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mostlygray posted:It really depends on the company. Some places are use it or lose it and you're forced to take PTO just before the new year. That's why you can't get any work done for the last 2 weeks of December. No one answers their phone. Other's still do payoff which is nice. I've worked a few places where there's a limit on how many hours you can carry over into the next year, usually around 40 hours, so there's a use it or lose it on that one. I usually have a few hours that get carried over into the next year, as I usually also just take half a day off here or there when there's a light day of work, but in 2020 I really didn't take any time off, so I'm sitting on quite a few hours of PTO right now.
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Iron Crowned posted:I've worked a few places where there's a limit on how many hours you can carry over into the next year, usually around 40 hours, so there's a use it or lose it on that one. Geez, I have 136 hours Holiday owed and 250+ of sick/personal leave. That's considering I took maybe 4 weeks off last year. I gotta get drunk with farm vehicles again to use up some of that sick leave!
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Humphreys posted:Geez, I have 136 hours Holiday owed and 250+ of sick/personal leave. That's considering I took maybe 4 weeks off last year. I gotta get drunk with farm vehicles again to use up some of that sick leave! There really are no unified laws on PTO in the us, it's a "benefit," meaning your employer is gracious enough to allow you some time away from work, and pay you as if you were still at work. Most places I have worked "give" you 80 hours per year when you start. Some places will give it to you immediately after your first 90 days are completed. Some places make you accrue it at 3.08 hours per paycheck. There are some places that only give you 40 right away, and then give you the other 40 at the end of your first year. Then there are places that don't give you any PTO until you've hit the one year mark. If you want more PTO, they usually make you work there for 7 to 10 years before they give you 120 per year. You gotta also keep in mind that again, sick time and PTO are the same thing in a lot of places, so if you're sick, that gets taken out of your PTO. See also doctor/dentist/etc. apointments. The holidays they give you off, including federal ones are also technically a "benefit," I know I interviewed at a place that flat out told me that while they were closed on certain federal holidays, they didn't pay you for it, so you had to use PTO (or show up), if you wanted to get paid for those days. I declined their offer.
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Iron Crowned posted:I've worked a few places where there's a limit on how many hours you can carry over into the next year, usually around 40 hours, so there's a use it or lose it on that one. Jeez lol. In the military you can accrue up to 60 days at a time of leave and you get 30 days per year.
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Iron Crowned posted:I've worked a few places where there's a limit on how many hours you can carry over into the next year, usually around 40 hours, so there's a use it or lose it on that one. Where I work, your PTO carries over until you hit 360 hours. Then they make you take time off whether you want to or not. I rarely take more than two days off at a time outside the holidays. The only time I took more than that was when I fractured my heel in 2016 and was out for five weeks and last year when my father passed away and I took off a week to help my mother out.
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Mister Kingdom posted:I rarely take more than two days off at a time outside the holidays. That's not good for the soul, my dude.
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LifeSunDeath posted:[carmen sandiego] That production schedule...  Seriously holy poo poo they did 65 episodes in 6 weeks. My loving god.
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Trabant posted:That's not good for the soul, my dude. listen to this person
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lord funk posted:That production schedule... I feel for Rockapela
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What is this "paid vacation"? At job 1, I'm at 36 hours per week, classified as PT and get no benefits. Job 2 is a contract gig, I get two weeks but they're unpaid and still working job 1. The last "vacation" I had was two weeks 100% unpaid three years ago, recovering from emergency gallbladder surgery.
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rndmnmbr posted:What is this "paid vacation"? At job 1, I'm at 36 hours per week, classified as PT and get no benefits. Job 2 is a contract gig, I get two weeks but they're unpaid and still working job 1. The last "vacation" I had was two weeks 100% unpaid three years ago, recovering from emergency gallbladder surgery. Holy poo poo how do you survive mentally?
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rndmnmbr posted:What is this "paid vacation"? At job 1, I'm at 36 hours per week, classified as PT and get no benefits. Job 2 is a contract gig, I get two weeks but they're unpaid and still working job 1. The last "vacation" I had was two weeks 100% unpaid three years ago, recovering from emergency gallbladder surgery. LOL not only I get paid to take holidays, I get paid MORE than my normal rate.
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The US never abolish slavery, they just expanded it to cover everyone and renamed it "right to work".
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Trabant posted:That's not good for the soul, my dude. Nah, I'm good.
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Collateral Damage posted:"right to work". such bullshit. My wife is in a Union in a RTW state. Everyone's a member, but not nearly everyone pays dues.
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Perhaps I confused it with At Will law.
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Collateral Damage posted:Perhaps I confused it with At Will law. Same thing, just the right wing branding machine at work. Assume an ironic tone of voice if the person saying it isn't a business owner. E: I guess it isn't. Weird.
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Collateral Damage posted:Perhaps I confused it with At Will law. I associate that one mostly with an employer being able to fire you for any reason. It ain't discrimination if they don't tell you lol
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Collateral Damage posted:The US never abolish slavery, they just expanded it to cover everyone and renamed it "right to work". Even more literally, the US never abolished slavery completely since using prisoners for slave labor is still legal and constitutionally protected.
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Keith Atherton posted:I was contracting at MS and one day I drive into work and there are flags on lamp posts all over campus with this logo I never used a KIN (because no one did) but I thought on paper it could have been a good idea if the carriers had priced the data plans for it like other feature phones, instead of charging smart phone data plans for it. But as it was, I have no idea why you would use a KIN over any other available smart phone of the time. Lowen SoDium has a new favorite as of 16:21 on Apr 7, 2021 |
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Lowen SoDium posted:I never used a KIN (because no one did) but I thought on paper it could have been a good idea if the carriers had priced the data plans for it like other feature phones, instead of charging smart phone data plans for it. I never actually heard the term "feature phone" until non-smartphones were basically obsolete. Did the industry just come up with it as an alternative to the obvious name "dumbphone" that people were starting to use?
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I seem to recall "feature phone" being a middle ground between smartphones and dumbphones. My old Motorola V551 flip phone could install a Gmail app and use it, so not a completely dumb phone but far from a smart phone.
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TITTIEKISSER69 posted:I seem to recall "feature phone" being a middle ground between smartphones and dumbphones. My old Motorola V551 flip phone could install a Gmail app and use it, so not a completely dumb phone but far from a smart phone. I think this is exactly it - our first NMT "phone calls and a contacts list" phone was a dumbphone, my SonyEricsson W800 that I installed a java applet version of Opera Mobile on was a feature phone.
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Computer viking posted:I think this is exactly it - our first NMT "phone calls and a contacts list" phone was a dumbphone, my SonyEricsson W800 that I installed a java applet version of Opera Mobile on was a feature phone. Feature phones are the ones with the feature of a hardcoded "WEB" button that if you accidentally touch your phone bill increases by $10 for daring to breathe in the near proximity of the Internet
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I always thought that "feature phone" was just any phone that was between phones that only made calls and smart phones. So a camera phone was a feature phone with a camera feature. And then there the proto-smart phones that had big screens and could do internet but weren't smart phones or whatever. My last phone before I got a Motorola Droid was an LG Voyager, and I'd say that the Voyager was a feature phone since it wasn't really a smartphone, it just had various features.
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I think generally a feature phone is one that has one or more built in features other than calling and texting, like mp3 playback, camera, etc, but doesn't have the ability to install third party applications.
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Collateral Damage posted:Perhaps I confused it with At Will law. "Right to work" means that if you work somewhere that has a union, you are not required to join the union. It essentially is a method of union busting because it's an attempt to starve the unions of their funding. "At Will Employment" is practically universal in the US, it means they can terminate your employment for any reason at all, or no reason at all. I managed to learn the difference because I worked somewhere once, where the CFO loved to fire people, and at our monthly all hands meeting would remind us that she could fire us any time she wanted to because we were not a "Right to Work state." I looked it up once, and she was wrong, Kansas is a Right to Work state, but we also had no unions, so she was actually referring to "At Will Employment." Yes, working there was about as miserable as you can imagine, it's probably why I preferred the 2nd shift.
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Collateral Damage posted:I think generally a feature phone is one that has one or more built in features other than calling and texting, like mp3 playback, camera, etc, but doesn't have the ability to install third party applications. J2ME applications were a thing for a while. My Sony Ericsson feature phone could install them, but they were mostly terribly bad games. Gmail and Google Maps were definitely worth installing, though. And Opera Mobile. I had to use a Bluetooth GPS adapter, which was a whole thing. How about the Nokia Symbian phones? Smartphone or feature phone?
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Aren't those Java phone games largely lost now? Are there emulators for them? I'd love to play, like, doom rpg and poo poo
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Killingyouguy! posted:Aren't those Java phone games largely lost now? Are there emulators for them? I'd love to play, like, doom rpg and poo poo I dug my old Razr phone out a few months ago specifically to play Doom RPG.    
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Killingyouguy! posted:Aren't those Java phone games largely lost now? Are there emulators for them? I'd love to play, like, doom rpg and poo poo Given the hardware I'd imagine any phones that weren't trashed show no signs of slowing down.
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Killingyouguy! posted:Aren't those Java phone games largely lost now? Are there emulators for them? I'd love to play, like, doom rpg and poo poo I had an emulator for them on my android phone some time ago. Most of the games I tried just wouldn't scale with a higher screen resolution, some wouldn't run and nearly all of them aren't made to be played with a touchscreen, so you're hammering at an emulated keypad that might be missing specific function, ok and back keys or a volume slider that the phone the game was targeted at would have had. My nostalgia was quickly overcome. But it's technically feasible and there are torrents around with massive collections of them. E: j2me is the keyword Flipperwaldt has a new favorite as of 16:51 on Apr 8, 2021 |
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Iron Crowned posted:"Right to work" means that if you work somewhere that has a union, you are not required to join the union. It essentially is a method of union busting because it's an attempt to starve the unions of their funding.
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Collateral Damage posted:I think generally a feature phone is one that has one or more built in features other than calling and texting, like mp3 playback, camera, etc, but doesn't have the ability to install third party applications. Yeah, that's how they are described in my industry. A dumb phone can only make calls, feature phones have other built-in apps like web browsers, document viewers, music playback etc, and a smart phone lets you install more stuff as you want it. It's been a log time since I've ever had to do any forensics work on anything but a smart phone though.
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KozmoNaut posted:How about the Nokia Symbian phones? Smartphone or feature phone? Smartphone, just not terribly smart. You could add apps etc. Wasn't the first iPhone technically not a smartphone because it couldn't do MMS and that was part of the requirements? (Might also have been made up to attack the iPhone?)
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legooolas posted:Smartphone, just not terribly smart. You could add apps etc. While not untrue, MMS messages were at best a fringe issue and used as an insult towards the first iPhone. While we are at it, Nokia had one goofy-looking prototype phone here in Finland which was basically "everything iPhone did" three-four years before actual iPhone. Unfortunately it had the same goofy rear end looking design as the first nGage and was abandoned as "financially unsound" gimmick phone with too many unneccessary non-phone features. Yes, before their collapse the late stage Nokia was a corporation full of micromanaging bickering idiots with no idea on what to do with their technology, so the suits sold everything to Microsoft.
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legooolas posted:Smartphone, just not terribly smart. You could add apps etc. Then my Sony-Ericsson "Greenheart" phones were also smartphones, because you could install J2ME apps on them. That goes for the horrible Samsung X660 I had before those, too. They all had web browsers, could do e-mail and had (rudimentary) app stores. There doesn't seem to be a clear cut definition, but it hinges on some combination of touch UI and general purpose computing. KozmoNaut has a new favorite as of 21:41 on Apr 9, 2021 |
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KozmoNaut posted:Then my Sony-Ericsson "Greenheart" phones were also smartphones, because you could install J2ME apps on them. That goes for the horrible Samsung X660 I had before those, too. They all had web browsers, could do e-mail had (rudimentary). Wikipedia says "A smartphone is a mobile device that combines cellular and mobile computing functions into one unit. They are distinguished from feature phones by their stronger hardware capabilities and extensive mobile operating systems, which facilitate wider software, internet (including web browsing[1] over mobile broadband), and multimedia functionality (including music, video, cameras, and gaming), alongside core phone functions such as voice calls and text messaging." ..but has no citations for where this definition came from, mentions no extensibility, installable applications, touch UI or such. So I guess it's up to whomever writes any particular definition?  I always considered the Symbian and Palm phones I had as "smart" but obviously nothing like it's expect from a modern phone.
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