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Comment: Re:amen, most ppl dont understand the avg office (Score 1) 403

by Kittenman (#40163317) Attached to: Do Headphones Help Or Hurt Productivity?

here is the shit i block out

"oh my god, and he did not even call me back, and i waited two hours. i dont play that. i dont know what im going to do. i mean, like, if it was his mother or something thats one thing, but to call me like that. and heres the other thing, we went to subway and i asked for bread, and you know, i like the flat bread, because im watching my carbs, and he just went ahead and.."

"yeah. well, you know, thats not what they told me last week, i mean, you can check with them, but last week they said we needed the x stroke form unless it was filed before april 28, now, was it? let me check the date on that. ok see here? april 27. so that means its 24 hours before the cutoff, so that means we need to have the other form, the y form. not the x form. which is what you have there. you see? whoever did this fucked it all up and now we have to fix it. "

"you feel me? i was all up in her grill talking about how she need to step off. this is my house, you dont come into my house and start all that mess. with my boy. i dont care if she is his girlfriend or not, there are rules, and then the are rules. she doesnt even have a job, and she came in here talking all this mess about he owes me this, he owes me that. let me tell you what i told her, i told her.. "

Hey, where do you sit? I'm the redhead by the window, waving ....

Comment: Re:Salaries (Score 1) 849

by Kittenman (#40161275) Attached to: IT Positions Some of the Toughest Jobs To Fill In US

I've seen my own share of job postings where it is clear the job will be a nightmare just by the way they word it.

I saw one job advertised in Brussels for someone who knew COBOL85, spoke English, French and preferably Flemish. Now, THAT will be a small sub-group of a small starting group. Where's the Venn diagram generator....

Comment: Cause = "OMG I've got to have that" (Score 1) 512

by Kittenman (#40159759) Attached to: The Poor Waste More Time On Digital Entertainment
FWIW - I suspect a whole subgroup of our species is more susceptible to advertising/meme following/trends (call it what you will). A new Ipad is out - that's it, I've just got to have it. A new Beamer, a new TV, a new household accessory, a new holiday destination, a new school, a new suburb, a new pair of shoes ...

Used to be called keeping up with the Joneses. Nor sure what it is now. Marketeers just love these people.

Comment: Re:Only a video game? (Score 1, Flamebait) 206

Damn, it's only a memo about improving a video game? I thought it was going to be a memo about how to improve the snoozefest that is soccer/futbol. (Yeah, and here come all the non-Americans to talk about how superior it is to basketball/baseball/football. I don't care. Any game that ends in a 0-0 tie is not entertaining to watch.)

You mean, the majority of the world's population?

Comment: Re:At the going down of the sun and in the morning (Score 1) 223

by Kittenman (#40137397) Attached to: Remembering America's Fresh Water Submarines

As far as I know Memorial day is only observed in the US of A.

True.

On the other hand, only the USA had the US Civil War, which is what Memorial Day commemorated, back in the day.

Not quite true. The whole world has the US Civil war in its past. The same way the whole world had the English Civil war, the French revolution ... each event shapes our world, whether it happens in our country or not.

Comment: Board games count better (Score 2) 203

by Kittenman (#40131669) Attached to: The Gamification of Hiring
Many a year ago (back when I started out: clue - I bought the Joe Walsh LP with 'Life's been good' on it on the same trip...) I got interviewed by employers in the UK. On my CV (which was thin in those days) I'd put that I played boardgames. The interviewers asked why this was relevant. Thinking on my feet, I replied that it showed experience in conflict resolution and teamwork. I think it did, and I still do.

Not sure why a PC/video game would show that the player had teamwork. Maybe the potential employer would be better off sitting the candidates around a 'Diplomacy' board and coming back in three hours. And not necessarily hiring the winner, but the one that
a) Everyone got along with
b) Did ok, considering the starting position
c) Didn't argue every *&^%ing point ...

and yes, I got the job.

Who messed with my anti-paranoia shot?

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