The Glade 4.0

I hate them.

I'm good at them, but I hate them.

We'll see how this turns out.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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Good luck. /hugs

I hate them and am bad at them.

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I hate talking about myself. That is why I fail.

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Raell Kromwell

I do okay, but hate them.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

Don't mind 'em, but I apparently suck at them. It occurred to me recently that I've never gotten a job based on success in an interview. Come to think of it, I once flubbed a test (that I should have passed), and got offered the job anyway. Huh.

But, yeah, good luck and stuff.

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This cold and dark tormented hell
Is all I`ll ever know
So when you get to heaven
May the devil be the judge

Interviews aren't bad, what sucks is the initial 3-6 month period where they don't yet trust you. They're watching you like a hawk for any signs of laziness, apathy, incompetence, or not being able to get alone with the senior employees. So you have to figure out how to put out quality work while tiptoeing around all of that, and being sure that nothing you do even suggests any of those things.

My brain often ends up going off like this:

"Hrm, this machine's settings are off, if I try to work like this it's going to take me half again as long and I'll never finish this by the end of the day. But another employee usually uses this and has it set for her preference, will she get mad if I mess with it? It's like changing someone's car seat and mirrors. But if I don't change it and the boss sees me struggling, is he going to think I'm half-assing it with an unconfigured machine? Maybe I could go find her. No, I don't even know where she's working today, and if I wander around for 30 minutes not doing anything that definitely won't look good. I'll just crank up the water temperature and do the less sensitive ones first, see if she shows up or if anyone else does. I've got to make sure to put them back in the order I got them in.....wait, are they going to assume I'm ignoring the order and just half-assedly throwing them in there if they see me working like that? They did tell me a bunch of times to make sure to keep them in order. Maybe I'll just look at how it's set now and try to set it back as close to that as I can before I leave. Oh ****, what if it IS set right, and I just forgot to do something? Think, think, did you forget anything? No, don't think so, but who knows? Maybe they didn't go over that in your internship and you're about to ruin everything? No, no, just try to get through it, you know what you're doing, right, right, right?"

Ummmmm ...

Xequecal, it seems to me, I need to give you the single most important piece of advice no one has given you, yet, apparently, which is odd because ...


Well, dude, seriously ...

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Shouldn't that be a long notebook is better than a long memory?

Nope.

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Ah, gotcha. The version I had heard was all from the perspective of the same person.

I had a second interview with Cox Communications today. Went well, it was my first behavioral interview...

Easier than I thought it would be.

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Darksiege
Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut

You're screwed.

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I am actually genuinely curious... why?

Because Cox is pure evil ala Time Bandits or because of somethign else? (if something else, please enlighten me)

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Darksiege
Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut

I think it's the first one.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

while Cox may very well be pure evil... My desire to provide food and shelter adequately for my family states that I have been on unemployment for almost 4 weeks... and it is too long.

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Darksiege
Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut

I read it as Khross saying the easy interview was a bad sign.

i did too, which is why I would like clarification.

and I did not say it was an easy interview, just easier than I expected it to be.

Almost every interview I have ever been to I felt like I was going to vomit, I would feel like the world was ending, the results of HIGCC were ending inside of my shirt and testing my deodorant to maximum efficiency, with sweaty palms and my hair and face turning into the source of all nervous sweat in the world...

this was not the case in this instance.

My big fear is that I was too confident and they will not be hiring me because I am too skilled.

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Darksiege
Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut

If you have the feeling that did well on a behavioral interview, you probably did rather poorly, unfortunately; and the numbers generally back this up. Behavioral interviews have different parameters than normal interviews, and unless you're really good at game theory (or the person conducting the interview is really, really bad), you're not exactly being dealt a straight hand. These kinds of interviews are designed to test you rather obliquely. My caution would be not to get your expectations too high.

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Thank you for the clarification Khross.

Well I have another interview coming up (different company) later this week and another opportunity to check up on again tomorrow.

Because regardless of what I think of any single opportunity, I am not going to put any eggs into any baskets until I have offer letters in hand.

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Darksiege
Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut

I'm not raining on your parade by the way. I just don't want you to set yourself up for an unnecessary disappointment, DS.

And send a PM to DFK!. He's the reigning job search guru.

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And if you don't get a response in a day or two, let me know and I'll pester him; I'm not sure whether he has email notifications turned on, though I know he doesn't browse more than a few times a year anymore.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

I most definitely understand that Khross.

a few of the opportunities I have brewing right now:

Tech Support for UPS
Tech Support for Cox
VoIP Telecom with a few former co workers
Tech Support for a Payment Processing Company
I have an application submitted directly with the HR department of Congressman Joe Heck


I am trying to keep myself open to all other potential employment situations as well.

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Darksiege
Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut

The job is MINE!

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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