Seriously, people are shocked by this? Did anyone actually think entering a PIN was encrypting the device? Who told you that it would?

This was a feature intended to keep your jerkwad friends from picking up your phone and prank-texting your boss or girlfriend. Nothing more.

Helpful hint to all those who were fooled by this: those "fingerprint scanner" apps in the App Store aren't real, either.

I was just thinking he could copy Windows on to a USB drive and shove it up his ass, and then claim he runs Windows. Would be less painful than an actual install, too.

This should be blatantly obvious. Of course they already know most of the answers. But they're using this as a test of your honesty. Why should the IRS go through a lot of work to make your return slightly easier, when they're benefiting from having you self-report?

If your answers don't match what they already know, they can fine you up the wazoo, charge back interest, etc. Much more profitable and less work.

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It's because you paid money for access to DRM-protected content. You didn't buy shit. It's their device (you paid money for the use of it), their content (you pay a fee to get to view it). At no time did they actually give you anything.

It's just like a DVD. What are you paying $20 for? Is it for the right to view the content? If it were, then you should be able to get a cheap replacement when the disc fails, right? Well if it's not that, then you paid for the copy of the movie, I suppose? But then, why can't you make a copy?

Pay money for DRM'd content and you'll get exactly what they want to give you - smoke and mirrors.

No, that means you're talking to a Republican. Easy mistake to make, though.

Parent's comments have everything to do with the parent's employer and nothing to do with the actual 9/80 schedule.

I've been working 9/80 for over 5 years now. It's a great benefit for me. The extra hour isn't even noticeable after you've already been working 8 hours. And when you can bail an extra hour early on the on-Friday, you feel like you got a little bonus.

Getting stuff done during the week isn't much of a problem. The grocery stores are less crowded in the evenings. Any "business hours" business can be conducted on the off-Friday, or during your extra hour on the on-Friday if you start early enough.

Insist on flex-time, however, that goes for any schedule, not just 9/80.

You will become spoiled by the 3-day weekends. 2-day weekends don't seem long enough.

As far as management respect, don't work wherever the parent does, obviously. My customers don't care that I don't respond on an off-Friday, because they're off too.

Questions/issues may include:
  * Will all employees be on the 9/80 schedule (and will they all be on the SAME one)? If some people are not allowed to do 9/80 (e.g. hourly employees), are they going to be resentful?
  * How is overtime handled on the off-Friday? For example, we have a certain number of hours of OT that are automatically unpaid if they are worked on an "on-day". But if they are worked on an "off-day", including an off-Friday, the mandatory window can be waived.
  * Can you switch on and off of the 9/80 schedule at will?
  * How will your timekeeping be handled with the different-length workweeks? Our work week is cut down the middle of the Friday to make each "week" 40 hours and makes time accounting complicated.

tl;dr - 9/80 is great. Do it.