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  Peon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The words peon and peonage are derived from the Spanish peón.
The English words peon and peonage were derived from the Spanish word, and have a variety of meanings related to the Spanish usages, as well as some other meanings.
South Asian English: a peon is usually an office boy, an attendant, or an orderly, a person kept around for odd jobs (and, historically, a policeman or foot soldier).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peon   (264 words)

  
 Corporate Peon
It was snowing madly when I left work Friday, so I scrapped my plans of a movie-dinner date with myself and camped out on the couch.
As I alluded to in part 1, the 7 years E spent at my company hurt him in some job interviews.
I remember not much longer than a year ago, sneaking around and thinking I was being cryptic and secretive and oh-so-cute.
corporatepeon.blogspot.com   (2525 words)

  
 Think Like a Peon
Don't wait for peons to share what's on their minds; to them, your claim that "my door's always open" is just trouble waiting to happen.
Peon departures almost always have to do with the boss.
Peons are revenue generators, and they know it.
www.fastcompany.com /magazine/94/5things.html   (454 words)

  
 Warcraft III - Orcs -> Units -> Peon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Their labor is also required for the construction and maintenance of buildings necessary to support the vast undertakings of the Horde.
Peons can be placed in Orc Burrows for Town Defense; in fact, they are the only unit that can be placed in Burrows.
Peons can repair Buildings and Mechanical Units automatically when Repair is enabled.
www.battle.net /war3/orc/units/peon.shtml   (225 words)

  
 SATICHE - 0762   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The peon is a rather simple particle and by far the coolest.
With this device he had hoped to lure the peons, known for their lack of morals) for a drink or two, but Weber ran into problems as other nonethical particles (especially those leptons) kept riding through on their Harley waves, causing too many disturbances in his bar.
It became impossible to pinpoint the peon in the midst of such a ruckus.
www.satiche.org.uk /satiche/sat-0762.htm   (400 words)

  
 The Liberation of the Peon
Instead of the standard depictions of fairy tales and costume dramas, his frescoes are a propagandistic textbook for the illiterate, who may read the history of Mexico in pictorial terms of agrarian revolutionist ideology.
The liberation of the peon (1931) symbolises the end of an era of persecution and exploitation for the common Mexican, and the beginning of his liberation in the sense of political rights, land ownership and education.
The revolutionists who have overthrown this regime are grouped around the peon, whose body is striped with whip marks.
cities.expressindia.com /fullstory.php?newsid=134757   (330 words)

  
 Peonage in the South:The Life Story of a Negro Peon
It was a hard school that peon camp was, but I learned more there in a few short months by contact with those poor fellows from the outside world than ever I had known before.
The working day on a peon farm begins with sunrise and ends when the sun goes down; or, in other words, the average peon works from ten to twelve hours each day, with one hour (from 12 o'clock to 1 1 o'clock) for dinner.
When I had served as a peon for nearly three years--and you remember that they claimed I owed them only $165--when I served for nearly three years one of the bosses came to me and said that my time was up.
www.h-net.org /~hst203/documents/peonage.html   (4256 words)

  
 The Hindu : New Delhi News : Peon's plea dismissed
A Central Government Industrial Tribunal-cum-Labour Court has dismissed a plea by a peon of the Bank of Rajasthan seeking quashing of his termination from service, saying that his retrenchment was fair.
The Ministry of Labour had referred the matter to the Tribunal for adjudication requesting it to decide whether the action of the management of the bank in terminating the service of the workman was fair, if not, what relief he was entitled to.
In the claim, Jha through his lawyer V.N. Kakkar submitted that he had been in permanent and continuous employment of the management since July, 1991 against a permanent post of peon and his drawn wage was Rs.
www.hindu.com /2004/12/28/stories/2004122806900400.htm   (261 words)

  
 Peons Demos
High ranking peons are allowed to reproduce to replace lower ranking peons that have died.
This is a complicated prospect for the untrained peons.
This is part of the confusion the peons deal with- the mine is set to stop moving at random times and then start up again later.
www.cs.utexas.edu /users/kstanley/demo.html   (825 words)

  
 Business books: Peon tells managers how to manage peons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Haynes presents a hilarious scenario of the arrival of a senior manager at a division, where heads were popping up out of their cubicles "like prairie dogs," and junior managers acted as though a prophet of God had arrived.
The smaller the gap between peons and management, the greater the mutual respect.
What The Peon Book shows, quite simply, is how to use the golden rule at work, by treating others as human beings and showing yourself to be one.
www.post-gazette.com /pg/04221/357921.stm   (633 words)

  
 MFO: Put a farm in your peon line, honest!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
As far as I know, and I tested it for quite some time, there is no way to use buildings to decrease the travelling distance when the gold mines were 0,90,180,270 degrees from the town hall.
The difference between 5 or 6 peons, when the gold mine is a multiple of 90 degrees from the hall, may not seem like much, but over a 10 minute test, I got a 800 difference between using 6 workers vs 5.
Luckily, most Blizzard maps have the gold mine on a 45 degree angle from the town hall, allowing Human and Orc players (who would normally be on par, worker count wise with Night Elves or Undead players) to require one less worker.
www.mrfixitonline.com /war3farminline.asp   (677 words)

  
 The Peon Book: How to Manage Us
Funny, irreverent, and fast-paced, The Peon Book is a breath of fresh air and a strong dose of reality that managers may or may not want to swallow.
And while I thought it a little egotistical for a self proclaimed "peon" to think he had the answers to all management questions, I got to the end of the book, and realized that he really does have a good grasp on what employees expect from their managers.
Being a "peon" himself, he sees the shortcomings of all of the managerial strategies that organizations try and implement these days.
www.xmlwriter.com /books/reviews/1576752852-2.html   (778 words)

  
 THE PEON LIST   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The ONLY Peons (excluding the brains) that know who the hell Ralf is, but the brain tumor forgets and has to be reminded a lot.
The peon in control of the sub-peon population, including pick-ups and breaks.
A Sub-Peon Trainer (This is the peon variant which spreads the highly contagious "Green Vested Peon" infection (see "Peonic Definitions")) (ex.
members.aol.com /macralf123/eddies/peons.html   (635 words)

  
 Peonic Definitions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
A peon that carries their money around in thier pockets and then wonders why they come up a few hundred short at the end of the day.
A peon of any status that is always picked to do a certain job, like to go on express or get bags, etc...
A peon of any status that comes from other stores to expand their realm of knowledge, or they place where they used to work closed.
members.aol.com /macralf123/eddies/PD.html   (504 words)

  
 Mercedes Peon / Isue / cdRoots
I think this is one of the most impressive and artistic recordings to come out of the Spanish folk music scene in years.
Galician singer and music Peon is a wonder, with a powerful voice, a strong sense of historical roots and a wild and adventurous spirit.
Peon's music is often rough-hewn and raw, never clever or contrived, and always distinctive." - RootsWorld
www.cdroots.com /res-peon.html   (283 words)

  
 peon en español - WordReference Forums
Peon y peón no son exactamente lo mismo, pero no se me ocurre otra palabra.
Peon: A laborer who is obliged to do menial work.
Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.
forum.wordreference.com /showthread.php?t=7430   (182 words)

  
 Warcraft 3 World Strategy - Peon Rush
a brutal version of this idea is to get peons and a hero and run into his base and build burrows and towers.
ur peons are dead man and thats a waist of peons.
Rest of the wisp he just split up and build somewhere else his base where he trains units to kill ur peons.
www.war3world.com /review255,html   (494 words)

  
 Note Track Tutorial: Waving Peon
Change the base file to the Peon you extracted.
Change the bone selector dropdown, in the upper left, to Bone_Arm1_L, which is the Peon's right shoulder.
If you save and convert to MDX now, you'll see the peon's arm go up, then down during the new animation.
www.oinkerwinkle.com /tools/tutorialpeonwave.html   (762 words)

  
 PEON: Genealogy Queries
PEON : STEBBANS : My grandfather's grandfather John Peon was buried in colrain, Mass.
PEON results at MyTrees.com - Pedigree-linked database, extracted birth, marriage, and death records
PEON search results at Interment.net - Burial records and tombstone inscriptions from thousands of cemeteries across the world.
www.cousinconnect.com /p/a/0/s/PEON   (205 words)

  
 El Peón
Todos los Peones son de valor igual pero algunos Peones son mas iguales que los otros.
Este privilegio es propio de cada uno de los ocho Peones en ambos bandos (nivel-1, tablero 8 x 8), pero un Peón puede solo avanzar dos casillas si es que ambas celdas estan desocupadas y el PE no se ha movido previamente.
Los Peones capturan de manera diagonal únicamente como indica en la gráfica.
www.chess-poster.com /spanish/chesmayne_e/el_peon.htm   (5480 words)

  
 Bored Peon | The Latest News from a very unbusy bee
Bored peons everywhere joined in the office pool, proof of their stupidity and sliding moral standards.
And preferably not seen.” This reporter has discovered that indeed it does seem that the majority of the business world considers these slug-like digitizers to have the IQ of a salad bar, seemingly deserving of more than just two reminders that the all important investors are coming.
How these bored peons even manage to have the brain capacity to walk upright after tracing lines all day is a mystery to highschooler Kristen Clark, “It isn’t like they’re rocket scientists.
boredpeon.blogspot.com   (3819 words)

  
 The Peon Book by David Haynes
All of the business world’s greatest leaders have all had a good grasp on their “inner peon.” And now it is time for you to get to know yours.
You are a peon, and this is your book.
Follow the link at right to purchase “The Peon Book” on Amazon.com, or visit your local bookstore.
www.thearizoner.com /index2.html   (112 words)

  
 The Sky People and the game of Peon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
I am going to tell you about the Chumash Indians,and also about their beliefs that are legends to us.I read one of the Chumash legends called the Sky People.
They would keep playing the game peon until December 31st, from 5:00 pm to 12:00 midnight.
Sun and Eagle were partners in peon, and they were known to eat people.
pathysplace.com /stories_chumash_2.htm   (382 words)

  
 Peon capturing - Topic Powered by Groupee Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
January 18, 2003 02:57 PM Well since Dork is a slang for A stupid, inept, or foolish person, and I am obviously not, you're only making yourself look like one.
When a captured peon disobeys you *WHAP!!!* MLK would have a fit.
January 18, 2003 04:51 PM Well, I heard Dork also refers to a piece of the male whale's anatomy, but i think thats giving Cort too much credit.
forums.s2games.com /eve/ubb.x/a/tpc/f/962600065/m/9056094821/p/5   (166 words)

  
 Peon/Starbuck   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
One day this peon was typing away in that peon manner (and enjoying scraps) when the phone rang.
When that happened she would think "...and some people spend their days doing data entry." Then she would shake her head and smile and type and answer phones.
Do you see where this is going?) And to be fair, most of the time the peon was treated as an equal--the giants were very good about that sort of thing--and she wouldn't be a peon forever and someday there would be enough sweet potato pie to go all away around the table.
www.cowgirlfunk.com /starbuck.htm   (926 words)

  
 PEON PEONE 1960s Native American Indian Game Kumeyaay Southern California Photos
PEON PEONE 1960s Native American Indian Game Kumeyaay Southern California Photos
PEON Peone Kumeyaay Native American California Indian Games Traditional Photos
Typically the traditional California Indian tribal game of Peone is played during Peon contests during traditional Kumeyaay fiestas, Yuman traditional gatherings, pow wows and will often be played around a campfire throughout the night during "heated" play.
www.kumeyaay.info /games/peon_peone.html   (243 words)

  
 Urban Dictionary: peon
Someone employed in a lower position compared to other personnel in a company.
Since I'm a peon, I The big dogs won't listen to me.
If you can kill the enemy's peons, you've just won the game.
www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=peon&r=f   (234 words)

  
 PEON STEEL s.r.o. SLOVAKIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Intermediate business in Slovakia and more in the world.Info: click here.
vznikla v roku 1995 po transformovaní sa spoloènosti PEON obchodná èinnos na SROèku, ktorá bola založená v roku 1993.
Od roku 1993 sa spoloènos PEON zaoberala hlavne hutným materialom.
peon.szm.sk /eng.htm   (162 words)

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