Nope, it's mostly the good, sane, caring teachers that leave. They can't stand the morale-killing insanity that is teaching and education administration in the US.
During the Japanese tsunami, I was very surprised to find Al Jazeera (online) light-years ahead of everyone else in getting the relevant information to me in the shortest time possible.
As both my mom and my wife's parents worked in schools their entire careers (and her sister now), I can assure you that this is EXACTLY how it works. They always have new gyms, playgrounds and computer labs, but they never have Kleenex, books, whiteboard markers, class materials, etc. Teachers pay for all this stuff out of their own salaries. It's so common that teachers can take it off their taxes.
In California, I got a teacher "fired" from a magnet school. Decades later, my mom was substituting after she retired from being a school administrator and she ran into her at the continuation (read: gang and student mothers) school. She glared death at my mother the entire time she was there. So, she didn't get fired, but she probably wished she had.
I had to negotiate to get even 3 weeks vacation (only because the other job I was up for was Director-level). With those 15 days, we get 7 holidays and 3 personal days. We also get sick separate at 6 days per year, but you don't get paid that when you leave. Most of my co-workers can't figure out how I keep getting so many vacation days. So, yeah, I have exactly 25 days off (31 with sick).
The standard for someone hired here is 7 days vacation the first year, and I have worked at jobs where it is 6.
We have a UK office and one of the UK programmers came over for 5 months. The joke was that he was on vacation every other week.
And I bought a house and was halfway to millionaire in 3 years. It's dipped a little now, but it will come back shortly. Thanks rising housing costs. Plus I get to live in this nice house all these years. Plus, I have a nice entry-level luxury car that I have driven for 10 years. It was only a couple thousand more than some "standard" cars and the ROI has been much less with the build quality. You keep waiting and scrimping and saving so you can get a number on a piece of paper. I'm enjoying my life every day right now. (I do pay off my credit cards every month, so I'm not that irresponsible, but denying yourself everything to get a number on a piece of paper isn't living.)
My California city is nowhere close to bankrupt. I don't own a gun and haven't felt the need.
Last I checked, the city services were all present. I've never felt shaken down by the local authorities, and my taxes are pretty reasonable.
I feel like the cops (for the most part) are aiming for public safety and not harrassment. Inspectors have never shown up to fine me. When I had a business, the fire inspector complimented me on having everything in place. I've never been no-knock raided nor known anyone personally who has been, although I have seen it on TV. I have heard that it has happened to innocent people, which needs to be corrected.
I don't know anyone who had "drug money" seized where it wasn't actually drug money.
The city did try civil forfeiture to redesign downtown, but the residents found out about it and ousted the mayor instead.
Sounds like you know a lot of unsavory characters and are making excuses for them getting caught performing illegal actions.
My previous company had a lot of H1-B employees. And we had a really difficult time hiring people that weren't, because there just aren't any that are worth anything. Trust me, I've done dozens of interviews where the people are just pathetic. Your area may differ, but I couldn't imagine trying to hire someone in Southern California right now if they were all gone tomorrow.
Move to an area with a drastic shortage of IT talent like California (LA, Orange County or Bay Area). Every company I know has open reqs and can't find anyone to fill them. If you are any good at all, you could be making six figures within 5 years.
The other day I was thinking. If you want to deal with unemployment, just federally mandate 40-hour workweeks maximum for anybody who is not a partial owner of a company (minimum of 1%). Some employers would instantly have to hire almost double the workforce, because they couldn't force everyone to work 80-hour weeks anymore. Companies would have to hire and train people. Unemployment would go through the floor and the number of people that could afford things would go up, meaning that it should spike the GDP in a very positive way. It would also, take money back from the rich to the middle class...
So Google should be required to do business with people it believes to be criminals until such time as the courts finally convict them? That's a pretty strange idea. I wasn't aware scumbags were a protected class. Google can choice who it does business with and who it doesn't. You have no right to demand they do business with scumbags.
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I look at it as an opening for better teachers
Nope, it's mostly the good, sane, caring teachers that leave. They can't stand the morale-killing insanity that is teaching and education administration in the US.
During the Japanese tsunami, I was very surprised to find Al Jazeera (online) light-years ahead of everyone else in getting the relevant information to me in the shortest time possible.
As both my mom and my wife's parents worked in schools their entire careers (and her sister now), I can assure you that this is EXACTLY how it works. They always have new gyms, playgrounds and computer labs, but they never have Kleenex, books, whiteboard markers, class materials, etc. Teachers pay for all this stuff out of their own salaries. It's so common that teachers can take it off their taxes.
In California, I got a teacher "fired" from a magnet school. Decades later, my mom was substituting after she retired from being a school administrator and she ran into her at the continuation (read: gang and student mothers) school. She glared death at my mother the entire time she was there. So, she didn't get fired, but she probably wished she had.
I had to negotiate to get even 3 weeks vacation (only because the other job I was up for was Director-level). With those 15 days, we get 7 holidays and 3 personal days. We also get sick separate at 6 days per year, but you don't get paid that when you leave. Most of my co-workers can't figure out how I keep getting so many vacation days. So, yeah, I have exactly 25 days off (31 with sick).
The standard for someone hired here is 7 days vacation the first year, and I have worked at jobs where it is 6.
We have a UK office and one of the UK programmers came over for 5 months. The joke was that he was on vacation every other week.
And I bought a house and was halfway to millionaire in 3 years. It's dipped a little now, but it will come back shortly. Thanks rising housing costs. Plus I get to live in this nice house all these years. Plus, I have a nice entry-level luxury car that I have driven for 10 years. It was only a couple thousand more than some "standard" cars and the ROI has been much less with the build quality. You keep waiting and scrimping and saving so you can get a number on a piece of paper. I'm enjoying my life every day right now. (I do pay off my credit cards every month, so I'm not that irresponsible, but denying yourself everything to get a number on a piece of paper isn't living.)
My California city is nowhere close to bankrupt. I don't own a gun and haven't felt the need.
Last I checked, the city services were all present. I've never felt shaken down by the local authorities, and my taxes are pretty reasonable.
I feel like the cops (for the most part) are aiming for public safety and not harrassment. Inspectors have never shown up to fine me. When I had a business, the fire inspector complimented me on having everything in place. I've never been no-knock raided nor known anyone personally who has been, although I have seen it on TV. I have heard that it has happened to innocent people, which needs to be corrected.
I don't know anyone who had "drug money" seized where it wasn't actually drug money.
The city did try civil forfeiture to redesign downtown, but the residents found out about it and ousted the mayor instead.
Sounds like you know a lot of unsavory characters and are making excuses for them getting caught performing illegal actions.
If you did that, America's enemies would quickly be investing in new spy satellites.
Illegal immigration wiped out meat packing unions
Link? I thought it was machinery that can pack meat virtually automatically.
Your comment, while interesting, seems to be arguing against itself.
On the one hand, you are saying that even WITH the current H1-B pool in your city, there is nobody to hire.
Then you turn around and complain that they keep raising the cap. Maybe they do it because there is nobody to hire.
It's already illegal to offer a substantially lower wage (you could get away with a little by claiming a lower experience level).
My previous company had a lot of H1-B employees. And we had a really difficult time hiring people that weren't, because there just aren't any that are worth anything. Trust me, I've done dozens of interviews where the people are just pathetic. Your area may differ, but I couldn't imagine trying to hire someone in Southern California right now if they were all gone tomorrow.
There is a maximum wage. Because despite nobody in Southern California being able to fill their reqs, nobody is raising the salaries very fast either.
Proof. How do you prove that they didn't hire you because of your age?
Move to an area with a drastic shortage of IT talent like California (LA, Orange County or Bay Area). Every company I know has open reqs and can't find anyone to fill them. If you are any good at all, you could be making six figures within 5 years.
If electricians were the mixed bag that "programmers" are, houses would burn down all the time and many people would die from electrocution.
If being an electrician were as difficult as being a programmer....
average wages for programmers are still below $40 an hour
Glad I don't live there... (And that's roughly $80,000 per year, BTW, not six figures...)
Only if you can keep them awake...
The other day I was thinking. If you want to deal with unemployment, just federally mandate 40-hour workweeks maximum for anybody who is not a partial owner of a company (minimum of 1%). Some employers would instantly have to hire almost double the workforce, because they couldn't force everyone to work 80-hour weeks anymore. Companies would have to hire and train people. Unemployment would go through the floor and the number of people that could afford things would go up, meaning that it should spike the GDP in a very positive way. It would also, take money back from the rich to the middle class...
Are you kidding? I'm just happy when Slashdot isn't 3 DAYS behind. 3 hours is a massive improvement.
Aren't they all the same? I mean, I can't tell them apart...
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And well they should. A united Korea would buy twice as many Chinese parts as South Korea does currently.
They're wise to this. Many spam e-mails have a different e-mail address for every e-mail.
Where are my mod points? MOD this guy up as Insightful!
So Google should be required to do business with people it believes to be criminals until such time as the courts finally convict them? That's a pretty strange idea. I wasn't aware scumbags were a protected class. Google can choice who it does business with and who it doesn't. You have no right to demand they do business with scumbags.
If the phone company has to, why not Google?