@enderland It doesn't (unfortunately). Unless you have the question link lying around, you probably can't find it. The mods may be able to though, so flagging it would be a good idea.
How to from trust on my management and Organization?
I am from India and I am working in USA on H1B VISA. I have recently joined in Consulting firm. And I was placed at client location. Every thing is going to fine so far now. The below are the few important points which are very much required to understand my question
(1) I got heard many negative things, shady practices and fishy things that consulting firms do (2) After I have been selected in their Interview they didn’t send offer letter directly. They placed me across their client interviews and once I got selected then only they Con…
I am slightly afraid this question might attract downvotes
Hence I would like to ask your opinions and suggestions
@jmac IIRC at Programmers I've been oscillating around 10K for 2 or 3 weeks, it just somehow happened that there were bounty-worthy answers posted at that time. Felt funny
free spam flags - workplace.stackexchange.com/a/18526/168 "I'd like to give a plug to my website..." - and I don't like to get that friggin' plug instead of an answer
We definitely need more mods, but I don't know if we have that many great candidates who are in to the moderation thing. @RhysW would have been a great choice, but now he's too busy.
@gnat That's a good question. We had a discussion long ago about it, but nothing really came of it. I think that a water cooler is very American-centric?
Would love everyone to take a look (and then participate) in this:
Back in May 2012, Rarity asked about how we should deal with bad or "me too" answers:
Do we need a policy on bad/"me too" answers?
More recently, bad deleted posts pushed one of enderland's questions in to CW mode causing much gnashing of teeth:
Un-community wiki this question?
When questions...
@Rachel, could you write a query for the above community task that takes a question ID as an input parameter, and returns a nice table showing a [Post Link] to each answer, the score, and the creationdate? I want to be able to give people the answers in chronological order so they can see who said whatever good point first, and save myself some headaches in gathering all that data each week (I'd just do it by hand). It'd be a huge help!
I would be interested yeah, it wouldn't overlap in terms of scope with the other site i moderate, it's relevant to what I do, and it has a community that i love being a part of. Though I would like to perhaps take a more active role
I feel bad for being so, errr, untactful with my distaste for said logo concept (hand shaking). Really didn't mean to make it come out as harsh as it did
@jmac no! I know you were meant to be snarky and rude!!! I spent whole 50 seconds entering "hand shake icon" in Google and picking first that came up and now you are trashing my hard work :)
I think it's safe to say that more of us were more happy with Jin's first presentation of our site's logo and style than the second attempt.
The new abstract logo based on several superimposed pushpin graphics at varying angles isn't growing on some of us.
So I'd like to revisit our old questio...
I think when i think of workplace -i think of the "office chair" -
It of course the most critical element for us to function in the office; but sometimes "Chair" is also extended with Connotations of "Position" in the hierarchy in the company. The bigger the chair you have - the more influent...
We have had a discussion in the past about whether or not 'Quit Your Job' is an acceptable answer.
I have been noticing this in comments quite a bit. This is the one that caught my attention spurring this post, but since I can't search comment text, it isn't easy to find additional examples:
...
What about some stylized image of a clock ticking down 8 hours. I know not everyone is 8 hours. And I know that not everyone is 9-5. But just show that this is about those hours of the day
Like grey hand with some sort of motion blur going from the 9 to the 5.
Possibly contained with the O of a nicely fonted and kerned Workplace
Last suggestion before quitting time: a logo showing various workplaces. Put a hospital next to an office building next to a school next to a factory in some sort of stylish fashion. But not stylish enough to confuse us for architechts.se
I have a function that returns default constructed value of template type:
template<typename T>
T do_stuff()
{
return T();
}
I use it like this:
int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
std::string str("hello");
int a = 10;
int *p = &a;
str = do_stuff<std::string>();
a = do_...
Just got the 13th rejection of my summer internship hunt. I totally thought I was gonna get an offer after about 4.5 hours of interviewing with them. Good times.
Spoke to some mods, seems like he is losing cookies between sessions rather than intentional malice, time to go poke him and tell him he can register :L
@gnat hopefully he pays attention to the message now!
This is getting lots of positive attention and upvotes, but im not sure if it counts as an answer, he doesnt answer the question as it stands on ethics, just what he does as a ceo, your thoughts?
Back in May 2012, Rarity asked about how we should deal with bad or "me too" answers:
Do we need a policy on bad/"me too" answers?
More recently, bad deleted posts pushed one of enderland's questions in to CW mode causing much gnashing of teeth:
Un-community wiki this question?
When questions...
@jmac maybe have a link to the 'what makes a good answer' question (im sure we have one) to make it easier for poeple to judge what is good and what isnt?
@RhysW I dunno, this probably grew a bit too big for chat / flags, I'll probably open meta question to help sort it out. 4 accounts, 5 questions - only those I noticed, there may be more
@gnat Hopefully he now registers an account, then its as simple as a request to have it merged with the others. The community is doing a good job of downvoting and closing the duplicating questions. Aside from what we are currently doing there isnt any more within the imits of SE that we can do at the moment I wouldn't have thought
I don't think even mods can merge multiple unregistered accounts
@RhysW well I plan to just shoot support request and let them find it out. If it turns out technically impossible / too much trouble, so be it. By the way I once helped my ex-colleague to merge their unregistered account into registered one at SO
yeah unregistered into registered is easy enough, but i dont think unregistered into unregistered works. But yeah, either way a support request might be a good idea. As if he doesnt make the account we don't want all this mess lingering (Though community is actively stemming it)
It looks like an (unexperienced?) user creates new account each time they loose prior one. Accounts that seem to be their are:
http://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/13670/newboss
http://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/14140/newboss
http://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/14197/newboss
htt...
I have a function that returns default constructed value of template type:
template<typename T>
T do_stuff()
{
return T();
}
I use it like this:
int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
std::string str("hello");
int a = 10;
int *p = &a;
str = do_stuff<std::string>();
a = do_...
I'm two months into a job as a software developer, building mobile apps. I received a new desktop a few days ago, value around US$1K. Today the company asked me to sign an 'Asset Lending Agreement' (I haven't signed yet). The agreement states that I should compensate the company in case the deskt...
Is it possible to add some descriptive text to a string format specifier?
Example:
string.Format ("{0:ForeName} is not at home", person.ForeName);
In the example ForeName is added as description.
The above syntax is obviously incorrect, but just to show the idea.
The reason I am asking, ...
I've experienced future managers acting professionally and courteously while trying to recruit me, then turning out to be abrasive and unprofessional after joining. I gather this is quite common.
How can I improve my judgement, and better discern how managers will behave before I join a company?
When I started working for my former employer, my managers told me what a bad company we were working for. Other people told me that we use very poor tools to do our job and that the company doesn't really care about us. At the very least I found this demoralizing.
A friend recommended to ask d...
Asking us to answer with a moral Judgement on any activity or policy is going to be opinion based, because that is what you are asking for.
For this reason asking about the ethics of something is almost always off topic here because it is asking for a moral judgement on something.
Some potentia...
Anyone else feel like chiming in... or kicking this guy in the ribs... or holding him while I do?
@Chad :) I will say no references on Dredd or whatsoever. But hey, it was a bad move to point to that other question as... a excuse for making the same kind of mistake
you've got 10 answers (firehose of information) => this essentially blocks any substantial edits of the question. Answers are considered more important than questions at Stack Exchange, one has to provide very strong justification to do invalidating edits of the question... and no I just wanna reopen doesn't qualify — gnat17 secs ago
I've experienced future managers acting professionally and courteously while trying to recruit me, then turning out to be abrasive and unprofessional after joining. I gather this is quite common.
How can I improve my judgement, and better discern how managers will behave before I join a company?
@enderland that's just what I'm thinking of - dozen lemmings will turn it CW and there will be no rep. You know I wouldn't mind if it was CWed for "highly collaborative" reasons but... lemmings have nothing to do with collaboration, they only fart their worthless opinions into the open air where possible
@JimG. as with any kind of CW, it is to unlock free rating of highly collaborative content (lots of answers => highly collaborative) - that is, to make answers downvoting free. Code Golf are lucky in a sense that they have objective criteria to simply delete negative content (code that doesn't work), no other sites have that strong kind of protection, they have to rely on answers voting to rate stuff — gnatyesterday
I'm relatively new to C, and found it intriguing that both of the following calls to the function pointer compile and work fine. One with and one without dereferencing the function pointer before calling it.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
void func() {
puts("I'm a func");
}
int mai...
I'm two months into a job as a software developer, building mobile apps. I received a new desktop a few days ago, value around US$1K. Today the company asked me to sign an 'Asset Lending Agreement' (I haven't signed yet). The agreement states that I should compensate the company in case the deskt...
@Chad Thanks! Was I chatting in my sleep? I don't think I said much at 5:40am!
@RhysW Our "what makes a good answer" section is pretty bad actually. Take a look yourself.
@enderland I got 600 rep from that answer in a couple days. It was absurd (and quite stupid really). I hate how hot questions make people think that the high vote totals are indicative of answer quality rather than question popularity which has a bigger impact.
(not to pick on anyone in particular and belittle their other contributions, but does this answer really merit 137 upvotes, when our most helpful answer only has 43?)