Ron Lindeboom
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We have given users the ability to edit posts up to the time that they are replied to and then they “lock.”
Has someone replied to the post?
If they haven’t, you will find a link that says “Edit Your Post” below the links to view posts, add a new post, search posts, etc., in the grayish bar located towards the top inside your post.
If a post has been replied to, we will edit things manually sometimes depending on the situation.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
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[Aaron Cadieux] “I have been working at this company for 3+ years and only recently got my first raise. It was a sizeable raise, but, as far as I’m concerned, I am still underpaid. I am making $35,000 a year salary. I am their video editor, shooter and computer IT guy rolled into one. We don’t have much business coming in, so I know more money isn’t really an option, but at the same time, I feel it’s unfair to me to give them $50 or $60,000 dollars worth of work for $35,000. I am always looking for employment elsewhere, but it’s hard these days.”
Wow. I look at this and it’s pretty self-explanatory.
The boss is having a hard time and is barely making it because work is slow and business is not great. He/she gave you a “sizeable” raise but you think it’s not enough, even though the company “do[es]n’t have much business coming in.” You are looking for another job but can’t find one. Doesn’t that tell you what the reality of the market is? Or are you unable to see that your boss is keeping you working when they are likely making far, far less than you might presume?
I know plenty of bosses who pay their employees only to find that when it is all said and done, they have little to nothing left over for themselves and eventually the company either folds or lays off the people when they completely run out of money.
NOW, REALITY CHECK HERE, AARON…
You can either get off your high horse and roll up your sleeves and do whatever you can to try to strengthen this company in a horrible market time or you can contribute to the problems your boss is trying to fight through, until the whole thing collapses and you have NO job.
Not only is your boss fighting the current lack of market and business, but they are also up against the new administration that is saying things like — to quote them — “Yes, businesses should make money and turn a profit but that time is not now.” Huh? And my incentive for building a business is what when you take damned near everything I make to pay for those who were too stupid to tell the truth on their mortgage papers and said they were making $200,000 a year when they were actually making $48,000?
Here in California, over the last decade, 85% of new job creation was in government and only 15% was growth in private sector jobs. The 15% that doesn’t get the benefits or advantages and takes all the risks is going to carry the 85% that gets the benefits and takes no risks? Maybe, but they are not going to carry it for long…
Your boss is up against incredible odds and will likely not make it. The odds are well against them.
…and you are adding to these odds.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
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[Aaron Cadieux] “In a forum moderated by mostly employers and not employees, I was not surprised by the responses to my post.”
Aaron,
I have been an employee much of my life and my ethics and focus did not change whether I was the boss or working at the bottom of the pile as the grunt. It was the same, even when I was young and in college working nights as a janitor with no supervision, going to school and supporting my new family. It was hard and the work sucked. Cleaning toilets isn’t glamorous, I assure you. But my boss once told me when he came by and looked at my work, that he hadn’t ever seen anyone on any of his crews clean around and under and behind the toilets like I did.
Why did I do it when I knew that the others and even the guy that trained me didn’t do it?
I had a sister and a Mom. I had heard them talk in the car during roadtrips about how they hated restrooms in gas stations because they were so rank. So I cleaned the restrooms in the buildings in which I worked as if my Mom and sister were going to use them.
When I was at the bottom of the pile working as a grunt, my attitude was the same as when I became the boss.
You are not qualified — in my opinion — to run a company and direct people, if you cannot clean a toilet well. As long as there is a difference in your mind that separates some work as worthy and honorable, and some that is not — then you will always have a dichotomy within yourself. Far simpler to have one yardstick of performance that says that if I take a job, I do my best. Period.
If you can’t do that, you will always leave a trail of work of which you are not proud and will regret having others point to.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
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[Aaron Cadieux] “…but I am sure most employees would love to slack off when they’re underappreciated.”
Which is one of the many reasons that the world is in such a mess today.
Growing up on a dairy I learned early-on that life isn’t fair and that “dairy kids” have to work seven days a week, 365 days a year. The cows didn’t care that I wanted to go surfing and that it was Summer vacation. They wanted to eat. The kids I knew that grew up on crop farms didn’t have to work like that, they got regular time off.
BUT…
It taught me that I have only one gear: mine. I do my work without excuses and I don’t wait for the world to get fair before I do it. I let the whiners whine, while I blow past them with the one gear that I have in my transmission: to do the very best that I can do, nothing else matters.
Why?
Because it reflects on me. If I let my life be about what is fair or isn’t or about giving only my best when it’s paid for, then there is always an excuse for shoddy second-rate work. I give myself no such quarter and do not allow that kind of slack in my thinking, thank you.
I don’t take the jobs that I don’t want but I never do a job as second-rate. It is either done to the best of my ability, or I don’t take the job or the money.
As Walter said and I agree with him: Life isn’t fair, it is about what happens when you were wishing for something else. Make the best of what you have, or don’t. Life is far too short to worry about what’s fair and only doing an equal measure of production for equal return.
It would be great if life were always so simple, it isn’t. Therefore, I work to my own standard and will always do the best that I can because it is the measure of who I am. If I do only that is equal to circumstance, then my life has too many hoples in bucket to ever hold onto much for long.
That’s my opinion.
Your mileage may vary and if it does, you are welcome to drive as you see fit.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
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While I would agree that text is important for most sites, in this case, Steve, I think that his presentation is far more likely to work with the people that he sends to his site — which is likely to be what it is most used for and by. The loss of the odd “wander by” that may come from a search engine, is — at least in my opinion — not as big an issue as the directness of his site in communication his focus and ability in light of what a prospect may be looking for.
Just my thought (though accomplishing both types would be the far more advantageous position than either of these alone).
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
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You may not think that your web site is one of the great looking sites on the net, Dan, but I have to say that it is one of the most effective sites for a corporate video company that I have seen.
You communicate clearly what it is that you do and do not do, what your goals are and how you accomplish them, as well as how your client is a key part of the process without it requiring a ton of their time.
In all of this, you leave the client with the feeling that they are dealing with a pro who understands their concerns and how to make it work for them.
Never apologize for this website.
Never.
This site works. I have seen piles of production company websites that don’t.
You done good, Dan.
Ron Lindeboom
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[Tom Brooks] “Why did I buy that lousy Highpoint RAID card? That was a mistake.”
Which is why we do not have a Highpoint forum here, even though they have asked us to add one multiple times.
I have also unsubscribed repeatedly from their newsletters and mailers that they always seem to get around to resubscribing me to. This makes me assume that they are running web spiders that crawl the net and extract names. I could be wrong but if it’s being done manually, you would think that when you get irritated at them after many times of asking to be removed, you’d think that they’d get the message.
I really do not like Highpoint at all.
Ron Lindeboom
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Thanks for trying a suggestion, Roger. I appreciate the effort even if the suggestion didn’t work.
Ron Lindeboom
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[John Cummings] “I think we should now concentrate on the most important issue. Do we have any shot at making this the longest thread in Cow history? I wonder what the record is, and on what subject…”
This thread doesn’t even come close. There are threads over the years that have been pages long and include days of discussion, hammering out ideas from a wide range of views, by many users.
But the most important issue is play nice, I don’t want to have to shoot anyone … again.
🙂
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
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[grinner hester] “Your employer’s job is to pay you as little as possible…”
That presumes a lot about all people who run a business, doesn’t it, Grin?
I know a number of business owners/managers that don’t fit that description at all.
Sure, especially in today’s business climate it is true about the majority but there are many fair-minded people that run businesses also.
Man, I hate to disagree with my friend, Grinner. :o)
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.