Posted on 23 November 2010. Tags: antics, argument, college, college photos, Facebook, family reunions, football team, girlfriend, information, insanity, nieces and nephews, real friends, Thing?, Work, work colleagues
My girlfriend and I just had an argument because she learned that she was on my secondary/professional Facebook account and not the one with my real friends. Here’s the situation: I met my girlfriend at my work. So I gave her the FB information I give all my work colleagues as it is HR friendly. When she learned that my best friend, an ex, and all of my family were linked to another FB account, she sent a FB request which I denied because her account is infested with friends from work who I don’t want to see my college photos, my football team antics or costumed insanity with my nieces and nephews at family reunions and such.
I told her I would friend her on my real FB account if she unfriended everyone from all the companies with which our company is affiliated. This upset her.
What’s the right thing to do in this situation?
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Posted on 17 November 2010. Tags: California, hmo, Insurance, orange, orange county california, ppo, pregnancy, Pregnant, Work
hey there, i am pregnant and on medical but my work wants me to sign up through them so what company can i go with that will accept me even though i’m pregnant? i guess another question would be can i stay on medical to be covered through the pregnancy even with my works insurance? i live in orange county california and would really like to stay with my doctor so i need either any ppo or any hmo that is st josephs affiliated. any advice would be helpful here. thank you in advance.
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Posted on 12 November 2010. Tags: aerospace, assistant position, asst, cubicle, design of experiments, engineering department, fluid flow, job, job description, mechanical engineers, Niches, position, second job, test schedules, Work
I apologize in advance for length.
First, some background. I have B.S. degrees in aerospace and mechanical engineering and upon completion of my thesis, I will have a M.S. in aerospace. Recently, I got engaged. Weddings are not cheap and my fiance (also a graduate student) has significant student loans, so we decided that I should get a second job.
At this time, I cannot relocate so my options were very limited. I originally applied for a full-time technical assistant position which required no more “technical expertise” than proficiency with Visio and Excel. The compensation was $12/hour, and I figured that was okay for the expectations. Upon seeing my resume, they decided to interview me for a mechanical engineering position (which they had not yet listed as available). A couple days later, they offered me a “mechanical engineering assistant” position, full-time, $12/hour. The description sounded like the original tech asst. job description. I was told this position would last 3 months, at which point they may or may not make an offer to hire me as an actual engineer. We need the money and I had no problem with that payment for those responsibilities in the first place, so I accepted. I figured either I just bombed the interview or their work load wasn’t quite yet big enough to justify hiring another engineer.
So my first day, I find they’ve placed me in the engineering department. My boss introduces me as an engineer. My duties include CAD, design of experiments, data analysis – the whole works. What’s more, it was clear they really need someone who has more knowledge of fluid flow and controls than most mechanical engineers. I spent some time in the lab today, and it seems they need someone who has had some experience in designing test schedules. And from the sound of it, they expect the person to fill all those niches to be me. I was talking to the woman in the cubicle next to me after clocking out and she asked me how I liked it there so far. I told her the work was interesting, but different from what I’d been told it would be. She said a new guy is starting tomorrow in the tech assistant position.
Now, I do find the work interesting and I think it will be rewarding. But it seems like they’ve hired me as an engineer for $12/hour with no benefits. I know engineering salaries aren’t what they used to be, but that seems low (equivalent to around $24k/year). Maybe that will change in 3 months, but at this point, I have no guarantee. Even if I did, I still don’t think it’s right to expect the performance that they are at that rate for any amount of time. Are my expectations unreasonable, or is this much lower compensation than normal? If it’s the latter, do I have any leverage or did I give that up when I was willing to accept that pay for the tech asst position?
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Posted on 12 November 2010. Tags: aerospace, assistant position, asst, cubicle, design of experiments, engineering department, fluid flow, job, job description, mechanical engineers, Niches, position, second job, test schedules, Work
I apologize in advance for length.
First, some background. I have B.S. degrees in aerospace and mechanical engineering and upon completion of my thesis, I will have a M.S. in aerospace. Recently, I got engaged. Weddings are not cheap and my fiance (also a graduate student) has significant student loans, so we decided that I should get a second job.
At this time, I cannot relocate so my options were very limited. I originally applied for a full-time technical assistant position which required no more “technical expertise” than proficiency with Visio and Excel. The compensation was $12/hour, and I figured that was okay for the expectations. Upon seeing my resume, they decided to interview me for a mechanical engineering position (which they had not yet listed as available). A couple days later, they offered me a “mechanical engineering assistant” position, full-time, $12/hour. The description sounded like the original tech asst. job description. I was told this position would last 3 months, at which point they may or may not make an offer to hire me as an actual engineer. We need the money and I had no problem with that payment for those responsibilities in the first place, so I accepted. I figured either I just bombed the interview or their work load wasn’t quite yet big enough to justify hiring another engineer.
So my first day, I find they’ve placed me in the engineering department. My boss introduces me as an engineer. My duties include CAD, design of experiments, data analysis – the whole works. What’s more, it was clear they really need someone who has more knowledge of fluid flow and controls than most mechanical engineers. I spent some time in the lab today, and it seems they need someone who has had some experience in designing test schedules. And from the sound of it, they expect the person to fill all those niches to be me. I was talking to the woman in the cubicle next to me after clocking out and she asked me how I liked it there so far. I told her the work was interesting, but different from what I’d been told it would be. She said a new guy is starting tomorrow in the tech assistant position.
Now, I do find the work interesting and I think it will be rewarding. But it seems like they’ve hired me as an engineer for $12/hour with no benefits. I know engineering salaries aren’t what they used to be, but that seems low (equivalent to around $24k/year). Maybe that will change in 3 months, but at this point, I have no guarantee. Even if I did, I still don’t think it’s right to expect the performance that they are at that rate for any amount of time. Are my expectations unreasonable, or is this much lower compensation than normal? If it’s the latter, do I have any leverage or did I give that up when I was willing to accept that pay for the tech asst position?
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Posted on 07 November 2010. Tags: corporate affiliates, daddy, funnels, guy, national debt, Obama, pockets, President, Republican, republican president, tax dollars, Work
that your republican president created to finance his make daddy happy campaign and to line up more overseas work for his corporate affiliates? I mean, I don’t affiliate with any political party, but I would rather have the guy who creates debt by spending on our own country than the guy who funnels our tax dollars into his own pockets.
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Posted on 01 November 2010. Tags: adequate answer, Answer, Blank, college, english essay, Essay, essay help, hippy, morals, naive child, preconceived notion, ruminations, tank top, Work, work boots
I am writing an english essay for college. It on “This I Believe” between 300-500 words, i am really really nervous about turning it in, can you read this and tell me what you think. Please. any critiques would be helpful.
When asked to write about what I believe, I’ll be honest, I drew a blank. It seemed like such a simple question. But it had to be something that I abide by everyday; it had to be something that filled every niche in my life. If it didn’t, it wouldn’t have been an adequate answer, not for this essay, and not for myself. I sat awake the night before this was due and thought to myself ‘what do I believe?’
I thought about my dad; he tries so hard to provide for our family, and we don’t always have an excess, but we have enough. One day he came home from work, kicked off his work boots, and peeled his sweat soaked tank-top off. I asked him why he worked so hard when he could get any number of jobs that pay the same for half the work. He laughed and said “Because I enjoy it; it makes me happy,” he said it as if he wondered why anyone would do anything but the thing that makes them happy.
It got me thinking that in order to be happy in life you have to do the thing that is true to yourself. That doesn’t just mean what you do for a living; it means everything from how you dress, to your morals and beliefs. You can be a long-haired hippy who loves to smoke grass, or a clean-cut businessman with never a hair out of place. It doesn’t matter. Too many people go through life with a preconceived notion in their head that they have to do what society expects of them, it is drilled in from birth. Do this, or don’t do that. You need this, or you don’t need that. Eventually many people fall into the role that is expected of them, and that role which is true to themselves falls to the back of their mind and is marked off as the frivolous ruminations of a naive child.
It is one of the greatest individual triumphs in life to become happy. And to be happy you have to be true to yourself despite what others think. This is what I believe.
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