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Ether Frenzy posted:But they kept you. Congratulations on now doing the work of 4 people including all the admin with no new title or money! Only need to stick it out for another few months so I've been here for two years, then I feel secure in searching.
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As a loving idiot who stayed in a retail job for 13 years because I felt I had no other skill set, yes, absolutely splash out and look for new jobs. Change is awesome.
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Rhyno posted:As a loving idiot who stayed in a retail job for 13 years because I felt I had no other skill set, yes, absolutely splash out and look for new jobs. Change is awesome. True. Even at a really lovely job the first month is usually pretty sweet.
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Just had casserole for breakfast at 5pm, gently caress nights  E: feel free to put me on ignore for a week, this is all I'm going to be moaning about 
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T-Square posted:Welp, my co-worker just put in a week's notice, citing our worthless Office Manager as her reason for terminating employment. This fucks me, because I too am trying to get out. However, this recent turn of events has lead our controller of 30 years to finally get it through our General Manager's head that he needs to get rid of our Office Manager (who is his ex-SIL), or she's cutting ties. There's nothing wrong with saying "no thanks" not everyone is power hungry enough to take the minimal pay increase for the added workload and responsibility, unfortunately the (power hungry) people willing to do it usually suck so everyone else suffers. My job doesn't pay all that great but thank god I don't have an office job no way I could deal with the bullshit.
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Applebees Appetizer posted:There's nothing wrong with saying "no thanks" not everyone is power hungry enough to take the minimal pay increase for the added workload and responsibility, unfortunately the (power hungry) people willing to do it usually suck so everyone else suffers. I'm not necessarily afraid of turning it down, the issue is that my controller and I have worked closely together for several years so she'll likely be pretty confident that my "no thanks" means "yeah, I'm on my way out." She said she wants what's best for me, even if that means I'm leaving, but we all know that doesn't 100% rule out the chance that I'll be dropped like a sack of bricks if it's confirmed that I don't want to stay.
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Rhyno posted:As a loving idiot who stayed in a retail job for 13 years because I felt I had no other skill set, yes, absolutely splash out and look for new jobs. Change is awesome. This is advice I really wish I could give myself from about 10 years ago. TL;DR stayed at a company that was utterly toxic for nearly 8 years when the writing on the wall to GTFO couldn't have been any clearer.
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And as someone without relevant skills, as long as you have passion and an ok resume, a surprising number of places will reach out. It feels really good
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The Door Frame posted:And as someone without relevant skills, as long as you have passion and an ok resume, a surprising number of places will reach out. It feels really good sounds fake tbh
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cakesmith handyman posted:Just had casserole for breakfast at 5pm, gently caress nights Just keep needle-felting fuzzy birbs
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The Door Frame posted:And as someone without relevant skills, as long as you have passion and an ok resume, a surprising number of places will reach out. It feels really good This doesn't happen in CA unless it's "HAY YOUNG MAN, YOU WANNA INSTALL SOLAR/SELL INSURANCE/SELL OR INSTALL ALARM SYSTEMS?!?" Also, the market here is way too saturated which is why I'm looking outside of CA... that at some fresh non-CA perspective couldn't hurt. I've only applied for 5 jobs outside and I've already been contacted by 3 as opposed to hundreds and maybe 10, just the usual "Thank you for applying, you're definitely qualified but we decided to go a different route." generic emails. Though inside CA, I'm looking at jobs staying in academia, which by very definition they already have someone they want to hire they just have to go through the motions since somebody somewhere said," YOU HAVE TO GIVE EVERYBODY A CHANCE!" So they do the academia shuffle which is the industry norm, I just wish it was more like hiring in private industry where if they have someone they just promote them and if not then they throw a job announcement out to everybody.
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Fender Anarchist posted:sounds fake tbh I've had 5 interviews, but have no job, so it's not as amazing as it sounds, but it's encouraging keykey posted:This doesn't happen in CA unless it's "HAY YOUNG MAN, YOU WANNA INSTALL SOLAR/SELL INSURANCE/SELL OR INSTALL ALARM SYSTEMS?!?" Also, the market here is way too saturated which is why I'm looking outside of CA... that at some fresh non-CA perspective couldn't hurt. I've only applied for 5 jobs outside and I've already been contacted by 3 as opposed to hundreds and maybe 10, just the usual "Thank you for applying, you're definitely qualified but we decided to go a different route." generic emails. Though inside CA, I'm looking at jobs staying in academia, which by very definition they already have someone they want to hire they just have to go through the motions since somebody somewhere said," YOU HAVE TO GIVE EVERYBODY A CHANCE!" So they do the academia shuffle which is the industry norm, I just wish it was more like hiring in private industry where if they have someone they just promote them and if not then they throw a job announcement out to everybody. I feel like the job market is so weird right now, everyone is hiring but no one wants to hire a new employee
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I landed a job in medical manufacturing with no experience and 7 months in I'm being groomed for a supervisory position and I fudges together something on the production floor last week and now they've paired me with an engineer to make a working version of it so it can be mass produced for every department.
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Jan 22, 2019 21:11
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The Door Frame posted:I feel like the job market is so weird right now, everyone is hiring but no one wants to hire a new employee Sums up the job market right now. I've had 6 interviews for director/CTO positions only to find out somehow the college/university miraculously had the right person working there the whole time, WHO KNEW?!? This is why I hate the normies that impose these idiotic rules into the books to "ensure equity in hiring." Just hire the person from within and move on which is what you're going to do anyway... For those of you not in academia and want to move that direction, good luck because it's about who you know, not what you know. God knows it's not about what you know, the CTO here always wants me to run all the goddamn numbers for him because he's too incompetent to do so himself as evident by board meetings when he clearly has no clue about what numbers go into what project when asked.
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keykey posted:I've had 6 interviews for director/CTO positions only to find out somehow the college/university miraculously had the right person working there the whole time, WHO KNEW?!? I think you'll find this happens fairly regularly in the private sector too. Had a rash of interviews around this time last year where it quickly became obvious I was just being brought in to round out the numbers when they had already decided on an internal candidate (between obviously bored interviewers, softball questions and nobody taking notes when I'd answer) - which was the response I would invariably get in follow-up messages to HR a week or two later.
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meatpimp posted:Bzzzt. Incorrect answer. The correct answer would have involved piss, blood, and cum. You've missed your Tool reference for the day and have been docked 5 tokens. You have been docked ten: it's "poo poo, blood, and cum."
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tetrapyloctomy posted:You have been docked ten: it's "poo poo, blood, and cum." 
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tetrapyloctomy posted:You have been docked ten: it's "poo poo, blood, and cum." Blood is thicker than water. But cum is thicker than blood 
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Dagen H posted:Just keep needle-felting fuzzy birbs I've started a Pine Martin. I want to do a car next.
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tetrapyloctomy posted:You have been docked ten: it's "poo poo, blood, and cum." I've been feeling terrible about this, so I'm doing my penance. meatpimp fucked around with this message at 00:00 on Jan 23, 2019 |
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I'm glad I have a very desirable skillset
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fridge corn posted:I'm glad I have a very desirable skillset You have a very desirable everything babe.
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I'm just going to leave this here: https://twitter.com/punchesbears/status/1087519873964494848 edit:designs are from https://teefury.com/collections/wytrab8 artist: https://www.instagram.com/hillarywhiterabbit/ Darchangel fucked around with this message at 02:40 on Jan 23, 2019 |
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Adiabatic posted:You have a very desirable everything babe. Except posts.
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Darchangel posted:I'm just going to leave this here: I found a weird Chinese knock-off/randomly generated/something fucky t-shirt site the other night with all kinds of strange poo poo, but i think i found one i need 
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fridge corn posted:I'm glad I have a very desirable skillset me too, I took my BA in Sociology from a decidedly liberal arts school and turned it into being the head of engineering at the blue chip tech company that literally nearly everyone has purchased something from and today I got a promotion/raise from Director to Sr. Director. yay for CA's restrictive hiring or whatever bullshit was last mentioned about why it's so unfair for conservatives in CA, I'm sure tax rates and emissions regulations had something to do with it too
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Ether Frenzy posted:yay for CA's restrictive hiring or whatever bullshit was last mentioned about why it's so unfair for conservatives in CA, I'm sure tax rates and emissions regulations had something to do with it too Whaaaa? Nobody said anything like that. Politics wasn’t mentioned anywhere, please elaborate.
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keykey posted:Whaaaa? Nobody said anything like that. Politics wasn’t mentioned anywhere, please elaborate. "There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge"
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MomJeans420 posted:"There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge" They wouldn't let me select "Ether Binge" on Xbox live when I made this username in like 2005, due to some drat smartass dev there already knowing that quote.
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Rhyno posted:Oh, back to house chat: Are you guys familiar with the wonder of self-leveling gel-cote paint? A video popped up for it in my YT suggestions and I thought it would be crap but there were so many real world testimonials that I gave it a shot. Did all the basement trim and just knocked out the closet door down here and it's nuts. No priming, just 1-2 coats and it looks incredible. The only downside is it's a high gloss so the wife isn't too hot on using it for every other room in the house. Yeah, it's good stuff. Used to sell self-leveling enamel for Sherwin-Williams for a while just after high school, it was impressive how nice you could make trim look with it.
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Oooh, does SW have a non high gloss version? Like regular gloss?
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I don't have any word back on the cool job that I would have to relocate for. But I did get a call from another company saying the boss would like to have a chat. They don't have an opening for what I do, but I'm guessing they want to expand.
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Funny- I see more external hiring for senior positions than I do promotions. This is Silicon Valley, medium size companies. Case in point: me (passed over for promo, got promo'd on job hop last month). Though it's also true that it was who I knew. Side note: the CEO of the company I just left has apparently sent out an email mentioning layoffs. Probably not in my old group, but still that's a bullet well dodged. Back on topic- I tested a 2016 Mustang GT PP1. I didn't realize until researching this week that it's a four cam 32v. Which is pretty badass. I also scoured the internet for info on the Mustang and Camaro suspension designs, and man it's hard to find anything useful. But I found 2 videos that actually show some detail and the design for each looks good, and the SS/PP1 packages are a now a hard requirement for me, due to the use of ball joints instead of bushings in a bunch of places. That part sold me. I wasn't sure if it was just a spoiler and stiffer shocks, or more. It seems like it's more. I'm also scanning Mustang and Camaro forums, which are fine. But goddamn do these people like drag racing. I like it OK in theory, but can't quite stomach playing the "how many driveline bits can I shatter" game in practice. At least you get an hour or so on a road course before things wear out, right?
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Rhyno posted:Oooh, does SW have a non high gloss version? Like regular gloss? Yeah, they do satin, semi, and gloss in ProClassic. poo poo's expensive as hell today though, like 80 bucks a gallon.
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Fender Anarchist posted:The revving mustang jackass whose garage is on my building finally kept it up for long enough for me to walk out and confront him. Well, apparently this time it was one of his buddies in a 370Z, there were like 4 of them standing there. Their excuse was "oh yeah it's a stick shift", cause apparently that necessitates banging off the limiter like 12 times in a row to move a car around, right? Then he changed tacks to straight up "Well, you know, if there's a problem, you can take it up with the front office! I got NO problem taking noise issues up with the office when they're dickheads about it. Nor do I have any issue dragging city code enforcement into it. While calling the non-emergency police number. Though depending on the city I lived in, that would get a 5 minute response, or 5 day. meatpimp posted:So you're looking for... some kind of temporary sanity in this? Show us your hands. You. I like you a bit more now. (and goddamnit now I have Tool stuck in my head... more than the usual amount of tool) tetrapyloctomy posted:You have been docked ten: it's "poo poo, blood, and cum." And you, I like even more for getting it right. Rhyno posted:if that had been a Nickleback reference I'd have gotten it in a heartbeat. So much (more) makes sense now.
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Annoybot, check brand agnostic road racing forums. They'll have much better info if they have it.
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mariooncrack posted:If you have someone to help you, have one person hold down the latch button while the other one closes it. I had to do that on an older Nissan Altima I had. Gonna try starting the Fit again today when the temperature has been above freezing for a while, but I don't have high hopes. I'm pissed, but a starter shouldn't be super-expensive. Hopefully it's not electrical gremlins or, again, something insanely stupid like someone topped off the radiator with water at an oil change or something.
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tetrapyloctomy posted:Gonna try starting the Fit again today when the temperature has been above freezing for a while, but I don't have high hopes. I'm pissed, but a starter shouldn't be super-expensive. Hopefully it's not electrical gremlins or, again, something insanely stupid like someone topped off the radiator with water at an oil change or something. I forget if you've mentioned this but are you sure it's the starter? My GS started acting up when it got colder and it wouldn't click over so I ordered a new starter. It's not the starter but rather a tired old battery (poo poo battery).
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Olympic Mathlete posted:I forget if you've mentioned this but are you sure it's the starter? My GS started acting up when it got colder and it wouldn't click over so I ordered a new starter. It's not the starter but rather a tired old battery (poo poo battery). I hooked up the jumper cables to the ol' trusty Impreza and just got clicks out of it. No RuurRuurRuur of the thing trying to turn over. But who loving knows. I'm sure there are a thousand catastrophes it could be.
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