I agree, if only because I've seen so many stupid women here do this. They get knocked up and then their entire life becomes talking about the kid and leaving work all the time because of it and talking on the phone to the partner/daycare/their parents/whoever checking up on them all day, etc etc etc... And the work goes to the toilet. If you want to have a kid AND be a professional, you have to balance things carefully. Don't expect me to pick up the slack if your work because you've chosen to do things irresponsibly.
However, I'm also kind of old-fashioned in the sense that I am a woman, and if I were going to have children I'd want to do the way they used to a few decades ago. Stay at home, tend the kids and the house, and raise them right--do that half of the work while their father did the other half out in the business force. I wouldn't even attempt to play the full time mom and full time employee game. Oh sure, it's possible. But the kid suffers because of not getting as much attention and care at home, ends up with "ADD" and emotional problems and etc etc... and work suffers because your efforts are constantly divided and distracted. Lose-lose from what I can see.
I know I can't afford to have kids, at least not now, and unlike two people here I can think of off the top of my head, I am going to consider that BEFORE getting pregnant and milking every bit of paid leave possible. Before being stuck with child care bills and added expenses and having to try and ask for a raise when your work performance has not merited one (actually it declined) and then trying to blame it on discrimination when they say no. Before then complaining about this all the time to anybody who will listen, but still continuing to buy name-brand clothes for the kids, fancy cakes from bakeries for their birthday parties (when they're a year or two old, too young to even be eating cake or remembering any of it), and etc.
You have to ask yourself if someone this selfish is the kind of employee you want in the first place.
Ugh, thank you. I am so tired of people assuming that because I'm white, I've never had problems. My dad left my mother 3 weeks before my youngest brother was born (and he was premature at that). She had a newborn, 3yr old, and 6yr old at home. We were on and off welfare as she worked her ass off to support us, and we went without a lot of things for most of my childhood. (Think no power, cooking whatever was left in the fridge in a pot over a kerosine heater to keep from starving.)
All this ensured that I now do not care about shallow things, and I don't look much beyond necessities when spending, even if I can afford things. And I learned that you have to work very hard if you want to achieve anything. My mom did that, and she was able to get off welfare quickly, we slowly moved up from terrible apartments to an okay one, to a good one, etc... she now has her own house, nice car, etc. Personally I worked hard to learn what I know and get where I am--no family friends, no inheritance, nobody handed me anything.
Sorry for the rant, I just completely agree with you here, and I get so aggravated when people assume things about how I got where I am now.
So what's the alternative? I have to turn on my computer and then sit there staring at it watching it boot up? Then do I get paid?
That's stupid. Coffee MAKES me productive, so if I use the boot time to go get my cup, I'm not wasting time doing it later when my computer's ready and I *could* be doing work. You're making it sound like I'm a lazy twit looking for an excuse to be a lazy twit, and that's far from the case.
Actually, I work for a support center for a lot of retail locations, including Apple Stores. They use Windows XP for their POS system. IBM equipment to boot!
Agreed--plus the fact that anywhere from dozens to hundreds of other people are doing the same thing at the same time, and yeah... 15 minutes is about right.
Makes me wonder how many "erroneous" firings/getting-in-troubles happened due to computer problems. A hardware failure, Windows updates, any number of things can delay you starting your programs.
I'm glad this place has an old-fashioned timeclock with a little card to swipe the second I walk in the door. They're paying me to be here, and the work I do throughout the day justifies that time even if I am late sometimes.
I don't know. Taking just from the text, it says the plants were made one "day" and the sunlight the next. Plants can't survive very long without the sun, but they survived and made it this far. It makes me wonder how long these "days" were.
...I'm not even allowed to assume that someone is a male or female by looking at them. Because sometimes I'd be quite wrong, and then I'd "offend" them, and then it'd be a big mess.
This seems like an example of software that would only work for the most basic group of the population, and would just annoy a whole another chunk of it. Even if it did work, why is it needed? Just let the person choose. That way if "Josh" is super-flaming, he can pick the girl avatar if he wants. Also, people who have unisex names are annoyed enough by folks not being sure of their gender across the internet, etc. Why add to that when it's so completely unnecessary?
Ditto, this is what I was going to say. That and you can sometimes hear it grinding or clicking, which can serve as an early warning that it's going bad. I'd rather be able to save off my data and replace it before it conks out altogether then have it be all nice and quiet until the day that it won't boot.
Just take the fans out, then there won't be any fan noise. As for the flashing and crackling noise of the subsequent flames...well, I can't help you there.
I think it's more than that. A big problem for Firefox is the people click on the big blue E and it actually works fine.
...Sorta. This is kind of like how masturbating "works fine". When they discover sex (Firefox), they realize what they were missing all those years, and while both can be used after that, one is clearly preferred.
Yes, I realize I just compared sex to a web browser. It was just an analogy.;)
Ugh, glad I'm not the only one who gets this. I twitch a little every time I hear it. But the guy who always says it wrong is a fan of the book/movie called Foxfire, and that's his excuse...
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I agree, if only because I've seen so many stupid women here do this. They get knocked up and then their entire life becomes talking about the kid and leaving work all the time because of it and talking on the phone to the partner/daycare/their parents/whoever checking up on them all day, etc etc etc... And the work goes to the toilet. If you want to have a kid AND be a professional, you have to balance things carefully. Don't expect me to pick up the slack if your work because you've chosen to do things irresponsibly.
However, I'm also kind of old-fashioned in the sense that I am a woman, and if I were going to have children I'd want to do the way they used to a few decades ago. Stay at home, tend the kids and the house, and raise them right--do that half of the work while their father did the other half out in the business force. I wouldn't even attempt to play the full time mom and full time employee game. Oh sure, it's possible. But the kid suffers because of not getting as much attention and care at home, ends up with "ADD" and emotional problems and etc etc... and work suffers because your efforts are constantly divided and distracted. Lose-lose from what I can see.
I know I can't afford to have kids, at least not now, and unlike two people here I can think of off the top of my head, I am going to consider that BEFORE getting pregnant and milking every bit of paid leave possible. Before being stuck with child care bills and added expenses and having to try and ask for a raise when your work performance has not merited one (actually it declined) and then trying to blame it on discrimination when they say no. Before then complaining about this all the time to anybody who will listen, but still continuing to buy name-brand clothes for the kids, fancy cakes from bakeries for their birthday parties (when they're a year or two old, too young to even be eating cake or remembering any of it), and etc.
You have to ask yourself if someone this selfish is the kind of employee you want in the first place.
Happened to me, though. I was not happy.
Hey, whatever works.
Wow. Where do you work? I need a job like that.
Political correctness kind of *is* intolerance, though. Just as a sidenote.
Ugh, thank you. I am so tired of people assuming that because I'm white, I've never had problems. My dad left my mother 3 weeks before my youngest brother was born (and he was premature at that). She had a newborn, 3yr old, and 6yr old at home. We were on and off welfare as she worked her ass off to support us, and we went without a lot of things for most of my childhood. (Think no power, cooking whatever was left in the fridge in a pot over a kerosine heater to keep from starving.)
All this ensured that I now do not care about shallow things, and I don't look much beyond necessities when spending, even if I can afford things. And I learned that you have to work very hard if you want to achieve anything. My mom did that, and she was able to get off welfare quickly, we slowly moved up from terrible apartments to an okay one, to a good one, etc... she now has her own house, nice car, etc. Personally I worked hard to learn what I know and get where I am--no family friends, no inheritance, nobody handed me anything.
Sorry for the rant, I just completely agree with you here, and I get so aggravated when people assume things about how I got where I am now.
So what's the alternative? I have to turn on my computer and then sit there staring at it watching it boot up? Then do I get paid?
That's stupid. Coffee MAKES me productive, so if I use the boot time to go get my cup, I'm not wasting time doing it later when my computer's ready and I *could* be doing work. You're making it sound like I'm a lazy twit looking for an excuse to be a lazy twit, and that's far from the case.
Are you hiring, by chance? :D
I do too, but I don't have a choice in what my employers have in place.
Actually, I work for a support center for a lot of retail locations, including Apple Stores. They use Windows XP for their POS system. IBM equipment to boot!
Agreed--plus the fact that anywhere from dozens to hundreds of other people are doing the same thing at the same time, and yeah... 15 minutes is about right.
Makes me wonder how many "erroneous" firings/getting-in-troubles happened due to computer problems. A hardware failure, Windows updates, any number of things can delay you starting your programs.
I'm glad this place has an old-fashioned timeclock with a little card to swipe the second I walk in the door. They're paying me to be here, and the work I do throughout the day justifies that time even if I am late sometimes.
That's okay--means more for us :D
I don't know. Taking just from the text, it says the plants were made one "day" and the sunlight the next. Plants can't survive very long without the sun, but they survived and made it this far. It makes me wonder how long these "days" were.
Awesome! A fellow fruitcake lover! I agree--a sweet, moist cake that's spiced well and thoroughly liquored up is a treat worthy of the gods.
Glad I'm not the only one who twitched a bit at that! "You might be a nerd if..."
Hehe. That sounds dirty.
Hence the word "basically" thrown in there. One exception does not change the general rule.
...I'm not even allowed to assume that someone is a male or female by looking at them. Because sometimes I'd be quite wrong, and then I'd "offend" them, and then it'd be a big mess.
This seems like an example of software that would only work for the most basic group of the population, and would just annoy a whole another chunk of it. Even if it did work, why is it needed? Just let the person choose. That way if "Josh" is super-flaming, he can pick the girl avatar if he wants. Also, people who have unisex names are annoyed enough by folks not being sure of their gender across the internet, etc. Why add to that when it's so completely unnecessary?
Ditto, this is what I was going to say. That and you can sometimes hear it grinding or clicking, which can serve as an early warning that it's going bad. I'd rather be able to save off my data and replace it before it conks out altogether then have it be all nice and quiet until the day that it won't boot.
Just take the fans out, then there won't be any fan noise. As for the flashing and crackling noise of the subsequent flames...well, I can't help you there.
I think it's more than that. A big problem for Firefox is the people click on the big blue E and it actually works fine.
...Sorta. This is kind of like how masturbating "works fine". When they discover sex (Firefox), they realize what they were missing all those years, and while both can be used after that, one is clearly preferred.
;)
Yes, I realize I just compared sex to a web browser. It was just an analogy.
Ugh, glad I'm not the only one who gets this. I twitch a little every time I hear it. But the guy who always says it wrong is a fan of the book/movie called Foxfire, and that's his excuse...
I think it's scheduled for right after you pull your head out of your ass.
Oh... I might be single for a while then...
Look at *your* handle. "Anonymous Coward"... sounds about right.