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Benny, have you ever had a job in your life handling money? What's the most money you've ever held in your hands (real money, not a check or an IOU) at any one given time? Can you pass a credit check? Because bank tellers do have to pass credit checks - hell, most jobs working with consumer electronics these days need credit checks, I know Verizon around here has that requirement.
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Benny the Snake posted:I just searched online for bank teller jobs. I searched several banks in my area and none of them are hiring for tellers: they're hiring for bank managers and financial advisers. So after finding nothing I applied to four more retail jobs online. I'll look online for open bank teller positions again. Not bad, Benny the Snake. What are you going to do tomorrow to help you land a job before February 1st? Edit: Nothing? That's cool. Greg Legg fucked around with this message at 08:21 on Jan 19, 2014 |
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Jan 18, 2014 05:13
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Oh Benny.
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Jan 20, 2014 05:33
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TBH if he hasn't been able to secure and maintain employment in a year why would anyone believe he could do so in a three week deadline?
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Jan 20, 2014 07:09
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Coffee Wolf posted:He's just saving it, like the Al Gore of words. You don't want all the proper English to run out of stock, do you? Benny please open a grammar-credits company wherein people can pay you to not use good grammar thus effectively reducing the overall good-grammar footprint thereby saving the earth. DO IT.
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Jan 20, 2014 08:36
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The fact that he refuses to acknowledge the adorable grammar mistake on the last page is a fantastic summation of the last year he's spent trying not to gently caress up anything beyond having breakfast.
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Jan 20, 2014 14:59
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Sigma-X posted:Benny please open a grammar-credits company wherein people can pay you to not use good grammar thus effectively reducing the overall good-grammar footprint thereby saving the earth. I've heard worse Kickstarter pitches.
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Jan 20, 2014 15:04
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Benny the Snake posted:My grandmother offered to lend me money towards a car but I won't do so until I have a means to pay her back. This could be taken as yet another convenient excuse to not have additional means to find a job, which makes it harder to find a job, which means you do not have a job (yet, again, still). I feel better knowing that he not only ignores help from this thread, but also help from his family who actually know and love and are invested in him. Oh, Benny. 
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Jan 20, 2014 15:25
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Benny, I've been many things in my relatively short career. I've been a cook at a pizza place, I've worked at a grocery store and in retail, and I even spent a summer sanding furniture in a factory. Of all of my jobs (including my current one as a scientist at a university), by far the most stressful I ever held was that of bank teller. You are constantly physically counting and moving large amounts of money between the bank and customers. One missed $100 bill (the new ones can be really sticky), one incorrectly filed check or money order, and you're toast. I've seen people fired and cleaning out their desk right in front of me, sobbing while the rest of us keep working. And if you think customers in a retail setting can be stressful, imagine how happy they are to see their bank teller act nervous or slow with their money. It's not like being a bank teller is a Sisyphean ordeal, or as difficult as being a surgeon or something. But it's a job that requires very fast turnaround on a constant basis, with literally no room for error. Edit: On the other hand, being a bank bookkeeper was an amazing job. I got to sit next to a computer taking phone calls all day from people who wanted to check their bank balance or transfer money. Sometimes I filed papers. Nowadays though these departments are gone or really small, thanks to internet banking (which was JUST starting at my bank when I left my job). It would have been a great job for you too. Foyes36 fucked around with this message at 15:49 on Jan 20, 2014 |
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Jan 20, 2014 15:46
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I'm at the point with this thread where I honestly don't see the point of even responding to anything he posts anymore. He will never take anyone's advice. Benny, you were offered assistance to get a car to secure a job. You should have taken it. You would be able to widen your job search a bit. Any reason you give for not taking that offer is just a lovely excuse. All you give are poor excuses (mental issues aside). You don't respond to a lot of the advice/comments/questions people have. What's the point?
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Jan 20, 2014 15:54
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CravingSolace posted:I'm at the point with this thread where I honestly don't see the point of even responding to anything he posts anymore. He will never take anyone's advice. Dude wanted goons to chime in and say "yea, your mom is a jerk Benny, we feel you." Anything beyond that came from the thread, not the OP. He never wanted any of this, the thread quickly found the underlying issue, notice the title is not about, "help me find a job" or "time for me to be an adult." Dude had an argument with mom and then it became some other thing where everyone badgered him for updates on poo poo he clearly was uninterested in.
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I guess his mom is letting him keep his comic books? I forgot that this whole thing started because she threatened to throw them out.
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Just re-read the OP again and haha goddamn, it is still one of my favourite posts of all time. Benny, you should drop this professor dream, become a lawyer and successfully sue your parents for Comic Book Crimes.
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Dex posted:Just re-read the OP again and haha goddamn, it is still one of my favourite posts of all time. Benny, you should drop this professor dream, become a lawyer and successfully sue your parents for Comic Book Crimes. Don't forget his ace in the hole -- his "nuclear options". The last ditch turnabout tactic.... 
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Jan 21, 2014 08:18
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Area Man Crashes Shopping Cart Into Courthouse, Kills Five
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Jan 21, 2014 08:25
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Dex posted:Just re-read the OP again and haha goddamn, it is still one of my favourite posts of all time. Benny, you should drop this professor dream, become a lawyer and successfully sue your parents for Comic Book Crimes. Man, talk about a trip down memory lane. I wonder if Danny ever got a job or if his mom, cruel Christian that she is, is still supporting two grown children in her house.
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in_cahoots posted:Man, talk about a trip down memory lane. I had a different job and different address, back then. My best friend's dad was still alive. Breaking Bad and Futurama were still in full swing. My Tapped Out city was a mere Moe's Pub, Simpson's House, couple brown houses and a Kwick E Mart. cname fucked around with this message at 15:38 on Jan 21, 2014 |
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Jan 21, 2014 15:35
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I made $22 this month on textbroker for about one hour total of work. Between textbroker and duolingo I have made my "messing around on the internet" time a little more productive. Thanks, thread!
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Jan 21, 2014 18:14
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How far are you on your current employment goal? Honestly wondering.
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in_cahoots posted:Man, talk about a trip down memory lane. I wonder if Danny ever got a job or if his mom, cruel Christian that she is, is still supporting two grown children in her house. We're coming up on a year now, this thread really needs a Best Hits post. Grilledvegetablesgate was my favorite.
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OK, this is mean, but my favorite is "I think I have a job." Two posts later: "Well I talked to a person on the phone and I didn't get her name or email. I'm gonna lean in." I think Benny the Snake is learning to break out of those habits, though, and begin to think ahead a little.
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Pfirti86 posted:We're coming up on a year now, this thread really needs a Best Hits post. Grilledvegetablesgate was my favorite. Please do because I don't want to read this entire thing.
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Mellophant posted:How far are you on your current employment goal? Honestly wondering.
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Benny the Snake posted:12 jobs applied for altogether. Tomorrow is the interview workshop. That's pretty good actually, you should also consider applying for your local temp. agencies as well
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Mellophant posted:That's pretty good actually, you should also consider applying for your local temp. agencies as well If he hasn't done that by this point then... ...no, wait, nothing Benny fails to do surprises me anymore.
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Mellophant posted:That's pretty good actually, you should also consider applying for your local temp. agencies as well
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Benny the Snake posted:Already have.  Great job, Benny! At this rate, you'll become an independent adult by the time you're 40! That's not too shabby, and there will be plenty of attractive girls that love to date fat dudes who still live at home with their parents well into their 30s. Now you're on the trolley! 
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Jan 22, 2014 03:37
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Benny the Snake posted:Dude, don't jinx it I really don't think you're qualified to tell people not to jinx things, Benny.
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Yeah, I'm sure if you gently caress up yet again, it'll be WampaLord's fault.
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laplace posted:I really don't think you're qualified to tell people not to jinx things, Benny. I just hit 20 jobs today. Most if not all of them were retail jobs. I also went to the interview workshop. I have the slides and wrote down notes. I'm scheduling a mock interview with my adviser.
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You act as though everything thus far hasn't been a mockery.
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Benny the Snake posted:I was joking. See if you can schedule several so that you get practice at different types of interviews - phone interviews, panel interviews, assessment centres, etc as well as one on one face to face interviews. Also, you haven't mentioned STAR. Much as I really, really hate STAR it's a very common framework used in interviews and you need to be familiar with it so that when you get hit with "tell me about a time..." stuff you can give a concise, on-point answer instead of waffling and not providing the information they're looking for. Most interviewers will pick 4 or 5 from a list of about 20 basic scenarios (and many seem to use the same list) but always have answer ready for questions you don't expect to be asked. I once got "tell me about a time you leveraged a business relationship" thrown at me during a phone interview for a credit analyst's position and it was so out of let field that it nearly threw me off the whole interview. Lolie fucked around with this message at 01:20 on Jan 23, 2014 |
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Benny the Snake posted:I was joking. In the future, add in a afterwards, then everyone will understand that you're joking. You would think an English major who's on the forums as much as you would pick up on these conventions.E: VVV No lie, I had a running gag with a friend who's not a goon where we would make that face at each other after jokes. WampaLord fucked around with this message at 01:23 on Jan 23, 2014 |
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Jan 23, 2014 01:16
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Also remember to make that face in real life, when telling jokes.
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Dex posted:Also remember to make that face in real life, when telling jokes. No, no, you use :iamafag: in real life. God, this forum gives the worst advice.
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Lolie posted:See if you can schedule several so that you get practice at different types of interviews - phone interviews, panel interviews, assessment centres, etc as well as one on one face to face interviews. I asked the adviser who taught the workshop an important question. I asked him if I should or should not re-apply at target after being terminated. He explained since Target is a large corporation with multiple locations, it wouldn't hurt to apply at a different location. I already re-applied at a different Target so now I feel a little better about my decision.
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Ursine Asylum posted:No, no, you use :iamafag: in real life. God, this forum gives the worst advice. I actually do make that face a lot. So embarrassed.
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What did they say at the temp. agencies? When I was hurting for work after being laid off in '08 all I did was walk in, pee in a cup and walk out with some really mediocre entry level blue collar job. If you actually did check it out I'm surprised you didn't come out of it with a job. It's not the best of gigs, but it's a good spot to find work that's in your field in the mean time.
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Benny the Snake posted:I asked the adviser who taught the workshop an important question. I asked him if I should or should not re-apply at target after being terminated. He explained since Target is a large corporation with multiple locations, it wouldn't hurt to apply at a different location. I already re-applied at a different Target so now I feel a little better about my decision. Surely there was a "have you ever worked at a Target location in the past? If so please provide store location, employment dates and reason for leaving" line in the application, how did you answer it?
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