Post #203,404
4/14/05 6:17:26 PM
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"Too Laid Back?"
The recruiter told me that the employer said that although I seemed technically better qualified than the person they eventually selected, that I was "too laid back". Me? Laid back? I was purposely trying to keep mellow because I am a nervious wreck during interviews. If I would have known that, I would have OD'd on caffine. I don't know what the hell employers want. They are too goddam picky. Time to get the flying hell out of IT. I can't wait forever for it to turn around, and temp contracts are drying up also now. The thing is, alternative globalism-safe careers I've looked into bore the hell out of me. I want to AUTOMATE boring routine tasks, not perform them.
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Post #203,412
4/14/05 9:19:51 PM
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Sing it brother
I don't know what the hell employers want. They are too goddam picky.
Every interview I was on last year required one or more skills test. In one instance I got a 90% on the VB6 test and an 85% on the SQL Server test and STILL didn't get asked in for an interview. Unfucking real. lincoln
"Windows XP has so many holes in its security that any reasonable user will conclude it was designed by the same German officer who created the prison compound in "Hogan's Heroes." - Andy Ihnatko, Chicago Sun-Times
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Post #203,447
4/15/05 6:08:55 AM
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You'd think engineers could think critically
I almost didn't get my current job 'cos I asked "does anyone play games during lunchtime?" Never mind that I explained my development methodology when the department doesn't have one (and knows it needs one). Never mind that I emphasised documentation as part of the design process when the department rushes code out as fast as possible. (Two months later, I had to argue with the department, technical head why I ought to have access to a CASE tool). Never mind that I studied for my degree whilst in full time employment. Never mind that I have no sense of humour. One of the interviewers thought I must have been some kind of slacker! Gah!
Matthew Greet
But we must kill them. We must incinerate them. Pig after pig, cow after cow, village after village, army after army. And they call me an assassin. What do you call it when the assassins accuse the assassin? They lie. They lie and we must be merciful to those who lie.
- Colonol Kurtz, Apocalypse Now.
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Post #203,468
4/15/05 11:15:11 AM
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Well then, the question begs...
One of the interviewers thought I must have been some kind of slacker! Gah! Well, are you? I suspect I know the answer. I will admit I am a slacker, when I can be. When it is a "good thing" I am not being a slacker, I am not. -- [link|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net|greg], [link|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ iwethey[link|http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=134485&cid=11233230|"Microsoft Security" is an even better oxymoron than "Military Intelligence"] No matter how much Microsoft supporters whine about how Linux and other operating systems have just as many bugs as their operating systems do, the bottom line is that the serious, gut-wrenching problems happen on Windows, not on Linux, not on Mac OS. -- [link|http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1622086,00.asp|source]
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Post #203,519
4/15/05 5:33:14 PM
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Grr... another one
Unless you think I'm a liar, look at what I write on this board and take a wild guess. Let me give you a clue: the last computer game I bought was Railroad Tycoon 3.
Matthew Greet
But we must kill them. We must incinerate them. Pig after pig, cow after cow, village after village, army after army. And they call me an assassin. What do you call it when the assassins accuse the assassin? They lie. They lie and we must be merciful to those who lie.
- Colonol Kurtz, Apocalypse Now.
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Post #203,520
4/15/05 5:42:37 PM
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Bittorrent is great, isn't it? :-P
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
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Post #203,557
4/16/05 1:02:29 AM
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That was a something called a
Jokeson.
Matt, please don't take offense, I meant it as a term of endearment.
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[link|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net|greg],
[link|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ iwethey
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Post #203,567
4/16/05 12:15:30 PM
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Thanks for the sig, Greg
Now I know I'm successfully routing out through the T1, instead of the VPN. :)
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Post #203,571
4/16/05 12:37:01 PM
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It has LRPDisms too :-)
Tux holding the sign - "No, I'm a meat popsicle."
refresh
Green critter holding the sign - "You have a problem with authority, Mr. Anderson"
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Rainbo critter - "Spandex: it's a privilege, not a right"
and so on.
Darrell Spice, Jr. [link|http://spiceware.org/gallery/ArtisticOverpass|Artistic Overpass]\n[link|http://www.spiceware.org/|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
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Post #203,579
4/16/05 3:10:03 PM
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See the phrase 'I have no sense of humour'
Matthew Greet
But we must kill them. We must incinerate them. Pig after pig, cow after cow, village after village, army after army. And they call me an assassin. What do you call it when the assassins accuse the assassin? They lie. They lie and we must be merciful to those who lie.
- Colonol Kurtz, Apocalypse Now.
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