screwturner68

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by screwturner68 4y ago
I think all too often you get so burned out that it doesn't really matter what changes it won't be enough. It's like when they offer you a 3% pay increase to stay when you give your two weeks, it's too little too late.
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by screwturner68 4y ago
TDIL -parallel construction
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by screwturner68 4y ago
If you are talking about Los Alamos you can commute in from Santa Fe, it wasn't bad, about 45 minuets each way. In my opinion it's kind of expensive for being in the middle of nowhere, you don't get much bang for your buck h
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by screwturner68 4y ago
I've worked at a few DOE sites albeit as a consultant not an FTE, Fermi, Los Alamos and a couple others. You are correct that the work is interesting and a like academic atmosphere, it was the academic atmosphere part that I found off
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by screwturner68 4y ago
I read the doc and it seems like the case is built on information gathered by the government but they won't say how. They don't want to say how because it's supposed to be a national security issue, which is understandable b
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by screwturner68 4y ago
Seems like this is a case of the government saying "trust us". They noted two ways that the feds could have gotten the IP address but how about a third, they targeted the guy and got the IP address from the ISP and said "loo
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by screwturner68 4y ago
That's what I was thinking, I'd go to my favorite break in CR and spend a few months being unplugged and quiet. I'd surf every morning and watch the sunset every evening and not really worry about what I did in between.
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by screwturner68 4y ago
Being super smart isn't always a plus in business. People like to hire the smartest guy in the room simply because he's the smartest guy in the room and not because he'll do the best job. One of the issues of having a super
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by screwturner68 4y ago
Interesting. My first visit could best be described as invasive, the doc checked every part of my body including places that have never seen sunlight. I was a bit surprised where they checked but it's just the job. I looked into digi
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by screwturner68 4y ago
out of pocket and out of network specialists. There was one specialist that wasn't in my plan and that cost me about $10K. Frankly it's worth it to me to get the best person I can find and pay for it than getting someone sub par
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by screwturner68 4y ago
So if my manager doesn't want me to take time off I have no vacation?
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by screwturner68 4y ago
It's likely nothing but it's worth getting checked out. I was a lifeguard and worked outside in my 20's and didn't think anything about it, but as I'm finding out all the damage you do to your body in your 20'
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by screwturner68 4y ago
Let me add to this, have a loved one check you out once a month chances are you can't see your back or the top of your head. If something looks "funny" go get it checked out -funny means discolored and not symmetrical. The
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by screwturner68 4y ago
So I spent this summer dealing with skin cancer and while my out of pocket was only about $20,000 the bill was well into the six figure range and this was just getting cut up not chemo or any other drug. We saw the same thing with the drug
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by screwturner68 4y ago
I've had great managers in the past and I've had absolute shit managers in the past but one thing that is constant is my need not to talk to them. There are really only a couple of times we need to talk outside of the twice a yea
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by screwturner68 4y ago
exactly. At times in my life $7000 might as well be $1MM, If you take money from someone pay it back.
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by screwturner68 4y ago
"The reward for success in most companies is to be able to hire more people" This is because the more people you manage the more powerful you become, the guy with 100 reports is more valuable than the guy with 20 reports. Those 1
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by screwturner68 4y ago
Every manager I've had apparently thinks making sure the Standards of Business conduct training being done before any other group has their SBC training done is the most important part of their business. Their second most important pa
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by screwturner68 4y ago
I worked for a start up and I was at the bottom of the food chain with 3 managers Me->Supervisor->Manager->Director. They all managed the person below them and nobody else. One day I was at the corporate office and I got a hold o
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by screwturner68 4y ago
I've heard nothing but the warning of a massive recession since about 2015, half the pundits are telling me the world is going to end in the next six months and the other half say the pump is primed and the good times will be back in t
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by screwturner68 4y ago
I've mentored a couple of college kids and have pointed out some good jobs at good companies and the response I got was "they're boring". They might be boring but they pay well and have good benefits, I guess it's
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by screwturner68 4y ago
Yep I was getting $57/h in the spring of 2001, then the party stopped.
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by screwturner68 4y ago
The dot com bust was a bit of a perfect storm, lots of people weren't needed because Y2K was over, lots of dumb ass startups with no product and no revenue disappeared and finally 9/11 gave everyone an excuse to chop heads because
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by screwturner68 4y ago
It's always been the unspoken truth about graduate school especially in liberal arts. There's really no reason to get a PHD in Russian Lit unless you have a lot of money and time or you plan on going into teaching. The issue of
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by screwturner68 4y ago
MY dad who had a PHD and was a college dean said the same thing years ago. While that may be true but a lot of the universities only seem to recruit professors from a limited number of universities so the feed back loop is still there -Head
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by screwturner68 4y ago
I was in Newark Airport and all their restaurants have ipads at every table so you can place your order, nobody actually takes your order, you do it yourself. Eventually somebody will throw some over priced and underwhelming food on your t
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by screwturner68 4y ago
It's not the tip jar in front of every damn cash register that honks me off it's the embedding of the tip into the total. There's a place down the street that is very up front about paying their workers a living wage, giving
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by screwturner68 4y ago
I'm a lifer my self (21 years so for). The thing is I'm not even close to senior, we have lots of guys with 30+ years sitting at the head of the table. The biggest problem I see is with the older lifers not wanting to leave, not
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by screwturner68 4y ago
I guess I can answer this, I've got 21 years in at one of the OGs of SV. When I came on board all the old timers told me to get everything I wanted up front so I beat them up pretty hard (they really wanted to hire me). I did fine bu