I've really got to learn to just do the damage and get out of town. It's the 'stay and gloat' that gets me every time.

Ethan Rayne ,'Potential'


Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Dana - Nov 03, 2016 5:31:55 am PDT #687 of 30002
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

and she accepted the new list without updating the cites and then alphabetized it.

AAAAAAAAAAA


Glamcookie - Nov 03, 2016 5:37:32 am PDT #688 of 30002
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

Welp, rejected for the most recent job I applied/phone screened for, damn it.

I'm so sorry, Plei. If it's the company I think it is (from your FB posts), I made it through 3 phone screens and they flew me to Seattle for a brutal all-day interview and then did not hire me even though I was perfect for the job. They called me again for the same damned position months later and blew me off after the first phone screen. Screw them. Plus I hear the work/life balance there is awful. So here's to finding something great!


SuziQ - Nov 03, 2016 5:47:46 am PDT #689 of 30002
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

I fell asleep watching the game. Very happy to see all the Cubs fans celebrating today.

I had a horrible dream about being laid off. There is supposed to be a large round of layoffs today/tomorrow and I hadn't realized how on pins and needles I am about this.


Zenkitty - Nov 03, 2016 5:49:54 am PDT #690 of 30002
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

I apologize for frightening Steph and Dana.


Steph L. - Nov 03, 2016 5:55:07 am PDT #691 of 30002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

I apologize for frightening Steph and Dana.

Horror stories for editors!


Jessica - Nov 03, 2016 6:07:51 am PDT #692 of 30002
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

Plus I hear the work/life balance there is awful.

Anyone who had the opportunity to hire Plei or Glam and failed to do so is clearly out of their freaking minds, but I still have to put in a kneejerk Not All Departments on behalf of the mothership here.


P.M. Marc - Nov 03, 2016 6:55:03 am PDT #693 of 30002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Anyone who had the opportunity to hire Plei or Glam and failed to do so is clearly out of their freaking minds, but I still have to put in a kneejerk Not All Departments on behalf of the mothership here.

This was, from all accounts, one of the Not All Departments.

There are others, too! I know a lot of people there. I'm really not great at selling myself the way they want people to sell themselves, though. Their questions you needed to write up a response to were a big basket of WTF.

I mean, I recognize that a large part of my problem is that I have yet to be able to figure out how to market myself and bitterly resent that it's necessary, but those were still BS questions to choose from.


Gudanov - Nov 03, 2016 7:00:31 am PDT #694 of 30002
Coding and Sleeping

Sorry. Job hunting sucks.

Here's an interview question I got once.

Let's say you have 8 pennies and 1 penny is lighter than the others. If you have a balance scale what is the minimum number of measures do you need to take with it to find the light penny?


msbelle - Nov 03, 2016 7:04:51 am PDT #695 of 30002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Is the answer 4?

I hate job hunting and interviews, and dates, and auditions, and self-evals, and annual reviews. A trend maybe?


Jesse - Nov 03, 2016 7:04:56 am PDT #696 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I'm really not great at selling myself the way they want people to sell themselves, though.

God, that's such a critical skill and so hard to figure out! It's the exact problem I have doing my job, for the organization. Like, we can sell ourselves the way a lot of people want us to, but there are some key ones where we can't quite get there.