... but so true. I grew up in the South and am in an inter-racial marriage. After I moved up to a northern "blue" state, I met more overtly racists people than I thought possible. It was shocking.
Interesting. It looks like they are not subletting/subleasing, but working with property management companies to sign up tenants. They are basically offering a service to match tenants and collect payment without any risk of dealing with roomate issues. The tenants sign a lease directly with the property management company.
The are probably "quiet" about it because they don't want property managers to do it themselves.
I looked at one apartment complext LSeven. The floorplan 2bd/2ba goes for $4,683, but HomeShare is probably collecting $6,300 per month on that unit.
I had roomates in college. I would never, ever do that ever again.
I had one roomate who would masterbate at night on the couch in the living room, and seemed to think it was acceptable behavior. Had another one who would come in after 2 am strip down and fall asleep on the couch in his whitey-tighty underwear while watching ESPN. I've had to kick out roomates that stopped paying rent. I had a roomate break our lease so he could move in with his ex-girlfriend so he could try to save their relationship -- and that didn't work out so well for him.
Seems to me like you didn't vet your roommates carefully. I have had one roommate in my whole life (maybe lived together for 6 months). I was a bit of a pain in his ass as I was obsessing a lot over cleanliness of the place but we managed quite well. We had guests come over, parties, bring GF/Date and allocate time for the other guy to have sex (it was a studio). So I think it can be managed, you just need to vet carefully and be strict.
I'm sure this has nothing to do with recent articles detailing how Russian FSB agents successfully use LinkedIn to find, contact, groom, and network with potential sources and agents on Wall Street.
Oddly, this is how they fire people at my wife's workplace; take them out to coffee and drop the hammer.
I don't think this is professional advice. In fact, I think it's horibble advice. If I wanted to ask a female coworker how they were doing, I'd do it right in the office, as a professional to a professional.
I would never ask a female coworker out to coffee just to talk. I've had a female project manager ask me out for coffee, and I was too polite to refuse. I felt obligated to go. She asked me about my family and how-are-you-doing kind of things, but I still felt it was awkward. She was an awesome project manager, but I was new and didn't know her well enough to know her intentions.
Before I got married, this is how I would screen dates -- coffee or drinks. Small talk, and then if we clicked, another coffee until we were comfortable to go on a real date.
Contrary to popular opinion this is how most office affairs start, and I'm sure a fair bit of harrassment, not a dropped pencil in the copy room leading to spontaneous sex with disco music in the background.
I wonder if these issues would dissapear if Silicon Valley companies weren't so focused on hiring only 20-somethings, with a skewed sense of morality, and had a few crusty bastards with daughters lurking the halls.
Do they no longer teach critical analysis in literature classes anymore? I remember rolling my eyes, and being forced to learn about author's lives, as the author's live experiences may impact their view point.
I would think this is even more important with authors that are trying to impact public opinion or policy.
Nice. I'm forever looking for any viable alternative to QuickBooks. I've even thought about writing my own invoicing application.
Looks great, but I personally don't like the collaboration tools mashed into the dash board. It looks cluttered. It also wasn't clear what information the client's would see. If they saw dollar amounts, it's a deal killer-- I work with too many clients and am assigned to work with other non-management employees.
Also, for reports -- I only saw a graph. I need to see who's behind and take action to get paid, and follow up with phone calls, emails, and letters.
I'd also like to see the ability to print invoices to mail them to clients. Some clients are overwhelmed with email, but a paper invoice gets paid.
My complaints with most projects in this genre I've evaluated -- they seem to be written by freelancers who've never had bad clients, never had to chase people down for payment, or never been in a relationship that turns sour.
Work for one bad client, and it will change you, and how you do business.
I've mainly been using Invoicely (free if you just create invoices and send them as PDFs), but now feeling bad about it because: https://medium.com/@prabhaths/invoicely-a-hiveage-rip-off-b9... I really like free, though, so thinking about switching to InvoicePlane.
There's actually an alternate view of the dashboard if you don't like the current one. It's hard to see in the demo (I need to work on that), but I can show you if you email me.
It's pretty easy to see whose behind, but I agree, it can be improved. One thing I really want to add for myself is a daily email from the system giving me a list of late invoices, tasks due that day, etc.
Invoices can be downloaded as PDF and then mailed. You can download them or the client can.
Also, the demo let's you log in as a client. Just use the options in the bottom right corner. Every client can see everything about their projects, including dollar amounts. Obviously any info related to another client's account can only be seen by admins.
Just wow. This is terrible. You don't understand the difference between a statutory employee and independant contractor.
If you are an employee, the company is required by law to withhold taxes and pay you regularly. Every state in the U.S. has an agency that will take and prosecute wage claims. People have gone to jail for messing with witholding taxes.
If you just invoice, you are effectively an independant contract, they might not pay you, and you are on the hook for paying your taxes. A big difference.
You also are unable to avail yourself of worker's compensation if you get hurt and unemployment compensation when you are laid off.
It astonishes me that anyone could be so ignorant as to say there is nothing wrong with making people invoice you. As you've correctly stated, it's a completely different relationship. Even the liability is different.
If you're a contractor and the guy who signs your checks says "nice ass! Now shut up and do your work" He's pretty much just pissed you off and as a self-employed contractor, you're free to decline and move on to another "client". If that same person is your employer, he's broken several civil laws and in most jurisdictions, committed an actual crime.
We could both go on for hours on the differences which is why this whole thing amazes me.
I'm weighing the same decision. It's time to replace my eight year old Mac Pro, and I'd like to go with a laptop + docking station + external monitors, but I'm torn as to weather and get the current model or the next.
I've decided to wait. The current model will be discounted, and I want to know how many USB-C ports will be on the next version and what the impact will be. I've heard it is painful if not impossible to connect older Cinnema dispays to mac book via USB-C.
Edited to add:
>-I want to do iOS development
You can do iOS development on any intel-based mac. My 8 year old mac pro is fine. My Macbook Air is perfectly fine.
>-Want to be able to hook up a external monitor later, >hence the MBP and not air
You can hook up an external monitor to any of the modern macbooks, you just have to purchase an adapter. A mini-display cable will plug into a thunderbolt port, and there are adapters for other cable types (thunderbold to vga, thunderbolt to DVI, etc). I have a set of adapters I carry in a bag just for presentations.
If you want to drive 4k monitors, there be dragons.
The current MBP with the ATI GPU can even drive the Dell 5k screen when using dual-displayport. A coworker of mine uses it in this configuration. But there is a chance, the next iteration improves this, if it offers TB3.
I hope it gets voted down. It was John F. Kennedy that introduced the Community Mental Health act of 1963 to close down and defund mental institions. The idea of cutting spending for mental facilities was put forth by the Democratic party, not GOP. Both parties have continued ever since.
No. This is an old, standard Republican mis-talking point that (as usual) is unsupported by facts.
The Community Mental Health act was fully funded at the time it was passed, to the tune of $330 million, and received almost $2 billion over the next decade. It was an example of an INCREASE in federal funding for mental health, put forth by Democrats, and bitterly opposed by Republicans.
Individual states, with Republican blessing, were the culprits in not continuing to fund local clinics. Then in 1980, Republican Ronald Reagan changed federal mental health funding to make it a block grant, spendable by states any old way they chose. And many chose NOT to spend it on mental health. Not content to turn Californians with mental illness out in the street (which he did as California governor), he decided he'd do that to America at large.
Don't try to blame Dems for standard Republican obstructionism that damaged and continues to damage public health.
The problem, and this applies to both parties and liberals and conservatives, is that politics is rarely evidence based. It's anecdote based, because that's what's easier to get people to relate to. There are plenty of liberal policies that are disasters, just as there are conservative ones, but if you attempt to change them it's an attack on that ideology, regardless of how well the policy is working in practice. The biggest problem with politics isn't that politicians are insular and out for themselves and their own interests/area, it's that they've all got their heads stuck so far into the ground they don't even know whether what they are doing is actually helping or hurting. Confirmation bias at its worst and most harmful.
I deleted my twitter account last week and deleted the twitter app after Milo was banned. I wasn't a follower of his, but I perceived an active bias against conservatives or filtering trending tags that comment on trending news that are negative towards Hillary as just too much, as well as the fact that it is a cesspool of bullying, huckster marketing, plagerism, and cry-bullying.
It was the second time I gave twitter a go. I must not be the target market.
