Let me reiterate my love for feralchildren.com.

Got lots of job search related stuff done this morning so far, which makes me feel better for ditching krav.

Hec! UI expert! And I don't mean interface. I got a form to fill out to prove I've been jobhunting. It asks me what person I got in touch with for each attempt. How do you cover web applications where you're filling out a form or sending an email to a faceless mailbox?

She was lost for 19 years and has completely regressed to an animal state. Since she was lost when she was 8 then she would've developed language and they might be able to re-socialize her. If they go feral before they develop language then the brain cannot be rewired.

My god, they found Miles and Keiko O'Brien's daughter!

I got a form to fill out to prove I've been jobhunting. It asks me what person I got in touch with for each attempt. How do you cover web applications where you're filling out a form or sending an email to a faceless mailbox?

Just list the place and website and note it as an online resume submission. If they want to confirm it (and they might) they'll typically set up a quick phone interview to verify this stuff. That's no big deal, but that's how they handle these things now. They don't let it go completely unmonitored, but it is mostly pro forma.

In more return-to-nature news from the BBC, Man moves into treehouse after domestic spat and stays there for 15 years.

Dana!

You are a dork! And I need to update my Netflix queue with some Creek!

Look, it's not my fault. The show is just like that. I'm not even telling you half of the stuff.

My boss is a Difficult Person. HR has a thick folder of complaints on her; she's driven several people to quit; every few years they send her to a how-to-be-nice class and she's better for a couple weeks. Why can't her superiors say, look, your behavior is causing us problems and costing us good people; get some therapy, we'll pay for it; work it out or hand in your resignation?

In brief, why is it impossible to do anything about toxic bosses?

I wish I knew. One of my old bosses was pretty high up in the organization. He fired an executive because the guy was bat-shit crazy--kept driving a lot of employees away and scaring away the board of trustees. So my boss told him to hit the road. Fired Guy appealed to my bosses' boss who actually gave him a second chance. On the basis that he get counseling and quit making the organization bleed good people.

I often wonder if it's worth more to a company to lose a lot of good low-level employees than to fire one incompetent executive. Because that wasn't the first time I saw something like that happen. My next boss had serious competency issues and he's still there, after causing a number of people to jump ship.

I just don't get it.

Huh, breaking news on MSNBC.com says Consumer Reports is retracting their infant car seat study. I wish they'd get the story up so I knew why.

Dude, you told me about his feetsies. That's holding back?

Hostile-Aggressives, Complainers, Silent and Unresponsives, Super-Agreeables, Know-It-All Experts, Negativists and Indecisives

I'm a bit of an Unresponsive, a bit Negativist, and can be slandered by the completely wrong label of Know-it-All now and then. I used to have a coworker I called the Smarm King, who was what happens when Super-Agreeables have really truly bought into the corporate cult.

And then, there was my boss, the one who did things like disappear for three days without telling anybody where he would be, and then blame me for not intuiting his location when he returned. Good times, good times.