vania-janet/multiturn-rag-retrieval-data huggingface dataset:
Very much doubt it, most truckers I have met are private contractors and own there truck, Wal-Mart or Amazon for that matter could decline a job based on the notion your working for a competing company and there investment in you could lead to loss for them and gain for there competitor
"I work with a company that American Airlines hires to fulfill work for them.    This week they flew one of my co-workers out to Texas for a week long barbecue.  He said he is going to ""promote the relationship.""  They flew several other people from my company out, as well as masses of their own employees and people from other companies.    Yet they declared bankruptcy and cost my company 5 million (the open  revenue waiting for payment.)      Edit: American Airlines"
For this exclusion, your business premises is generally your employee's place of work. For example, if you're a household employer, then lodging furnished in your home to a household employee would be considered lodging furnished on your business premises. For special rules that apply to lodging furnished in a camp located in a foreign country, see section 119(c) of the Internal Revenue Code and its regulations. For your convenience. Whether or not you furnish lodging for your convenience as an employer depends on all the facts and circumstances. You furnish the lodging to your employee for your convenience if you do this for a substantial business reason other than to provide the employee with additional pay. This is true even if a law or an employment contract provides that the lodging is furnished as pay. However, a written statement that the lodging is furnished for your convenience isn't sufficient. Condition of employment. Lodging meets this test if you require your employees to accept the lodging because they need to live on your business premises to be able to properly perform their duties. Examples include employees who must be available at all times and employees who couldn't perform their required duties without being furnished the lodging. It doesn't matter whether you must furnish the lodging as pay under the terms of an employment contract or a law fixing the terms of employment. Example of qualifying lodging. You employ Sam at a construction project at a remote job site in Alaska. Due to the inaccessibility of facilities for the employees who are working at the job site to obtain lodging and the prevailing weather conditions, you furnish lodging to your employees at the construction site in order to carry on the construction project. You require that your employees accept the lodging as a condition of their employment. You may exclude the lodging that you provide from Sam's wages. Additionally, since sufficient eating facilities aren’t available near your place of employment, you may also exclude meals you provide to Sam from his wages, as discussed under Meals on Your Business Premises , later in this section. Example of nonqualifying lodging. A hospital gives Joan, an employee of the hospital, the choice of living at the hospital free of charge or living elsewhere and receiving a cash allowance in addition to her regular salary.
Not so much on the relevant experience side but I have been learning as much as I can about the investment/financial world.   That's my thoughts. School counselor play a strong part in society, however, the earning potential is low as is the opportunity for career advancement.   The MBA-finance program at my university takes students from all undergrad backgrounds. I would need to take the GRE this month and applications are due at the end of the month.   I just wonder if trying to either go into finance without school or opting to enter the MBA program if I were accepted would be a good option.   Do you see an MBA-finance being marketable and having greater earning potential than a school counselor (which is about a 46k/year salary)?
Not really. The only degrees worthwhile are engineering, sciences, math, medical, and business (moreso accounting/tax), IMHO. Business offers diminishing returns as tuition increases and so does engineering, to a point.   If you're getting a degree in anything else, in-state tuition and working summers/while in school is a must.   You're better off learning a trade (plumbing, A/C, carpentry, electrician, construction, landscaping etc.) and, if you desire to make more money, strike out on your own than you likely are getting a marketing degree and thinking you're gonna be able to pay off debt when you're done with salary.
All the time. Unless you work for shitty companies. In my 6 years working in IT, unless you are abusing leaving office early or coming a little late. No one would really care. Shitty companies are shitty and you probably want to leave as soon as you can.
I understand your skepticism and only wanting to deal with cold hard facts.  You are correct I never worked there.  I was however scheduled to fly to Seattle and interview with them, had the airline ticket in hand.  I cancelled the interview a couple days before I was scheduled to depart.  A cursory search concerning their corporate environment indicated that working for them would an unfulfilling experience.  The reviews by both current and ex employees paint a fairly consistent picture.  Unlike, say Google where most people love to work, Amazon is consistently painted as an extremely stressful work environment.
Let's say I am able to pass the level 1 CFA exam, would this allow me to pursue a career within the finance world without needing to look into a second bachelor's in finance or an MBA-finance? I know this is a long road ahead and one that will be full of difficult times. Yeah, my focus was school counseling. So this would allow me to graduate and look at a private practice license after I meet the hour requirements or give me the opportunity to become a school counselor as soon as I graduate. These positions don't pay the most but they are at least something. I live in a rural area currently but would be looking to relocate to Denver upon graduation. If I stopped the MS degree then I would only have my BA in Psychology to fall back on until taking and passing the CFA. I'm not sure I could make as much with that degree while I attempt to transition careers. As far as the emotionally taxing aspect, working with children who come from broken homes all day, every day is extremely exhausting mentally and for someone like me it is difficult to leave work at work in this line. I become emotionally invested in the outcome of my work and have a hard time disconnecting and not caring when I am on my time. The main reason I am looking at switching into this type of career isn't based around the earning potential. Although this is an added benefit, the greatest reasoning is because a) this helping profession has left me burned out and I want to continue to help but in a less intimate way and b) my personality and strengths really fit with this type of career. I have had to work hard to develop as a counselor and I still struggle at times. I have a more concrete and factual mind and I process things in a critical and evaluative manner. Ideal for careers that require critical evaluation, behind the scenes work, and a love for working with numbers and data. I'll take a look at the WSO site and ask for some advice on there as well. The largest decision that I will need to make is if finishing the MS is going to be worth the 20k investment for one more year or if I should cut out and focus on developing a career in this field while working full-time and starting to pay off student loans.
Don't bother on holding onto any illusions of a counter offer by your current employer. There will be too much resentment. Shake the dust off your feet and move on. Edit: Some naysayers will cite short work histories as problems for future employment. It could happen in a small number of shops, but short work histories are common in technology that recruiters rarely bat an eye. If they do, as with any objection, it is up to you to sell yourself. In Cracking the Code Interview the author cites that no one is really expecting you to stay beyond 5 years. Something like this would work just fine: ""I left Acme because there were indications of poor financial health. Given the hot market at the time I was able to find a new position without the worry of pending layoffs."" If you are a contractor six month assignments are the norm. Also many technology resumes have overlapping assignments. Its what happens when someone is in demand."
Interesting, I wholeheartedly disagree but have upvoted you anyway.  I'd love if you expounded on that statement.  Would you hate to work with him because he insisted his time was worth getting paid for?  That he works to live and not the other way around.  The question is laid out directly; Is your job worth $20/hr or is it worth $10-$15/hour?  How much is your job worth?  Not how much do you get paid, but what do you feel would be an appropriate rate of pay for the work you do?
Unions can go away or be switched.  It has to be done with a vote just as establishing one does.  However, the rub is that these votes only come about if the membership wants it to begin with.  You can bet that the union itself would discourage it.  This makes it unlikely.  Switching to another union (state or national leadership) would work the same way.  Hiring a worker that doesn't want to be in a union is fine.  Using that as a discriminator is the problem.  Their decision to be in the union comes after they are hired, not before.  I am not sure on all the legal stuff, but you cannot go out with the intention of hiring only people who will stay out of the union.
Wesley gave a great answer and a follow up comment.  Heed his advice. If you cannot make ends meet by working two jobs, either you are working very few hours or you have a spending problem.  I feel it is more of a spending problem as you should have been able to complete your program and stay within the FAFSA limit. This is a tough situation of your own making.  If you are at UNC and an engineering student, you have a good mind.  You should use it to find a solution.  Then learn the lessons and do not make those decisions again.   While many people in authority told you that it was a good idea to go to school on student loans one of the paramount lessons to learn is that sometimes those people give bad advice.  In your case that is exactly what happened.
"Well, that's good and bad more regulation, but your not an agency your something better(IMHO) If the lawyer says yes, I'd scrub all mention of the word ""agency"". Being an ""employment business"" is part of your USP. You will presumable have to educate on why this is better, but you may as well use the protected words your entitled too and report any UK agencies calling themselves an employment business to try and undercut you.  Check with your branding/marketing advisors this could be key (Oh and please PM, your launch page/teaser when you get to it)"
"I guess the best option in the end depends on your legislation, and maybe on the local insurance ""habits"" - I don't know anything singapore, but here some general thoughts about the problem. More specialized thoughts:"
"Some of this may depend on how your employer chose to deal with your notice period.  Most employers employ you for the duration (which means you'd be covered for March on your insurance).  They could 'send you home' but pay you (in which case you're an employee for the duration still); or they could terminate you on your notice day, and give you effectively a severance equal to two weeks' pay.  That is what it sounds like they did. They should have made this clear to you when you left (on 2/23).  Assuming you work in an at-will state, there's nothing wrong (legally) with them doing it this way, although it is not something I believe is right morally.  Basically, they're trying to avoid some costs for your last two weeks (if they employ you through 3/6, they pay for another month of insurance, and some other things).  In exchange, you lose some insurance benefits and FSA benefits. Your FSA terminates the day you terminate employment (see this pdf for a good explanation of these issues).  This means that the FSA administrator is correct to reject expenses incurred after 2/23.  The FSA is in no way tied to your insurance plan; you can have one or the other or both.  You still can submit claims for expenses prior to 2/23 during your runout period, which is often 60 or 90 days. In the future, you will want to think ahead when leaving employment, and you may want to time when you give notice carefully to maximize your benefits in the event something like this happens again.  It's a shady business practice in my mind (to terminate you when you give notice), but it's not unknown. As far as the HSA/FSA, you aren't eligible to contribute to an HSA in a year you're also in an FSA, except that they use ""plan year"" in the language (so if your benefits period is 6/1/yy - 5/31/yy, that's the relevant 'year').  I'd be cautious about opening a HSA without advice from a tax professional, or at least a more knowledgeable person here."
Should you decide after your study that you don't want to move back, you can always sell the flat with the tenant. But rented properties usually get far lower prices on the real estate market than empty ones. Regarding covering your cost of living besides rent during your studies: If you are eligible for BAföG (state-sponsored student loan), you should take it, because it's an offer simply too good to refuse. It's literally free money. But unfortunately you are not, because you own too much real estate wealth you are not living in. But you should ask your bank for a loan backed by said property. That way you will likely pay far less interest than with a regular private student loan which isn't backed by anything except the hope for a relevant degree."
Circumstances beyond their control could result in a drop in the value that not only wipes out any profit, but requires them to pay YOU for work performed and expenses incurred on your behalf. Why would they let anyon double-dip like that? Yeah, we all prefer getting something for nothing...but you want valuable services and for them to pay you money for the privilege of providing them? I totally agree that would be fantastic, but in this world even ""free"" doesn't come cheap anymore. And getting back to costs: Without consistent income the service would have nowhere to work and no resources to work with. No office, computer, phone, electricity, Internet, insurance, payroll, licensing, training, maintenance, security, lobbying, etc., etc., etc. Why do people always forget overhead? There's a reason these services operate the way they do. Even the best are working with fairly slim margins in a volatile sector. They're not into 1-year gambles unlikely to cover their cost of doing business, or having to pay for a negative return out of their own pocket. Look, if you're the Biblical master asking your servant to manage things, overhead is built-in. You're taking all the risk as well. You're paying for all three servants' food, home, clothing, etc, plus you had to buy the servants themselves. So its reasonable that you reap the reward of their labor. You paid for it, and you didn't even punish the servant who buried your money in a hole. The two good servants may have done the legwork, but you took on the burden of everything else. In your proposed service, however, contrary to the servant's usual role, the servant - i.e., the company - would be assuming a portion of your risk on top of their own, yet without any guarantee of profit, income, or even coverage of costs. They're also subject to regulations, fees, liability, legal stuff, etc. that you're not, against most of which you are indemnified and held harmless. If they agree to cover a share of your loss, it exposes to greater liability and more related risk.
&gt; I hope you're not trying to become a lawyer. That field is way over saturated.  No, but it was one of the better paying jobs offered when I was in school that at least claimed to work with student schedules. I don't have the cash for a top tier law school or even to afford to live near one, and even those who can find work from lower-tiered schools don't make enough to make it worth it.    My goal is to work in some form of rehab or addiction treatment or trauma counseling (or possibly emergency medicine, if I decide I still need that pace and get tired of mostly talking). I was thinking about just getting my MSW but, since I'm already an EMT and probably going to be getting my CNA certification for a side job, now I'm leaning toward becoming a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner or possibly a Physician's Assistant. I was looking at PA first, but NP seems most flexible in terms of being able to keep working and doing school.  If all else fails, I'll hop back into sales. I'm licensed for real estate &amp; insurance and sold cars until I got into a wreck and had to take some time off.  Good money there and I liked the challenge, but I have personal reasons for wanting to go into the other field.
If flying business of first class allows your employee to be more productive, first class or business class is worth it. Small peas compared to the person losing a day’s work due to fatigue. The ticket is worth, what, an extra $1000? A day’s work for an executive is worth easily double that. And if you are flying multiple times a week on a regular basis, the extra comfort is well worth the cost.
The one starting for our team is an incoming senior with no internships or finance experience with the exception of their major. They are going to a small school which is one step up from a for profit university. The best job he had was working for a family flower business as a cashier.  That's not to speak badly about him - he may very well be the best intern we've ever had. I think it mainly speaks to the ineptitude within our HR department who delayed recruiting so long most good candidates already had secured their internship.
"You've got a 3.9 GPA, numerous awards,  and your dream internship is at an insurance company? On top of that, one small and narrow minded enough to impose it's political and religious ideals on its employees?!?   What useful information are you hoping to take from this ""dream""  internship? How to pretend to be someone else? To fulfill your grand aspirations to sell insurance?   Sorry,  I know you came here looking for interview advice,  but I'm not going to blow sunshine up your ass. I'd be wary of any company that touts it's conservative ideals as a condition of continued employment,  but it's especially ridiculous to work in the insurance industry. It's entirely unsurprising you got an interview after only 6 hours. You're wholly over qualified,  find something better."
Question for peiple in the industry already! Just completed an 8 month work term at an energy trading firm as a quant  Got offered a permanent in risk doing the same thing. Salary of 70,000, so not great but can lead to a transition into trading. Question is do i put off school and take it since its permanent? Or would you go back to school knowing that you had gained great experience and try the job market after completion of the degree? Thanks also thinking of doing cfa level while in school.  Tldr: finish temaining seven classes or take a full time position where i did a student term?
It goes both ways. You can work hard, take pride in your work, but if you are not simultaneously participating in the organization of your co-workers, taking your employer to task to provide a living wage, and are unwilling to show up on the picket lines when your employer locks their employees in the building overnight or threatens your fellow working man with INS investigations of him and his whole family for speaking up, then you might want to consider that your position is less about self derived principles and more about you being well trained.
Especially so considering how much money its likely very tangibly cost them just largely due to a psycho ex. On an anecdotal basis, despite previously knowing this was reflected in the data, I can hardly think of more of a good reason to just actually work with people and see how it goes than this. All of its to basically say I'm sure a guy (and his company) who is that wealthy publicly has had a few situations that make his life complicated and some probably without any good reason. You might have missed out. I know a few very skilled people who went to work for them. If you were offered to be flown out to them for an interview like that (again), definitely go (especially if you have fallback(s)) and just see what they are willing to do to address your concerns. I know Amazon being stressful is a common thing thats said; however, Amazon isnt a dumb company. They need skilled people and if it makes sense for them it wouldnt surprise me if they could figure something out that would work for both of you. Plus you can always quit as opposed to some things that you cant just say ""stop"" or ""be reasonable"" and have it resolved in a few weeks or less. I hope this helps you in some way."
Westgate is a notoriously terrible employer to work for in Orlando, and their whole timeshare business model is a complete scam.    Check out all of the complaints on Comsumer Affairs' website:  http://www.consumeraffairs.com/travel/westgate.html?page=2  edit:  More complaints  http://www.ripoffreport.com/directory/westgate-resorts.aspx  http://www.utahstories.com/2008/06/13/timeshare-scam-westgate-resorts-2/  http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/westgate-resorts-tennessee-c226610.html  http://westgate-resorts.pissedconsumer.com/westgate-scam-20120926347849.html
It all depends on how you feel about your employer.  Obviously you had positive feelings about yours, but often that's not the case.  &gt;It's not a good idea to leave anywhere, even if you hate it, on bad terms. It gives everyone there a bad sense of you and can come back to bite you in the future.  I think this is actually bad advice.  Treating bad employers well is sending them the wrong message and encourages them to continue treating people poorly.  While I wouldn't suggest to set the building on fire before you leave or to leave a piece of shit in your desk drawer, there is really no need to be extra nice to an employer who has been a major dick to you.  The dick employers treat their employees as inanimate replaceable resources, so it's only appropriate to return the favor by treating your employer in precisely the exact same way.
"?  I hear the exact opposite -- that Zynga is basically a slave farm which works their employees to death.  No, really.  I asked a gathering at my company ""What's the worst place to work at in the Valley"" and Zynga came up.  This was, like, last month."