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Participant[quote=flu]OK. I emailed the sales guy back and asked for a $500 off instead of $1000, meeting in the middle.
If it doesn’t pan out, I go on vacation next week and if it’s sold during prez week so be it.
I’ll let fate decide. Maybe leaving an extra $27k in the market is good or bad…..We will see
Meanwhile, got a marketing email…
Such a nice car….
http://configurator.mclaren.com/model/coupe570s%5B/quote%5D
You just caved. Should have let him think about it until Monday. He would’ve called.
Participant[quote=Hobie]Buy now. Just a few years away from kid in college and needing $ as ‘everyone’ is going to Cancun for spring break 😉 Hard to justify that as a 529 expense![/quote]
Easy, semester abroad. My undergrad offered many. Amsterdam and Bangkok were popular. Paris andd Berlin too. Then Costa Rica.
And if those didn’t float your boat, an option for any city and free form community member experience self directed study…
ParticipantIt’s a bad decision.
What’s the address I send my life coaching invoice too?
ParticipantI suspect we will find out it’s currently going over the emergency spillway still slow. Looks like it’s doing a pretty good job of removing the overburden from the bedrock.
The water levels have, surprise, messed up their water release plans. They’ve slowed the main spillway and had to shutdown an auxiliary generator that took another 12000 CFS because the concrete broken out of the spillway is backing water up.
Good news its becoming sunny. For three days. Then the longer range forecast says basically 6 straight days of rain in Oroville and up land from the lake.
ParticipantYea, so much depends on the nature and structure of the bedrock anchoring the dam.
Water though is currently flowing into the reservoir at 130,000 CFS, the spillway is currently taking roughly 75,000 CFS out and the dam is basically full.
The dam is 700+ feet high and granted, it isn’t vertical, more like a 45 degree slope and it is water, but with erosion each CFS basically becomes a 8 lb piece of liquid sandpaper.
That’s a lot of sandpaper…
ParticipantDo you think they’d say ‘we screwed the pooch’, even if did?
They say no. They say it’s just the spill way and not the dam, but look at his picture.
I’ll admit I’m not a dam engineer, but high energy water erodes really quickly through soft-ground.
Frankly, I’d be more concerned about the top break, here’s the closeup.
What happens when that spillway is gone from the top break to the bottom of the spillway and basically carved out like a flat wall?
Participant[quote=harvey]Paying enough for what outcome?
I’m not very concerned about who harvests my garlic. I’m certainly not interested in paying more just to know that it was picked by Real Americans.[/quote]
So you can’t address the point. I get it.
Participant[quote=harvey][quote=no_such_reality]How this garlic farm went from a labor shortage to over 150 people on its applicant waitlist
I like the industry rep saying [quote]“The one constant is that no matter how much we pay, domestic workers are not applying for these jobs,” Resnick said.[/quote]
Because, you know, $11/hr is throwing money at the problem…[/quote]
The article said they saw more applicants after paying $13, but the applicants came from other farms:
“Raising wages only serves to cannibalize from the existing workforce; it does nothing to add new laborers to the pool.”
His point was that they can still only attract immigrant labor, even with the higher wage.
In other words, the immigrants are still doing the jobs Americans refuse to do.[/quote]
And my point is the Industry is still paying $11/hr. Given our State minimum wage of $10.50/hr, isn’t really an incentive to bring new workers in. And hence, his statement, “The one constant is that no matter how much we pay, domestic workers are not applying for these jobs” is because they aren’t paying enough.
Besides, my local McDonald’s has been advertising positions at $15+/hr…
ParticipantHow this garlic farm went from a labor shortage to over 150 people on its applicant waitlist
I like the industry rep saying [quote]“The one constant is that no matter how much we pay, domestic workers are not applying for these jobs,” Resnick said.[/quote]
Because, you know, $11/hr is throwing money at the problem…
Participant[quote=flu]
HR usually don’t do recruiting except for interns. Recruiting is usually farmed out to recruiters. Either way, I have never met anyone in Hr or recruiters that have technical knowledge to ask these questions . If they did, they wouldn’t be in HR or a recruiter…What one company did that I interviewed for was interesting. They made candidates take an online test. Interesting idea.[/quote]
You need new recruiters unless this was a total one off f-up on their part. Any technical recruiter working the sub-field should be able to ascertain if the candidate is writing fiction on their resume. What the recruiter did was just throw darts at the board to see what sticks.
Participant[quote=flu][quote=ucodegen]It sounds like interviewers are going to have to come up with another test… One of the links you provided for the ‘FizzBuzz’ test had a bunch of solutions, and I could just believe someone not good with writing programs would try to memorize one of them in planning for a tech interview.
One of the things that does surprise me is how far some of these people get when there is no technical interview questions. In a previous job, I had to deal with someone who was supposedly senior to me working on the same project I was. The project was broken down into applications (C++ network comm/data processing and ‘rendering’ code for various parts of the system). The project this person was working on was not getting anywhere. The Proj Mgr put an additional senior person on the that particular application – and still no forward movement. I got thrown into the mix by the Proj Mgr to try to figure what the heck was going on and found out that the person who was supposedly senior to me was loosing track of code changes made by himself, was not coordinating with the other person he was to be working with, was not integrating the other persons changes (they were getting dropped on the floor) and that was literally having problems programming basic algebraic equations.[/quote]
There’s a solution to this. You tweak the problem slightly so that if the candidate gives you one of the canned answers on the internet, you know that in addition to the person not being able to write any code, the person is also dishonest with trying to cover it up.[/quote]
You work in a tech company, if your HR can’t source a basic skill, they should be replaced.
February 6, 2017 at 11:27 AM in reply to: When should you cancel a life insurance policy, if at all? #805387ParticipantHe did say pay off the mortgages, which makes me wonder on the amount.
Statistically, if flu is 45ish, he has a 0.3% chance of dying (not including modifications for his prior medical conditions). If he’s 40ish it’s 0.2%.
Reversing the expected value, that indicates a policy needed in the $250K-$350K range.
So if he’s 45ish with 5 years or so to go on the policy and it’s north of $250K, technically he’s gambling with the odds in his favor.
Or think of it as an opportunity cost, expected value of $750/yr, not leveraged in a typical stock market return is worth right around the low $5K range over the next five years.
So think of it as gambling on a penny stock, it has a 98.5% chance to go to zero and a 1.5% chance to pay off the value of the policy and it costs $3750.
It’s a fairly small amount, so if this is a TL from your early and healthy 30s and is a $500K policy, kind of a no brainer to keep the policy until the term expires provided the $750 isn’t an issue.
February 6, 2017 at 7:08 AM in reply to: When should you cancel a life insurance policy, if at all? #805378ParticipantIt depends, financially, if one of California’s distracted drivers manages to kill you on your way to work today does your family need the money?
Note, need, not nice to have.
If kids won’t need an additional care giver, less need.
If the kids won’t need additional capital for college costs, less need.
If the spouse won’t need to pay the mortgage or other bills, less need.
If you and your spouse goes, is the money need to cover estate costs?
Just my thoughts.
ParticipantH-2A, $11.89/hr, 35 (ahem) hours per week, starting at 5AM.
Here’s what the work looks like.
Can’t imagine why people are beating a path to do that given the massive career opportunities.
When Henry Ford built the assembly line he paid that outrageous rate back then, because he knew he had to pay more to get workers to leave their craftsman’s job and do the boring repetitive work of the assembly line.
And for those that can’t connect the dots between the business outlook that wants the celery picker and the business outlook that is asking for tens of thousands of ‘tech’ workers that are entry level ‘consultants’ it’s the same, cheap less demanding labor.
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