![]() Your project has to be completely redone. Oh - I'm gonna have to write you up again too. Did you get the memo about the paycut? 10% across the board. We've got to cut back, it's the bottom line, you see. And your insurance copays? Yeah, they're going up. There's gonna be one flavor of ice cream, one brand of coffee, one car. There's twenty people waiting for your job. One third of Americans work for less than $8.50 an hour. You'll have to play catch up on the weekend, with no overtime pay of course. What's that you say? The quota's impossible to meet? Duh. I sit in my office my corner office, and I do some simple math. I look at other companies similar to ours. ( burps) I crunch some numbers, and if the figures show it's only humanly possible for one person to complete, say, 10 projects a week. and that becomes your new quota, 20 projects per week. While in the original he was simply a Jerkass, the new speech goes on an Overly-Long Gag: There is also his speech in Whack Your Boss 2: Fantasy Edition.We'll give you some malarkey about setting the bar high, meeting goals, etc., but that's not the real reason. Didn't you get the memo? Here's a fun fact: memos are not created to inform the recipient. So, how long have you been sitting there? Over ten years, and in that time, nothing has changed except you've gotten weaker, and I've gotten stronger. It's been heaven corporate mergers, less government restrictions. They can't even protect their own intellectual property. Which means I create nothing new, and I'm proud of it. I simply sit back, and wait for someone else to create something, then, I steal it. What's that? I'm a parasite? Of course I am. Parasites are survivors, and they will outlive most species in the impending mass extinction. I want you in a depressed hell where you won't ask for anything. Even this cubicle was designed to break you down by separating you from your fellows. At the same time, it deprives you the privacy of a real office. ![]() Thus, your cubicle takes away your community and privacy, zero dignity. You feel trapped? Alone? Powerless? Have your doctor write you another prescription. You want to know how I tolerate this place? Here's a little secret: I don't like working here, I love it. I mask my low self-esteem with corporate buzzwords like "vibrant", "robust", "core competency", "optics", "sustainability". Sustainable energy projects will cost the company way too much money. Oh, polar bears are dying? Grizzly bears will handle it. ![]() As we speak, grizzlies are moving north and mating with the polar bears. A whole new species! Bees are dying? Switch to agave. Debate that around your little water cooler. What you heard is true, water is the new oil. “Anywhere in the city? Anywhere in the city: I’ll tell you the best public toilet.” Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible. ![]() These are the words of George Costanza to Jerry Seinfeld in 1991. So, this time in the second tutorial of our WRLD series we’re going to build a… let’s call it a “facility finder app”.Ī sneak peek of what we’re going to build together In that episode of Seinfeld the visionary George invented an app before his time – the bathroom finder! If you’re a frequent traveller, a parent, or just someone who knows the importance of a clean and well-maintained space for some “serenity”, you’ll understand the utility of this idea. It’s not the first time someone has tried this mind you. In 2010, bathroomreview.ca did just that (as described in Forbes). We covered quite a bit of ground in the last tutorial, this time round, we’re going to reuse some of that learning. We’ll also highlight buildings and set the appropriate weather conditions and time of day, depending on what they are for the user.įor instance, we’ll use ParcelJS to build our static files, but we won’t go into too much detail about how to set it up again. Requesting public facilities data, from, if there are no cached locations within 10 meters of the user.Creating a simple AdonisJS server-side API (to cache location data and handle CORS requests).In this tutorial, we’re going to cover these topics: If you’re unsure about how these work, refer back to the previous tutorial. Highlighting buildings with public facilities, colored to match their rating.We’ll use the Google Distance Matrix API to calculate the distance between points of interest. ![]()
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