Another message from Alex in Kyiv (who is a friend from the international distilling community btw):
Some news for today, the 7th day of the war.
We have our pilot heroes. One of them was nicknamed “The Ghost of Kyiv”. He was hit. But the pilot escaped, returned to the base, received a new plane and already destroyed 21 Russian planes on it!
Glory to the Hero! To all heroes!
He flies a MiG-29 Fulcrum
(After the collapse of the USSR, Soviet aircraft also remained in Ukraine, but they were heavily modernized by our engineers and scientists.)
The total combat losses of the Russians from 24.02 to 03.03 tentatively amounted to:
personnel – about 9,000 people (dead and wounded),
tanks – 217 units,
BBM – 900 units,
artillery systems – 90,
MLRS – 42,
air defense systems – 11,
aircraft – 30 units (information to be confirmed),
helicopters – 31 units (information is being specified);
automotive equipment – 374,
light speedboats – 2 units,
tanks with PPM – 60,
UAV operational-tactical level – 3,
The data is being specified. Counting is complicated by the high intensity of hostilities.
Circus: in Energodar, the invaders asked to be let into the city and allowed to be photographed against the background of the nuclear power plant for reports to their military leadership.
In Energodar, Zaporozhye region, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enerhodar
people did not let the invaders into the city near the nuclear power plant. Ordinary people became a wall against tanks (see photo).
The Russians turned to the station management with a request to give them the opportunity to take a photo for the report against the backdrop of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant. The invaders come out and try to negotiate with the leadership of the city of Energodar.
“They say that it is enough for them to enter the city at least a little, take a picture against the backdrop of the nuclear power plant and send a report to the management,” Kotin said.
Now it becomes clear why the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation is talking about the captured strategic facilities and cities.
Some information for now:
1) Ukrainian troops went on the counter-offensive and liberates the cities captured by the Russians near Kiev, including the city of Makarov, Bucha (Kyiv region). Kharkov, the environs of Kharkov – the counter offensive of the Ukrainian army. the city of Gorlovka is liberated from the Russian invaders.
In addition, another Russian convoy burned down in the village of Moskovsky Bobrik, Sumy region, not far from the Poltava region.
2) Ukrainian intelligence received information that part of the Russian “grad” missile systems located on the border with Russia were deployed towards the nearest Russian villages. This is done in order to bombard their cities (Russian cities with Russian weapons) in order to create a “TV picture” that Ukraine is attacking peaceful Russian villages on the border.
I have no words…
Even the Nazis did not commit such crimes in 1941-1945!
3) I am in Kyiv now, we are already used to constant explosions in the sky … This is our air defense system (and missile defense). We asked NATO to “close the sky”! but NATO is afraid of the Russians and does not help in this matter. We need air defense systems that can intercept missiles. We have our own developments, but they are few in comparison with the number of Russian Typhoon and Iskander installations. We hold on, many missiles manage to intercept in the sky.
Kyiv is an impregnable fortress now.
4) We are fighting in such a way that the invaders were forced to change their tactics. Russian missile and bomb strikes on Ukrainian cities is an admission that Russia has not been able to do anything significant militarily. All lines of our defense have been preserved, and the enemy is not successful in any of the strategic directions. They (the Russian military) are suppressed, they are doomed.
5) Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba called on partners to close the airspace over Ukraine, otherwise the blood of Ukrainians killed by Russia will also be on their hands.
Kuleba said this on the joint air of Ukrainian TV channels “We are strong together”, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.
“We say very clearly and calmly to our partners in NATO that you can think as much as you like how you could avoid a direct confrontation with Russia, but if you do not help us stop it now, then a direct confrontation will be inevitable, because you will be next.” Kuleba said.
In this context, he noted that those who believe that Russia will not dare to attack NATO countries should remember that they also did not believe in the Kremlin’s plans to start a direct war with Ukraine.
“And everyone was wrong. Therefore, we need to act right now,” the head of Ukrainian diplomacy stressed.
He emphasized that the topic of closing the sky over Ukraine is extremely relevant, and there are different scenarios. For example, it is possible to close not all airspace, but part of it, it is possible not to close the sky, but to ensure the supply of combat aircraft and anti-aircraft defense systems of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
“All scenarios are currently in the works. But everyone should understand, and we clearly say this to our partners: “We are grateful to you for everything you have done… But now there is a concrete threat that our citizens will continue to be killed from the air… Therefore, if you do not take radical steps to strengthen the air defense defense of Ukraine, then the blood of our dead citizens will be on your hands. Your restraint and your unwillingness to take the next steps – all this gives Russia the opportunity to continue to commit murders with impunity,” the Foreign Minister stressed.
Pray for us if you believe in God.
Help us in any way you can.
If earlier I wrote that we want to win, today I can write, and it’s true that we are winning!
We Win on the battlefield the most powerful (by number) army in the world! (Army of Russia).
We won’t give up!
Frist
Rotting tires. Which oligarch was supplying tires for Russia’s military? They are falling apart when they get deflated to go off road.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10573065/Ukraine-war-Kyiv-convoy-hardly-moved-three-days.html
Some interesting comments in there, like everything right now, they need a grain of salt, but two things stand out.
Russian troops working hard for photo ops for propaganda. This explains some of the half-ass attempts to take cities, without enough troops to actually hold them. However, it’s enough to get a photo.
Russian bombing of Russian villages – if true, again, purely for propaganda reasons, trying to build more support internally.
Layer this into the nearly complete cutoff of western media in Russia.
Heard an interesting theory about the “massive convoy” – and specifically why it wasn’t being targeted – at least the very high value targets in it (anti-aircraft and rocket systems). Goes back to one of the Sun Tzu sayings – give your enemy a golden bridge to retreat on. Putin can still save face pulling the massive convoy back and not risk being further humiliated – which would cause even more scorched earth. Every day that goes on, it represents even less of a threat, as they burn through supplies and morale.
If there are actually people in those unarmored personnel carriers – they’ve been sitting in the back of a truck, in completely freezing weather, for 4 days now. Lack of sleep, lack of food, lack of any real comfort, it’s got to be f*cking miserable. This is on top of the time they spent in Belarus, likely in similarly miserable conditions.
Reports now say some Russian troops are now on day four of not eating, and they are even raiding stores and begging the locals for food. I would assume they are drinking whatever water they can get from snow or other supplies.
If true many are going and fighting with little food their bodies have burned through most of any stored glycogen, and they all must now feel lethargic and exhausted, and should be losing any will to fight.
There are supposed to be 100,000 of them now in Ukraine. Must all be cold, wet, hungry and most likely demoralized because the Ukrainians have killed 9,000 and injured who knows how many. Seems the Ukrainians just blew up that supply convoy too at the airport north of Kiev.
https://twitter.com/Militarylandnet/status/1499349887858708484
Wow, Sabre cuts Aeroflot off. Anyone that knows the travel business knows how critical Sabre is, and how hard it will be to replace their reservations system. Aeroflot is completely dead in Russia right now. I’m sure they’ll figure something out, but damn this is a good one. Even Russian allied countries still allowing flights are going to have major issues.
I’m not sure who I feel worse for. The average Ukrainian or the average Russian?
Both, it sucks and should have never happened, or been allowed to happen.
Lib, I’ve only spoken to one but she’s beside herself. She’s Russian, her mother is Russian, father is from Belarus. She has aunts and cousins in Ukraine. They are all upset and are very conflicted because many of them view themselves as one people.
Agreed, Grim. I know it seems like I am playing Monday morning quarterback a lot, but it appears the ability of politicians to think and act proactively, is long gone. Whether it be the handling of the Pandemic, terrorism, war, and even with this inflation which is about to worsen.
How is it that the respected posters here can be right so frequently, yet the government’s answer is, “How were we supposed to know?”
Yeah, tough to predict the actions of madmen.
Though – I wonder now what the repercussions will be for India. Their abstention from the UN vote against Russia yesterday is causing a lot of concern. They continue to try to tap-dance to maintain their Russian relations. Unfortunately, it’s time to choose. India’s actions will not reflect well in the eyes of the global community. We’re long past the point of desiring to remain neutral. Hell, even Switzerland realized that was geopolitical suicide.
I understand their allyship with Russia is one of necessity as opposed to desire, given the regional geopolitics, but we’re in a situation where history is being written, and it won’t be kind. This will surely chill long-term business relations between India and the rest of the world.
The worse Putin acts, the worse India looks. Losing a major ally in Asia would be a major blow to Putin, one that could have potentially changed the course early on, so even if India shifts gears at some point in the near future, it won’t reflect well.
They are really in a difficult position. Russia knows this, thus the massive propaganda about Indian students being stopped at the border, beaten, left behind, etc. They are desperately trying to keep the support of India.
I would expect India will turn when the West is willing to provide them protections of sorts as well as make up the goods Russia provided them in trades.
Suspect it has more to do with keeping Pakistan contained than the arms trade.
This will surely chill long-term business relations between India and the rest of the world.
I want the financial and banking industry to ramp up the outsourcing! /Sarcasm off.
Bystander, where are you?
I want the financial and banking industry to ramp up the outsourcing! /Sarcasm off.
Good luck with that now, Ukraine had a huge population of offshore development talent.
So did Belarus and Russia, which combined means something like 100k very, very talented offshore contractors are not currently working.
Good luck if you were in the middle of a large-scale project. India was already strapped for talent.
Expect offshore dev talent prices to jump significantly in the next few months. If you are a little fish, good luck, you’ll see resources pulled off your projects to backfill for major clients.
Oh gArY / how Droll.
Drumpf belongs in jail
I can’t see how we don’t hit a major recession or even depression…
“Ukraine War Plunges Auto Makers Into New Supply-Chain Crisis
Car manufacturers halt Russian factories, sales as sanctions bite”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraine-war-plunges-auto-makers-into-new-supply-chain-crisis-11646309152
Ex,
It’s sad to see how blinkered and insular you’ve become. I hope you find some optimism and strength in your efforts to get back on track.
So, we won’t pump any more oil here because it will anger the climate justice warriors at home but we’re asking OPEC to pump more oil. Does OPEC live on a different planet?
Also, President Brandon ordered companies to LOWER THEIR COSTS in order to battle inflation. Did he just ask companies to reduce their head count by firing people? Does he realize the price of resources has quadrupled in order to produce a product?
Doesn’t matter now Eddie.
The recession is coming regardless. You can blame it on Brandon, but really, this level of inflation requires a bipartisan effort. Don’t get me wrong here. He’s been a terrible president, much like his predecessor. Though fear not. If things don’t change soon (and they most certainly won’t), the Neanderthals are going to have control of everything. I can’t wait to see the world return to a place where only the rich white Christian has a place and the Mexicans will pay for it.
Talk is that Vlad will declare Martial Law at home. That will close the borders, not that anything was really moving anyway.
This guy has the right idea.
https://twitter.com/rafsanchez/status/1499366709102366724
Sorry, I was busy getting beat up by some MDs because we can’t deliver a damn thing of value. The wheels coming off. You will never sell me that Agile teams across multiple regions, with limited product ownership, can be successful. Not at this IB anyway. It is monkey play, pretending to care about delivery when they won’t invest in people or training while also taking on every flimsy CTO initiative for data sourcing and Cloud alignment. Business does not care at all. They want a working app.
India? Nothing changes Ed. Cheap labor will always win. Our global executive board does not care about geo-politics (sure, we will send thoughts) as long as it does not impact their short-term value.
Bystander,
But are you buying-in to your teams core competencies to empower their corporate values as they utilize synergies in a scalable fashion to instill best practices while thinking outside the box, giving 110%, acting in the most transparent fashion possible? After all, it is what it is!
Come on Eddie: Ex tokes up and gets on his troll fits. His demeanor on these threads is mercurial. I am waiting for the day he links us to a picture of his wife in a bikini circa 1992. It will be worth the wait.
For now take this:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cafn9ZUlCdG/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet
Ed,
You mean like when gas went to $80 barrel in 2018 and Trump blamed OPEC. He later did the same.
Trump says he “called up OPEC” and told producer group to bring fuel prices down
Can you just accept the same issues are not squarely D or R? Printing money, low energy prices, Made in America, immigration reform – those are same items been listening to for generations. It is ain’t happening. Corps don’t want it.
He’s been a terrible president, much like his predecessor.
Ah yes… we can’t chronicle the end of the world unless it includes Trump.
Chi Fi,
I don’t have an Instagram account, can’t see your post.
You are better off.
I am literally pissing my pants he did that on TV.
https://twitter.com/peterliakhov/status/1499341576518217730?s=21
With subtitles.
I am literally pissing my pants he did that on TV.
https://twitter.com/peterliakhov/status/1499341576518217730?s=21
With subtitles.
Can they get him on Bloomberg?
Pretty much sums it up, Ed. OKRs are now hot things from our central management. Everything flows from them…except the business people have no idea what they mean or how to define them properly..oops. Hey, but someone three levels up read a book on Google and MS success using them. Implement now!
Also, fixed it for match the other set of corp mumbo-jumbo that comes to us in comms.
“acting in the most transgender fashion possible? After all, it is what it is!”
Out of the RSX premarket. New share creation halted. First loss is usually your best loss.
“You will never sell me that Agile teams across multiple regions, with limited product ownership, can be successful.”
Common sense becoming an acronym is the first sign of systemic failure in any venture.
Somebody’s comment: “Maria Bartiromolovsky”
LMAO!! Omg.
That’s awesome Grim.
I suppose there is one thing we can all admit freely. As bad as our last two presidents have been. We can all be grateful that we don’t live under a dictator like Vlad.
Though we are the only country crazy enough to have used nukes. Our imperialist invasions at least have some worldly justification. What the heck was Putin thinking?
I hope everyone used Powell’s 1/4 point announcement to exit out of your losing positions.
Shorts paying off heavy right now. VEEV -18%, OKTA -10%, MDB -13% on the day.
The guy is named “Butmanov”? Cousin to Assman?
Fun times and the joys of home ownership.
My Cuisinart coffee maker is on the fritz and leaking water, not coffee. Took the bottom cover off and found a pinhole in the aluminum heating element that squirts a little bit of water when the pump cycles while brewing. Don’t know how it developed a pin hole in the aluminum, must be the acid in the coffee? Anyway cannot get the part. I am considering brazing it with a torch, well because I am cheap after all, will have to pull it out as to not melt the plastic, so not really sure if it will survive my attempt to MacGyver it.
Any good recommendation on a new brewer? I really don’t want another Cuisinart as well you cannot get the parts. 10 – 12 cup grind/brew unit with a metal insulated carafe so the coffee does not burn like it does with glass.
Saw gasoline at $4/gallon for the first time yesterday in NJ.
Anyone making any personal consumption inflation moves? Buy toilet paper and aluminum foil in bulk, because it doesn’t expire?
If you’re grinding anyway french press?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/senate-nears-vote-on-postal-service-overhaul-after-years-of-wrangling-11646308800?mod=hp_lead_pos7
Juice
Can’t just put some Jweld putty to seal small hole? I use that stuff on pool and even small leak on my AC pipe.
I’m sold on my Cuisinart Brew Central. Ours is at least 15 years old and still going strong. It brews pretty hot too, is fast and easy to clean and descale and has the charcoal filter. I’ve had a lot of different branded drip coffee makers and they all suck. Trust me. Shame yours broke.
Speaking of mods. This was by far the best one I ever did. Batteries last forever and the power is insane.
https://www.radiocarbonart.com/blog/dust-buster-turbo-boost-lipo-battery-hack/
I did it to a 20 year old model about 5 years ago. Batteries still running strong. I only need to plug it in about once every two months.
Bystander – re: JB Weld. Well it is a heating element, it might smell. Saw online someone else used JB Weld for the exact same issue same model, they said it smelled and then lasted only about a year, before it leaked again.
I have a torch and all kinds of brazing rods, much more effective, and only need to hit it with a tiny bit as it is only a pin hole. Found directions to remove the element, it’s only two screws, and wires, plus no need to solder since I am not taking it complexly apart. I don’t think I will melt the wires. I actually have it apart now, just going to give it a quick shot with the torch. I can test the leak easy peasy with my air compressor too before I put it back.
As far as French press, have one, but really don’t use it much. I would rather set and forget the coffee maker at night. My wife is up at 5 AM on days she heads into the city. I am up usually 6 AM and really don’t want to bother pressing coffee early as I need to get kids up and on two different school buses starting at 7AM.
There isn’t any marking on the part? Usually these heating element parts are shared across dozens of models and makers.
It’s official. We are all nerds.
Georgia filed for EU member state consideration.
Putin must be thrilled.
He might nuke Georgia first.
It’s official. We are all nerds.
e2 + (p * v)2 + (.5 * V^2)2 = e1 + (p * v)1 + (.5 * V^2)1
Translation: The pellet with the poison’s in the vessel with the pestle. The chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.
5% of the cost of a loaf of bread in the US is the wheat.
Wheat prices may increase substantially as 14-30% or so of global wheat supply comes from Russia and Urkaine. I say “14-30%” because I just googled and google said 14, but I thought I heard some pundit say 30%.
Kindness in women starts young…..so cute
(dedicated to Leftwing and Phoenix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrX7Cr9CKhM
I love listening to Bystander’s rants on IB Tech projects. I really relate. Anyone on my team in India who leaves gets a 40% pay hike elsewhere after I spent time to upskill them with modern tech skills.
Grim: Georgia will be waiting decades before they get in if ever. But, I agree it’s symbolic and surely has pissed Putin off.
I’d love to read phoenix’s take on this.
https://nypost.com/2022/03/02/texas-rep-van-taylor-drops-reelection-bid-over-affair-with-isis-bride/
That’s what a lot of companies are complaining about right now in this remote environment. You spend all this time and money training them and upgrading their skills and then they immediately jump ship for more money.
This is def going to take a toll on tech growth companies. How do you complete projects with people jumping ship before projects are done. You bring a new guy on and you have to train him, but then he jumps ship before the project is done. Just another thing that is going to hurt the economy. Not going to see the innovation happening as rapidly as in the past. Plus, most workers are all about themselves now, they could care less about the company…hence, bye bye culture which is everything.
That’s why it’s inevitable that companies are going to want in-person. Remote is f/ing them in the ass. People jump ship way too fast with remote.
Mike S says:
March 3, 2022 at 1:31 pm
I love listening to Bystander’s rants on IB Tech projects. I really relate. Anyone on my team in India who leaves gets a 40% pay hike elsewhere after I spent time to upskill them with modern tech skills.
On the battlefield, Russia continues advancing slowly. Advancing, even if much slower than most would have thought before this war started. An amphibious assault may be launched on Odessa. I’d imagine that the Russians will take a lot of casualties if landing against defensive positions from the sea.
The Ukranians are estimating that the Russians have 9,000 soliders killed or wounded already – that many in one week of the war.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxbDmvMTOlM
How do you run a successful company when you haven’t even seen the worker in person and developed a sense of trust in this relationship? I would never take my hard earned money and start a remote based company. It’s a sure way to lose money over time.
Yes, the best workers are going to work remote like they always have; they have always called the shots….but we aren’t talking about the best. We are simply talking about the majority of workers.
Russia claims 500 troops have been KIA already in Ukraine.
So, Russia say 500.
Ukraine says 9,000 (both KIA and wounded).
So, the truth is maybe 2,000 KIA? That’s a lot.
5% of the cost of a loaf of bread in the US is the wheat.
Wheat prices may increase substantially as 14-30% or so of global wheat supply comes from Russia and Urkaine. I say “14-30%” because I just googled and google said 14, but I thought I heard some pundit say 30%.
And you guys were making fun of me for my stockpile of Semolina and 00 Flour. Why can’t you just give me credit for my amazing calls!?!?!?!
Pumps: Of course your many years of corporate experience just give you that special insight into what goes on in corporate America that the rest of us don’t have.
Anyone on my team in India who leaves gets a 40% pay hike elsewhere after I spent time to upskill them with modern tech skills.
I see names come and go on our India team so frequently, I don’t even realize they’re on our team.
punkn hed,
no schcol agian taday?
Fast: He does his best work in the teachers lounge.
Human nature is human nature. I don’t have to work in a corporation to understand business.
I learn about human nature from my students. I have been managing students for 17 years. Don’t you think I understand by now how people think when it comes to work?
Btw, teachers are in high demand for the management and data skills by corporations. Go look it up and educate yourself. Ton of teachers leaving education and jumping into corporate work.
3b says:
March 3, 2022 at 2:14 pm
Pumps: Of course your many years of corporate experience just give you that special insight into what goes on in corporate America that the rest of us don’t have.
Pumps: Yeah, Ok. So you understand corporate America by interacting with your 17 year old students. A ridiculous comment on your part.
If so many teachers are leaving why aren’t you?
According to Forbes latest issue, 25 percent of all jobs in corporate America will be fully remote by end of 2022, and will continue into 2023. Prior to the pandemic under 4 percent of corporate America jobs were fully remote.
So keep telling us how remote work/ hybrid has no impact on you while at the same time raging against it and stating companies are getting fecked in the ass; such an ignorant comment.
Blumpy thinks it is the worker who commoditized their job and does not care now..such a precious little under-developed brain. Go to reddit recruit hell. Read the stories on there. It is not all made up b*llshit. It is real people trying to sift through the enormous metrical non-sense that US hiring has become. I had two interviews in early Feb and nothing has come back except “still trying to get with hiring manager on next round”
You have this mindset because you’re surrounded by incompetent folks who are just in it for the tenure and pension. Join pus in the trenches of capitalism where people realize they need to get sht done, and I think you’d have a different reaction
Putin is a psychopath, god help us all.
So tell me, when is the stock going to crash if this is indeed what you really think?
At the end of the day, that’s what humans do. They f/k each other over…over and over again. When the ball is not in the worker’s court, they cry about the owners. When the ball is not in the owner’s court, they cry about the workers. No matter what, each side has no remorse about f/ing the other in the ass when they can.
“So keep telling us how remote work/ hybrid has no impact on you while at the same time raging against it and stating companies are getting fecked in the ass; such an ignorant comment.”
Apparently this Republican and “Isis Bride” met at an anti-extremism camp. The woman apparently didn’t think her politician lover was helping out with her expenses enough (she has 4 kids) and so got back into the media limelight by spilling the scandal and sharing one of his texts which read:
“I want a long slow rim job while I have a drink—then for you to deep throat me while you stroke my cock and I cum on your tonsils.”
I don’t think that demand even makes sense – how can he expect to get stroked and deep throated at the same time? Furthermore, tonsils are kind of shallow in the throat, not very deep. And what’s the deal with having a drink throughout?
Seems like someone from Harvard and the Marines should know enough to stay out of a honey trap like that, but he’s probably a typical Harvard politician narcissist who thinks everyone worships him.
Right, and everyone is competent in the private sector. Get real. It’s all the same.
How come when I use a call service for help with a company product it’s a complete waste of time? How come you have banks that offer a financial service that ends up costing the customer big time? Why? I can go on and on. Are there bad teachers? Sure. Are there teachers good teachers? Sure. It’s just like pro sports. Some players are good and some are bad, yet they are all pro’s. Give it a rest with your hate for teachers. It’s more annoying than my WFH talk, but you just don’t see it.
Boomer Remover says:
March 3, 2022 at 3:01 pm
You have this mindset because you’re surrounded by incompetent folks who are just in it for the tenure and pension. Join pus in the trenches of capitalism where people realize they need to get sht done, and I think you’d have a different reaction
Pumps. Once again you know absolutely nothing. Your last post is completely incoherent. Just admit why you are hostile to WFH/ hybrid and stop the nonsense, or better yet just don’t comment on a topic you clearly know nothing about.
Okay, let me clarify this for you. If remote is the norm, and you are indeed correct, why doesn’t the stock price reflect it? In simple words, this has no impact on me.
You keep going on and on that real estate is dead, dream the f/k on.
“So keep telling us how remote work/ hybrid has no impact on you while at the same time raging against it and stating companies are getting fecked in the ass; such an ignorant comment.”
Here is one Blumpy from today:
-Recruiter reaches out to me 10 days ago on LinkedIn “title: Need help. Are you in market?”. He gives no details other than looking for Sr. data governance PM and wondering if I am interested
-My reply: Thanks for the reply. I may be interested but can provide more details and if FT or contract?
-He does not reply, until today and sends me calendly link with pdf overview of role and his company. He works for search firm and trying to fill a role for Fitch but his firm requires:
1. First round with recruiter (normal)
2. 1st Meeting with Fitch to see if interest (normal)
3. Next Round, in person, in Chicago with his company to be interviewed by their team (ok wtf)
4. 60 m skill assessment with a f-ing internal Z brain score to see if meet their standards (f-you)
5. If I pass 3 and 4 then I go back to client for 2nd round.
6. If 5 then back to Chicago for final round with their team after client feedback
7. Might offer who knows
All in pdf. Seriously, I bet salary is not up to snuff and probably not hybrid.
My final reply: I am only looking at hybrid work schedule in XXX salary range. Happy to discuss if this mutually works.
Big NJ segregation in schools lawsuit gets heard by judge today . . .
The plaintiffs in this case (minority rights activists) are seeking remedies such as busing across town lines to reduce segregation. I think today is the motino for summary judgment oral argumetn hearing.
https://www.insidernj.com/judge-lougy-hears-nj-schools-segregation-case/
I hope they pass this, so we can use it as a case study on why they are full of sh!t. Those students will perform the same in those districts (prob even worse as they realize they are well behind their peers and don’t have to the work ethic to keep up). So I can’t wait till they try this experiment so they can for once stop blaming the teachers and instead acknowledge the work ethic of said students.
crushednjmillenial says:
March 3, 2022 at 3:27 pm
Big NJ segregation in schools lawsuit gets heard by judge today . . .
The plaintiffs in this case (minority rights activists) are seeking remedies such as busing across town lines to reduce segregation. I think today is the motino for summary judgment oral argumetn hearing.
https://www.insidernj.com/judge-lougy-hears-nj-schools-segregation-case/
There are some silver linings.
RT America ceases productions and lays off most of its staff
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/03/media/rt-america-layoffs/index.html
Pumps: You are deflecting again. I gave you the latest from Forbes and you dismiss it. I have not said anything about real estate in ages. Yet, you bring that up to deflect. What stock are you talking about Zoom? Why is it going down ? I don’t know the particulars, but I would assume saturation might be part of it , where the does the stock go from here. You of course assume it went down because everyone will go back to the office and Zoom will become the equivalent of the 8 track player. That’s not happening, and by the way Zoom is used in offices as well obviously you didn’t know that and who would expect you to as you are not in corporate America. As for your call center example that you trot out as evidence of incompetent corporate employees and WFH slackers aren’t they just as bad when they are in the office? Or are they bad when they are in the office and really bad when they WFH.
Your future folks..Black Mirror here we come. Blumpy will tell us that we have commoditized our jobs and we don’t care about companies…what a laugh.
https://www.zrgpartners.com/about-zrg/the-z-score-difference/
Yet another example of the incoherence and incompetence of the Biden admin — refusing to ban oil imports from Russia (ensuring Putin enough income to continue funding his war), but choking energy production here at home. The rationale….
Jen Psaki — “We don’t have a strategic interest in reducing the global supply of energy, and that would raise prices at the gas pump for the American people…”
Pete Buttigieg (asked why they won’t re-authorize Keystone) — “…we also need to make sure that we are not galloping after permanent solutions to immediate short term problems…”
Zelenskyy – calling out Putin with his long table. I wonder if Putin will respond in kind.
“What are you afraid of? I don’t bite”
“Sit down with me to negotiate, just not at 30 metres.”
Putin is going to tell him to come to Moscow, alone.
Looking more likely Putin goes into Moldova as well. He is a madman.
re: madman.
I am going to disagree. He is probably a drug addict. Just like many of our now dead but famous and rich celebrities.
Putin apparently wakes up at noon and has a quail egg omelet and then swims is his lap pool before “work”. Apparently he has the cosmonauts on the ISS attempting to grow quail eggs in space.
Hitler was a drug addict too, he was continually given varieties of injections and pills along with their army, it’s well documented. Many times the rich and powerful destroy themselves with drugs.
Where is Phoenix, our resident expert? A nice mitral valve tear when your blood pressure rises at 70 years old what are the chances?
It would be the best thing right now if some doctor refuses to save him.
He does talk about drug addicts quite a bit.
They don’t have a manager to assist them at home. Almost any question has no answer. Wasn’t always like this.
“As for your call center example that you trot out as evidence of incompetent corporate employees and WFH slackers aren’t they just as bad when they are in the office? Or are they bad when they are in the office and really bad when they WFH.”
Here’s the thing, I’m not buying into the trend. This is a trend due to two factors: 1. Pandemic 2. Anomaly in the labor market. Once the labor market returns to the mean, workers aren’t going to be calling the shots, the owners will. It’s always been this way long-term.
“Pumps: You are deflecting again. I gave you the latest from Forbes and you dismiss it.”
The people going nuts that think we are in the new age of remote work are going to get slapped in the face like Cathie Wood did. Not all trends stick.
Hearing that Ukraine pounded the convoy with 2 migs today
Pumps For God sakes give it a rest! You are unraveling again. You go away and sulk and then you come roaring back again even more unhinged. In all seriousness get help therapy drugs, perhaps both. You need help, and I say that in all sincerity.
NATO says no to Zelensky s request for no fly zone.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10575179/Russian-troops-fire-Ukrainian-civilians-protecting-Europes-largest-nuclear-plant.html#article-10575179
Just talked to builder in California. They opened a new community over the weekend. 1,500 people toured the models. They only had <10 homes for sale.
https://twitter.com/aliwolfecon/status/1499508127074381827?s=21
JP Morgan says oil could reach $185.00 a barrel if Russian oil supply remains disrupted
Hold : Fire reported at that nuclear plant.
WW3 already started, we just don’t realize it yet.
I’m scared to think of what side China is on…hope they aren’t trying to pull a Japanese move like pearl harbor.
It was a hell of a run. We lived through a special era. 80s-90s was peak.
Truly think china alliance is real. It’s why he acted on it. Felt strong. He is playing chess right now and has been. No way he does without their backing. Terrible times upon us.
Death cross in effect for the Total Market ETF $VTI
https://twitter.com/ericbalchunas/status/1499495387819819015?s=21
No fly zone isn’t entirely relevant. Russia does not control the sky.
I understand why they want it, but it’s not going to change the current situation.
Putin – beware the ides of march.
At lease we can all hope for it.
Increasingly appears Putin’s grand 12d chess plan is essentially a “suicide by cop” sequence cribbed from a C+ police procedural.
https://twitter.com/coloradotravis/status/1499562616800178179?s=21
Not many people have as thick skin as me..wish the idiot that compared him to me, would just stfu. Stop attacking people personally on here, you have no idea what it’s like to live in this man’s shoes.
Just be happy your life was lucky enough not to go through what he went through.
Btw, when you resort to personal attacks, you already lost the debate(assholes are you listening?).
“Where is Phoenix, our resident expert? A nice mitral valve tear when your blood pressure rises at 70 years old what are the chances?”
Two recruiters reached out to me about changing jobs. Both positions, management and potentially above, are either full time remote or 1 or 2 days remote. Not even bargaining to lure me in, flatly stating this is how it is. Both are moving offices to cheaper locations and are using hot desk / flex arrangements for staff who want to go in still. I am still firmly in the “want to be in the office” camp, but I may not have that option going forward. Even with Covid winding down, remote work is gaining ground fast in my industry.
In other news, I have no effin idea why you all still humor the troll. Seriously, either stop your bittch’in and just ignore it so it shrivels up and dies , or admit you want him here because you can’t stop talking with him (or about with him like catty 14 year girls). It’s been years, like at least 8 I think, since he was really first identified as a troll. 8 years… and your all still at it.
Assassins have tried to kill Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky at least three times since Russia invaded his country last week, a new report said.
The assassination plots were foiled when anti-war Russians fed intel to Ukraine about two separate mercenary groups that planned to launch the attacks, the Times of London reported.