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go play outside Skyler posted:it's me, i'm the guy commuting 2.5 hours one-way almost twice a week hey at least ur trains are always on time 
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Mr. Crow posted:Man i did a hour commute for three or six months before deciding never again, what a waste of your life. I won't take a job i cant reasonably get a 15 minute commute or less or be fully remote. Lifes to short to sit in traffic I had a long commute for a while where it was 90 minutes if i did it at normal hours or 45 minutes if i did it at 4am & 2pm and my kids were reliably waking me up at 3am anyway so I just did that and honestly it was kind of nice when the roads are open and empty and you can just cruise down.
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i used to have that road hypnosis thing happen only when commuting. so i would have to drive with the windows open and music blasting just to make sure i didn't crash my car. very glad to not have any commute currently and will not work anywhere i can't get to by public transportation.
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ultrafilter posted:Amtrak is fantastic between NYC and DC, OK between Boston and NYC, and the scenic route everywhere else. i did the accela from boston <-> nyc a few times, and when it wasn't delayed that was like 3.5 hours. thats probably doable but like hobbesmaster said not to ohio flying was better though. back then a flight was like $50 one-way on jetblue, which was cheaper than amtrak, it was less than an hour and i live by 3 international airports. it was pretty painless all things considered ...but that poo poo's like $150 today, airline passengers are notoriously shitheaded and i bet the checkpoints take a really long time too gently caress that lol there's gotta be a job around here somewhere
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hobbesmaster posted:ah but what if there was a train amtrak's cleveland service (and by extension anything they do from chicago <-> northeast) is so pathetic. they don't even drop you off in the big art deco train station where a lot of clevelands transit options are centered. you get dumped in a glorified bus shelter next to the lake in the middle of the night
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Beeftweeter posted:gently caress that lol there's gotta be a job around here somewhere you'd think finding a job in the biggest city in the country would be easier 
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Mar 9, 2023 21:41
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theflyingexecutive posted:you'd think finding a job in the biggest city in the country would be easier i'd say it helps knowing i'm not alone but it really doesn't lol
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update: just applied for a hospital pm job that had a "scheduling skills assessment" with questions like "if the project is 12 days behind schedule and the one remaining work package will take 7 days, what day will the project be done?" also had the biggest salary for some reason
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theflyingexecutive posted:update: just applied for a hospital pm job that had a "scheduling skills assessment" with questions like "if the project is 12 days behind schedule and the one remaining work package will take 7 days, what day will the project be done?" i had to do something like that too for uhh hopefully a different healthcare thing lol, it felt like taking the loving SATs again
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theflyingexecutive posted:update: just applied for a hospital pm job that had a "scheduling skills assessment" with questions like "if the project is 12 days behind schedule and the one remaining work package will take 7 days, what day will the project be done?" Tomorrow. Or else
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:amtrak's cleveland service (and by extension anything they do from chicago <-> northeast) is so pathetic. I remember waking up at 3 am during an Albany-to-Chicago trip and very quietly chuckling because out the window was the Browns' stadium
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go play outside Skyler posted:it's me, i'm the guy commuting 2.5 hours one-way almost twice a week your boss is already asking a loving lot of you imo
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Beeftweeter posted:i had to do something like that too for uhh hopefully a different healthcare thing lol, it felt like taking the loving SATs again jfc we're applying for the same jobs 
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theflyingexecutive posted:jfc we're applying for the same jobs lol you're probably safe for me it was a bit of a stretch anyway, i don't have any experience with that kind of thing and apparently bombed the test. i got "proficient" which is one step above "completed" lmao
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the sales rep/acct manager for a vendor we used at my former NYC company was commuting in from the Cleveland area. i think he was flying in. he was really chipper about it when I first met him, then 6 months later I saw him and was like, "How's the commuting going?" and he was like, "Not great  "I think he left shortly after that
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woohoo i have two interviews monday (to be clear not the position theflyingexec was talking about though lol)
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right? if you're doing it cold its a numbers and marketing game. if youre doing it warm its not but you're not do not stop prospecting until you have signed a job offer.
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bob dobbs is dead posted:do not stop prospecting until you have signed a job offer. yeah this is good advice especially with the long rear end interview process most of us are go through.
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I'm likely going to continue until my start date - those early layoff waves had folks getting signed offers pulled (even with confirmed start dates) etc.
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bob dobbs is dead posted:right? if you're doing it cold its a numbers and marketing game. if youre doing it warm its not but you're not it could technically be three, i also got screened for a commission-based wall street thing that feels like a scam, but i don't know anything about that kind of position and have literally zero experience doing that kind of thing so i didn't respond yet but when i saw it i thought "hmm maybe bdid does". it doesn't really seem like something i wanna do though and obviously commission isnt guaranteed any advice? just let it go?
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100% commission based in wall street is a scam. but its prolly not a scam directed at you, just at little old ladies or whatever. that said scammers gonna scam so opportunistic scamming on you will prolly happen pm me firm name if you want a once over. if you dont wanna pm me just assume scam
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boy thats some jordan belfort lookin boiler room poo poo you sent me youre prolly not a big enough gigantic rear end in a top hat for that job beef
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again i appreciate the sanity check, and yeah, gently caress those guys
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bob dobbs is dead posted:right? if you're doing it cold its a numbers and marketing game. if youre doing it warm its not but you're not and even then keep low key prospecting just to keep your finger on the pulse
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i think i impressed the hiring manager at this one; i'm not sure how since i'm an idiot. they told me directly during the interview that they would like me to schedule me for the team technical the following day and that they want to hire for this position before end of month. only one problem: it's 30 minutes after my technical with another company 
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Just tell them that. Put the pressure on em
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If they're thirsty make them parched
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PokeJoe posted:Just tell them that. Put the pressure on em
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got an offer, it's disappointingly low. 25% less than what i was asking for and they're only giving me 24 hours to consider i think i can stretch that out for a few days with negotiations as i wait on other offers. this is generally a pretty nice place though, the offer and time limit aside
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At minimum ask for 10% over what you'd say yes to If not for yourself, then for the next poor schmuck who needs to slap this company into line
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the one thing nice about the offer is the 8% 401k match after the first 90 days. i expected that with them being a credit union, but dang.. pay is dire for wanting me work on-site for the first year and yeah! the plan is to ask for more at the end of business day and see how they react
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Mar 14, 2023 19:24
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the 24-hour response window would be enough to make me reject it regardless of salary
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One of these days, I would like to reply, "haha no", without even trying to negotiate
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i think the closest to "haha, no" i've ever actually gotten was "thanks for taking the time to chat, but our expectations are just way too far out of alignment for this to work"
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Yeah, the closest I got was trying to pull the offer higher and getting "Our offer is fair to our current workers" or something in reply, to which I replied, "Well it wouldn't be fair to me, so no thank you." The offer was, adjusted for inflation, between what I made fresh out of college and what I made one year out of college.
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Worst I got was, and I quote, "You must be smoking crack" I got an offer above that level a few months later though
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nudgenudgetilt posted:the 24-hour response window would be enough to make me reject it regardless of salary while this was my kneejerk reaction, i'm really looking to get out of here. it's a toxic workplace and mentally heinous for me
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CPColin posted:One of these days, I would like to reply, "haha no", without even trying to negotiate If it makes you feel any better, it is not satisfying and usually represents time you would’ve better spent doing something else up to that point. dioxazine posted:the one thing nice about the offer is the 8% 401k match after the first 90 days. i expected that with them being a credit union, but dang.. pay is dire for wanting me work on-site for the first year Sounds like typical credit union stuff to me. IME they’re behind the times and the kind of folks they’re getting in the door wouldn’t blink at this crap unfortunately
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I'm not gonna let a little thing like lack of satisfaction get in the way of my righteous indignation
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nudgenudgetilt posted:the 24-hour response window would be enough to make me reject it regardless of salary  it's quite the red flag
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