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I know people who live in a newly built high rise condo in a very crowded, popular city to live in west side of US. It was built during the recent building boom.

Recently they found out that about a few dozen units in the building have filed claim against the HOA/owner due mold under carpet, that starts around laundry machine.

The outbound water pipe connecting between washer and the main outbound pipe of the building is apparently too small. When the washer is in use, it builds up too much pressures and starts a slow leak behind the washer. This is in a hard to view area and goes undetected, starting mold problem.

I was told that the builder wanted to fit in more condo units but stay below allowed outbound sewage pipe size (?), so the hack they came up with is using narrower pipe between the washer and the main outbound pipe in the condo building.

Yes, builders don't have to build/pay for roads and other infra, but indirect cost is always paid by someone else. Even the residents of the development.

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-drop-one-day-rule-...

And many use (or abuse) disability program and earn half a million or a million easy.

Another very 'progressive' city.

Around where I am, I see plenty of western corporations doing above, even with plenty of natural commodity to extract from.

And no, you simply cannot compare Park Chung Hee with Kim of North Korea to be equally dictatorial/brutal/etc. You simply lose all credibility when you make that assertion, while discussing Korean affairs.

Education was the single most important factor for S. Korea. And successful introduction of market based economy too, how ever troublesome it was. But without educated, competent workforce, nothing will work.

Also, you stated that S. Korea's wealth improved due to enslaving half of the population, and chaebols being given control over affairs in S. Korea.

What about N. Korea? N. Korea enslaved the entire population, with complete control that the chaebols of S. Korea can only dream about. And look where N. Korea is now. Practically a beggar state.

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Something like a " Wall Street wolf "

2014 Alpha 12x GTR

2015 Range Rover sport

2016 Lamborghini Huracan

2018 Ferrari 488 spider

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Looks like he's made a few millions and fancying himself as a Wall Street player.

It wasn't because of natural resources or oil.

It wasn't any modern industry that just had to recover after the war such as Germany or Japan did. South Korea had NO modern industry of any kind, higher education institution, a modern workforce, effective government agencies, etc. S. Korea was literally a hell hole of a nation in 1953.

After the WTF period Koreans went through from 1910 to 1953 (after having had a 500 years long kingdom, the Chosun dynasty), South Korea just had to do what was necessary to survive.

And only way they saw how was producing a workforce to be productive. And no, Montessori method was not a viable option.

You don't have to be a highly educated non-Korean to see the education system is not quite right or wrong. Many highly educated and even not so highly educated people IN S. Korea know the question is valid to ask. Some want a change. Many who immigrated out of S. Korea to US and other nations list 2 reasons for leaving the nation, 1) conscription army and 2) the college entrance exam, the Suneung. But it was a system created at a time when there was no time to debate, but to act quickly to produce a workforce, just to survive as a nation. And it has delivered so far.

Yes the suicides are tragic. But consider this. Far more S. Koreans have died (including newborn, young, old) from lack of basic medical care in South Korea when only select few had access to modern medical care up until 1970's, 80's. The nation and citizens couldn't pay for it, for lack of wealth, from due to lack of skills needed by a modern workforce. But now that they can afford it, a nation wide medical care system is in place. Without educating the workforce (and yes the Suneung), they wouldn't have that luxury.

Easy for you to say they should be ashamed of that. I quite disagree.

I believe FAA of US specifically alerted German government's air travel agency (?) about the need to have another crew member (like flight attendant) to be in the cockpit if one of the two had to leave cockpit to use restroom etc, exactly to avoid this kind of scenario.

But the Germany govt agency apparently thought it was unlikely to happen and ignored the recommendation.

I could be wrong, but pretty sure about reading that bit while reading about the incident...

Sometimes, you don't even need a manager-change for your job to be in danger. I know a guy who had a manager who was pretty cool and a good mentor to him. And then one day, something happened to the manager and he stopped mentoring him. No, he stopped interacting with him. Frequent lunching together came to a screeching halt. Eventually he was left out loops, projects and eventually out of job.

He still doesn't know if the cause was one of these:

1. manager broke up with girlfriend (which did happen) and started not caring

2. my friend said something about politics that offended him?

3. the manager saw 1 mistake by my friend, and just decided he didn't want to waste his time on him.

But the moment you walk out that door, start resuming, calling old contacts, and do anything to get a new job.

PIP is literally just a formality HR goes through to let you go eventually, and is just an axx covering move by the HR/company. When you are called into PIP, just consider yourself as let go.

edit: And I would NOT feel any gratitude for the company that they are somehow paying your salary even though you are pretty much an ex-employee. They are simply doing PIP only to cover their bottom.

edit 2: I don't know when this trend started, but HR transformed

BEFORE

It kept list of employees, made sure pay checks were handed out, had new hires fill out forms, handle lay off.

NOW

It sends emails about good sounding fun activities, request for filling out surveys, etc.

What really bugs me is, all the surveys (we want to hear from you so we can do better for you as a company), activities is just a smoke screen to not pay employees more.

Do you know how to make an employee feel happier? Pay more money. You know, the same thing CEO/major-shareholders/owners also like to get more of.

I've never been a ceo or a vp or team lead (probably never will be), but to me, it seems if an organization has no one inside being groomed to be the next team lead, manager, vp, I feel the ceo has failed at his job.

It is possible because customers pay for it. It sure as heck is not coming out of the profit for the shareholders...

https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/pictures/hyundais-ioniq-scoote...

And BIRD was founded in Apr 2017.

Some staff PM/engr/marketer folks at Hyundai Motor had the right idea. Too bad they were not in a position to start a startup.

edit: I'm not saying BIRD or any other copied Hyundai. Coming up with the idea and executing it is a big accomplishment. Electric motor scooters have been around a long time too.

He can literally get great onsite political influence with DC based HQ2.

Imagine having a large group of employees under you whose close friend or family member works in sensitive or influential federal jobs.

I also love the spot in assessments about the inflated pay, degree mills, etc.

I wonder if anyone can come up with a long lasting score card of recruiters. How do the new hires do after 2 years?

Or maybe even the managers should be graded in how the new hires are hired.

But this case is more than that. So, this particular neighbor is not riding a motorcycle through the neighborhood. Other riders do and I'm ok with that. But this particular neighbor revs the motorcycle engines "while standing still to test them". A few minutes at a time, about 3 - 5 times a week.

Now imagine zoning law was gone. It might mean a user car mechanic moving in to operate a repair business, while leaving numerous unused cars on the street. It could mean someone opening a hair salon a door down from me. Or maybe another person opening a martial arts studio above me.

Zoning laws used as a tool by NIMBYers is not good. But the laws have a valid place in our society.

They were really not. They were able to find another place near paying similar rent.

The point is the house owners were basically getting around a local laws meant to protect renters against unreasonable rent increases.

Where I live, there is a law against raising monthly rent substantially on an existing renter. Owner can raise the rent for existing tenant say about 3 - 5%, once a year. I'm not sure about the exact percentage, but it is allowed only once a year for sure, to a specific percentage of the existing rent.

So the house owner gets around this law by periodically forcing out the renter with bogus reasons, so that they can rent out the property to the next renter at a substantially higher rate.

Instead of being able to increase rent from $2500 to $2700 after the renters lived there for first 2 years, property owner can raise the rent from $2500 to $3000 or even $3500. The property owner is basically getting around the local law to protect renters.

Every single one of them had to move out before their kids grew up old enough to go to college. In fact they didn't last more than a few years at each house because every landlord would come around and ask the renters to move out.

The excuses given were: - I'm selling the house (turned out it wasn't sold years) - I'm remodeling the house (nope, not true)

Pretty much in all cases, the owner of the house was forcing the renter out so that they could raise up the rent much higher with the next, new renters.

Here me out.

I work from home. Yay.

I live in a residential area in US, near an elementary school across the street, with an apartment building in the way. I can hear kids out running around and playing in the yard. They get pretty noisy, but I'm fine with it.

Right next to the elementary school is an apartment complex where a guy seems to be running a motorcycle repair business based out of his apartment's garage. The garage faces the street, facing my home.

He tests the loud motorcycle engines about 1 - 2 times running a few minutes each time, about 3 - 5 times a week. One of these days, I'm going to super glue his garage shut so that he can't get the motorcycles in and out of the garage.

Ok, well, just kidding. I will just have to deal with it. But still, it is dang annoying to hear the motorcycle engines revving up as described above. I can't imagine how I can deal with a motorcycle/car repair shop across from my home.

Zoning laws are often used as a tool by people who practice NIMBYism, but the laws were introduced for a reason, and I support zoning laws because it would mean keeping certain types of businesses bit placed away from homes.

Basically, a man with a hard hat, hi-vis vest, and a clipboard knocked on the door of a house. He claimed he needed to check some gas line in the back yard. While the resident was in back yard distracted by him, another person snuck in and stole jewelry. They hit few houses but were eventually caught by local police.

"The study of 261 senior professionals in the United States found that 21 per cent had clinically significant levels of psychopathic traits. The rate of psychopathy in the general population is about one in a hundred."

And I personally think if you examine ceos of highly successful companies, the ratio will be higher than 1 in 5.

Sure it's ONE study. But it actually makes sense. You don't get to the top in modern corporate world (especially hyper competitive one like the tech) without being slightly crazy.

Anyhow, when we moved in 5 years ago, 3 were occupied by families. One was occupied by a childless couple. Others were occupied by non-families, aka roommates who were splitting the rent.

Many of the roommate based households come and go more frequently, as a roommate moves out due to new job/school.

Families on the other hand don't move as often due to schooling for kids.

Now when the other 2 families and the couple with no children moved out, all were taken over by roommates based household. This was expected as the rent in the area for 3 bed apartment went from around low $2000 (what we paid when we moved) 5+ years ago to mid $3000 now. You can't expect a family with 2 wage earners plus 2 or 3 kids to pay rent of $3000 or above. But with roommates, $1000 per roommate a month seems reasonable, especially if you will be moving out in 2 - 3 years. With Airbnb, it actually makes financial sense for 2 roommate (or even a single guy) to rent a 3 bed apartment and rent extra rooms via Airbnb.

When the new 'roommate' based house holds moved in, I started noticing people with wheeled luggage show up. Guess what? Two roommate household rents a 3 bed apartment, and then they rent out the 3rd bed on Airbnb or something like it. Single guys would have no issue renting out a room via Airbnb. A family with kids renting out a room in a 3bed apartment via Airbnb? Forget about it.

And by renting out the 3rd bed for just $100/night for 10 days, they already break even. If they rent out the 3rd bedroom at $100 a night for 30 days, it's $3000/month. You are actually making money, not losing money. And since this is in California with less than 30 min drive to the beach, the demand is there. It's a great 'business move'.

And the property owner doesn't care as he can rent out a place for $3000+ a month, instead of $2500 a month.

And the end result is, less rental available for families who can afford it.

Interestingly enough, this past year, an elementary school in the neighborhood closed down a kindergarten class because there are less young families with little kids moving it. Not sure it's a chance event, but I'm sure there isn't an endless supply of young couple who can pay $3000/month rent or take on a mortgage of a million or two.

Airbnb definitely does damage to the diversity of big cities, as in makeup of family versus roommate based households.

And if that had happened, US (and rest of world) would've been really screwed. Manhattan Project used 1/7 of all electricity generated in US at the time. No way such gigantic project could've been conceived and completed in peace time in US. And definitely not fast enough if USSR had developed it first.

But in modern day with big jets, fast transports, such stance of not having army big enough seems not wise.