Random Thoughts X (The 9th Regeneration)
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You have it backwards. The info I'm entering is off of columns of data. I then have to enter one item from each column onto a page (essentially one row per page). Entering the data from 10-15 columns, one row per page, one data point per cell. YUCK.
I WANT COLUMNAR DATA ENTRY!!!
Ah, so the data is already formatted. Then a data import should be available in the front-end. Select the data file, bam! Done.
My wife's company has officially been purchased by the parent company. Consultants are being brought in, which is scary for someone that has been employed there for 20 years and could easily be considered an expendable salary.
We're on pace for early retirement, so a setback would be less than ideal.
Oh, and the letter about the acquisition was dripping with buzzwords. I noted several "synergies", "efficiencies", "seamless", "streamlined", "management platforms", and "strategic organization" mentions. They also used "For now, it's business as usual" to respond to several of their template questions about its effects to employees.
It was painful to read. Hopefully my eyes stop involuntarily rolling into the back of my head soon.
We're on pace for early retirement, so a setback would be less than ideal.
Oh, and the letter about the acquisition was dripping with buzzwords. I noted several "synergies", "efficiencies", "seamless", "streamlined", "management platforms", and "strategic organization" mentions. They also used "For now, it's business as usual" to respond to several of their template questions about its effects to employees.
It was painful to read. Hopefully my eyes stop involuntarily rolling into the back of my head soon.
All those buzz terms translate to "we are going to do everything possible to get rid of as many of you as we can."
Even though it's scary, chances are she will be retained. Also, depending upon the size of the company and industry, it may work out even better if she's not. She could get a pretty generous severance package.
I love it when someone uses buzz words to try to mask their true intent and then use them incorrectly. Asking someone to elaborate and then watching them flounder makes me smile.
I detest people that try to dress up the English language to complicate something simple. It's really arrogant IMO.
The severance package would be plenty hefty, for sure. Also, my wife has established plenty of industry connections, so she should not have an issue getting plenty of suitors. The most immediate impact for us would be benefits related. Mine are atrocious, so we currently have everything through her work.
The "scary" part would probably be just the changing of jobs for one of us. She's been at hers for 20 and I'm hitting my 20 year mark in a couple weeks. I'm guessing that's probably pretty rare for a married couple in their early forties.
Fingers crossed for you!
An Uber's driverless car got into a wreck. Would that make you fill your pants watching it happen and you knowing you can't do anything.
I'm pretty pessimistic about driverless cars, despite evidence showing their related safety stats. Personally, I think of the number of times in one month where defensive driving has prevented accidents, and I struggle to imagine the same efficiency without a live driver.
Daughter's 16th birthday is in less than a month. Shopping for a car is making me fill my pants.
About the only way driverless cars would work would be if they are all driverless. Then 6 months later people would be complaining that the government knows everywhere they've been.
Every time I see a Smart car stop at a light I expect to see about 15 clowns jump out and run around it in a Chinese Fire Drill
Goddamn ******* spawn of the devil whitetailed wood rats (aka ******* deer). Chased them out of my neighbors front yard three times this morning and they just wait a few hundred feet away and return as soon as I go inside. Looked closer and they have absolutely savaged their evergreens, way worse then the damage to my lot.
So, figured I needed to throw some rocks at them. Also figured that submarine throwing motion would work, in deference to torn rotator cuff. WRONG. JFC, that's about as sharp a pain as I can recall.
Man, it was like Cowgirl stabbed me in the shoulder with her fish knife. Woof.
So, figured I needed to throw some rocks at them. Also figured that submarine throwing motion would work, in deference to torn rotator cuff. WRONG. JFC, that's about as sharp a pain as I can recall.
Man, it was like Cowgirl stabbed me in the shoulder with her fish knife. Woof.
I don't like the idea of cars with automatic brakes or that can park themselves. I like to be in complete operational control of the car.
Goddamn ******* spawn of the devil whitetailed wood rats (aka ******* deer). Chased them out of my neighbors front yard three times this morning and they just wait a few hundred feet away and return as soon as I go inside. Looked closer and they have absolutely savaged their evergreens, way worse then the damage to my lot.
So, figured I needed to throw some rocks at them. Also figured that submarine throwing motion would work, in deference to torn rotator cuff. WRONG. JFC, that's about as sharp a pain as I can recall.
You'll soon be a Star Tribune regular!
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