[Ipg-smz] :-) So, in exploring GlassDoor.com's resources, etc
Matt Heusser
matt at xndev.com
Tue Dec 24 17:14:02 UTC 2019
I have 4 four bedroom house on a half acre with a two stall carriage house
built in 1871 and it is only worth 160k. I know Because I tried to sell it
earlier this year.
Eat your .... heart out ... I think?
Haha only serious.
I live in west Michigan.
—heusser
On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 11:31 AM Tom Henderson via Ipg-smz <
ipg-smz at netpress.org> wrote:
> Living in Indiana means that by default, I'm a remote worker because I
> live in a fly-over state. This is a decided benefit, when you can get a
> 4bdrm house on an acre of land for under $200K with $2500/yr max
> property taxes. Shhhhh. Don't tell anybody.
>
> Tom
>
>
> On 12/24/19 10:26 AM, Christine Hall via Ipg-smz wrote:
> > So this means that everyone who had a job based in Remote was a Remote
> > worker long before remote working became a thing?
> >
> > Christine Hall
> > Publisher & Editor
> > FOSS Force: Keeping tech free
> > http://fossforce.com
> >
> > On 12/24/19 9:40 AM, Sharon Fisher via Ipg-smz wrote:
> >> I have, in fact, been to Remote, Oregon.
> >>
> >> In the 1980s, I was working for infoworld , covering networking.
> >> There was a company called DCA that made Irma, a Micro mainframe
> >> gateway.
> >>
> >> One day, DCA announced that they were announcing a new remote
> >> product, and they were going to announce it in Remote, Oregon, and
> >> invited us all to attend. They'd arrange the transportation.
> >>
> >> This caused a quandary at Infoworld, because we weren't supposed to
> >> accept trips. We finally decided that a day trip to Remote, Oregon
> >> wasn't exactly a week in the Bahamas and anyway, how else would we
> >> get there? So I got permission.
> >>
> >> So bright and early I went to the airport. They had Learjets from
> >> both San Jose and San Francisco. There were pastries on the plane.
> >> There was a phone, and we all called people to tell them we were
> >> calling from a Learjet.
> >>
> >> Remember, this was the mid 1980s.
> >>
> >> Then we boarded a bus, got a box lunch of seafood, and traveled the
> >> rest of the way to Remote, Oregon.
> >>
> >> As you might expect, this was a big deal for Remote, Oregon. News
> >> crews filmed us as we got off the bus. We went to the Remote, Oregon
> >> general store -- where, as it turns out, the proprietor was named
> >> Irma -- had the press conference, bought post cards, boarded the bus,
> >> and went back to the airport.
> >>
> >> Whereupon the pilot greeted us with, hey, did you hear? The stock
> >> market fell 500 points today.
> >>
> >> So we flew back to the Bay Area, this time with the DCA executives,
> >> who were drinking Bloody Marys and wondering how they would pay for
> >> their kids' college educations.
> >>
> >> On Mon, Dec 23, 2019, 6:04 PM Daniel Dern via Ipg-smz
> >> <ipg-smz at netpress.org <mailto:ipg-smz at netpress.org>> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> For a piece of an article I'm doing, I registered... and somehow
> >> (as I
> >> just noticed, a week later), I don't know what I typed in for
> >> "Company
> >> Name," but G/D somehow re-interpreted that as UPS, as in, that big
> >> shipping courier company.
> >>
> >> That (I know see) explains some of the otherwise mysterious
> >> messages or
> >> recommendations from GlassDoor over the past week.
> >>
> >> Fixed. I think.
> >>
> >> Well, that's better than LinkedIn's interpreting "Freelance" as a
> >> humongous company (last I checked).
> >>
> >> One positive about G/D's profile page, so far: "Location" includes
> >>
> >> Remote (Work from Home) US
> >>
> >> but while G/D does good pattern-matching suggestions, pay
> >> attention, or
> >> you'll end up with a location of
> >>
> >> Remote, OR (US)
> >>
> >> (which does, a quick web check shows, exist, at least.)
> >>
> >> Remotely yrs,
> >>
> >> DPD
> >>
> >>
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> >>
> >
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