She says the government should stay out of determining executive pay when a company receives a TARP bailout. Ummm … OH REALLY, Miss-I-was-paid-$20-Million + to-leave-HP-after-failing-as-a-CEO? Does she even understand how much R&D could have been funded with her “failure bonus”? (And that goes to the rest of you tech CEO’s receiving millions in bonuses while cutting R&D spending and jobs …)
Buwahahahahaha!!! Whooo!!! My sides hurt!!! I can’t stop laughing!!!!
Here’s a link to the nonsense that dribbled out of Ms. Fiorina’s mouth.
I decided to do a thought experiment to discourage myself further about the prospect of finding a job anytime soon. Here’s some loosey-goosey estimations for you: The combined populations of LA and San Diego in 2006 are ~13-Million. ~37% of those people are under the age of 18 or over 65, which leaves 8.2 Million within working age. Let’s say 75% of those people want to work or are working, and, of those, 8% are unemployed. This means there are ~490K people unemployed and looking for work in LA and SD. Now let’s say 1/0 of these folks are engineering professionals (and yes, it could be true because this recession is more about professions getting laid-off than non), and that leaves 49K engineers looking for jobs. Now, for the past 30-days, there are 1209 postings for Engineering positions on the Monster board. This does not exclude the bogus listings for sign twirlers, pyramid scams, and hollywood extras along with duplicate listings. So being conservative, for every job opening, there are ~40 engineers who can fill each req. HAHAHAHA!!!! And big business claims there’s a severe lack of engineering, math, science majors in the US. I call “BS” on all of you! So I wonder … which will come first, me winning something in the state lottery or me getting a job …
Here’s a link to Quick Facts from the Census Board. Have fun!
Need a job? Why not work for the government? My Dad is recently retired from the govt and is now receiving a very nice pension that pays him nearly as much as he did when he worked. I’m now considering getting a govt job, because I would like to retire at 60 with 80% of my pay :). Here’s a link to the US govt jobs website.
Monster.com has updated its website and it now drives me NUTZ!!! It’s too interactive, to the point I can barely use it and I don’t know what I’ve done with the web interface until I recieve a confirmation e-mail. It suffers from having too many notes. Here’s what isn’t working for me:
When I browse the list of jobs that have resulted from my search, as I move my mouse pointer over the job, a worthless job description covers the viewport obscuring the other jobs. This wouldn’t be bad if I didn’t have to click the close button on the description, which is especially annoying because I didn’t click on the job to read the description in the first place. I was using my mouse to guide my eye over the long list of jobs.
The pop-up job descriptions are useless. I imagine this is do to the job seeker putting useless stuff in the job description. I want to know the major duties, the job level, the key skills, the job location, and the pay range.
There seems to be no way to upload an update of an existing resume. When I cut and pasted directly from Word, the text became corrupted with a bunch of junk that is usually hidden in a Word file.
When filling out information to create or update a profile, the user has to save each section separately. The problem is that several sections are presented on one webpage or tab webpage, so it’s natural to think that the save at the bottom of the page will save everything on that page or tabbed page. When the user does this, the user gets an error and is asked if they want to continue. I thought this meant to go back to fix the error so I clicked “ok” which caused me to lose all the changes I made and because I was popped back out to my profile home page, I wouldn’t have known that my changes didn’t stick unless I went back to check my profile.
Every field tries to auto fill by popping up a little window next to the entry field. It’s distracting and none of the auto fill options matched what I was entering.
The pop-ups, in general, make reading the site very difficult. The pages are densely packed with information, so I use my pointer to guide my eye. Because of the interactivity, putting the mouse anywhere in the viewport causing something to pop-up. It broke my attention and because I didn’t actually click to activate the pop-up, I didn’t feel in control of the experience.
Yeeks!!! I hope they dial is down soon because “slick” doesn’t mean everything is interactive. I got the impression that they went for “more” rather than really thinking about how users use the website and using interactivity to really enhance the experience of using the website. It’s kinda embarrasing.
Leave it to profit seeking to ruin charity. Yep, OLPC is cutting it’s staff by ~50% and lowering the salary of those that remain. Here’s a link to an article for more details. I suppose now that netbooks are the hottest new segment amongst paying customers in 1st world countries, you can’t just give them away anymore (okay, not give them away — but pretty close to it.) I’d like to see OLPC push on though in terms of continuing to develop technologies that allow for computing where there is no power infrastructure, let alone a wired communication infrastructure. In the long run, those types of devices will be good for everyone because they can be used literally anywhere. Well, we’ll see … As a proud new owner of a netbook, I would love to have a little solar cell to power my laptop when I’m away from home 😉
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