Posted on 07/21/2019 8:56:34 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
On the one hand, the company is paying you to work, not sit around. I don't like paying bums.
On the other hand, there is a shortage of qualified people with STEM and MBAs. Many companies are rushing to "open architecture" which is basically a return to the 19th century schoolhouse or sweatshop system where you sit in long rows with no privacy and the bosses facing you at the front. And as a result, these same companies can't retain employees for more than a year, and then can't refill the position, leaving the other suckers stuck with extra work and low morale.
Some retard CFOs went to a snake oil seminar and swallowed this latest fresh fad, their Six Sigma blackbelts from the previous seminar a decade ago now a mere aftertaste, came back, and talked the CEOs into adopting this new labor management scheme and the seminar folks collected untold millions. Idiots.
where do you get them?
they are still available as trac phones at walmart
If it has a capacitor, it has a permanently-connected “battery”. The larger it is, the more it can do when your phone is “powered off”.
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Would you explain this?
Even when the battery is pulled?
Certainly. You may be aware that resistors generally diminishes the flow of energy. Capacitors have a “capacity” to hold energy.
While there are MANY types and sizes of capacitors for many purposes, one is to store energy as provided by a power source (battery, plug in the wall) and then, when that power source is removed or stopped, discharge its energy. The discharge can trickle out, much like a power source. Of course, the trickle lasts only as long as energy remains in the capacitor.
Something like this may be responsible for the device keeping track of the current time, or retaining settings.
I do not know what or if a cell phone uses capacitor-stored power to do. Transmitting is probably out, screen operation is probably out too; but storing information for later transmission when power reconnected might be accomplished.
Maybe the exception to the rule above, I once worked on avionics that had GPS and transmitted to satellites, and had quite large capacitors to allow non-powered emergency transmission of data. Perhaps 20 minutes worth. This was for location and identification information for downed aircraft, and after loss of battery power. The capacitors to do this would NOT fit in a cell phone, after all it was for transmitting.
thank you
That was a very clear and understandable response.
On the one hand, the company is paying you to work, not sit around. I don’t like paying bums.
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The Graybeard engineer retired and a few weeks later the Big Machine broke down, which was essential to the company’s revenue. The Manager couldn’t get the machine to work again so the company called in Graybeard as an independent consultant.
Graybeard agrees. He walks into the factory, takes a look at the Big Machine, grabs a sledge hammer, and whacks the machine once whereupon the machine starts right up. Graybeard leaves and the company is making money again.
The next day Manager receives a bill from Graybeard for $5,000. Manager is furious at the price and refuses to pay. Graybeard assures him that it’s a fair price. Manager retorts that if it’s a fair price Graybeard won’t mind itemizing the bill. Graybeard agrees that this is a fair request and complies.
The new, itemized bill reads….
Hammer: $5
Knowing where to hit the machine with hammer: $4995
(https://www.buzzmaven.com/old-engineer-hammer-2/)
One of the great misconception of management is that if people are not focused 100% on their work they are “bums” just goofing off.
A good (and healthy) work environment allows for a certain amount of social interaction. In general people want to do good (productive work). Workers who are stressed out from overbearing managers or corporate policies are neither good workers or productive workers.
At least that is my opinion for what it is worth.
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