I applied to a place by sending in my resume, and got a response from their HR person that they wanted me to fill out an application and to come on in! I said, "All the relevant info for me is on my resume, if I also have to fill out an application, your system has unnecessary redundancies and that is a red flag for me."
The next day the job listing removed the "send us a resume" thing and was just a link to the job application form, so I think I inadvertently helped them be less dumbo.
Sad but true. I usually make sure I also send a copy of my good-looking resume or if I am invited to an interview I'll take a physical copy with me. I just hate how those text boxes don't allow any formatting.
Also fucking hate those applications that allow for your LinkedIn to be used as a resume, and then don't give any options to leave out parts of my CV that would not be relevant to the position I'm applying for.
Generating the plan directory for the current project phase. Up to about 1800 plans so far. Maybe halfway done. Add to that all the plans from the external technical/specialist planners. Maybe at least 10k plans? Multiplied by I don't know how many indices everyone is going to produce. Have fun sifting and verifying that, client.
Complicated online meeting etiquette question
a few months before I left my old job I moved across to a new project (Mars, yay)
I never technically left the project because there's some crossover between it and my new job so I'm basically folding the project into my current research
but administratively and infrastructurally, I'm ignoring the hell out of it on the "never go to a meeting you don't have to" principle
There's at least one meeting a week, they always email the weblink and a password, and I always trash the email immediately. But now ... now I need to ask them something. And I'm not even sure who to ask.
I'm wondering how weird it would be to just sort of ... slide into the weekly meeting and act like I've always been there
i figure if there's enough people on the call my thumbnail could have plausibly been bumped to the next page over for six months, right? that sounds likely
A few options:
1. Bulldozer - join the meeting and pre empty the meeting with your question. Bonus points if you immediately leave once you get your answer. You're an asshole and you don't care.
2. The friend - reach out to a person on the team, expecting either an answer or "join our next meeting".
3. The remora - join the meeting, then ask in the first dead space.
2 and 3 are generally fine. 1 if you are out of fucks or they don't answer your stuff passive aggressively.
Option 4: The Ventriloquist. Find someone else who attends the meeting and have them ask for you.
Option 5: The Soap Opera. Just show back up holding a baby. If anyone asks about it later, act confused and say you don't have a baby, what are they talking about?
Option 6: The Sauron. Show up looking A-M-A-Z-I-N-G, ask your question and then spend the next few months slowly corrupting the team and eventually attempt to overthrow them by forging a robot into which you pour all your malice, hate, spite and cruelty.
Option 7: The Imposter. Find a friend who looks almost just like you, and have them attend the meeting, ask your question, then awkwardly start asking questions about Earth's defense systems.
Any of you ever get a professional to rewrite your resume?
Look throught the job description and write down the keywords.
Look through the company's website and try to grab their core values.
Edit your CV to include as many keywords as you can squeeze in and gives examples of any values.
Repeat for every job application.
first one: we're not auto-renewing contracts for a term period longer than 12 months.
me: okay nbd
2nd notice: we're automatically adding 5% every time we renew
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Fortunately not how Navy advancement works at that level for the most part.
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Oh I'm sure it doesn't work that way in the army anymore either, but back during the first year or two after 9/11 it was pretty easy to get your stripes with having to pass the board and PLDC(as it was called then) being deferred.
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To link back to work related discussion, the most NCO I've ever felt was yesterday when I had to tell a nearly 50 year old man that the reason the vacuum motor was burning out was the huge rock he had tried to vacuum over and got wedged up in the brush bar. He tried to vacuum up a giant rock and then had no idea why the motor was burning out.
Gatsby would be a good way to teach a lesson about how symbolism can be helpful for picking up themes and subtext but isn't actually as important as the text.
Option 4: The Ventriloquist. Find someone else who attends the meeting and have them ask for you.
Option 5: The Soap Opera. Just show back up holding a baby. If anyone asks about it later, act confused and say you don't have a baby, what are they talking about?
Option 6: The Sauron. Show up looking A-M-A-Z-I-N-G, ask your question and then spend the next few months slowly corrupting the team and eventually attempt to overthrow them by forging a robot into which you pour all your malice, hate, spite and cruelty.
Option 7: The Imposter. Find a friend who looks almost just like you, and have them attend the meeting, ask your question, then awkwardly start asking questions about Earth's defense systems.
Option 8: The Tech Inept: Join the meeting and mention how hard you had been trying to get connected for the last X months, before you finally determined that it was sun spots activity and the increased solar radiation degrading your wireless signal so you wrapped your router in foil after building a directional antennae for the thing and now you're finally able to get connected. And, by the way, I have a quick question you might be able to answer...
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Jeebus cheese and rice, how old am I that I was staring at the thing next to the red bull wondering 'wtf is that?'* and asking 'okay, there's the chew, but where are the cigarettes?'
*now I feel compelled to go looking for someone deriding the E-3s and their vape pens. "In my day, we lit things on fire and stuck them in our mouths like men.'
Jeebus cheese and rice, how old am I that I was staring at the thing next to the red bull wondering 'wtf is that?'* and asking 'okay, there's the chew, but where are the cigarettes?'
*now I feel compelled to go looking for someone deriding the E-3s and their vape pens. "In my day, we lit things on fire and stuck them in our mouths like men.'
Except for getting married this was my buddy to a T. It was 2001 though so he bought a sweet Firebird and a bunch of silk shirts with dragons on them.
Just venting quick because I have no other outlet.
My job has mandated that despite the building being closed, we must have a full crew, on site, every day for 8 hours "just in case" the higher ups want to "test something" - since we work in A/V and theyve been asking for things remotely that have to be tinkered with in the building to get working. Previously we were just always on call and had to run in maybe 3 times a week for an hour when they had a request - and now my boss has decided HE can look better by making sure no one has to wait for us to arrive on site if they have a request, if we're on site standing by.
We've been at this a week now and its obviously dangerous and unnecessary to have people just sit next to each other, bored, for 8 hours a day. Theyve also KEPT the mask mandate, but stopped providing PPE so we bring our own masks from home.
Anyway with all that said, I spoke up at our last team meeting that I'm disappointed our bosses aren't fighting for us, insisting that a small inconvenience of having to wait 30 minutes for us to arrive on site is worth it for our overall health and safety, and that we really should not be sitting in close quarters together for 8 hours a day for absolutely no reason in a pandemic.
No one else said anything and nothing has changed and I'm here at work, and the 70 year old man I work with just popped in to ask me if I "was still being a baby, crying." and that I should stop trying to get out of working.
I BROUGHT IT UP BECAUSE I DONT WANT YOU TO DIE, DUDE. FUCK. LITERALLY, YOU ARE THE PERSON I WAS THINKING ABOUT WHEN I SAID THIS IS A BAD IDEA.
I give up.
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Jeebus cheese and rice, how old am I that I was staring at the thing next to the red bull wondering 'wtf is that?'* and asking 'okay, there's the chew, but where are the cigarettes?'
*now I feel compelled to go looking for someone deriding the E-3s and their vape pens. "In my day, we lit things on fire and stuck them in our mouths like men.'
Except for getting married this was my buddy to a T. It was 2001 though so he bought a sweet Firebird and a bunch of silk shirts with dragons on them.
I had a $12k signing bonus for going 11B, so my first duty assignment being north of the river in Korea probably saved me from making so many new troop mistakes.
My recruiter really did his level best at telling all of the DEPers that it was quite a thing to be broke your whole life and then suddenly find yourself with $10,000, and that the best thing you could do with that money is to put half of it in a savings and account and not touch it until you decide to re-enlist.
He also said anyone who didn't sign up for the MGIB was a fool.
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Just venting quick because I have no other outlet.
My job has mandated that despite the building being closed, we must have a full crew, on site, every day for 8 hours "just in case" the higher ups want to "test something" - since we work in A/V and theyve been asking for things remotely that have to be tinkered with in the building to get working. Previously we were just always on call and had to run in maybe 3 times a week for an hour when they had a request - and now my boss has decided HE can look better by making sure no one has to wait for us to arrive on site if they have a request, if we're on site standing by.
We've been at this a week now and its obviously dangerous and unnecessary to have people just sit next to each other, bored, for 8 hours a day. Theyve also KEPT the mask mandate, but stopped providing PPE so we bring our own masks from home.
Anyway with all that said, I spoke up at our last team meeting that I'm disappointed our bosses aren't fighting for us, insisting that a small inconvenience of having to wait 30 minutes for us to arrive on site is worth it for our overall health and safety, and that we really should not be sitting in close quarters together for 8 hours a day for absolutely no reason in a pandemic.
No one else said anything and nothing has changed and I'm here at work, and the 70 year old man I work with just popped in to ask me if I "was still being a baby, crying." and that I should stop trying to get out of working.
I BROUGHT IT UP BECAUSE I DONT WANT YOU TO DIE, DUDE. FUCK. LITERALLY, YOU ARE THE PERSON I WAS THINKING ABOUT WHEN I SAID THIS IS A BAD IDEA.
I give up.
Every single discussion about schools starting hybrid in-person and moving to phase 3 having everyone here has been peppered with people accusing teachers of not wanting to work. Because teaching virtually is a total walk in the park where I just sit on my ass all day and eat bonbons. It's kind of amazing how many people cannot understand that remote working is still actually working.
Just venting quick because I have no other outlet.
My job has mandated that despite the building being closed, we must have a full crew, on site, every day for 8 hours "just in case" the higher ups want to "test something" - since we work in A/V and theyve been asking for things remotely that have to be tinkered with in the building to get working. Previously we were just always on call and had to run in maybe 3 times a week for an hour when they had a request - and now my boss has decided HE can look better by making sure no one has to wait for us to arrive on site if they have a request, if we're on site standing by.
We've been at this a week now and its obviously dangerous and unnecessary to have people just sit next to each other, bored, for 8 hours a day. Theyve also KEPT the mask mandate, but stopped providing PPE so we bring our own masks from home.
Anyway with all that said, I spoke up at our last team meeting that I'm disappointed our bosses aren't fighting for us, insisting that a small inconvenience of having to wait 30 minutes for us to arrive on site is worth it for our overall health and safety, and that we really should not be sitting in close quarters together for 8 hours a day for absolutely no reason in a pandemic.
No one else said anything and nothing has changed and I'm here at work, and the 70 year old man I work with just popped in to ask me if I "was still being a baby, crying." and that I should stop trying to get out of working.
I BROUGHT IT UP BECAUSE I DONT WANT YOU TO DIE, DUDE. FUCK. LITERALLY, YOU ARE THE PERSON I WAS THINKING ABOUT WHEN I SAID THIS IS A BAD IDEA.
I give up.
I'm "essential", so I still go in to work on occasion. The younger folks are generally pretty good about wearing their masks all the time. The older folks...notsomuch. I. Just. Don't. Get it.
I'm apparently going whatever the linkedin equivalent is of viral for posting that a company sent me a rejection form email... where they had cc'd like 50 people they were rejecting.
I actually didn't notice it at first and just filtered it to my job search folder. then someone replied to be like "hey wtf" and one thing after another now it's a thread of people sharing their connection info with others who got rejected
Just venting quick because I have no other outlet.
My job has mandated that despite the building being closed, we must have a full crew, on site, every day for 8 hours "just in case" the higher ups want to "test something" - since we work in A/V and theyve been asking for things remotely that have to be tinkered with in the building to get working. Previously we were just always on call and had to run in maybe 3 times a week for an hour when they had a request - and now my boss has decided HE can look better by making sure no one has to wait for us to arrive on site if they have a request, if we're on site standing by.
We've been at this a week now and its obviously dangerous and unnecessary to have people just sit next to each other, bored, for 8 hours a day. Theyve also KEPT the mask mandate, but stopped providing PPE so we bring our own masks from home.
Anyway with all that said, I spoke up at our last team meeting that I'm disappointed our bosses aren't fighting for us, insisting that a small inconvenience of having to wait 30 minutes for us to arrive on site is worth it for our overall health and safety, and that we really should not be sitting in close quarters together for 8 hours a day for absolutely no reason in a pandemic.
No one else said anything and nothing has changed and I'm here at work, and the 70 year old man I work with just popped in to ask me if I "was still being a baby, crying." and that I should stop trying to get out of working.
I BROUGHT IT UP BECAUSE I DONT WANT YOU TO DIE, DUDE. FUCK. LITERALLY, YOU ARE THE PERSON I WAS THINKING ABOUT WHEN I SAID THIS IS A BAD IDEA.
I give up.
I'm "essential", so I still go in to work on occasion. The younger folks are generally pretty good about wearing their masks all the time. The older folks...notsomuch. I. Just. Don't. Get it.
They might long for the slow, cold embrace of the reaper.
Just venting quick because I have no other outlet.
My job has mandated that despite the building being closed, we must have a full crew, on site, every day for 8 hours "just in case" the higher ups want to "test something" - since we work in A/V and theyve been asking for things remotely that have to be tinkered with in the building to get working. Previously we were just always on call and had to run in maybe 3 times a week for an hour when they had a request - and now my boss has decided HE can look better by making sure no one has to wait for us to arrive on site if they have a request, if we're on site standing by.
We've been at this a week now and its obviously dangerous and unnecessary to have people just sit next to each other, bored, for 8 hours a day. Theyve also KEPT the mask mandate, but stopped providing PPE so we bring our own masks from home.
Anyway with all that said, I spoke up at our last team meeting that I'm disappointed our bosses aren't fighting for us, insisting that a small inconvenience of having to wait 30 minutes for us to arrive on site is worth it for our overall health and safety, and that we really should not be sitting in close quarters together for 8 hours a day for absolutely no reason in a pandemic.
No one else said anything and nothing has changed and I'm here at work, and the 70 year old man I work with just popped in to ask me if I "was still being a baby, crying." and that I should stop trying to get out of working.
I BROUGHT IT UP BECAUSE I DONT WANT YOU TO DIE, DUDE. FUCK. LITERALLY, YOU ARE THE PERSON I WAS THINKING ABOUT WHEN I SAID THIS IS A BAD IDEA.
I give up.
Ask if you can have his twitter after he dies, Herman Cain style.
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Just venting quick because I have no other outlet.
My job has mandated that despite the building being closed, we must have a full crew, on site, every day for 8 hours "just in case" the higher ups want to "test something" - since we work in A/V and theyve been asking for things remotely that have to be tinkered with in the building to get working. Previously we were just always on call and had to run in maybe 3 times a week for an hour when they had a request - and now my boss has decided HE can look better by making sure no one has to wait for us to arrive on site if they have a request, if we're on site standing by.
We've been at this a week now and its obviously dangerous and unnecessary to have people just sit next to each other, bored, for 8 hours a day. Theyve also KEPT the mask mandate, but stopped providing PPE so we bring our own masks from home.
Anyway with all that said, I spoke up at our last team meeting that I'm disappointed our bosses aren't fighting for us, insisting that a small inconvenience of having to wait 30 minutes for us to arrive on site is worth it for our overall health and safety, and that we really should not be sitting in close quarters together for 8 hours a day for absolutely no reason in a pandemic.
No one else said anything and nothing has changed and I'm here at work, and the 70 year old man I work with just popped in to ask me if I "was still being a baby, crying." and that I should stop trying to get out of working.
I BROUGHT IT UP BECAUSE I DONT WANT YOU TO DIE, DUDE. FUCK. LITERALLY, YOU ARE THE PERSON I WAS THINKING ABOUT WHEN I SAID THIS IS A BAD IDEA.
I give up.
Sounds about right. I personally haven't felt like I can go in to work safely (not to mention I'd have to take public transit in the form of underground metal tube), nor have most of my direct reports. Communicating that to upper management has fallen on deaf ears, but they're also not allowed to force anybody (yet) which is the only reason things haven't gotten worse.
It also doesn't help that the most toxic person in our group (and senior among the technical staff), has gone onsite every single day, while complaining about having to go, and subsequently doing a shit job at...everything.
How many of your coworkers know how to use the radio or internet for local news?
Because I had a moment last night where I had to restrain myself from reaming a subordinate for not listening to me in the first place, and not knowing how to look up the news about very serious business across the street from his site.
Business I knew he had no business going near, and yet he went near anyway.
There are a great many people who think anything involving sitting down and a laptop or desktop computer isn't Real Work
I ran to home depot for some supplies to fix a problem stopping one of our physicians the other day and everyone was freaking out at me because I wasn't at my desk, clearly I wasn't working.
It is the most mind boggling thing.
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The next day the job listing removed the "send us a resume" thing and was just a link to the job application form, so I think I inadvertently helped them be less dumbo.
Sad but true. I usually make sure I also send a copy of my good-looking resume or if I am invited to an interview I'll take a physical copy with me. I just hate how those text boxes don't allow any formatting.
Also fucking hate those applications that allow for your LinkedIn to be used as a resume, and then don't give any options to leave out parts of my CV that would not be relevant to the position I'm applying for.
A few options:
1. Bulldozer - join the meeting and pre empty the meeting with your question. Bonus points if you immediately leave once you get your answer. You're an asshole and you don't care.
2. The friend - reach out to a person on the team, expecting either an answer or "join our next meeting".
3. The remora - join the meeting, then ask in the first dead space.
2 and 3 are generally fine. 1 if you are out of fucks or they don't answer your stuff passive aggressively.
Option 5: The Soap Opera. Just show back up holding a baby. If anyone asks about it later, act confused and say you don't have a baby, what are they talking about?
Option 6: The Sauron. Show up looking A-M-A-Z-I-N-G, ask your question and then spend the next few months slowly corrupting the team and eventually attempt to overthrow them by forging a robot into which you pour all your malice, hate, spite and cruelty.
Option 7: The Imposter. Find a friend who looks almost just like you, and have them attend the meeting, ask your question, then awkwardly start asking questions about Earth's defense systems.
I didn't know I was supposed to put eyes on my resume let alone a second set of them, where does one get eyes?
Just as planned. ::steeples hands::
Look throught the job description and write down the keywords.
Look through the company's website and try to grab their core values.
Edit your CV to include as many keywords as you can squeeze in and gives examples of any values.
Repeat for every job application.
“A 2020 Challenger.”
*internal screaming*
“Oh. Neat.”
first one: we're not auto-renewing contracts for a term period longer than 12 months.
me: okay nbd
2nd notice: we're automatically adding 5% every time we renew
...
Option 8: The Tech Inept: Join the meeting and mention how hard you had been trying to get connected for the last X months, before you finally determined that it was sun spots activity and the increased solar radiation degrading your wireless signal so you wrapped your router in foil after building a directional antennae for the thing and now you're finally able to get connected. And, by the way, I have a quick question you might be able to answer...
Was it a jab job??? Or a job jab????
Jeebus cheese and rice, how old am I that I was staring at the thing next to the red bull wondering 'wtf is that?'* and asking 'okay, there's the chew, but where are the cigarettes?'
*now I feel compelled to go looking for someone deriding the E-3s and their vape pens. "In my day, we lit things on fire and stuck them in our mouths like men.'
Except for getting married this was my buddy to a T. It was 2001 though so he bought a sweet Firebird and a bunch of silk shirts with dragons on them.
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My job has mandated that despite the building being closed, we must have a full crew, on site, every day for 8 hours "just in case" the higher ups want to "test something" - since we work in A/V and theyve been asking for things remotely that have to be tinkered with in the building to get working. Previously we were just always on call and had to run in maybe 3 times a week for an hour when they had a request - and now my boss has decided HE can look better by making sure no one has to wait for us to arrive on site if they have a request, if we're on site standing by.
We've been at this a week now and its obviously dangerous and unnecessary to have people just sit next to each other, bored, for 8 hours a day. Theyve also KEPT the mask mandate, but stopped providing PPE so we bring our own masks from home.
Anyway with all that said, I spoke up at our last team meeting that I'm disappointed our bosses aren't fighting for us, insisting that a small inconvenience of having to wait 30 minutes for us to arrive on site is worth it for our overall health and safety, and that we really should not be sitting in close quarters together for 8 hours a day for absolutely no reason in a pandemic.
No one else said anything and nothing has changed and I'm here at work, and the 70 year old man I work with just popped in to ask me if I "was still being a baby, crying." and that I should stop trying to get out of working.
I BROUGHT IT UP BECAUSE I DONT WANT YOU TO DIE, DUDE. FUCK. LITERALLY, YOU ARE THE PERSON I WAS THINKING ABOUT WHEN I SAID THIS IS A BAD IDEA.
I give up.
I had a $12k signing bonus for going 11B, so my first duty assignment being north of the river in Korea probably saved me from making so many new troop mistakes.
He also said anyone who didn't sign up for the MGIB was a fool.
The kids are alright.
Every single discussion about schools starting hybrid in-person and moving to phase 3 having everyone here has been peppered with people accusing teachers of not wanting to work. Because teaching virtually is a total walk in the park where I just sit on my ass all day and eat bonbons. It's kind of amazing how many people cannot understand that remote working is still actually working.
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I'm "essential", so I still go in to work on occasion. The younger folks are generally pretty good about wearing their masks all the time. The older folks...notsomuch. I. Just. Don't. Get it.
I actually didn't notice it at first and just filtered it to my job search folder. then someone replied to be like "hey wtf" and one thing after another now it's a thread of people sharing their connection info with others who got rejected
They might long for the slow, cold embrace of the reaper.
Ask if you can have his twitter after he dies, Herman Cain style.
Sounds about right. I personally haven't felt like I can go in to work safely (not to mention I'd have to take public transit in the form of underground metal tube), nor have most of my direct reports. Communicating that to upper management has fallen on deaf ears, but they're also not allowed to force anybody (yet) which is the only reason things haven't gotten worse.
It also doesn't help that the most toxic person in our group (and senior among the technical staff), has gone onsite every single day, while complaining about having to go, and subsequently doing a shit job at...everything.
Because I had a moment last night where I had to restrain myself from reaming a subordinate for not listening to me in the first place, and not knowing how to look up the news about very serious business across the street from his site.
Business I knew he had no business going near, and yet he went near anyway.
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What’s an “ass shovel”?
I ran to home depot for some supplies to fix a problem stopping one of our physicians the other day and everyone was freaking out at me because I wasn't at my desk, clearly I wasn't working.
It is the most mind boggling thing.
Drop and give me 50! *whispers* gold pieces