Todays job application... - Page 4

Tom Joad · #31 10-31-2015, 10:44 AM

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Originally Posted by BlueStreak

In fact I have and continue to lie whenever it's necessary and prudent to do so, to keep my job.

I hear you.

When I worked for the Florida DOT I parroted the Department Policy buzzwords plenty of times even when I felt they were bullshit.

donquixote99 · #32 10-31-2015, 10:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Boreas

English spelling has taken a serious nosedive lately... or else the internet has given us an opportunity to see how bad it always was. Another thing I've noticed is a significant decline in the grammar used in print media, even in august publications like the New York Times. It seems copy editors no longer know how to edit.

Copy editors basically no longer exist.

donquixote99 · #33 10-31-2015, 10:59 AM

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Originally Posted by catswiththum

sometimes it's a last minute business - i have always used referrals and will continue - we just got a buttload of event business short notice and i need people quick.

I hate running ads.

oic.

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catswiththum · #34 10-31-2015, 11:03 AM

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Originally Posted by donquixote99

oic.

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I have no idea what that means.

donquixote99 · #35 10-31-2015, 11:27 AM

It's text speak, means Oh I see. The minimalist spelling was meant to express a very slight level of embarassment for telling you your business and not being right about it....

catswiththum · #36 10-31-2015, 11:35 AM

I didn't specify the need for quick hires until later in the thread.

Referrals always best, IMO.

I am not by nature, education, or previous profession a "business person," anyway. I am, however, good with people and enjoy working with the kids.

The financial management and reporting aspects were alien to me in the beginning - having to get proficient with them has helped me better attend to our household finances and organization.

Silver lining, etc.

mpholland · #37 10-31-2015, 12:18 PM

It is actually very hard for me to move. My current employer has been awesome to me. He still hasn't quite accepted the fact that I want to move to be closer to my family. He has pretty much offered me anything and everything he can reasonably think of to get me to stay. I tried to explain to him that if I was leaving for any of those reasons, i wouldn't be searching 200 miles away for employment that will probably get me less money, worse benefits, and a worse schedule. The whole point is my daughter could use our help and I would like to participate in my granddaughter's life a bit more as she grows up. I don't get to see her as much as I used to since she started school last year.

BlueStreak · #38 10-31-2015, 02:56 PM

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Originally Posted by mpholland

It is actually very hard for me to move. My current employer has been awesome to me. He still hasn't quite accepted the fact that I want to move to be closer to my family. He has pretty much offered me anything and everything he can reasonably think of to get me to stay. I tried to explain to him that if I was leaving for any of those reasons, i wouldn't be searching 200 miles away for employment that will probably get me less money, worse benefits, and a worse schedule. The whole point is my daughter could use our help and I would like to participate in my granddaughter's life a bit more as she grows up. I don't get to see her as much as I used to since she started school last year.

I know how that feels. I have relatives that ask me quite frequently when I'm going to come home. (Near Youngstown, Ohio.) I do miss the people, well most of them anyhow. The hardest part was when my mother asked me why I stay in Virginia, just days before she passed away. The look in her eyes still haunts me nearly seven years later...........

However, the rub is that I honestly hate that fucking place. I hate it with a passion. Long, frigid winters, NO diversity, nothing to do. It's rural so jobs are hard to come by, "good jobs" are even harder. My hometown and many of it's ignorant, hayseed denizens are stuck in the '50s........Of all the places on earth to be from........ If it weren't for the fact that nearly all of my people are there, I wouldn't even consider it. I would forget it exists.

Here, I have the ocean, the beach, my astronomy club, all sorts of year round activities, the Mid-Atlantic Audiofests, plenty of interesting people from all walks of life to encounter, shorter, less brutal winters...........Sigh.

icenine · #39 11-01-2015, 11:53 AM

Friday my wife told me a co-worker was let go from the casino. She had been there 10 years, and my wife had worked with her since 2011. The reason? Every two years when the casino renews your id (which is your punch-in card) they do a credit check. Her friend had filed for bankruptcy. She was a custodian that cleaned restrooms. Not anyone who takes in cash or a cashier or comptroller. They got rid of her when they found out about the bankruptcy.

My outlook on Native American run casinos is negative. This place basically threw a person out the door like trash in my opinion.

VanishingPoi · #40 11-01-2015, 12:46 PM

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Originally Posted by BlueStreak

Might be a great bartender. Think about it.

Yeah, they would pour heftier drinks.