The first step should be to talk to them about it and see if they will revise it for you. I work for a company that took a boilerplate IP Policy and wanted to roll it out (like I'm sure many companies do). When they did this, I talked to them and asked them to change it because the way it was written, they basically controlled anything I did. I cited the fact that they could use it for anything from claiming rights to a novel I would write, to any invention I came up with, to even using it to force me to take down a personal website I designed for myself. They obviously replied with "but we wouldn't do that" so I asked them to change it since they had no plans to ever do any of that. I rewrote the agreement to include anything worked on during company time or anything directly related to company work, and they had no issues with that. If you are happy with your employer, and have a good relationship with them, going tot hem should be your first step. If they are reasonable (which is a big if depending on the company and area of business) they hopefully won't have any issue changing it.

I bought a 2011 Prius IV, and it works exactly as advertised. I drive about 15 minutes each way to work, about half highway and half road, and I get about 49 MPG, which is exactly what was advertised. The idea that you have to stay below 50MPH and never accelerate or go up hills is just silly (I live in Cincinnati, OH, which is fairly hilly as well). I have learned to not slam on the gas when I am taking off, but that is because it shows you your efficiency real time, so it's easy to see what you are doing to your mileage when you take of like a race car. Generally, I drive it like any other car, although the information it gives me allows me to drive a little better than I did in the past.

And I'm sorry, but no car will get the advertised gas mileage if you are going up mountains. This has nothing to do with hybrids and everything to do with that fact they don't take into account extreme driving conditions when they calculate mileage. This is actually the first car I have ever owned that gave me the gas mileage it advertised.

Or the other logical reason is that sometimes you drive farther than that. I would love to get an electric car, and it would handle 98% of my driving. But I'm single and it would be my only car, so the times I do need to drive farther I would be out of luck. I sometime (maybe bimonthly) travel between 150 and 300 miles to regional cities for concerts. Even a 300 mile range is risky since I can't guarantee that I will be able to charge it where I am going.

EVs are great as a secondary car. They make perfect sense and are wonderful. But as the only car someone has, they won't cut it until I can be sure I can find a charging station as easily as I can find a gas station in a different city. I'm just not willing to rent a car every time I want to take a weekend road trip.

The best answer is to not use tickets as your metric. I worked at a smaller company and our metric was a simple yearly user survey. We would ask what they thought of their equipment, the how the support team did (response time, niceness, knowledge, etc) and even took it so far as to ask for suggestions on what could be improved. In the end, how many tickets you close really doesn't matter. What matters is how happy your users are. If you are doing the job correctly, the majority of your users will at least be satisfied, if not happy. If the majority are unhappy, this will give you specific ideas on areas you can improve on.

Teachers cannot establish, maintain, or use a work-related website unless it is available to school administrators and the child’s legal custodian, physical custodian, or legal guardian. Teachers also cannot have a nonwork-related website that allows exclusive access with a current or former student.

I can at least see what they are going for with not allowing students and teachers to be friends (I think it is dumb, but I can see it). But FORMER students??? So in Missouri, I can't legally be friends with anyone who has ever been my teacher, ever. I can be 40 and the former teacher 75, and legally we are not able to be friends on Facebook? That has to be one of the silliest things I have ever read.

In Ohio at least, while winnings are taxable, anything you lost in gambling is deductible from those winnings. So while the $280000 is taxable, the $200000 you spent on buying the tickets (plus anything else you can scrape up where you lost) is deducted from the total, leaving you to only pay on the actually winnings. And if you can get in good with a place, they will save the scratch offs people play, lose, and leave there so you can claim even more losses.

I don't have any real issue with checking them out on Facebook, or even getting them to friend you if they are dumb enough to do that. I think the line is clearly being crossed by offering them something (in this case internet access) for friending the prosecutor. It sets up a clear divide in the jury pool, as people who have open profiles and those who don't want to allow the prosecutor access don't get internet access. It also puts the defender at a disadvantage, since they obviously now have to offer them something to get the same access.

To me FB is like public records. It is out in the public and if you can see it, then it is fair game. But basically bribing the people to give you access crosses the line.

Yes, yes I do.

I don't see any issue with this as long as they are requesting access and not being fraudulent about their request. If Joe Governmentworker sends you a friend request, and you accept it, you are giving him permission to view your data. If you don't know him, then you shouldn't accept the friend request.

Now if they are using fake profiles and false information to do this, then I see an issue, but as long as they are legitimate accounts, I don't see a problem with it at all.

I have never understood the stigma about swearing. They are words, just like any other. What really is the difference between saying "I took a dump" and "I took a shit"? They mean exactly the same thing, but for some reason shit is a dirty word.

It is all about how you use words, not the words you use. You can be just as vulgar and mean without using "swear" words. Is it really less offensive for me to say "The best part of you squirted out of your father's substandard size penis and rolled down that chunk of lard your mother called a thigh" than for me to say "Holy fuck that is cool"?

Words are just words, it's the meaning behind them that matters.