screwturner68

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by screwturner68 3y ago
In my 20 years (not MS) we've had 2-3 temporary pay cuts during downturns to avoid layoffs -a 5% pay cut sucks but the job you save may be your own. In 20 years I've seen somewhere around 200,000 of my co-workers RIF'ed, 10,
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by screwturner68 3y ago
I'm fine that but let's cut the bullshit. Quit trying to create a "culture", we are not family, we are not friends, we owe each other nothing aside from a paycheck and 40h of work a week, we don't need to help each
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by screwturner68 3y ago
It maybe considered the mainstream perception now but prior to Reagan/Greenspan that was not the mainstream perception. Knowing several Chicago School economists I can say that Friedman's ideas aren't as lauded as you might
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by screwturner68 3y ago
My first question is is your application suited for the cloud or are you just doing a lift and shift so you don't have to have on-prem equipment? As some that does migrations, I'd talk to a couple of vendors, ask them questions an
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by screwturner68 3y ago
most are food service and retail -jobs that work you like a rented mule. pay minimum wage,have no benefits and only give you 31 hours a week with a schedule that changes constantly.
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by screwturner68 3y ago
That's going to be very hard to do, the Boomers have retired and there isn't anyone to replace them and unless and until we fix immigration there won't be anyone to replace them. In addition, look at the job opening 50% of o
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by screwturner68 3y ago
What do you mean by storage orchestration? Can you give some examples?
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by screwturner68 3y ago
Greenlake?
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by screwturner68 3y ago
I'm looking forward to going all electric in my small by most standards apartment buildings but I'm not going to tear out my existing mechanical to make it happen today. The upgrade is about $25K a unit for the electrical upgrade
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by screwturner68 3y ago
LL here, my guess is that gas stoves are a little cheaper and I don't have to drag 100/200amp service to every apartment instead of the usual 60amp service they likely have. Add to that getting permits could take years in NYC. I
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by screwturner68 4y ago
I don't know if that was the schools issue or what is going on in higher-education in general. I've been out of college for over 30 years but I like to take a class every year to learn things -I like a classroom setting. The fir
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by screwturner68 4y ago
CC actually do have some of the best teachers, they may not have some of the best research professors you get at a high-end school but they are actual teachers as opposed to grad assistants or a research guy who really doesn't want to
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by screwturner68 4y ago
That's more on the universities end than the CC, I used to see it all the time. The community colleges would have agreements with many universities but when you'd as the uni to accept your credits they wouldn't and you'
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by screwturner68 4y ago
I think with the advent of online education, community colleges as not seen as necessary. Why go to Hometown Community College when you can attend almost any school online. Personally I'm a big fan of community colleges, they can be a
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by screwturner68 4y ago
It doesn't hurt that now a month goes by in a blink of an eye but when you are 16 a month feels like forever.
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by screwturner68 4y ago
They may not want to hire someone who isn't competitive but the reality is companies don't want high fliers. There's only so much room for advancement and there's only so many interesting projects. Companies need workh
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by screwturner68 4y ago
I live across the street from a grade school, nobody that goes to this school lives more than 3/4 of a mile from the school. There is one street that might be considered busy but there is a stop light and a crossing guard. Further th
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by screwturner68 4y ago
So X'ers what happened to us? If you are a "kid today" your parents are either X'ers or Millenials. As X'ers we've made it a point of pride that we played till the street lights came on, we walked to school,
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by screwturner68 4y ago
As I get older (54) I figured out a couple of things, the first is obvious and especially true in our industry and that is you must constantly be learning. Personally I devote one hour a day during the work week to study a given topic that
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by screwturner68 4y ago
We have all hands meetings for our group, division and the company. I try not to attend them because they usually boil down to two different things; we're doing great but not great enough or we've decided to re-brand/re-name
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by screwturner68 4y ago
I know a few people that have done this, from what I understand managers like this because they don't have to choose and nobody gets mad, it's a win/win.
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by screwturner68 4y ago
You can I've known a few co-workers who have. They had another job already lined up so when the boss came looking for heads to chop they volunteered. They got a very nice severance, a short vacation and a new gig and the boss was hap
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by screwturner68 4y ago
Am I supposed to feel bad for people who moved to the desert and have no water or worse subsidize a farmer to grow high water usage crops like alfalfa so they don't lose their antiquated water rights? Honestly, two of the fastest grow
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by screwturner68 4y ago
Try a couple of months at the wage they pay those poor bastards. That's the thing about "having to work the floor". If I'm the CEO, I'm making $10MM a year and frankly busting ass for 4 whole hours at $5000/h
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by screwturner68 4y ago
I don't know if it's still the case but you used to have to go to Hamburger U before you could own a McD's so you knew how to do the job. I actually see it all the time and you can always tell who the owner is, instead of so
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by screwturner68 4y ago
That is the most expensive McDonalds I've ever been too.
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by screwturner68 4y ago
The issue in my opinion is their day or two on the job really doesn't give them a good picture of what's going on. Sure they might see a few things but they could just as easily be an anomaly as they could be systemic. I wish up
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by screwturner68 4y ago
They are like moles, they start with one or two and then they multiply until they are everywhere. They don't do much but you can't get rid of them.
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by screwturner68 4y ago
Isn't that more of a reflection of the company and not the worker? Why would a worker stay when they can make significantly more at another company? If companies wanted to retain their workers you'd think they'd do a better
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by screwturner68 4y ago
College does not need to be more like a trade school, that's what trade schools are for. If we need to churn out a gaggle of programmers the boot camp model has worked for years, Accenture used to push hundreds of college grads throug

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