This is pretty unconventional, and I can see some potential defects in their specific implementation, but the principle seems sound.
Like, what? The option to receive severance is always there, you are offered the chance to keep your job (meet performance goals), and you have the chance to debate the merits of your proposed termination. Choosing debate and losing gives you a chance to choose either severance or performance goals, and choosing performance goals and missing them still get you a severance package.
That collection of choices is far greater than those offered almost any employee that I've ever seen let go from a company. The only option missing is the option to simply refuse the termination and stay in the job.
Have the employees give their managers performance reviews, and make the poor performing ones beg for a second chance.
Said the guy that never managed anyone in his career.
A poor review (or handful of poor reviews) is not cause for termination, and many, many companies employ 360 degree performance reviews that have managers being reviewed by their direct reports...
If I'm reading this right, and I think I am, the part that everyone appears to be overlooking is that you can choose to receive a severance package when terminated for cause, and if instead of winning the "thunderdome debate" you lose, you still retain the option of accepting the performance package (meet these criteria in this period of time to keep your job) OR the severance package.
First, I've never heard of the average worker getting severance when fired for cause.
Second, why wouldn't you choose to have the video debate? Plead your case, even if you lose, the other two options remain on the table.
Third, this seems like yet another "if Amazon is doing it, it must be bad" articles - if a worker doesn't want to participate, take the package and go. If the worker wants to participate and loses, they can still take the package. The downside is what exactly?
The next time a coworker is fired, ask them if they'll get a severance package, then ask them if they'd like to debate the merits of their termination with their manager, without risking a severance package?
The voices of millions of taxpayers have been analyzed and stored by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) without consent, privacy campaigners say.
and
The Voice ID scheme, which was launched last year, asks callers to repeat the phrase "my voice is my password" to register.
Once this task is complete, they can use the phrase to confirm their identity when managing their taxes.
Responding to the request "repeat the phrase 'my voice is my password' the register" is giving consent - that the government agency might misuse the data is not the same as the government agency is misusing the data. This appears to be a case of "might" not "is".
What patch is likely needed after 10 years of updates to Win 7?
I'll play along, I've got a 20 year old medical infusing device running on PIII hardware, and the manufacturer updated the os ten years ago to Win 7, and the machine has run find for nearly 20 years, first running Win XP, then ten years later to Win 7. Unless my medical infusing device (which largely predates the public internet) now relies on internet access to function, what is the isdue?
BTW, was this change in support reported by Microsoft, or just inferred from secret documents a third-party claims to have seen?
The patches offered for Windows 7 today are very infrequent, almost non-existant, and to be honest, unless your PIII computer is supporting a browser and is connected to the internet, Windows updates are likely irrelevant at this point - the vast majority of OS bugs were resolved long before this support rumour started.
You 100 million dollar device sale makes no sense, you imagine the computer needed to control the device needs internet access, allows users to install their own programs, and has a browser for the operator to surf the web on.
When you buy a machine, it comes fully functional, and as long as the 100 million dollar device doesn't get hacked into the internet, and is instead run in a closed ecosystem, it can run forever.
Citation, please... You're telecom claims are fantastical and run contrary to my experience. For example, repairing copper pairs is cheaper that rolling out a fiber install when a copper pair breaks.
Are we pretending their brave decision to not do the job their employer wanted prevented the project from going forward? Are we assuming the gov't didn't just the the project outline and RFP to another vendor and pay them handsomely for the work Google refused?
I suspect there's comparison to be made with florists and came bakers, but I haven't had my morning caffeine yet, so I'll defer to others about companies that find their clients 'objectionable' and refuse to work for them.
Check out the boy scout case, the BSA was able to exclude anyone it wanted because of their 'freedom to associate' as I recall. Gov't couldn't force them to accept gay members, gay adult scout leaders, or female members. Ultimately they chose to, but we're never forced to.
I was questioning the numbers as I read them, because they didn't make sense, how did your teacher feel about students that question things that don't make sense to them?
"[U]ranium in seawater shows up in concentrations of around 3.3 parts per billion," the report notes. "With a total volume estimated at more than 4 billion tons, there is around 500 times more uranium in seawater than in land-based sources."
So if it's 3.3 parts per billion, that means there's 3.3 tons of uranium yellow uranium in a billion tons of water, and if there are 4 billion tons of seawater on planet, that means there are 13.2 tons of yellow cake uranium on the planet, give or take 1/500th (to account for the 1/500th of that amount in land-based sources).
He means, which seems quite obvious, that the demand is so much higher, a perfect 2nd assembly line could not keep up anyway.
So Elon musk/Tesla gets a pass on quality control failures and missed production promises because 'demand is up 1800 fold'?
No, every missed promise, every faulty vehicle, cheapens his company's brand - he doesn't get a pass, he's held to same standards as any other businessman.
For a 10% sales tax. If a product costs $9.50 to make and can be sold for $10.00, the tax will be $1.00 and revenue only $9.00. As such the transaction will not occur.
No, you are wrong.
An item that costs $9.50 to produce, sells for $10, andvis subject to a 10% sales tax will cost the consumer $11, with the seller sending $1 to the state tax collector.
Sales taxes are paid by the customer, not the seller.
The problem here is if you are a three employee retailer with a small online presence, states and counties and cities have their own taxes, and you have to determine the applicable rate for every combination.
No, you don't, that's not how sales taxes work.
A retailer with a fixed presence charges the state, county, municipal taxes due based on the retailer's physical location, not the delivery address of the customer. Here's an example: in NJ there is an 'enterprise zone' around Newark NJ where the tax rate is one-half the normal NJ sales tax rate. There is an IKEA there, when you buy a piece of furniture they don't ask you if you live inside or outside the 'enterprise zone' to determine the tax rate to apply to the purchase, you pay the lower 'enterprise zone' rate because that is where the store is.
Internet retailers that have no physical presence in a given state will not be beholdened to collect local, city, municipal sales taxes because they are not located in the city or municipal district.
Sales taxes are charged based on the store location, not the customer's location.
This ruling allows states to collect state sales taxes, not city taxes.
Actually, they get a 10% discount on that because five states don't have a state sales tax. That's how it works, right? Plus the South Dakota sales tax might not apply to small businesse
Even better, retailers get to keep a portion of the sales taxes collected to compensate them for the collection burden.
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This is pretty unconventional, and I can see some potential defects in their specific implementation, but the principle seems sound.
Like, what? The option to receive severance is always there, you are offered the chance to keep your job (meet performance goals), and you have the chance to debate the merits of your proposed termination. Choosing debate and losing gives you a chance to choose either severance or performance goals, and choosing performance goals and missing them still get you a severance package.
That collection of choices is far greater than those offered almost any employee that I've ever seen let go from a company. The only option missing is the option to simply refuse the termination and stay in the job.
Have the employees give their managers performance reviews, and make the poor performing ones beg for a second chance.
Said the guy that never managed anyone in his career.
A poor review (or handful of poor reviews) is not cause for termination, and many, many companies employ 360 degree performance reviews that have managers being reviewed by their direct reports...
If I'm reading this right, and I think I am, the part that everyone appears to be overlooking is that you can choose to receive a severance package when terminated for cause, and if instead of winning the "thunderdome debate" you lose, you still retain the option of accepting the performance package (meet these criteria in this period of time to keep your job) OR the severance package.
First, I've never heard of the average worker getting severance when fired for cause.
Second, why wouldn't you choose to have the video debate? Plead your case, even if you lose, the other two options remain on the table.
Third, this seems like yet another "if Amazon is doing it, it must be bad" articles - if a worker doesn't want to participate, take the package and go. If the worker wants to participate and loses, they can still take the package. The downside is what exactly?
The next time a coworker is fired, ask them if they'll get a severance package, then ask them if they'd like to debate the merits of their termination with their manager, without risking a severance package?
The voices of millions of taxpayers have been analyzed and stored by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) without consent, privacy campaigners say.
and
The Voice ID scheme, which was launched last year, asks callers to repeat the phrase "my voice is my password" to register.
Once this task is complete, they can use the phrase to confirm their identity when managing their taxes.
Responding to the request "repeat the phrase 'my voice is my password' the register" is giving consent - that the government agency might misuse the data is not the same as the government agency is misusing the data. This appears to be a case of "might" not "is".
What patch is likely needed after 10 years of updates to Win 7?
I'll play along, I've got a 20 year old medical infusing device running on PIII hardware, and the manufacturer updated the os ten years ago to Win 7, and the machine has run find for nearly 20 years, first running Win XP, then ten years later to Win 7. Unless my medical infusing device (which largely predates the public internet) now relies on internet access to function, what is the isdue?
Bingo.
BTW, was this change in support reported by Microsoft, or just inferred from secret documents a third-party claims to have seen?
The patches offered for Windows 7 today are very infrequent, almost non-existant, and to be honest, unless your PIII computer is supporting a browser and is connected to the internet, Windows updates are likely irrelevant at this point - the vast majority of OS bugs were resolved long before this support rumour started.
You 100 million dollar device sale makes no sense, you imagine the computer needed to control the device needs internet access, allows users to install their own programs, and has a browser for the operator to surf the web on.
When you buy a machine, it comes fully functional, and as long as the 100 million dollar device doesn't get hacked into the internet, and is instead run in a closed ecosystem, it can run forever.
You equate "wholesale" to large-scale deployment, and they are not equivalent.
Citation, please... You're telecom claims are fantastical and run contrary to my experience. For example, repairing copper pairs is cheaper that rolling out a fiber install when a copper pair breaks.
Who could have predicted that a labor-saving device installed in a restaurant would reduce the restaurant's need for labor? /sarcasm
Are we pretending their brave decision to not do the job their employer wanted prevented the project from going forward? Are we assuming the gov't didn't just the the project outline and RFP to another vendor and pay them handsomely for the work Google refused?
I suspect there's comparison to be made with florists and came bakers, but I haven't had my morning caffeine yet, so I'll defer to others about companies that find their clients 'objectionable' and refuse to work for them.
Check out the boy scout case, the BSA was able to exclude anyone it wanted because of their 'freedom to associate' as I recall. Gov't couldn't force them to accept gay members, gay adult scout leaders, or female members. Ultimately they chose to, but we're never forced to.
I was questioning the numbers as I read them, because they didn't make sense, how did your teacher feel about students that question things that don't make sense to them?
I don't think the 'dummy' comment was needed, several other readers found a way to correct my mistake without resorting to an insult.
I ran the numbers as I read them, then with a subsequent post said something looked wrong.
This 2003 article in slate says the world produces 64,000 tons of yellow cake uranium per year, the numbers in this article seem 'off'.
http://www.slate.com/articles/...
"[U]ranium in seawater shows up in concentrations of around 3.3 parts per billion," the report notes. "With a total volume estimated at more than 4 billion tons, there is around 500 times more uranium in seawater than in land-based sources."
So if it's 3.3 parts per billion, that means there's 3.3 tons of uranium yellow uranium in a billion tons of water, and if there are 4 billion tons of seawater on planet, that means there are 13.2 tons of yellow cake uranium on the planet, give or take 1/500th (to account for the 1/500th of that amount in land-based sources).
He means, which seems quite obvious, that the demand is so much higher, a perfect 2nd assembly line could not keep up anyway.
So Elon musk/Tesla gets a pass on quality control failures and missed production promises because 'demand is up 1800 fold'?
No, every missed promise, every faulty vehicle, cheapens his company's brand - he doesn't get a pass, he's held to same standards as any other businessman.
I, of course, meant 'production' not 'privation' - autocorrect!
And the retailer was fined, they risked jail time, and the customer was forced to pay the taxes.
It is, and has been for a while, a serious crime aggressively pursued by N.Y. tax regulators.
For a 10% sales tax. If a product costs $9.50 to make and can be sold for $10.00, the tax will be $1.00 and revenue only $9.00. As such the transaction will not occur.
No, you are wrong.
An item that costs $9.50 to produce, sells for $10, andvis subject to a 10% sales tax will cost the consumer $11, with the seller sending $1 to the state tax collector.
Sales taxes are paid by the customer, not the seller.
The problem here is if you are a three employee retailer with a small online presence, states and counties and cities have their own taxes, and you have to determine the applicable rate for every combination.
No, you don't, that's not how sales taxes work.
A retailer with a fixed presence charges the state, county, municipal taxes due based on the retailer's physical location, not the delivery address of the customer. Here's an example: in NJ there is an 'enterprise zone' around Newark NJ where the tax rate is one-half the normal NJ sales tax rate. There is an IKEA there, when you buy a piece of furniture they don't ask you if you live inside or outside the 'enterprise zone' to determine the tax rate to apply to the purchase, you pay the lower 'enterprise zone' rate because that is where the store is.
Internet retailers that have no physical presence in a given state will not be beholdened to collect local, city, municipal sales taxes because they are not located in the city or municipal district.
Sales taxes are charged based on the store location, not the customer's location.
This ruling allows states to collect state sales taxes, not city taxes.
Based on this ruling, states can collect state taxes, therefore only state taxes will be collected.
If a company has a physical presence in the state, then local (non-state) taxes come into play, just as they always did.
This will enrich the states, not local gov't.
Actually, they get a 10% discount on that because five states don't have a state sales tax. That's how it works, right? Plus the South Dakota sales tax might not apply to small businesse
Even better, retailers get to keep a portion of the sales taxes collected to compensate them for the collection burden.
You mean like they do on rental cars and hotel rooms?
No, one tax rate per state, easy-peasy.
Worst case, tax rate table per zip code.