law is enforced unequally on whites and non whites.
For example, When a mixed race group of girls were picked up by police...
"officers took the white teen to the lobby to call her parents but brought three of the black teens to the back of the station, where they were locked up and searched. When one of the girls asked why they were being brought in the back doors, one of the officers replied, "trash in and trash out," according to court records."
As an older programmer who used older languages and then java and who is familiar with java's benefits and drawbacks, I've been very impressed with java's success at "write once, run anywhere." Perfect? No. Much better than even only 15 years ago? Absolutely.
I could recommend using java to code a large block of core business functionality. There are many other languages which I would not do so. Other languages have too few developer, are too unstable, and are even unlikely to exist at all ten years down the road. Meaning you'd have to rewrite a huge chunk of core business logic again- at high expense- and with all the challenges of new development.
They are fine for smaller programs (say under 10,000 lines of course and configuration) where they can easily be recreated with current technology if they are deprecated. Good example- a company replaced the java web order entry system with Adobe Air at a cost of over 30 million dollars. Before they even completely retired the older java version- Adobe Air was discontinued. So they were going to have to spend another 30 million dollars writing it again in HTML5.
And they ended up using the old stable java backend behind the HTML5 Gui. Because unlike it's replacement- it worked and didn't piss off customers. One big reason was that the "air" version was literally sending 200+ megabytes per screen update. Even tho we told them up front that many customers (12-20%) were still on dialup modems out in the boonies. They said the customers would comply... You can guess how that turned out.
And yup-- this was also a case of 40-50 year old developers who knew the business recognizing that the "new tech" solution by the 20 and young 30 year olds wasn't going to solve the problem and being ignored.
It's possible this paper (which was on gender differences) is a piece of crap.
It's also possible the reviewer is sexist.
It may even be that the females who wrote the paper are sexist and the paper is a pile of crap AND the reviewer is sexist.
Hard to say without seeing the paper and the data it was drawn from.
In a gender blind society, we can't assume the females or the males are always right or wrong. It may even be from different points of view that different people will feel one or the other was right or wrong.
While there is a long history of "productive" riots in the u.s. going all the way back to the 1700s, I agree with your point that these riots are ill targeted. There is no easy focal point for the rage because the entire way society is setup is against this group.
I think the drug war has a lot to do with it. One arrest and few businesses will hire you for a good job so you can't get money legally to buy products so you are mad at everyone for not hiring you and for carrying things you can't afford to buy but which TV shows you "should" have. On top of that instead of having a neutral police force, you have a police force that actively enforces the law unequally-- calling the white kids parents (no record) while arresting the black kids (so now they have a record) and telling them "trash goes in back."
Look- I donate to the police survivors fund each year, but the drug war, militarization of police, and grossly racially imbalanced police forces lead to these events.
Freddie Gray's record was minor drug infractions which wouldn't even be a problem in three states any more.
Once he was arrested the first time, he had no hope of ever getting a good job with an arrest record. Once he had a conviction, it was over.
Once we are all well educated and not poor, population growth will come to be dominated by those groups.
You should consider human culture as a bacterial culture and "wealth and education" as penicillin. It's a good holding action but it isn't the solution everyone thinks it is.
We have the resources to support 9 to 10 billion people for a while (and there's good reasons why they think it will top out there) but the quality of life for many will be much lower.
I don't think population will top out there. I think the part of the population which has a high breeding rate will come to dominate the population and population growth will resume.
So yea-- I think we are pretty much doomed to a multi-billion die off event sometime in the next 100 years.
I use a mixture of multiple artificial sweeteners in my coffee. Some sacharine and a little stevia. Sometimes some monk fruit sugar. Some times some xylitol or erythritol.
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The company offers you 1 week pay per year you have been there in these cases plus you get to work while training your replacement for 12-16 weeks.
So your choice is "get laid off right now and get nothing" or get about three months work with salary. Plus you have a job while you look for a job which makes it easier to get a job. Companies don't like to hire unemployed workers but will hire the same worker with the same experience if they still have a job.
The nasty bit is that if you get a job at 11 weeks and the new company won't wait, you have to skip the new job or take it but lose your severance pay.
Anyway... the short story is "Out of work immediately with no severance or $10,000 to $40,000 compensation and 3-4 months more work while you look for a job."
Fuck those poor indians who get to live in a protected market where they can buy cheap food, drugs, movies, computer development software, computers while getting to earn income in a different country with higher costs where poverty level income is thousands of dollars higher than middle class income in india due to those lower costs.
If u.s. workers were allowed to reimport all the items sold for cheaper in india, it would still be difficult to compete (higher property costs here) . Heck, my blood pressure medicine is $5 a pill. The same pill "illegally" on line can be had from india for 10 cents.
The same movie I pay $16 for, they pay $2.49 for. The same movie I pay $12 to see in theaters, they pay $.50 for.
In the long run it doesn't matter. By 2055, wage stagnation here, and much higher inflation there will equalize wages to the point where the advantage is lost. But it should darn well matter to voters here now who should be aware politicians are not enforcing the law. It's illegal to replace existing u.s. workers directly with h1b workers. At a minimum, when this is occurring, the limits on H1B's should be reduced- not increased.
If airlines of 2026 lose 20% of their passengers to a competing service that charges 87% of airline ticket prices, then airlines will not continue to charge those prices.
We subsidized security for the oil companies. Oil prices would be (much) higher if they had to pay their own security costs. As a result, there would be a higher incentive to conserve oil and to develop alternatives to oil. The security costs to oil are lower than they should be because they are almost all provided at tax payer expense.
Yes, but I'm data driven. Facts won't sway people who decided emotionally that solar sucks immediately but over time they will have an effect. Statements of opinion won't ever sway them.
We really should dump about 100 billion into alternative energy and batteries. The subsequent reduction of oil demand, and reduction in oil prices would have enormous payoffs to future defense savings. Just imagine if oil demand was permanently cut by 50%. The "fair" price of oil would probably drop to $30 a barrel.
A large part of the current drop in prices was due to demand destruction. The majority was due to overproduction called on by an excessively high price sustained for too long.
That's hysterical. So why haven't we invaded any other country where they are committing genocide? There are plenty of them.
Because iraq was an oil country.
If we had 10% solar in the mix and oil collapsed to 25 dollars a barrel because the marginally most expensive oil sets the price, the strategic value of oil countries would drop significantly.
It's already happening. Alternative energy (and solar specifically) only needs to destroy demand for 1 to 2 % of oil and gas to drop the price by 50%.
http://energyinformative.org/l...
80% output after 25 years.
Decline is essentially linear at 10% per decade. So 70% output after 35 years.
I.e. put on 25% more panels and you are fine. Or use more efficient devices that use 30% less electricity in 35 years and you are fine.
Well we spent 2 trillion dollars (and 4000 lives) to subsidize oil from 2000-2008 alone.
If we gave 2 trillion dollars to the solar industry, we'd have flying cars.
Military costs to protect oil field are ongoing and extremely expensive.
As an old timer- I don't view it as whining. It is MUCH harder for 20 to early 30 year old people today than it was for me when I was that age. There was no offshoring, outsourcing, etc. There were layoffs but only when the economy was really bad. Now things can be going fine, your company is making a profit- and you STILL get laid off and forced to train your replacement (which is humiliating) and you get the joy of knowing it is illegal since h1b's are only supposed to be used when local resources are unavailable.
Not so much for California Utilities, Disney, etc. who lay off workers and replace them with offshore and onshore h1b resources. Companies no longer have loyalty and in many cases the severance is pitiful.
Another factor is skill sets. I learned a skillset in IT and it was good for 20 years. The one after that was good for 15 years. The one after that was good for 5 years. I think you can see the trend. Constant training at high expense on your own time. No personal life.
Back when I started, IT were the fucking priest kings. We made good money, worked long 55 hour weeks, and had high status. Today, IT has low status, makes good money, works crazy long 60-70+ hour weeks. At my last place we had multiple divorces and heart attacks. There were 30 year olds walking around with black eyes (DEEP black- not just a little dark under the eyes) from lack of sleep.
It is much much worse for young IT folks today. It's worse for all of them in general. It's taking them much longer to get their careers established and even when they established they are never safe. It's much riskier to buy a house or a new car. Things my generation took for granted are gone.
And then on top of that, the safety net we had, the inexpensive college we had, etc. etc. is all gone. Heck- tho I didn't avail myself of it- when I was in school until very near the end, any debt I took on could have been erased by bankruptcy.
Nope. It's very rich and dark.
Keep in mind, 1 kcup will make 10oz in the machine as it is. And from how well this works, I suspect there is more coffee than needed to make 10oz.
They also don't consider that development programmers and maintenance programmers have very different value sets.
Developers pile stuff together and move on to something else. It's not necessarily well structured, documented, or maintainable.
Maintenance programmers love to refactor, document, and polish code so that over time, it becomes much easier to maintain.
Unfortunately, current tax laws heavily incent companies to toss out existing code and write new code (it's tax deductible as a capital expense while maintenance programming is not tax deductible.).
I've found that one K-Cup produces a third of a pot of coffee.
I especially like 2 scoops of Kroger plus 1 K-Cup (Southern Pecan or Breakfast Blend). There is less coffee in the k-cup but it is ground much finer.
I don't own a keurig brewing machine. But I work at a place that does. Sometimes, I'll brew a cup fpr the road and some times I'll just take a k-cup instead of brewing a cup.
It's interesting that Infosys doesn't care about the year you graduated from college but they require your high school graduation date on the resume to consider it.
Blatantly illegal-- I hope they get burned hard on it.
Police studies (linked above) show...
Officers who are not properly trained are more likely to shoot blacks and to do so with less hesitation.
Officers who are properly trained, take longer to decide not to shoot blacks.
Studies show officers judge black children to be much older than white children of the same age. And more willing to shoot a threatening "20 year old" who is actually a 12 year old with a toy gun than a white 12 year old.
Come on dude, even the police recognize they have a racism problem.
http://www.policechiefmagazine...
The law is enforced unequally on whites and non whites.
For example, When a mixed race group of girls were picked up by police...
"officers took the white teen to the lobby to call her parents but brought three of the black teens to the back of the station, where they were locked up and searched. When one of the girls asked why they were being brought in the back doors, one of the officers replied, "trash in and trash out," according to court records."
http://www.usatoday.com/story/...
Don't let the "ferguson" fool you- this happened in yet another town, not ferguson.
Corporations are also immune to imprisonment and execution for crimes they commit. No individual has that right.
As an older programmer who used older languages and then java and who is familiar with java's benefits and drawbacks, I've been very impressed with java's success at "write once, run anywhere." Perfect? No. Much better than even only 15 years ago? Absolutely.
I could recommend using java to code a large block of core business functionality. There are many other languages which I would not do so. Other languages have too few developer, are too unstable, and are even unlikely to exist at all ten years down the road. Meaning you'd have to rewrite a huge chunk of core business logic again- at high expense- and with all the challenges of new development.
They are fine for smaller programs (say under 10,000 lines of course and configuration) where they can easily be recreated with current technology if they are deprecated. Good example- a company replaced the java web order entry system with Adobe Air at a cost of over 30 million dollars. Before they even completely retired the older java version- Adobe Air was discontinued. So they were going to have to spend another 30 million dollars writing it again in HTML5.
And they ended up using the old stable java backend behind the HTML5 Gui. Because unlike it's replacement- it worked and didn't piss off customers. One big reason was that the "air" version was literally sending 200+ megabytes per screen update. Even tho we told them up front that many customers (12-20%) were still on dialup modems out in the boonies. They said the customers would comply... You can guess how that turned out.
And yup-- this was also a case of 40-50 year old developers who knew the business recognizing that the "new tech" solution by the 20 and young 30 year olds wasn't going to solve the problem and being ignored.
Just as they have blind auditions for musicians.
It's possible this paper (which was on gender differences) is a piece of crap.
It's also possible the reviewer is sexist.
It may even be that the females who wrote the paper are sexist and the paper is a pile of crap AND the reviewer is sexist.
Hard to say without seeing the paper and the data it was drawn from.
In a gender blind society, we can't assume the females or the males are always right or wrong. It may even be from different points of view that different people will feel one or the other was right or wrong.
While there is a long history of "productive" riots in the u.s. going all the way back to the 1700s, I agree with your point that these riots are ill targeted. There is no easy focal point for the rage because the entire way society is setup is against this group.
I think the drug war has a lot to do with it. One arrest and few businesses will hire you for a good job so you can't get money legally to buy products so you are mad at everyone for not hiring you and for carrying things you can't afford to buy but which TV shows you "should" have. On top of that instead of having a neutral police force, you have a police force that actively enforces the law unequally-- calling the white kids parents (no record) while arresting the black kids (so now they have a record) and telling them "trash goes in back."
I think you are mistaking "stupid" for "desperate" or "hopeless" or "disillusioned".
If so.. yes.
Look- I donate to the police survivors fund each year, but the drug war, militarization of police, and grossly racially imbalanced police forces lead to these events.
Freddie Gray's record was minor drug infractions which wouldn't even be a problem in three states any more.
Once he was arrested the first time, he had no hope of ever getting a good job with an arrest record. Once he had a conviction, it was over.
Combine a large war with disruption of the JIT we have now for food and medicine. Bad combo.
Most do. Some groups still have large families.
Once we are all well educated and not poor, population growth will come to be dominated by those groups.
You should consider human culture as a bacterial culture and "wealth and education" as penicillin. It's a good holding action but it isn't the solution everyone thinks it is.
We have the resources to support 9 to 10 billion people for a while (and there's good reasons why they think it will top out there) but the quality of life for many will be much lower.
I don't think population will top out there. I think the part of the population which has a high breeding rate will come to dominate the population and population growth will resume.
So yea-- I think we are pretty much doomed to a multi-billion die off event sometime in the next 100 years.
I'm not a bitter taster so they all work for me.
I use a mixture of multiple artificial sweeteners in my coffee. Some sacharine and a little stevia. Sometimes some monk fruit sugar. Some times some xylitol or erythritol.
To many people stevia tastes horrible.