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Galaxy Nexus Watering Hole

svt_gEEk said:
Morning all!

Management here is twiddling their thumbs and not doing anything about getting me promoted. It's been over 2 months since I became elligible and completed all the tasks necessary. Have had 2 meeting requests to talk about what else needs to be done and if I need to do anything else and both were cancelled at the last minute. So I took some action and filled out an application at another place of employment that I had been debating on for about a month. They pursued me and wanted me to apply but I was hesitant. So we'll see what comes of that.
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Bummer on management dragging their feet but good luck with the other opportunity. There's nothing wrong with options.;)
 
Unforgiven said:
Bummer on management dragging their feet but good luck with the other opportunity. There's nothing wrong with options.;)
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Thanks! Really don't intend on leaving, but it'll be interesting to see if they could match or beat what I am making now. Hours would be longer but the work would be more in line with what I want to do. No clue if they pay for the overtime there or not. Some places do pay their engineers OT but some don't. I guess we'll see if I get an interview request.
 
Good luck SVT...always a difficult position to be in.
I am currently looking and applying, does not seem to be anyone hiring around here, and I have a supervisor who reviews us low so that he can keep us where are are....instead of encouraging advancement....
 
ryancmatchett said:
Good luck SVT...always a difficult position to be in.
I am currently looking and applying, does not seem to be anyone hiring around here, and I have a supervisor who reviews us low so that he can keep us where are are....instead of encouraging advancement....
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I know the feeling man, except the supervisors here are TOLD to review us low so they don't have to give us as big of a bonus or pay increase. Last year they told managers that no one could be given a single exceeds expectations on anything in their service review :P
 
svt_gEEk said:
I know the feeling man, except the supervisors here are TOLD to review us low so they don't have to give us as big of a bonus or pay increase. Last year they told managers that no one could be given a single exceeds expectations on anything in their service review :P
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Yeah, similar here, we have a 5 bracket rating system, and through my supervisor telling us stuff we weren't supposed to know, we discovered that engineers are prohibited from recieving a score that puts them in the top bracket (biggest raises). That bracket is limited to the manufacturing and administrative side of the business only.
 
How many of you actually use a security feature to unlock your phone/tablet?
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I use a pattern lock.

A few months ago I saw a news show where they left some smart phones lying around in public. It was amazing how many people snooped on the phones. Even many of the honest people checked out the obvious confidential stuff before returning the phone.
 
halon said:
I don't.
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Unforgiven said:
Is swiping to the right considered a security feature?:hmmmm2:
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Haha! Nah. I've always been anti PIN or Pattern unlock. Just wanted to swipe to the right and be ready to go. With the addition of the ability to add your other credit/debit cards to Google Wallet (I didn't have a Citi Mastercard), I added my debit card and thought, maybe I should PIN lock the phone too for extra security.

Necessary? Thoughts?
 
svt_gEEk said:
Haha! Nah. I've always been anti PIN or Pattern unlock. Just wanted to swipe to the right and be ready to go. With the addition of the ability to add your other credit/debit cards to Google Wallet (I didn't have a Citi Mastercard), I added my debit card and thought, maybe I should PIN lock the phone too for extra security.

Necessary? Thoughts?
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If my daily patterns were different I may have a different outlook, but I am either at work or at home 99% of the time and my phone is rarely more than three feet away from me. Yeah, I may do a pin lock if I add my debit card to wallet though.
 
My phone never leaves my person long enough for anyone to look at anything on it.

Not sure if that's a good or bad thing.. maybe both? :o
 
I'm like some of you, my phone never leaves my side. I anticipate getting tired of having to enter a PIN to unlock, but it gives me a little peace of mind knowing my debit card is behind two layers of security.
 
Nothing for me either. I am on and off it so much, and it never leaves my side either. I want to waste as little time as possible getting into my phone to waste some time :D
 
svt_gEEk said:
How many of you actually use a security feature to unlock your phone/tablet?
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I tried face unlock for gits and shiggles, and I used to use pattern lock.

But now I've gone back to the regular launcher, I love having access to my camera and Google Now from the lock screen.
 
imnotmikal said:
I tried face unlock for gits and shiggles, and I used to use pattern lock.

But now I've gone back to the regular launcher, I love having access to my camera and Google Now from the lock screen.
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Yeah, I will probably remove the PIN for those reasons alone. Really nice being able to access that stuff quickly.
 
Stigy said:
Look what just leaked - the rebranding makes A TON of sense now.

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Its about time! Now I hope to see these in the local stores soon. Will make getting all the other android users up to speed in the house :)
 
So I need to express my pure joy for a development today. For whatever reason, I have held on to 4G at my desk all day. Of course, as I am typing this I lose data completely, guess I jinxed myself.
 
AntimonyER said:
So I need to express my pure joy for a development today. For whatever reason, I have held on to 4G at my desk all day. Of course, as I am typing this I lose data completely, guess I jinxed myself.
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Go figure.

Hopefully the move to a new desk location improves my lack of service. Sometimes I can check my "time without service" and its about 20-25% and it kills my battery.
 
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