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September 26, 2015 at 8:50 AM in reply to: Anyone got a A/C repairman/service guy that is trustworthy? #789638
svelteParticipantTreehugger, I say go for it.
I’m not much on SUVs or MBs, but every time I see one of these GLA 250s I pause and look – very nice design! If we were in the market for a smaller SUV, the GLA would probably be the first thing I test drove.
If you get it, you’ll have to let us know how you like it.
svelteParticipantThis is good news. The existing Ferrari and Maserati showrooms in La Jolla are surprisingly outdated and small – I wouldn’t be surprised at all to see those brands at this new site.
svelteParticipantI have to say i was always suspicious of their clean deisel claim. Even new ones seem stinkier than gas tho much better thsn old deisels.
September 18, 2015 at 5:26 PM in reply to: How will Qualcomm layoff impact SD housing market? #789433svelteParticipantKUSI claims 1,314 in San Diego are scheduled to get the axe in the next 60 days.
That’s around a third of the 15% workforce cut Qualcomm is targeting.
(oops just saw other post quoting this number too…sorry for the dupe)
svelteParticipant[quote=XBoxBoy]
What I wonder is how did regulators find out about this? A whistle blower? If the whistle blower gets say 20-30% of the fine, that would be a pretty big paycheck for turning in your bosses[/quote]Caught by university and govt testers. This article explains it:
https://www.yahoo.com/autos/volkswagen-charged-with-hacking-482000-diesels-to-129357726737.html[quote=no_such_reality]I don’t foresee jail time which is unfortunate, but $18 Billion for this kind for premeditated fraud seems light, barely equal to the revenue from the selling of the modified vehicles. The penalty needs to be much steeper to make any other company pause.[/quote]
If the fine ends up being that amount, it would essentially mean they gave those cars to customers for free. That is a significant penalty. Whether it is enough is debatable.
svelteParticipantI miss my Miata.
I just might have to get another one.
BTW – a close friend replaced the top in his wife’s first gen Miata himself. They’ve told me they’ll pay to have it done next time…
svelteParticipant[quote=poorgradstudent]It depends a little on the property. Sometimes an empty house can feel like a nice blank canvas, and it can also make smaller rooms feel bigger. We also saw plenty of open houses with tacky furniture and art that was a bit of a turn-off.
On the other hand, GOOD staging can help give a “dream house” feel, especially for a home where it may not be obvious how to use the space ideally.[/quote]
I was about to type this in.
A lot depends on the size of the rooms. If they are small, I would go empty.
If they are average or larger, then it’s a toss-up. People with good imaginations will be just fine with empty or staged. People with poor imagination may need to see how the house would look furnished.
svelteParticipantPutting a swimming pool into an unstable cliff is just asking for problems.
And buying a house that has a swimming pool in an unstable cliff…well, not a lot of sympathy from me.
svelteParticipantI think the stock market will go up and down with an overall upward trend of 10% per year.
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svelteParticipantFrom the time I had my first solar company come out to give me a quote until I signed a contract, it was about one month.
From the time I signed my contract until my panels were installed, it was about one month.
From the time my solar panels were installed until SDGE gave me permission to turn them on was about 2 weeks.
This was the spring of 2015.
svelteParticipant[quote=flu]
As far as lateral move svelte, plenty of people do it. I just did. No pay increase
.maybe even a slight pay cut.[/quote]And you did it for stability as I said, no?
svelteParticipant[quote=flu]We also had a bunch of lateral hires that were already greencard holders and H1-Bs that stayed maybe for 1-2 years, before they too jumped ship and went to Qualcomm, Apple, Google. And last year we lost a lot of people to Intel that I heard were paying people 40%+ more because they wanted to ramp up their mobile business (and no, we weren’t underpaying people).[/quote]
I tell you what, I rarely see people jump to new jobs that pay less or even with their current job. That is rare!
Most of the time that people jump, they jump for more money! In some cases they will to a straight-over jump for job security, but $$ talks.
I guess I’m saying you definition of “underpaying” is suspect to me.
[quote=flu]
And as another example. My company has 4 open recs right now for senior firmware engineers. Pretty good pay…You could definitely negotiate a very nice salary and total comp package since these positions have been open for a long time now. I think I might have even posted them here awhile ago. Not a single one of the people I reached out to replied. Why? How many of you with an “engineer” title can write firmware? I know I can’t. A lot of these H1-B’s are hired because they have learned/done what many of the rest of us had snubbed our noses at doing throughout our career. And frankly, they are better at doing it then those of us who haven’t done it that now suddenly want to do it[/quote]Again, money talks. If you were offering a good enough pay, people would starting training themselves for it.
There was a point in my career where I switched over and did assembly coding to help out my employer. I wasn’t thrilled about it, but I did it for about a year. When time came to look for a new position, I started getting bites from other companies doing embedded work, based on my most recent job history. So I thought about it long and hard and decided to decline those interview offers.
Why? I felt that embedded software development was a small sliver of the sw dev field [it is bigger now] and that I would be limiting myself going forward for something that paid no better and left me less satisfied.
Now, had I been able to get a 25% premium over app level development, do you think I would have made that decision? Absolutely not, I can tell you that!
So again, it comes down to pay.
It’s all mindset. You can argue all you want that you offer a decent wage and all you can get to take it are H1Bs, but I know how I felt back when I considered going embedded and to me it wasn’t “decent” enough to entice me. I’m betting the same thing exists today.
svelteParticipantLet’s break it down using guesstimates…
QCOM has 33K employees, 15K of which are in San Diego…50%
If the layoffs occur in the same ratio, that means 2.5k of the 5K will come out of San Diego.
Out of those, say a third live in high cost areas along the coast, such as Carmel Valley.
The two-thirds not in high cost areas (1600 folks) will likely not be forced to sell due to working spouses, 401Ks, reserves, etc that can probably meet the lower mortgage. Of course some of those families will choose to move to other areas of the country, but they likely won’t be forced into selling at fire sale prices.
The one-third (800) that live in high cost coastal areas may be at risk. Say a quarter to half of those are forced to sell. That’s 200-400 more homes on the market over the next year…20 to 30 a month.
Will it affect housing prices? Probably. Will it crash housing prices? No.
svelteParticipant[quote=flu]
I’m pretty thankful I’ve been given the opportunity to get out…I don’t know how long the new opportunity will last, but I think staying in the semiconductor industry when you are a software guy is an extremely career limiting move. The good old days of software selling hardware are over.[/quote]
It probably is a smart move to get to a sw-focused company, not a hw focused company.
However, there are still some opportunities in hardware – at least in the Bay Area.
Indications are very very strong that both Apple (mostly a hw company) and Google (mostly a sw company) are posturing themselves to enter the automotive business.
I’m looking forward to it. With the exception of Tesla, it has been a long long time since the US has had a successful new car company come along. And the jury’s still out on whether Tesla will survive.
My son is a car nut and in the bay area – he’s salivating at the opportunities arising all around him up there.
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