Depending on how the business is structured, a paycheck is optional.

I was out of work for two years (2009-2010), underemployed for six months (working 20 hours PER MONTH), and filed for Chapter Seven bankruptcy in 2011. During those years, recruiters told me I was "unemployable" for tech jobs and hiring managers told me I was "overqualified" for minimum wage jobs. Yet I got another tech job after my bankruptcy despite these repeated assertions. What the difference between my old tech job in 2009 and the new tech job in 2011? Nothing. The jobs were the same. The reason I got hired in 2011 was because the hiring manager needed people for the contract and couldn't make excuses for not hiring qualified candidates.

People with EARNED INCOME pay the highest tax rates. Ever wonder why Steve Jobs and other CEO's take a $1 salary? They don't want to pay taxes on EARNED INCOME. Meanwhile, they pay lower taxes on PORTFOLIO INCOME (i.e., stocks and bonds) and PASSIVE INCOME (i.e., real estate). If you don't want to pay your fair share of taxes, stop working for EARNED INCOME.

No. But, being Europe, it's taxed four different ways.

The three other words:

Against Corporate Policy

No, that's a C-O-M-P-R-I-S-E. Bipartisan means that you have least one person from the other side voting for your proposal.

Who knew that Klingons came from Earth?

What is he smoking and where can I get some?

I was at Cisco when a group of coworkers tried to implement an email-based ticketing system where the resulting email thread becomes the ticket. A full-featured ticketing system would take up too much time from what little time they had. They never got it to work properly and went back to regular emails to track issues..

When I mentioned this incident to recruiters, they couldn't wrap their minds around the idea that an email-based ticketing system could save more time than using a full-featured ticketing system. These people never had to wait for Remedy to recover from a network pause or a crash. I gave up trying to explain this to them and stopped mentioning it in my interviews.

Apple has corporate headquarters in Cupertino, CA, but its cash management division operates from a shell company in Nevada, which has no corporate taxes, to avoid California's 8.84% corporate tax rate. Never mind that Apple also collects $400M in R&D tax credits from California.

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-apple-dodges-billions-in-taxes-2012-4

Pray that you never get a federal job. OPM conducted my background investigation for a security clearance. My two-hour routine interview turned into a four-hour nitpicking interview. Being single and staying in the same studio apartment for nearly ten years was considered odd. Working a weekday job and a weekend job for a year, and having multiple overlapping contract jobs for several years, was odder. Not being able to remember every detail of every job I had to take since the Great Recession was oddest. When asked if you're going to commit terrorist acts against the U.S.A., always tell the truth.

Unless you work in a hospital and equipped with a Vocera Badge. Anyone can ask for the position of a user and the device will tell them where in the building. If you told your supervisor you were walking over to user's station, and the communicator said you were in the lunch room, you got busted.

I went through this at one company where software was installed to allow the managers to monitor the Windows desktop of any employee. My manager came running over to remind me that I shouldn't be looking at Amazon on company's time. And then he saw that I had a breakfast burrito from the roach coach in my hand, which meant I was on my break and could damn well look at Amazon. I told him to bugger off.

This was easily defeated because the company next door had an opened wireless access point. We just browsed the Internet on our PDA's (this was ten years ago). Needless to say, with management like this, the company went bankrupt.

You can deliver more wireless bandwidth to users. Are you willing to pay big bucks to upgrade the backend equipment (i.e., routers and switches) for more bandwidth?

*crickets*

The original Atari disappeared in the 1980's.

French-based Infogrames bought Hasbro Interactive that owned the Atari IP and renamed itself Atari in the 2000's. I worked at the "new" Atari for six years, splitting my time between being a tester and a lead tester. They tried to "converge" with licensed Hollywood properties (i.e., "Enter The Matrix"), gone broke during the dot com bust, and sold all the studios that they paid two to four times what they were really worth. Today they are recycling games from the old Atari IP as mobile games.

Meh...