Burned that bridge so good the contract agency lost the contract entirely and the last time I spoke with them they were still shell-shocked at what I had done to them.
I try to avoid burning bridges whenever possible. Silicon Valley, for example, is a very small community. You may never know when your coworker will become your next boss or your last boss will become your subordinate. I do vent my displeasure on recruiters whom I felt misled me in some way.
Given that just about every country in the world now has gone metric with the exception of the US, I think it's about time you rejoined modern civilisation.
When my father passed away five years, I was surprised that he had mostly metric tools in his toolboxes.
And yet it's the very thing Zuckerberg, Natella and Larry Page are DOING.
I'm reading "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" by Antonio Garcia Martinez, about Facebook advertising. I'm at the part where Facebook internal data connects with external data to attach personal information on to every piece of data that Facebook had collected from the web. Scary stuff.
Until the US switches to the metric system there will be no meaningfulà increase in manufacturing jobs in the US.
After my father cracked the engine block on his flatbed truck in 1988, he took it into the repair shop. A year later he had to fix the throwout bearing and discovered that the grease monkeys replaced all the standard nuts and bolts with metric nuts and bolts. That pissed him off like nothing else, especially since he didn't own a metric tool set. We spent a long weekend finding and replacing every metric part with standard parts.
Just wanted to pop in and say, I don't know why these folks are being a**holes to you.
If a fat person can be successful, than anyone can be successful. Some asshats have a problem with that. Casey Neistat did a video that summed up the situation.
With that attitude they probably weren't worth calling back anyway.
You wouldn't know until you called them back. Some recruiters think unemployed people just sit around waiting for the phone to ring. When I'm doing an active job searching, I'm tracking of 32 calls and emails each day.
That just proves desperation - not always a good quality in an employee (or that they spend all day at work surfing Indeed.com).
I've gotten a half-dozen interviews that way. Alternatively, if a recruiter calls you and you don't call back in 15 minutes, some won't consider you for a position because you weren't "prompt" enough.
You sat there 90 minutes without identifying yourself?
There was no receptionist and only a phone in the lobby. I left a voicemail for the hiring manager. He wore a sweat suit and came through three times. The recruiter kept calling to ask where the hell I was. Finally, on the fourth walkthrough, he talked to me. Everyone in the company thought I was a venture capitalist. That was last interview I wore a suit and tie.
"off the shelf" where the heck do you get off the shel COBOL programs!!
Library books. When I looked up computer programming books as a kid in the early 1980's, the local library only had books on financial accounting in COBOL. One book even described how to program punch cards.
If the applicant can't handle the hiring process, then maybe they aren't worth hiring.
I have a zero tolerance for recruiters and hiring managers who waste my time. If I arrive 15 minutes early, announced my presence and nothing happens 15 minutes after the start of the appointment, I'll leave. The only exception to this rule would be if I've drove out of my way for an interview. One time I sat in a lobby for 90 minutes because the hiring manager thought I was a venture capitalist and wasn't expecting me to be dressed up in a suit-and-tie. I was better dressed than the CEO. Unbelievable.
What do you have, a grandfathered plan from the turn of the millennium?
My sister-in-law kept the same cellphone with a $10 per month plan for ten years. That is until she used the restroom at work one day. The cellphone slipped out of her of pocket and into the toilet bowl. Since it was an auto flush toilet, her cellphone was long gone by the time she turned around. She got an iPhone and paid $90 per month like the rest of us.
When I was working seven days a week for two years after the Great Recession, I upgraded my voice-only cellphone for a generic smartphone that got email and Internet access. That was quite useful as drove back and forth across Silicon Valley for contract assignments. The only problem that I had with generic smartphone that it would occasionally butt call my boss and I would hear his voice coming out of my ass.
You forgot to mention the part about how you would jack off to photos of Mae West while you waited for the download, and you would pass out from exertion before reaching climax, because your sexual prowess is so bad that you can't even perform sexually for yourself.
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Wait a minute... that sound like my government IT job.
Burned that bridge so good the contract agency lost the contract entirely and the last time I spoke with them they were still shell-shocked at what I had done to them.
I try to avoid burning bridges whenever possible. Silicon Valley, for example, is a very small community. You may never know when your coworker will become your next boss or your last boss will become your subordinate. I do vent my displeasure on recruiters whom I felt misled me in some way.
She could have just bought another similar phone.
She didn't want another 1990-ish cellphone.
Given that just about every country in the world now has gone metric with the exception of the US, I think it's about time you rejoined modern civilisation.
When my father passed away five years, I was surprised that he had mostly metric tools in his toolboxes.
Flowchart warriors?! I stilll have my flowchart template from my Introduction to Computers (circa 1993). Where do I sign up?
Everyone on the Internet are law-abiding citizens. This shouldn't be a problem.
TV? What TV? I haven't watched TV in 20+ years. Last I checked the Big Three networks were history.
And yet it's the very thing Zuckerberg, Natella and Larry Page are DOING.
I'm reading "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" by Antonio Garcia Martinez, about Facebook advertising. I'm at the part where Facebook internal data connects with external data to attach personal information on to every piece of data that Facebook had collected from the web. Scary stuff.
An irrelevant story, courtesy of the man who loves to hear his own voice.
I have no plans to offer a podcast. Maybe next year. ;)
"Ralph! Get away from that man before he shits on you."
Cute.
Until the US switches to the metric system there will be no meaningfulà increase in manufacturing jobs in the US.
After my father cracked the engine block on his flatbed truck in 1988, he took it into the repair shop. A year later he had to fix the throwout bearing and discovered that the grease monkeys replaced all the standard nuts and bolts with metric nuts and bolts. That pissed him off like nothing else, especially since he didn't own a metric tool set. We spent a long weekend finding and replacing every metric part with standard parts.
Probably because older Millennials over 30 are growing up and behaving differently than their younger counterparts. Don't want to skew the results.
Just wanted to pop in and say, I don't know why these folks are being a**holes to you.
If a fat person can be successful, than anyone can be successful. Some asshats have a problem with that. Casey Neistat did a video that summed up the situation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iQ8BGw13So
I'm sorry that you're being subject to that, tho I'm not sure why you're engaging them.
I love trolling the trolls on Slashdot.
With that attitude they probably weren't worth calling back anyway.
You wouldn't know until you called them back. Some recruiters think unemployed people just sit around waiting for the phone to ring. When I'm doing an active job searching, I'm tracking of 32 calls and emails each day.
That just proves desperation - not always a good quality in an employee (or that they spend all day at work surfing Indeed.com).
I've gotten a half-dozen interviews that way. Alternatively, if a recruiter calls you and you don't call back in 15 minutes, some won't consider you for a position because you weren't "prompt" enough.
You sat there 90 minutes without identifying yourself?
There was no receptionist and only a phone in the lobby. I left a voicemail for the hiring manager. He wore a sweat suit and came through three times. The recruiter kept calling to ask where the hell I was. Finally, on the fourth walkthrough, he talked to me. Everyone in the company thought I was a venture capitalist. That was last interview I wore a suit and tie.
And the bright side of this - if you leave a voicemail when they don't answer, you can weed out the people who don't check their voicemail.
Or anyone who didn't call within 15 minutes of a job posting appearing on Indeed.com.
"off the shelf" where the heck do you get off the shel COBOL programs!!
Library books. When I looked up computer programming books as a kid in the early 1980's, the local library only had books on financial accounting in COBOL. One book even described how to program punch cards.
If the applicant can't handle the hiring process, then maybe they aren't worth hiring.
I have a zero tolerance for recruiters and hiring managers who waste my time. If I arrive 15 minutes early, announced my presence and nothing happens 15 minutes after the start of the appointment, I'll leave. The only exception to this rule would be if I've drove out of my way for an interview. One time I sat in a lobby for 90 minutes because the hiring manager thought I was a venture capitalist and wasn't expecting me to be dressed up in a suit-and-tie. I was better dressed than the CEO. Unbelievable.
Hai u haz job? I haz i wud lik to offr u, u intersted?
Sorry, I don't speak fluent Japanese. :P
So, your farts sound like "Alexa", "Amazon", or "Computer"?
I've often been accused of talking out of my ass.
What do you have, a grandfathered plan from the turn of the millennium?
My sister-in-law kept the same cellphone with a $10 per month plan for ten years. That is until she used the restroom at work one day. The cellphone slipped out of her of pocket and into the toilet bowl. Since it was an auto flush toilet, her cellphone was long gone by the time she turned around. She got an iPhone and paid $90 per month like the rest of us.
When I was working seven days a week for two years after the Great Recession, I upgraded my voice-only cellphone for a generic smartphone that got email and Internet access. That was quite useful as drove back and forth across Silicon Valley for contract assignments. The only problem that I had with generic smartphone that it would occasionally butt call my boss and I would hear his voice coming out of my ass.
If you really want white, try Boulder, CO.
I don't like a snow.
You forgot to mention the part about how you would jack off to photos of Mae West while you waited for the download, and you would pass out from exertion before reaching climax, because your sexual prowess is so bad that you can't even perform sexually for yourself.
I was never into ASCII porn.
Hand cramps, presumably.
Pipe clamps worked better.