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It removes a mechanism that allows companies to exploit workers by treating them like employees, but considering them legally as ICs (no Workman's Comp, at-will, etc.) and giving them a 1099 form at the end of the year.

How is me having an issue with SO overall, any different then someone not have any issues with SO overall? One requires hard evidence and one does not?

"I have no problem with x. Prove to me that you have a problem with x.", seems entirely reasonable to you?

I'm in the top 2% on ServerFault to this day. I remember interacting with you on numerous questions. I'm GregD on the Stack sites.

I totally understand the limits that had to be set on the low bar for quality content. In those early days though, it seemed to me that when people asked questions about managing mobile phones for instance, because it was only newly related to being a sys admin, they'd get closed as not related.

Granted, in those early days, there weren't as many process "rules" in place to guide users to ask better questions and perhaps that's still so. However, a quick perusal of the site indicate this has gotten better and more friendly towards new people.

"post a link so we can judge" is precisely the attitude on SO that I find reprehensible.

I stopped participating in Stack Overflow and Server Fault a number of years ago. Something happened on the way to its popularity, especially on Server Fault. Questions were being asked and a number of highly rated users were closing them down as "not related to SysAdmin". I don't remember the exact nature of the questions, but one that I do remember was related to mobile phones. I argued that the question was valid because a lot of Sys Admins also had to manage phones in their environment.

There was also a general lack of compassion on the part of many, many users. I get that the sites strive to be full of "high quality" content, but there were a lot of legitimate questions asked, in broken English, that got closed immediately, or got closed because it seemed like it as academic exercise they were asking. IT has a reputation for lacking in people skills (deservedly so) and in SO's and SF's early days, that certainly stood out as a major turnoff of the sites. Admittedly, I have no idea if it's gotten any better.

I'm utterly dumbfounded at someone who manages people, stating this. I budgeted for training on a per employee basis when I created my yearly budgets.

You're absolutely right and I corrected myself with a comment. I don't know why but I can't delete my original comment nor can I edit it.

You're right. I corrected myself with a comment because I cannot edit my original post.

That will teach me to make comments before the caffeine has kicked in.

I lost the ability to edit my comments. I meant to say warm dead...not cold.

As someone who was once an NREMT-B in the US, we were taught that someone isn't dead, until they're cold dead. I haven't read the article yet, but I assume they kept her warm.

So, a carrier lies to a consumer about network coverage to lock them into a contract, with no way out? Sounds like everyday, corporate America.

Over and above the policy that a Corporation has over your phone (personal or otherwise) when you access their stuff, nobody talks about the potential liability that can open up to your personal device during an e-discovery process.

You could potentially have to hand your personal device over to lawyers where they can then put your personal device through an e-discovery process should your employer be sued .

People need to really think hard before they relinquish that kind of control of a device that you own.

This isn't that hard to understand. In order to access corporate email systems, you have two choices generally. Either you use a Corporate Owned device or you use a Personal Device but allow Corporate to do what they want to it.

In either situation, the corp has the ability to remotely wipe the device and enforce other policies on said device.

This should be abundantly clear to anyone who works in Tech.

I grew up in the heart of the Emerald Triangle. I can assure you that no 'hippy' is doing this. Their relationship with this plant is far different than everyone else's.

I've been working remotely for 8 years now. I'm truly interested in understanding why you think it's such a bad idea.

I mean I used to have to commute through downtown Portland, Oregon at rush hour. Just being able to leave that out of EVERY day has tremendously improved my quality of life.

I've been working remotely for 8 years now for a couple of companies. Currently work in an environment where I'm one of the few devs working remotely, where the rest share an office.

I'm trying to figure out if you've actually worked remotely or not. It does take a much more concerted effort on everyone's part to be more inclusive of remote workers, especially if only a handful of devs are remote and the rest share an office.

Meetings aren't usually a problem. We primarily rely on Skype for Business and all meetings are generally held online. We've even managed to move scheduled meetings (which I loathe) into Microsoft Teams channels. The written words manage to keep everyone on the same page, much better than just hearing it.

Microsoft Teams and Slack facilitates the sharing of cubicle conversations and informal ideas but it takes effort to get everyone onboard with using these as their primary ways of sharing convos.

I mean, I don't get interrupted very often. I can be as out of site/out of mind as I want and need. And I'm way more productive working from home, than I am where I can be interrupted constantly. I don't know about you, but it usually takes me about two hours to recover from an interruption to get back to where I was. Not always, but usually.

All of the above is pertinent to being a mixed bag of remote and office sharers. I would imagine that an all remote team, would have an even easier time with communications and inclusivity.

I can't tell you how many times I've never even gotten the courtesy of a response after interviews...even though I've checked in with them to find out where they were in their process.

The other thing that gets me, is not listing what the expected pay is upfront (and whether or not it's remote) on the job posting. We all work for pay and we all have a pretty good idea of what income it takes to live in your current (and future) circumstances. If your pay is nowhere near that expected range, why should I waste your time and why should you waste my time?

I got hit up on StackOverflow to apply for a company. After looking at their job listing, it said (limited remote with approval), making it sound like you had to negotiate for remote work. This is what I responded with, "I currently work remotely and have no intentions on moving. I have a proven track history of performance and productivity working remotely for over 7 years and it's not something I'm willing to give up or negotiate. So I can save us a lot of time by being upfront with you about that."

I didn't apply and didn't receive a response...

It takes me almost 2 hrs to recover (i.e.: reengage) after meetings...totally unrelated to coding or whatever project I'm working on.

At least you got a response :)

But on a serious note, I really don't understand why they couldn't have written you back and asked if you could make it compile on Linux and send it back.

Why are people putting up with this?

I'm not sure what country you're from or what country you flew to for this ridiculous 'interview' process, but it's one of the many things I loathe about this field...right up there with "rock star" and "ninja" coder.

Honestly it's stuff like this, that has me contemplating giving up this career path because there's just no more room for people in their 50s with 25 years of experience in information technology, who aren't willing to sleep at the office, drink your "insert trendy microbrew here" on tap, and suffer through a ludicrous ask like "we want you to work for three days for absolutely nothing to see if you're a good fit".

I'm not so sure why everyone is on-board with blaming Oracle out of the gate.

From one of the OP's comments, "Oracle support told him, step by step, to encrypt the database, which happened ages ago and is the root of all of this."

That wallet is the responsibility of whomever created it. Just because it's empty now, doesn't mean it's always been empty. In addition to that, what if the person who initially encrypted everything with TDE, used a local only wallet? This would explain why the ewallet.p12 file is empty. Oracle recommends that you store your master key in the ewallet.p12 file and not the cwallet.sso file, which is the auto-open file, but only on the workstation it was created on.

There could have been multiple failures here with multiple parties and not just Oracle.

I've been using Divvy for years and love it

The CFM Leap-1B (new engine on 737 Max) are bigger than the CFM56-7B, so Boeing had to change the mounting point of the engine (further forward and higher on the wings).

Of course it matters. How many consumers honestly knew that Nest was bought by Google?

I mean laughing and experiencing schadenfreude over someone planting a hidden and previously unknown microphone in ones home, is just weird man.

Yeah but it doesn't work.

It's one thing to be able to "answer questions". It's an entirely other thing to have access rights to actually solve a problem and the authority to do so.

I just recently bought a Purple pillow. Good god, I love this thing! I've tried every kind of pillow to help alleviate my neck pain and sweating and while some got pretty good at eliminating the sweatiness, none did squat for my constant neck pain...until the Purple pillow.

The only issue (and it's a very slight one at that) is the weight of this pillow. I think the shipment said it was just shy of 10lbs. The best way I can think of to describe this pillow is that it's like a sack full of ass fat.

I would be extremely interested in seeing what you come up with. Will it be on terra.farm?

It wasn't the recipes, my wife is an awesome cook.

The lack of choice was just irritating. There are only so many ways you can use garlic whistles.