"i work with some extremely devoted co-workers. During review time, when they brought up their constant 60+ hours per week... management said "we never asked you to do that, you did that on your own"."
I know how that is. That's the same management that'll tell you "You're not showing the proper dedication" if you *only* work the 40 hours you're 'supposed' to.
I used to work at a gift shop at an airport. We sold overpriced "educational" gifts to people stupid enough to buy them. Among the things we sold were erasers, little ones of dinosaurs and junk like that. When inventory time came around I, an assistant retail supervisor, and my 'underlings' were ordered to count all the erasers. I remember counting something like 830 of them before the retail manager, standing over me, said "I can't believe you're really counting them all" with a smirk.
After we finished, the retail manager, the retail supervisor and the CFO all went out for pizza & beers (without inviting us of course.) On our train ride back we (those not invited to anything) "associated in a brotherly manner" a.k.a. agreed the retail manager was a friggin' bitch.
In an ideal world working for a company is a symbiotic relationship: the company provides you with a job and in return you do your best; everyone wins. Unfortunately in the real world it's not like that at all. Getting my first job over here in Japan put that into perspective real fast. Management treated us like dirt, like we should be grateful that they even hired us to begin with. Teachers called in sick whenever they wanted, and more than a handful quit by trashing their company-provided apartments and then called up from the States saying "Take this job and shove it."
It is a 2-way street, but this foolish ruling is going to change that. It's going to be their way or the highway (er, pun not intended.)
"There will also be visual changes, thanks to Avalon, ranging from shiny translucent windows to icons that are tiny representations of a document itself."
Sorry, you mean like every other OS on the market right now has?
Slashdot Mirror
I mean, I installed it and it killed my computer!!
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Alright! Alright! I'm leaving already
"A martian is holding down the shift key."
That would start it up with extensions disabled. How would that crash it? Duhh...
"i work with some extremely devoted co-workers. During review time, when they brought up their constant 60+ hours per week... management said "we never asked you to do that, you did that on your own"."
I know how that is. That's the same management that'll tell you "You're not showing the proper dedication" if you *only* work the 40 hours you're 'supposed' to.
I used to work at a gift shop at an airport. We sold overpriced "educational" gifts to people stupid enough to buy them. Among the things we sold were erasers, little ones of dinosaurs and junk like that. When inventory time came around I, an assistant retail supervisor, and my 'underlings' were ordered to count all the erasers. I remember counting something like 830 of them before the retail manager, standing over me, said "I can't believe you're really counting them all" with a smirk.
After we finished, the retail manager, the retail supervisor and the CFO all went out for pizza & beers (without inviting us of course.) On our train ride back we (those not invited to anything) "associated in a brotherly manner" a.k.a. agreed the retail manager was a friggin' bitch.
In an ideal world working for a company is a symbiotic relationship: the company provides you with a job and in return you do your best; everyone wins. Unfortunately in the real world it's not like that at all. Getting my first job over here in Japan put that into perspective real fast. Management treated us like dirt, like we should be grateful that they even hired us to begin with. Teachers called in sick whenever they wanted, and more than a handful quit by trashing their company-provided apartments and then called up from the States saying "Take this job and shove it."
It is a 2-way street, but this foolish ruling is going to change that. It's going to be their way or the highway (er, pun not intended.)
Sure, right after Apple makes a 2 button mouse.
when will this be available for Macintosh?
What is this "IM" you speak of? Can I use it with my two tin cans?
"These fraudulent, free personal Web sites have an average lifespan of two to four days, ..."
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It's almost enough to make people go back to USENET for all their porn.
click on post anonymously and
"Which OS runs phtoshop faster?"
I'm not sure, but OS X has a built-in spell checker.
"There will also be visual changes, thanks to Avalon, ranging from shiny translucent windows to icons that are tiny representations of a document itself."
Sorry, you mean like every other OS on the market right now has?
Where do I reserve my copy!!
"... turn that worthless old floppy drive into a most desirable piece of audio gear."
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It'll play my 8-track tapes??
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