Sentences with phrase «of time clock»

When I started work as a trainee engineer in the mid-1960's two - pipe pumped central heating systems were just starting to be installed and controls usually consisted of a time clock and a room thermostat, possibly even a programmer.

Most of the time the clock strikes midnight... No one expected Team Radist to get this far, besides them (or including them)..

I have lost count of the number of times the clock has crept close to midnight and I've cursed my poor time - management skills and overloaded to - do list.

Not exact matches

In the late 1950s, it launched a campaign offering hand - carved Black Forest clocks from Germany for $ 1.50 to customers who mailed in in a lid or label from a can of Jolly Time Pop Corn.

Thousands of customers claimed the clock and the promotion helped differentiate Jolly Time from other popcorn brands, which were mostly relying on more traditional advertising.

«We suspect that «misalignment» between the timing of our internal clock and the timing of our behaviors could be detrimental over the long run,» claim the scientists.

By exposing oneself to the right lightwaves at the right time of day, the idea is that you can reset your internal clock.

Raison says that while meditating, «Some people find it useful to have a little clock that they can put in front of them where they can just glance at it so they know [how much time] has passed.»

These sorts of clocks keep time by counting the number of oscillations in the alternating current they receive, which also powers them; in other words, the number of times the flow of electricity changes directions every second.

A little background on the traveler's worst enemy: «Jet lag occurs when we experience a desynchronization between our internal body clock and the external time clock of our destination,» explained Natalie Dautovich, Ph.D., an Environmental Fellow at the National Sleep Foundation.

This beauty features a constant flow of air at a lower altitude, lighting to match the appropriate time for your body clock, larger windows with button controlled shades, more space and comfort, and design that provides a quieter flight.

Instead of delivering 50 Hz - which is what mains - powered European clocks expect to get if they're to keep accurate time - the European grid has averaged 49.996 Hz, which is enough of a disruption, over a couple of months, to make all these clocks lose almost 6 minutes.

Employees can tap their smart watches to clock in and out of jobs, removing the need to manually log data into time sheets.

In essence, you can trick your body into changing the timing of your internal clock.

I watched the clock much of the time, desperately wishing to see 8:00 appear.

For you, it could be the ringing of the alarm clock and having your gym clothes already laid out in front of you signaling that it's time to exercise.

If you think of the switch to daylight saving time at all, you probably just consider it an annoyance that causes you to lose some sleep or be late for lunch because you forgot to reset the clock in your living room.

A lot of electric clocks, such as those on many radios and ovens, still keep time by synchronizing themselves to the frequency of the mains electricity supply, rather than an inbuilt quartz crystal (which is more expensive) or by connected to a «time server» on the Internet (more expensive still).

But the economically disenfranchised blue - collar voters who put him in office don't care about the tech industry; they want to roll back the clock to a time before the internet, before automation in factories, before the flow of global goods, services, and capital made Silicon Valley wildly rich.

There are two clocks in the company's meeting room and «we have a gentleman in our office named Steve Foster, and Steve is extremely anal about being at a meeting on time, getting to the point, covering topics and getting out of the meeting on time because everybody has secondary appointments.

At its tallest point, the cabin reached five feet, so Pearce, who clocks in at just under six feet tall, spent much of his time crouched down.

Most of the overworked employees are white - collar workers, and hours spent at their jobs are often not monitored by time clocks.

He said the North would move its clocks forward 30 minutes to be in sync with the South, nine hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time.

This weekend the clock changed and shifted 3600 of those seconds an hour earlier with the change in Daylight Saving Time.

Seminars on work - life balance that use terms like «biological clock» and «mompreneur» are tired clichés at women's conferences, but increasingly it's not just working women who are feeling the pressures of having plenty of ambition and money, but no time.

Maybe you've done well organizing your own calendar but the minutiae of emailing someone to coordinate schedules and having to keep an eye on the clock during a strategic meeting so you can leave in time for a conference call has become distracting.

The takeaway here is that clock time, which is the basis of all measurable productivity, is very opposite to rhythmic time, which is seen as an ebb and flow and essential to the creative process.

Examples of work - life program components include things like flexible work arrangements (such as flexible hours or a compressed workweek), allowing part - time schedules, offering telecommuting options, permitting «shift swapping» (for companies with around - the - clock work shifts), or providing discretionary leave, such as paternity, educational, community - service, or sabbatical.

So much care, in fact, that parents working full - time would need to find the equivalent of 40 around - the - clock days of volunteer childcare in order to be employed full - time.

«Anything that plays to that fear — ticking clock emojis in an email marketing campaign, limited - time offers — can stoke that sense of urgency and that impulse to purchase.»

Revel provides businesses with not only the infrastructure to manage transactions, but also the ability to handle personnel scheduling; time clocks; management of payroll, inventory and product; and analytics.

Point of Sale Systems, Time Clocks, Advertising, Staffing Services, HVAC, Electricians, Plumbers, Cleaning Services, Waste Disposal, Phone Systems, Grease Trap Services.

If you watched Warren Buffett with a time clock, I would say half of all the time he spends is just sitting on his ass and reading.

With the clock ticking on a Greek default, members of the European Monetary Union are considering sweetening their bail out pot for a second time since the summer.

But Harris had no intention of allowing him to run out the clock with recycled, irrelevant statements, as he had many times in the previous hours.

Also available is HR Tools that offers a variety of human resource management tools including a web - based time clock, employee records, employee onboarding, and E-Sign and E-Verify options.

I would hope that that would free me up enough sanity and / or time to do something worthwhile instead of mindlessly punching a clock every week with the fear of an unexpected change outside my control (economy, medical emergency, human error at my job...) leaving me to live out of my car.

Financial services group Nordea, which banned its employees from engaging in off - the - clock cryptocurrency trading earlier this year, said at the time that financial institutions often «restrict the personal account dealing of staff to prevent them taking positions in speculative investments, or which might expose them to a risk of financial loss and therefore impact their financial standing.»

It's time to take control of your clock again!

The Nordstrom family decided this summer was the time to make their move to regain full control of the Nordstrom Inc. retail empire.But now the clock is ticking.And just how much of a debt load the business can bear — an area where the company has long been prudent — is coming into sharper focus.

The sentiment seemed widespread on tech and media Twitter: there was a lack of specificity in terms of questions about privacy (this allowed Zuckerberg to turn nearly every question about the ownership of data to a discussion about user interface controls that limit where data is shown to other Facebook users), plenty of dodged questions (every time there was a question about the data Facebook generates about users beyond what they themselves enter into the system Zuckerberg needed to «check with his team»), and bad questions that presumed Facebook sells data, letting Zuckerberg run out the clock at least three times by explaining the basics of Facebook's business model (this is precisely why I have been so outspoken about the problem of perpetrating this falsehood: it lets Facebook off the hook).

Mtbankfx explains in its terms of service that its tools, including the BTC / USD tool with 1:3 leverage, are «available for transactions around the clock — from the opening of the market on Sundays at 21:00 GMT in the summer (22:00 GMT in the winter) until the market closes on Fridays at 20:00 GMT in summer / winter time.»

«He talked about the good old days, when we had to ship in pizza and it didn't feel like we were working around the clock, about times of war and times of peace.»

The Canadian, who took above the central lender in 2013, ran the Ottawa marathon in 2011, clocking up a time of a few hours and forty eight minutes that positioned him one, 022 nd out of 2,733 runners.

The clocks at that time didn't improve the efficiency of the staff during their time at the workplace; a shop assistant kept at work by the loss of wages if they clock out early might still have been leaning on a counter with nothing to do in an empty showroom.

While it is possible to trade around in the clock when working with certain brokers, the fact of the matter is that most traders have a very specific time - frame during which they are able to take the time to enter into trades.

Pruitt's former security chief, whose time with Pruitt saw the EPA administrator provided with round - the - clock security and first - class flights in the name of security, appeared for an hourslong closed - door interview Wednesday with staff on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

To be sure, a buyout fund is inherently illiquid, and it can't always clean up its investments by the time the clock runs out on the typical 10 - year term of the fund.

Personally, what appeals to me about this type of investing is that it allows you to be involved in lots of different businesses without having to punch multiple time clocks!

With the clock ticking toward a June 30 deadline both for the expiry of the European portion of Greece's bailout and payments to the International Monetary Fund, leaders stressed a lot of work must still be done in the time available.