It has happened at a few places. I get through one or two interviews and "we'll call you next week" followed by nothing. Same with an idiot recruiter who called me 2 weeks ago and said she would call me Friday.. then nothing. Recruiters are the worst followed by HR departments for not respecting other people's time. Once they have no immediate need for a person, contacting them becomes low priority. The notable exception so far seems to have been CN Rail whose HR system sends a form letter to all of the other applicants once the position has been filled.
Speaking of, I have never once had a job *interview* cancelled on me and have never once gotten to the *interview* stage and then received no further correspondence.
I have. Recruiters and HR departments do it to me all of the time and I'm left guessing if it's because they are slow, or because they have rejected me. It's made worse by HR departments that can take months to come to any decision at all as if it's our job to wait for them.
I'm not one of the folks who will just not show up and I always properly cancel, but I am glad that lately I've seen a better respect in the way that HR departments deal with me. I have one place spread interviews out over months and then go quiet a couple of years ago, now that same place is packing interviews close together and generally trying to be respectful of my time.
Now if only they would sort out recruiting agencies. I have been contacted 15 times in the past month for one place I'm already applying for, 5 times for another, and twice for a third company.
In Canada we have rules banning ISPs from zero rating or prioritizing certain traffic and we also have rules forcing the telcos to provide server to rural areas. And guess what? The telcos still make billions.
Net Neutrality is a good thing provided they get all of the rules right and don't accidentally ban something important.
To be fair, it's been a total failure for the same reason the war ended up as a stalemate: North Korea had a country with a very large army backing them.
Computer controlled, or not, it still takes time for something that heavy to come to a full stop or change direction. If something runs out from a bind spot, there are no easy answers. It If something runs out between two parked cars, there is not a person or sensor who can see the problem in enough time to avoid an accident.
They are different from gas or diesel but that does not make them less flexible. With a gasoline powered car, you must stand next to the thing for your entire fill time. On the other hand, with electric it takes longer but you don't have to stand there waiting for it. You can charge overnight and if you are on the go you can do something else while you charge. Here in Montreal, we are starting to see malls and restaurants add charging stations so you can shop / eat while your car charges. In many ways that's more flexible
And they sound like vacuum cleaners.
At the last place I worked, I heard a crunching sound behind me and turned around to see a Tesla within arm's reach. If not for the tire noise, the thing would have been dead silent.
I think this is why Texas is moving toward a toll road approach. It recenters the price back in relationship to the cost, regardless of how you are powering your usage of the road.
I recall back in the 80s when I was a child, we visited Switzerland and my father had to buy a road pass at the border. I was small so I don't remember the details but I think it was some sort of toll pass for all of the roads in the country.
Plus, if they expect this to take over for street addresses such as the headline suggests, they should think again. "Oh, it's on Walnut Street, just past 5th" is far more useful than "Oh, it's at CMXR+X6" which has everyone scrambling for Google Maps just to decode what the fuck you just said.
That doesn't work everywhere. Many countries have streets without names. in fact even my hometown in Canada had two streets they gave names to for no other reason that emergency services needed to find them. In Costa Rica for instance, not all major streets even have names and there are no house numbers making the entire country a confusing mess for even the locals.
Indeed. When I was much younger, I lived on an army base with my parents. The base was essentially given to the military during Word War One the because it was an unusable dust bowl. By the time I was there, the place was mostly forest (replanted, most of the trees were in perfectly straight rows), but every year the Army and schools had a tree planting event where everyone spent a couple of days planting trees in some of the still sandy areas.
Don't know about that. I used to live in an area that had an annual deer cull to keep the population down. You could always tell when that was because it was the only time of year the deer would hang out in people's yards and school playgrounds.. where it was illegal to shoot them
Actually, having lived in Spain, the attempt did them no good whatsoever. The Spanish arrive at work later in the morning, have a lunch at 1 pm and leave later in the evening than the Germans. They live on UTC even though their clocks say CET.
My experience is that the vast bulk of humanity are decent people. We shouldn't let a the bottom 10% ruin everything just because they shout the loudest. Slashdot accomplishes that with the moderation system, which can be abused but mostly works well.
It really doesn't. Posts where the author sounds sure of themselves often get modded up even if they are completely wrong. We also have a problem of posts being modded up because the posts agree with the moderators political biases (inplausable conspiracy theories, insults). And then there is the laziness problem where just the other week, a link to goat.cx link got modded to +5 because not a single moderator checked the link or read through the replies to see the warning not to click the link.
It's also rude to mistreat your employees. Or require them to look the other way where the law is concerned. That's why it's good to have websites like Glassdoor.
And isn't it funny how when an employee has a complaint upon leaving a company its called 'burning their bridges.'
Yet when upper level employees have a complaint upon leaving a company it's called 'managerial differences.'
"managerial differences" means you had disagreements with the way the company was run.
"burning bridges" Means you expressed those disagreements publicly
It is actually, quite easy to quit even as a low level employee without burning bridges.
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It has happened at a few places. I get through one or two interviews and "we'll call you next week" followed by nothing. Same with an idiot recruiter who called me 2 weeks ago and said she would call me Friday.. then nothing. Recruiters are the worst followed by HR departments for not respecting other people's time. Once they have no immediate need for a person, contacting them becomes low priority. The notable exception so far seems to have been CN Rail whose HR system sends a form letter to all of the other applicants once the position has been filled.
Speaking of, I have never once had a job *interview* cancelled on me and have never once gotten to the *interview* stage and then received no further correspondence.
I have. Recruiters and HR departments do it to me all of the time and I'm left guessing if it's because they are slow, or because they have rejected me. It's made worse by HR departments that can take months to come to any decision at all as if it's our job to wait for them.
I'm not one of the folks who will just not show up and I always properly cancel, but I am glad that lately I've seen a better respect in the way that HR departments deal with me. I have one place spread interviews out over months and then go quiet a couple of years ago, now that same place is packing interviews close together and generally trying to be respectful of my time.
Now if only they would sort out recruiting agencies. I have been contacted 15 times in the past month for one place I'm already applying for, 5 times for another, and twice for a third company.
In Canada we have rules banning ISPs from zero rating or prioritizing certain traffic and we also have rules forcing the telcos to provide server to rural areas. And guess what? The telcos still make billions.
Net Neutrality is a good thing provided they get all of the rules right and don't accidentally ban something important.
Did they make an allowance for peering agreements? Technically that would speed up some websites.
Does a candy tax fit the court's definition of a sales tax?
To be fair, it's been a total failure for the same reason the war ended up as a stalemate: North Korea had a country with a very large army backing them.
Obviously you have never seen kids throwing rocks at car transports. It is a sport in some places.
96.4% of the files on that server were redacted and there were no access controls whatsoever. How was he breaking the law?
That assumes he even realized he downloaded private info. Most of the documents were not private.
The kid was has been quoted as saying he thought that the records were public and he didn't know he wasn't supposed to be able to do that.
There you go again. You mindlessly insult an entire group of people without considering that not all liberals believe in conformity of views.
A curious statement from someone who tends to use "liberal" as if it were some sort of insult.
Computer controlled, or not, it still takes time for something that heavy to come to a full stop or change direction. If something runs out from a bind spot, there are no easy answers. It If something runs out between two parked cars, there is not a person or sensor who can see the problem in enough time to avoid an accident.
They scan still have capitalism, just drive the miners a short distance over the Quebec border where the power is cheaper anyways.
Better would be to give every politician a 30% pay cut and no ability to vote themselves raises during a deficit
Not as flexible as gas or diesel.
They are different from gas or diesel but that does not make them less flexible. With a gasoline powered car, you must stand next to the thing for your entire fill time. On the other hand, with electric it takes longer but you don't have to stand there waiting for it. You can charge overnight and if you are on the go you can do something else while you charge. Here in Montreal, we are starting to see malls and restaurants add charging stations so you can shop / eat while your car charges. In many ways that's more flexible
And they sound like vacuum cleaners.
At the last place I worked, I heard a crunching sound behind me and turned around to see a Tesla within arm's reach. If not for the tire noise, the thing would have been dead silent.
It is an unlimited road pass that lets you drive on any roads you like so it would not hurt you at all.
I think this is why Texas is moving toward a toll road approach. It recenters the price back in relationship to the cost, regardless of how you are powering your usage of the road.
I recall back in the 80s when I was a child, we visited Switzerland and my father had to buy a road pass at the border. I was small so I don't remember the details but I think it was some sort of toll pass for all of the roads in the country.
In fact, I just looked up the Motorway charge sticker. It still seems like tbe best idea ever.
Plus, if they expect this to take over for street addresses such as the headline suggests, they should think again. "Oh, it's on Walnut Street, just past 5th" is far more useful than "Oh, it's at CMXR+X6" which has everyone scrambling for Google Maps just to decode what the fuck you just said.
That doesn't work everywhere. Many countries have streets without names. in fact even my hometown in Canada had two streets they gave names to for no other reason that emergency services needed to find them. In Costa Rica for instance, not all major streets even have names and there are no house numbers making the entire country a confusing mess for even the locals.
Indeed. When I was much younger, I lived on an army base with my parents. The base was essentially given to the military during Word War One the because it was an unusable dust bowl. By the time I was there, the place was mostly forest (replanted, most of the trees were in perfectly straight rows), but every year the Army and schools had a tree planting event where everyone spent a couple of days planting trees in some of the still sandy areas.
The Army's job is to do whatever needs doing.
Don't know about that. I used to live in an area that had an annual deer cull to keep the population down. You could always tell when that was because it was the only time of year the deer would hang out in people's yards and school playgrounds.. where it was illegal to shoot them
Somehow the cull never got it's quota
Actually, having lived in Spain, the attempt did them no good whatsoever. The Spanish arrive at work later in the morning, have a lunch at 1 pm and leave later in the evening than the Germans. They live on UTC even though their clocks say CET.
My experience is that the vast bulk of humanity are decent people. We shouldn't let a the bottom 10% ruin everything just because they shout the loudest. Slashdot accomplishes that with the moderation system, which can be abused but mostly works well.
It really doesn't. Posts where the author sounds sure of themselves often get modded up even if they are completely wrong. We also have a problem of posts being modded up because the posts agree with the moderators political biases (inplausable conspiracy theories, insults). And then there is the laziness problem where just the other week, a link to goat.cx link got modded to +5 because not a single moderator checked the link or read through the replies to see the warning not to click the link.
The site's not loading, but I'll take your word for it.
Probably for the best, it was a goat.cx clone.
It's also rude to mistreat your employees. Or require them to look the other way where the law is concerned. That's why it's good to have websites like Glassdoor.
And isn't it funny how when an employee has a complaint upon leaving a company its called 'burning their bridges.'
Yet when upper level employees have a complaint upon leaving a company it's called 'managerial differences.'
"managerial differences" means you had disagreements with the way the company was run.
"burning bridges" Means you expressed those disagreements publicly
It is actually, quite easy to quit even as a low level employee without burning bridges.