Zoe: Uh huh. River, honey? He's putting the hair away now. River: It'll still be there... waiting.

'Jaynestown'


Spike's Bitches 39: Cuppa Tea, Cuppa Tea, Almost Got Shagged, Cuppa Tea...  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


Sparky1 - Jan 20, 2008 11:35:58 am PST #3162 of 10001
Librarian Warlord

Good luck, askye! My tip: Have a couple of questions to ask them up your sleeve so they know you were thinking about the job.


Daisy Jane - Jan 20, 2008 11:38:55 am PST #3163 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

Smart Start (which is actually what I had a bit ago): Be confident in your abilities, but don't overstate. Don't get hung up on what specific questions they might ask, but rehearse to yourself why you will be good at this job. You know what you can do. Own it and no matter what questions they ask you'll have a good answer that's true.


megan walker - Jan 20, 2008 11:41:47 am PST #3164 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

not being able to sometimes have plastic bags would be very annoying to me. (Or paper. Paper would be fine too).

They can use paper here. And that's what you get if you don't bring a bag. Sometimes the paper is even compostable, not just recyclable. You get charged $0.05 for each bag (or they credit you for using your own bag, I can't remember which). I have generally brought my own bag in the past, so it took me awhile to realize they had made the changeover.


Daisy Jane - Jan 20, 2008 12:03:26 pm PST #3165 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

I need plastic for dog walking.


Connie Neil - Jan 20, 2008 12:05:30 pm PST #3166 of 10001
brillig

My plastic bags fit perfectly in the container we use for used cat litter.


Typo Boy - Jan 20, 2008 12:21:39 pm PST #3167 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

I think the point of the "weakness" question is that if you know anything about the world of work you know it will probably come up, and have some bullshit prepared. It is basically a moron filter. (Note that our President flunked it several years in a row, until someone finally pounded the proper approach into his thick skull.)


Ginger - Jan 20, 2008 12:26:56 pm PST #3168 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Typo Boy - Jan 20, 2008 12:38:58 pm PST #3169 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

And to clarify, I don't think flunking it automatically makes you a moron. But I suspect that is the rationale for including it. I was hypothesizing a mindset for asking the question rather than suggesting the mindset is necessarily right. Except in the case of our President, where it really was an example of idiocy.


brenda m - Jan 20, 2008 12:41:42 pm PST #3170 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

I need plastic for dog walking.

Yeah, I reuse any plastic bags I can get my hands on. I also use the larger ones for trash bags. But I admit that if they banned the plastic ones it might be the push I need to commit to switching over to the biodegradable dog bags as I've been meaning to do but never quite managing.


beth b - Jan 20, 2008 12:48:15 pm PST #3171 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

That's the first question I hate - because the best answers are canned answers from a book.

my next favorite ( ha) question is " where do you see yourself in 5 years". I hate questions that I can't really answer. the real answer is that it depends. Any other answer is fake.