What Are You Doing Right Now
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Getting into the car and driving to Madrid now. Bright and warm day here. @Minion-Queen would love it.
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Running firmware updates.
- Router is done
- NAS happening as I type
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@scottalanmiller said:
No, most of the civilized world has laws that say that governments can't tie pay to political opinion, especially for blue collar jobs.
Yeah, I'm lost on that one. I can't figure out what you mean but never mind, moving on
Virginia is one of the most corrupt parts of America and even by American standards it is atrocious.
Yeah, I can't and won't comment on that.
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Slow day on MangoLassi today...
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@scottalanmiller said:
Virginia is one of the most corrupt parts of America and even by American standards it is atrocious.
@nadnerB said:
Yeah, I can't and won't comment on that.
But Illinois sent our last two governors to jail!
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Just found out the job I applied to is bringing someone internal into the role.
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Went and fixed something I did wrong for an onsite for Staples on lunch, grabbed food, and came back to the office.
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Total time roundtrip was 40 minutes. Thankfully the guy was less than five minutes from my main job.
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Research. Retyping a letter that should have gone out two months ago. Guess I really should get to the Post Office.
Rebuilding my OpenNMS test install. A little at a time and seeing what could have caused the last one to stop working...
Watching it rain again...
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I think my boss gave me the plague. Co-worker asked me to go forth and sneeze all over the building so when my boss and I are sick the rest of the staff will be too. Her level of evil is maniacal and I deeply appreciate it.
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What the crap? McDonald's here is now paying workers (not managers, just entry level workers) $14.40/hr here. Dang I've had many IT job offers that wanted to pay less than that. They got their raises today apparently to give them more "momentum".
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@thecreativeone91 there is a big push here for $15/hr minimum wage, gotta burn for the people who've worked hard to get up to that from the minimum who won't see an increase.
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@MattSpeller said:
@thecreativeone91 there is a big push here for $15/hr minimum wage, gotta burn for the people who've worked hard to get up to that from the minimum who won't see an increase.
Yeah really. My last network admin job was $19/hr. So that's only a $4.50 difference for a lot more knowledge, work and responsibly.. and of course lots of stress. And being on call 24/7.
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@MattSpeller said:
@thecreativeone91 there is a big push here for $15/hr minimum wage, gotta burn for the people who've worked hard to get up to that from the minimum who won't see an increase.
That happened to me so many times when I was young. They used to inch up the minimum wage and it totally screwed people with experience but working similar jobs. I used to get hired above minimum wage, then earn a raise, then have the minimum wage come up to where I was and NEW people with zero experience get hired and on day one make more money than me because the company "didn't hire at minimum wage, ever" - no, they just let people who had already been hired fall down to minimum wage.
When that would happen, not only did it make the senior people the poorest, but it also meant that the cost of everything went up (inflation) and those that worked the longest and hardest got hurt the most.
I see increasing the minimum wage as a very bad thing. There are better ways to fix these things. Undermining the pay for value system can never work well.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
What the crap? McDonald's here is now paying workers (not managers, just entry level workers) $14.40/hr here. Dang I've had many IT job offers that wanted to pay less than that. They got their raises today apparently to give them more "momentum".
That's the same as Texas. The "entry point" for low end gas station cashier is $11/hour in Dallas (which is one of the cheapest places to live in the US) and "entry point" for high end gas stations like Buckey's is $12/hr - and those jobs are often in rural areas that are far cheaper than Dallas!!
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@coliver said:
Just found out the job I applied to is bringing someone internal into the role.
That happens SO often. So often the request for interviews is just a political maneuver.
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I'm in Madrid adjusting to the office here. Very quiet. Love this city, but it is no Sevilla.
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This came up while finding today's news articles:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/22/chinese-school-bars-windows-pupil-suicides
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Not a lot as i can't be bothered to do anything major!
Might do some more Server Room Clean up MAYBE! -
@hobbit666 said:
Not a lot as i can't be bothered to do anything major!
Might do some more Server Room Clean up MAYBE!I have friends currently hitchhiking from Wales to Spain! Gotta get them at the border rather soon (like next week.)
