In a country where retail jobs are pretty much readily available, especially if you have retail experience, yeah, it's a matter of choice.
If Asda treated their staff _that_ badly they'd get fewer recruits and have to improve working conditions. Walmart benefit from the relative lack of a safety net in the US but in the UK people just don't have to take abuse from employers.
That said, Asda have gone from winning 'Best company to work for' awards (e.g. Sunday Times Top 100) to not even featuring in the lists, so Walmart's influence does sadly appear to be taking effect.
Purely anecdote, but a former girlfriend likes her job at Asda. Then again she was also an instigator of domestic violence, so who knows.
Here's some fucking news for you: London is not the world. London is not Europe. London is not the UK. London is not England. London is not a fucking barometer for behaviour across the country.
Just because it's fashionable to declare that you're boycotting Asda to excuse choosing to shop at Waitrose in London doesn't mean that's a common thing. I live outside of London and I know nobody that boycotts Asda for any reason other than price or quality of product.
Some people prefer to shop elsewhere, but that's not a boycott.
Personally I prefer M&S but Asda, Sainsbury, Morrisons and Tesco all offer far greater variety and are often far easier to get to, so they all continue to draw greater numbers of shoppers than the more constrained supermarkets.
If it helps any, I don't work for Asda. Or Walmart. Or indeed any retailer at all. I just share the Scot's dislike of the attitude of people that live in London and the way the government pander to them. You're not special, and you don't speak for the rest of us. Do try and remember that.
Programmers that talk to each other are more productive. Programmers that talk to the users are more productive. Programmers that talk should be the fucking norm.
Problem solving is fun too, and you're right that as you gain seniority the problems become more complex and the solutions become a mix of business, social and technology approaches. You'll find as you progress further that the bigger problems generally become less likely to have single correct answers too, so suddenly you're using an additional set of problem solving capabilities and seeking minimums or maximums rather than simple classifications.
But sometimes you just want to walk away, sit at a computer and write some code. It's simple, but it's fun.
Including the code written three years ago that you spend days refactoring and bugfixing to make a trivial change because it was so awful it held back the entire codebase. Then find out it's actually you that wrote it, back then.
Today's also the day that the guys responsible for prosecuting child pornography offenders stated that they lack the resources and would only prosecute the highest priority cases - leaving around 50,000 alleged offenders uncharged.
So that's up to 50,000 people that allegedly have images of actual child sex that wont be charged, and one person with cartoons that's been found guilty.
Fucked up situation indeed. Interesting that it's his second conviction for breaching child pornography laws without ever being found in possession of child pornography. And people wonder why I refuse to browse porn sites these days..
Actually Government ministers have stated a desire to extend the law to written materials.
Since the laws on images include scenes of bondage, the moment they extend it to written materials I'm bringing around 400,000 private prosecutions against women that own 50 Shades.
I live in the UK and I think Chris Grayling is an utter twat. I hope he loses his seat in the election, and that causes a terminal depression.
He deserves it.
There are already laws against harassment, against threatening rape or murder, against pretty much anything he wants to try and cover with further legislation. So fuck him, I reserve the right to offend him and if I see him in the street then he'll find out that I don't just do that online.
Sorry, you're bitching at someone for providing jobs without belittling those that do the jobs? You're also assuming that the in house staff aren't the same race as their employers. You also appear to be assuming that this is in the us or possibly south Africa.
In my country domestic staff are traditionally white Anglo Saxon. Indeed, mine all are, except my Friday chef; I think he had a Pakistani heritage.
In India the domestic staff are Indian, etc.
So please, do try not to jump to conclusions, you're just not very good at it.
I put it to you that the greater the education of women, the lower the birthrate. So bringing this world countries up to 1st world standards of living will, if it includes education, resolve the birthrate issue. Sex isn't the issue, birthrate is
The number of guns used in those rapes and murders dropped once it was guaranteed that the ay law-abiding victim would be unarmed, but there have been a lot more murders, a lot more rapes, and a lot more violent crime overall.
Since none of the victims would have been carrying a gun prior to the ban either, your interpretation of events is spurious and bullshit.
You've also glibly disregarded the changes in rate and nature of rape crime reporting - by rate mean the percentage of incidents that get reported.
So sorry if your abuse of statistics shows you to be a bigoted twat with an agenda but that's what happened.
One final comment. He uses a series of 'steel collars' in his design. I presume that's a British term. If you look up 'steel collars' on Google you get a bunch of bondage sites. Instead look up 'shaft collars.'
So to avoid finding bondage sites I should search for "shaft collars"? Feels counterintuitive to me. But I'm british. .
Just recognize that you are wearing a piece of functional jewelry rather than making a practical choice.
I like the convenience of "time on wrist" - it's definitely functional jewellery but when it's not practical to wear an expensive delicate watch I put on a far cheaper one instead; it's a practical choice.
Actually I find that approach results in a very happy manager.
I don't really mention it at job interviews, instead I mention all of the things that it enables - the level of autonomy it gives me allows all sorts of fun, interesting and valuable work to get completed.
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In a country where retail jobs are pretty much readily available, especially if you have retail experience, yeah, it's a matter of choice.
If Asda treated their staff _that_ badly they'd get fewer recruits and have to improve working conditions. Walmart benefit from the relative lack of a safety net in the US but in the UK people just don't have to take abuse from employers.
That said, Asda have gone from winning 'Best company to work for' awards (e.g. Sunday Times Top 100) to not even featuring in the lists, so Walmart's influence does sadly appear to be taking effect.
Purely anecdote, but a former girlfriend likes her job at Asda. Then again she was also an instigator of domestic violence, so who knows.
Here's some fucking news for you: London is not the world. London is not Europe. London is not the UK. London is not England. London is not a fucking barometer for behaviour across the country.
Just because it's fashionable to declare that you're boycotting Asda to excuse choosing to shop at Waitrose in London doesn't mean that's a common thing. I live outside of London and I know nobody that boycotts Asda for any reason other than price or quality of product.
Some people prefer to shop elsewhere, but that's not a boycott.
Personally I prefer M&S but Asda, Sainsbury, Morrisons and Tesco all offer far greater variety and are often far easier to get to, so they all continue to draw greater numbers of shoppers than the more constrained supermarkets.
If it helps any, I don't work for Asda. Or Walmart. Or indeed any retailer at all. I just share the Scot's dislike of the attitude of people that live in London and the way the government pander to them. You're not special, and you don't speak for the rest of us. Do try and remember that.
'to'? I want one for her to masturbate _with_
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But go for it, deride someone for being precise in a manner you hadn't anticipated.
You're the only fuckwit to mention Obama. But carry on, enjoy your life. Even idiots should be happy.
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You ignorant witless twat.
Programmers that talk to each other are more productive.
Programmers that talk to the users are more productive.
Programmers that talk should be the fucking norm.
Programming is fun.
Problem solving is fun too, and you're right that as you gain seniority the problems become more complex and the solutions become a mix of business, social and technology approaches. You'll find as you progress further that the bigger problems generally become less likely to have single correct answers too, so suddenly you're using an additional set of problem solving capabilities and seeking minimums or maximums rather than simple classifications.
But sometimes you just want to walk away, sit at a computer and write some code. It's simple, but it's fun.
it's just that all other code besides mine sucks
Including the code written three years ago that you spend days refactoring and bugfixing to make a trivial change because it was so awful it held back the entire codebase. Then find out it's actually you that wrote it, back then.
Been there..
ASCII porn was massive on usenet - see http://www.asstr.org/
If you don't think that was popular with the ladies, explain the success of 50 Shades of Grey.
Then you're incentivising them to not have their clients found innocent.
My understanding is that 50 Shades started life as badly written fanfic, so it's still an excellent example of how stupid such a law would be.
Today's also the day that the guys responsible for prosecuting child pornography offenders stated that they lack the resources and would only prosecute the highest priority cases - leaving around 50,000 alleged offenders uncharged.
So that's up to 50,000 people that allegedly have images of actual child sex that wont be charged, and one person with cartoons that's been found guilty.
Fucked up situation indeed. Interesting that it's his second conviction for breaching child pornography laws without ever being found in possession of child pornography. And people wonder why I refuse to browse porn sites these days..
Actually Government ministers have stated a desire to extend the law to written materials.
Since the laws on images include scenes of bondage, the moment they extend it to written materials I'm bringing around 400,000 private prosecutions against women that own 50 Shades.
I live in the UK and I think Chris Grayling is an utter twat. I hope he loses his seat in the election, and that causes a terminal depression.
He deserves it.
There are already laws against harassment, against threatening rape or murder, against pretty much anything he wants to try and cover with further legislation. So fuck him, I reserve the right to offend him and if I see him in the street then he'll find out that I don't just do that online.
I didn't espouse data retention or destruction. I merely highlighted that the EU courts have demanded that Google engage in neither.
That's just fucking stupid.
No, it was stupid.
If the material shouldn't be available, then remove it.
If it should be available, allow it to be found.
Right now Google are in a no-win situation and the rest of us have artificial barriers in the way of what should be pretty simplistic research.
Sorry, you're bitching at someone for providing jobs without belittling those that do the jobs?
You're also assuming that the in house staff aren't the same race as their employers.
You also appear to be assuming that this is in the us or possibly south Africa.
In my country domestic staff are traditionally white Anglo Saxon. Indeed, mine all are, except my Friday chef; I think he had a Pakistani heritage.
In India the domestic staff are Indian, etc.
So please, do try not to jump to conclusions, you're just not very good at it.
I put it to you that the greater the education of women, the lower the birthrate. So bringing this world countries up to 1st world standards of living will, if it includes education, resolve the birthrate issue. Sex isn't the issue, birthrate is
How does that work? Did you sign an agreement with the union? What are they going to do if you ignore them anyway?
In the UK I've never seen "you can't do that, union rules" ever, outside of parody TV shows.
The number of guns used in those rapes and murders dropped once it was guaranteed that the ay law-abiding victim would be unarmed, but there have been a lot more murders, a lot more rapes, and a lot more violent crime overall.
Since none of the victims would have been carrying a gun prior to the ban either, your interpretation of events is spurious and bullshit.
You've also glibly disregarded the changes in rate and nature of rape crime reporting - by rate mean the percentage of incidents that get reported.
So sorry if your abuse of statistics shows you to be a bigoted twat with an agenda but that's what happened.
From one of the reviews:
One final comment. He uses a series of 'steel collars' in his design. I presume that's a British term. If you look up 'steel collars' on Google you get a bunch of bondage sites. Instead look up 'shaft collars.'
So to avoid finding bondage sites I should search for "shaft collars"? Feels counterintuitive to me. But I'm british. .
Just recognize that you are wearing a piece of functional jewelry rather than making a practical choice.
I like the convenience of "time on wrist" - it's definitely functional jewellery but when it's not practical to wear an expensive delicate watch I put on a far cheaper one instead; it's a practical choice.
My hand-built mechanical watch may be less than 100% accurate, provide only basic functions and may indeed only last decades.
It's also far from dumb. It's intricate, complex and beautiful.
Actually I find that approach results in a very happy manager.
I don't really mention it at job interviews, instead I mention all of the things that it enables - the level of autonomy it gives me allows all sorts of fun, interesting and valuable work to get completed.