AC, Since when have professionals been paid overtime? IT is (or at least has been) a White collar area of work. If you want to be pressed back to Blue Collar status then fine, I think I will pass.
Realistically, "Go to college" is not a viable solution, so there we agree, but to assume that the union was the solution to the factory you worked in is a faulty assumption. They failed to unionize, which means (If I am reading you right) that they were making more money even without the union. Something happened, where the benefits of the employees were reduced. Perhaps the company is not doing as well. Perhaps premiums on Insurance went up, etc. etc. The point is that the union had nothing to do with that, and you cannot assume that the union would have been able to thwart those changes.
However, the majority of major unions are sorely broken. I am not against the *idea* of the union, but the way they are implemented today is completely broken.
The point of a union should be to protect from employee abuse or neglect. It is not meant to be a political action group, nor is it meant to function as a bully to the employee just because.
So what is a better solution? The purist in me says that the free markets (unions that abuse their power cause artificial changes in the free market system) would correct, and that certain jobs will grow to be a livable wage job, while others don't. However, to get back to a pure free market economy at this point is a pipe dream, so I would rather see some type of employee/employer agreement that allows for the items properly addressed by unions, that would disallow the advantages taken by both sides. Giving legal recourse that is easy to either sides is one solution. Perhaps minimizing the scope and size of unions is another, but what we have now simply doesn't work.
Unions in this country have long outlived their usefulness.
Besides, if employers made reasonable demands of the unionized employees,/. readership would go down... come on admit it... how many are at work right now.
The Hillary Clinton campaign began sending out 'tweets' and eventually had over 4,000 followers. The Barack Obama campaign did the same thing and got 44,000 followers. That says something about the success of the two campaigns in using new technology.
Perhaps that says something about the age of the people supporting either campaign. How many 40yo stay at home moms are getting tweets?
Agreed that the majority of people understand privacy, though not all (mentally challenged, etc.).
Disagree on the US government. Frankly, the type of data the US Government works with is mostly public knowledge anyway. I do not see the major infringement on privacy from the US Government. I see other terrible failures wrt individual rights (i.e. Bush's disregard for Habeus Corpus), but privacy seems a minor one.
just shut up, flame bait. there really is no call for that. you can't put anything informative or insightful in the conversation so you resort to religion bashing just to hear your own mouth? move along. we don't need that kind of trash around here.
Your setup is in a company who understands the need to backup. His does not. Sysadmins work with what they are given. When you do not control the purse strings, then your hands are tied.
Well, I know the guy, and the real work was getting all the systems back up in record time. Please do not think of this is "Backdraft" style running through flames. The guy is not an idiot.
While you sound like a troll, your UID would seem to indicate otherwise.
Between the Salem Witch Trials, Blue laws, and various other puritanical ideologies that made there way into lawbooks, it is obvious that Judeo-Christian values were a normal part of society. The fact that still a very high percent of US citizens claim a version of Christianity would imply that a government by the people and for the people would continue to reflect those values.
In the '50s, the placement of In God we trust as our motto was not starting something new, but was solidifying what had been the norm, and was coming under attack. Again, since Judeo-Christian values were being removed from their position of influence, the people reacted by attempting to solidify that this was, indeed, at its core, a nation of based around christian principles. There was no need for that "motto" since it was understood before recent history.
What most Christians are opposed to is one sided removal of Christianity from anything public for the fear of breaking the establishment clause.
There are certainly your fundies who take issue with walmart having season's greeting, but those are a small (thought admittedly vocal) minority.
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I just signed up for uverse. The DVR "rental" is free (I.e. built into the cost of the service) so I am curious how that would be addressed in this.
AC, Since when have professionals been paid overtime? IT is (or at least has been) a White collar area of work. If you want to be pressed back to Blue Collar status then fine, I think I will pass.
Realistically, "Go to college" is not a viable solution, so there we agree, but to assume that the union was the solution to the factory you worked in is a faulty assumption. They failed to unionize, which means (If I am reading you right) that they were making more money even without the union. Something happened, where the benefits of the employees were reduced. Perhaps the company is not doing as well. Perhaps premiums on Insurance went up, etc. etc. The point is that the union had nothing to do with that, and you cannot assume that the union would have been able to thwart those changes.
However, the majority of major unions are sorely broken. I am not against the *idea* of the union, but the way they are implemented today is completely broken.
The point of a union should be to protect from employee abuse or neglect. It is not meant to be a political action group, nor is it meant to function as a bully to the employee just because.
So what is a better solution? The purist in me says that the free markets (unions that abuse their power cause artificial changes in the free market system) would correct, and that certain jobs will grow to be a livable wage job, while others don't. However, to get back to a pure free market economy at this point is a pipe dream, so I would rather see some type of employee/employer agreement that allows for the items properly addressed by unions, that would disallow the advantages taken by both sides. Giving legal recourse that is easy to either sides is one solution. Perhaps minimizing the scope and size of unions is another, but what we have now simply doesn't work.
As someone who has union employees, try making that fly in the union contract.
Seriously?
/. readership would go down... come on admit it... how many are at work right now.
Unions in this country have long outlived their usefulness.
Besides, if employers made reasonable demands of the unionized employees,
Well done...
Right?
I must say I wholeheartedly agreee. It is foolhearty to think that people today are going to spend more then a few moments of their busy da
The Hillary Clinton campaign began sending out 'tweets' and eventually had over 4,000 followers. The Barack Obama campaign did the same thing and got 44,000 followers. That says something about the success of the two campaigns in using new technology.
Perhaps that says something about the age of the people supporting either campaign. How many 40yo stay at home moms are getting tweets?
Agreed that the majority of people understand privacy, though not all (mentally challenged, etc.).
Disagree on the US government. Frankly, the type of data the US Government works with is mostly public knowledge anyway. I do not see the major infringement on privacy from the US Government. I see other terrible failures wrt individual rights (i.e. Bush's disregard for Habeus Corpus), but privacy seems a minor one.
Good post. Google and MS are said to expect you to live there. If Apple is 40-45 hours, then a lower salary is fine.
Exactly!
Not while Walmart is married to IE and Windows Media player.
Actually they don't want to be given a break. That's the point of the story.
That's what I want to know. Shouldn't those be in the mix?
As that is what I do, the mail app mentioned is a web based server side app accessible from anywhere. It would need to use its own outgoing.
WOOOO HOOOOOO!
It would be a stretch to really prove cromulency in this case, but at least we both agree that it is definitely biscitory.
Your setup is in a company who understands the need to backup. His does not. Sysadmins work with what they are given. When you do not control the purse strings, then your hands are tied.
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Well said!
Well, I know the guy, and the real work was getting all the systems back up in record time. Please do not think of this is "Backdraft" style running through flames. The guy is not an idiot.
Come on... that was funny. I chuckled.
While you sound like a troll, your UID would seem to indicate otherwise.
Between the Salem Witch Trials, Blue laws, and various other puritanical ideologies that made there way into lawbooks, it is obvious that Judeo-Christian values were a normal part of society. The fact that still a very high percent of US citizens claim a version of Christianity would imply that a government by the people and for the people would continue to reflect those values.
In the '50s, the placement of In God we trust as our motto was not starting something new, but was solidifying what had been the norm, and was coming under attack. Again, since Judeo-Christian values were being removed from their position of influence, the people reacted by attempting to solidify that this was, indeed, at its core, a nation of based around christian principles. There was no need for that "motto" since it was understood before recent history.
What most Christians are opposed to is one sided removal of Christianity from anything public for the fear of breaking the establishment clause.
There are certainly your fundies who take issue with walmart having season's greeting, but those are a small (thought admittedly vocal) minority.
well said! btw.. mind if I repost your list? (with proper cite of course)