Damn straight.
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My company used to do that, but didn’t tack on any “you must stay X years after completion”.
We had a lot of management turn over during that time.
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The company I was at hired people with a masters degree as one level higher © than those with just a bachelors (B). After I finished my masters (100% employer paid for) I went to my manager and said “ok I have my masters now – promote me to C please”. I was young (25) and naive. I was told it didn’t work like that. I said well then I’m going to look for another job. It was the late 90s. I had no problem finding one and got a 50% raise in the process. Dopes.
ETA. I don’t want to say what company this was,but it was an American company specializing in telegraphs and telephones.
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Sounds like, from my very limited expertise, combination of how the 90s job market was and a lot of luck. I’m glad showing backbone didn’t blow up in your face.
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It was a good job market for tech. In the 4 years I had been at that first job, starting salaries everywhere in tech had gone through the roof. Tack on 4 years experience and a masters degree I was making far below what the going rate was. I had friends who were bailing in similar fashions and had told me I’d be stupid to stay. This was all 20 years ago. Couldn’t do it now!
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Now it’s ‘wait you have a job that pays a liveable wage? Are they making you perform sexual favors? Then shit why’re you complaining stay put.’
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Thank you for my first real belly laugh of the day!
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I wouldn’t have gone if it wasn’t paid for.
For me, it wasn’t about learning esoteric stuff in a very narrow field. It was about learning how to conduct research, and solve problems nobody else had solved before. Undergrad was about traditional coursework and cramming for tests, but grad was mostly lab work. I’m more a lab person than a classroom person, so it worked out for me.
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Literally everything I ever really truly learned and never forgot was working with something directly in a practical environment where I wasnt rushed to complete my lab work. This is the primary motivation for my home lab. Learning about vapor pressure and azeotropes in pchem is fine, but actually trying to distill 99% pure glacial acetic acid from grocery store vinegar taught me a lot more.
The time crunch of a semester makes it impossible to retain as much as I like.
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Charging cable broke and I do not posses the soldering skills to fix. I am most annoyed it takes a propritary end.
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That sucks. I’m sorry.
It probably doesn’t make any difference, but even those of us with the skills to fix them can’t really do so very much any more. As the connectors have miniaturized, the percentage of “that can be fixed for permanent use” scenarios has gone way down. These days I’m lucky to Frankenstein a connector that will hold long enough for emergency data recovery or for “one last charge to hold me over”. There are some exceptions, but it’s much more frustrating than it was 15 years ago or longer.
What connector is afflicting you?
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Don’t have a camera on hand but mine is one of those cheapo chargers that pop apart. There’s red, green, white, and yellow wires. The white and green wires are off the thing.
The worst part is the bottom of the tablet is curved, meaning the charger can’t plug in flush, !meaning there is always a wiggle. Poor designing to me.
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That threw me off when we got our nook too. A plug should plug in and seat snugly. When I went to charge it, there was some serious WTF? going on. Not the best design move by a long shot.
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At this point I’m tempted to just stick it in a drawer and call it done to avoid dealing with my stepdad. On the other hand in spite of the case dings the tablet itself actually works shockingly well.
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Fuck Today, For I Realized Nothing I Can Write Or Say Will Stop This Trainwreck From Inertia And Gravitational Forces…
I love America with all of my heart, may We survive this transgression and rebound, larger, and in charger than We ever were before…
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I’ve slept ninety minutes thus far tonight and been awake the last three hours. I have to be up for work in four hours.
Fuck you, insomnia. Fuck. You.
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Fuk you today’s news editors . . .
You show a cutesy story about a Bald Eagle egg being laid in Wash., D.C., and include stock footage of an eaglet hatching . . .
Then the story is followed by a commercial for an Egg McMuffin !
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Fuck today…
Woke up with a caffeine-withdrawal-boosted migraine… and I have my first new client meeting of the semester this evening.
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Human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell, who supported Ms Steinfeld and Mr Keidan in court, said the ruling was “a defeat for love and equality”.
“It cannot be right that lesbian and gay couples have two options, civil partnership and civil marriage; whereas opposite-sex partners have only one option, marriage,” he said.
If anyone isn’t aware, Peter Tatchell is gay, and a founding member of Outrage!.
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Very minor FT, got up super early to beat traffic into he city, did so, got to inspection site a half hour early. Got here, and promptly got a text from new co-worker with the notes that he is an hour late.
So I gotta look like a chump, waiting on this new guy. At least it’s warm in here. That’s not always true in my line of work.
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