Perhaps the fact that you got flustered so easily is something of a sign that you would not do well in a position which requires you to solve problems under any pressure - like, for example, a technical support position.
Corporate people are all perfect. They are absolutely perfect.
ot need to continue to burden themselves with the expense of a college diploma
Where the degree goes, the rest of education follows. Total societal illiteracy doesn't take much.
If you want to retain the concentration on art and literature, fine - just cut out the worthless social commentary and political 'artists'
Money is all that matters. We don't need all that art and literature "fluff."
Art and literature are meaningless to business, which explains why people making six figures can't construct a complete sentence. But hey, they can sure misspell words in Powerpoint! Pass the croutons.
In particular, they asked: "Where is the one place you can walk one mile south, one mile east, and one mile north, and end up exactly where you started."
So, I throw questions that are -way- above the level of programmer that I'm looking for.
Which demoralizes, confuses and belittles the candidates thus achieving what interviewers want to achieve: depriving people of the opportunity to learn the job and contribute, thereby causing them pain and suffering.
It's not about "can they do the job?" It's about exercising power against the weak. Nice and adversarial. Just the way employers like it.
Skill, education and experience do not matter because employers are liars and cheats. By destroying the social contract of "get an education, work hard and you will succeed" they are destroying society. Employment, business, etc. has turned into a game show. It is totally random. The percentage of financing sources, partners, vendors and clients that insist on a choice between something patently unreasonable to even the most cynical screaming asshole or a slammed door is well over 90%. Most "business people" don't even bother with any traditional business model any more. You could bring them a sure thing with two tons of printed proof and they'd still say something really REALLYFUCKING STUPID AND MEANINGLESS like "where's the value added?"
Motherfucking cheats and liars as far as the eye can see. Simple as that.
This game must be real zippy. "Stun, slow, disorient, daze, snare, root, stun, freeze, cripple, root, slow, stun" Wonder what combat is like? Does everyone sort of like stumble around in a haze like post-game NFL tailgaters?
Are they for POWER-HUNGRY users? Or TECH-SAVVY businesspeople? Or are they BUSINESS-FRIENDLY machines? Is there one modern journalist or advertising copy writer that can construct a sentence without hype-hyphenated babble?
For that matter is there one computer company that can discuss computers and money without a picture of a salt-and-pepper-haired overpaid buzzword-shitting suburban asscrack holding or in the immediate vicinity of an oversized coffee cup? Because the boxes for these financial programs don't seem to mention A COFFEE CUP IS REQUIRED TO ADD UP SUBURBAN CASH ON YOUR COMPUTER.
Oh, and about the Core Duo 2 zippy super gizmo? Get a Mac.
Most of the places I worked had persistent 50 MPH winds caused by the brown clogged rivers of bullshit thundering up and down the halls. People were fired so fast they didn't have time to fill out their parking sticker cards. I remember one fuck said something about a promotion once. He was holding the door open with one foot and scrabbling loose change out of his pen drawer like a starving hound before his department was toilet-rammed. This was about a week before they were going to ship a project about 100 people had been working on for a year. The project went with the department into the shitpipe at about Mach 3. All the hairpieces got bonuses. Oh yeah. Salad with croutons.
So what makes you think "hot?" The glasses or the broach?
Most of the managers I worked for who claimed to be female had faces that could stop a clock. Nice try though. Leave the schtick to the pros there, Sparky.
For mainstream business use, that is pretty much essential.
Yep. If a middle management type is clop-clop-clopping through the marble-floored reception area with her steel-rimmed glasses and her Vallejo broach towards the conference room where the hairpieces will sit around and guffaw over cracked lobster while they decide how to divide the salaries of all the people they're about to fire, she better have some CHARTS AND GRAPHS with her or her presentation won't be entertaining enough.
Because as we all know, as long as the presentation is entertaining, it doesn't matter if it's completely wrong. How else could she afford 17-inch wheels for her S-I'm better than U-V with enough chrome to turn Mount Vesuvius into the world's greatest IMAX theater? Priorities, man. Priorities.
How much demand will there really be from corporate users?
None, it's a complete waste of time and money.
Oh, wait, you expected someone to be able to predict the future with perfect accuracy, right? Something like what the egg-salad-stuffing asswedges in the conference rooms of our great free enterprises want on a daily basis so they have something to wave in the air and screech "it wasn't MY fault" when they fuck up?
I would assume that most would be nervous
Sphincters tighten at every overrated corporate desk when the fucks who ram thick wads of cash into their pockets by the hour are called upon to actually make a decision or do something remotely related to management.
So they instruct everyone to say they are in a meeting and hide under their hairpieces like the sniveling little weasel fucks they are, all the while trying to get everyone to think they are true starch-pressed captains of industry because they drive a car with leather seats.
What they should do in exchange for everyone else's paycheck is MAKE A FUCKING DECISION AND STAND BY IT.
But they won't. They'll just reverse-clusterfuck everything they touch and fire people to make up for the money they waste.
People used to have careers at large corporations. They provided benefits and a stable income that people could rely on to support their purchase of a home, sending their kids to college, and retiring. People worked at the same company for decades, earning steady promotions and raises. Large companies used to be completely in favor of this. It was the reason most of us were told to "get an education and work hard." It was the reason there used to be a middle class.
Content, on the other hand, seems to be falling in all mediums.
Good. The faster "content" goes away, the faster something really good can take its place. The industry definition of content is "noise that keeps the intervals between commercials from being test patterns." Creative talent is not and will never be a commodity.
And now that cable and phone companies are starting to sell similar bundles of phone, broadband Internet and television products--known in the industry as a triple play--they risk losing subscribers forever if they do not keep them happy.
It is truly amazing how business keeps "re-discovering" competition. It's kind of like that Star Trek episode where the 200-year-old ship appears before every commercial break.
"We're losing customers!"
"Maybe we can get them back with a really arrogant female SUV-driver announcer voice in our commercials"
"Just don't mention the price"
"Quarterly earnings are up."
"DOWN 50% ACROSS THE BOARD!!"
"COMPETITORS TAKE 35% MARKET SHARE!!"
"CHAPTER 11 CHAPTER 11 ALL HANDS UPDATE RESUMES ALL HANDS UPDATE--"
...
"We've just been granted a nice chunky monopoly over one million customers. Accounting thinks we can price-bloat all three of our services even more if we can just figure out a way to charge non-customers fees..."
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but there's a tone of copyrighted material out there
All of the videos on America's Funniest Home Videos were copyrighted too. Like before they were submitted even. Amazing, huh?
Yes copyright is one of the few things left that regular people can have without a board of directors approval.
For now.
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Is it American humor?
American television executive humor. About as funny as applying for a dog license.
This is why you need five years of experience and a Master's Degree: so you can have long analytical discussions about who stole a lunch. This is what chairwedges sit around and talk about all day between meetings while they suck down thick benefits and paychecks in the air conditioned comfort of carpeting on every surface except the ceiling while the rest of us are actually producing something. These people are "employable." People who produce are "unemployable."
These are the jobs I'm told PhDs are overqualified for, and people with degrees and experience just aren't enough of a "team player" for. I guess asking "what the fuck are people doing wasting time talking about who stole what lunch?" is being a non-team-player.
they actually have several e-book readers at market
Who? Where? When? We get one announcement and not another word. They are the only product that gets one ad. One.
the problem is that no one buys them
The problem is that no one markets them. See "rat fuck middle manager" for the reason.
This is an easily solved problem. With 10% of the money spent on one video game console manufacturing upgrade we could give everyone free ebook readers.
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One has the ability for abstract problem solving and conceptualization, and the other can only repeat what they are shown.
False dilemma. All human beings have the ability to solve and conceptualize abstract problems.
If you're going to hire competant people, you have to hire people who want to learn.
All people want to learn. If people don't want to learn, it's management's fault.
Perhaps the fact that you got flustered so easily is something of a sign that you would not do well in a position which requires you to solve problems under any pressure - like, for example, a technical support position.
Corporate people are all perfect. They are absolutely perfect.
a functionally useless bachelor degree
Education is meaningless in this society.
ot need to continue to burden themselves with the expense of a college diploma
Where the degree goes, the rest of education follows. Total societal illiteracy doesn't take much.
If you want to retain the concentration on art and literature, fine - just cut out the worthless social commentary and political 'artists'
Money is all that matters. We don't need all that art and literature "fluff."
Art and literature are meaningless to business, which explains why people making six figures can't construct a complete sentence. But hey, they can sure misspell words in Powerpoint! Pass the croutons.
In particular, they asked: "Where is the one place you can walk one mile south, one mile east, and one mile north, and end up exactly where you started."
Correct answer: "Thanks for the coffee."
So, I throw questions that are -way- above the level of programmer that I'm looking for.
Which demoralizes, confuses and belittles the candidates thus achieving what interviewers want to achieve: depriving people of the opportunity to learn the job and contribute, thereby causing them pain and suffering.
It's not about "can they do the job?" It's about exercising power against the weak. Nice and adversarial. Just the way employers like it.
Skill, education and experience do not matter because employers are liars and cheats. By destroying the social contract of "get an education, work hard and you will succeed" they are destroying society. Employment, business, etc. has turned into a game show. It is totally random. The percentage of financing sources, partners, vendors and clients that insist on a choice between something patently unreasonable to even the most cynical screaming asshole or a slammed door is well over 90%. Most "business people" don't even bother with any traditional business model any more. You could bring them a sure thing with two tons of printed proof and they'd still say something really REALLYFUCKING STUPID AND MEANINGLESS like "where's the value added?"
Motherfucking cheats and liars as far as the eye can see. Simple as that.
Spear and Magic Helmet
Spear and Magic Helmet?
This game must be real zippy. "Stun, slow, disorient, daze, snare, root, stun, freeze, cripple, root, slow, stun" Wonder what combat is like? Does everyone sort of like stumble around in a haze like post-game NFL tailgaters?
Are they for POWER-HUNGRY users? Or TECH-SAVVY businesspeople? Or are they BUSINESS-FRIENDLY machines? Is there one modern journalist or advertising copy writer that can construct a sentence without hype-hyphenated babble?
For that matter is there one computer company that can discuss computers and money without a picture of a salt-and-pepper-haired overpaid buzzword-shitting suburban asscrack holding or in the immediate vicinity of an oversized coffee cup? Because the boxes for these financial programs don't seem to mention A COFFEE CUP IS REQUIRED TO ADD UP SUBURBAN CASH ON YOUR COMPUTER.
Oh, and about the Core Duo 2 zippy super gizmo? Get a Mac.
I take it you didn't get that promotion?
Most of the places I worked had persistent 50 MPH winds caused by the brown clogged rivers of bullshit thundering up and down the halls. People were fired so fast they didn't have time to fill out their parking sticker cards. I remember one fuck said something about a promotion once. He was holding the door open with one foot and scrabbling loose change out of his pen drawer like a starving hound before his department was toilet-rammed. This was about a week before they were going to ship a project about 100 people had been working on for a year. The project went with the department into the shitpipe at about Mach 3. All the hairpieces got bonuses. Oh yeah. Salad with croutons.
So what makes you think "hot?" The glasses or the broach?
Most of the managers I worked for who claimed to be female had faces that could stop a clock. Nice try though. Leave the schtick to the pros there, Sparky.
For mainstream business use, that is pretty much essential.
Yep. If a middle management type is clop-clop-clopping through the marble-floored reception area with her steel-rimmed glasses and her Vallejo broach towards the conference room where the hairpieces will sit around and guffaw over cracked lobster while they decide how to divide the salaries of all the people they're about to fire, she better have some CHARTS AND GRAPHS with her or her presentation won't be entertaining enough.
Because as we all know, as long as the presentation is entertaining, it doesn't matter if it's completely wrong. How else could she afford 17-inch wheels for her S-I'm better than U-V with enough chrome to turn Mount Vesuvius into the world's greatest IMAX theater? Priorities, man. Priorities.
How much demand will there really be from corporate users?
None, it's a complete waste of time and money.
Oh, wait, you expected someone to be able to predict the future with perfect accuracy, right? Something like what the egg-salad-stuffing asswedges in the conference rooms of our great free enterprises want on a daily basis so they have something to wave in the air and screech "it wasn't MY fault" when they fuck up?
I would assume that most would be nervous
Sphincters tighten at every overrated corporate desk when the fucks who ram thick wads of cash into their pockets by the hour are called upon to actually make a decision or do something remotely related to management.
So they instruct everyone to say they are in a meeting and hide under their hairpieces like the sniveling little weasel fucks they are, all the while trying to get everyone to think they are true starch-pressed captains of industry because they drive a car with leather seats.
What they should do in exchange for everyone else's paycheck is MAKE A FUCKING DECISION AND STAND BY IT.
But they won't. They'll just reverse-clusterfuck everything they touch and fire people to make up for the money they waste.
People used to have careers at large corporations. They provided benefits and a stable income that people could rely on to support their purchase of a home, sending their kids to college, and retiring. People worked at the same company for decades, earning steady promotions and raises. Large companies used to be completely in favor of this. It was the reason most of us were told to "get an education and work hard." It was the reason there used to be a middle class.
And what do we have now?
Content, on the other hand, seems to be falling in all mediums.
Good. The faster "content" goes away, the faster something really good can take its place. The industry definition of content is "noise that keeps the intervals between commercials from being test patterns." Creative talent is not and will never be a commodity.
If they can do it (and they've only recently switched to digital) why can't America?
Middle management. It's the answer to every question that begins with "why can't?"
It is truly amazing how business keeps "re-discovering" competition. It's kind of like that Star Trek episode where the 200-year-old ship appears before every commercial break.
"We're losing customers!"
"Maybe we can get them back with a really arrogant female SUV-driver announcer voice in our commercials"
"Just don't mention the price"
"Quarterly earnings are up."
"DOWN 50% ACROSS THE BOARD!!"
"COMPETITORS TAKE 35% MARKET SHARE!!"
"CHAPTER 11 CHAPTER 11 ALL HANDS UPDATE RESUMES ALL HANDS UPDATE--"
...
"We've just been granted a nice chunky monopoly over one million customers. Accounting thinks we can price-bloat all three of our services even more if we can just figure out a way to charge non-customers fees..."
but there's a tone of copyrighted material out there
All of the videos on America's Funniest Home Videos were copyrighted too. Like before they were submitted even. Amazing, huh?
Yes copyright is one of the few things left that regular people can have without a board of directors approval.
For now.
Is it American humor?
American television executive humor. About as funny as applying for a dog license.
The last person they look for is the CFO. After all, he has the money for a bagel
right?
Right after the entire department is laid off? Sure.
I think it's because low level people are fired.
Top execs know they aren't going to get fired
Fixed.
So that explanation does not really make sense.
Yeah but you know, every corporate manager needs apologists so they can keep fucking everyone over.
This is why you need five years of experience and a Master's Degree: so you can have long analytical discussions about who stole a lunch. This is what chairwedges sit around and talk about all day between meetings while they suck down thick benefits and paychecks in the air conditioned comfort of carpeting on every surface except the ceiling while the rest of us are actually producing something. These people are "employable." People who produce are "unemployable."
These are the jobs I'm told PhDs are overqualified for, and people with degrees and experience just aren't enough of a "team player" for. I guess asking "what the fuck are people doing wasting time talking about who stole what lunch?" is being a non-team-player.
The modern workplace is an unwiped ass.
they actually have several e-book readers at market
Who? Where? When? We get one announcement and not another word. They are the only product that gets one ad. One.
the problem is that no one buys them
The problem is that no one markets them. See "rat fuck middle manager" for the reason.
This is an easily solved problem. With 10% of the money spent on one video game console manufacturing upgrade we could give everyone free ebook readers.
This doesn't solve the original problem of the textbooks being expensive in the first place.
BUT THAT"S THE FREEEEEEEEE MARKET! DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND?