Personally? Is there some other way of thinking? Impersonally, I think you are insane.
I think similar thoughts when I hear sentences that start with "Honestly". I want to cut off the speaker and tell them, no no, I was looking for a good lie.
A year or two back they were warning us about how bad Hurricane Earl was going to be in the Northeast. Afterwards this photo, titled "Scenes of destruction from Hurricane Earl" started circulating.
I suspect Irene will be irritating, but tolerable.
Also, it's fantastic for me in that my mother-in-law is also named Irene. Lines up all kinds of easy jokes.
I've lived in or near NYC my entire life, and seen all kinds of NYC and LI traffic. Having said that, nothing I've been stuck in here has ever been worse than the times I've driven on I-95 between DC and Richmond during daylight hours.
Recruiters won't get it, but the other way. Every recruiter I've ever worked with has thrown resume after resume towards us, hoping something sticks.
Normally yeah, but our recruiters are actually in-house and only recruit for company positions, so they're a little more focused. Not better, but more focused.
We picked up our candidates a little bit faster when we told them to drop the language requirement from the posting, but I don't know how many of the people they sent us had been from the original search params. It took several rejected candidates before she understood that we really meant it when we said communication skills were paramount.
Sometimes. If you're unemployed long enough how much you've saved doesn't matter. If you can afford to wait for the right opportunity, kudos to you. If you can't, something is better than nothing.
So it's better for your personal situation to stay unemployed than to lower your salary requirements?
So it's better for him to ignore his value just to work at someone else's defined salary? What's the point of the value of experience if you can never bank on it? If you are willing to start at the salary of someone with minimal experience at each new job, you might as well move to a new field/industry every few years and not bother becoming an expert.
There's this thing called 'eating' that I like to do. It's harder when you're unemployed than it is when you're earning a salary below what your skills call for.
But. Try going in to a job interview and saying "No, I don't have 5 years of this language, but give me a week, some small changes to work on and access to google and I'll be able to program it as well as most of your other developers". It may be true, but it doesn't wash with HR people or project managers.
This is just as frustrating from the hiring side. I'd rather someone who can demonstrate problem solving skills and some general programming background than someone who has nothing else going for them but 5 years of experience in our primary language. But communicating this concept to HR and the recruiters is painful at best.
If he'd said IE without a version number, you'd have a case. But IE6 accounts for roughly 3% of my traffic, and from what I hear that's more or less the norm.
Not really related, but I remember a chem test where there was a 4 part question, with each part supposedly graded independently from the others. Each part was worth 2 points.I got the first part wrong, and then you need to use your answer from part 1 in part 2, and so on. Having the first part wrong, naturally the numbers written for the others parts were wrong, even though the steps taken to acquire those numbers were completely correct. He docked points for each part that had the wrong number as the answer. I went to him afterwards and asked what was wrong with parts 2 - 4, what should I have done differently to get full credit. He told me that he couldn't give full credit for wrong answers. So I asked him if part 1 was worth 5 points and all the rest worth 1, since that's what getting part 1 wrong cost me. We got into a fight over which got me nowhere but pissed off. The guy as OK overall, but he tended to do poorly with any alternative approaches to solving a problem. He'd give credit if it were right, but he tended to deride you for not going the "orthodox" route.
The author (possibly) knows what [s]he intended to communicate. You find what [s]he actually communicated in the words on the page. They're not necessarily the same.
What was actually communicated is entirely subjective and will usually vary from person to person. What was intended is singular.
I was thinking of it in the sense of it be locally (ie, non-imported) available.
On re-read I can see a more likely meaning for that.
The very brief research I've done to this point suggests that cassia bark might be counted as a variety of cinnamon, so perhaps the US is more accurately the world's largest cassia bark importer, but I'm really just speculating.
Was there a particular chart on there you're referring to?
I was admittedly too lazy to go beyond the first page of them, but I did discover that the US is quite dominant when it comes to cheese, and is also the world's largest cinnamon importer.
The first time I ever saw that clump of letters together it was GBLT, and while after a moment I figured out what it meant, my very first thought was "Gay... bacon, lettuce and tomato?"
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Personally? Is there some other way of thinking? Impersonally, I think you are insane.
I think similar thoughts when I hear sentences that start with "Honestly". I want to cut off the speaker and tell them, no no, I was looking for a good lie.
Yeah I'm not looking forward to commuting next week. Luckily my employer is very liberal about telecommuting.
A year or two back they were warning us about how bad Hurricane Earl was going to be in the Northeast. Afterwards this photo, titled "Scenes of destruction from Hurricane Earl" started circulating.
I suspect Irene will be irritating, but tolerable.
Also, it's fantastic for me in that my mother-in-law is also named Irene. Lines up all kinds of easy jokes.
Yeah he gets a little carried away with the whole happy dance thing.
I've lived in or near NYC my entire life, and seen all kinds of NYC and LI traffic. Having said that, nothing I've been stuck in here has ever been worse than the times I've driven on I-95 between DC and Richmond during daylight hours.
One kid with that attitude, it's his problem or his parents' problem.
A whole generation of kids with that attitude, and it's society's problem.
And next time, your memory of it won't be as good as this time.
My favorite response to this is "Nostalgia isn't what it used to be."
Recruiters won't get it, but the other way. Every recruiter I've ever worked with has thrown resume after resume towards us, hoping something sticks.
Normally yeah, but our recruiters are actually in-house and only recruit for company positions, so they're a little more focused. Not better, but more focused.
It's not the HR is conducting technical interviews. We still do that part. But they do an initial screening and then pass along resumes they like.
(Papers please!)
They actually said please?
With the right inflection, you can say "please" and make it clear that what you really mean is "scum".
We picked up our candidates a little bit faster when we told them to drop the language requirement from the posting, but I don't know how many of the people they sent us had been from the original search params. It took several rejected candidates before she understood that we really meant it when we said communication skills were paramount.
Sometimes. If you're unemployed long enough how much you've saved doesn't matter. If you can afford to wait for the right opportunity, kudos to you. If you can't, something is better than nothing.
So it's better for your personal situation to stay unemployed than to lower your salary requirements?
So it's better for him to ignore his value just to work at someone else's defined salary? What's the point of the value of experience if you can never bank on it? If you are willing to start at the salary of someone with minimal experience at each new job, you might as well move to a new field/industry every few years and not bother becoming an expert.
There's this thing called 'eating' that I like to do. It's harder when you're unemployed than it is when you're earning a salary below what your skills call for.
But. Try going in to a job interview and saying "No, I don't have 5 years of this language, but give me a week, some small changes to work on and access to google and I'll be able to program it as well as most of your other developers". It may be true, but it doesn't wash with HR people or project managers.
This is just as frustrating from the hiring side. I'd rather someone who can demonstrate problem solving skills and some general programming background than someone who has nothing else going for them but 5 years of experience in our primary language. But communicating this concept to HR and the recruiters is painful at best.
If he'd said IE without a version number, you'd have a case. But IE6 accounts for roughly 3% of my traffic, and from what I hear that's more or less the norm.
Yes, you can no longer say "AMERICA FUCK YEAH!"
AMERICA FUCK YEAH!
I dunno, it still works when I try it.
Not really related, but I remember a chem test where there was a 4 part question, with each part supposedly graded independently from the others. Each part was worth 2 points.I got the first part wrong, and then you need to use your answer from part 1 in part 2, and so on. Having the first part wrong, naturally the numbers written for the others parts were wrong, even though the steps taken to acquire those numbers were completely correct. He docked points for each part that had the wrong number as the answer. I went to him afterwards and asked what was wrong with parts 2 - 4, what should I have done differently to get full credit. He told me that he couldn't give full credit for wrong answers. So I asked him if part 1 was worth 5 points and all the rest worth 1, since that's what getting part 1 wrong cost me. We got into a fight over which got me nowhere but pissed off. The guy as OK overall, but he tended to do poorly with any alternative approaches to solving a problem. He'd give credit if it were right, but he tended to deride you for not going the "orthodox" route.
The author (possibly) knows what [s]he intended to communicate. You find what [s]he actually communicated in the words on the page. They're not necessarily the same.
What was actually communicated is entirely subjective and will usually vary from person to person. What was intended is singular.
When I worked at comcast every weekend someone had to volunteer to watch the porn channels all weekend long. you got PAID to do it.
For quality control? Or some other reason?
Thank you. I used to replace my sig more often, but that's a tough one to beat.
I suppose I may have misunderstood.
When I read:
You can hardly find cinnamon in the US
I was thinking of it in the sense of it be locally (ie, non-imported) available.
On re-read I can see a more likely meaning for that.
The very brief research I've done to this point suggests that cassia bark might be counted as a variety of cinnamon, so perhaps the US is more accurately the world's largest cassia bark importer, but I'm really just speculating.
importer, not exporter.
It does when you are the most powerful nation on earth...
You really should do some research before blindly parroting jingoistic platitudes.
http://rankingamerica.wordpress.com/
Was there a particular chart on there you're referring to?
I was admittedly too lazy to go beyond the first page of them, but I did discover that the US is quite dominant when it comes to cheese, and is also the world's largest cinnamon importer.
LGBT rights issues.
The first time I ever saw that clump of letters together it was GBLT, and while after a moment I figured out what it meant, my very first thought was "Gay... bacon, lettuce and tomato?"