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Sandbagger SA posted:Yup. When I was a boy scout it was like that too. The larger organization is by and large co-opted by the Mormon church but individual troops don't necessarily partake in the Kool-Aid as heavily. As a still active/faithful LDS person this is largely true from my experience. I went to scouts through my youth but didn't really care for it. Just more interested in camping and hanging out with my friends in my neighborhood. I never earned my Eagle Scout either. I still donate to Friends of Scouting each year that it comes around and realistically I will probably serve in some capacity in the scouting program by way of receiving an assignment from church. Lots of good memories of scout stuff, mostly discovering what was and wasn't flammable during scout camps. Living in Utah we don't really get much diversity in our scout troops.
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Bovril Delight posted:What weather are you encountering? I'm running the DW but we rarely have any weather below freezing. When it ices over the whole area shuts down anyways. I put the DWS on my wife's car and they are super quiet, seemed to help MPG a bit from the stickier summer tires she had. Valley Metro, Arizona. Sunny 362 days a year.  I was mocking someone in YOSPOS to earn this terrible avatar. I can't be arsed to burn  to change it.
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Speaking of Arizona, if this passes it's pretty much acknowledging that outside of school zones, the speed limit is really sign+9:AZFamily posted:PHOENIX (AP) -- The House has taken steps to approve a bill that makes the maximum penalty for speeding up to ten miles over the speed limit just $15. Rep. David Stevens' proposal builds on current law stating officers may issue a "waste of a finite resource" ticket for drivers traveling up to 10 miles over the limit in a 55 mph zone. House Bill 2662 changes the language to encompass any street or highway with exceptions for school crossing zones, construction zones and business or residential districts. The bill states the violation shall not exceed $15 plus surcharges, can't be reported to insurance companies and would not add points to a driver's license. The proposal passed on a voice vote Thursday and now awaits a formal vote. I don't think I've ever been pulled over for anything less than 15 over anyway (not counting "your light is out" or that one time I street-raced a Civic in my grandma's E320).
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hahaha thats great! I've been ticketed for 5mph over in shitpile. ....$200 later.
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Memento posted:IT, in all of their infinite wisdom and grandeur, decided earlier this year that the anti-virus software we use, needed to scan files as they're downloaded. This adds a little extra time to downloading things, so in order to avoid network congestion, they limited the size of files we're able to download to 100 megabytes. I was upstairs yesterday asking about solutions for me to get this dataset. One of them had the loving nerve to look me straight in the eye and say "Oh, CSIRO? Aren't they in Clayton (Melbourne suburb)? You could just go out there with a portable HDD and get the data straight from them!". I smiled, nodded, went back downstairs and explained the situation to my manager. She was loving steamed. Direct quote: "What sort of loving answer is that?" This is sadly common, and indicative of very poor IT management. It's staff who don't understand the business requirements of their own company coupled with a manager who also doesn't know or doesn't care who hires/retains the wrong people. I've been called in as a consultant (a Bob straight out of Office Space) a few times to go in and clean poo poo up like that when it finally got to the higher-ups. It's always the same story: the IT staff feels like it's an "us vs. them" situation with the users, and don't understand that they are on the EXPENSE side of the ledger and should be doing everything they can to understand what the people who actually generate income/do the real work of the company need and coming up with real solutions to make that work. My recommendations have typically included firing the manager and several staff members who reek of that attitude and starting over with people who don't have attitude problems and a manager who actually gets this who has the authority to fire staff to make sure none of these "team cancer" techs can infect anyone else with their poo poo attitude. gently caress corporate IT. cursedshitbox posted:I've been ticketed for Motronic fucked around with this message at 17:26 on Feb 27, 2015 |
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Feb 27, 2015 17:24
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Tusen Takk posted:Me and my wife just filled out our W4s since we just got married and it takes less out of our cheque now, and if we had kids it'd take even less (though it does give you the option to enter 0 to make sure you don't end up owing) I would hope so! I used a crummy calculator on our internal ADP portal. We have some weird income stuff going on, so that could skew things that janked my withholding I guess.
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IOwnCalculus posted:Speaking of Arizona, if this passes it's pretty much acknowledging that outside of school zones, the speed limit is really sign+9: Holy poo poo this owns.
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ssjonizuka posted:I would hope so! I used a crummy calculator on our internal ADP portal. We have some weird income stuff going on, so that could skew things that janked my withholding I guess. ADP's web interface is probably the most horrible piece of code still working on the internet. gently caress it and absolutely everything about it.
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IOwnCalculus posted:ADP's web interface is probably the most horrible piece of code still working on the internet. gently caress it and absolutely everything about it. Agreed. It took me 3 or 4 tries for it to realize that I was trying to add kids, etc. I'll have a redo of it on another calculator and see what it says. Which, we still need to do taxes, so that's going to be an adventure in and of itself.
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Motronic posted:
I say this pretty much every day. The amount of poo poo running in the background of my work laptop to make sure I don't visit Facebook slows it down to an absolute crawl. Pretty sure there's something running that has a massive memory leak requiring a restart every couple of hours. On top of that, our internet access is on a vpn that routes all the internet traffic from our office to houston to Oslo back to Houston then to our office. 80 percent of our work is online to proprietary company websites / programs that have not been updated to work with anything over about IE 7. I have a company issued iPad that I can't use because safari, chrome, Firefox won't work these programs. I think I have turned it on once since I got it. When I try and scan documents, if it's over something like 1.25 mb, the system rejects it thinking its a virus. Plus, our document storage is remote to Houston (we have no local server), so every time we need store a file, it a) causes our office wide internet to slow down even further and b) locks up the laptop until the transfer is complete. The absolute poo poo cherry on top of the poo poo sundae is that we have pretty much the slowest cable broadband possible. At a 4 man office that profited over 1 mil last year. Tide fucked around with this message at 18:02 on Feb 27, 2015 |
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Motronic posted:This is sadly common, and indicative of very poor IT management. It's staff who don't understand the business requirements of their own company coupled with a manager who also doesn't know or doesn't care who hires/retains the wrong people. I work for a company that does contracted IT work for a lot of school districts. Almost every time we get a new school district we have to work to overcome the "us vs. them" mentality that the old IT department had nurtured. Especially in education, it is really easy to BS your way into an IT job and then hide your lack of knowledge by denying requests under the umbrella of security. What we like to hammer into the heads of new employees is that it is above everything else a customer service job first.
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IOwnCalculus posted:Speaking of Arizona, if this passes it's pretty much acknowledging that outside of school zones, the speed limit is really sign+9: Meanwhile in Seattle, they are lower speed limits because apparently pedestrians not knowing how to cross the street means that cars need to drive slower! quote:In 2015, we’ll launch a 20 MPH Zone program in up to 10 areas. These will mainly be located close to schools and parks. We’ll drop the speed limit and install signs and pavement markings to make sure intersections are clear (to improve visibility for all travelers). Those are some pretty major roads that people use to commute all over the city and some of which never have pedestrians on them. I love this city and have spent my entire life here, but I'm starting to lose my patience with how its changing.
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Motronic posted:This is sadly common, and indicative of very poor IT management. It's staff who don't understand the business requirements of their own company coupled with a manager who also doesn't know or doesn't care who hires/retains the wrong people. Even with IT companies, internal facing IT is about keeping the external facing IT people running. IOwnCalculus posted:Speaking of Arizona, if this passes it's pretty much acknowledging that outside of school zones, the speed limit is really sign+9: ilkhan fucked around with this message at 18:19 on Feb 27, 2015 |
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Feb 27, 2015 18:14
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-13 this morning gently caress the earth.
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Feb 27, 2015 18:19
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cursedshitbox posted:hahaha thats great! It's an awkward moment when you get a ticket that's worth more than the vehicle you received it in.
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Feb 27, 2015 18:20
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Just got asked to come in this weekend 
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Feb 27, 2015 18:23
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Asked? Or told? And do you get paid OT?
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Feb 27, 2015 18:24
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 SF is getting these. gently caress. YES. Its a Alexander Dennis double decker. (British!). 13,6" high, 42' long, 102" wide. 330hp ISL cummins, 56 thousand pounds.
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Feb 27, 2015 18:26
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But it will piss fluids.... every where!
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Feb 27, 2015 18:28
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Ha! The US ones are built in Bumfuck Indiana. and come with a pricetag of nearly a million fuckin' dollars.
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Feb 27, 2015 18:38
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Utah upped the speed limit along I-15 through the main populated area to 70 MPH a couple months ago. Don't forget that we also have a massive stretch of 80 MPH freeway when heading south to Las Vegas, etc. When there is no traffic it works awesome. During congestion hours it is no different. It makes sense to raise the limit so that as the freeway isn't as busy people can (and do) travel faster.
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Here in Michigan the speed limit is 70 on highways (everyone goes at least 80 though) and 55 on large divided highways/avenues (but everyone goes 60-65 on them) Only time I ever got a speeding ticket was when I was lost out in the country on a country road with no speed limit signs anywhere (on country roads the assumed speed limit is 55), but apparently the assumed speed limit in this little town was 45
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Tide posted:Asked? Or told? A little of both. The expectation is to work at least 5 hours this weekend. We're behind on work. We get paid OT and they're going to buy us lunch. I'm more bothered by the they preach a lot of work life balance but throw this at the last minute than actually coming in. Edit : Leonard Nimoy
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mariooncrack posted:A little of both. The expectation is to work at least 5 hours this weekend. We're behind on work. We get paid OT and they're going to buy us lunch. I'm more bothered by the they preach a lot of work life balance but throw this at the last minute than actually coming in. mariooncrack posted:Edit : Leonard Nimoy
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mariooncrack posted:
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mariooncrack posted:A little of both. The expectation is to work at least 5 hours this weekend. We're behind on work. We get paid OT and they're going to buy us lunch. I'm more bothered by the they preach a lot of work life balance but throw this at the last minute than actually coming in. At least you get paid O/T (and buying lunch) and if y'all are legit behind, it's justified. I wouldn't complain too much. Whether or not it happens often would determine whether or not they're going back on their work/life balance preaching, in my opinion. If it's not a common occurence then put your big girl panties on, suck it up, and make dat sweet oh tee. Buy go fast parts with it. The key thing is they are compensating you which is more than most places would do. disclaimer: i work in a 24/7 industry so O/T is part of the gig. so, when i hear anyone complaining about OT, I just go 'eh, nut up'. Not trying to be antagonistic. Tide fucked around with this message at 20:16 on Feb 27, 2015 |
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Geirskogul posted:whaaaaaaat Ruined my goddamn morning when Google popped that poo poo up on me.
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Tide posted:At least you get paid O/T (and buying lunch) and if y'all are legit behind, it's justified. I wouldn't complain too much. Whether or not it happens often would determine whether or not they're going back on their work/life balance preaching, in my opinion. If it's not a common occurence then put your big girl panties on, suck it up, and make dat sweet oh tee. Buy go fast parts with it. No, you're right. They treat me well and I know that I have a cushy desk job. I'm just a little frustrated. This is our yearly major software release and they didn't give us enough time to get everything done.... Again.
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Hell I choose to go in tomorrow to fix something rather than wait 2 weeks for general maintenance to do it. I reckon I can wrap it up in 3 hours, so I'll hardly miss any of the day.
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Tide posted:At least you get paid O/T (and buying lunch) and if y'all are legit behind, it's justified. I wouldn't complain too much. Whether or not it happens often would determine whether or not they're going back on their work/life balance preaching, in my opinion. If it's not a common occurence then put your big girl panties on, suck it up, and make dat sweet oh tee. Buy go fast parts with it. It does get pretty old though if you're working 3-4 weekends in a row or 700+ hours of OT in a given year
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Ah gently caress, Nimoy got beamed back home. 
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BraveUlysses posted:It does get pretty old though if you're working 3-4 weekends in a row or 700+ hours of OT in a given year
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I've worked Saturday's since I was 16 or so, and I only had to work Sunday's for a year until I had some seniority, but God drat does it suck that the one day pretty much everyone has off is reserved for work, and it makes taking long weekend trips nearly impossible. I won't mind working them occasionally for OT when I graduate but if it's a constant thing then I'm going to have to go somewhere else because gently caress that. Speaking of the good old American work ethic, how many weeks vacation does the average joe in CS/IT get? I don't even care if it's PTO I just want to be able to go somewhere for a week or two once or twice a year so I don't completely burn out three years after graduating
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Tusen Takk posted:Speaking of the good old American work ethic, how many weeks vacation does the average joe in CS/IT get? I don't even care if it's PTO I just want to be able to go somewhere for a week or two once or twice a year so I don't completely burn out three years after graduating hahah. I saw a salaried tech position this morning, with a union, requiring some weekend work. Yeahhhhh NOPE. Wifey gets 5 weeks yr. but he's a software engineer.
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cursedshitbox posted:hahah. I saw a salaried tech position this morning, with a union, requiring some weekend work. Yeahhhhh NOPE. When I graduate I'll be a software engineer too, but not in SF. Gives me hope, though. rscott posted:Probably shouldn't have moved to America then Yeahhh
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 Meanwhile in civil service...
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Double yeah. Everyone knows about the rest of the worlds 4 weeks off every year in Australia (plus a weeks worth of public hols and 2 weeks sick leave), and sometimes 5-7 weeks off in Europe. Have you told fellow workers about long time service leave in Australia? Old timey left over tradition. Based on after a 7-10 yrs of employment, you get a few months off to catch a slow boat back to blighty to visit rellies back in England you left behind when moving to a penal colony. Of course now we fly over and spend it travelling the world where ever. E:It's awarded pro rata so a sweet cash payment if you don;t stick with an employer for that long. Fo3 fucked around with this message at 22:08 on Feb 27, 2015 |
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Tusen Takk posted:Speaking of the good old American work ethic, how many weeks vacation does the average joe in CS/IT get? I don't even care if it's PTO I just want to be able to go somewhere for a week or two once or twice a year so I don't completely burn out three years after graduating I'm a telecom engineer. I've been with my company for a little under two years and I get 18 days to use for vacation or personal reasons; there used to be a distinction between vacation and personal days but they did away with it this year.
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Fo3 posted:Double yeah. zundfolge posted:I'm a telecom engineer. I've been with my company for a little under two years and I get 18 days to use for vacation or personal reasons; there used to be a distinction between vacation and personal days but they did away with it this year.  this gives me a lot of hope
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