Complaint Department - Page 2

Nephythys · 02-15-2007, 02:40 PM

B.O.B??

BarTopDancer · 02-15-2007, 02:45 PM

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Originally Posted by blueerica

New complaint received!!!

The upside of moving in with your grandma is the cheap (read: free) rent. The downside is that she goes through everything. Everything. In the past, she's pulled out my B.O.B from my underwear drawer - and today, she went through a box of stuff I cleaned out for a friend, to find a shirt I'd missed stuffed away in what looked like a garbage bag and 28-cents in miscellaneous coins. This is a box of what I told her was trash. What must she be doing with my real trash!?

There are few things that grate on me like that. Respect my privacy, at least. I don't complain, because loss of privacy is to be expected at such low rent costs.

Have you met Mima?

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Sigh - though I must admit, the incident with the B.O.B was the most embarrassing of all time.

But funny!

Thought maybe after that she would have learned. It's been what, 8 years?

Time to move out. I think there is an empty room around the corner...

blueerica · 02-15-2007, 02:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

Unless she used it without your permission, nothing to be embarrassed about.

True, but she's my grandma. I don't want to think about her sex life, and I don't want her surmising about my own. And leaving it out. For what felt like the world to see. In the bathroom. Next to the sink. Seriously. Maybe she thought I didn't know... Nevermind.

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Originally Posted by Nephythys

B.O.B??

Battery. Operated. Boyfriend.

I'm a surprising mix of modest and mouthy.

Ghoulish Delight · 02-15-2007, 02:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

Developers who decide on their own that they can't what was designed and documented and therefore just decide how they'll make it work and don't mention this until it hits testing.

Preach it brother.

Here's a good one: Anyone can just walk into the front door of our building and walk into our test lab with millions of dollars' worth of equipment without a single obstacle. At MOST, if you take a more direct route, you have to scan your badge twice.

Compare that to...getting to the shower room of our little gym. It's 2 badge scans at minimum, 4 badge scans for the most direct route.

As for resume length, I've had people try to "teach" me that in the tech industry, > 1 page is the new standard. I refuse to buy that and always keep it to 1 page (though I thankfully haven't had to make use of it in over 2 years, knock on metal).

Mousey Girl · 02-15-2007, 02:56 PM

Coworkers who cause my moral alarm clock to ring. If you are going to do bad stuff, stop doing it in front of me!

Tref · 02-15-2007, 03:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Mousey Girl

Coworkers who cause my moral alarm clock to ring. If you are going to do bad stuff, stop doing it in front of me!

I can only wish my moral alarm also had a clock, I might not always be late to the race track.

What about it science?

Not Afraid · 02-15-2007, 04:51 PM

The average time the hiring person looks at a resume for the first scan is 30 seconds. Make it easy to read and scan and only talk about the thing that apply to the position you are looking at.

Nephythys · 02-15-2007, 04:54 PM

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Originally Posted by blueerica

Battery. Operated. Boyfriend.

I'm a surprising mix of modest and mouthy.

ahhhhh.....I see.

€uroMeinke · 02-15-2007, 05:08 PM

Re: Resumes -

The automated review of resumes has prompted the growth of resume length. In some large companies (like the one I happen to work for). Resumes are scaned, OCRed, and then key word searched to match the job criteria - the more and better buzz words you use, the better the chance of getting a "hit" so that an actual human will be engaged. So in a way two different documents are required as a "resume" 1) to pass the automated screener - common font, lots of text, no line, common bond paper (if it can be scanned it gets tossed as a paper jam); 2) A pretty, 1-page resume, with lots of white space, bullets, and texture, to present in person (or direct mailed) to the people likely to be doing the hiring. The second is probably most important, but HR has claimed often enough that the candidate inquired about "never submitted a resume." So it goes in my workplace.

Alex · 02-15-2007, 05:17 PM

At my workplace you can't even submit a paper resume. You're directed to an online form where you enter all of the information that might go on a resume. You can attach a word or PDF document of your resume but I know from experience that it is pretty much ignored (my hiring manager had never seen mine, just the online form).

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Nephythys Yeah, that's about it- Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: In a state of constant crap to get done Posts: 2,688	B.O.B??
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Mousey Girl Just Me Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: In The Flagon With The Dragon Posts: 2,437	Coworkers who cause my moral alarm clock to ring. If you are going to do bad stuff, stop doing it in front of me!
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Not Afraid HI! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 17,108	The average time the hiring person looks at a resume for the first scan is 30 seconds. Make it easy to read and scan and only talk about the thing that apply to the position you are looking at.
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€uroMeinke L'Hédoniste Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: A.S.C.O.T. Posts: 8,671	Re: Resumes - The automated review of resumes has prompted the growth of resume length. In some large companies (like the one I happen to work for). Resumes are scaned, OCRed, and then key word searched to match the job criteria - the more and better buzz words you use, the better the chance of getting a "hit" so that an actual human will be engaged. So in a way two different documents are required as a "resume" 1) to pass the automated screener - common font, lots of text, no line, common bond paper (if it can be scanned it gets tossed as a paper jam); 2) A pretty, 1-page resume, with lots of white space, bullets, and texture, to present in person (or direct mailed) to the people likely to be doing the hiring. The second is probably most important, but HR has claimed often enough that the candidate inquired about "never submitted a resume." So it goes in my workplace. __________________ I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance. Friedrich Nietzsche
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02-15-2007, 05:17 PM	#20
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	At my workplace you can't even submit a paper resume. You're directed to an online form where you enter all of the information that might go on a resume. You can attach a word or PDF document of your resume but I know from experience that it is pretty much ignored (my hiring manager had never seen mine, just the online form).
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