My wife and I used various warmers and threw them all out for microwaving water. 8oz is 30 seconds. 6oz is 22 seconds. It's easy, fast and reliable every time.
I worked for a private company contracted to provide a portion of a public service and later got employed by the the government agency.
- The contractor had no budget. Our servers were out of date and we were running out of date OSes and software. We were all paid below standard and overworked.
- We had a tiny budget at the agency to buy things at the very end of the year. We ran up to date software and OSes, except for a few large complicated systems that were setup with grant money. We were all paid well below standard. I was no longer on call at all times of the day and night.
But if the lowest bidder has some kind of penalty to pay if average queueing time goes over 15 minutes or random members of the public rate the service provided below 3/5 stars, then they'll do a much better job.
We were contracted because the agency lost lawsuits and had to payout and change policies. The contractor was never successfully sued, but I had to compile lawsuit discovery documents 6 times in 2 years.
Yeah. The HIPAA data needs to be encrypted and you have to report everyone who has access and you need patient permission to share. HIPAA is bad, but ITAR violations put you in jail!
I saw the most extreme example of low competence bullying. A manager with less than 1 year of experience fired a contractor project manager who was a previous energy company CEO, turn-around CEO, and company board member/advisor. The guy was fixing some of the tangled bureaucratic work flows (which made everyone's lives better) when he got the axe.
You introduced 'low level', and GP said 'contractor', maybe the fees were enormous ('I turned around XYZ Corp as CEO, and I can come in temporarily and do it for you too').
(Also note that what organisations term a 'project' can vary a hell of a lot.)
iPhone SE, iPad, and the MacBook Air all disagree with you. I feel like this is the cheapest Apple products have ever been. My grandma had a colorful $2000 Apple laptop in early 2000s and you can get a MacBook Air now for $1000. That's a heck of a price decline without figuring inflation.
I was pretty surprised at how shit ChromeOS' accessibility features are, when my elderly dad got one, considering their market is basically young kids and old people.
