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Dilbert 2020-12-24[^]
If someone can work part-time and do what is touted as a full-time job to their manager's satisfaction, good for them. High performers are usually way underpaid, and this is one way to rectify it. This CEO is probably grossly overpaid himself, which makes him a sanctimonious butthole who should have tried to keep performers like this on staff. Imagine what they could contribute if working for the company full time.
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I would agree with your sentiments in the general case, but in one of the cases, the engineer was not meeting expectations:
Quote: Bell said Canopy discovered the first engineer was secretly working a second full-time job after 2 1/2 months of poor performance, which had been flagged by the engineer's teammates.
In the other, the new hire was told before hiring that the company does not allow dual full-time jobs, and he/she lied about it.
Quote: The second engineer showed similar red flags before they even started the position, Bell said, and HR told the person directly that the company was not OK with dual full-time employment. An employment-verification request soon confirmed HR's hunch was correct, despite the engineer's initial denial.
Firing was justified in both cases, but for different reasons.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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When I clicked on the link, all I saw was a headline and a photo. There wasn't even a scrollbar, let alone part of an article. I'm guessing it was because of my ad blocker, but there was no prompt to turn it off.
I'll still be cheering for anyone who pulls this off while performing satisfactorily.
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Greg Utas wrote: When I clicked on the link, all I saw was a headline and a photo. There wasn't even a scrollbar, let alone part of an article. I'm guessing it was because of my ad blocker, but there was no prompt to turn it off.
I didn't run into anything like that this time; but it has become annoyingly more common. IN the good old days you could just block the modal and it's full screen background and be good. Increasingly I'm finding pages that skip the fullscreen modal background and just disable scrolling on the main content instead. With the tools I have the only LART I've found that works is often to fully disable js on their site.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Before I accepted the nomination for a Boy Scout District Commissioner (volunteer) position, I talked to my boss about it. The reason is that we frequently tell new volunteers that It's an hour a week but we omit the last two words It's an hour a week per scout. I knew this position would impact my paying job so I checked first.
Anyone who doesn't check first is a fool.
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Reading the list and the reasons for the firings, they had nothing to do with morals, ethics, or holding multiple jobs. None of these items is a defensible reason in today's environment. However, firing them for subpar performance is valid. This CEO's only real mistake was publishing why they were fired.
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couple years ago the guy that outsourced his work, but companies that outsource parts to another country, ah no.
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Cloud skills are complicated and in high demand. Smart enterprises need a practical approach to the staffing shortage, and smart employees need multicloud skills. And some people have a cloud problem
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Someday it would be interesting to compare the knowledge of the CEOs/CIOs,C*Os who are pushing this, to the knowledge of the programmers programming it. I suspect the former greatly lags behind the latter, because the former is full of buzzwords vs. actual knowledge. And I suspect if pay became commensurate with knowledge, the world would change overnight.
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David O'Neil wrote: if pay became commensurate with knowledge, the world would change overnight.
- Real-estate prices would plummet, as the CxOs could no longer afford the mortgages on their McMansions and they are repossessed by the banks
- Ditto for high-end vehicles
- The CxOs would be forced to compete for living space with the other homeless
- Violent crime would increase, as the CxOs tried to make ends meet with no visible talents or abilities
- The several States would have to build more prisons to incarcerate all those criminal ex-CxOs
- There would be a shortage of builders, requiring the States to put all of those ex-CxOs on the chain gang!
What could be bad?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Sounds like a wonderful world! If Frank Capra was still alive he could make a feel-good movie about it!
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Even better, 99% of our current politicians and bureaucrats would be gone if knowledge was a prerequisite.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: There would be a shortage of builders, requiring the States to put all of those ex-CxOs on the chain gang!
What could be bad?
The collapse of buildings when the ex-CxOs decided to speed up construction when no one was watching by "optimizing" away the installation of 80% of the fasteners and 90% of the bracing specified in the blueprints as needed to maintain structural integrity.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Dan Neely wrote: "optimizing" away the installation of 80% of the fasteners and 90% of the bracing
The Romans allegedly had a very good quality-control system for their bridges. When a bridge was complete, the engineer was made to stand under the bridge, and a legion was marched over the bridge. If the bridge collapsed, the engineer would have been the first to be killed.
I'm sure we can think up a similar arrangement for the chain gang workers...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Google Search is timing out when users search for specific terms like "How many emojis on iOS," "How many emojis on Apple" and "How many emojis on Windows." "But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we do not know we don't know"
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The Landmark Forum? A family member tried to get me to do a couple of their 'sessions' and they used and reused that phrase in their 'sales pitch' -
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Good morning Donald Rumsfeld, I thought you've retired
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A gamma ray burst about 2.4 billion light years away is being called “the BOAT” – the brightest of all time – and is so powerful it has even affected Earth’s atmosphere Oh. Pardon me.
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Quote: the brightest of all time
Why do I feel that's like putting the word "final" in the name of a document?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Kent Sharkey wrote: A gamma ray Are we going to be like Hulk soon? Coooool
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Smart devices need better security and Google thinks KataOS, written in the Rust programming language, could help. This is the Year of KataOS
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How long until it gets buried next to Stadia?
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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And just across the way from SharpOS[^].
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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This has more to do with Google and their brilliant ideas that get binned in 2 years.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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