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Do Ya’ll think my mother was right for cutting me out of her life?

I was put in foster home when i was 11yrs old and adopted when i was 14. After high school i went into the military and got out a little over 3yrs later and my adoptive parents disowned. I couldn’t find a job and was homeless and went to a homeless shelter for disabled veterans and that is where my birth mother found me over the internet and and i went to live with her. I got a job and a calling center where she worked and we agreed to split the bills in half. She ended up quitting her job and never got another one with left me paying for all the bills and we barely and enough food to eat. towards the end of the lease i ended up getting my military disability at 80% and a check of $27,103 for back pay and i paid up the rent to the end of the lease and told her i was moving out. I bought a car, new furniture and found a place to live. She moved out of the city(she didn’t have a car). Six months later she calls me up and asked if she could stay with me a couple of months until she found a job, and i agreed. Six weeks after she moved in with me she finally got a job. We fought alot because she ran up my electric bill. before she moved in my bill was $49, and i know that it goes up some when there is two people living there, but she tripled my bill and i just had a one bedroom apartment! I finally kicked her out of my place 6 months after she moved in because i was fighting with my brother(who doesn’t live with me) because he came into my place while i was sleeping and woke me up by being really loud, and my mom ended up hitting my across my forhead with my broom and split it open to the point where i needed stitches. Then she and my brother get a place and she constantly calls me up to drive her everywhere. Then while she is filing charges with the police department and internal affairs for a cop beating her up because she was locked out of her apartment, i took pictures of her bruises. she asked my a couple of times to bring her the film when i come pick her up for her errands a few days or the day before, and i ammit that a forgot to bring it. she also has been over at my place a couple of times during that time as well. then finally the day before she needed the film she called me up and wanted me to go get them developed for her, and i told her that i will take her to get them developed but i won’t take care of her responsiblilities because she doesn’t feel like it. And we ended getting into a big fight over that and then i’m like fine whatever i am going to need the money to develope the pictures and $10 for gas and my time(and the fact that she already owed me gas money from the last time i took her to run her errands) and i didn’t even mention the fact that she owes me over $1,000 from the last 2 times we lived with each other. and she just told my to drop the film off and she never wanted to speak to me or see me again. In the 2 and a half years that in have been back in her life she has done nothing for herself. she refuses to live by herself, and she wants everybody else to take care of her. I mean she doesn’t even think that hacking into my computer or living off me is wrong.
i am not co-dependant i let her live with to help her out. i can afford to live on my own and i do they are the ones who can’t afford to live on their own.

Cutting Costs in Call Center: How Smart Is That?

Reading about cost cutting measures all over the internet and business magazines may mislead you. Not every industry would allow provisions for cutting down by chopping manpower. A case in point is the call center industry. Handing out pink slips to BPO agents won’t help you cut down on costs. In fact, it can increase your expenditures, not to mention a thousand other complications cropping up before you finish calculation how much money you had intended to save! For an answering service industry, you have to think differently about your manpower. I am not saying that streamlining the workforce is a bad idea. You can make your team snap with agility. Here’s what can go wrong if you cut down on your business process outsourcing staff indiscriminately.

The sniping of call center employees affects the customer care services directly. Less BPO agents on the inbound call center team would mean that there are less people to take calls. The residual agents would have a tough time dealing with the call volume. Customers would be made to wait on calls for ages! Customers would be rushed through calls because the line would be beeping with a dozen calls in waiting. The call center services agents would find it difficult to get thorough with the calls. They will look for easier ways to deal with the callers so that they can meet their daily targets. Customers will definitely not like it when they are being pushed to end the call. This will reflect poorly on the sales chart as well. As for the customers, they will probably give in to telemarketing pulls from your rivals.

From the perspective of the call center agent, this will be a nightmare! With less people to handle calls, they will be in great deal of hurry. The breathing time between calls would come down to a pathetic few seconds. The BPO agents will feel the stress and that would affect their performance. Nothing makes it more difficult for telemarketing agents than dealing with calls when they are least disposed towards it. A large call volume is a pain anyway. With lesser manpower to deal with it, the situation could get from bad to worse. Burnout will be a certainty. Such a great deal of pressure will put off the inbound call center agents in a way that leads to higher attrition. A trained call center services agent quitting midway through the project is real bad news!

Let’s come to the perspective of the call center management/employers now. Yes, you will save on the salaries that you pay to BPO agents that you want to chop off. But consider this: wouldn’t your telecom prices shoot up when the inbound call center agents spend more time on each call? Suppose you are paying for the incoming calls by making the numbers toll free. Then you have more expenditure on your ledger. Other than the costs that you couldn’t control, your telemarketing services dip badly in quality because of a long hold time and plenty of abandoned calls. So all for cost cutting, what say?

The cutting edge of Cypress Creek EMS response

The cutting edge of Cypress Creek EMS response
April 2009, Cypress Creek EMS opened the doors to their new Communication Center. With a year behind them, CCEMS officials have said the results have been promising.

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MHI to Produce Gear Cutting Machines in China, Applying New “Shared Factory” Scheme

MHI to Produce Gear Cutting Machines in China, Applying New “Shared Factory” Scheme
Tokyo, Aug 2, 2010 – (JCN Newswire) – Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) is planning to launch production of gear cutting machines in China at a facility that will simultaneously serve as a production base for other company business. MHI has determined to build a new plant on the premises of Changshu Ryoju Machinery Co., Ltd.

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Diamond Cutting Centers Around The World

The cutting process is obviously one of the most important steps in the journey of a diamond from a rough diamond to a polished and glittering one. Just as there are specific locations where diamond mines have been located, there are various centers across the world known for their diamond cutting expert resources. The factors that determine the manner in which these centers operate are varied and include customs, regulations, labor costs, prices and the proximity to diamond mines.

In fact most of these centers are created due to some specific environmental, governmental or economic situation. Each cutting center is known for its specialty and while one center may be popular for its expertise in churning out well chiseled small diamonds, the other might be known to be able to produce unique and irregular cuts.

Antwerp is probably the world’s oldest cutting center and it was a key center for the European gem trade in the middle ages. It is very well known for its cutting of large diamond rough and a very important center in this industry today. About 80 percent of the world’s diamonds pass through this center and some of the most important and prestigious De Beer sightholders are based in Antwerp.

Russia started its diamond cutting industry in a small manner. Small workshops were set up where the cutting work was completed. However, the discovery of the rich diamond deposits in Siberia turned the course of diamond cutting industry in Russia in 1955. The Russian cut diamonds soon began to be known for their precision and finesse. In 1990′s De Beers made one of the Russian firms, it sightholder and today Russia cuts diamonds from its own mines and also those from De Beers.

Another center that emerged post the World War II was Tel Aviv. This was because most of the skilled diamond cutter Jews fled Holland and Belgium to settle in what we today know as Israel. While the country produced small cut diamonds initially, they soon became the top producers of large diamonds and fancy, unique cuts. Tel Aviv is probably the most technologically advanced diamond cutting center as of now and exports around $4 billion worth of polished fancy cut diamonds. Most of these diamonds coming out of Israel are actually absorbed by the US market.

The diamond cutting industry in India prospered more when the Argyle diamond mines were found in Western Australia. These mines produced large amounts of small sized roughs that were suited to be cut as small diamonds. An expensive diamond cutting center would not at all be feasible for such work since the high labour cost would ultimately get passed on to the cost of making small diamonds and thus making them unaffordable and heavily priced. Therefore, India was a natural choice due to its cheap labor and large workforce. The main place where diamond cutting takes place in India are Maharashtra and Gujrat.These two places are the international trading center of India. Even though most of the diamonds that are cut in this center are below 3 pts, about 90% of the diamonds pass through this center by weight and 35% by wholesale value making it India’s largest export in 2000. More than 50 lakhs people are employed directly or indirectly in this industry in India.

New York is known for its special cuts, especially for large diamonds. The beauty of the diamond cuts and the size almost equals that of Tel Aviv and Antwerp. Since the labor costs are high in New York, the cutting center confines its operations to large high quality extraordinary diamonds, some of which adorn the fingers, wrists, necks and ears of the wealthiest diamond lovers in the world.

Thailand is known for cutting fashion colored stones. China has received a large amount of government backing in this area and today it specializes in small well-cut rounds.

Canada with its new discoverd mines, is the most recent entrant in to this area. This has happened due to the discovery of Ekati diamond mines that are under development in the northern tundra. The government would like the locals to benefit from this find and therefore a certain amount of stock of roughs is being sold to the local diamond cutters.

The diamond industry is a dynamic one and the emergence of these diamond cutting centers is also a proof of the same. As diamond mines were discovered and developed and made professional, specific diamond cutting centers were identified based on their proximity, labor cost, specific expertise and skill. These are the very centers that have been mentioned above – some that became large renowned cutting centers after years of hard work and others that have windmills that would turn them into profitable centers in a matter of days.

Cost cutting – from desktop to toilet

Cost cutting – from desktop to toilet
What is this word you call ‘refresh’? Recently, we shared some preliminary results from our annual x86 enterprise user survey. The topic of that article was the economy, and what it’s done to our survey respondents’ 2010 IT budgets. You can see that article here and take the survey yourself here .…

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