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thekohser
post Tue 30th June 2009, 4:27pm
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I'm going to keep tabs on this and report back on...
  • Impact on Google search results
  • Traffic trends
  • External links to (currently zero)
  • Article development
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post Tue 30th June 2009, 5:41pm
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QUOTE(thekohser @ Tue 30th June 2009, 4:27pm) *

I'm going to keep tabs on this and report back on...
  • Impact on Google search results
  • Traffic trends
  • External links to
  • Article development
I am a scientific practitioner at heart.

Hey nice start. I will say I've worked for a few companies which engaged in this, but I didn't know there was a prettier term for it than underemployment.

As a disadvantage you missed the part about failing to earn a living wage, and in some cases not being allowed to take a second job on the basis that it might somehow create a conflict of interest (as every other company doing business within the same xx-mile radius, whether we've heard of them or not, is a competitor in vast field of "trying to making money somehow" are they not?).

Sometimes I think it's a conspiracy to keep their workforce barefoot and pregnant—in the looser sense where one is legally employed (thus not part of any embarrassing economic statistic), but not making enough money to buy a pair of house-slippers (nobody wants to spill food on their work-shoes) much less sustain an independent, single lifestyle. I don't think it's always sexism either... I'm sure some guys get stuck in situations like too, just depends on who the company chooses to hire that week. Most are equal-opportunity inflictors of economic co-dependence and unassistable hey-you-got-a-job-so-quit-yer-bitchin' poverty but I digress.

Note, Greg: I would have stuck with the traditional Alice and Bob—"Jimmy and Sue" do strike me as obvious innuendo. dry.gif
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post Tue 30th June 2009, 6:40pm
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QUOTE(CharlotteWebb @ Tue 30th June 2009, 1:41pm) *

Note, Greg: I would have stuck with the traditional Alice and Bob—"Jimmy and Sue" do strike me as obvious innuendo. dry.gif
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It seems to hold the belief that the "awesome article" was deleted four times, when the "awesome article" didn't exist until you penned it. It was complete tripe (or, as I said, vandalism) before.
Thank you for agreeing that my article is "awesome" in comparison to the "complete tripe" that preexisted it.

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Thank you for agreeing that my article is "awesome" in comparison to the "complete tripe" that preexisted it.

Thats just shooting ducks in a barrel. Anyone of Gregs experience and literacy ought to be able to do awesomely better than 50% of the rubbish on wikipeida easily enough. Actually thats too soft a target - 90%.
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thekohser   Job sharing   Tue 30th June 2009, 4:27pm
Apathetic   I'm going to [url=http://stats.grok.se/en/200...   Tue 30th June 2009, 5:06pm
thekohser   Just FYI your snide initial edit summary "Cr...   Tue 30th June 2009, 5:17pm
Apathetic   Just the edit summary. It seems to hold the belief...   Tue 30th June 2009, 5:29pm
anthony   Hey nice start. I will say I've worked for a ...   Tue 30th June 2009, 6:03pm
EricBarbour   Hey nice start. I will say I've worked for a ...   Wed 1st July 2009, 1:13am
Kato   Like it G. ;)   Tue 30th June 2009, 5:45pm
Jon Awbrey   Wow, Such Ado About Nada — methinks Apathetic ma...   Tue 30th June 2009, 5:46pm
Apathetic   Wow, Such Ado About Nada — methinks Apathetic m...   Tue 30th June 2009, 5:52pm
A Horse With No Name   Wow, Such Ado About Nada — methinks Apathetic m...   Tue 30th June 2009, 6:05pm
cyofee   Everyking got desysopped for suggesting he'd d...   Tue 30th June 2009, 5:58pm
Apathetic   Everyking got desysopped for suggesting he'd ...   Tue 30th June 2009, 6:15pm
thekohser   I'm awesome!   Tue 30th June 2009, 8:08pm
thekohser   Traffic on the article increased 16x once it was c...   Wed 1st July 2009, 12:53am
anthony   [url=http://stats.grok.se/en/200906/Job_sharing]T...   Wed 1st July 2009, 1:26am
thekohser   I thought now that about 2.5 years have gone by, w...   Wed 5th October 2011, 5:16pm
Peter Damian   I thought now that about 2.5 years have gone by, ...   Wed 5th October 2011, 5:36pm
thekohser   ...See what Larry said in 2001. I have to im...   Wed 5th October 2011, 8:25pm
Milton Roe   ...See what Larry said in 2001. I have to i...   Wed 5th October 2011, 8:33pm
Larry Sanger   ...See what Larry said in 2001. I have to i...   Thu 6th October 2011, 6:48pm
EricBarbour   Not really--it was true in 2001. Virtually all a...   Thu 6th October 2011, 9:23pm


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