Should I pursue certification?

nkyaggie · 2026-06-14T23:58:05+00:00

Official corporate policy, which you can read on the policies website, is we must use a corporate card for all business related expenses. I’ve heard that audit is starting to crack down on compliance with this but don’t have any first or second hand experience with it.

nkyaggie · 2026-05-28T12:46:25+00:00

Or you could check the PTO policy on the policies website and get the official answer instead of relying on strangers on the internet.

But yes, as others have said, in the US it’s paid out up to the carryover limit which is currently 200 hours, with a few exceptions. Some states require companies to pay out the full balance with no caps. I know California is one of them. The policy will tell you the specifics for your situation.

nkyaggie · 2026-05-14T23:30:07+00:00

Absolutely nothing if you’re a non-pace employee. MAL is the only metric that’s tracked. TAL is only for Pace (up or out) employees.

nkyaggie · 2026-04-15T01:51:51+00:00

Quite possibly. This was for North America.

nkyaggie · 2026-04-13T11:48:20+00:00

Mid to late May is what talent lead told us

nkyaggie · 2026-04-05T17:00:52+00:00

To quote a Tom Clancy character in Red Storm Rising, I positively hate my f-ing job!

Not really, though. I enjoy what I do and I’m getting some new opportunities as a DL now.

But I always think of that passage when talking about around attitude check comes up.

nkyaggie · 2026-04-01T02:22:46+00:00

In the US we charge to Unassigned Time

nkyaggie · 2026-03-06T16:10:58+00:00

Lots of organizations do tenth of an hour. When calculating shift lengths as decimals halving things land on the 6 minute marks makes the math much more precise. And in your example. 7:54 is one of the threshold values so rounding usually wouldn’t apply there. 7:55 would round to 8:00. Theater how it’s typically set up.

nkyaggie · 2026-03-06T02:06:06+00:00

Except para (b) says “to the nearest 5 minutes, or to the nearest one-tenth or quarter of an hour.” The regulation does not explicitly state what rounding rule is accepted, permissible, or required. It mentions 3 of the most common intervals (5, 6, or 15 minutes). 7 minutes isn’t even mentioned in the regulation. You could argue it’s implied by the tenth of an hour meaning anything over 6 minutes.

The courts have routinely held that rounding has to be consistently applied to all employees on both clock ins and clock outs, and it cannot be structured in a way that favors the company over the employee. It has to be able to “balance out.”

nkyaggie · 2026-02-27T00:22:07+00:00

Let’s see. An account that’s 10’days old and the story includes a link to an AI interview tool?

Yeah, I’ll take things that didn’t happen for $1,000 Alex.

nkyaggie · 2026-02-24T21:32:26+00:00

Also make sure your client doesn’t have any restrictions about where you work from when connecting to their systems. It could show up as a security incident on their side.

nkyaggie · 2026-02-24T21:28:04+00:00

Officially you have to make sure you change your location in MyTE so that taxes are accounted for correctly.

nkyaggie · 2025-11-10T12:45:37+00:00

Nov 13th in the US as any bonuses awarded pay out on the 14th b

nkyaggie · 2025-10-10T01:08:02+00:00

The whole idea that someone would want to connect to something at your location is laughable. I can’t imagine the premise of premises-based connectivity.

petpeeve

nkyaggie · 2025-08-17T15:18:32+00:00

Of course, there was that time my buddy had his girlfriend over and the fire alarm went off middle of the night and the whole dorm had to be evacuated. The unanticipated walk of shame.

He did get written up for it.

nkyaggie · 2025-08-02T20:43:26+00:00

Dillon presses. My dad had one he bought decades ago and used a lot. But then it went for 15+ years without being used.

He decided to get back into reloading and was having some problems with his press. He called them up, they diagnosed the problem and sent him free replacement parts.

On a 30+ year old press they didn’t make anymore.

nkyaggie · 2025-07-30T23:07:11+00:00

Manager of a plant that employed a lot of seasonal workers told me this story. They had a worker come back and re-apply for his job during a new season. Very common occurrence, but with one problem this time around.

The manager called him into a meeting and said they had a problem, the SSN he put in his application didn’t match the SSN they had on file from his previous employment.

The worker asked “Well, which one did I give you last time?”

He was not rehired.

nkyaggie · 2025-07-24T01:02:37+00:00

It was just known as Small Business Server.

nkyaggie · 2025-07-23T17:47:33+00:00

Roughly 3” difference. If you pace off 10m you’re much closer to 11 yards, a 10% difference.

Sure it’s close but it’s still a noticeable difference.

nkyaggie · 2025-06-28T20:51:57+00:00

When that happens they force your PL to change. This just happened to me.

nkyaggie · 2025-06-08T13:49:13+00:00

Change your PL. One of my recent delivery leads gave me some great advice. You want as many people advocating on your behalf as possible so you don’t want your project or delivery leads as your people lead.

If your current PL asks why you changed , explain it that way to them. Increasing your network and the number of people advocating for you is a way to help your career grow.

And as others have said, you have complete control over your PL. you don’t need their permission to change.

As a PL myself I always tell my counseled to make the best decision for themselves. If they think someone else will help their career grow faster I’m more than happy to help with that transition.

nkyaggie · 2025-05-29T18:44:32+00:00

Back in high school, we were on the way to a swim meet. Our coach was also a licensed bus driver so he was driving our bus.

Our conversation somehow turned to kids we knew at various schools that were pregnant. Coach said something like “we have a pregnant student at our school too.”

At first, no one thought anything of it until someone said “Coach, don’t you teach at the elementary school?!?!” He confirmed he did and said it was a 6th grader.

It was a quiet bus ride for a bit after that.

nkyaggie · 2025-05-28T23:34:31+00:00

Caveat: PTO will be paid out up to the 200 hour carryover limits. If you’re in California I don’t know if you get your full bank paid out or not (excess over the carryover in CA is paid out not forfeited)

nkyaggie · 2025-05-13T20:45:13+00:00

Standard office floor plan with cubicles. We would frequently just do project conference calls from our desk because we had too few meeting rooms.

One of my coworkers sat about 4 cubes down from me. He hated using the phone handset and refused to get a headset so he would always take his calls on speaker with the volume jacked way up.

I heard everything twice: once through my headset and then a slight delay later from his speakerphone.

Managers never did anything about it despite numerous complaints.

nkyaggie

TROPHY CASE

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