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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: capitalist lackey and a traitor
I have been called a capitalist/imperialist mercenary before. The pay was not so good, but I got to shoot and practice destroying things a lot.
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CodeWraith wrote: I have been called a capitalist/imperialist mercenary
Hmm. I keep it simple. I'm a whore, but at least I ain't cheap.
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Being a member of the armed forces is one thing, but sinking so low as to praise the Boss?! 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Ok, and tomorrow he will grill some steaks, like every friday. Best boss I ever had.
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I once had a boss who at the end of nearly every working day opened a bottle of wine and starting passing round glasses ... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Also not bad.
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Personally, I'd rather socialise with my choice of friends, and not the Boss' choice. 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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It all sounds a cheap ploy to get the employees to talk shop amongst each other - and on a Sunday on top of that.
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I worked at a small company that had a paid lunch every two weeks. It was easier for the bosses to pass out paychecks that way.
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paychecks? Surely today it's all automagical direct debitization?
But I do remember the days of getting an envelope with real cash inside, definitely gave a more rewarding and personalised feeling - after that it was off to the pub.
Also every Friday lunch time it was off to the pub [right across the road] for the weekly meeting - first rule of that meeting: no shop talk, second rule: no going back to the office until Monday ... after all would not be good to be in the office with alcohol breath. (Years on I still can't concentrate on work after midday on a Friday,)
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Brilliant? Americans have severe problems with all kind of things (like metric units) and always assume that the rest of the world has them as well.
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CodeWraith wrote: Americans have severe problems
You could have just stopped there. 
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Errr... the entire world deals with time zones and a good portion of the Western world deals with some form of daylight savings.
But you just go ahead and feel smug if it lets you sleep at night. 
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Mike Mullikin wrote: Errr... the entire world deals with time zones and a good portion of the Western world deals with some form of daylight savings.
Just use military (ZULU) time and your problems will disappear.
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CodeWraith wrote: Just use military (ZULU) time and your problems will disappear.
And now you have two problems, in my experience.
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Never had less problems than during that time.
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CodeWraith wrote: Americans have severe problems
I think that the PC term is "issues".
we wouldn't want to be non-PC, now, would we?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Don't tempt me to write something sexist again! Let's just say that they are very... special.
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CodeWraith wrote: Americans have severe problems with all kind of things (like metric units) and always assume that the rest of the world has them as well
That's nothing... canadians have to deal with a group of angry hamsters that from time to time get drunk and start playing with the electronical circuits and the cables... that, and not to mention Sean  
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
modified 31-Aug-17 13:08pm.
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That's because the rest of the world learned from our mistakes
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It's not time zones, it's the damn daylight saving time changes.
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Received it yesterday after discussing an issue with time zones related to capturing values from multiple sites across multiple time zones.
The server with the data does not observe daylight saving time, but many other servers do, so.. we needed to resolve an issue with data aggregation across time periods.
The project manager forwarded the link after the meeting with the comment, "Seems appropriate"
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As explained by Computerphile[^] a few years back...
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