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bsjezz
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is anyone else looking for a job at the moment?
i've had about eight interviews and made dozens of applications and no offers as yet.
sometimes position listings can be retarded
the moral of the story is people working in human resources and recruitment agencies are almost always really dumb
cheer me up with stories of success or lament with me our shared failures
i've had about eight interviews and made dozens of applications and no offers as yet.
sometimes position listings can be retarded
Experience working on cyber would be an advantage.
the moral of the story is people working in human resources and recruitment agencies are almost always really dumb
cheer me up with stories of success or lament with me our shared failures
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We don't really do a whole lot.
there was no training at the tutoring place
i just teach the kids one on one there is no contact with my managers
they charge $55 an hour to see me and give me $20 of it
i don't know who can afford to go there
But I had to get a drug test. Of course, the test was scheduled for exactly a week after I got my wisdom teeth out. Bad planning on my part, i know, but once i realized the conflict it was too late.
Anywho, after the procedure i was put on Percoset for pain, a very similar drug to the one the company produces. I only took it the day i got the procedure done and suffered through with advil for the rest of the week. My oral surgeon gave me a note explaining why i might fail my test but told me that I'd probably pass cuz it takes about a week to leave your system.
So basically they were supposed to call me and confirm the drug test results and give me a start date on a Monday (they legally couldn't start me until it was confirmed clean) So Wednesday roles around and they still haven't called me. I'm starting to sweat 'cuz I'm thinking, rather than have to explain to they FDA why they hired a guy who failed his drug test by testing positive for the very substance being produced at the facility, these guys might just tell me never mind, no matter what my doctor's note said.
Finally on Thursday they call me and tell me i can start. Turns out the big delay was because the third party company that did the drug test added a new drug to the list that they test for: Ecstasy. Apparently the only lab that tests for it is out in Vegas (I'm on the east coast) so that's where they sent my urine.
So I got the job and I'm cool but for a while I thought I was gonna have to lose it after I was already offered it just because I had bad timing getting my wisdom teeth removed, which would've been a pretty shitty reason to lose a job before you even start.
and you're not sure if you're applying for the same things, over and over again, messages piling up in the same HR inboxes
slowly making an enormous, contemptable fool of yourself in the eyes of the industry you so desperately aspire to
good times
I wasn't able to call in or out, and it would tell me I had voicemail but not let me listen to it, so I was never able to set up an appointment with them.
And rent is due on the first!
So they hired me.
Whoo.
I have orientation tomorrow, then training. Hopefully I start on Monday.
The job's at Waldbaums. It's only 10 minutes away. I don't really care where I work, as long as it has AC. My previous job at a water park sucked since it's, you know, outdoors. During the summer. And wearing some fruity shirt with flowers and fish didn't help to brighten my mood.
You better not be complaining about getting paid to do nothing or imma slap you, boy.
you know my girlfriend once saw the weinermobile broken down in the backwaters of british columbia
that would suck
XBL - Foreverender | 3DS FC - 1418 6696 1012 | Steam ID | LoL
Troubleshooting and stuff?
Basically he sits in a beautiful office all day, playing any game you can think of on any console you'd want to play, surfing the net or playing games on his quarterly upgraded, powerhouse computer, and maybe he'll get a call every couple hours to fix an email glitch or something, then go back to playing games.
He goes to their monthly "Beer and Pizza" nights, their monthly "Mega Gaming Tournaments" and has pretty much secured an eventual internal transfer to the LA office.
mother fucker, I hate him so much.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
That wasn't a complaint, that was me gloating!
I play WoW on the job!
OH YEAH!? DOES HE PLAY ANY GAMES ON THE PHANTOM!?!?
I'LL BET HE ISN'T THAT RICH
no, on the inside he's slowly being eaten away by weed smoke.
but he's a really cool guy and is always happy to fix my computer problems and goddamn he's a demon at tetris.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
How much does it pay, and if it's a lot can you get me a job?
You have to be a student of the University of Minnesota, and you only get paid like $8-9/hr.
but you do get 40 hours a week.
Hey dude. Just so you know, as long as the drugs are legal and prescribed, you'll never have any problem passing a drug test.
When a company does a urine test, generally what they do first is a "screener" test; they'll look for real generic, obvious things with a higher tolerance level, since it is a less sensitive test. So if you had been taking Percoset (sp?) then the screener test will probably turn up positive. However, if your screener test is positive, they'll apply a GC/MS test (Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry). These are extremely precise and sensitive, and will be able to figure out exactly what compounds were in your system. That is, they can distinguish between Percoset and whatever the illegal equivalent is. If they had found Percoset in your system, they'd probably have sat you down and said "We found this; can you explain it?" And in your case, you could have, and would have been fine.
The reason companies apply the less effective "screener" test is because it's way less expensive; that GC/MS shit costs a lot of cash, and so they only apply it if they really have to.
If anyone else has drug test questions, I'd be happy to take a shot at answering them
Beach cleanup, Puppet Shows, teaching retards (that's probably not p.c.) to bowl, etc. Good times.
but my rent's covered by my scholarship
also food
so basically I need a job for money for games and movies
What the fuck Geebs? Don't they have phonebooths in Bumfuck, Oregon?
I can't stand the waiting, I am keeping my options open.
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9.52 an hour here at UMN doing jack shit. I sit in an office and be bored and work the equivalent of 15 minutes on a fast day. Can't play games or WoW though or else I get yelled at for not representing the Language Center properly. I get paid way to much for what I do, and come August I'm gonna be getting a raise to over $10/hour.
PARKER, YOU'RE FIRED! <-- My comic book podcast! Satan look here!
WHats the worst that could happen? They fire you? Well, if with your credentials they weren't going to hire you what does it matter?
This is how I got hired at Comcast to sit on my ass and read forums while I was looking for a real job.
I'm gonna be trying to land my boss's position next year when I graduate and she leaves. It'll be around $15/hour and at a place I'm already familair with so I can take some time to relax after school. Plus 1 free class a semseter if I want.
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If I hadn't gone on to graduate school, I totally would have taken a job working here full-time. Basically the only university jobs that are stressful in any way are (1) administrative jobs or (2) academic advising jobs. Anything else is cake.