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Fully covered medical
13% yearly contribution to 401k, not matching
yearly bonus
4 weeks vacation
standard US holidays plus a week at Christmas
Fitness club membership
Treadmill desk, and extremely nice offices

Curvature of the Mind now with 3D

Talking about our packages is non-KSS.

You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.

I thought that was a bit rude, myself, and I'm not even a kid sister.

Will Rogers never met me.

Either pickup/drop cab facility or Parking space
Health and life insurance
Meal card
Mobile phone reimbursement
once per year, a two day trip to any nearby resort.

Now ive got your attention here's a little story, and I swear every word is true.

ive been self employed for over 20 yrs now but the best package I ever had was in the mid 80's - I had a salary increase of 40%, a brand new company car, free petrol for home use as well as business, all the ex's I wanted, and my boss was a boozer who's main concern was that he'd have a drinking partner for most of the week. it was great until he messed up big time coz work wasn't getting done, so the MD put a private eye on him who followed him into a massage parlour and that night a burly guy repossessed his company car and told him not to bother going in again. This reflected badly on me and to cut a story short I didn't grass on him as he was a mate so I got sacked too lol, but after they realised *most* of the issues were of his doing felt bad about it so offered me a large ex-gratia payment and employed me on a self employed basis for about 6 month, meaning I earned more in a week than I did in a month while working there, and I walked into another job soon as I needed to - lovely

I even went into one job interview (after being sacked and asked by a competitor who knew my work to see them in london) and post interview in the pub the director who recommended me pointed to his pack of john player special and asked 'did I smoke anything stronger that these'. i've always believed honesty is the best policy so told him that I did, and his reply to that was 'great, when we shut the doors at 6 o clock we all like a toke or two and I didn't want you to be shocked' - you couldn't make it up, but I didn't take the job coz of other reasons. - this was not a 2 bit company and I better not say who btw.

I loved the 80's....

that's one up on me, I don't remember the 80s (well most of it)

You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

Commute: 5 minutes in rush hour traffic (live 2 miles from job)
WorkPlace: Flexible. Have to be in office or available during core working hours. Also have a work remote policy
Dress: Casual
Food/Drink: Cafeteria on site, a ton of places to get food nearby, Free Coffee/Tea/Cocoa
Holidays and vacations
Bonuses
Work outings (picnics, baseball games, bowling, etc.)

Noticed your timestamp. Having a hard time sleeping?
From what I'm seeing , it depends on how much they want and what they are willing to pay for you.
At my ex job, a year and a half ago, they had two type of hires:

The craigslist folks.. which usually did most of the heavy pulling.
For us craigslist folks, we had a low paycheck ( startup.. ), 2 weeks PTO, basic healthcare after the first 6 months, and a basic 401k after the 1st year of being with them.

And the primadonas:
The owners wanted to sell the company but they thought it wasn't appealing to investors since the driving force mostly had an unknown background. Thus they went to various prestigious universities to gather "talent". So for these straight off the college benches the job offer looked like:
1. Fly in business to NYC for interview with stay at a high class hotel in downtown manhan.
2. Relocation package: 1st month hotel paid by the company, 2 months worth of your pay as a signup bonus.
3. Close to 40% more on signup than the craigslist crowd.
4. Team lead, key position.
5. Holiday bonuses.
6. 401k after 6 months of work, immediate healthcare.
7. Conferences, paid training, etc.

Got all these at a holiday party when people open their hearths and share knowledge.. And then I quit.

At my new job I got:
1. relocation bonus.
2. 15 days of PTO first year, 22 days of PTO second year.
3. Immediate full healthcare + dental, 401k after the 6 first months.
4. They have good food perks, unlimited coffee, soda, snacks, sweets, and a fridge full of icecream.
Periodically they bring in pizza, bagels, fruit.
5. Paid paternity/ maternity leave for close to half a year.. but I'm not at that age yet.. lol..

Neither companies put too much value on actual office presence. And both have "flexible hours".

Wish they would have paid for classes, and extra training but they don't.
Point is, if you have the chip to bargain, stretch it as much as you can. If they offer low pay ask for more PTO to balance it out, for example. And don't get attached to them, cause from what I learned, the last people to leave a company when things go south are the owners and the marketing people, in contrast to what one might think, us programmers are among the first to be laid off.

it was late morning, I don't live in the colonies (or you were posting late at night)

You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

Lol.. since it's a job + benefit question, I immediately assumed you're "from the colonies", where meritorious rights are an every day topic in the american way of life.. or so it seams. Hope you're doing better from the last post.

The answer is BLACKSPOT

Surprised this wasn't solved.

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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.

Probably because I still can't figure it out given the answer..?

Regards,
Rob Philpott.

Bishop - B
has no -lack
spot - grass

Close! POT is the Grass!

Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)

I should have got that!

I hesitate to ask why?

(He said, indicating he knows nothing at all about any form of illegal narcotics, officer)

Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)

Bishop    B
has no    LACKS
grass     POT

in this hazardous area
BLACKSPOT

Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)

I couldn't see it.

Dalek Dave wrote:
Bishop has no grass in this hazardous area.

Dalek Dave wrote:
BLACKSPOT

That was damn easy, wondering why nobody got that D'Oh! | :doh:

Shameel wrote:
That was damn easy, wondering why nobody got tha

Like the lottery numbers, once I see them I always think "I could have picked those".

Have you seen the new Raspberry Pi thing RS just emailed me about it, will have to have better look seems to be designed to run headless... The Raspberry PI Compute module OMG | :OMG:

Hello!

No I don't think I have, I'll go have a look.......

Looks quite fancy. If you are going to this extreme you wonder if it would be better to move towards: http://www.parallella.org/[^]

Depends on the use case I suppose.

Raspberry Pi Compute Module
Raspberry Pi Compute is a SODIMM format module containing only the basic processor/RAM elements of a Raspberry Pi Model B, plus a Flash memory chip. All processor I/O are accessible via a 200-pin edge connector. The Compute module plugs into an I/O board providing a range of standard connectors for development purposes. A variety of 'boot' methods are available depending on the presence or otherwise of a host computer plugged into a microUSB socket, the state of a GPIO pin and a jumper link. The Raspberry Pi Compute module is aimed at industrial design engineers for integration into production embedded applications.

Raspberry Pi Compute Module
Broadcom BCM2835 700MHz ARM1176JZFS processor with FPU and VideoCore IV dual-core GPU
GPU provides Open GL ES 2.0, hardware-accelerated OpenVG, and 1080p30 H.264 high-profile decode
GPU is capable of 1Gpixel/s, 1.5Gtexel/s or 24GFLOPs with texture filtering and DMA infrastructure
512MB SDRAM
4GB eMMC MLC Flash memory (Replaces Flash memory card of standard Raspberry Pi)
Access to all I/O via 200-pin edge connector
Dimensions: 67 x 31mm 200-pin SODIMM format

Raspberry Pi Compute I/O Board
Provides standard I/O sockets for the Compute module
200-pin SODIMM connector for Compute module
4 x 30-pin headers (46 x GPIO, I2C bus, camera plus power and ground pins)
GPIO logic level selected by jumper link to 1.8V or 3.3V
HDMI socket
USB-A socket
microUSB socket for booting from attached host
microUSB socket for power supply
2 x CSI camera connectors (Requires adapter for Raspberry Pi video cameras, supplied with kit)
2 x DSI display connectors
Footprint for JTAG connector
Power LED
Boot Status LED

Well it seemed over kill to me, if you are going to use the Hardware to that extent there are other 'easier' cheaper means...

It does, but if you are heavy into rapid prototyping, it is platforms like this that allow you to quickly develop early protos to evaluate whether you would take them to next level.

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