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Me. What is the typical protocol for being laid off? This has never happened to me. Although I was already actively starting a job search and planning to quit...
Francesco
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Oct 2, 2004
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What do they mean by "support"? Do they mean the ability to call you and have you work on your code after you have left? I would tell them they can get six...
James Avery
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Oct 2, 2004
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Francesco, In the twice I've been laid off I got 2 weeks severance and my medical insurance was paid by the company until the end of the month I was laid off...
Michael Maddox
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Oct 2, 2004
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that month long contract may be a ploy to avoid their having to pay unemployment. check with the unemployment office before you sign. otherwise, I also vote...
Phil Taffet
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Oct 5, 2004
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by the way, today was the first day of my first contract that wasn't a moonlighter project. got placed thru a headhunter as a W2 contractor, so my rate isn't...
Phil Taffet
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Oct 5, 2004
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OK, so as you know I was laid off on Friday and my ex-employer tried to get me to sign a very unilateral "severance contract" at my final meeting. I refused...
Francesco
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Oct 5, 2004
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I was pampered at my last job where I could wear jeans and t-shirts every day for the past 5 years. Now I've got to interview for new positions that I...
Francesco
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Oct 5, 2004
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You'll be looking good! But ... If you walked into my interview looking like that, I'd immediately make the assumption that I couldn't afford you and you'd be...
Dan Hounshell
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Oct 5, 2004
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Now you've got me questioning how unemployment works. My impression is that any business of any size (more than 10 employees or something?) has to pay an...
Michael Maddox
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Oct 5, 2004
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Actually, in PA anyway, any business with paid employees must contribute to the PUTA (PA Unemployment something Assistance, or something like that), and...
rjdudley
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Oct 5, 2004
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That is correct ... but the employer also holds the 'veto' power on paying it out the employer, since it is the one paying the tax, can object and there will...
Adwait Ullal
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Oct 5, 2004
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... Hash: SHA1 Michael, ... Your impressions are accurate for Illinois, at least. However, my understanding is that unemployment insurance is a...
Brian Vargas
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Oct 5, 2004
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The following going_independent poll is now closed. Here are the final results: POLL QUESTION: Do you have liability insurance? CHOICES AND RESULTS - Yes, 3...
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Oct 7, 2004
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One tip, in case you aren't doing it now, is networking. Go find all of your nearest User Groups that are related to your area of expertise and go to all...
Joe Mayo
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Oct 7, 2004
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hi . myself Ashish Kumar i live in india( working in gurgaon ) i am working in a software company called XentaQsys Technologies Pvt.Ltd. from last 1 year or...
Ashish Chaudhary
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Oct 9, 2004
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Early this morning, without any warning, my ISP, www.alentus.com, disabled the redirection functionality of my URL123 site. I have responded and I am hoping...
Francesco
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Oct 10, 2004
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I've been following this group from the beginning. [http://dotavery.com/blog/archive/2004/09/05/1916.aspx]. This is definitely a good place to learn/share with...
mallik n
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Oct 11, 2004
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Hey Mallik, I made the jump into investment banking a while ago, and at that time my background was pretty much computer games - well that's to say that I'd ...
Aaron Robson
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Oct 11, 2004
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Mallik, I would say there are a lot of software development jobs out there that require zero domain knowledge. The more senior you get, the more domain...
Michael Maddox
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Oct 11, 2004
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As I finish page 2 today, I wanted to post page 1 of my resume, which I completely redid from scratch this weekend. I'm looking for comments or suggestions....
Francesco
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Oct 18, 2004
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Hi all, There was recently a thread about web hosts. I got suckered in by the datapacket.net offering, and even shelled out for the year. Now after about 10...
Aaron Robson
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Oct 19, 2004
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I personally am happy with WebHost4Life (including 3 or 4 support incidents I've had with them) and others seem to be too, but it really depends on what you...
Ruben Bartelink
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Oct 19, 2004
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Cheers Ruben, They do look quite good - similar to jodohost.com. In fact on the jodohost forum, I've just found something which may be the reason my sites have...
Aaron Robson
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I'm the one who started the previous hosting thread. I went with webhost4life and have been very happy. I base my purchasing decisions on recommendations as...
Michael Maddox
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Oct 19, 2004
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... in less than 2 hours (athough they didn't tell me what they did to fix it, which bothers me a little). I'd second that general feeling -- their general...
Ruben Bartelink
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Oct 19, 2004
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I've just set up a trial account with Jodohost.com. No payment needed at all which is nice and lets me get a feel for their systems. They have online support...
Aaron Robson
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Oct 19, 2004
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Aaron, I have 3 websites with Jodohost. On a scale of 1 thru 10, I would rate them: Price = 10 Support = 7 Up time = 9 Features = 9 Tech issues = 8 My only...
Mark E
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I've been using datapacket.net for a couple of months now and I didn't have any major issues. Here are some asp.net web hosting offers> ...
Peter Jausovec
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Oct 20, 2004
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I have hosting with Godaddy.com for ASP.NET. They sub-$10 /month with 1 SQL server database, access and mySQL. 1GB of space. And I got them to grant my...
Jeffrey Palermo
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Oct 20, 2004
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Hi Peter, I'm pleased somebody has had a decent service from them - it means I may be able to use my account space for something non critical like photo...
Aaron Robson
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