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svelteParticipant[quote=Coronita]I don’t disagree that in the past HP did use to sell high quality hardware products. At least before fiorina days.
[/quote]We never talk HP at home, but my wife out of the blue today said what a piece of crap her new HP printer is as she tried to print something.
I said funny you should mention HP quality, we were just discussing that online!
svelteParticipant[quote=gzz]
I am not against leaving SD, but the only dry and warm climate I could enjoy would be NV or AZ. Florida and south texas are too humid and insecty, everywhere else too cold.[/quote]I’ve lived in my share of states west of the Mississippi and decided early on I’d rather be scraping by in California than rich anywhere else. When it comes down to it, money doesn’t mean as much to me as the environment where I live.
If others decide to leave, best wishes and I’m all for it. One less resident here!
svelteParticipant[quote=sdrealtor]The Villages are filled with small town, mid america blue collar folks with 5 to 1 widowed females to males. Think bearishgurl as your typical resident[/quote]
Wow. I didn’t know that.
I just went to their website (thevillages.com) and something did stick out…not one photo of anyone who wasn’t lily white.
Looking at Google Maps, that is one HUGE development!
svelteParticipant[quote=sdrealtor]
The Villages are calling you and Econ Prof
lol! Believe it or not, when I saw the OP, the first thing I thought of was The Villages!
I heard about it through Youtube…I stumbled across “The Villages Florida Newcomers” channel. While that channel doesn’t talk about the debauchery discussed in your link and the couple running the Youtube channel are probably fine folk, the whole environment they discuss makes me recoil a bit. Maybe I’m not old enough yet.
svelteParticipant[quote=scaredyclassic]
Snap judgments, biases, stereotypes rule the day in jury selection. Unless a potential black juror is military, law enforcement, or blatantly pro-cop, watch the prosecutor twist themselves into a pretzel trying to find a way to kick them off.[/quote]
That’s not a one-way street. I’ve had fellow engineers complain that defense attorneys kick them out of jury pools because (in their opinion) it appears they think engineers will weigh scientific evidence (blood tests, etc) heavily when making a decision.
svelteParticipant[quote=Coronita]
And it had a very ugly result…You see, throughout my career, I never ever sought a job with HP. I was celebrating when Carly Fiorina destroyed HP, and when many people at HP from that Palo alto office were looking for a job when I was still up there, I made sure to toss all their resumes in the trash can, among many reasons, many of their engineers had their head up in the clouds with that sorry excuse of a distributed software architecture called “e-Speak”…. I never entertained a resume from Palo Alto HP. Neither did anyone in my group…never bought any office equipment from HP, or computer, or computer peripherals with HP label on it.
For me, there was no unconsciousness in my bias. I was young them, and didn’t know better ..
So forgive me if I roll my eyes when someone mentions about how “diverse” they think they are champions of “diversity”. In my experience, most of the time people who claim they are champions of diversity are most of the time full of shit and have a lot of unconscious biases lurking in their closets that either they don’t realize or even if they do, don’t care so long as they have something they can do to easily check the diversity box….[/quote]
When I graduated with a CSCI degree in northern CA, HP did very heavy recruiting at my university and supplied most of the servers in our labs. We used bid points to do interviews, so I bid heavily on HP, Lockheed, and Chevron. I was young and stupid and didn’t know that my GPA wasn’t high enough to get hired by any of those companies. My GPA wasn’t bad, it’s just those companies wanted the very high end of the GPA curve and I wasn’t it.
When I did land a job with another company, it was in San Diego and because of my college experience with HP equipment, I was assigned projects that developed software to run on HP servers. I worked with the HP reps very closely and got to like them a lot. They had a certain way of dressing, of acting, of caring for the customer and I began modeling myself after them. They were great guys and I think learning from them has helped me in my career.
At my company, the attitude everyone had was that HW developed by HP was very high quality, but any SW they put out to run on that HW was terrible. And it was. I went to several HP SW training courses at HP’s Fullerton location and part of my mission was to ask for workarounds to the shortcomings of their SW. As it turns out, I knew more about their SW than HP instructors. One started turning to me for answers when other students asked questions! It was bizarre.
On to your bias comments. Completely agree – I have a great deal of skepticism when someone portrays themselves as unbiased. Quite often, it ends up being that they are biased in the other direction!
Everyone is biased. Whites, blacks, hispanics, asians, everyone. The best we can do, in my opinion, is to be aware of our biases and do our best to not act on them, to take them out of the equation. That is easier said that done, I know.
svelteParticipant[quote=sdrealtor]
Check out Del Lusso’s if you haven’t already. Good food, comfortable out door space you can distance from others and owner is a great guy. Not a huge place but I like it there[/quote]We finally got around to trying Del Lusso, you’re right a very fun place. Everyone in the family loved it and that is saying something!
svelteParticipant[quote=Coronita]
I think what you are referring to is often overlap and gaps in insurance. Yes, that does happen too. usually with the more rinky dink insurance companies …In my case, cost wasn’t the only factor, it was also the availability of insurance.
[/quote]Yes those are some of the problems that can happen. Perhaps your risk isn’t as bad if you’re using the same agent for all insurance – s/he can keep an eye out for situations that would leave you exposed.
svelteParticipant[quote=Coronita]
I think my umbrella is through a company called RLI. It doesn’t have to be the same as your homeowners and auto, you just need to maintain the minimum liability on the rest of your insurance. I’m sure of that…[/quote]I would be afraid you’ll end up with insurance companies pointing the finger at each other in a situation like this.
I have all mine through the same company…I probably pay a tad more but it will be harder for them to deny a claim.
I also stay with well known companies. My dad went with some small insurance company for his rentals. One of the rentals had a major fire while occupied by a tenant and the insurance company refused to pay. He had to take them to court to collect from them. Lots of time, hassle, and sleepless nights to save a few bucks.
svelteParticipant[quote=Coronita]be a social media influencer![/quote]
I even hate that term.
I think a better term would be Social Media Shill.
svelteParticipantBy the way, I looked it up a little last night, interesting the rules involved with taxpayer funded pension revocations:
What Happens to Taxpayer-Funded Pensions When Public Officials Are Convicted of Crimes?
svelteParticipant[quote=o2addict][quote=svelte]
I decided right then and there that I didn’t want a career in any field where my retirement could be revoked. To me, it is something a person earns due to their years of service and should not be revoke-able based on a future action.[/quote]
Absent any other concern, basing your decision on a single anecdote you don’t even know is true is . . . odd. Hopefully the OP’s son has the common sense to conduct a bit more due diligence.[/quote]
Not sure if you thought that response through well. I didn’t say I wouldn’t be a cop based on a single unconfirmed anecdote. I said that I wouldn’t choose a career where my pension could be revoked by a future action. I would certainly do my due diligence to see if the career had that potential issue before ruling it out.
I stand by that statement.
svelteParticipant[quote=o2addict]
There’s plenty of opportunities in law enforcement.
[/quote]I read somewhere that a policeman’s pension was revoked due to a law he broke after retirement. Not sure if it was true nor can I remember where I read it.
I decided right then and there that I didn’t want a career in any field where my retirement could be revoked. To me, it is something a person earns due to their years of service and should not be revoke-able based on a future action.
svelteParticipantInto each life a Lil Wayne must fall.
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