Salt Fish posted:

When my company did mandatory personality tests I didn't do it and then lied about the results and it saved me a lot of time. They went around the room in multiple meetings asking about your "personality color" and how that was informing a decision you were making. I just told them my color was red, and as an A-type high energy extrovert I could feel it in my gut that my choices were right.

Perry Mason Jar posted:

The motivation is bad but the action (hungry, starving, dying landlord) is good. Can someone who's good at ethics help me with this?

NYC Post posted:

Esposito, who has 27 tenants, said he’s not protesting to protect property values, but to ensure safety.

NYC Post posted:

Esposito pled guilty in 2014 to a misdemeanor in connection with a massive Social Security fraud scheme in which his father Joseph Esposito was one of the ringleaders. Esposito, who said he has long been on bad terms with his dad, did not get any jail time.

ekuNNN posted:

death to landlords

Sentient Data posted:

It's even better than that. I did some backend dev work for the hiring department of a (huge) company a few years ago, and they believe that the tests are real. I was supposed to take the output of the test's API and have it do whatever based on results, and when it came time to test the system, the department's manager was horrified during the live demo when I asked if I should pass or fail the test. "That can't be cheated!"

Also, if you're bored and don't like the companies, take as many of those tests as you can. They're licensed from a third party and there's a per-applicant cost to taking it

Isaac posted:

I worked for a company that had this number matching test during the interview like

Which of these matches 2948327
A) 273674 B) 2190101 C)2948327


Years later I was at the office where they did the hiring and I asked what they actually do with those tests. The answer was nothing. They do nothing and go nowhere.

The_Franz posted:

An acquaintance of mine was interviewing for accounting jobs and interviewing at one firm was going really well, fast-track, etc... Then they told him that he just had to meet with HR as a formality and they proceeded to give him one of those bizarre tests. One of the questions was literally:

"Yellow or blue?"
"Huh? What do you mean?"
"I can only repeat the question: yellow or blue?"
"Uhh, blue I guess."

I guess they wanted yellow because after that it was "yeah, uh, we'll get back to you" and a week later he was formally rejected.

Screaming Idiot posted:

"Welcome to Beelzeburger's! What meaty delights shall we tempt you this on this day?"

"Yeah, I'll have a number two with cheese, no mayo."

"So you wish for a Thrice-Damned Beelzeburger, with three slabs of seasoned beef patty topped with extra-spicy jalapeno salsa, an order of Penitent Potato Poppers, and a Sinner's Chalice of soda! What, pray tell, shall your chalice hold?"

"Coke, please, no ice."

"Would you like to add to your sins for only thirty silver more?"

"Why the hell not? Give me the Greater Sinner's Burden, and could I have a couple of those fried apple pie things?"

"Very well, two Scalded Forbidden Fruit pies have been added to your demands. Anything else?"

"Could I get some extra ketchup with that?"

"Ketchup's extra."

"That's a bit unreasonable."

"You knew what you were getting into when you came to us. Pay at the first window, and accept your burden at the second. We are grateful for your gluttony, sinner."

ekuNNN posted:

death to landlords

quote:

A brazen social media campaign by a franchise the property management company Quinovic has disgusted some tenants.

One advertisement features beer glasses with the caption, "Cheers to you! Are you financing your tenant's social life?". The other advertisement says "Your tenants may hate us. You will love us."

Both are captioned, "We're experts at maximising the return on your investment property."

Renters United spokesperson Kate Day said the advertisements implied if tenants had a social life, then landlords really should be charging more.

She said the second advert made a mockery of any thought that property management companies worked for tenants, as well as landlords.

"A lot of our members have expressed disgust about how this portrays tenants as a group that could be exploited for profit," Ms Day said.

"People who are renting make up roughly half of New Zealand's population and just like everybody they are people who have a right to a home, and I think that's really been overlooked by advertisements that make a mockery of the stress that rising rents put on tenants."

Quinovic's chief operating officer Paul Chapman said the advertisements were created by the Te Aro franchise, without the consent of national office.

He said he did not think the advertisements were a good look, particularly in the current environment.

Outrail posted:

No I said it's saving lives, and it's important they do that. But when I got into the industry 10 years ago it was fun to do my job. Now it's not and even if the changes were necessary they did take something away even if it was a necessary cost. I can do some Romanticism of the past without denying that the past was also pretty lovely.

Besides that, if the workers had their way they'd be barely trained using gently caress all safety gear. The companies instituted 90% of the changes because they realized getting sued millions of dollars wasn't worth it. Most of the training and protocols are implemented purely to make the loving idiots wear their fall restraint harnesses instead of running around 10m drops with no fall protection and to get numbskulls to wear a helmet around potential falling rocks. But now the blanket approach means I have to wear a hard hat in 45C degree (115F) weather when I'm several kilometers from anything more dangerous than a knee high bush.

Megillah Gorilla posted:

the standard "would you turn over a turtle" ones

Outrail posted:

Besides that, if the workers had their way they'd be barely trained using gently caress all safety gear. The companies instituted 90% of the changes because they realized getting sued millions of dollars wasn't worth it.

quote:

No I said it's saving lives, and it's important they do that. But when I got into the industry 10 years ago it was fun to do my job. Now it's not and even if the changes were necessary they did take something away even if it was a necessary cost.

COMRADES posted:

I dunno what to make of this really. OK? Dangerous things were fun to do and you can't do them anymore and that sucks even though that saves peoples' lives?

Perry Mason Jar posted:

I've never met a construction/warehouse/medical/et al worker who grumbled about safety standards? If anything people really pride themselves on observing standards...

ate all the Oreos posted:

It depends a lot on the culture, like I know people who think that way but I also know some people who think safety regulations are silly and the way they do things is the best way and they'll never get hurt because they know what they're doing and people should take ~more personal responsibility~ and those annoying safety nazis should shut up because they just make the job harder since now I'm not allowed to operate on live wires anymore or w/e

Avalanche posted:

I heard from a friend at a company I recently applied to that I was turned down from the job because the hiring manager wasn't all too stoked on me going off about how safety is important for productivity and financial security long term.

3 days after my buddy told me my app was binned after the interview, someone did some dumb OSHA thing that caused a conveyor belt to catch fire. The machinery on the factory floor had to be replaced and the entire place was shut down for a couple days while that was happening and some hazmat crew was in trying to fix up all the minor fire damage.

ate all the Oreos posted:

It depends a lot on the culture, like I know people who think that way but I also know some people who think safety regulations are silly and the way they do things is the best way and they'll never get hurt because they know what they're doing and people should take ~more personal responsibility~ and those annoying safety nazis should shut up because they just make the job harder since now I'm not allowed to operate on live wires anymore or w/e

Renegret posted:

this thread makes me sad

Former DILF posted:

Haha nice emotions loser

COMRADES posted:

If workers owned the enterprise they would reach the same conclusion because money would be coming out of their pockets. Nice random dig against workers though.




I dunno what to make of this really. OK? Dangerous things were fun to do and you can't do them anymore and that sucks even though that saves peoples' lives?

ate all the Oreos posted:

It's the same kind of people who complain about there being "too many stupid lawsuits" and how they'd never sue if they got hurt because they're ~responsible~ and that lady who got third-degree burns from the mcdonalds coffee should have known that coffee is hot!!!

Kazak posted:

Post images you fuckin parasites

Outrail posted:

Outrail posted:

Eg: I've had times where we were on the verge of heatstroke but still had to wear full thickness PPE, sleeves down and flull length snake gaiters because someone saw a snake once. Never mind that after 10+ years I've never known anyone to get bitten, and the consequences of a bite are at worst a day in hospital if you have the right training but I do know people who've collapsed from dehydration and the heat.