johnward

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by johnward 12y ago
Being honest usually doesn't get you very far in a job search. It's sad but true. I've found stating that I have a BS when I don't at least gets me passed the auto filters. Then it's usually not as big of a deal on
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by johnward 12y ago
"when an employee asks for a raise, or say they are quitting does that make them a horrible employee" No it doesn't. You seem think employees are there just to serve you for the lowest bid and if an employee is coming to you
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by johnward 12y ago
What would you say if the "value proposition" is simply Company Y will pay me more?
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by johnward 12y ago
Yeah sounds like exactly the kind of place I wouldn't want to work anyway.
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by johnward 12y ago
"If an employee comes to me and asks for a raise then I begin the process to replace them." That makes you sound like a horrible manager.
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by johnward 12y ago
Well I wouldn't have turned down the 20% increase I would have taken that to my boss. Did the same thing and was made a counter offer that was better.
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by johnward 12y ago
"The only way to get a 20 to 25k raise is to find another job. Unless of course you are doing the job of 4 people which in IT 99.9% of the times you are. Don't believe me? Go ask for a 20k raise if their eyebrows shoot up like Mr.
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by johnward 12y ago
Other Caribbean countries are like that without embargoes though. The first time I went to the dominican I saw all kinds of shacks made out of whatever they could fine/steal. The second time they built a new highway that avoided this a
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by johnward 12y ago
My understanding, as a non cigar smoker, is that the quality of Cubans has decreased and they are only popular because of illegality of them.
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by johnward 12y ago
Thanks. This is awesome. I guess it never bothered me enough to just google "show path in finder".
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by johnward 12y ago
I used to be fairly good with resumes and would often help my friends perfect theirs. The last job I got I was able to put on my fake "Mr Extrovert" routine to get the job. Been there for almost 5 years now. Lately I just don&#x27
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by johnward 12y ago
Sales Engineering seems like a pretty good gig. You get to come in and do proof of concepts. Make things look like they work. Tell the customer anything is possible and everyone loves you. Then I, the consultant, have to come in and break i
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by johnward 12y ago
I've been trying for 2 years to escape but apparently I don't have have any useful skills. Or maybe I just am terrible at interviewing and the entire process. It's really hard to come off confident when deep down you really t
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by johnward 12y ago
First of all I don't necessarily think I am good at coding. When I was young it was the fun of learning. Then when I work tech support I coded because I was for trying to create my ideal life, which was not having to work for someone e
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by johnward 12y ago
The biggest problem I have is there is nothing showing your path so no quick way to navigate up a few levels. I've been using OSX for about 5 years now and I still have no idea how to get to the parent dir. There is an option in the GU
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by johnward 12y ago
I'm pretty sure this is exactly what they are doing. They recognized that their techs are not 100% utilized so they are going to "farm them out" so to speak. Based on other commentors UPS and FedEx have already been doing thi
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by johnward 12y ago
I worked for FedEx early in my career but I don't know what they are trying to do here. Maybe leverage the FedEx Services workforce to squeeze some more revenue?
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by johnward 12y ago
Oh I agree. I like the idea that the article was talking about. I'll be interested in seeing how it works out. It reverses the stigma to almost be where you'd look bad for not taking enough time vs taking too much time.
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by johnward 12y ago
I get 20 actual vacation days. I think maybe 8 recognized holidays and 2 personal choice holidays and I think another 2 holidays that are chosen by work site. So I get 30-32 days off per year which is pretty generous. For most people I know
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by johnward 12y ago
Most people get some time off but a significant amount of people still get no time off and work on holidays.
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by johnward 12y ago
Yes but there are still a lot of people who receive no vacation time and there is no law saying that employees have to get a minimum amount of time off.
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by johnward 12y ago
Someone needs to be available to cover issues but they should also get paid some type of bonus for working on a holiday in my opinion.
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by johnward 12y ago
Which is exactly why these policies suck. It's "unlimited" but it's implied that you don't take too many days. It's like the comcast of vacation policies.
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by johnward 12y ago
Some people in the US get no paid vacation at all and work on public holidays.
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by johnward 12y ago
In the US that's weird because the mandatory days off per year are 0. A good amount for most people in the US is 10 days per year (or two weeks). I get 4 weeks which is pretty great but many of the people I work with end up not taking
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by johnward 12y ago
Yeah I don't understand this one. If you're going to give someone 4 weeks off (which is extremely generous in the US) just give it to them at the beginning of the year. Some places let you take the vacation before you accrue it bu
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by johnward 12y ago
I'm an IBM consultant. A large portion of our revenue comes from services. I'd say it would be correct to classify IBM as a Consulting and Services company now. More so than software and hardware. We still do a lot of software but
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by johnward 12y ago
The ones that are shipped from an Amazon warehouse are usually not bad. It's less likely to be screwed up at that point. I noticed that ebay is now allowing you to send your items to their warehouse in the same fashion. So amazon is bo
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by johnward 12y ago
In my experience they do attempt to pay you the lowest amount you're willing to work for. I managed to negotiation a 43% increase at one point. That tells me they were never paying based on the value I bring. Had I not threatened to le
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by johnward 12y ago
oh hai. So was what I said correct? When I had money I used to scarf up domain names for any idea I had. Some of them were decent but I don't think I've ever sold a single one. Eventually just let them all expire after holding the

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