vania-janet/multiturn-rag-retrieval-data huggingface dataset:
They pick only one brand/supplier for a product. That cuts a whole lot of waste, guarantees their suppliers that Aldi will buy large and buy often so they can save money. Also their stores are smaller than some Walgreens, which means cheaper over head and less employees needed per store
A system for automatically monitoring, processing, and storing operating parameters of a boiler room comprising: (a) means for detecting a level of liquid fuel in a storage tank and generating a fist set of electrical signals indicating the level; (b) means for measuring temperatures at various locations in the boiler room and generating a second set of electrical signals indicative of the temperatures; (c) means for monitoring the operating status of a plurality of conventional boiler room equipment and generating a third set of electrical signals indicative of the monitored operating status; (d) computer means located in the boiler room for selecting from the first, second and third set of electrical signals generated and internally processing and storing the selected electrical signals in accordance with a set of internally programmed instructions; and (e) means for transmitting the processed signals stored in the computer means from the computer means located in the boiler room to a computer located in a remote location. 2. A system as in claim 1 wherein the means for detecting the level of liquid in the storage tank comprises a sonar device mounted in the storage tank comprising: (a) means for transmitting an ultrasonic signal in a direction generally perpendicular to the surface of the liquid fuel in the storage tank; (b) means for detecting an echo of the transmitted ultrasonic signal from the surface level of the liquid fuel in the storage tank; (c) means for electrically measuring a time differential between transmission of the ultrasonic signal and the detection of the echo of the ultrasonic signal; and (d) means for generating the first electrical signal indicative of the level of the liquid fuel in the storage tank in accordance with the measured time differential. 3. A system as in claim 2 wherein the first electrical signal consists of electrical current the value of which is indicative of the level of the liquid fuel in the storage tank. 4. A system as in claim 3 wherein the computer means comprises an interface means comprising: (a) a resistor means for converting the electrical current into an analog voltage, the value of which is indicative of the level of the liquid fuel in the storage tank; and (b) analog to digital conversion means for converting the analog voltage into a digital signal which can be processed by the computer means. 5.
Of course handing your passport to an employer is pretty silly.  However, maybe these employees volunteering for an RFID implant just want a useful piece of technology for free.  There's a lot of misunderstanding and paranoia surrounding these implants, none of it is justified.  I don't think the idea of offering this for free to your employees is a stupid idea, the improvements to security and the reduced amount of hassle associated with lost ID cards would make it worthwhile.
Agreed, I return a lot of shit to Amazon. I'm about to try to return some windshield wipers because it said they should fit my car -- any other site would be a hassle...  But I'm still looking for an alternative because i'm cheap.
That sounds like you work for a shitty company. Regardless of who is at fault in an incident, you fire the person? I bet your employees have low morale, knowing that somone else's mistake can cost them their job.  The idea behind self driving vehicles is that you dont have accidents. No accidents, means lesser exposure and liability risk for the operating compnay.  Are computers fail safe? Of course not, but human driven vehicles have a far worse driving record, currently.
It means that supply of labor is greater than demand. Therefore wages are suppressed as people compete over the few jobs available.  The unemployment rate is misleading because people drop off the statistic even though in a functional sense they're still looking for work.  Many of the open positions available aren't in immediate need of filling. A lot of job ads have laundry lists of nice to have qualities and skills that most experienced people don't have.   From the employer's perspective they'd rather hold out for the dream candidate and make existing employees work more unpaid overtime than take a risk hiring someone who doesn't meet their wildest dreams.
"6%?  One wonders why a ""booming"" economy can't afford the rising costs of employment.  Typically being unable to fill a position means the wages are too low for the available pool of employees.  One raises wages until the roles are filled then raises prices accordingly.  If prices cannot be raised without consumption falling off, *then there are other issues.*"
"This is really the best thing you can do for any salary job in the interview process. It makes negotiating salaries SO much easier and you have a baseline to tell if they're trying to short you or what they thought of your interview.  Granted you should be adjusting for experience on a case-by-case basis but I've pointed to this in interviews when salary came up and (politely) said ""&lt;here's&gt; the average, I have a lot of experience in the field so I think &lt;this&gt; is an appropriately adjusted amount."" None of my counter offers have been lower than the average."
Well considering I am middle class and living in America (and a woman to boot!)...  However, your father on his factory salary probably didn't have to save for his own retirement, at the time he probably thought his company's pension would provide for him. Now if you want any hope of having a decent retirement, you gotta save 15% a year. Your dad probably also didn't have to pay for insurance in the age of Lipitor and Viagra. But the chances of his dying of a heart attack at 60 were much greater (lost my own grandpa to a heart attack at 58 in 1975) We live longer and better thanks to medicine, albeit expensive medicine.   I still think if you subtract out all the things from our current lives that normal middle class folks pay for today that they wouldn't have had to pay for in say 1960 we'd be able to raise a family of 4 on one middle class salary.   PS we can have an awesome discussion without being rude. :)
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"That's an interesting statement to make. A pretty even number of people complain about not being helped and being ""bombarded"" with ""pushy"" employees. Hourly employees won't be as aggressive about selling whatever the fuck they can, and commission employees are going to make sure they help you even if you don't ask.  Best buy also tries to promise ""impartial advice"" which I think can only be achieved through hourly employees.   My comment history might give away that I was (I still am but I used to too) a best buy employee, first in mobile, then Geek Squad. I can't speak for more than my store,  but 9/10 of the people I work with regularly go above and beyond to do the right thing, and make good recommendations, for the customer first. I went from the new guy to the top associate in mobile in less than a year, just by presenting my customers with all of their options and suggesting a solution based on the information they give me.    Best buys problem, in my opinion, are young managers and old employees.  Older employees in my experience, know less about the products, are less honest, and more aggressive salespeople. With management, best buy loves to push young managers who increase sales around to affect as many stores as possible, meaning a younger go-hard pushes to undo the customer service progress that a store may make.   I never looked best buy until I started working there. Call it Stockholm syndrome if you can't resist, but there's a reason they're still around. Mobile and Geek squad aren't going anywhere for sure, and there are other very profitable segments of the store as well. I don't think they're going anywhere soon.   Sorry for the rant"
Commercial carpet cleaning is a specialised area and should be viewed as a priority as it is often one that can improve the presentation of your business instantly. Alongside this daily dirt, stains and wear of carpets can cause problems for employees suffering with allergies so the eradication of airborne dust and bacteria will be beneficial for business owners and their employees alike.
The last batch I ordered were 2 sided. I did this because they were for my film production freelancing, so I could be leaving them on tables and things and using them as mini flyers of sorts to advertise. For my day job I have one sided as these won't really be used to advertise but to provide contact info. I find it's nice to have space on the back to write notes, alternative contact info etc.
&gt;The figures released Friday also showed how overtime boosted the salaries of other employees. For example, 24 plumbers earn between $49,000 and $78,000 in base pay, but they collected an average $14,500 on top of that this year. Many toll collectors boosted their base wages of $58,916 to $85,000 or more this year with overtime.    I can't believe this was even mentioned in the same article. That is what it means to work in a trade.
As a former Amazonian, I can tell you that employees are really, really encouraged to get patents. Doesn't matter what for, if your patent application is formally submitted, you get a clear plastic puzzle peace (i have one). If it actually becomes a patent, you get a blue one's  My point is, the fact that they're applying for a patent in X doesn't mean they want to do X, it means that some employee came up with the idea and submitted it to the IP folks who thought, maybe we can patent this thing.  Every company wants a war chest of patents they can use against companies suing them for patent infringement.
The salary of a coal miner with a couple years of experience is $29/hour. Average salary at Disneyland is $14/hr.   Thousands of products are made from coal including pharmaceuticals, soap, dyes, solvents, plastics, nylon, and carbon fibers. Miners would still be needed even if coal wasn't used for energy.
&gt; 5. Beware of the Internet The Internet creates unique challenges for employers, especially with the advent of smartphones and tablet. Too many employees spend too much time:  Redditing? :-)  I've certainly seen how all of these things can happen, sometimes without poor intention on the part of the employee. Frankly, if I have a higher level employee that has time to waste in the first place, I think the blame goes on me for not managing well. Sure, there's more to the story, but I try not to walk around with the mentality that my employees are trying to find any way they can to blow their time. That thought makes me sad...
"If that pissed you off, this should really get you going. She never got fired. And I was there when they brought the x-ray in. No injury, slight swelling...9 months off. I worked for a large university but her annual salary would have covered 1 year tuition for someone. He often tried to get me to discipline my other employees about trivial matters. I'd point to her and say ""I can't."""
A lot of our people work from home so conference calls are nice and quick. Lots of beeps when people who are finished with their part hang up too. From my experience this is a brick and mortar workplace phenomenon. Remote employees dont care about hanging around for nothing.
For me there are two issues.  So, what to do? You have the basics of a very strong position coming together. A good salary in a good city. I'd be patient and work on consolidating my position for another year to 18 months (including building a rainy day fund) and look to buy then.
Just from the premise that radical social change is necessary, I think it falls to economists to start coming up with models for not just the economy as-is, but for alternative forms of economy. Obviously people can laugh off the idea of returning to sustainable tribes, but maybe we can at least consider forms of currency that price the worst catastrophe in human history into the market.
There is little difference.  A paycheck is a type of check used to pay wages.  These days many people opt for direct deposit.  So, the term paycheck can also refer to the payment itself: 1: a check in payment of wages or salary 2: wages, salary http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/paycheck
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And this distinction is a HUGE difference. Both for the employees and the corporate. Even though the article doesn't say if all the franchises decided to kept all the employees who used to work for the corporate (few months down the road), as someone who have worked in the franchise business (not burger king) at different level, I will bet my money that a lot of them lost their job.  The whole reason why BK sold them off as franchises because as a corporate they couldn't maintain the overhead and since fast food businesses has ridiculously low margin, I wouldn't be surprised to maintain profitability the franchise owners got rid of a lot of them.  So its not too far off to say that all these people were fired by corporate but the franchise owners decided to keep (probably) most of them out of convenience for the short term but probably lost the job few months down the road.
My employer matches 6% of my salary, dollar for dollar. So you have a great benefit. The self-directed side has no fees but $10 trades. No option trading. Yours basically allows you to invest your own funds, but not the match. It's a restriction, agreed, but a good plan.
Kind of crazy to discontinue a rate so soon without having a replacement identified but i, for one, think some market based alternative is a definitely a good thing. The LIBOR scandal further damaged the public view of the banking profession, and rightly so
"Well, I know for a fact, some of my flat-earth ultra religious science denying 9-11 truther friends and extended family claim it's a step closer to Armageddon.  The company who offered to implant RFIDs into their employees was a ""mark of the beast, the time's a coming""."
I would just rely on the salary from my job in the US. If you don't have a job in the US, you're very unlikely to get a visa to move there and look for work, and so the question of how to take money there (except for a holiday) doesn't arise. (Unless you have dual Portuguese/American citizenship.)
So, I'm in IT Operations and my work life balance is also shit. 50hr weeks are my good weeks. I'm always on call. Always. At any moment I could be on a 24hr conference call.  I make less than 2% of my CEO's pay and I'm by no means on the lower end of our company's pay scale. CEOs are making more now than in the past, including when compared to the average working salary [source](http://web.mit.edu/frydman/www/trends_frydmansaks_0808.pdf) and [source](http://www.epi.org/publication/ib331-ceo-pay-top-1-percent/). That's just to give you perspective.   Honestly this guy's email is manipulative and should be taken with a grain of salt. His argument for pain is that he's worked hard, didn't have any fun, and had to restructure his debt on his ginormous house? What about the folks that work two and three jobs to keep their shitty apartment in the inner city of Chicago? How about the pain of not knowing of you can feed your children this week or the next despite working those three jobs? Those folks just spend all their money on liquor and fancy meals. That's why they're poor.   I've heard this argument before from the mining heiress in Australia. Poor people are poor because they are lazy and drink too much. That's a convenient narrative for rationalizing his greed and opulence no doubt originating from the deep analysis he's done on the socioeconomic causes of poverty. I'll buy that for a dollar.
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I don't disagree.  My iPhone is made with products from Fox con. They have a horrific record for taking care of their employees. I need to own that.  Simultaneously, Apple goes out of its way to do everything they can in order to stifle that victimization. This includes searching for other vendors, overseeing as much of the production process as they are allowed to, and also creating factories and processes here in America that are more under their direct control.  I do not see rival companies (like Samsung) doing the same thing.  I would never say that I live a purely virtuous life. But I try to make a stand where I think it will make a difference while still being able to provide for my family.  And I provide for my family very well.
"&gt;Apple could clearly afford to pay them more. They could double the salary of all their sales staff and you'd barely even notice on Apple's bottom line.  30,000 US employees working in stores. Double their salary and that's $750 million per year, vs some $25 million profits on the year. They'd be losing about 3% of their profits by doubling salesman wages in the US. Not a huge amount, but certainly more than ""barely even notice."""
I write cyber liability sometimes. Most I've ever covered is 1million for a business with a few hundred employees. It cost around $8k a year for that policy.  My educated guess is that obtaining anywhere near sufficient cyber liability insurance for a credit bureau would be both cost prohibitive and difficult to find the capacity.  Basically they are likely paying this out of pocket.
Look at the non-grocery store use of a single Whole Foods location. Amazon lockbox can be created for delivery holds of Amazon online orders that drives upscale foot traffic into the store. Standardize a few choices of meats then can compete as two hour shipping point of Plated meal prep alternative where can get other grocery items delivered at same time. Each WF location just became a food warehouse for Amazon with cold storage. Complex undertaking though Amazon is able to roll the dice.
For sure less staff, but they're probably removing the cashiers in the front to replace them with their cashier-less checkouts:  https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2016/12/5/13842592/amazon-go-new-cashier-less-convenience-store  Think it was coincidence Amazon piloted their cashier-less store in Seattle before purchasing WF? Just means more people in the back of the house to stock/answer questions. That is until Amazon figures out how to replace those employees with automated robots to stock the store shelves.
You're an idiot  &gt;Some people have even claimed that law has the effect of requiring the postal service to fund retirement obligations for people who are not yet employed by the USPS--potential future employees.  &gt;No one ever intended the law to work that way. And, in fact, it doesn't. Although accounting rules require the postal service to calculate future liabilities, including those for projected future employees, the law only requires pre-funding of obligations to actual current and past employees.
&gt; Prices can still be low and people can still make tons of money, just slightly less money for those at the top and slightly more for those at the bottom rungs.  You cannot simply *pay* people a wage different to market wage. Why would the executives take accept a salary at 80% of the market wage when they could just get a job at 100% of the market wage?  And at the other end, if you simply started paying the workers 20% more, suddenly all of the workers at that new price point want to get a job at Wal-Mart. They swiftly will replace all the current employees, who cannot perform at that level. If they *could*, why would they have been working at Wal-Mart?  You are railing against reality. Yes, it sucks that some people are only capable of labour at low productivity levels. Totally agree. Simply trying to *pretend* that they are *more* productive is just ridiculous, though.
A system as in claim 2 wherein the first electrical signal consists of electrical current the value of which is indicative of the level of the liquid fuel in the storage tank. 4. A system as in claim 3 wherein the computer means comprises an interface means comprising: (a) a resistor means for converting the electrical current into an analog voltage, the value of which is indicative of the level of the liquid fuel in the storage tank; and (b) analog to digital conversion means for converting the analog voltage into a digital signal which can be processed by the computer means. 5. A system as in claim 1 wherein the means for measuring the temperatures at various locations in the boiler room comprises thermocouple devices located at the point at which the temperature is measured, which generate the second set of electrical signals indicative of the measured temperatures. 6. A system as in claim 5 wherein the thermocouple devices are comprised of: (a) a first thermocouple at the liquid fuel drawn from the storage tank; (b) a second thermocouple at the water resident in a boiler room; (c) a third thermocouple at the water drawn from the boiler for use as domestic hot water; and (d) a fourth thermocouple at the gases expelled from the boiler through a stack. 7. A system as in claim 6 wherein the second set of electrical signals is comprised of analog voltage signals. 8. A system as in claim 7 wherein the computer means comprises an interface means comprising analog to digital conversion means for converting the analog voltage signals into a set of digital signals which can be processed by the computer means.
"The author is using an approximation to what you have exactly, which is called a ""true"" time-weighted rate of return. You have expressed the total time-weighted return for the period in question.  In order to express this as an annual rate, you may annualize it by adding one, raising to the 1/y power, and subtracting one again, for a period of y years. The alternative to a time-weighted return is a money-weighted return, which is actually another name for the internal rate of return."
While salary is usually a large expense, it's often not the one with the most waste.  Cutting salary almost always ends poorly if you need any sort of specialized skills.   The city should be looking at it's budget, but at services that aren't necessary or are far too expensive to operate in a crisis.  Closing a community center or canceling some public events not only saves a huge amount off cash in the form of overtime for police and support services, it also makes the problem public, and tend to make people open to paying more fees of taxes, solving the problem for realsies.
For the CPI, there is actually federal employees whose job it is to visit various stores to collect the prices of specific items (boy's size-14 collared shirt made of 97 percent cotton).  Planet Money did a great podcast on this, actually following one of these people for a day.