%&$^ing agencies! Someone COULD do better.
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I've seen people suffer through dealing with recruitment agencies, similarily I cringe if visiting recruitment sites.
They don't give much more that one or two lines of information on the job. There is no company info whatsoever for fear that the agency is bypassed. I have just visited an Irish one jobfinder and it's mind-boggling. I'd say more than 90% of the entries are various Recruitment services.
This is frustrating.
Worthy of a much better RANT really.
Checking the Irish Times newspaper (on-line) you can see the jobs pages are published in paper form only. Why? Has someone monopolised this industry? How can it not be worth the papers while to publish their job-ads? However, that said, even in the newspaper ads there is pathetically little information.
How can you choose the right job from two lines? I can't. If you ring the agencies up.... you get loads of hassle, no information until you interview with them and certainly no company or job choice. PATHETIC!
Okay you can apply and do the interview to find out what the job really is BUT I really don't want to go to all that hassle just to find out what I would be applying for.
How can there not exist an option to filter out all those nasty recruitment agencies? And why are the jobs advertised with such a tiny amount of information? Do people not know what they want someone to do? Where they will work? Hours, benefits, what is involved...?
If software companies have such problems hiring people why is it such hassle to find a nice geek job? Is there no jobsearch site that could act as a central resource for both companies and geeks? I guess not:( It would surely be worth someone's while. Think of the advertising $$$s.
Need: good job info, reject obfusticating recruitment advertisments (or filter them out) become THE job portal everyone uses, rake in loads of money.
Get Yahoo interested.... a people moderated Yahoo style jobs area would be quite interesting. Hmmm, I wonder could the ODP manage this?
Interesting. Good article. Thanks for the pointer.
I still think persons who expose themselves to even comparitively low RF are putting themselves at risk (probably low) of... something:). What is that something though?
Faster responses.
Affecting/damaging cells causing cancer in a few cases.
Greater knowledge (using RF device to talk to wise people
Stupidity (using RF device to talk to wise people... and not understanding)
Escaping danger... (using RF device to call in the rescue services after getting trapped up a tree in a remote place)
Hot food
.....:)
However, more seriously, I think mobile phones have a much greater capability for damage in other areas. I'm trying to get a bit of perspective here.
If someone crashes a car while on a mobile then is it the car manufacturer's fault? The mobile makers fault? The country's fault (for giving driving licence, providing roads,...)? Or the person's fault? Definately the latter if the person knows all risks involved in what they're doing. However we could blame any of the above or drugs, the bright sun, the cute distracting butt on the sidewalk,..... and more. So maybe we'd just better default to holding everyone somewhat responsible for themselves.
Mobile phones probably indirectly cause more noise pollution/annoyance than anything else by bringing loud single-sided conversations out everywhere public. While not hugely life threataning in itself (except to those annoying people annoying axe-murderers) it would be probably the effect felt by most people. Would this be a better reason to be worried about mobiles? Depends I suppose.
Something else: Can anyone point us to somewhere on the web where there is information on the growth of plants near power lines or power antennae? This was interesting, plants grew noticably faster.
I definatlely believe that it takes a significant amount of use to do some damage and of course the yuppie does more to themselves as they are jamming the RF source as close as they can to their ear and carting it around cushioned by some nice soft human organs. Incremental damage from sources kept at an arms length would, I believe be largely exponentially reduced. Say a minute of ear jamming could be worth a few weeks of lesser exposure (e.g. actually watching the ear jamming or warming your fingers with your smoking overclocked CPU)
As phones strive to use less power this should gradually improve but for now we should keep this survey quiet, suppress it even and wait for natural selection to kill off the more annoying mobile users.
I can easily imagine that the old hair dryer would win out as being the most lethal of all you mentioned. That is of course disregarding all the fatalities resulting from monitors hurled from high buildings. Hair dryers have quite a nice cord which may be used to trip, tie, strangle and of course they are tragically much fun for young geeks to play with (nice transformers).
Slightly more seriously, as usual I'm about a foot in front of my mongo BIG monitor right now as I usually am for 8+ hours a day. This is definately giving me a bit of a constant cold.... the air is just really dry and I can feel all the electrons being SUCKED from my eyes:) You can get stuff from your doctor for this, take a few drops every day forever, no harm done but a bit of a pain.
Now the thing with mobile phones and monitors is that some of us use either or both ALOT. And while I don't believe the monitor will ever do me serious damage I would be worried if I used a mobile phone a good deal.
However, mmmm, what else do I use alot that could be harmful? Clothes? Hmm, no. Er, ball-point pens? Not really. I have been hit recently by a softball... but I hardly spend a significant amount of time on that. Ahhhh, _I_ know. I _do_ use a car quite a bit. We can take safety precautions, buckle up, drive safely,... but most of us accept driving as a reasonable risk for the benefits. It would be nice to likewise compare benefits and dangers of using your mobile. I would love to see the comparison of accidents versus usage: car injuries/usage:: phone injuries/usage (usage is probably %time * people or something)
Can anyone help?
Taking this car vs mobile thing a bit further.... in the beginning, there were horses and then only steam engines. And the horses pretty much beat those steam engines every time so for years transport saftey guidelines consisted of the unwritten "don't get run over" or "don't run into large/sharp things".
They have since developed from their meagre beginnings worldwide into tomes of law, rules of road saftey, safe-cross codes, etc..... Probably the same applies to using "thingies" outputting microwave/high RF energy.
There is a risk there, as for anything. We need a safety code for mobile phone users, as we do for hair-dryers. For now though I would think it more important for mobile phones.
Phones should log their usage AND power levels and make this available to the user. This would be quite easy to do... but would the average user understand "WARNING power output increased to indecipherable quantity"?
Educate phone users *shivers* this could be difficult. If entering big sheilded building => phone power increases. If phone strapped next to vital organs => be careful!
Don't use the phones excessively. I know some people can talk ALL day, but seriously, they would have done something else before the mobile phone.
If you use a mobile excessively then you need a headset YES you look like a fool jogging down the road looking like some bodyguard gone nuts but not much more of a fool than you do with that thing held against your ear.
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They don't give much more that one or two lines of information on the job. There is no company info whatsoever for fear that the agency is bypassed. I have just visited an Irish one jobfinder and it's mind-boggling. I'd say more than 90% of the entries are various Recruitment services.
This is frustrating.
Worthy of a much better RANT really.
Checking the Irish Times newspaper (on-line) you can see the jobs pages are published in paper form only. Why? Has someone monopolised this industry? How can it not be worth the papers while to publish their job-ads? However, that said, even in the newspaper ads there is pathetically little information.
How can you choose the right job from two lines? I can't. If you ring the agencies up .... you get loads of hassle, no information until you interview with them and certainly no company or job choice. PATHETIC!
Okay you can apply and do the interview to find out what the job really is BUT I really don't want to go to all that hassle just to find out what I would be applying for.
How can there not exist an option to filter out all those nasty recruitment agencies? And why are the jobs advertised with such a tiny amount of information? Do people not know what they want someone to do? Where they will work? Hours, benefits, what is involved...?
If software companies have such problems hiring people why is it such hassle to find a nice geek job? Is there no jobsearch site that could act as a central resource for both companies and geeks? I guess not :( It would surely be worth someone's while. Think of the advertising $$$s.
Need: good job info, reject obfusticating recruitment advertisments (or filter them out) become THE job portal everyone uses, rake in loads of money.
Get Yahoo interested .... a people moderated Yahoo style jobs area would be quite interesting. Hmmm, I wonder could the ODP manage this?
I still think persons who expose themselves to even comparitively low RF are putting themselves at risk (probably low) of ... something :). What is that something though?
- Faster responses.
- Affecting/damaging cells causing cancer in a few cases.
- Greater knowledge (using RF device to talk to wise people
- Stupidity (using RF device to talk to wise people
... and not understanding) - Escaping danger
... (using RF device to call in the rescue services after getting trapped up a tree in a remote place) - Hot food
..... :)
However, more seriously, I think mobile phones have a much greater capability for damage in other areas. I'm trying to get a bit of perspective here.If someone crashes a car while on a mobile then is it the car manufacturer's fault? The mobile makers fault? The country's fault (for giving driving licence, providing roads, ...)? Or the person's fault? Definately the latter if the person knows all risks involved in what they're doing. However we could blame any of the above or drugs, the bright sun, the cute distracting butt on the sidewalk, ..... and more. So maybe we'd just better default to holding everyone somewhat responsible for themselves.
Mobile phones probably indirectly cause more noise pollution/annoyance than anything else by bringing loud single-sided conversations out everywhere public. While not hugely life threataning in itself (except to those annoying people annoying axe-murderers) it would be probably the effect felt by most people. Would this be a better reason to be worried about mobiles? Depends I suppose.
Something else: Can anyone point us to somewhere on the web where there is information on the growth of plants near power lines or power antennae? This was interesting, plants grew noticably faster.
As phones strive to use less power this should gradually improve but for now we should keep this survey quiet, suppress it even and wait for natural selection to kill off the more annoying mobile users.
I can easily imagine that the old hair dryer would win out as being the most lethal of all you mentioned. That is of course disregarding all the fatalities resulting from monitors hurled from high buildings. Hair dryers have quite a nice cord which may be used to trip, tie, strangle and of course they are tragically much fun for young geeks to play with (nice transformers).
Slightly more seriously, as usual I'm about a foot in front of my mongo BIG monitor right now as I usually am for 8+ hours a day. This is definately giving me a bit of a constant cold .... the air is just really dry and I can feel all the electrons being SUCKED from my eyes :) You can get stuff from your doctor for this, take a few drops every day forever, no harm done but a bit of a pain.
Now the thing with mobile phones and monitors is that some of us use either or both ALOT. And while I don't believe the monitor will ever do me serious damage I would be worried if I used a mobile phone a good deal.
However, mmmm, what else do I use alot that could be harmful? Clothes? Hmm, no. Er, ball-point pens? Not really. I have been hit recently by a softball ... but I hardly spend a significant amount of time on that. Ahhhh, _I_ know. I _do_ use a car quite a bit. We can take safety precautions, buckle up, drive safely, ... but most of us accept driving as a reasonable risk for the benefits. It would be nice to likewise compare benefits and dangers of using your mobile. :: phone injuries/usage
I would love to see the comparison of accidents versus usage:
car injuries/usage
(usage is probably %time * people or something)
Can anyone help?
Taking this car vs mobile thing a bit further .... in the beginning, there were horses and then only steam engines. And the horses pretty much beat those steam engines every time so for years transport saftey guidelines consisted of the unwritten "don't get run over" or "don't run into large/sharp things".
They have since developed from their meagre beginnings worldwide into tomes of law, rules of road saftey, safe-cross codes, etc..... Probably the same applies to using "thingies" outputting microwave/high RF energy.
There is a risk there, as for anything. We need a safety code for mobile phone users, as we do for hair-dryers. For now though I would think it more important for mobile phones.
- Phones should log their usage AND power levels and make this available to the user. This would be quite easy to do
... but would the average user understand "WARNING power output increased to indecipherable quantity"? - Educate phone users *shivers* this could be difficult. If entering big sheilded building => phone power increases. If phone strapped next to vital organs => be careful!
- Don't use the phones excessively. I know some people can talk ALL day, but seriously, they would have done something else before the mobile phone.
- If you use a mobile excessively then you need a headset YES you look like a fool jogging down the road looking like some bodyguard gone nuts but not much more of a fool than you do with that thing held against your ear.
Have I forgotten something? Feel free to add.