Yeah, slashing military spending and the largest tax increase (then... until Obama) in history... what a way to "balance the budget" short term, knowing full well that your successor will have to clean up the fucking mess. Of course, the GOP congress reforming welfare had nothing to do with anything either. It was all the great (disbarred lawyer, disgraced liar, IMPEACHED) WJC.
You idiot.
Regarding overtime pay: Depends on how highly paid you are and applicable state laws.
Also, as I recall, Microsoft has agreed to pay contractors benefits so that may effectively come out of their hourly rate.
Even with an active secret clearance, you don't just have authorization to look at or access any thing that is SECRET. It is all based on need to know. So the moment you did not have a need to know, you did not have that clearance. So stop bragging to all your buddies since 1973 that you have a secret clearance (but don't really know if it is 'active'). You haven't had ANY clearance since 1973 and maybe did not have much need to know and hence much clearance even before then. I always laugh when someone asks me if my clearance is 'active' or 'inactive' and thus supposedly renewable. If I do not have a need to know some secret or top secret, etc. then I am not cleared for it regardless of any "active" status.
I've still been seeing plenty of jobs for scrum masters, etc. When all those companies find out that scrum is dead, what will happen to these people? Meantime, these jobs are choking out other job roles and one has to wonder should I avoid applying for any of these scrum jobs?
The unauthorized, anonymous official does not have a clue what he is talking about:
"The company’s initial approach proved especially controversial. Known as “Waterfall,” this approach involved developing the system in relatively long, cascading phases, resulting in a years-long wait for a final product. Current and former federal officials acknowledged in interviews that this method of carrying out IT projects was considered outdated by 2008. “The Waterfall method has not been successful for 40 years,” said a current federal official involved in the project, who was not an authorized spokesperson and spoke on the condition of anonymity."
I always resisted any engineer label since I am aware that it has legal implications. However, whenever I needed a new job I would look in the classified/online job ads under software or IT or computer or some other dumb category and find a moderate list of specialized this and that. After many years I finally realized that I was missing out on dozens or hundreds of potential jobs I could easily qualify for since they were being (mis-)classified, thanks to HR types, under Engineering: like Database engineer, software engineer, etc. So unfortunately, I have to look under the Engineer category for IT work though it is often mixed up with EE jobs, not to mention Civil or Mechanical or Environmental or Materials...real engineering jobs. It would have been much simpler to keep a separate, respectable IT category on job boards, but unfortunately corporate HR people or managers trained in business or some soft arts-history-sociology type major who are creating these ads and should, but don't, know any better often call these positions 'software engineering' now. I can't fight this alone so I am forced to go along with it.
Anecdote: I once attended a huge job fair with 10,000+ other job seekers, most of whom had become unemployed. Due to the huge crowd, the company announced that it would only meet with the engineers in person and everyone else who had waited for hours and driven from afar would need to drop off their resume and leave. I stayed thinking that they were including all other similar technical professions but had a hard time getting the promised face time (which I did get) because HR had to argue between each other as to whether I counted as an engineer. As it happens I often see their job ads for 'software engineers' and wonder why the hostility back then.
Futureshock (that's the title of a book millennials) came out in 1970. In the book it was called overchoice. So this is nothing new and has been discussed since at least 1970. But millennials think their every thought is completely new and original. Maybe I should write a book about that and coin a word like Cryptomnesia.
Maybe 1 year experience in 20 different things... which is not a bad thing. Show you can LEARN over and over and over again and don't only know one thing like C++, Java, etc.
Check back in here in about 20 years when you are making $115,000/year and wondering if you should learn Z++
(Also, you may have relocated with your spouse to Bumfuck, Mississippi by then...)
This would help people like me, who can't put names to faces or fail to notice when a face is the same as the one I saw last year...
Perfect Glass application.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, slashing military spending and the largest tax increase (then... until Obama) in history... what a way to "balance the budget" short term, knowing full well that your successor will have to clean up the fucking mess. Of course, the GOP congress reforming welfare had nothing to do with anything either. It was all the great (disbarred lawyer, disgraced liar, IMPEACHED) WJC. You idiot.
So what's the frequency, Kenneth? Can they cancel like light, sound waves too? Surf's up.
North Korea should be afraid too, because they could theoretically get nuked by their own nuke if it would just be randomly falling.
How about a biography? E.T. Bell's Men of Mathematics
Regarding overtime pay: Depends on how highly paid you are and applicable state laws. Also, as I recall, Microsoft has agreed to pay contractors benefits so that may effectively come out of their hourly rate.
One thing she did do is allow two to hold outside jobs while also on the government payroll. I believe the term is 'ghost employee'.
Even with an active secret clearance, you don't just have authorization to look at or access any thing that is SECRET. It is all based on need to know. So the moment you did not have a need to know, you did not have that clearance. So stop bragging to all your buddies since 1973 that you have a secret clearance (but don't really know if it is 'active'). You haven't had ANY clearance since 1973 and maybe did not have much need to know and hence much clearance even before then. I always laugh when someone asks me if my clearance is 'active' or 'inactive' and thus supposedly renewable. If I do not have a need to know some secret or top secret, etc. then I am not cleared for it regardless of any "active" status.
What of calligraphy?
Hopefully, it such control wouldn't be confused by speakers of click languages such as Khoekhoe, Sandawe !Kung.
I've still been seeing plenty of jobs for scrum masters, etc. When all those companies find out that scrum is dead, what will happen to these people? Meantime, these jobs are choking out other job roles and one has to wonder should I avoid applying for any of these scrum jobs?
God/nature does not play dice, but apparently scientists do or should?
The unauthorized, anonymous official does not have a clue what he is talking about: "The company’s initial approach proved especially controversial. Known as “Waterfall,” this approach involved developing the system in relatively long, cascading phases, resulting in a years-long wait for a final product. Current and former federal officials acknowledged in interviews that this method of carrying out IT projects was considered outdated by 2008. “The Waterfall method has not been successful for 40 years,” said a current federal official involved in the project, who was not an authorized spokesperson and spoke on the condition of anonymity."
I always resisted any engineer label since I am aware that it has legal implications. However, whenever I needed a new job I would look in the classified/online job ads under software or IT or computer or some other dumb category and find a moderate list of specialized this and that. After many years I finally realized that I was missing out on dozens or hundreds of potential jobs I could easily qualify for since they were being (mis-)classified, thanks to HR types, under Engineering: like Database engineer, software engineer, etc. So unfortunately, I have to look under the Engineer category for IT work though it is often mixed up with EE jobs, not to mention Civil or Mechanical or Environmental or Materials...real engineering jobs. It would have been much simpler to keep a separate, respectable IT category on job boards, but unfortunately corporate HR people or managers trained in business or some soft arts-history-sociology type major who are creating these ads and should, but don't, know any better often call these positions 'software engineering' now. I can't fight this alone so I am forced to go along with it. Anecdote: I once attended a huge job fair with 10,000+ other job seekers, most of whom had become unemployed. Due to the huge crowd, the company announced that it would only meet with the engineers in person and everyone else who had waited for hours and driven from afar would need to drop off their resume and leave. I stayed thinking that they were including all other similar technical professions but had a hard time getting the promised face time (which I did get) because HR had to argue between each other as to whether I counted as an engineer. As it happens I often see their job ads for 'software engineers' and wonder why the hostility back then.
Futureshock (that's the title of a book millennials) came out in 1970. In the book it was called overchoice. So this is nothing new and has been discussed since at least 1970. But millennials think their every thought is completely new and original. Maybe I should write a book about that and coin a word like Cryptomnesia.
and this is the basis of the flux capacitor and all of time travel. About time it got discovered.
uh, Helium 3 maybe?
Sure, on paper foreign students are charged more.... but try and actually collect all of it when they don't actually pay.
Enough Helium 3 to make me very very very rich... and yeah power the entire earth for a million years.
What exactly is "pollution"? CO2? Better stop breathing then.
...Versus HR persons who have experience in nothing, no matter how old or young.
Maybe 1 year experience in 20 different things... which is not a bad thing. Show you can LEARN over and over and over again and don't only know one thing like C++, Java, etc.
Check back in here in about 20 years when you are making $115,000/year and wondering if you should learn Z++ (Also, you may have relocated with your spouse to Bumfuck, Mississippi by then...)
This would help people like me, who can't put names to faces or fail to notice when a face is the same as the one I saw last year... Perfect Glass application.
...except for the years they issued double that by mistake...oops.
Amen. Excellent post! I was going to write the same thing... Sadly VMS was unappreciated.