Too warm in the summer

I have no indication that the temperature here varies significantly with the temperature outside, so I can't see my clothing varying too much.

Disturbing Job Ads: 'The Unemployed Will Not Be Considered'

Still waiting for a response to the 300 resumés you sent out last month? Bad news: Some companies are ignoring all unemployed applicants.

In a current job posting on The People Place, a job recruiting website for the telecommunications, aerospace/defense and engineering industries, an anonymous electronics company in Angleton, Texas, advertises for a "Quality Engineer." Qualifications for the job are the usual: computer skills, oral and written communication skills, light to moderate lifting. But red print at the bottom of the ad says, "Client will not consider/review anyone NOT currently employed regardless of the reason."

In a nearly identical job posting for the same position on the Benchmark Electronics website, the red print is missing. But a human resources representative for the company confirmed to HuffPost that the The People Place ad accurately reflects the company's recruitment policies.

"It's our preference that they currently be employed," he said. "We typically go after people that are happy where they are and then tell them about the opportunities here. We do get a lot of applications blindly from people who are currently unemployed -- with the economy being what it is, we've had a lot of people contact us that don't have the skill sets we want, so we try to minimize the amount of time we spent on that and try to rifle-shoot the folks we're interested in."

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Ads asking the unemployed not to apply are easy to find. A Craigslist ad for assistant restaurant managers in Edgewater, N.J. specifies, "Must be currently employed." Another job posting for a tax manager at an unnamed "top 25 CPA firm" in New York City contains the same line in all caps.

Any more cupcake suggestions? Especially non-chocolate ones (y'all have had great chocolate suggestions, I have plenty of options that sound DELISH there). So far for non-chocolate, though, it's kinda...lemon, and mojito. And plain vanilla. Maybe orange. I feel like that's boring. Although there will be cheesecake. (This is for my dad's 70th birthday. There will be around 80 people. I have no idea how many cupcakes I plan to make--my sister's kitchen is not as well set up for baking as mine is)

Any more cupcake suggestions?

Vanilla with colored sprinkles inside?

Since we're a publisher, we never see clients/authors/other humans, so we can dress pretty much however we like. In practice, this means mostly business casual, but also jeans frequently. Women (me included) often wear solid-color t-shirts (I wear mine with long hippie skirts in the summer). No shorts, although we used to have a fashionista who worked in the office who did once wear long shorts (are they called "city shorts" now? whatever, long shorts) and heels. Disconcerting.

I keep meaning to wear the semi-colon shirt one day, but I'll probably bring a button-down shirt to wear over it.

But I have one skirt that I got slapped for wearing to work in Michigan that I'm now shy about trying to wear to work here. But I like it! It's such a lovely shade of purple. Polgara has given me a pass on it, but I'm still askeered.

I, personally, don't care, but being hit by crazy relative bosses and forced to wear a trenchcoat all day has scarred me.

Okay, when you said "slapped" in the first paragraph, I thought you meant verbally. But *actually* physically HIT? I know you said they were insane, but DAMN.

In my department, jeans without holes and a shirt without stains is considered dressed enough for teaching. I've seen one professor who wears that to teach, then strips down to boxers and an undershirt while he's in the office. I wore a suit for the job interviews at the conference in SF, but for this last interview, it was just way too hot to wear a jacket, and the campus seemed super-casual, so I wore gray slacks and a black shirt with some ribbon detail (Ann Taylor is my savior for interview clothes), and that seemed fine.

Call from the school counselor - he tried to run out of the school building.

I work in education, so it varies widely. I usually wear a suit to work. I dress a little more casually in the summer, since I don't deal with students. Today, I'm wearing a black skirt with a grey, blue and cream striped button up shirt and closed toe slides. I didn't bother with a jacket.

My favorite cupcake is yellow cake with chocolate frosting, so I'm no help, but I'm pretty sure a recent Woman's Day or something had a big cupcake story, unless my mother's just hanging on to old magazines (which is always possible).

I have no indication that the temperature here varies significantly with the temperature outside, so I can't see my clothing varying too much.

Yeah, it does seem kind of stupid to dress for summer and then come in and put a sweater on top of it, but my commute has me outside long enough that I need to dress for that, too! Mostly I wish they would turn the a/c down.

Oh dear, msbelle.