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BobbyK posted:So you're saying making someone wait an hour past the scheduled time of an interview reflects poorly on that company? Wow never thought of it like that before. Look this story is obviously fake but if the same fairly common circumstance happened to me I would do the exact same thing, futhteromore
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EmmyOk posted:Look this story is obviously fake but if the same fairly common circumstance happened to me I would do the exact same thing, futhteromore I mean I agree that somebody interviewing for a job isn't necessarily in a position to be walking out, but I have never heard of this stupid thing actually happening, but maybe they don't do this sort of thing in healthcare. Are dumbass pop-psych questions that have nothing to do with the job or the applicant's skills or experience really a thing in other industries?
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Getting asked an unanswerable or weird question to see how you react isn't that strange, perhaps they wanted to see what someone would do when asked a silly question. Or maybe they thought a dumb question like that would be a nice opener to relax someone. I'm not arguing this happened because I hate that poo poo but it's within the realm of plausibility sans bon mot and mainly I just thought it was funny you called it out but then said you'd do the same thing
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I've had to take Myers-Briggs tests during interviews for I.T. jobs a couple times. At one of them the HR person said being int-p counts against me because they have too many int-x people already.
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It'd save everyone time if they did those "on a scale of 1 to 10, how likely are you to murder your boss?" questionaires instead. At least those just filter out the people too stupid to lie.
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Haifisch posted:It'd save everyone time if they did those "on a scale of 1 to 10, how likely are you to murder your boss?" questionaires instead. At least those just filter out the people too stupid to lie. Or those ballsy enough to tell the truth 
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Haifisch posted:It'd save everyone time if they did those "on a scale of 1 to 10, how likely are you to murder your boss?" questionaires instead. At least those just filter out the people too stupid to lie. I was applying to work in a banks tech division a while ago and I had to fill out a form of 100 questions with three options and you had to choose an answer you most agree with and least agree with and about half the questions were like "which of these describes you?" 1) I love embezzling and doing crimes 2) I love breaking the rules if it means doing something easily 3) Punctual
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I can one-up the MBTI and possibly sound like I'm posting STDH: I applied at a small tech firm last year and had to take a combined intelligence and personality test. Nothing unusual, although a lot of the questions used really odd syntax. Anyways, I looked at the bottom of the last page, and I noticed in the fine print at the bottom, Copyright Hubbard Management System, or something very similar. Yes, that Hubbard. I actually wound up taking a job for a few months with that firm, and it wasn't especially terrible or weird, although they did make all new hires read a management principles book by Mr. Hubbard, and they were really really insistent that you end all requests with the phrase "This is OK." Apparently the latter is pretty much universal among Scientology-linked companies.
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Solo Wing Pixy posted:I actually wound up taking a job for a few months with that firm, and it wasn't especially terrible or weird, although they did make all new hires read a management principles book by Mr. Hubbard, and they were really really insistent that you end all requests with the phrase "This is OK." Apparently the latter is pretty much universal among Scientology-linked companies.
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Gonna put this roofie in your drink and then we're back to my place, this is ok
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"Hi I'm just calling from the lab; we've achieved absolute zero. This is 0K."
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Jerry Cotton posted:"Hi I'm just calling from the lab; we've achieved absolute zero. This is 0K." oh god
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Jerry Cotton posted:"Hi I'm just calling from the lab; we've achieved absolute zero. This is 0K." HARITSOPPA!
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The building is on fire, please proceed to the nearest exit in an orderly fashion. This is OK. Scientologists are weird.
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axolotl farmer posted:HARITSOPPA! Jak är bök.
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To go into a bit more detail about the "This is OK" thing, Scientology and related organizations have a standardized form for any request that's going up the ladder called a Completed Staff Work, or CSW. If you were just asking to borrow a pen or something, you wouldn't bother writing out a whole CSW, but if you were requesting an $1200 monitoring board from manufacturing, you had to do one and follow the format for it religiously (heh). This post by a (former?) Scientologist goes into a bit more detail about them. And yes, on at least one occasion a fairly urgent business travel request got held up for a couple of days because I forgot to put a "This is OK" at the end of an otherwise properly-formatted email. Oops! If I remember the Hubbard Management Principles book correctly (I paid so much attention that I can't remember the actual title of it), the deal with the magic words is that they are meant to show that you've verified the content of the message and take full responsibility for its contents: basically, you're vouching that your analysis and proposed solution is, well, OK. Really, the name Completed Staff Work bugged me more than the OK thing. You're asking someone else to do something, obviously the work isn't completed yet! Also, to be fair to my former employers, I'm probably making the company sound like a front for Sea Org or something. It was a pretty normal workplace, if not a bit surreal with all of the Hubbard and Dianetics principles, and they had products that did things and sales to real companies and such. Honestly I have no idea if they were owned by the CoS, were tied to it in some other way, or if they were just owned by a particularly observant member of the Church. Solo Wing Pixy has a new favorite as of 09:23 on Aug 28, 2017 |
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Thats some drat fine penmanship. Mhm.
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Yaaasss mommy you slay gurl -Eric Xoxo
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I could hear the italics in my sensei's voice. Sensei means teacher. Then he offered me a bro-hoof (fist bump (where you bump fists with someone you respect)). It was good of me to wear white and my fillyfriend to wear black. We are balanced you see, like friendship.
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Aside from the incredibly obnoxious "does it not?" line, the thing that always bugs me about that one is the "those names don't exist". We live in a world where multiple people are naming their kids things like hashtag and maclaykin, there are no name rules.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Aside from the incredibly obnoxious "does it not?" line, the thing that always bugs me about that one is the "those names don't exist". We live in a world where multiple people are naming their kids things like hashtag and maclaykin, there are no name rules. There are in some countries, like you wouldn't be allowed to do that here in Austria. There's a list of allowed names, and if you want one not on there, you have to bring a certified statement that it's a known and used name in a different country. I found a post from 2007 where someone wanted to name their daughter Philippa and had to jump through hoops. Dunno about Sweden, but wouldn't be surprised. Not that *this* garbage story happened. gschmidl has a new favorite as of 15:30 on Aug 28, 2017 |
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gschmidl posted:. Dunno about Sweden, but wouldn't be surprised. We are all named Bort.
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axolotl farmer posted:We are all named Bort. Hence the famous triplets, bort bort bort.
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axolotl farmer posted:We are all named Bort. My son is also Bort Bortsen.
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"My son is called bort!" "I have a bort, too!" "I'm in the wrong facebook group sorry"
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Dejawesp posted:On the other hand he also spent his later years stealing smoke detectors in an attempt to build another bloody tool shed nuclear reactor. Oh, look, an update. '"Where he was confronted with the all the information listed above. Mr. Witt subsequently admitted to accidentally cutting himself with the knife while parked in his car in front of the sporting goods store and admitted making up the story about being attacked," Sheridan police said in their statement.'
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I love it when a STDH comes together.
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Disproportionate Orphan posted:Oh, look, an update. Never have I been smugger about calling a stdh.
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gschmidl posted:There are in some countries, like you wouldn't be allowed to do that here in Austria. There's a list of allowed names, and if you want one not on there, you have to bring a certified statement that it's a known and used name in a different country. I found a post from 2007 where someone wanted to name their daughter Philippa and had to jump through hoops. Dunno about Sweden, but wouldn't be surprised. Wait, there's a literal list of allowed names in Austria?
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Zipperelli. posted:Wait, there's a literal list of allowed names in Austria? I bet Adolf isn't among those allowed names
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Zipperelli. posted:Wait, there's a literal list of allowed names in Austria? If it's anything like in Germany, “allowed names“ is something of a mistranslation - as gschmidl said, it's mainly a list of “pre-approved“ names, i.e. whoever's signing off baby names that day will just do so. They probably don't even have a real list, but I could be mistaken. If it's anything else you have to prove that it's a proper first name in another culture you ideally have some connection with or that it can be counted as a “real“ name in some different way. No such luck with names that (per the law) “are likely to threaten the well-being of the child“ (like naming your child “rear end in a top hat“), give a male name to a female child or vice versa (gender neutral ones are ok tho), offend others (so no insults, but also no religious names like “Christus“ or “Lucifer“ - as long as it's not a proper first name elsewhere, that is), are actually place or brand names or incorporate titles of nobility. So in Germany naming your son “Adolf“ probably wouldn't be ok per the mustn't-be-harmful-to-the-child rule, as long as you can't prove that for some reason (like the child's father, grandfather and great-grandfather all being named Adolf) it would be proper. Also no names like “Microsoft“ or “Princess“ Generally speaking the courts are pretty tolerant of weird names, so if the officials refuse you, you can always try and sue. This is why it's now perfectly legal in Germany to name your daughter “Galaxina“ or your son “Max Amos Soma Xam“. “Hemingway“ or “Moon Unit“ are still out, though.
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