I gave a months notice when I worked at Brandeis university (IT support) my boss bitched and moaned, at the end of the two weeks she was in my cube begging me for two more weeks, no one was willing to even be interviewed she said... So I said sure, 2 more weeks (I had no job lined up at that time, but a week later I did, I had quit because of her). 2 weeks more came and went, my new job started Monday, I apologized and said, I gave her two weeks, then two weeks more... she started screaming about what a piss poor excuse of a man I was... I went down to HR, had a talk with them, yes, they had a copy of my notice, yes, they had been specifically told NOT to hire because she had told them she was going to convince me to stay!
They gave me a great recommendation that I took to my new job. She kept emailing me for months bitching at me.
Sometimes you think it is the company when in fact it is just one asshole (or in my case, severely bipolar not on medication) boss above You
so, that time when a coworker (ex-con) got angry and pulled a knife and started threatening everyone in the cube farm, I went to the boss and said, "this has to stop!" his answer was to say that he had no control over whether that guy brought a knife to work or not, I should just 'keep my head down.'... when I walked out then, I was 'unprofessional' in your eyes. Cops, when called, showed up three hours later, could find no one to admit to seeing the knife... and no knife on the perp.
Good, I am glad to be that unprofessional.
I have always given notice, and in two instances, (Brandeis University and a retirement home I worked at in the 80's) been convinced to stay on an extra two weeks, only to THEN be burned by those employers.
That said, how is it businesses can reasonably expect any notice at all when they will fire you at will with no notice whatsoever? I mean, some businesses have a heart, when Lockheed Martin let me go with no notice, after having told me my job was secure just two months prior, the manager 'felt bad' so gave me 6 weeks severance pay (unwarranted, I had been there less than a year)... but in general if they reserve the right to say GTFO to you, then you have the right to just say, "I quit." and walk out the door and they should feel nothing. This is business. Not a love affair.
I am sick and tired of hearing how you, the employee, should be 'loyal' to your employer when they are mostly sharks waiting to ditch you to save a nickel.
Actually, the GOP didn't 'select' Trump., they hate him and wish he was not in the picture, other than donating money to one of their lackeys who didn't make the cut. Trump arose on his own without aid of the GOP.
At least that's what many news outlets say, those that don't just call anyone who isn't voting for Hilary a GOP lackey.
for a company that publicly stated that if you don't want your private information exposed, you should not allow anyone else to know it (I paraphrase) to then have a number which they publicly (court records, not EXPLICITLY SEALED are PUBLIC!!!!) exposed in court stated that it should not have been stated, is ridiculous. And it is another indication of a company saying that whatever they do is fine, but other companies shouldn't be allowed to... do you not get that? Court cases ARE public, unless they are explicitly sealed, the COURT decides what is sealed, not the litigants, they can merely ASK. Apparently Google did not ask for the answers in discovery to be sealed, then bitched when it was exposed.
Tough luck Google. Gee, instead of being INSANELY PROFITABLE, you'll just be insanely profitable. I pity you (sarcasm)
until the thieves steal the robot?
I mean, faraday cage the thing, bring it to a metal warehouse, dismantle and sell it's parts. Easily enough done and at the same time you can be stealing the cars in the lot the robot used to patrol.
Actually, the classification authority runs directly to the President, Congress and the Judicial are not part of that chain. The President is the final authority on classification. Now, the President delegates a lot of that authority, but that does not mean ANYONE can classify ANYTHING higher than the Presidents classification. It means exactly the opposite.
As a current DoD employee, I currently sit through several hours of 'trianing' each year, that I must sign a legal document stating I saw it, that tells me that if I do ANY government business over personal email, that I am liable and breaking the law, that I will be fired, and then prosecuted.
Nice to know that our Empress-to-be is always above the law.'
the government is not trying to close that loophole.
the 'loophole' that the government is trying to close is the one where if I want to sell my brother my pistol, I need to get a background check on him first.
Uh, clearly you weren't on the internet in the 90's. Back them we had WebCrawler, Lycos, and a whole host of others and search delivered a much richer experience, knowing that different engines existed, architected differently meant that one could frequently find what one was looking for (on the first page of results) just by picking the right engine to use... Now, they are all gone, you get only what Google feeds you. Or Bing, which is not nearly as good. No, the internet did not suck before Google... And FYI, Yahoo was around for YEARS before Google.
So what about companies like Ticketmaster that do the same thing, buy up a ton of tickets right off the bat, then resell them? I have rarely found I could get a ticket at all from a venue, I almost always have had to use companies like ticketmaster, and yes, they add 'fee's' to the ticket face value.
back some time ago there was a small public relations firm called Citigroup. Then along came this big corporate bank that decided they liked the name.
The small firm took them to court and over the years of litigation, eventually the Court ruled in favor of Citigroup stealing the name of the small public relations firm. Who had been bankrupted by trying to defend their right to their name.
Now someone says "Thanks" and they think they own the right to thank your customers?
Awesome. Welcome to the 21st century in the USA.
Actually, I have paid a little over half a million dollars so far over my life for those roads, sewers, etc... So, yes, I built them, or rather, as I use them, I paid for that use, maintenance and repair. We all have... except those that pay no or little taxes, they use them for 'free', meaning I pay for them too. I am no libertarian, but I do see the point of working for your own money and being upset when some is taken from you ( that you worked for if you are me), and given to some other who you do not know and who is represented to you as being lazy, drugged out, etc... Me, I know lots of poor people, having been one myself for a while, and I know they are RARELY LAZY! Or stupid. They just haven't had the same views of the world or the same opportunities. But I also see some that do bitch about not having enough welfare money to buy a new car while drinking Crystal Head Vodka.
Easy, they had to back date their patents and then bribe all the public officials to sign off on those backdated documents. That is why they 'waited' two years to file. Ever been to China? that's how it works there.
16 years ago, when I was teaching, the book for two semesters was $90... then the publisher got wise, they chose to sell it by 'topic' so that you needed 10 'topics' for the 2 semester class... each 'topic' was sold for $25. I told my students to use last years edition, it had the same content, just not the new, spiffy graphics. Most ignored me and then bitched about spending $250 for all the 'topics' to complete a 2 semester course.
Clearly publishers would rape their own daughters if there was a nickel in it.
So, let's be clear, about 99% of YouTube (my viewing of it anyway) is people posting crap that they are interested in, you know, like how to weave a paracord bracelet, or how to change a solenoid that controls a butterfly valve in an intake manifold, sometimes with some music playing, somewhere... and to be honest, when I hear music in any YouTube video, proper attribution is given...
the problem is that 'traditional' 'news' sources no longer have journalists in them, they only have editorialists. They don't report the news, they spin the news to match their opinions, they use rhetoric to 'guide' your opinions and they don't actually want you to know the 'facts' they simply want to tell you what to think.
Kinda like one man shoots up a night club, and instead of being allowed to demonize the religion he says he did it for, we demonize the weapons he had, and by extension demonize anyone in the country who has such weapons. We can't demonize one class, but we can demonize the other, because that is what the 'traditional' news sources say.
They had him on their RADAR twice, and simply dropped him out of their picture both times... Why? I mean, I have never been on the FBI's RADAR, and I figure anyone who gets there TWICE deserves some attention.
The statement about him being a 'known quantity' clearly shows they aren't doing the right thing, if he truly was 'known' then they screwed up and should admit it and step up their efforts and evaluation of other 'known quantities'
Thank you for pointing these out. I wish more Americans knew that their Presidential choices are between getting hit with a sock full of shit in the mouth, or getting hit with a BLUE sock full of shit in the mouth.
they wouldn't finish their investigation before she is elected, then it will quietly go away. There is no Law in the USA anymore, just convenient lies they tell us little people.
yes, yes we are. But we deserve it because most Americans (it appears) are to dumb to do anything but simply repeat what their favorite mouthpiece tells them... My apologies to those that actually do their own research, I am not speaking of you.
Exactly.
These homeowners all probably drive down other neighborhood streets to save time, but when it comes to their own, GOD, Heaven forbid someone else do it.
If the oncoming traffic disobeys traffic laws, that is one thing, but you as a homeowner on a public street, do not own the street.
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I gave a months notice when I worked at Brandeis university (IT support) my boss bitched and moaned, at the end of the two weeks she was in my cube begging me for two more weeks, no one was willing to even be interviewed she said... So I said sure, 2 more weeks (I had no job lined up at that time, but a week later I did, I had quit because of her). 2 weeks more came and went, my new job started Monday, I apologized and said, I gave her two weeks, then two weeks more... she started screaming about what a piss poor excuse of a man I was... I went down to HR, had a talk with them, yes, they had a copy of my notice, yes, they had been specifically told NOT to hire because she had told them she was going to convince me to stay! They gave me a great recommendation that I took to my new job. She kept emailing me for months bitching at me. Sometimes you think it is the company when in fact it is just one asshole (or in my case, severely bipolar not on medication) boss above You
that is really awesome. I have almost never seen companies do stuff like that. Mind sharing which company it was?
so, that time when a coworker (ex-con) got angry and pulled a knife and started threatening everyone in the cube farm, I went to the boss and said, "this has to stop!" his answer was to say that he had no control over whether that guy brought a knife to work or not, I should just 'keep my head down.'... when I walked out then, I was 'unprofessional' in your eyes. Cops, when called, showed up three hours later, could find no one to admit to seeing the knife... and no knife on the perp. Good, I am glad to be that unprofessional.
I have always given notice, and in two instances, (Brandeis University and a retirement home I worked at in the 80's) been convinced to stay on an extra two weeks, only to THEN be burned by those employers. That said, how is it businesses can reasonably expect any notice at all when they will fire you at will with no notice whatsoever? I mean, some businesses have a heart, when Lockheed Martin let me go with no notice, after having told me my job was secure just two months prior, the manager 'felt bad' so gave me 6 weeks severance pay (unwarranted, I had been there less than a year)... but in general if they reserve the right to say GTFO to you, then you have the right to just say, "I quit." and walk out the door and they should feel nothing. This is business. Not a love affair. I am sick and tired of hearing how you, the employee, should be 'loyal' to your employer when they are mostly sharks waiting to ditch you to save a nickel.
Actually, the GOP didn't 'select' Trump., they hate him and wish he was not in the picture, other than donating money to one of their lackeys who didn't make the cut. Trump arose on his own without aid of the GOP. At least that's what many news outlets say, those that don't just call anyone who isn't voting for Hilary a GOP lackey.
for a company that publicly stated that if you don't want your private information exposed, you should not allow anyone else to know it (I paraphrase) to then have a number which they publicly (court records, not EXPLICITLY SEALED are PUBLIC!!!!) exposed in court stated that it should not have been stated, is ridiculous. And it is another indication of a company saying that whatever they do is fine, but other companies shouldn't be allowed to... do you not get that? Court cases ARE public, unless they are explicitly sealed, the COURT decides what is sealed, not the litigants, they can merely ASK. Apparently Google did not ask for the answers in discovery to be sealed, then bitched when it was exposed. Tough luck Google. Gee, instead of being INSANELY PROFITABLE, you'll just be insanely profitable. I pity you (sarcasm)
until the thieves steal the robot? I mean, faraday cage the thing, bring it to a metal warehouse, dismantle and sell it's parts. Easily enough done and at the same time you can be stealing the cars in the lot the robot used to patrol.
Actually, the classification authority runs directly to the President, Congress and the Judicial are not part of that chain. The President is the final authority on classification. Now, the President delegates a lot of that authority, but that does not mean ANYONE can classify ANYTHING higher than the Presidents classification. It means exactly the opposite.
As a current DoD employee, I currently sit through several hours of 'trianing' each year, that I must sign a legal document stating I saw it, that tells me that if I do ANY government business over personal email, that I am liable and breaking the law, that I will be fired, and then prosecuted. Nice to know that our Empress-to-be is always above the law.'
the government is not trying to close that loophole. the 'loophole' that the government is trying to close is the one where if I want to sell my brother my pistol, I need to get a background check on him first.
Uh, clearly you weren't on the internet in the 90's. Back them we had WebCrawler, Lycos, and a whole host of others and search delivered a much richer experience, knowing that different engines existed, architected differently meant that one could frequently find what one was looking for (on the first page of results) just by picking the right engine to use... Now, they are all gone, you get only what Google feeds you. Or Bing, which is not nearly as good. No, the internet did not suck before Google... And FYI, Yahoo was around for YEARS before Google.
So what about companies like Ticketmaster that do the same thing, buy up a ton of tickets right off the bat, then resell them? I have rarely found I could get a ticket at all from a venue, I almost always have had to use companies like ticketmaster, and yes, they add 'fee's' to the ticket face value.
back some time ago there was a small public relations firm called Citigroup. Then along came this big corporate bank that decided they liked the name. The small firm took them to court and over the years of litigation, eventually the Court ruled in favor of Citigroup stealing the name of the small public relations firm. Who had been bankrupted by trying to defend their right to their name. Now someone says "Thanks" and they think they own the right to thank your customers? Awesome. Welcome to the 21st century in the USA.
Actually, I have paid a little over half a million dollars so far over my life for those roads, sewers, etc... So, yes, I built them, or rather, as I use them, I paid for that use, maintenance and repair. We all have... except those that pay no or little taxes, they use them for 'free', meaning I pay for them too. I am no libertarian, but I do see the point of working for your own money and being upset when some is taken from you ( that you worked for if you are me), and given to some other who you do not know and who is represented to you as being lazy, drugged out, etc... Me, I know lots of poor people, having been one myself for a while, and I know they are RARELY LAZY! Or stupid. They just haven't had the same views of the world or the same opportunities. But I also see some that do bitch about not having enough welfare money to buy a new car while drinking Crystal Head Vodka.
Easy, they had to back date their patents and then bribe all the public officials to sign off on those backdated documents. That is why they 'waited' two years to file. Ever been to China? that's how it works there.
16 years ago, when I was teaching, the book for two semesters was $90... then the publisher got wise, they chose to sell it by 'topic' so that you needed 10 'topics' for the 2 semester class... each 'topic' was sold for $25. I told my students to use last years edition, it had the same content, just not the new, spiffy graphics. Most ignored me and then bitched about spending $250 for all the 'topics' to complete a 2 semester course. Clearly publishers would rape their own daughters if there was a nickel in it.
So, let's be clear, about 99% of YouTube (my viewing of it anyway) is people posting crap that they are interested in, you know, like how to weave a paracord bracelet, or how to change a solenoid that controls a butterfly valve in an intake manifold, sometimes with some music playing, somewhere... and to be honest, when I hear music in any YouTube video, proper attribution is given...
the problem is that 'traditional' 'news' sources no longer have journalists in them, they only have editorialists. They don't report the news, they spin the news to match their opinions, they use rhetoric to 'guide' your opinions and they don't actually want you to know the 'facts' they simply want to tell you what to think. Kinda like one man shoots up a night club, and instead of being allowed to demonize the religion he says he did it for, we demonize the weapons he had, and by extension demonize anyone in the country who has such weapons. We can't demonize one class, but we can demonize the other, because that is what the 'traditional' news sources say.
They had him on their RADAR twice, and simply dropped him out of their picture both times... Why? I mean, I have never been on the FBI's RADAR, and I figure anyone who gets there TWICE deserves some attention. The statement about him being a 'known quantity' clearly shows they aren't doing the right thing, if he truly was 'known' then they screwed up and should admit it and step up their efforts and evaluation of other 'known quantities'
... to never move to Oklahoma...
we have like 100 political parties. Not 2. The ones you Non-Americans never heard of? Things like the American Socialist Party, etc.
Thank you for pointing these out. I wish more Americans knew that their Presidential choices are between getting hit with a sock full of shit in the mouth, or getting hit with a BLUE sock full of shit in the mouth.
they wouldn't finish their investigation before she is elected, then it will quietly go away. There is no Law in the USA anymore, just convenient lies they tell us little people.
yes, yes we are. But we deserve it because most Americans (it appears) are to dumb to do anything but simply repeat what their favorite mouthpiece tells them... My apologies to those that actually do their own research, I am not speaking of you.
Exactly. These homeowners all probably drive down other neighborhood streets to save time, but when it comes to their own, GOD, Heaven forbid someone else do it. If the oncoming traffic disobeys traffic laws, that is one thing, but you as a homeowner on a public street, do not own the street.