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jesus WEP: Oct 17, 2004

Pollyanna posted:

hahaha japan sucks

it’d be a cool place to visit but the culture and society are dismal

the only redeemable thing japan ever did was some cool games

counterpoint

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZQyHJ7K_M0

# ¿ Dec 19, 2018 15:52

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# ¿ Jun 3, 2023 23:14

jesus WEP: Oct 17, 2004

idk google seems like a good place to work for 13 months and get a Big Five on your job history

# ¿ Dec 19, 2018 21:36

jesus WEP: Oct 17, 2004

Ciaphas posted:

why 13 specifically?

more than a year without being too on the nose about it

# ¿ Dec 19, 2018 22:12

jesus WEP: Oct 17, 2004

CPColin posted:

The prospective boss brought up my reputation for being a cranky poo poo and I told them that it was initially well-deserved, but was hanging around much longer than it was true. I think they also brought up how I might not work as hard on poo poo I don't care about. I dunno, it was a while ago and I never asked my reference, "WHAT DID YOU DOOOOOO???"

lmfao Jesus Christ

a reference should confirm the date you started and left and maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaybe a broad overview of your duties while you worked there

# ¿ Dec 21, 2018 11:22

jesus WEP: Oct 17, 2004

my bonus is contingent on my manager submitting my annual review by cob today

he hasn’t even looked at it yet let alone scheduled our meeting

gonna be a fun next couple of hours lol

# ¿ Dec 21, 2018 15:14

jesus WEP: Oct 17, 2004

jesus WEP posted:

my bonus is contingent on my manager submitting my annual review by cob today

he hasn’t even looked at it yet let alone scheduled our meeting

gonna be a fun next couple of hours lol

trip report i got an Outstanding, this company doesn’t have a single clue lmao

# ¿ Dec 21, 2018 20:58

jesus WEP: Oct 17, 2004

# ¿ Jan 21, 2019 15:47

jesus WEP: Oct 17, 2004

Cold on a Cob posted:

there are legit reasons to avoid linq with particular bits of code (performance, usually) but i can't think of any reasons to avoid lambdas

the reason is 100% because the architect/lead didn’t understand them and didn’t care to learn

# ¿ Jan 23, 2019 19:13

jesus WEP: Oct 17, 2004

my org has a huge boner for extension methods and i take perverse joy in removing them so i can simultaneously mock components and our architect

# ¿ Jan 23, 2019 19:17

jesus WEP: Oct 17, 2004

i mean yeah if you value literally nothing in life other than job i guess that’s true

# ¿ Jan 25, 2019 17:40

jesus WEP: Oct 17, 2004

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

this is the "interviewing and recruiting" thread, not the "best places to go skiing" thread

narrowing your job hunt to a small market because a few big companies opened secondary offices there isn't necessarily a good idea

picking a place you would be happy living seems like an important part of a job search to me, a normal human with a life outside my job

# ¿ Jan 25, 2019 18:34

jesus WEP: Oct 17, 2004

Mao Zedong Thot posted:

never accept the counter offer

# ¿ Jan 25, 2019 23:20

jesus WEP: Oct 17, 2004

qhat posted:

I'm actually considering taking the counter offer but with the condition of a severe 2-3 months severance if I'm let go without cause within the next 12 months. That could at least guarantee they don't try to ninja replace me when the current project is done.

you should in general not take the counter offer, but if you distrust your employer this much you should absolutely not take the counter offer, come on

# ¿ Jan 27, 2019 10:32

jesus WEP: Oct 17, 2004

Cold on a Cob posted:

agreed, dogs own but don't get one if you can't commit

if you can’t commit to a dog, get a long doggo

even if you can commit to a dog, still get a long doggo

long boys best boys

# ¿ Feb 19, 2019 15:12

jesus WEP: Oct 17, 2004

working for IBM: bad idea or terrible idea?

# ¿ Feb 26, 2019 11:37

jesus WEP: Oct 17, 2004

i guess i know it’ll be horrible but does IBM still have any caché to have on your resume or has that ship long sailed now

# ¿ Feb 26, 2019 11:45

jesus WEP: Oct 17, 2004

it’s the belfast office so maybe the worst of american corporate bullshit is toned down

# ¿ Feb 26, 2019 16:25

jesus WEP: Oct 17, 2004

Oneiros posted:

my favorite experience with this was when i caught one of our hr peeps posting the internal job listing in the break room/kitchen. behind the refrigerator.

this is crazy to me, if you're gonna go this far anyway Just Lie Instead

# ¿ May 22, 2019 08:08

jesus WEP: Oct 17, 2004

my buddy changed his job title to Strong And Stable Genius and said he got even more spam afterwards but he might have been full poo poo who knows

# ¿ Jun 12, 2019 23:14

jesus WEP: Oct 17, 2004

gov.uk posted:

In Northern Ireland, the qualifying period is still normally 1 year.

oh hey i found the one advantage of this shithole

# ¿ Jun 13, 2019 15:50

jesus WEP: Oct 17, 2004

Bloody posted:

i like to talk about how i handled a bad situation poorly early in my career, then talk about the lesson(s) i learned, then talk about how i applied them the next time such a situation came up

this is cool

i do similar for the old “biggest weakness” question, i give some weakness and then immediately talk about the steps i take to mitigate against it

# ¿ Jun 13, 2019 16:11

jesus WEP: Oct 17, 2004

we’re expected to be on call all weekend (unpaid) if we happen to be on the L3 support rota the week of a release. ive been “busy this weekend, sorry” every single time my support has coincided with a release because gently caress you im not giving up a weekend for free

# ¿ Jun 14, 2019 14:30

jesus WEP: Oct 17, 2004

our company explicitly tells people not to show up until like 10 or whenever on their first day. works pretty well for everyone

# ¿ Jun 17, 2019 16:19

jesus WEP: Oct 17, 2004

linkedin mostly seems to be useful for scraping people’s name and employer and spamming first.last@employerdomain.com

# ¿ Jun 20, 2019 08:57

jesus WEP: Oct 17, 2004

I got asked about what design patterns i knew when i interviewed at Citi but that was a real junior position a while back, idk if that makes it more or less weird

# ¿ Jun 25, 2019 14:44

jesus WEP: Oct 17, 2004

a real good and actually relevant technical question would be “ive hosed up this branch in git please fix it” i mean you’re way more likely to encounter that than rebalancing a bst

# ¿ Jun 27, 2019 18:22

jesus WEP: Oct 17, 2004

qhat posted:

Lol if your solution to a broken git branch isn't just Google the problem and then copy paste the first command that pops up from stack overflow

the solution in my office is Yell At James Yospos To Come Fix Their poo poo

# ¿ Jun 28, 2019 13:11

jesus WEP: Oct 17, 2004

Shaggar posted:

of course it did, otherwise it wouldn't be chili

swr

# ¿ Jul 2, 2019 11:25

jesus WEP: Oct 17, 2004

it always applies

# ¿ Jul 2, 2019 16:07

jesus WEP: Oct 17, 2004

belfast is a dive but it has real good dev wages for the cost of living. i'm a not-senior and i make about 40k, and you can buy a house in walking/cycling distance of jobs for less than 200k

# ¿ Jul 2, 2019 19:40

jesus WEP: Oct 17, 2004

Blinkz0rz posted:

is it really that much of a dive? i visited last year for work and really enjoyed the city

it's nice to visit but northern ireland in general is The South, But Europe

# ¿ Jul 2, 2019 23:01

jesus WEP: Oct 17, 2004

it's cool of qhat to out himself as a filthy scab imo

# ¿ Jul 5, 2019 00:08

jesus WEP: Oct 17, 2004

i don’t know who that is

# ¿ Jul 5, 2019 01:23

jesus WEP: Oct 17, 2004

Captain Foo posted:

qhat posts read like discount tori

tori might be obnoxious as hell but he’s not a scab come on

# ¿ Jul 5, 2019 08:14

jesus WEP: Oct 17, 2004

texas has terrible barbecue and also they think chili should be a textureless flavourless meat paste, what a garbage state

# ¿ Jul 11, 2019 14:10

jesus WEP: Oct 17, 2004

FMguru posted:

the thing you should be pressing is the "search jobs" button on linkedin

# ¿ Jul 12, 2019 15:02

jesus WEP: Oct 17, 2004

pathetic little tramp posted:

This isn't so much hiring or recruiting, but I have a friend who works at a little "build websites for local businesses" shop around Columbus Ohio that is about 20 years out of date, i.e. backend entirely written in perl. He recently asked them for a raise and they asked him to bring in his monthly budget.

ahahahaha

“how about you show me your p/l and we’ll work out what you can afford to pay me”

# ¿ Jul 16, 2019 15:29

jesus WEP: Oct 17, 2004

i work in finance and yeah there’d be a revolt if the bonuses didn’t come. we also have this weird thing where our pay review is done in the summer and backdated to the start of the year, so you get a summer “bonus” as well in the form of backpay

# ¿ Jul 16, 2019 21:47

jesus WEP: Oct 17, 2004

a recruiter called me incessantly during work hours until i snapped and yelled at them down the phone for like 5 minutes and that sure did the trick, never heard from them again. felt real bad about it tho

# ¿ Jul 25, 2019 21:53

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# ¿ Jun 3, 2023 23:14

jesus WEP: Oct 17, 2004

Rex-Goliath posted:

it could be a position they’re worried is going to be filled easily so they don’t want to risk someone else getting in

its probably this

# ¿ Aug 6, 2019 17:17

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