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dirtbikerxz

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    dirtbikerxz reacted to bee217 in LMG Sponsor Complaints   
    Hello! First time poster. I'm here on behalf of my community to talk about RackSolutions, such as when they were featured in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyZSqfmN_0I 
     
    Recent allegations have come out from former employees involving sexual harassment, toxic workplace environment, and general Activision-Blizzardry.
     
    RackSolutions is one of three subsidiaries of Innovation First International (IFI), and they also have ventures in educational (Vex Robotics) and toy (Hexbug) robotics. IFI shares and intermixes a lot of employees between all three of their subsidiaries and their core leadership is largely the same pool of people. Point is, no matter the division, you would likely at some point be coerced into one of the CEO Tony Norman’s house parties.
     
    Recently, on the educational competition robotics side of things, a post on a major community forum was made concerning poor quality control on Vex products and questionable customer service practices. However, people soon also discovered IFI’s less-than-stellar Glassdoor page which detailed a very colorful image of how it is to work at IFI and RackSolutions/Vex/Hexbug. The common themes of the complaints are consistent across all three divisions of the company — the suckage permeates everywhere in Greeneville, Texas.
     
    It's a heavy story with some disturbing themes, so I'm going to leave the bulk of it behind this spoiler (cw: sexual harassment, general harassment, general Bad Time)
    The collective community reaction so far has been intense. Many highschool robotics teams following that thread have sworn off buying IFI/Vex products. Including, notably, 6 of the 9 #TeamIFI teams that the company directly sponsors to promote their brand in FIRST Robotics. [one] [two] [three] [four] [five] [six] with the rest possibly following. All of these teams compete a high level and are generally widely respected in the community. Additionally, many of these teams have smaller classroom-level programs highly reliant on Vex parts and educational material, so switching off IFI products constitutes a non-insignificant financial and labor hurdle.
     
    When this story also spread to /r/battlebots, many commentators additionally expressed their wishes to boycott the products IFI sells to them under their Hexbug brand as well (toys, combat robot parts, etc.) One poster even mentioned they were reconsidering applying to IFI for an engineering internship after what they had read. 
     
    In conclusion, we, the competition robotics community that helped birth IFI and RackSolutions, have pretty deep concerns, and hope that LMG finds this information useful.
     
    edit: I am told that LTT is featured prominently on the RackSolutions homepage: https://www.racksolutions.com/
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    dirtbikerxz got a reaction from Crunchy Dragon in Is my build compatible?   
    just stick it all in pcpartpicker.com and it will tell you if its compatible or not
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    dirtbikerxz reacted to colonel_mortis in Tapatalk?   
    Tapatalk has been causing some serious issues with the site, so is currently disabled. If they are able to resolve the issues, we will probably enable it again, but until then you're just going to have to use the (fully featured) new mobile site.
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    dirtbikerxz reacted to 79wjd in printf usage   
    A while loop would be the simplest, albeit least elegant form.
     
    Something like this, although, I would try and come up with something less cumbersome.
     
     
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