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Performance Improvement Plan, PC-speak for "being put on probation".
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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PIP - Performance Improvement Plan. You put people on a PIP, and if they don't improve, you fire them. This guy is on a PIP, which lends me to believe he is a mess and will probably get fired soon.
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Plausible.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Slacker007 wrote: PIP - Performance Improvement Plan. You put people on a PIP, and if they don't improve,as part of a bureaucratic process to generate the paper trail needed to fire someone you've already decided is a lost cause and needs to be fired, and then you fire them.
FTFY based on how they often work out in the real world.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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 very true. 
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2b1f wrote: Code review will be done by myself, please schedule 30 seconds per line on my calendar in outlook
Sounds like the last time this guy's done any coding was in high school.
You can tell him I said that.
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Find out where he keeps the drugs he's on, photograph them, and send him a mock-up of some UI with a photo of the drugs.
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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...are down St Marys Leagues Club on the piss.
Bacon, eggs and wedges and on the piss.
Horn and Crawford are a few fights away and then I get to do my Michael Buffer when they hit the ring.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Driver Plows Into Auto Parts Store, Needed Brake Fluid[^]
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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But I need some recommendations on BOOKS
I don't really read books, never have, except for The Ultimate Hitchhikers Guide, Harry Potter and LOTR.
However, I recently discovered Audible[^], an Amazon service for buying and listening audio books.
Since I still have a huge commute of over an hour, single trip, traffic not included, I decided to give it a go.
I prefer self development books like Think and Grow Rich, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, and How to Win Friends & Influence People (because that way I'll learn while commuting).
I also have Kenn Follett's The Pillars of the Earth on my wish list because I really liked the TV series 
So shoot
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Never heard of this book or this author.
I googled the guy, but he seems like a real d-bag with all his knowledge and experience and good looks.
But if you recommend it to me I'll give it a try though
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For almost 20 years i had a 45 minute commute (one way). Got a speeding ticket in the first 5 years and I turned to audio books ( on cassettes before audible) and I have now listened to over 200 books. I have listened to things I would've never otherwise read.
98% have been nonfiction.
Here's my #1 knock-down all-time favorite and it is a weird book but there is so much in it that I have listened to it 8 times.
Linchpin by Seth Godin (Audible)
It is about how business really works. It exposes so much and will make you think about it all differently.
I've listened to numerous books about how the brain works and they really help you understand how people think and how we are all different.
One that particularly stands out is about memory and how it works:
Moonwalking With Einstein Audible
It is a gripping narrative about the author's quest to win the Annual National Memory contest which includes things like memorizing 3 decks of cards in 3 minutes.
And one that will teach you amazing stuff about how your brain works is
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain Audible Audiobook
Some of the stuff you will learn about the way brains work will spook you. Amazing.
You cannot go wrong with any of those. And I have at least 20 more solid recommendations.
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Thanks, didn't know those yet.
Especially Linchpin sounds really interesting 
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raddevus wrote: And I have at least 20 more solid recommendations.
Would you mind to send me them per PM? 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I will try to pull the list together over the next few days and PM them to you.
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cool... thanks
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Anything by Charles Stross - particularly the Laundry Files series.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
modified 9-Jun-18 15:08pm.
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Audible has a lot by Charless Stross, but not The Laundry Files... 
I'll check it out, thanks
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That's odd - the Laundry Files series is in the UK version:
The Laundry Files Series Audiobooks | Audible.co.uk[^]
Try checking for the individual titles:
- The Atrocity Archives
- The Jennifer Morgue
- The Fuller Memorandum
- The Apocalypse Codex
- The Rhesus Chart
- The Annihilation Score
- The Nightmare Stacks
- The Delirium Brief
- The Labyrinth Index (coming in October)
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Ah, was searching for a book with the title "The Laundry Files"
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Maximilien wrote: I hate audio-books; I hate self development books.
Let me guess, you also hate Smurfs?
Maximilien wrote: Get a e-reader instead.
Well I hate reading... 
I'll check out your recommendations, thanks!
Dune is actually a series I've always wanted to check out, heard good things about it
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