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A Festivus Miracle posted:It has been a strange experience. The people in my class were from our competitors, a few from my own company, and a few randos. One lady was literally being paid to be there, I got comped the hotel and the cost of the class, and the people working at the competitor jobs had to carpool, stay at the motel 6, and not get anything comped. It's kind of depressing to find out that the other potential landing places are actually dramatically worse than the one you're at. Up until then in previous companies I never experienced it. Even if they were seemingly on the brink of financial ruin and therefore could be given a veneer of justifying "doubling up", we got our own rooms.
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Cheesus posted:There was a lot to like about my previous company, but the number one WTF I experienced there was mandatory (same sex) roommates in hotel rooms. The one time I have had to go on an overnight business trip I was doubled up with a guy that snored real loving loud all night and I got basically no sleep. Snorers should be doubled up together.
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I will pay for my own hotel room before ever sharing sleep space with Bill from accounting
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Cheesus posted:There was a lot to like about my previous company, but the number one WTF I experienced there was mandatory (same sex) roommates in hotel rooms. Oh no that’s not good. At one job I had they’d send trainers across the country to help instruct locations about a new process. They were cheaping out on hotels and multiple female trainers who would be traveling alone had safety objections and it would have been a few thousand to take them seriously and get better accommodations, as this was a booming MegaCorp. Or you can stick to the corporate travel policy probably not updated since the 80s, and your best trainers quit the company and immediately get better gigs and the impact of lower quality training and restaffing far exceed what it would have cost to meet their requests.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:A while ago someone posted about applicants who would describe themselves as Excel masters but melt down and accuse the interviewer of trickery when asked to make a simple pivot table. My one Excel weakness. We never use pivot tables in my current position. drat near everything else, including VBA, but never pivot tables. I'd like to think I could at least figure it out, though. Definitely not react like that.
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I don't think this is dumb, I think it's amusing. Spotted in a thread where quoting is blocked: .https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3932360&pagenumber=11&perpage=40&userid=0#post522072374
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you can actually quote stuff in PMF and closed threads now to get the post text with bbcode, but can't actually complete the post. like you can also open the edit page in closed threads etc, I remember Astral posting about it in a forum code update one time.
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Mar 12, 2022 22:41
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yeahCaptain Invictus posted:walked past the screen they have rotating safety images and videos on and saw this, loving amazing
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Mar 12, 2022 22:46
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Thank you both! Just phone posting in between playing my St. Pat's gig so I didn't want to do much digging.
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I told my boss I'm an adult and there's no way I'm sleeping in a room someone I'm not loving, and I never got hassled about it, but if I did I would have quit immediately. I don't even understand how that is supposed to work. What if you have medical issues you don't want people to know about? What if you sleep naked? What if you're introverted and need to have literally any time not interacting with people? What if you need privacy for your religious practices? What if you want to call your family without anyone overhearing?
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evilpicard posted:I told my boss I'm an adult and there's no way I'm sleeping in a room someone I'm not loving, and I never got hassled about it, but if I did I would have quit immediately. Sounds like you need to figure out how to seduce whoever's assigned to you
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Mar 12, 2022 23:55
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evilpicard posted:I told my boss I'm an adult and there's no way I'm sleeping in a room someone I'm not loving, and I never got hassled about it, but if I did I would have quit immediately. Or perhaps a slightly gentler "you know, we don't have to send you to this seminar/conference".
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evilpicard posted:I told my boss I'm an adult and there's no way I'm sleeping in a room someone I'm not loving, and I never got hassled about it, but if I did I would have quit immediately. What if you want to sit in bed while drying after a shower and watch ingrown toenail videos on youtube?
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MagusofStars posted:Or perhaps a slightly gentler "you know, we don't have to send you to this seminar/conference". Lol they are mandatory if you work in ops
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Mar 13, 2022 00:05
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Just book me one of those tube hotels. Cheap and single occupancy (because I'm too fat to stick a second person in a two person tube).
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Machai posted:Just book me one of those tube hotels. Cheap and single occupancy (because I'm too fat to stick a second person in a two person tube). Here's a stick of butter. Be a team player and make it work.
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evilpicard posted:I told my boss I'm an adult and there's no way I'm sleeping in a room someone I'm not loving, theyre trying to play matchmaker. obviously youre not buying their matches so you should report to HR.
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I can hear the keyboards of Nintendo's lawyers firing up.
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The pivot table tool pretty much does everything for you now, but people are still impressed by it
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Pivot tables are pretty awesome but holy poo poo it can be a pain to get people to understand that they need to structure their data in some manner first.
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duffmensch posted:Pivot tables are pretty awesome but holy poo poo it can be a pain to get people to understand that they need to structure their data in some manner first. A large portion of my career was unfucking excel tables.
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Buddy, they won't even let me gently caress Excel tables.
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Excel Work is Work
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Barudak posted:A large portion of my career was unfucking excel tables. For a while I was using pivot tables just to qaqc hosed datasets
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Mar 13, 2022 07:51
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One week job search report, out of 10 applications:
Something else I really dislike in these interviews is when they ask me to regurgitate my resume. Asking me questions about the particulars of my resume is fantastic, but "can you tell us a bit about yourself?" is stupid. Yes, I already did, it's my fuckin resume, thanks.
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Beep boop inefficient conversation opener detected initiate interview abort sequence
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Car Hater posted:The pivot table tool pretty much does everything for you now, but people are still impressed by it
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Until I got to Japan I liked to ask candidates what about their work experience they most wanted to share that wasn't on their resume, but in Japan that triggers the flight response in candidates immediately so I've had to go about that another way.
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evilpicard posted:Beep boop inefficient conversation opener detected initiate interview abort sequence alternatively, I like heavy metal music and anime, that's what you wanted to hear about right??? Barudak posted:Until I got to Japan I liked to ask candidates what about their work experience they most wanted to share that wasn't on their resume, but in Japan that triggers the flight response in candidates immediately so I've had to go about that another way. That's actually a great question. If it's a mobile role I'd talk about the very early mobile work I did on Windows CE handhelds back in 2000, otherwise if it was an SDM role I'd go into my teaching experience and how it relates to team leadership. Tinestram fucked around with this message at 16:46 on Mar 13, 2022 |
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Oh no that’s not good. At one job I had they’d send trainers across the country to help instruct locations about a new process. They were cheaping out on hotels and multiple female trainers who would be traveling alone had safety objections and it would have been a few thousand to take them seriously and get better accommodations, as this was a booming MegaCorp. Or you can stick to the corporate travel policy probably not updated since the 80s, and your best trainers quit the company and immediately get better gigs and the impact of lower quality training and restaffing far exceed what it would have cost to meet their requests. One of the things I will give the place I work at credit is they never cheap out on rooms when traveling. We acquired a company that was headquartered in a resort town, and they made arrangements to have us all stay in a resort. I think the travel policy at work is "don't cause problems and make us create a policy."
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Barudak posted:Until I got to Japan I liked to ask candidates what about their work experience they most wanted to share that wasn't on their resume, but in Japan that triggers the flight response in candidates immediately so I've had to go about that another way. Care to elaborate? Always interesting hearing about different office cultures in different countries. Why is that question weird in Japan? CitizenKain posted:One of the things I will give the place I work at credit is they never cheap out on rooms when traveling. We acquired a company that was headquartered in a resort town, and they made arrangements to have us all stay in a resort. My first job post grad school was the first one where I did any traveling for work. First trip, I booked a whatever hotel in the area and my manager at the time emailed me and told me to "book something nicer" because I was way under the travel budget. I've never gotten a similar email in my career and how my personal hotel preferences are more expensive than I'd like since I ended up traveling for work quite a bit before the pandemic Chaotic Flame fucked around with this message at 18:21 on Mar 13, 2022 |
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Love these one-sided automatic replies:quote:"Our team will review your application and will be in touch if your qualifications match our needs for the role. If you are not selected for this position, keep an eye on our jobs page as we're growing and adding openings. So you mean to tell me that if you don't like the look of my application, I will never ever hear from you again, but I should go out and do a bunch of research on your product on the off chance that I may hear from you... sometime?  And people wonder why I show open hostility towards the process as a whole.
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Barudak posted:Until I got to Japan I liked to ask candidates what about their work experience they most wanted to share that wasn't on their resume, but in Japan that triggers the flight response in candidates immediately so I've had to go about that another way. Barudak: "Can you tell me something interesting about yourself?" Applicant: 
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SubnormalityStairs posted:alternatively, I like heavy metal music and anime, that's what you wanted to hear about right??? Sure why not? First thing to check in any interview, has the candidate read thier own CV, lots haven't. Then, is what they wrote total bullshit. You wouldn't be at the interview if what's on you CV wasn't enough to get the job. So in essence the interview is only to show up reasons you should not get the job, not show why you should get it. I. E. Liking Anime too much.
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Chaotic Flame posted:Care to elaborate? Always interesting hearing about different office cultures in different countries. Why is that question weird in Japan? Resumes tend to be long in Japan, like 3+ pages isn't rare and recruiters tell you not to make it one page. This means lots of candidates feel like they've been really thorough with what they've written, so asking them for even more triggers a "what the gently caress does this person really want from me/are they trying to trap me with not remembering everything on my resume?" Also in general Japanese people getting interviews are very open with their flaws and thats been an adjustment. I had a person, in interview, tell me they were "really bad at [key job function]" and I was like buddy why are you interviewing then but like that kind of transparency (although usually less an issue) is super common.
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Chaotic Flame posted:
The only time my current job has ever question my hotel choices was when they sent me to D.C. when all of the East Coast kids take their trip there. I ended up having to book a $400 room at a Hampton Inn. And it was more about being impressed I found a Hampton Inn room that pricey. Travel policies really tell you a lot about how companies treat employees.
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Hotels just make up the prices. Once my trip got extended, so I went down to the lobby and tried to add a few more days to my room. Turns out there was a big football game in town so they said they couldn't give the corporate rate (even though they had tons of empty rooms), I'd have to renew at like $200 per night. I said that price was over my corporate policy, so I'd have to call travel and get approval. They asked me what the max I could do was, and rung me up $10 below the limit. Still a bit of an upcharge, but $60 cheaper than what they'd said the minimum was. Results may vary: I had easily 150 nights in that hotel so they kind of had a vested interest in not pissing me off.
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The employee then died on his way back to his home
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A company I was at brought on a new high level director. He flew somebody in for an interview, but A) Didn’t inform anybody on his team about it B] Didn’t show up to the office that day C) Didn’t answer his phone Any guesses on how long that director lasted? Two loving years
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