Yeah, it's a major airline with 80k employees, no worries there. It's just disappointing as all hells to watch money being wasted through apathy and know there's nothing I can do about it.
I can't imagine why airlines go bankrupt from time to time. :rotate:
Accidentally arrived an hour early and am now sitting in a darkened opera house, alone. If this place didn't have free wifi I'd feel really stupid right now.
Speaking of musical theatre, I wonder how Khavall is doing. Is he still working on cruise ships, entertaining the oldies and causing mischief on the high seas?
Accidentally arrived an hour early and am now sitting in a darkened opera house, alone. If this place didn't have free wifi I'd feel really stupid right now.
Speaking of musical theatre, I wonder how Khavall is doing. Is he still working on cruise ships, entertaining the oldies and causing mischief on the high seas?
Speaking of musical theatre and the high seas, I saw the most amazingly naff ... uh, THING ... at the georgia aquarium. I'm not sure I can describe it. There were lights, and dramatic disney-style songs, and an incoherent story with minute bits of audience interaction.
Lots of emails around with the gist of "If an auditor stops you in the corridor only tell them your name and grade. Do not say another word without the company lawyer present. Remember that Chemistry Lab 2 does not and has never existed"
If I was getting emails from my superiors to lie to the IRS, I'd smile happily while hurriedly filling out every application and emailing out all the resume's.
I feel like "Don't talk to the IRS without a lawyer" is awfully close to "We've got some shit to hide you fools."
Guess I can try to stay in the realm of TS, then, thanks
Tricky bit is I have to stay aboard my current company until the layoffs happen so I get severance (or the govt shutdown endshahhahaha), so even if I go looking for jobs and get offered one I'd still have to say "sorry can you wait until December 1?"
Lots of emails around with the gist of "If an auditor stops you in the corridor only tell them your name and grade. Do not say another word without the company lawyer present. Remember that Chemistry Lab 2 does not and has never existed"
If I was getting emails from my superiors to lie to the IRS, I'd smile happily while hurriedly filling out every application and emailing out all the resume's.
I feel like "Don't talk to the IRS without a lawyer" is awfully close to "We've got some shit to hide
you fools."
Not all auditors work for IRS.
My mother, for example. She was an auditor for Blue Cross Blue Shield. She audited hospitals they serviced.
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Wait, what? What does your welders ticket actually specify?
That he's naughty and radical at welding, duh.
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Donovan PuppyfuckerA dagger in the dark isworth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered Userregular
If he's legit got an underwater welding ticket, there are jobs on offshore gas rigs over here where he could work for 7-8 years and retire back home in the US a multi-millionaire...
I'm fairly sure I'm not actually certified for like... "Navy" stuff.
A long time ago I was working for a boat place. We had a contract with some government dudes to make some very luxurious lifeboats/dinghies for a big important boat. It involved some welding I did. Big important dude came in an inspected everything and gave us the "all clear". Then I had to sign a bunch of paperwork and demonstrate to another group of dudes in suits what I did and how I did it.
Then my boss told me I was certified for nautical welding (but not under-water welding).
When I got my updated paperwork, I just filed it away, since I was laid off like three months later and was no longer welding or looking to weld.
You make me curious what the exact language is, or if I need to go update/get recertified (In my state, licenses expire fairly frequently. I just found out I lost my electricians license a couple months ago).
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If he's legit got an underwater welding ticket, there are jobs on offshore gas rigs over here where he could work for 7-8 years and retire back home in the US a multi-millionaire...
I have talked about this, at great length, with my wife. Because I do know it would take a very short amount of time for me to get underwater certified (I have done it three times, but don't tell anyone, all of them were patch fixes on a sinking boat).
The risk to life and limb, plus the fact that I generally don't enjoy welding, and don't enjoy diving, makes it an unsavory proposition.
It has been added to the "What we'll do if we are totally broke and can no longer justify not doing annoying work." list though.
That list is rather long.
It's all jobs I have done previously and hate doing.
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Donovan PuppyfuckerA dagger in the dark isworth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered Userregular
Yeah I did a job I ended up hating for a few years, and by the end of it I was suicidal. I get where you're coming from. Sometimes a shitload of cash just isn't worth it.
Wait, what? What does your welders ticket actually specify?
Generally when people say they're nautical welders they mean either the Navy/Coast Guard has come in and witnessed their quals and certed them, or, a shipbuilding regulatory body (ABS, DNV, Lloyds, etc.) has done the same
But you have to be tested and certed for each process/equipment type separately and on an annual or bi-annual basis
Yeah I did a job I ended up hating for a few years, and by the end of it I was suicidal. I get where you're coming from. Sometimes a shitload of cash just isn't worth it.
Money is never worth any kind of suffering.
It's ok to hate your job from time to time.
If you're waking up wishing you did something else, or you're going home angry you had to do the work you did, or worked for as long as you did. It's time to find something else.
Work may not be fun, but your life and time are something precious. Your work should never ruin the time before and after it.
Accidentally arrived an hour early and am now sitting in a darkened opera house, alone. If this place didn't have free wifi I'd feel really stupid right now.
Speaking of musical theatre, I wonder how Khavall is doing. Is he still working on cruise ships, entertaining the oldies and causing mischief on the high seas?
Pretty sure @Khavall just recently showed up on land again.
Just dropped $600 on wireless network hardware (Time Capsule and an Express, plus some battery backups) for the owner's house
Guess I'm going to spend a morning over there this week, when I should be squaring away anything before I'm gone next week.
Still, I haven't had a change to play with any Apple networking hardware before, so it'll be a good experience (and purportedly setting up a TC plus the Express should be super goddamn easy, I should be able to do it from my phone.)
Quality organizations will audit you also, as well as accounting systems, security, etc.
Basically anything that gives your company a certificate will have an audit process that goes with
Also if another company pays your company to run something for them, they can call in external auditors (like my company!) to make sure you're doing what you say you're doing or that the reason you're getting bad product isn't because someone welded a £340k piece of equipment in the wrong way round and have been making up the data it's supposed to produce.
well ok, they both come up in web development
but one has to do with databases and the other has to do with page styling, and the syntax is pretty dissimilar
End on
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work hasn't even started yet and I'm already curled up on the floor in the bathroom crying.
i should go to code academy and start super basic
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SQL is really quite easy. Optimized SQL takes work, but you need tools to analyze join paths for that, so you probably won't have to do that very often.
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Rising fuel costs. :rotate:
Speaking of musical theatre, I wonder how Khavall is doing. Is he still working on cruise ships, entertaining the oldies and causing mischief on the high seas?
I mean I've got a TS, I'd hate to have it go to waste because I ran like hell from the shutdown and furlough
Good short-term decision, bad long-term decision, etc
Speaking of musical theatre and the high seas, I saw the most amazingly naff ... uh, THING ... at the georgia aquarium. I'm not sure I can describe it. There were lights, and dramatic disney-style songs, and an incoherent story with minute bits of audience interaction.
Also some dolphins I guess.
at the defense contractor one of my friends works at, they've been laying people off, but they were doing that before the shutdown
he's still working and getting paid though
If I was getting emails from my superiors to lie to the IRS, I'd smile happily while hurriedly filling out every application and emailing out all the resume's.
I feel like "Don't talk to the IRS without a lawyer" is awfully close to "We've got some shit to hide you fools."
@msuitepyon are you able to move?
Houston is engineering Mecca.
Almost all of my friends/professional contacts on the operations side of things are working, the ones doing design/regulation not so much
Tricky bit is I have to stay aboard my current company until the layoffs happen so I get severance (or the govt shutdown endshahhahaha), so even if I go looking for jobs and get offered one I'd still have to say "sorry can you wait until December 1?"
Which obviously wouldn't work
Anyone?
This seemed like such a good idea at the time.
I'm even certified for nautical welding.
you could teach him, like in that movie Ghost
Welding has interested me for a long time.
Thusfar my terror and innate clumsiness have overruled that interest.
Not all auditors work for IRS.
My mother, for example. She was an auditor for Blue Cross Blue Shield. She audited hospitals they serviced.
Doesn't change the point though.
Basically anything that gives your company a certificate will have an audit process that goes with
Wait, what? What does your welders ticket actually specify?
That he's naughty and radical at welding, duh.
I'm fairly sure I'm not actually certified for like... "Navy" stuff.
A long time ago I was working for a boat place. We had a contract with some government dudes to make some very luxurious lifeboats/dinghies for a big important boat. It involved some welding I did. Big important dude came in an inspected everything and gave us the "all clear". Then I had to sign a bunch of paperwork and demonstrate to another group of dudes in suits what I did and how I did it.
Then my boss told me I was certified for nautical welding (but not under-water welding).
When I got my updated paperwork, I just filed it away, since I was laid off like three months later and was no longer welding or looking to weld.
You make me curious what the exact language is, or if I need to go update/get recertified (In my state, licenses expire fairly frequently. I just found out I lost my electricians license a couple months ago).
*Figures out how to do a basic SQL Query*
*Watches the table build for about 10 minutes*
OooooooooooOOOOOOOOoooooooohhh...
This.. is kinda cool!
I have talked about this, at great length, with my wife. Because I do know it would take a very short amount of time for me to get underwater certified (I have done it three times, but don't tell anyone, all of them were patch fixes on a sinking boat).
The risk to life and limb, plus the fact that I generally don't enjoy welding, and don't enjoy diving, makes it an unsavory proposition.
It has been added to the "What we'll do if we are totally broke and can no longer justify not doing annoying work." list though.
That list is rather long.
It's all jobs I have done previously and hate doing.
Generally when people say they're nautical welders they mean either the Navy/Coast Guard has come in and witnessed their quals and certed them, or, a shipbuilding regulatory body (ABS, DNV, Lloyds, etc.) has done the same
But you have to be tested and certed for each process/equipment type separately and on an annual or bi-annual basis
Money is never worth any kind of suffering.
It's ok to hate your job from time to time.
If you're waking up wishing you did something else, or you're going home angry you had to do the work you did, or worked for as long as you did. It's time to find something else.
Work may not be fun, but your life and time are something precious. Your work should never ruin the time before and after it.
12:10 P.M. - I think I might hit up the cafe downstairs for an afternoon snack
12:15 P.M. - Second reboot
12:16 P.M. - Must check for fresh fruit
Guess I'm going to spend a morning over there this week, when I should be squaring away anything before I'm gone next week.
Still, I haven't had a change to play with any Apple networking hardware before, so it'll be a good experience (and purportedly setting up a TC plus the Express should be super goddamn easy, I should be able to do it from my phone.)
Also if another company pays your company to run something for them, they can call in external auditors (like my company!) to make sure you're doing what you say you're doing or that the reason you're getting bad product isn't because someone welded a £340k piece of equipment in the wrong way round and have been making up the data it's supposed to produce.
make a backup
don't even think
just do it
i should go to code academy and start super basic
like
css
well ok, they both come up in web development
but one has to do with databases and the other has to do with page styling, and the syntax is pretty dissimilar
I don't know if I can make it today.
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SQL is really quite easy. Optimized SQL takes work, but you need tools to analyze join paths for that, so you probably won't have to do that very often.