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Ari is a professional contact that they develop a personal relationship with.
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So you're saying that connections can only be personal if you're close friends?
I guess that works, but I got plenty of connections that aren't professional since I'm not looking for a job and it's unlikely that I'd find a job through them anyway. I'm also not really friends with them, I just engage in a bit of small talk when I see them.
I think it's rather hard to call people you know not actually personal connections just because you're not friends with them. The fact that they're professional does not mean they aren't a personal connection.
Besides even if we allow the distinction you made it doesn't make the line any less arbitrary. You're still using a connection to gain an advantage.
Why is this a bad thing? I don't think anyone would disagree that in a perfect world you'd have a way to find the best employee for every job, but that's just not possible. Someone earlier in this thread said that looking through everyone's resume is fair, but that's just not true since your ability to write a good resume is just as disconnected from most jobs as is the ability to be social and network. There can obviously be problems if taken to an extreme where a person is hired based solely on his connections, but in my experience networking and knowing people just fast tracks you to the interview process where you still need to prove that you can do the job.
I wasn't saying it's a bad thing, but the idea seems to be that some connections are totally ok to use while others aren't.
Also, there is nothing inherently "unfair" in using a connection to gain an advantage. If you get a reference from someone whose opinion you respect, would you ignore it?
Hell, that recruiter I mentioned, his paycheck relies on his ability to connect people he knows professionally.
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Natural to you is relative, and not a concern really. The so called incapability is merely an accusation on your part, something you're seemingly unwilling to debate(not that I want to, but it's not really a concern of mine as it seems to be with you). I wouldn't really say pragmatism is an appropriate term for your behaviour here, as you once again display passive aggressive hostility in your response. If you were truly pragmatic, then it shouldn't be too difficult to see the efficiency in positive communication in terms of achieving your ends when it comes to socializing here. This is what the discussed networking is about(at least in part), and what people in this very thread have been describing.
I mean, even feigning that positive socialization will usually help more than cynical arrogance in terms of getting people to see things the way you do.
None that I've seen. The entire process just bores me to tears.
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Your ability to see what you call passive aggressive behavior in everything is admirable. Observational bias aside, your opinion on efficiency is just that, also an opinion. What you consider useful or efficient would differ greatly from what I, or others, would consider the same.
I don't really want to make anyone see anything. This is a misconception on your part. I made a observation only. stone people even commented on it, only to amusing get drowned out by the semantic goosery.
Which actually might even prove a point somewhere, but I don't really care to look into it that deeply.
If you want to continue I'd be happy to take this to pm since we are simply talking to each other anyway.
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My remaining suggestion is simply that perhaps reading over the words you've typed would prove beneficial in terms of message control on your part. Regardless of your stated desire to not have anyone 'see anything'(which makes one question the point of posting at all), the language you chose to employ is more effective the more aware you are. That you question the efficiency in positive communication is odd, considering your seeming willingness to accept the use of networking. It's not exactly controversial that people will listen to you the less you're condescending and the more you're willing to positively engage with them. Not that I don't understand the desire to be provocative interacting with others, but it can often end up self defeating.
Our economy is awful, especially if you're a youngun or woman. And Romney is awful. Or how I learned to love indentured servitude.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17855240
Even more interesting is the comments section, full of boomers bleating about how it's a stupid article and life is far harder for the old in our ageist society.
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Agreed. The last thing the boomers need is yet more legal protection in the job market.
It also blows my mind that the boomers can complain about loosing their jobs to "young managers" when the employment statistics blatantly show the lie in that. I personally have never met a manager under 35. I'm 24 and both the department heads where I work are old enough to be my grandfather. So yeah, excuse me if I don't cry for all the poor boomers being deposed by us whippersnappers, because frankly, I'm yet to see it happen.
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I think this is my favorite comment:
Although this one is a close second:
In her defense, when I first read her comment my initial reaction was "hey, fuck you buddy" so maybe shes on to something.
"The 'younger generation' on the whole [in no particular order]: better educated under the new school system, more adaptable, have a better grasp of technology, aren't full of a sense of nostalgia, ambitious, I could go on......I am 24 and guarantee I could knock spots off of most old people because of these things. Society has kidded the old that they are somehow worth more."
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I'm sure it happens, and it's wrong when it does, but anecdotal accounts don't disprove a position of privilege.
Average salaries are higher for 55-65 year olds than they are for 25-35 year olds; unemployment is lower for 55-65 year olds than for 25-35 year olds. The former trend is somewhat excusable due to the value of experience (though this just means it's a justifiable form of age discrimination); the latter is absolutely not. Neither is the widening gap excusable.
The youngest generation of workers are objectively getting the shaft.
Most of us are unemployed, or under employed. We don't make any money, so we're not getting any houses any time soon.
The other problem of course is that the work practices set up by the boomers which led to big stock, pay, and promotion rewards for them are now the expected norms. Hours worldwide have gone up drastically for those people who do have a 'good' job and internal competition against arbitrary metrics is also stronger than ever. Whereas the boomers could work hard and long hours, and then expect to be rewarded above the norm, the current generation finds that that is simply the expected situation for retention. In addition the always connected society means that weekends and evenings have simply become more time to pile you up with surrounding prep work, it's a race to the bottom in terms of quality of life.
Decent working conditions are for commie socialist foreigners. Are you a commie socialist foreigner? This is Amurica, we work hard and then work harder. Fuck yeah!
In all fairness there is no other way to react to that. Anybody reading that knows on a deep instinctual level that she was born into privilege and never had to work for a fucking thing in her life. It's the only way to be that delusional and self entitled.
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The final marks are; 1) terrible (about to get fired), 2) Could do better, 3) Meeting expectations 4) Exceeds expectations 5) Perfection (or thereabouts). And i've been told by 3 seperate team-leaders (the people doing the reviews) that it's impossible to be given a 4 or higher.
In other words; this will be the 4th year in a row with no wage increase (which a 4 would pretty much guarantee). I've not been on holiday in roughly that long. My time off is spent doing not much at all as my real take-home pay goes down and down.
So no, hard work and long hours are NOT going to lead to any kind of reward. Did I mention we can't even do overtime?
They've got the voting part down, but they have this crazy notion we only vote every four years. Odd.