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Comment Re:Euphemisms (Score 1) 569

Rubbish.

Nobody said you should accept the offer. In fact, the more offers you get, the less likely you are to be desperate, the more open your options are, and the more likely you are to land a job you truly love.

But you still need to know what the purpose of an interview is, and willful ignorance will get you no more than you deserve, all your anonymity and cowardice notwithstanding.

Comment Re:Euphemisms (Score 2, Informative) 569

Better to find out the important things first with practical questions so that I don't waste the company's time and money, and they don't waste my time.
I don't need offers from many companies especially ones that are a poor match. I only need one offer from a company that I wouldn't mind working for.

That's the wrong attitude to have in a job interview. It will show on your face, and you will be less likely to get the offer. Make it a (bad) habit, and it could end up costing you on a job you want very much.

During an interview you have one task: Getting the offer. This is true whether you think you might want the job or not. All your efforts and every word you say should be directed to that one task. There is no other purpose for an interview besides getting the offer. If you don't, then it makes no difference whether you would have liked working there. The choice isn't yours to make.

Once you get the offer, that is the time to consider whether you want the job, and the people who interviewed you may not be the best source of the best information you need to inform that decision. The level of salary might figure very much in this decision, and is still negotiable at this stage.

Comment Re:Why stop at law enforcement? (Score 1) 232

Think about it. Cheating spouses, monitoring your kids; it'll be a great society if we all have this data. Ala "South Park" WifeTracker 2010 will be a great boon to all those paranoid husbands out there who's wives are meeting guys on Craigslist or PlentyofFish.

Umm, if you're with VZW you can already monitor your kids' whereabouts, including getting alerts if they stray outside your approved perimeter and corridor areas. Of course there's a monthly fee. You can also control whom they can call and text, and there's a fee for that too.

They don't suggest that you can monitor your spouse, but they also don't say how they know whether the person getting the phone is a kid or a spouse.

Comment Re:"Right" to a private cell phone? (Score 2, Insightful) 232

If we all wanted true privacy we would move to the country-side, but there is not enough country-side for all to have that kind of privacy.

Hardly. In the country, where the population is much less dense, everyone knows everyone (because "everyone" is so few people). People are much more likely to know your movements, your habits, and your business in a small town than a big city.

People who desire anonymity and privacy will almost always go to a big city, not to the countryside.

Comment Re:"Right" to a private cell phone? (Score 1) 232

By having [a cellphone], you're explicitly granting permission for people to find you.

No, I'm explicitly granting permission for people to signal me, indicating that they want to speak to me. I'm not giving them permission to speak to me until I answer the phone, and I'm not giving them permission to know where I am unless I tell them.

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