I've seen this in riding jackets (Motorcycle) before, but not in formal gear. How do you keep it from condensing on your skin and turning your shirt transparent and wet?
.. and how badly is he playing if he hasn't cleared at least 2 of those 6 bottom rows by now. (I'm giving the benefit of the doubt that he's waiting for a straight piece for the other 4).
Also the space invaders guy isn't firing through his own shields.
I think you could actually pull off that asteroids tie. Its not near as overt as the others. I think most would just pass it off as a repeating pattern.
@tande04: The subtlety is nice. I'd like to see a tetris one where the tie is fully filled with blocks. Unsuccessfully filled of course, cause otherwise it'd just disappear.
20 minutes to boot up or shut down? What, do these people surf MySpace's one-stop-spyware-shop on them all day long or something? Does noone clean off all the spyware that's clogging up the works? Wow. I mean, I can understand that they'd be pissed off at being required to put in unpaid time (even if it doesn't involve actual work), but if it takes them that long to boot up, they're jacked up.
I can't remember the exact term but these people are essentially on call akin to firemen. Firemen aren't fighting fires or providing other emergency services all the time but they can't just do what ever they want either because they have to be ready for when they do. These works have to be ready for when their computers finishes booting up and thus they should get paid. If the companies don't like it then pay one person to boot up everyones computers and have their workers come in 20 mins later.
@nutbastard: If I head to court from my home instead of going to the office first, the client is, in fact, paying for my commute. And helping me hit my hours.
lol thats what I love about being a photographer...I get paid for travel ie: mileage, plus drive time on the road...since I travel my whole Province (I'm in Canada) it can be many hours sometimes up to 20hrs a week or more...take the hours driven and my mileage together and then add on any expense like food and I make more than my actual pay for the hours worked...I like it...if you see my main post you'll see that this whole article is something I loath for good reason...I feel you should be paid for the time you put in, be that travel, slow machines etc.
haha, I don't think everything should be free...it's a bonus to be paid for travel and in my case an exception, cause the commutes are expensive and I use my own vehicle too, if I wasn't being paid for that I''d be a lot tougher to afford a vehicle and gas, repairs (I put over 1,200km a week on my car).
But if your tlaking about free healthcare damn right...lol. Police serivces, fire department are free in US right? Do you pay them when they show up to fight a fire or save a life etc?
I'm salaried and don't catch guff as long as I make my billables. I aim for 10 hours a day, which gives me a big cushion when my review comes up, meaning bonus for me.
@OMG! Ponies!: If you really put in 50hrs a week on salary, there's a word for that, it's called "suck up". And it doesn't really pay at review time unless you're getting paid 20% more than your co-workers, and even if you are, you're making just as much as them "per hour", so it's not exactly a true win even if so.
@TravisO: Travis, I am indeed an attorney here in NYC. NYC is one of the most - if not THE MOST - competitive markets for attorneys in the country.
Associates, on average, are expected to bill a minimum of 2,000 hours per year. Not be at work for 2,000 hours - bill 2,000 hours per year. That prevents you from getting fired. It doesn't win you any favors if there are cutbacks.
In order to do this, one needs to know how the system works. Specifically, one needs to know what gets cut if there's an audit by the client and how to prevent that. If I call my client (or my client calls me), I can bill .1 for the phone call. If I leave it at that, come audit time, the .1 is probably going to get cut by the client because there's no way to prove the call existed. So when I make a call, I follow it up with a letter - dictated and then sent by email - confirming the call. The dictation takes about 1 minute, provides not only a record that the call existed, but also notes for any other attorney, and best of all, entitles me to add another .3 - .6 hours. I have now turned 5 minutes of time into between .5 and .7 billable hours.
I also make work for myself. If discovery is at a standstill for more than 3 months, I contact the client, get authorization for a motion, confirm the authorization in writing, and then prepare the motion. A motion requires reviewing the file, legal research, drafting, reviewing the opposition, drafting the reply, appearing for the hearing and any adjournments, following for the Order, and serving the Order with Notice of Entry. I have numerous "form" motions from over the years and keep up to date with the law. Again, I turn a little bit of work into a lot of billable hours.
How can I do my job and comment? I take breaks in my dictation and, if I've had a lot of appearances (like today) am already ahead on my hours for the day. By 5:30 pm, I had over 12 hours posted because of two conferences in the morning, which included the appearances at court, followed by the reports on the appearances, confirmatory emails to the adversary, and then I worked on 2 budget reports, a few status reports, and reported on my incoming mail.
I'm not a "suck-up"; I'm a profitable investment trying to make partner.
Where I used to work, we would have the managers call down to facilities and complain that our atomic clocks on the walls were either slow or fast, or that they didn't change for daylight savings time. They were utterly amazed, and actually called OIT to confirm, that in fact, the computers everyone used were capable of displaying the correct time. They had trouble believing that "all those computers could get the correct time from one simple server in our building. Isn't that too many computers?"
I tried suing my employer for the emotional distress of dealing with Lumburgh at 4:55 p.m. on a Friday because my Dell Optiplex took 20 minutes to shut down.
@OMG! Ponies!: Uhm, yeah. We're gonna need you to go ahead and come in to work on Saturday. Oh yeah, and if you could just go ahead and come in Sunday too that would be great, m'kay...
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I use two pillows solely so that I can flip my pillow twice as often.
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.. and how badly is he playing if he hasn't cleared at least 2 of those 6 bottom rows by now. (I'm giving the benefit of the doubt that he's waiting for a straight piece for the other 4).
Also the space invaders guy isn't firing through his own shields.
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But I won't. Ever. Under any circumstances. (It's even stipulated in my will: do NOT bury me in a suit and tie.)
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*pass it off as an ugly repeating pattern.
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if only i could get paid for my f*%#ing long ass commute!
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lol thats what I love about being a photographer...I get paid for travel ie: mileage, plus drive time on the road...since I travel my whole Province (I'm in Canada) it can be many hours sometimes up to 20hrs a week or more...take the hours driven and my mileage together and then add on any expense like food and I make more than my actual pay for the hours worked...I like it...if you see my main post you'll see that this whole article is something I loath for good reason...I feel you should be paid for the time you put in, be that travel, slow machines etc.
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yeah but you silly nucks think everyone should get paid for everything and everything should be free so.... yeah, eh?
:P
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haha, I don't think everything should be free...it's a bonus to be paid for travel and in my case an exception, cause the commutes are expensive and I use my own vehicle too, if I wasn't being paid for that I''d be a lot tougher to afford a vehicle and gas, repairs (I put over 1,200km a week on my car).
But if your tlaking about free healthcare damn right...lol. Police serivces, fire department are free in US right? Do you pay them when they show up to fight a fire or save a life etc?
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Associates, on average, are expected to bill a minimum of 2,000 hours per year. Not be at work for 2,000 hours - bill 2,000 hours per year. That prevents you from getting fired. It doesn't win you any favors if there are cutbacks.
In order to do this, one needs to know how the system works. Specifically, one needs to know what gets cut if there's an audit by the client and how to prevent that. If I call my client (or my client calls me), I can bill .1 for the phone call. If I leave it at that, come audit time, the .1 is probably going to get cut by the client because there's no way to prove the call existed. So when I make a call, I follow it up with a letter - dictated and then sent by email - confirming the call. The dictation takes about 1 minute, provides not only a record that the call existed, but also notes for any other attorney, and best of all, entitles me to add another .3 - .6 hours. I have now turned 5 minutes of time into between .5 and .7 billable hours.
I also make work for myself. If discovery is at a standstill for more than 3 months, I contact the client, get authorization for a motion, confirm the authorization in writing, and then prepare the motion. A motion requires reviewing the file, legal research, drafting, reviewing the opposition, drafting the reply, appearing for the hearing and any adjournments, following for the Order, and serving the Order with Notice of Entry. I have numerous "form" motions from over the years and keep up to date with the law. Again, I turn a little bit of work into a lot of billable hours.
How can I do my job and comment? I take breaks in my dictation and, if I've had a lot of appearances (like today) am already ahead on my hours for the day. By 5:30 pm, I had over 12 hours posted because of two conferences in the morning, which included the appearances at court, followed by the reports on the appearances, confirmatory emails to the adversary, and then I worked on 2 budget reports, a few status reports, and reported on my incoming mail.
I'm not a "suck-up"; I'm a profitable investment trying to make partner.
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