It's you that is lacking understanding of the word respect. Respect must be earned and never given, and there is no reason that one should respect an employer simply because they're an employer.
I'm so sick of Indian code and the companies that are peddling that crap and trying to pass it off as code developed in the states.
Some of the worst code and the most idiotic engineering I've ever seen have been from american coders.
The indian coders generally seem to be far more interested in pointless and overly complicated optimizations that partially solve terrible design decisions than the american coders, who seem to like throwing more hardware at it.
At amazon I watched an upgrade that increased the computational throughput of the cluster our crapware was on by a factor of 96 manage to nearly double the software's actual throughput. Those were some of the worst engineers I have ever has the displeasure of working with.
This is proof of idiocy. If everyone around the hapless victim stands around in silence, they're complicit in the crime. If they all walk, the employer's fucked rather than the other way around. Americans are too stupid to realize this.
It's great that your experiences have worked for you. In general it's best practice to give notice. If you spend two more weeks in a job that you hate, to me that says a lot about your character.
Agreed. It says your a spineless loser who'd rather kowtow to an idiot than stand up for itself.
Right, because all employers treat their employees with at least courtesy.
If you're smart and you were concerned about their leaving their previous employer without notice, you'd be wondering about that employer rather than first assuming that your new employee is a snake, because you DID just hire them.
Of course, if you plan on treating your new employee like dirt, then you deserve what you get.
I worked for a company that was so mismanaged that the management frequently didn't even bother to tell the software team that they needed some software written until after it was due. Naturally, they blamed us for the software's late delivery... this is also a company that had an entirely pointless dress code (i.e. no shorts even if you're just in the office and not seeing a customer), and no developers in the hall with the management and executives... and the list goes on.
I got a new job with a relocation package, so I had six weeks of notice. I waited until my last day at work to e-mail the director of HR that I was leaving and that was going to be my last day. She called me and asked me about it, and I gave her quite an earful before I left.
A developer at Amazon got pissed off at his management for not letting his team fix some problems that could lead to crashes, because new features were (politically) more important.
When he got page in the middle of the night because of a crash caused by the very problem that he'd been pushing to get fixed for months, his response was to send an e-mail to his manager saying he wasn't coming back to work.
Corporations only think that they can get away with this sort of double standard because the people working for them allow it.
My coworkers have been good references, so I haven't lost anything by burning those bridges.
Of course, such a system would give independent candidates a chance. That will not be tolerated.
The system gives independent candidates a choice, because the wealthy are aware of the fact that americans are far too stupid to vote for someone who doesn't have a large media presence.
If americans were marginally intelligent, they'd ALL stop voting for the currently dominant parties.
Oh, screw you. How were we supposed to know he was going to pull this crap, and how would voting for the other asshole have been any better?
Well, any even marginally intelligent person would have recognized Barack OButthead for the corporate cunt-licker that he is when Deepwater Horizon blew. His administration parroted the BP lies about the oil leak and helped BP violate a raftload of international laws regarding cleanup and use of dispersants, not to mention royally screwing the local economy several times over.
Anyone who votes for a candidate from either of the dominant parties is indubitably an imbecile.
There are people out there who think that Apple is a software company and that Microsoft is a hardware company. It's to a large extent because their minds are too small to see the rest of what MS has in its product portfolio.
The "revolutionary" software framework that Apple put behind OSX is basically a clone of.NET, which I realized as I was poking through the Apple developer documentation.
It's been obvious from the day that Deepwater Horizon blew that Obama works for he corporations. Why is anyone surprised by this sort of thing from him? What we know now is that Bezos paid Obama.
The hot chicks in suits approach has worked for Booz Allen Hamilton for quite a while. It does occasionally get them sued for breaching their contracts since they blatantly hire based on looks and not on qualifications, and it usually gets them paid. There's no reason that Oracle couldn't use the same strategy.
Maybe we'll start seeing some competition there. At least it would add some pleasant distraction from the drudgery of mindless drivel that 99% of craporate IT work involves.
It's because stupid people have been convinced that "global warming" means that every part of the world will warm together, because they don't understand basic things like the fact that energy flows down hill. Since increasing the average global temperature leads to extremes in weather rather than just in warmer weather, "climate change" is also a more accurate way to describe what's actually happening.
If they are unwilling to change, and I unsurprisingly tend to agree with Linus's stance on the fakery involved in being "professional", then she can either deal with it or leave. The people on that list were the way they were long before she got there even if she has been involved with it for the last few years.
Linus is trying to justify being an arrogant asshole under the guise of being casual. He's the sort of person who'd get his ass kicked time and again in person because he's such an asshole if he acted like he does online, hiding behind the anonymity of the internet. He's the perfect example of the biggest down side to the technology age.
If Sarah cannot stand the heat, she should go back to the kitchen.
See - now that is political incorrectness.
Yet also a fair statement. After all, when you attempt to join a community you either abide by the rules and customs of that community or else you leave and go elsewhere. You do not demand that community change to meet your world view.
Linus is an arrogant jackass. He's not someone to look up to. Any community riddled with people like him is bound to exclude the best people in its field, to its detriment.
If you don't choose the lives of your passengers, then you are immediately disqualified from being a pilot, regardless of race or gender.
That this should be a qualifying attribute should be a no-brainer.
Agreed. If Koreans disagree, then tough. Either way, they lose, because no one in their right mind would fly a plan piloted someone who fails that standard.
it posed no risk? Are there *really* people who think that a boulder so far away is actually a danger?
If so, sterilize them. Now!
Yes, indeed they do. Why? Because so few people have the brains and imagination to conceive of distance beyond the next block. In astronomical terms, 65,000 miles is almost grazing, hence a near miss. To a human on earth, it's a long way away.
IBM's current focus is to sell services that it can no longer provide to companies willing to pay top dollar for the reputation that IBM once commanded. Then IBM will lay off the people who can actually DO the work that they are on the hook to deliver (set up automated backups and monitoring and disaster recovery solutions for data centers), hire people whose only other access to "high tech" jobs is telemarketing firms at low prices, and pocket the profits, counting on the fees for non-delivery being lower than the cost of actually doing the work.
The GOP has never truly been in power. The US has been a government of the dollar, by the dollar, and for the dollar for quite some time now. Modern politicians are nothing but mouthpieces.
Eagee,
When the US economy tanks, it will take the world's economy with it. There won't be any safe haven left after that.
company dears to do something in the US (under cover of darkness) which is standard practice everywhere else on this planet. Welcome to the 21th century!
IMO the significance here is in the other part of the post, which is subtly castigating Google for not doing the same thing. They should of course castigate Apple for the same thing in regards to the iPhone. Both could be in the drivers seat if they wanted to be, yet they are not.
Maybe we should require that irs do its job, and actually tax the corporations, instead of leaving them with enough loopholes to get out if it altogether AND require that the government spend its tax revenue wisely.
If neither of those happens, then we should take the IRS as well as the government to task, rather than voting the same fucktards into office over and over again.
The prob,me that we have is democracy. Unless the voters are intelligent enough to make rational choices about who to elect, it doesn't work.
Clearly, it's not working.
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It's you that is lacking understanding of the word respect. Respect must be earned and never given, and there is no reason that one should respect an employer simply because they're an employer.
I'm so sick of Indian code and the companies that are peddling that crap and trying to pass it off as code developed in the states.
Some of the worst code and the most idiotic engineering I've ever seen have been from american coders.
The indian coders generally seem to be far more interested in pointless and overly complicated optimizations that partially solve terrible design decisions than the american coders, who seem to like throwing more hardware at it.
At amazon I watched an upgrade that increased the computational throughput of the cluster our crapware was on by a factor of 96 manage to nearly double the software's actual throughput. Those were some of the worst engineers I have ever has the displeasure of working with.
This is proof of idiocy. If everyone around the hapless victim stands around in silence, they're complicit in the crime. If they all walk, the employer's fucked rather than the other way around. Americans are too stupid to realize this.
It's great that your experiences have worked for you. In general it's best practice to give notice. If you spend two more weeks in a job that you hate, to me that says a lot about your character.
Agreed. It says your a spineless loser who'd rather kowtow to an idiot than stand up for itself.
Right, because all employers treat their employees with at least courtesy.
If you're smart and you were concerned about their leaving their previous employer without notice, you'd be wondering about that employer rather than first assuming that your new employee is a snake, because you DID just hire them.
Of course, if you plan on treating your new employee like dirt, then you deserve what you get.
I worked for a company that was so mismanaged that the management frequently didn't even bother to tell the software team that they needed some software written until after it was due. Naturally, they blamed us for the software's late delivery... this is also a company that had an entirely pointless dress code (i.e. no shorts even if you're just in the office and not seeing a customer), and no developers in the hall with the management and executives... and the list goes on.
I got a new job with a relocation package, so I had six weeks of notice. I waited until my last day at work to e-mail the director of HR that I was leaving and that was going to be my last day. She called me and asked me about it, and I gave her quite an earful before I left.
A developer at Amazon got pissed off at his management for not letting his team fix some problems that could lead to crashes, because new features were (politically) more important.
When he got page in the middle of the night because of a crash caused by the very problem that he'd been pushing to get fixed for months, his response was to send an e-mail to his manager saying he wasn't coming back to work.
Corporations only think that they can get away with this sort of double standard because the people working for them allow it.
My coworkers have been good references, so I haven't lost anything by burning those bridges.
Clueless much?
Of course, such a system would give independent candidates a chance. That will not be tolerated.
The system gives independent candidates a choice, because the wealthy are aware of the fact that americans are far too stupid to vote for someone who doesn't have a large media presence.
If americans were marginally intelligent, they'd ALL stop voting for the currently dominant parties.
Oh, screw you. How were we supposed to know he was going to pull this crap, and how would voting for the other asshole have been any better?
Well, any even marginally intelligent person would have recognized Barack OButthead for the corporate cunt-licker that he is when Deepwater Horizon blew. His administration parroted the BP lies about the oil leak and helped BP violate a raftload of international laws regarding cleanup and use of dispersants, not to mention royally screwing the local economy several times over.
Anyone who votes for a candidate from either of the dominant parties is indubitably an imbecile.
There are people out there who think that Apple is a software company and that Microsoft is a hardware company. It's to a large extent because their minds are too small to see the rest of what MS has in its product portfolio.
The "revolutionary" software framework that Apple put behind OSX is basically a clone of .NET, which I realized as I was poking through the Apple developer documentation.
It's been obvious from the day that Deepwater Horizon blew that Obama works for he corporations. Why is anyone surprised by this sort of thing from him? What we know now is that Bezos paid Obama.
The hot chicks in suits approach has worked for Booz Allen Hamilton for quite a while. It does occasionally get them sued for breaching their contracts since they blatantly hire based on looks and not on qualifications, and it usually gets them paid. There's no reason that Oracle couldn't use the same strategy.
Maybe we'll start seeing some competition there. At least it would add some pleasant distraction from the drudgery of mindless drivel that 99% of craporate IT work involves.
It's because stupid people have been convinced that "global warming" means that every part of the world will warm together, because they don't understand basic things like the fact that energy flows down hill. Since increasing the average global temperature leads to extremes in weather rather than just in warmer weather, "climate change" is also a more accurate way to describe what's actually happening.
If they are unwilling to change, and I unsurprisingly tend to agree with Linus's stance on the fakery involved in being "professional", then she can either deal with it or leave. The people on that list were the way they were long before she got there even if she has been involved with it for the last few years.
Linus is trying to justify being an arrogant asshole under the guise of being casual. He's the sort of person who'd get his ass kicked time and again in person because he's such an asshole if he acted like he does online, hiding behind the anonymity of the internet. He's the perfect example of the biggest down side to the technology age.
If Sarah cannot stand the heat, she should go back to the kitchen.
See - now that is political incorrectness.
Yet also a fair statement. After all, when you attempt to join a community you either abide by the rules and customs of that community or else you leave and go elsewhere. You do not demand that community change to meet your world view.
Linus is an arrogant jackass. He's not someone to look up to. Any community riddled with people like him is bound to exclude the best people in its field, to its detriment.
If you don't choose the lives of your passengers, then you are immediately disqualified from being a pilot, regardless of race or gender.
That this should be a qualifying attribute should be a no-brainer.
Agreed. If Koreans disagree, then tough. Either way, they lose, because no one in their right mind would fly a plan piloted someone who fails that standard.
Maybe making decisions that do NOT lead to steering the ship INTO the iceberg?
Yes... but explain that to the average american't bozo who thinks that it's ok for schools to include theology in science classes.
it posed no risk? Are there *really* people who think that a boulder so far away is actually a danger?
If so, sterilize them. Now!
Yes, indeed they do. Why? Because so few people have the brains and imagination to conceive of distance beyond the next block. In astronomical terms, 65,000 miles is almost grazing, hence a near miss. To a human on earth, it's a long way away.
IBM's current focus is to sell services that it can no longer provide to companies willing to pay top dollar for the reputation that IBM once commanded. Then IBM will lay off the people who can actually DO the work that they are on the hook to deliver (set up automated backups and monitoring and disaster recovery solutions for data centers), hire people whose only other access to "high tech" jobs is telemarketing firms at low prices, and pocket the profits, counting on the fees for non-delivery being lower than the cost of actually doing the work.
The GOP has never truly been in power. The US has been a government of the dollar, by the dollar, and for the dollar for quite some time now. Modern politicians are nothing but mouthpieces. Eagee, When the US economy tanks, it will take the world's economy with it. There won't be any safe haven left after that.
Plumbers don't have to put up with as much shit as most IT workers
That's very true. Plumbers don't have to sit in a box day in and day out, and they get to charge extra for working in off hours.
company dears to do something in the US (under cover of darkness) which is standard practice everywhere else on this planet. Welcome to the 21th century!
IMO the significance here is in the other part of the post, which is subtly castigating Google for not doing the same thing. They should of course castigate Apple for the same thing in regards to the iPhone. Both could be in the drivers seat if they wanted to be, yet they are not.
Maybe we should require that irs do its job, and actually tax the corporations, instead of leaving them with enough loopholes to get out if it altogether AND require that the government spend its tax revenue wisely. If neither of those happens, then we should take the IRS as well as the government to task, rather than voting the same fucktards into office over and over again. The prob,me that we have is democracy. Unless the voters are intelligent enough to make rational choices about who to elect, it doesn't work. Clearly, it's not working.