Why in the hell would anyone train their replacement though? If you see your job forcibly being taken over by someone else, I would say screw you and walk away.
I imagine their severance is dependent on them training their replacements. The deal probably was: (a) walk now w/o anything or (b) stay for $X weeks, train your replacements and get $Y weeks severance with $Z weeks of medical benefits.
Part of the qualification was their cost. I bet they failed that one.
The question is: Did management give the workers a choice to work for less money? My guess is probably not. Sure, some (many?) may not be able to work for less, and I imagine that management would assume anyone choosing that would only stay until able to find another job for more money, but that's not always the case.
I"m 52 and I know I can work 1/2 time (for 1/2 pay) and still have money left over for savings and I have offered that option to my employer as an option to save either my or another person's job on my team should the upcoming layoffs affect us. Judging from their attitude, however, they'll probably just lay me off anyway.
Thankfully, I'm debt-free with enough savings for
...output per worker fell by 1.9 percent during the first quarter of 2015.
Because the current/remaining employees are being ridden hard and put away wet. Employers are squeezing what they have, instead of hiring, to be "competitive" - even though profits are up and shareholders are happy. Or it could be because of things like this: Georgia Businessman Refuses to Hire Until Obama Is Fired (there are others):
Bill Looman, owner of U.S. Cranes LLC, said he is fed up with the bad economy and D.C. politicians who do nothing to solve the problem. So until there is a change of leadership, his company trucks will bear the message: “New Company Policy: We Are Not Hiring Until Obama Is Gone.”
Or that that the top priority of Mitch McConnell and the GOP was/is to make Obama a one-term president (which didn't go so well) and prevent any successes for the President or the Democrats - instead of actually working to fix the Economy. (Yes, the Dems are a problem too, but mainly because they're inept, not actively evil, hostile and uncaring toward those who are not rich, old, white and male - like the Republicans.)
Which means it's probably even flatter than Kansas.
The band or the state?
Given how bad the traffic is in and around NYC and New Jersey, as well as the bridges (thanks Gov Christie and flunkies), perhaps La Guardia can be re-purposed using smaller planes - on those smaller runways - to simply ferry people to/from JFK and Newark airports.
Millennials are also expert users...
and due to Obama's handing tens of billions of dollars of our money to the insurance companies
Technically, you mean the House and Senate handing that over, as they create the laws in this country.
The staff working at the clinic should be paid by the clinic.
Ya, but then the staff would be employees, not "independent contractors" and the clinic would have to treat them as employees and provide them with things like overtime (for part-time employees) and health insurance - oh wait...
This is one of the biggest bullshit issues with the system. Why is a simple prescription $550 "retail" but the negotiated insurance rate is 1/5 of that? It's like they are trying to screw over people who have to pay out of pocket.
Real-world example: When my wife, Sue, was diagnosed with a Glioblastoma multiforme (brain tumor) in Nov 2005 (she died 7 weeks later) the list price of a 1-month supply of her chemotherapy medication Temodar was $11,000. The co-pay on my BC/BS plan would have been $1,100 (10%). The co-pay on her Optima plan was $40.
Pro-tip: It's never a good thing when the pharmacist says, "I hope you have insurance."
Nice that TFA titled, "Should You Learn a Little-Known Programming Language?" shows a screenshot of JavaScript, but I digress.
Little known languages aren't always actually little known or used, just less and/or not main-stream. They are often languages used in specialized areas or use less common syntax and or structure - like PROLOG and LISP. As such, using them can often help a programmer think and problem solve in new/different ways that may help programming in more common languages. I know learning LISP help my recursion skills.
My LISP and PROLOG skills two are a bit rusty, but I've used (and was proficient with) several dialects of LISP and would probably enjoy a job using either language again.
Profits above all else.
From the Better Off Ted episode Racial Sensitivity
Veronica: "Money before people," that's the company motto. Engraved on the lobby floor. It just looks more heroic in Latin.
You know software as a service and all that?
It was only good for 365 days - right there in the name...
Native? As in the ones who were here first or showed up later? The older folks who actually created the systems and infrastructure everyone uses and now takes for granted, or the youngsters who just use those systems and infrastructure, but have little/no idea how anything actually works? I'm not sure who to thank most, the people who created Ethernet or Angry Birds.
Did you try to set fire to your schools property because of a bad grade?
According to TFS he set fire to the computer because he was , "mad and frustrated because he could not hack into the system." I'm not condoning his actions, but who amongst us hasn't, at least, entertained the idea of destroying a computer after simply trying to *use* it? I have bad thoughts about my Windows 7 desktop at work all... the... time. And to quote the movie "Office Space," "PC LOAD LETTER!!? What the fuck does that mean?" - didn't work out so well for that printer, did it?
"have you tried turning it off and then back on?"
True story: Back in the early 1980s, I actually had a long-distance phone call with someone in which I was the "tech support" part of the above conversation.
The optimum committee has no members. -- Norman Augustine
