Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

The entire Pacific Northwest coast is going to be totally isolated because every road and power line running across the coast range will be severed by a major earthquake. They'll need helicopters to bring in food and water and/or evacuate the survivors west of the coast range.

Progressive JPEG posted:

FEMA projects that nearly thirteen thousand people will die in the Cascadia earthquake and tsunami. Another twenty-seven thousand will be injured, and the agency expects that it will need to provide shelter for a million displaced people, and food and water for another two and a half million.

Pryor on Fire posted:

The cyclists around here do this terribly annoying thing where they feel like they can cut the double line on windy two lane roads, why they think this is a good idea on blind turns is beyond me, gotta shave .2 seconds off the downhill I guess? Like five or six a year get merked doing this and clipping an oncoming car so you'd think they'd learn but nope.

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

HR's job is to filter the ever-living gently caress out of candidates to "avoid wasting anyone's time." the HR people have absolutely nothing to gain from a successful hire, but they will be blamed if anything goes wrong with an individual candidate. so it's in their best interest to aggressively filter out anyone who asks for a nickel more than the salary band on the internal req. if that means there are no candidates remaining, that's ok, it's "a tight market"

The_Franz posted:

he's not wrong though. mcmansions are some of the worst constructed homes ever

The Management posted:

lol at presenting career advancement as quitting. mobility is leverage that gets you better conditions, whether or not you exercise it. if your employer recognizes your value, they should give you equal value to retain you (in whatever form, money, working conditions, ball pits).

you move around until you find the right fit for you, and you stay there until it isn't right anymore. if you're just looking to quit all the time people will notice and let you go.

TerminalRaptor posted:

my biggest fear about job hoping is resetting the vacation accruement.

even if you negotiate for a larger time off plan aren't you stuck at the regular schedule for additional time? "oh cool only 5 more years and I get a whole 3 more days off per year"

Ciaphas posted:

how long do y'all wait after an application, or after an interview, before you accept/decide that you're not gonna hear anything ever from that company, and move on

i still want to find employment at IGT here but it's been a week and a half since I submitted my app and I haven't heard a peep


it's been so long since i've job hunted that i've even forgotten basic poo poo like this, lomarf

FMguru posted:

go to an auto parts store, get a couple of those stick on round blind spot car mirrors, and put them on the edges of your monitor

Sapozhnik posted:

if you're lucky you get to pick two out of "nice, affordable, well-paying".

Sapozhnik posted:

detroit

you wanna program car firmware i'm sure it pays pretty drat well especially when you can buy a house downtown for like $50

Janitor Prime posted:

need another housing crash before I buy

ThePeavstenator posted:

Milwaukee is good, people never believe me and then they visit and go "huh, it's actually good". It's not that expensive to live in and it's got a lot of cool poo poo. You just have to deal with the rest of WI that isn't Madison or Green Bay (only for the Packers) existing.

qhat posted:

I'm finding myself having to go out of my way on a weekly basis to follow up with a lot of companies because they haven't done the things they said they would do. I understand that companies are busy and jobseeking time is longer than company time, but like when someone tells you that they'll send you an assignment within 2-3 days and more than a week goes by with no word, then you check in and they say "yes it's still in the works, sorry about this" that there's a serious communication problem somewhere within the company.

Rex-Goliath posted:

Steve Jorbs posted:

Today I was speaking to a coworker that told me they are interviewing a candidate tomorrow and are trying to think of RANDOM WACKY questions to ask like, "Batman vs. Spiderman, GO!"

ThePeavstenator posted:

I applied for some jobs that I didn't meet all the requirements for, mostly experience. Also one job that involves remaking old mainframe applications into fresh, shiny, RESTful Java webservices, it asked for COBOL and some old IBM languages.

ThePeavstenator posted:

The place I applied to is not in Brookfield. It's Franklin and/or Milwaukee.

ratbert90 posted:

Yes, at 2 which is when I normally leave

ThePeavstenator posted:

It was a phone screen.

qhat posted:

New company is pretty good, they are all really smart guys but there's a couple of scary disconnects between sales and development. Was chatting with the CEO about it and he agreed was like "yeah, r&d sometimes don't seem to understand that sales requirements very often drives priorities". He then drove me home.

qhat posted:

No he really likes me.

HoboMan posted:

hey the stack of figgies in my closet is getting too large. where is the financial advice thread? tia

MononcQc posted:

you ask people what they're working on, tell them it's cool, then mention what you are working on, wait for them to say "holy poo poo that's way cooler", then do a 360 and moonwalk your way out of there

jre posted:

Jesus christ that username post combo

ThePeavstenator posted:

I used to dig ditches. You get a good tan and you don't have to go to the gym after work.

OTOH figgies

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.

gonadic io posted:

It's traditional to print letters of resignation from work printers right?

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

Minnesota Mixup posted:

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.

Minnesota Mixup posted:

Tempting. They would probably just lose it though

JawnV6 posted:

one time, as a result of delaying selecting an option for a work bonus, i ended up with $1400 in olive garden gift cards

Dislike button posted:

get really drunk before the interview to calm your nerves and boost your confidence

Kudaros posted:

I'm about to wrap up a phd that has a huge machine learning component. Like not exactly research into algorithms (although this is debatable) . I'm applying for jobs now. Haven't done it in so long I forgot what it felt like (miserable)

I'm looking for all sorts of jobs ranging from climate research postdocs, materials stuff, to data science-y positions in industry.

There's this thing sometimes where they have a position that says "Data Science Analyst" and the description is typical of other data science positions. Is tacking "analyst" at the end of that a way of trying to pay me less or what?

The Management posted:

of all the interns I've seen come and go, the one I remember best is the one who chugged the bottle of barbecue sauce on a dare