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The trouble with that, is that if you try that, it's a prefect reason for them to get rid of you. Oh they're moving! Perfect, lets fire their ass and hire somebody new!!!!!!!!

Where do you get 2x-3x?

Where on earth do you get the 2x-3x? Industry average mark up for recruiting companies is 30% to cover employee costs with w2 contractors.

"unlimited vacation time" is just really an accounting hack. It allows the employer not to have to track that stuff and on your way out, owe you nothing for vacation time. It also allows them to say, well, it's unlimited, take it when you want; then the only option to take time off is around federal holidays. It's basically a scheme to rip you off....

Well, I knew there was a reorg, asked for the conversion and they made the offer. After talking to a fair number of people, I realized that they want 20-50% more time in trade for less money but they say you can only get fired twice a year.... Welp, I told them that the hours were insane and with my clinical depression; I'm going to hate my life if I work that much. So they were pretty understanding after that.

I work at a big 4 (not tech, consulting/accounting) company as a contractor. They recently offered me a FTE role. $40k less pay for 10-20 hours more a week; meaning they expect their FTEs to work 50-60 hours a week for 4/5 of what they'd pay contractors to only work 40.

The work is interesting, I love my team and such, but cannot and will not give up 10-20 more hours to what amounts to just another job. There's no incentive to convert, no justification to work 2500 hours a year for some lousy bonus.

Atleast I get to keep my contract, keep billing my rate and only work about 1960 hours this next year.

I'd say until companies get realastic about hours, expectations and salary it's going to be difficult for them to convert people. I mean, your company makes lets say $100,000,000 in profit this year with what a 50% margin; probably higher with software. You can pay the contractor $200-$250 k this year, but only your staff $160k, or $190k once benefits and all that get factored in. Really? You can only pay $160k for perm and $200k for contractor? ?!? You're a team of like 30, making like $100m

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So if you'd like a Snr Eng here's what I'd do:

1. Work life balance. Make it so I can do my job in 40 or less

2. Don't take advantage of me

3. Don't make false promises

4. Pay me really well

5. Give me generous time off and benefits

6. Let me work when and where I want

7. Don't ask me to believe in the culture, or give a shit about the mission. I'm not here for the mission. I'm here to do my 40, make a lot of money and enjoy my time outside of my job.

This is something I've seen at places like Whole Foods. In the bathroom they have a digital card scanner. One day I saw an employee scan their ID, they said that they have to check on certain things every hour and scanning a badge in the bathroom tells their minders that "Hey, the bathroom was checked in on by an employee and thus should be in of good condition".

I think something like that is fine and reasonable if your job is to move about a building.

Love it-- How can I buy the book? I might not ever read the whole thing, but I love the sentiment and the fact you're giving this away.

Are you accepting small time investors? I’m very interested in putting $10,000 towards this

Its a neat concept, but this is shuffleboard, not curling. I was expecting a set of robots, a pusher and the ones sweeping. I've done curling before, it's a lot of fun and work. They need a robot that can do more then throw the stone, they need to show it sweeping into victory.

What was your website traffic before you launched your product? How did people find you?

why?

Seeing the people storm the capital and decide that Trump actually won, trying to force him to retain his office sealed the deal for me. I'm now against the second amendment. Not the school shootings, not the movie theaters; I've shot and handled many guns, but seeing this total disconnect from reality shows me that Americans cannot responsibly handle the option to elect somebody, accept the results either way, let alone carry a firearm.

The whole notion of it takes just one good gun owner is total garbage. This is the law and order crowd, this is the crowd of "Just one good guy with a gun". Total garbage.

Trump lost. Get over it.

LOVE THIS. So cool. How'd you build it?

Did they make sure the plant was still alive after the Ether and Lidocaine were applied?

Probably has something to do with house prices. You can get a tent in SF for $3000 a month or a mega house in any of the top 5 in the article.

I'm considering leaving Colorado because of housing, and we're much more reasonable than California.

What about single parents? Or parents who work two or three jobs to keep food on the table? My wife is a teacher and regularly deals with parents who are to busy trying to keep food on the table to study with their kids.

It's super easy to judge when you make a 6 figure salary and are highly educated. But most families aren't making that kind of coin.

Sounds like someone is for a communism run state. No thanks. I'll raise my kid the best possible way but the government cannot and will not tell me how.

Smart and very true. But honestly, I'm lazy. I don't leave my house much. I like to keep it no lower then 72 or 73 in the day and 75 at night. I have my heating setup such that after 9 am it drops the house to 72 (naturally) then at 4 pm kicks it up to 73. 6 pm 74, and 8 at 75. Hold all night until 6 am when I have it kick down to 74.

I don't care about the cost. Sure I could spend less and yes, I use more then all of my neighbors, but I really, really don't care. Sure it might be environmentally less efficient, but I couldn't care less about my bill being $20 or $50 cheaper. I want to be comfortable. That $20 or $50 isn't going to change my life in any meaningful way, but being warm sure makes me a lot happier, every, single, second, of the day.

your site could use some flow cards help....

Is that $9.99 or $9 million?

This is why being a contractor is the best idea. You need need me to work 60? I'm billing for every, single hour. 35? Great! I'm going to leave early on Friday and not check my email until Monday morning!

USB c?

What treadmill did you buy? I'm looking for one

I brain dump.... Adambourg.com

> How would an offline-first Internet look like?

1Password comes to mind. If you sign up for the subscription, you can easily access it offline, sync to the cloud now or later. Enable 2factor, and you can still access the vault offline, want to sync with the cloud? Enter the 2factor ID and you're in business.

> Your Work Is Not Trapped on One Device

Microsoft Office does a great job with this and office 365. You have the powerful Word running locally, saving both on disk and virtually in the cloud. But then if you switch machines, want to use in the browser? Easy no problem

> Seamless collaboration

Doesn't Git solve this problem?

Why would I want to walk anywhere? I have a 5000 pound car that can take me there faster then I could move my two legs!

Personally, I don't get why people chose Vue, React, Next etc... for their blog. Maybe it makes sense for comments but I write all of my posts in markdown and run it through jekyl. I don't support comments, because I post it on places like Facebook, Hacker News, Dev.to where comments already exist on that platform. Why reinvent the wheel? Furthermore, generating a statically loaded HTML site that references 1 style sheet, a couple of images makes the site infinitely faster to load and cache for future visits.

Sounds interesting but I'm going to have to read this later...

Dave Ramsey would say ANYONE can come up with $1000 for an emergency fund...