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The place was a toxic cesspool at the time. An investment group had purchased 7 different companies and forced merged them in the space of 3 years and went on a massive hiring spree. The company I started with was 350 people. The company I left was over 4,000 people

It was an illegal layoff that I could taken them to court over. However the in-house lawyer knew what was going on and made them give me one hell of a severance package to stop me from suing them. I basically got everything I reasonably would have gotten if I sued.

That ended up being the most profitable year of my life.

My boss ended up CEO for a few years. It didn't go well. They have 1/2 the number of employees now and 50% less market share.

I am on my 3rd layoff in 10 years.

First one I had all sort of dirt on my boss who was kissing ass to climb the corporate ladder. I was a massive liability as I knew what a waste of space he was. They laid me off with some really week excuses and a years wage/benefits to keep me quiet.

Second one we got a new CEO who decided to make massive changes to the company "to make it more profitable". It hasn't shown a profit since and the layoffs are a yearly tradition now.

The last one was this past fall. Smaller company over-invested when times where good. Then the market turned around and they are in trouble. One of those small "family" businesses, me and 20 others got kicked out of the family.

So as of now I have my own business. I am on track to make 100% more than I ever have before working for someone else.

Just for shits and giggles I also have an interview tomorrow for a C-suite position in a tropical country. It's too fucking cold here.

Write a series of single query per e-mail.

Set then up on delayed delivery every hour through their workday.

It only takes once or twice until people read your entire e-mails.

My son's group in middle school hosted their own proxy overseas. They then pirated a whole bunch of educational videos that the teachers liked to use and made nice clean interface. The games pages had no direct links on the educational videos screens. They had to type in the the page directly in the URL.

So the teachers all loved the site and gave the official "approved for all students" bypass on the districts Chromebooks. The kids had uninterrupted access to all their games.

The kids were smart enough to keep the location of the games to students with a B or higher GPA. Most of the teachers turned a blind eye to them playing games when they did get caught. The games pages also had a home button that sent the students screens to a random educational video. I was truly impressed with their clever approach.

The IT department either never caught on or enjoyed the games themselves because its still up and they are all in highschool now.

Poor workflow management sadly is quite normal, not the exception. She was in her early 20's at the time, just completely computer and workflow incompetent. I have seen similar issues with people of all ages. It's not a generational thing, it's an aptitude and interest thing.

Many of the FPV drones appear to have a remote detonation ability now. There's quite a few videos of them landing drones next to russians playing possum. Then detonating them when they move.

Get out more. This is entirely realistic in my experience.

The worst one I ran into was early in my career. This was back during the XP days.

The lady who who did the job before had a certificate e-mailed to her from a lab. She printed the certificate off then slipped two certificates front and back into a plastic sheath and put them into a 4" 3 ring binder.

She then deleted the labs e-mail and electronic copy to save space in her mailbox.

There were around 4,000 of these certificates every year for 5 years when I started. So around 20,000 pages. We had ONE physical copy of a legally required certificate.

Around 15 shipments per year required her to find around 300-400 specific certificates She then had to pull them out of the plastic sheaths, make 3 physical copies and scan one PDF to load to the government agencies webpage.

She would then delete the PDF, and laboriously refile the certificates back into the the plastic sheets.

Oh the binders were also ordered in a way that nobody but her could find anything. It was about as close to random as you could get.

The 15 shipments took around 50% of her time every year.

I hired two temps and gave them a few very boring days. When we were done the certificates were all organized in a logical numerical order and in long-term secure storage. I had a folder on the server with 20,000 PDF files all with a unique name. It took me around 15 minutes to locate, print, and upload the required files for each shipment.

It's in the stack with the StarCraft and red alert CD's.

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Then use the library for the rest of the series if needed. :-).

Makes it much easier for the drone operator to get all of the passengers with the shrapnel.

Please do NOT attempt to disinfect your own seeds. It sounds like a good idea but in practice it's not.

It takes some very precise equipment to effectively utilize this method. If you don't do it correctly you can kill the seeds or select for resistance to the disinfectant in the pathogen. Neither is a good option.

It also doesn't work that well unless you do all the things not in the paper perfectly. Stuff like, harvest the seed at the correct maturity, treat the seed within a limited number of days. Disinfect at the right moisture level etc... it all gets extremely complicated and very species specific.

Oh and you also have to be sure to know the pathogen you are disinfecting. For example bleach and hot water does little against TMV in tomatoes and peppers. Now a TSP (tri-sodium phosphate) bath immediately after harvest is highly effective.

I strongly discourage seed trading from unknown and untested sources.

There are tons of diseases and pests that can be shared with he seed. Many of them once established can wreck havoc on local agriculture and the environment.

This isn't some esoteric "Maybe" it will happen. It happens every year, constantly, all around the world.

But hey, go ahead and fuck up the planet because you want to have a hobby.