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Participant[quote=flu]Just ask QC…and their challenge to meet growth targets….Throwing 10x “outsourced contractors” in one big kitchen with turnover left and right in India isn’t sticking…LOL…[/quote]
Yeah, rumor is…they’ve been calling some of the US contractors that got let go last year to come back and help them with some of the projects they developed. Apparently the outsourced folks don’t have the skills. Imagine that.
Participant[quote=flu]Just ask QC…and their challenge to meet growth targets….Throwing 10x “outsourced contractors” in one big kitchen with turnover left and right in India isn’t sticking…LOL…[/quote]
Yeah, rumor is…they’ve been calling some of the US contractors that got let go last year to come back and help them with some of the projects they developed. Apparently the outsourced folks don’t have the skills. Imagine that.
Participant[quote=flu]Just ask QC…and their challenge to meet growth targets….Throwing 10x “outsourced contractors” in one big kitchen with turnover left and right in India isn’t sticking…LOL…[/quote]
Yeah, rumor is…they’ve been calling some of the US contractors that got let go last year to come back and help them with some of the projects they developed. Apparently the outsourced folks don’t have the skills. Imagine that.
ParticipantI’ve been reading Wendell Berry lately and this notion of the devaluation of work is something he talks about a lot.
With industrialization has come a general depreciation of work. As the price of work has gone up, the value of it has gone down, until it is now so depressed that people simply do not want to do it anymore. We can say without exaggeration that the present national ambition of the United States is unemployment.
Mike Rowe (Dirty Jobs) has also put up a website that rails against the war against work and has some very good content. He writes:
Doesn’t it seem strange that we can have a shortage of skilled labor, a crumbling infrastructure, and rising unemployment? How did we get into this fix? Are we lazy? Our society has slowly redefined what it means to have a “good job.” The portrayals in Hollywood and the messages from Madison Avenue have been unmistakable. “Work less and be happy!” For the last thirty years we’ve been celebrating a different kind of work. We’ve aspired to other opportunities. We’ve stopped making things. We’ve convinced ourselves that “good jobs” are the result of a four year degree. That’s bunk. Not all knowledge comes from college. Skill is back in demand. Steel toed boots are back in fashion. And Work Is Not The Enemy.
ParticipantI’ve been reading Wendell Berry lately and this notion of the devaluation of work is something he talks about a lot.
With industrialization has come a general depreciation of work. As the price of work has gone up, the value of it has gone down, until it is now so depressed that people simply do not want to do it anymore. We can say without exaggeration that the present national ambition of the United States is unemployment.
Mike Rowe (Dirty Jobs) has also put up a website that rails against the war against work and has some very good content. He writes:
Doesn’t it seem strange that we can have a shortage of skilled labor, a crumbling infrastructure, and rising unemployment? How did we get into this fix? Are we lazy? Our society has slowly redefined what it means to have a “good job.” The portrayals in Hollywood and the messages from Madison Avenue have been unmistakable. “Work less and be happy!” For the last thirty years we’ve been celebrating a different kind of work. We’ve aspired to other opportunities. We’ve stopped making things. We’ve convinced ourselves that “good jobs” are the result of a four year degree. That’s bunk. Not all knowledge comes from college. Skill is back in demand. Steel toed boots are back in fashion. And Work Is Not The Enemy.
ParticipantI’ve been reading Wendell Berry lately and this notion of the devaluation of work is something he talks about a lot.
With industrialization has come a general depreciation of work. As the price of work has gone up, the value of it has gone down, until it is now so depressed that people simply do not want to do it anymore. We can say without exaggeration that the present national ambition of the United States is unemployment.
Mike Rowe (Dirty Jobs) has also put up a website that rails against the war against work and has some very good content. He writes:
Doesn’t it seem strange that we can have a shortage of skilled labor, a crumbling infrastructure, and rising unemployment? How did we get into this fix? Are we lazy? Our society has slowly redefined what it means to have a “good job.” The portrayals in Hollywood and the messages from Madison Avenue have been unmistakable. “Work less and be happy!” For the last thirty years we’ve been celebrating a different kind of work. We’ve aspired to other opportunities. We’ve stopped making things. We’ve convinced ourselves that “good jobs” are the result of a four year degree. That’s bunk. Not all knowledge comes from college. Skill is back in demand. Steel toed boots are back in fashion. And Work Is Not The Enemy.
ParticipantI’ve been reading Wendell Berry lately and this notion of the devaluation of work is something he talks about a lot.
With industrialization has come a general depreciation of work. As the price of work has gone up, the value of it has gone down, until it is now so depressed that people simply do not want to do it anymore. We can say without exaggeration that the present national ambition of the United States is unemployment.
Mike Rowe (Dirty Jobs) has also put up a website that rails against the war against work and has some very good content. He writes:
Doesn’t it seem strange that we can have a shortage of skilled labor, a crumbling infrastructure, and rising unemployment? How did we get into this fix? Are we lazy? Our society has slowly redefined what it means to have a “good job.” The portrayals in Hollywood and the messages from Madison Avenue have been unmistakable. “Work less and be happy!” For the last thirty years we’ve been celebrating a different kind of work. We’ve aspired to other opportunities. We’ve stopped making things. We’ve convinced ourselves that “good jobs” are the result of a four year degree. That’s bunk. Not all knowledge comes from college. Skill is back in demand. Steel toed boots are back in fashion. And Work Is Not The Enemy.
ParticipantI’ve been reading Wendell Berry lately and this notion of the devaluation of work is something he talks about a lot.
With industrialization has come a general depreciation of work. As the price of work has gone up, the value of it has gone down, until it is now so depressed that people simply do not want to do it anymore. We can say without exaggeration that the present national ambition of the United States is unemployment.
Mike Rowe (Dirty Jobs) has also put up a website that rails against the war against work and has some very good content. He writes:
Doesn’t it seem strange that we can have a shortage of skilled labor, a crumbling infrastructure, and rising unemployment? How did we get into this fix? Are we lazy? Our society has slowly redefined what it means to have a “good job.” The portrayals in Hollywood and the messages from Madison Avenue have been unmistakable. “Work less and be happy!” For the last thirty years we’ve been celebrating a different kind of work. We’ve aspired to other opportunities. We’ve stopped making things. We’ve convinced ourselves that “good jobs” are the result of a four year degree. That’s bunk. Not all knowledge comes from college. Skill is back in demand. Steel toed boots are back in fashion. And Work Is Not The Enemy.
ParticipantMy problem has been that I don’t have 20% equity in my house; that’s why I haven’t refi’d.
However, with rates at 4% or lower for a 20-30 year fixed..I’ll either eat the PMI or pay down the mortgage to get to 20%.
My blended rate is 6.25% now…I’d love to lock in something around 4% or lower if I don’t have to drop $10k out of pocket to do it.
ParticipantMy problem has been that I don’t have 20% equity in my house; that’s why I haven’t refi’d.
However, with rates at 4% or lower for a 20-30 year fixed..I’ll either eat the PMI or pay down the mortgage to get to 20%.
My blended rate is 6.25% now…I’d love to lock in something around 4% or lower if I don’t have to drop $10k out of pocket to do it.
ParticipantMy problem has been that I don’t have 20% equity in my house; that’s why I haven’t refi’d.
However, with rates at 4% or lower for a 20-30 year fixed..I’ll either eat the PMI or pay down the mortgage to get to 20%.
My blended rate is 6.25% now…I’d love to lock in something around 4% or lower if I don’t have to drop $10k out of pocket to do it.
ParticipantMy problem has been that I don’t have 20% equity in my house; that’s why I haven’t refi’d.
However, with rates at 4% or lower for a 20-30 year fixed..I’ll either eat the PMI or pay down the mortgage to get to 20%.
My blended rate is 6.25% now…I’d love to lock in something around 4% or lower if I don’t have to drop $10k out of pocket to do it.
ParticipantMy problem has been that I don’t have 20% equity in my house; that’s why I haven’t refi’d.
However, with rates at 4% or lower for a 20-30 year fixed..I’ll either eat the PMI or pay down the mortgage to get to 20%.
My blended rate is 6.25% now…I’d love to lock in something around 4% or lower if I don’t have to drop $10k out of pocket to do it.
Participant[quote=briansd1]I was just saying that the iPhone is priced the same as any other smart phone full price or subsidized price ($199).
If you have buy a phone (or any other product) why not pay the same price for the best which will still have resale/residual value when you’re ready to move on?
What phone other than iPhone can you resell for $199 after you’re used it to your heart’s content?[/quote]
The iphone 4 is out and the 3G-S has been out for over a year. How much do you think someone is going to give me for a 16GB 3G? Yeah, not much.
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