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Yeah, but that was not a rinky dink little company. There were 400.000 employees worldwide. The rules were different. Besides, the US manager could not fire me because I was an emplyee of the German company on assignment.
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New #841
In this country, even the companies with over 400k employees would never tolerate someone just saying they were going to take off for five weeks just like that. Cultural differences.
I feel sad for those who can't take a vacation because they get bored because they usually are the ones who will die soon after retirement. Before I retired the first time, I had five weeks of vacation a year (I was a long time employee) and had no trouble finding something to do. Heck, I trouble finding enough time to do all I wanted to do.
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New #842
Off their web site. I took out the name and locations
Not rinky dinky.
XXXXX is proud to be America's largest auto retailer representing domestic, import and luxury brands, both on and off the web. Headquartered in XXXX XXXXX, and a member of the S&P 500 (NYSE xx),
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New #843
That's why you have to do vacation planning so that not the whole department leaves at the same time. Before I retired, I had 10 weeks of vacation per year - but then I never had the time to take it all. The company paid me a big bundle for vacation owed when I retired.
But in the case of the US manager in the early 60s, he just did not want to do that. Only wanted us to tell hime when we go on vacation. I guess he did not expect some European who came with 7 weeks of yearly vacation (the US standard was 2 weeks then). But there was really nothing he could do about it.
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New #845
Sygnus what you're saying is conceivable, BUT Microsoft has shown no signs of concern whatsoever for what desktop users want or need in W8.
If M$ ever adds some desktop friendly options to W8 a lot of people will take a more serious look at it, but so far M$ has only thumbed their arrogant noses at desktop users, and the leak of Blue so far shows only more of the same.
There's absolutely no reason why they can't give some ground to accomodate the desktop portion of their customer base.
All we're asking for is some worthwhile desktop friendly options, but all we're getting is arrogance and indifference.
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New #846
The problem is I don't really see Microsoft as being arrogant as they jut want to see if their product succeeds. This is what any company would do. I know the popular thing for everyone is that Microsoft immediately abandon ship, but sometimes you can't just pull the plug because your critics say so. If this were so, we wouldn't have any innovation.
Anyway it's too early to call. We'll see what Blue has to offer, than go from there. If the Market still hasn't warmed up to 8, then Microsoft will have to change or tweak some things.
And I still maintain that the desktop as we know it is gone. They'll be some changes, maybe not as drastic, but they will be changes. It's not about what the old timers want. it's about what the mobile society wants. It's forward, not backwards.
That's the way I see it.
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New #848
No one branding the desktop a dinosaur has yet explained what will replace the it for millions who do the productive work that makes the world economy hum. They turned to MS for the best affordable desktop experience.
Will they turn their phones and tablets sideways to do spreadsheets, snap on rubbery keyboards to do word processing?
This is at least half of the market, so how are you ever going to squeeze them into a tablet or phone to do their real work when they can spread out and sit back in front of a 24" LED?
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