Comment Re:You know what they call alternative medicine... (Score 4, Insightful) 517
i would use the shorter, yet better term of "Bullshit" but for the sake of political correctness, your denomination would have to do.
i would use the shorter, yet better term of "Bullshit" but for the sake of political correctness, your denomination would have to do.
I wonder... maybe that's why you don't see a lot of ninja proctologists out there.
"Punga mare", in Romanian, means "big bag". At first, I thought it was named by a Romanian dude, but I found out that "Punga" comes from Maori.
I did have career experience AND recommendation from a Dell employee. All that was missing was that piece of paper which apparently had more weight than everything else.
I'm from Romania
That pretty much makes me what you resent in your post. Oh, the irony
I'm sorry, but I actually am in a position I *can* choose who to work for. And if the corporate culture sucks ass, then I'd stay away from it.
Of course, I didn't SAY "fuck off", I mean I refused politely, but the point still stands. If you disregard experience, achievements and a plethora of certifications simply because the "college graduate" stamp is missing, then I simply don't want to work for you.
That said - On average, I would say a college degree proves one, and only one, thing about you - That you had the ability to learn enough, and follow directions enough, to complete the basic requirements of that degree... And that already puts you in the top third of applicants, even if you smoked your way through a humanities major.
HR: "this guy is perfect as a corporate drone".
Hiring Manager: "OK, make him an offer."
Two years ago I applied for a position at a large It company (*ahem*Dell*ahem*). I was nixed because I was a college drop-out (for financial reasons but who the fuck cares) and a graduate was chosen. They never actually said that (never provided any feedback except the ubiquitous "we gonna call you"), but I knew because I have friends working there. Last year they asked me to come to a "final" interview. I asked them on the phone what happened with their graduate who they had chosen and they lied to me, said he left the company for another opportunity (I knew for a fact he was fired for being incompetent). I told them to fuck off and find another graduate, because apparently the previous one was great, since he moved forward, wasn't he?
Not saying graduates suck, but choosing one over another simply because of an extra piece of paper is retarded. But that's really not surprising when you apply for a large company with a fucked up culture.
It's a global company, someone will ALWAYS have that meeting times outside of their work hours, regardless. When the meeting organizer creates a meeting in the future, the calendaring solution shows everyone's free/busy/away from office times taking into account whether there will be a DST change for some people before the time meeting.
e.g. if I set a meeting for 3 weeks from now but your DST kicks in 2 weeks from now, the calendaring solution is smart enough to realize that and show me your availability post-DST change. My experience, though, tells me that most meeting blunders appear because people don't understand what the solution shows them or simply don't care, thus double-booking others or creating meetings for 3AM someone's local time.
Only if you have a shitty calendaring solution. My corporate calendar adjusts automatically both for new and existing recurring meetings.
With that being said, i no longer see the need to have DST. You're not "saving" any "daylight" anymore, anyway.
He mad, bros. He really, really mad. Wooooshhh...
Wow.
After being under constant scrutiny and surveillance for 44 years (1945- december 1989), people in Romania got used to it AND stopped freaking out about it.
As for your final statements, sorry to break this to you buddy, but you (not you specifically, but a general "you") already are a slave, a pet, a tool, a zoo animal anyway. You eat what's given to you, you consume what's rammed down your mental throat, you suffer from "The Johns" syndrome, you guzzle the music, the shows, the movies, the clothing, the adverts anyway.
But all of a sudden you're afraid of a camera filming you, because, you know, that's what bothers you, everything else is just fine.
And BTW, there was a guy once photographing my kid, a black one even (boo-hoo). Big deal. Yeah, you might say "but OMGWTFBBQQ that picture's gonna end up on a shady website with creeps masturbating while looking at it" and my reply would be "get treatment, you're paranoid". Why? Because fucking Facebook, that's why. I'll let you make the connection.
Please, by all means, come to Romania, you could even stay at my house, I'll show you where I live, where I work, where I do my shopping, etc. It's cheap, you could even help me with my kid, because he likes to play "plane" and my back is injured and hurts.
Yeah, you'd think that by exaggerating you'd scare me into saying "oh no man this is uncool". Well, I won't because I don't think it's such a big deal.
Ready when you are for The Osbornes, war4peace version.
Well said. I concur, and I think you kinda nailed it spot-on.
Yes, I would be surprised. Actually, not surprised, because that's how people are, that is: primitive monkeys with just a thin glazing of civilization on top.
As I mentioned before, I, for one, wouldn't care. I can go past my instinctual fears and primitive reactions and smile, wave and initiate a conversation. After all, I'm going to a bar to socialize, not drink my brains out.
Not all people.
I, for one, couldn't care less. I'm not particularly ugly, obscenely fat, nor do I do embarrassing things in public. In terms of showing up in a recording, I'm just some guy who happened to be around.
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