Disappointing Dollhouse posted:

job search status: no more phone janitor, code janitor starting oct 1.

this thread has had lots of good thoughts and i am very grateful for it

DELETE CASCADE posted:

im more of a \copy table from data.csv with (format csv) kind of guy

Lord Stimperor posted:

Regarding drinks at the workplace -- I think if I saw that my first reaction would be to suspect a super toxic working environment.

I've only seen one place/department where there were drinks at work. That was a particular lab at the uni where I worked. They'd get out drinks for their lab meetings. Even if you were a guest you'd be given the 'are you a sissy or what' look if you declined. Bar one or two people it was an almost completely male lab, too, in a field that enjoys a pretty even gender split. The employed the only people who I've ever witnessed firing off pissed (active-) aggressive emails at each other. That is, postdocs writing each other emails about what rear end-kissing cocksuckers they are, while putting the neighboring labs, supervisors, grant coordinators and so forth in the cc (those were people in their mid-thirties).

The idea of super relaxed, buddy-buddy party labs turned stale really fast after meeting them. Maybe I'll have the pleasure of being convinced otherwise at some point.

The_Franz posted:

"look honey, sure we'll be uprooting our entire family to move into a $4000 a month closet, you are bailing on an 18 year teaching career in the local school system and we will need to shove your ailing mother into a nursing home where we will never see her, but once my stock options vest we might be able to afford a house with a mere 2 hour commute! our 10, 13 and 15 year olds won't mind sharing a futon in the corner for two years, it will be like camping!"

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

you too can be bottomlessly smug and ready for any and all business scenarios, using the notorious b.s.d seven step program:

1. spend the best years of your life working in technology
   
2. lose all hope
   
3. drink a pint of whiskey
   
4. phone it in (this is steps 4 through 7, because i follow my own advice)
   

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

nyc is a much more livable place than seattle

every idiot visits midtown manhattan and imagines that is what nyc is like. and it's not. midtown manhattan is a miserable hellscape where we go to work, just like the lovely office park where you go to work

the residential areas of nyc look like sesame street. (because sesame street is set in nyc)

Bloody posted:

a manager i really like is interested in having me switch teams

downside: the job is c++

Schadenboner posted:

Places that do one-sided video interviewing should die in a fire.

Even if it's a gangbang, at least do me the common goddamn courtesy of picking one of the interviewers as a face so I have a loving human being to interact with rather than you fuckers all silently judging whether I'm young enough based on my hairline as I stare sullenly into the inky blackness of my screen.

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

it's ok to admit you don't know poo poo

hell, i don't know poo poo about half the garbage buzzwords on my resume. if i get caught out on one of them buzzwords, i will tell it straight: every god drat thing i've ever been paid money to do is on that resume's buzzword bingo

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

shitposting and resume-writing have more in common than any of us should be comfortable with

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

that is the ideal scenario for sure

as you may have noticed, i ain't exactly an industry superstar. when i change jobs, i have to write resumes and cover letters and go to interviews and poo poo

Skim Milk posted:

*sends resume with shoe receipt attached*

Ciaphas posted:

i think i'll know i've either Made It or something's gone terribly wrong if someday i can put shoes on an expense account

Ciaphas posted:

no i'm the anxious weirdo living in vegas

do we have a south pole poster? dang

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

besides, let's be honest: the reader of my resume can probably guess the kinds of shoes i wear

FMguru posted:

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

that's like trying to expense your bill for pay-per-view

Arcsech posted:

but suits are Businessy and anything Businessy isn't Cool

qhat posted:

Lol this diamond always seems to resurface. Did they ask you if python can run with multiple threads too?

Blinkz0rz posted:

at my current job i have never tracked a sick day or vacation day and i'll have taken 4 weeks of actual time that i'm on vacation and a whole bunch of random days by the end of the year probably around 6 weeks worth of vacation and sick time total

unlimited vacation can be a dangerous game but it can definitely work in your favor

akadajet posted:

mods?

TheFluff posted:

Hello, I came across your profile on SomethingAwful and thought I had to reach out. I saw that you were looking for a new opportunity, and I think have something that matches your profile quite well. I am currently looking for a full-stack engineer (Python/Django, Vue.js, PostgreSQL) willing to relocate to Stockholm, Sweden. Please let me know a suitable time for a call so I can tell you more about the position.

Kevin Mitnick P.E. posted:

lollin a little too cause i would've been hosed a lot worse back then eatin beans and rice 3x a day hopin my parents send me new pants for christmas if my pay got cut 20% and now id just sit on my dick playin fallout for a year, but yknow

thats due to the specifics of my respective situations and poo poo you didnt know