While I was employed by Schneider Electric (an energy conservation business) one of my many tasks was to collect “timecards” or “hours worked” by our large group of field project management people. All these people including myself were salaried employees but the accounting department wanted reports on actual hours worked and especially where. They said “for job costing” to apply hours as a job cost factor. Salaried employees are suppose to be exempt from reporting...
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Deep in thought; contemplative.
Of Mice and Men
I have forever heard reference to John Steinbeck’s 1937 novel “Of Mice and Men”. I knew or thought it had something to do with the plans and dreams of mice and men of great things that never come true. I have never read the novel or seen any of the many movies and plays it created. I just saw a movie clip of when George kills Lennie. It blew my mind on what was going...
Continue reading...Meta Platforms – FaceBook
I closed my FaceBook (FB) account a few months ago <LINK> Unfortunately, FB has become the BBS/Forum location preference for many commercial business information systems. Most have a standard WWW (web) site but get more traffic with FB. I needed some customer service information for a product I own and was informed that FB was best place to get in contact with Customer Service. I had, over a weeks time, sent 5 emails to the...
Continue reading...The Human Design Computer
Making things is my primary activity. Not just making them but the design from scratch making of things. It’s the process of visualizing a tangible item, then bringing that idea into reality. I have used a great many materials in my lifetime to make tangible things. Wood, metal, fabric and today mostly plastic extrusions. AKA 3D printing of plastic. There are several methods of 3D printing plastic which include melting and extruding solid filaments and...
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