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I was surprised too. It's attached to a casino and they gave me an upgrade. I thought that was a shoe in for a quality room.
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It was a couple years ago, but the job this thread encouraged me to get gave me the training to get this job, which is awesome. So the precise timing of the  is why I'm in this great position.
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Sepist posted:This Hilton I'm staying at in Vancouver is the worst. Bugs, tv stopped working, and the sheets are dirty. But at least the Wi-Fi is good it's actually CLAM DOWN's spare bedroom 
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H110Hawk posted:It being common place doesn't make it correct. Did those candidates receive full benefits during their contract period? If not, compensation for the reduced pay? It also doesn't necessarily make it wrong. In my experience, and certainly YMMV, I've always paid candidates MORE during the contract period to offset the fact that their benefits were limited and there was no official PTO. In the contracting/consulting world, it's pretty normal to get paid higher than similarly skilled FTEs with benefits. That doesn't mean it happens all the time. Like people, sometimes companies are douchebags and one needs to watch out for douchebags.
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The Fool posted:I wanted to run a thing by you guys before I reached out to the contractor that set this up. Did you ever figure this out? It sounds like you have a VOIP router with an analog card installed. My guess is that you don't have dial peers configured on the router for all route patterns. Since the fax works to some and not others, it is clearly getting blocked somewhere. Are the numbers you can't reach long distance or toll calls? Do you have outgoing call admission control configured in CUCM or on the router? Can you send faxes to/from internal phone numbers?
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Dark Helmut posted:It also doesn't necessarily make it wrong. In my experience, and certainly YMMV, I've always paid candidates MORE during the contract period to offset the fact that their benefits were limited and there was no official PTO. Sounds like you did it right then!
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Docjowles posted:it's actually CLAM DOWN's spare bedroom please, I can't afford more than one bedroom in Vancouver
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Sefal posted:Count me in as someone who has gained alot from just reading these threads for the last few years Also I haven't gained poo poo from reading this thread, but it's been a hell of a ride *salutes DAF*
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CLAM DOWN posted:Also I haven't gained poo poo from reading this thread, but it's been a hell of a ride *salutes DAF* F
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CLAM DOWN posted:Also I haven't gained poo poo from reading this thread, but it's been a hell of a ride *salutes DAF* I just want you to know that I value your overly-acerbic posting. 
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Docjowles posted:it's actually CLAM DOWN's spare bedroom People in Vancouver can't afford spare bedrooms e; beaten
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I honestly have no idea how people live in Vancouver. I briefly thought about fleeing the country about 9 months back (no reason) and was looking at home prices there.
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Japanese Dating Sim posted:I honestly have no idea how people live in Vancouver. I briefly thought about fleeing the country about 9 months back (no reason) and was looking at home prices there.
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I lived in Vancouver back in the 1980s and it stayed on my list of places to live until the housing prices went crazy. It's also the only place I ever went to a comic book convention. 
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Japanese Dating Sim posted:I honestly have no idea how people live in Vancouver. I briefly thought about fleeing the country about 9 months back (no reason) and was looking at home prices there. We rent, or live in the suburbs. There are a lot of places along the skytrain lines that are still affordable and reasonable to rent in. Just don't even think about buying.
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Japanese Dating Sim posted:I honestly have no idea how people live in Vancouver. I briefly thought about fleeing the country about 9 months back (no reason) and was looking at home prices there. Come to Edmonton!
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I'm surprised I haven't died of malaria living in South Carolina. Oh well, at least rent is cheap.
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Avenging_Mikon posted:Come to Edmonton! Except actually don't
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Avenging_Mikon posted:Come to Edmonton! I actually kind of miss Edmonton. I liked taking late night drives on Groat Road and along the river
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CLAM DOWN posted:Except actually don't I didn't say STAY here. I'm not cruel.
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It's me. I am addicted to cat and dog. Therefore,
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CLAM DOWN posted:Except actually don't Yeah. Avenging_Mikon posted:I didn't say STAY here. I'm not cruel. Oh. Well that's reasonable then.
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Sickening posted:Contract to hire is for suckers. Its basically your employer trying to recoup the recruiter costs out of your salary in a lot of cases. I was slightly concerned about the Contract to Hire, because I've never done it before. The enormous pay bump would have been enough to make me feel OK about it since I could have saved enough to cover a bit if it didn't work out, but $300 a week for a comparable health plan to what I pay $35 for now, and is the low tier at the company I'm at now, was loving insane to me. .
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siggy2021 posted:I was slightly concerned about the Contract to Hire, because I've never done it before. The enormous pay bump would have been enough to make me feel OK about it since I could have saved enough to cover a bit if it didn't work out, but $300 a week for a comparable health plan to what I pay $35 for now, and is the low tier at the company I'm at now, was loving insane to me. Tell them that. One of the companies I interviewed for had $900/month for a PPO1000 plan compared to the $208 I paid at my last place for PPO500, and now $0 at this new place. I realize comparing just the deductible is a hilariously poor way to do it, but it's all I care to type. I computed it all into a total compensation worksheet. In my rejection email I told them truthfully that a key factor in not accepting their offer was I was uncomfortable with their healthcare premiums and that they've gone up several times in the last few years due to the ACA, even with the added salary they threw in to cover the costs.
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What a poo poo show this project is that I came to Vancouver to work on. No one mentioned it was a construction zone so they wouldn't even let me in because I didn't have a hard hat and vest. I got some from home depot, then the video conferencing units I needed to configure and test were delayed because the tv's they ordered were dead on arrival 2 months ago and no one knew. I had to go to staples and expense a monitor to fulfill the statement of work. Of course the ip addressing they gave me doesnt work because their network team is having trouble configuring a voice vlan (huh). Then the access points I needed to configure had never been installed and the cross connects between IDFs were not working and no one had a toner. Finally the program manager didn't provide a rack diagram and said plug my switch in anywhere which I did, then hours later she put me on blast on email for installing it in the wrong spot, and I also didnt install 2 patch management's I didn't know existed and we aren't contracted to install Lol. Too many cooks on this one. Can't wait to be in st lucia next week and forget about this project. Sepist fucked around with this message at 02:58 on Aug 30, 2017 |
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Methanar posted:I actually kind of miss Edmonton. I liked taking late night drives on Groat Road and along the river
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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Groat_Road.jpgquote:At a roundabout west of the University of Alberta, Edmonton's river valley road Saskatchewan Drive branches Groat Road to the north and heads down into the river valley. Here Groat Road crosses the North Saskatchewan River on Groat Bridge. It then winds through a gorge, formerly occupied by the now culverted Groat Creek It's a nice road, okay? I'm the bird poo poo on top of the street lights Methanar fucked around with this message at 03:47 on Aug 30, 2017 |
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What the gently caress is a groat
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CLAM DOWN posted:What the gently caress is a groat It's a refers to oat, barley, and rye kernels (maybe wheat is in there too?). Seems a weird thing to name a road, bridge and creek after.
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CLAM DOWN posted:What the gently caress is a groat  Proteus Jones posted:It's a refers to oat, barley, and rye kernels (maybe wheat is in there too?). Seems a weird thing to name a road, bridge and creek after. We take our cereal grains very seriously in the prairies Methanar fucked around with this message at 03:53 on Aug 30, 2017 |
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CLAM DOWN posted:What the gently caress is a groat ur mom is a groat Actually I read all of those posts until yours as Great Road because my brain apparently couldn't parse "groat" as a word either
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He’s the tree guy from guardians of the galaxy.
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That's Vin Diesel
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jaegerx posted:He’s the tree guy from guardians of the galaxy. Treebeard?
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[quote="“CLAM DOWN”" post="“475887786”"] Treebeard? [/quote] Was that the idiot that couldn’t fly eagles into Mordor and save us from a lovely trilogy?
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The Rock guy from The Neverending Story was Grout, so I think they're brothers.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:The Rock guy from The Neverending Story was Grout, so I think they're brothers. I loved that movie. Shadowfax was his horse that died in the sand. So sad.
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