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Libraries in the bay area are very good, I borrow books regularly from my local branch and have booked private study rooms to do software projects / whiteboard coding / job interview practice with friends. Libraries can be very crowded especially since they're one of the few places homeless people can relax indoors without being hassled, but I've had very few bad experiences in libraries altogether.
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is India one of those places with a food culture thdt requires you to eat super loud? there's a couple guys who sit near me that eat so loud they can't just be not closing their mouths, it has to be that they're deliberately being noisy. it drives me insane. i think eating at your desk is really bad etiquette in a shared space, especially when you have a nonstop stream of snacks all day.
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cis autodrag posted:is India one of those places with a food culture thdt requires you to eat super loud? there's a couple guys who sit near me that eat so loud they can't just be not closing their mouths, it has to be that they're deliberately being noisy. it drives me insane. i think eating at your desk is really bad etiquette in a shared space, especially when you have a nonstop stream of snacks all day. The wily asiatic only respects force. Kick the rear end of the smaller of the two men and make your demands known as you stand athwart his crumpled, unconscious body. Schadenboner fucked around with this message at 03:46 on Aug 31, 2017 |
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cis autodrag posted:is India one of those places with a food culture thdt requires you to eat super loud? there's a couple guys who sit near me that eat so loud they can't just be not closing their mouths, it has to be that they're deliberately being noisy. it drives me insane. i think eating at your desk is really bad etiquette in a shared space, especially when you have a nonstop stream of snacks all day. when i lived in india the corporate cafeteria where i was had a massive bank of sinks right in the middle forming a hallway that bridged to the two sections together the sinks were for washing your hands after you ate because often you eat with your hands, makes sense many people would groom themselves and clear their throats/sinuses really loudly and spit into the sinks, it was a constant chorus of this that echoed through the cafeteria eventually you can tune it out
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Aug 31, 2017 03:36
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cis autodrag posted:is India one of those places with a food culture thdt requires you to eat super loud? there's a couple guys who sit near me that eat so loud they can't just be not closing their mouths, it has to be that they're deliberately being noisy. it drives me insane. i think eating at your desk is really bad etiquette in a shared space, especially when you have a nonstop stream of snacks all day. its probably more that lots of nerds have lovely table manners.
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cis autodrag posted:is India one of those places with a food culture thdt requires you to eat super loud? there's a couple guys who sit near me that eat so loud they can't just be not closing their mouths, it has to be that they're deliberately being noisy. it drives me insane. i think eating at your desk is really bad etiquette in a shared space, especially when you have a nonstop stream of snacks all day. all my indian coworkers eat normally (if anything they eat more politely than most people), so i guess these guys are probably just awkward idiots with no manners?
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AnoHito posted:all my indian coworkers eat normally (if anything they eat more politely than most people), so i guess these guys are probably just awkward idiots with no manners? sweet i feel fine asking them to stop then. i didn't want to be culturally insensitive or whatever dude was eating loving peanuts today and somehow managed to make it sound like he was slurping ramen
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*HR Lady at a place I interviewed calls me while I'm busy/on a call. I don't pick up* *10 minutes later e-mail arrives..."Please let me know when I can call you"* "I'm pretty busy, is this something that can be discussed via e-mail?" "No it's not, sorry." When I finally can talk on the phone, it's just to say they want to offer me $x for the job. "ok, can you send me that in an e-mail?" "I don't think there's anything to put in an e-mail, the offer is $x, just like I said!" HR-ed! (no paper trail? is that their game?)
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cis autodrag posted:sweet i feel fine asking them to stop then. i didn't want to be culturally insensitive or whatever you have a big kid job now, buy a sweet pair of noise-canceling headphones & give no fucks
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cheque_some posted:*HR Lady at a place I interviewed calls me while I'm busy/on a call. I don't pick up* anywhere not willing to give you an offer in writing is a place you want to drop like a hot potato
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Ploft-shell crab posted:you have a big kid job now, buy a sweet pair of noise-canceling headphones & give no fucks I can't do this cuz then I can't tell if anyone is coming up to me and my back is to the room so I get really freaked out. I've been attacked a few times (once at work even back when I was working retail). I'm working with hr on the situation but people should try to be sensitive to the fact that they're in a shared space and minimize the noise they make.
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cheque_some posted:*HR Lady at a place I interviewed calls me while I'm busy/on a call. I don't pick up* This fun legal trick also works for conversations with landlords, where you can get a verbal agreement to be "in writing" by doing the writing yourself and having them not deny it
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i would never have imagined that the process would be so slapdash and the documentation so non-existent at a company this size
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Interviewing at Amazon, got past the first two phone screens and have a on-site next week. Have not given any numbers to the 3 different HR people I've spoken with. In a call today w/ a HR person to give me a heads up as to what the on-site interview is like, numbers were again requested. Dude made it seem like it was critical that he get my expected pay range. Please confirm thread, I am doing the correct thing by not giving them any numbers before the on-site interview? The first numbers really discussed should be their initial offer after deciding they can't live without me?
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Asymmetric POSTer posted:many people would groom themselves and clear their throats/sinuses really loudly and spit into the sinks, it was a constant chorus of this that echoed through the cafeteria
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cis autodrag posted:I can't do this cuz then I can't tell if anyone is coming up to me and my back is to the room so I get really freaked out. I've been attacked a few times (once at work even back when I was working retail). last person i trained was an older guy with very questionable social skills and almost every morning he would come up behind me while I was working and touch my shoulder or back and stand about 6 inches from me while talking. this was whether or not I was wearing headphones or whatever. if I heard him coming I had to swivel around and go back into the corner to try and keep some distance between us now, im not saying it was traumatizing, but it was definitely really annoying and creepy. I can see why some people put mirrors up in their cubes coincidentally this was the same individual i had to tell to stop eating so loudly because multiple people complained about it
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Alzabo posted:Interviewing at Amazon, got past the first two phone screens and have a on-site next week. Have not given any numbers to the 3 different HR people I've spoken with. In a call today w/ a HR person to give me a heads up as to what the on-site interview is like, numbers were again requested. Dude made it seem like it was critical that he get my expected pay range. you can either keep on not talking numbers, or do the appropriate research to determine a reasonable market rate and say that number x 1.2
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cis autodrag posted:I can't do this cuz then I can't tell if anyone is coming up to me and my back is to the room so I get really freaked out. I've been attacked a few times (once at work even back when I was working retail). get some of those convex mirrors that people stick to their car's side mirrors and put a few up in your cube not perfect but it helps
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Aug 31, 2017 14:37
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Anyone have any recommendations for temporary phone number forwarding companies? I want to find a job but I'm not ballsy enough to only put my email and once I've found a job I don't want to be fielding recruiter spam until the end of time. I used to use google voice but now I can't because I'm on google fi so far I've seen hushed numberproxy burner coverme lineup I'm willing to throw a few bucks in and I thought I'd check to see if anyone's used any of these alternatively someone here could hire me to senior janitor their cloud & continuous integration environment in the DC area
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Huh. I was contacted by a company a week ago for some side contract work. I didn't really want to do the work, so I bid them at 200$/hr @ 100 hours as a "thanks but no thanks" number. They came back today and asked when could I start. 
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ratbert90 posted:Huh.
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Bhodi posted:Anyone have any recommendations for temporary phone number forwarding companies? I want to find a job but I'm not ballsy enough to only put my email and once I've found a job I don't want to be fielding recruiter spam until the end of time. I used to use google voice but now I can't because I'm on google fi just make two versions of your resume, one with things like address / phone number and one that only has your email. first resume only goes out to people you've actually spoken with or to direct submissions. other is the generic that you put on stackoverflow careers or dice or whatever the hotness is nowadays
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Aug 31, 2017 16:08
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It's traditional to print letters of resignation from work printers right?
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Aug 31, 2017 18:04
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in 1980 it was
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gonadic io posted:It's traditional to print letters of resignation from work printers right? Yes, unless your organization has a working fax machine in which case a fax-loop is more appropriate.
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gonadic io posted:It's traditional to print letters of resignation from work printers right? COO at lastjob did
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gonadic io posted:It's traditional to print letters of resignation from work printers right?
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who prints things, just forward the new offer to enough folks in the office
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I would love to read about someone who did some gimmicky poo poo like a sheet cake resignation letter and got their new offer retracted as the result of being a smarmy jackass.
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Aug 31, 2017 18:47
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Send it to your boss and ask them to print it for you since you're having computer issues
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Aug 31, 2017 18:48
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Minnesota Mixup posted:Send it to your boss and ask them to print it for you since you're having computer issues lol
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Minnesota Mixup posted:Send it to your boss and ask them to print it for you since you're having computer issues i think i might actually do this when i leave here. my boss would probably think it's hilarious.
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Lmbo. The Ceo just tried to tell me that the owner wasn't greedy and that he was making personal sacrifices because he is selling his yacht.
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Minnesota Mixup posted:Send it to your boss and ask them to print it for you since you're having computer issues 5
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Minnesota Mixup posted:Interviewed for a job a few weeks ago, technical director told me 2 weeks ago that an offer was in progress. Asked him yesterday what's taking so long, said he's out of country and will call me next week. Guessing Aaand I was correct. Just got a call from recruiter saying they went with someone else. Don't think I'd want to work at a place that does that anyway
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Minnesota Mixup posted:Aaand I was correct. Just got a call from recruiter saying they went with someone else. Don't think I'd want to work at a place that does that anyway Well, an offer was in progress. Just not an offer to you?
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the only time ive been vaguely aware that i was in contention with some other person for a job it was straight out of college like who even does that
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Bhodi posted:Anyone have any recommendations for temporary phone number forwarding companies? I want to find a job but I'm not ballsy enough to only put my email and once I've found a job I don't want to be fielding recruiter spam until the end of time. I used to use google voice but now I can't because I'm on google fi https://support.twilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/223179908-Setting-up-call-forwarding
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Schadenboner posted:Well, an offer was in progress. Just not an offer to you? Basically. Ill still have a call with the guy next week because I've know him and the VP for that stuff for almost 5 years now through my PhD work. Mad that they'd do that to me tho.
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