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Penny Arcade: The Series, Episode 12: THE NEW HIRE, Part 2
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lips wrapped firmly around Mike, Jerry, and Khoo's collective cocks
the view is breathtaking.
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I think I was directly telling him to sack up or shut the fuck up.
I wondered about that but I didn't want to go putting any [strike]balls[/strike] words in your mouth
WTF are these two females wearing around their necks at all occasions in these videos? Are necks not something we show anymore?
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It gets associated with hipsters for reasons I do not yet understand, but they were used as fashion accessories INDOORS AND NOT ALWAYS IN WINTER long before the advent of the modern-day hipster.
if somethin aint practical like
i aint see no reason to be wearin it, 'sall.
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Mffgh mghrh mrff mngfgn guh bnrngh.
What more is there to rebut? My entire point is that personality-based interviews are inappropriate. Others chimed in saying "no, they are appropriate". Well, ok. There's not a lot more I can say. I've exlained my reasons and after careful consideration I have dismissed the issues raised by personality-proponents.
I get it. People think that having somebody "fun" to have around the office isn't such a bad thing because...you have to work with them. Well, yes. You work with them. These are co-workers. Not friends. And this is a place of business. Not a "team". Personality isn't the issue. Output is.
For girlfriends, I'm partial to nice ladies who I get along with. If they're attractive, so much the better. But for co-workers...who gives a fuck? Just get somebody who isn't totally offensive and knows how to do the job and actually does the job. I like co-workers who come in on time and don't fuck around. That's it.
It seems to me that if there were a couple of Penny Arcade videos where they asked skill and experience-based questions everybody here would be singing the praises of such interviews. I mean, are people really this passionate about personality-based job interviews?
Khoo sounds extremely adamant against hiring someone who "needs to be the center of attention". that's valid, especially for smaller companies. but was it one incident or the employee's whole personality that got them canned?
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yeah but you're a dude
it's like a girl drinking girly drinks
it's okay if she does it because well she's a girl
but the second a dude does it CUE THE VAGINA JOKES
I dunno about you but a TV show about them assessing two dozen semifinalists on technical art stuff that I don't understand is not my idea of good TV
Well, it's cold in New York, and the majority of NYC's population is hipsters (the remaining minority being made up of Wall St. traders, Mexican kitchen workers, museum curators, gang members, and Law & Order victims excepting L&O:SVU because most hipsters are rape victims), therefore scarves are for hipsters.
So they are basically scarves is what you are telling me.
I didn't associate them with being hip since I probably couldn't tell you what hip actually is... I just didn't know what they were.
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no you haven't.
you're either doing a masterful job of trolling or intentionally being a silly goose by answering obtusely. either is not acceptable for "reasoned debate", if that's what you're attempting.
you have not refuted any single argument people have put forth here in support of the "personality" interview. worse, you continue to set up straw men arguments.
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you have no idea how to run a good business if you honestly think there is no place for the word "team" in a business venture.
P.S. Erika also ran her own design firm in Flordia and seems to have been pretty successful at it.
so i think it is safe to say she can be professional when it counts at the very least.
and on top of it still be a rad chick.
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Actually I now work for a sporting association as a manager. I am also getting a Master of Social Work so that I can go into private practice as a counselor.
I used to work at two Fortune 500 companies as a professional and I got headhunted into my next two positions.
I have gobs more work and life experience than you ever will seeing as how I have advanced my career far further based solely on the fact that I have a personality.
Good luck with your professional job. If you don't change your mindset as to how teams and successful companies and successful individuals work, it'll grow stale in five years or so and you'll wonder why people three years your junior are passing you in the promotions queue. Then you'd probably do nothing about it but whinge like you are now.
Check back with me then.
I might also add, LH, that it's not just me who has a poor opinion of your point of view. It's also people who are NOT in HR or Recruitment who work in professional settings with successful, multinational companies.
In fact the way you keep touting "professional job" around like it marks you as some sort of successful person probably means you don't know what the word actually means.
I seriously wear scarves all the time unless I am uncomfortably warm--it's a cute way to keep me toasty without having to wear multiple layers of hoodies or sweaters. I don't wear them very often in the summer, but when I do, it's something light and cottony.
Regardless, I don't see what the big deal is. I don't really like to wear jewelry, but I do like to wear scarves.
Nope. Terrible.
The skill and experience related questions were asked and the answers they gave are why those three people were asked to offices in the first place.
have you ever actual ran a business?
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Yeah, this is how I feel. My big concern about Erika was asked in the interview, but they didn't show the answer. I so desperately want to know what she said.
I liked the scarves! On both of the women! I just didn't know what they were, honestly. My wife may be getting one for her birthday now!
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Post of the week.
a chainmail scarf
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i'm guessing the answers (and this applies to all of the applicants, really) were very intense or very personal, such that it'd be just inappropriate for public consumption.
t Lexxy: i'm sorry you didn't get the job, but i'm a fan of your art stuff!
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like, you fell asleep and he punched you?
or he is sleepwalking and came up and punched you?
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Blamimation up next, so looking forward to it.
and .5 seconds later my girlfriends fist was flying towards my face and hit me in the mouth
and i started bleeding.
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you need to get back to the gym, girl
i think her sleep-self secretly hates me.
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I thought the scarves were really cute!