[ale] posting

[Charles Shapiro]

Wimps. I rode my bike the 10 miles to work this morning.

-- CHS


On 5/1/07, Scott Steele <roninazure at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm still trying to convince my "higher-ups" to allow me to work from
> home. I live in Midtown and muct drive to Alpharetta daily. I have VoIP and
> T-1 so I can do 90% of what needs to be done from the crib. Strangely, my
> company promotes a "green" mentality, ride share, etc. All this talk is
> lying on deaf ears.
>
> On 5/1/07, JK <jknapka at kneuro.net> wrote:
> >
> > Jerald Sheets wrote:
> >
> > > We have this conversation every few years when someone gets on here
> > > and posts some outrageous figure for mid-tier hosting work like this.
> > >
> > > I recall last time the amount of the description was listed at abot
> > > 20/hr, and I got chastised for thinking that's a bit of an insult for
> > > this type of work.  It still is.
> > >
> > > Now, with the much better market, they're going to have a real problem
> > > filling this.
> > >
> > > 40k...  Wow.  Can you live downtown on that?  I mean, my gas bill to
> > > commute to the perimeter is 500/mo alone.
> >
> > Mother of god.  I am *so* glad I work at home.
> >
> > IT companies could probably slash our nation's dependence on foreign
> > oil merely by allowing their "knowledge workers" to telecommute on
> > a regular basis.  And they'd save themselves money, too, on life support
> > for their human servants.
> >
> > -- JK
> >
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