Snow and no clothing? That must had been unpleasant.
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Food, Fuel, And Firearms—Twilight 2000, 4th edition. A review of the new edition of Twilight 2000.
Yarrrr!
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Absolutely NOT Micheal Bolton!Oh.
I was expecting this.
I said it was NOT Micheal Bolton.
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We're supposed to get ice and a bit of snow tonight so I guess I know what I'll be doing.
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Temperature today: 75*/24*C
Temperature tomorrow: 25*/-4*C
Make up your mind, Kansas.
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Guys.
Guys.
Guys.
I lost so much weight I can take my pants off without buttoning them.
I can fit into my old freaking JNCO jeans.
Holy shit.
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Guys.
Guys.
Guys.
I lost so much weight I can take my pants off without buttoning them.
I can fit into my old freaking JNCO jeans.
Holy s*%*.
I knew it, I am not the only one who still has a pair or two of their old JNCO's!
DO it Freehold, DO IT!!!
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Also, it was a fine name, until that no talent arse clown put out an album.
What can I say, Office Space is a personal favorite, and hits WAY too close to home...WAY...TOO...CLOSE.
I swear, I thought Impus Major's return to in-person learning would get rid of all the, "Now that we're in the digital age I can make you do work any time, day or night, weekend or holiday," mentality of his teachers, but... nope.
- His physics assignments are due on Mondays. The instructor doesn't accept late work. So he has to scan and turn in his homework today, a school holiday.
- Even worse, after 5:00 pm on Friday his instructor assigned a quiz to be done before midnight tonight.
I've been employed by various employers for 38 years now. I have never had a single employer want something over a weekend or holiday without a direct phone call to me stating that an emergency had come up and I needed to take care of something.
Having a bunch of instructors feel that they can spontaneously create work for students over a holiday weekend without so much as a simple email telling students that it happened is just vile.
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Speaking of 38 years, trying to fit that into a single page for a resume is hard. I think I have it, though.
(Helpful hint: The more pages in your resume, the less likely anyone important will read it.)
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Having a bunch of instructors feel that they can spontaneously create work for students over a holiday weekend without so much as a simple email telling students that it happened is just vile.
Training children to be on-call work drones who hearken to superiors' demands at any hour of the day, any day of the week is but one of the many things the modern public education system has taken on on behalf of the future slavedrivers of their student populace.
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Speaking of 38 years, trying to fit that into a single page for a resume is hard. I think I have it, though.
(Helpful hint: The more pages in your resume, the less likely anyone important will read it.)
Yeah one of the biggest recommendations I ever had when looking for work in the past was to keep the resume to one page if at all humanly possible, and that every addition beyond the first page significantly reduced the chances it would get any attention.
Granted, given how many online application forms now just have you filling in blanks, we should be beyond needing to have a resume document to send in. But for some reason almost all of them want you to fill out all those blanks and attach your resume. At least some will auto-fill the online forms from the resume, but some won't even do that.
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Speaking of 38 years, trying to fit that into a single page for a resume is hard. I think I have it, though.
(Helpful hint: The more pages in your resume, the less likely anyone important will read it.)
Yeah one of the biggest recommendations I ever had when looking for work in the past was to keep the resume to one page if at all humanly possible, and that every addition beyond the first page significantly reduced the chances it would get any attention.
Granted, given how many online application forms now just have you filling in blanks, we should be beyond needing to have a resume document to send in. But for some reason almost all of them want you to fill out all those blanks and attach your resume. At least some will auto-fill the online forms from the resume, but some won't even do that.
Well, I got it down to one page, and now I'll let Shiro and GothBard have at. They will be the ones who say, "Oh, that sounds really interesting! Tell me more about that!"
So at the end of it all it will probably grow back to 1.5 pages or so, but anything over 2 pages is Death.
(As I always told my manager, "Our job is to reduce 30 pages of documentation to one or two slides with no more than 50 words per slide. If, given an infinite amount of time, this person can't summarize their work history succinctly, what makes you think they'll be able to do the job?"
But of course, we're in a special area where brevity is a defining feature of what we do.)
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Basically all I have to do is find a way to work in my name, phone number, and ability to find Grandma Alice and that I can shave an angry bear with a skid loader and then I usually don't even have to bother filling out an application.
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A quiet day at Monday Fencing, but an interesting one. One of my pals, who enjoys enormous weapons and Outsider Woodwork, has made himself a cross between the Buster sword from Final Fantasy and a severely oversized Moro Kris out of plywood, for strength and agility training purposes. I should think it'll work.
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GOT POUTINE WITH CH WOOOOOOOOO
GOT POUTINE WITH CH WOOOOOOOOO
Waaaaant poutine now.
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"I have two employees that always leave work at 6pm. They're good, but I don't like that their commitment lasts for work hours only. What should I do as CEO?"
"You should copy and paste this complaint into a table in Microsoft Word 2007, print it double-sided in landscape mode, fold it in half eight time, soak it in olive oil, and shove it up your ass."
So say we all.
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What does it tell you when your manager gives notice and then every morning when you sign in to work she sends you job openings at other companies?
Rats? Sinking ship?
Seems like I should increase my efforts to move...
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Everyone seems to be looking to find a better employment opportunity.
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Everyone seems to be looking to find a better employment opportunity.
I'm a trend setter!
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LOL. And now my manager is reviewing/editing my resume.
I think it's 90% "you deserve a better job and I'm you're friend so I'll help" and 10% out-and-out vindictiveness towards Global Megacorporation.
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*yawn*
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Everyone seems to be looking to find a better employment opportunity.
I think I've said it before, but for my position and area I'm grossly underpaid: Even AWS's post for a mid-level position lists a top salary that's 10% over what I'm making now.
I didn't mind because I had significant quality-of-life benefits:
(1) Permanent work from home
(2) Infinite sick leave
(3) Infinite vacation time
(4) No overtime. Ever
(5) Most weeks I typically only have 25-30 hours of "real" work
(6) A fantastic manager who focused on giving me work that was intellectually stimulating and challenged me to learn and grow
With COVID, employers have learned that (1)-(3) are to their benefit, so most tech employers now offer the exact same package. With the Great Resignation, (4) is extremely unlikely to be an issue anywhere. And now I've lost (6).
So... stay at a company and get underpaid and underutilized and deal with a nightmare s****torm of politics and jockeying for power within the division, or get out, get a significant raise, and maybe have to work an actual 40 hours a week?
Seems like the latter is the wiser choice.
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With COVID, employers have learned that (1)-(3) are to their benefit, so most tech employers now offer the exact same package.
Be nice if the rest of the working world would learn that. None of mine have, bosses have been talking for about a year about getting us back in the office and only the inevitable email about "there's been another COVID exposure incident, everyone trace your activity" every 1-2 months has stayed it off. And infinite vacation and sick days are a laugh, we still have slowly-accruing PTO that is required to be spent on any sick days.
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Did a "Map Madness" bracket research project with my geography kiddos - randomly choose an African country, do some research, and the presentations go head to head.
The winners? Madagascar (because King Julian) and Chad (because they just liked yelling the name Chad).
Be nice if the rest of the working world would learn that. None of mine have, bosses have been talking for about a year about getting us back in the office and only the inevitable email about "there's been another COVID exposure incident, everyone trace your activity" every 1-2 months has stayed it off. And infinite vacation and sick days are a laugh, we still have slowly-accruing PTO that is required to be spent on any sick days.With COVID, employers have learned that (1)-(3) are to their benefit, so most tech employers now offer the exact same package.
I think it mostly has to do with working for a publicly-traded company. If your company is on the stock market, employee vacation balances are counted against your bottom line, leading to unpleasant stock fluctuations in Spring and Fall when employees aren't taking time off. Plus you're required to pay off any accrued PTO when the employee leaves.
It's not so much generosity as it is bean counting: They tried it on exempt (salaried) employees first and there was no massive uptick in vacation or sick time taken; in fact, employees grateful for the policy change tend to take less time off. Once that experiment was a success, they extended it to non-exempt (hourly) workers as well, and it was still a net uptick on their bottom line.
This wacky financing doesn't apply to companies that aren't publicly traded, so I suspect it's more about the size of your company than about its industry.
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Things that make you blush: My manager reviewed my resume and her feedback was, "This version of your resume doesn’t sound as incredible as you are."
So nice!
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Now, I like maize or potato based snacks, and I have noticed that the more expensive the maize or potato based snack, the less tasty and satisfying it is. For example, something that describes itself as hand-tossed artisanal hand-tossed celeriac and windmill infused crisps will have practically no flavour or texture, whereas supermarket knockoffs of Monster Munch, or the notorious Space Raiders, especially the pickled onion flavoured ones, will happily melt your face off from the inside.
Be nice if the rest of the working world would learn that. None of mine have, bosses have been talking for about a year about getting us back in the office and only the inevitable email about "there's been another COVID exposure incident, everyone trace your activity" every 1-2 months has stayed it off. And infinite vacation and sick days are a laugh, we still have slowly-accruing PTO that is required to be spent on any sick days.With COVID, employers have learned that (1)-(3) are to their benefit, so most tech employers now offer the exact same package.
I think it mostly has to do with working for a publicly-traded company. If your company is on the stock market, employee vacation balances are counted against your bottom line, leading to unpleasant stock fluctuations in Spring and Fall when employees aren't taking time off. Plus you're required to pay off any accrued PTO when the employee leaves.
It's not so much generosity as it is bean counting: They tried it on exempt (salaried) employees first and there was no massive uptick in vacation or sick time taken; in fact, employees grateful for the policy change tend to take less time off. Once that experiment was a success, they extended it to non-exempt (hourly) workers as well, and it was still a net uptick on their bottom line.
This wacky financing doesn't apply to companies that aren't publicly traded, so I suspect it's more about the size of your company than about its industry.
I work for the state, not a publicly-traded corporation.