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Well, in Spain if you're fired without any good reason, you get paid 45 days for every year you've worked for a company. This 45 days line is very flexible, so depending on your contract and negotiations you can get at least 32 days or top at 50 days.
That guy was GREAT in cryptography but very bad at using metaphors :)
CAPTCHA: atari... this is a new one XD
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That's what intercourse really means...40 years ago you could say something like that and nobody would snicker. Nowadays the meaning is overloaded to refer to a specific type of intercourse.
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Well.. it is Cali. They don't believe in market economics. They legislate everything. I would hate to live there. It's a shame because the scenery is so nice.
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One of the simplest and smartest things I've read here in a while. It takes attention to arrange your personal finances in a way to be able to quit your job, but it's less difficult than most people think. I started with the book "Your Money or Your Life".
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I've been interviewing candidates for an open position on my team. We've had a few of them come in over the past 2 months that were absolute BS artists. When you read their resume and look at their work experience it seems legit on paper. Then I sit down with someone face to face and start getting into raw, technical details and all they can do is spit back the same phrases I used. It's frustrating, but the only way to gauge to what degree someone is familiar with a given technology.
Any schmuck that's used Access before can tell you he "knows databases", but ask someone about O(n^2) runtime for a double nested FOR loop when iterating programmatically over a table, and you get a blank stare. sigh. I've had candidates with supposed SQL experience give me blank stares when I asked them about the difference between a LEFT JOIN and an INNER JOIN.
captcha: waffles - not again.
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Not it means what people think it means, nothing more and nothing less. In other words it means the exact same thing it has always meant.
Language changes and evolves, accept it.
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I once got a job offer from a company for salary $X. I accepted it. I went in a few days early to sign the paperwork, and they were offering me a salary of $X-10000.
I was pretty young and easily bullied, so I agreed, but on the way home that day I built up such a head of steam about the affair that I called the recruiter who set us up, and he said I probably shouldn't take the deal. (He cost himself money doing this, but earned my respect.) I quit before I started.
Don't work for cheap people. Sure, they'll save money on external costs like printers and computers, but most technology companies have the great majority of their costs being their employees' salaries, and they can work on softening you the hardest.
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How is it any of the government's business? Yea it's pretty crappy but the company needed to spend less on that position, in their opinion. If you start getting the government involved in wages and the like we will end up in a recession. Regardless of that, it's just immoral for government to involve themselves in private business matters like that.
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That's funny I must have missed that "Nuke Australia " memo...
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That's what happens when you don't go to an actual college and learn how to read badly printed exam papers properly...
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Well, the story about the guy who got canned and then the recruiter...well, pfft, who cares? Good luck to those assholes, because they have about a 0% chance of finding someone with high availability UNIX systems like that for $35k. I've seen all sorts of job positions where what they want and what they offer virtually garuntees it will never be filled. Bear in mind though, that sometimes this is just a political move to keep budget money.
That said, I've got my own crap story that's similar: I was fed up with my contractor position and was throwing out my resume`. My department had high turnover. I get a call from a rival contracting company. They wanted to tell me about a position; the one I already had. And to top it off, they were offering 10% more.
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You think that is 'protection'? Good luck with that.
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Never take a raise once you've put in your papers. If the company respected you properly (more importantly the management of the company) you would have already gotten your raise.
To be offered a substantial raise at the last minute is unprofessional and means they just don't care...you're being raped.
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The state we are in now, a recession would be excellent news.
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If people are so desperate for jobs that they will accept unsurvivably low pay, the government has to spend a lot of money running things called "soup-kitchens" and "free clinics" and cetera. Personally, I would ensure that everyone is given a sum of money large enough that they are not so far into poverty as to injure them or their family, or make them less employable or force them to steal to survive, but small enough that they have a strong incentive to work. On the other hand, a minimum wage, combined with a refundable negative-rate tax bracket, such as the Earned Income Benefit or the American Earned Income Tax Credit, and involuntary unemployment benefits is probably acceptable.
However, I think that more germane is the fact that he was laid off rather than fired. Laying people off simply for not taking a pay cut used to be politically unacceptable Before Reagan, so it may have been made illegal not knowing that greed would one day be considered good, just like Texas made corporate donations illegal (at least in elections for state office) not knowing that one day the True Patriots such as Tom DeLay would be the ones in the pockets of amoral corporations. Firing for cause, yes, you can replace the offender with anyone you want at whatever rate, but I would imagine that layoffs would have to be for at least a minimum time, and give the laid-off workers first dibs on their old jobs at roughly the old salaries when the staff can again be justified.
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Fact of the day, discrimination against certain minorities is extremely serious, and it is far too common for companies burdened by anti-discrimination laws to find "creative" ways to get around them*.
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Is that not roughly what they said about just about every piece of pro-labour regulation before it was introduced? Ending slavery? Violates the "rights" of slaveholders Ending child labour? A "luxury" that is allegedly unaffordable for the Third World Ending the union between commercial and investment banks? It would drive all finance to London or Paris Ending segregation? But how do we expect children to LEARN whith those THINGS in the room; but we cannot just force people to teach/serve/employ blacks; but no-one would shop at a place that served blacks Protecting the rights of employees? But we cannot force employers to treat their employees properly, it would cause a recession and it is immoral
My view, simply, is watch me.
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Your mum's vagina is a recession.