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Congrats, you survived! I guess two years in Benin should probably make you enjoy FSI a little more than back in the initial training days, heh. My boss use to work in Mexico and has worked in Monterrey several times. He has a lot of good things to say about it, so that should be something to look forward to. There's a not insignificant chance I'll take you're place back in Africa in Lagos or Bujumbura in a year, so I guess I'll look to you for some pointers if/when that happens.
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"My great-grandfather did not travel across four thousand miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this nation overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland. That's the rumor." -Stephen Colbert
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Jimbo
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We have openings for 2 night shift RN's, ER and/or Critical Care experience required. The hospital down the street has about 8 night shift openings.
I hear a lot of grumblings in that we don't want to hire new grads, but we aren't big enough or have enough time available to start up a new grad program, those hospitals that do that are bigger in bigger populations (yes there are some small hospitals and medium sized that do, but it is getting rarer). What happens is that we get them trained on an intermediate care unit or cardiac unit where they can learn some things, then try out ER or ICU. If you really want to graduated from nursing school and work ER or ICU, go get your paramedic first, work as a paramedic while going to RN school, then apply (and take the flight slot i was so freaking wanting!!!! god damn Paramedic to RN's...jk I'm glad they got it...fuckers).
Problem is that new grads think they should get a job where the don't work nights, overtime, weekends, or have to start in a lower care unit and work up. The good news is that there is lots of turn over, so eventually in a couple of years you get to the speciality you want.
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Rasix
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Anyone work at Google that I can list as a friend?
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Ingmar
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Anyone work at Google that I can list as a friend? HINT HINT QUENTON I have like 10 friends that work there, I should probably try to work that angle too.
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The Transcendent One: AH... THE ROGUE CONSTRUCT. Nordom: Sense of closure: imminent.
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Rasix
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Sounds like they're doing a big hiring push at Mountain View. Technical phone interview in a couple weeks. Should be fun interacting with an engineer that'll make me feel like a moron for a solid 45 minutes.
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Ironwood
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After two years of drought, headhunted by two companies in one week. One has an old friend working there and would offer more potential. The other basically offered a blank cheque at interview.
What an odd week it's been.
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"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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Chimpy
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After two years of drought, headhunted by two companies in one week. One has an old friend working there and would offer more potential. The other basically offered a blank cheque at interview.
What an odd week it's been.
Haven't you been pretty close to going postal at your current employer recently? Sounds like you have two ways to stay out of jail! :D
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'Reality' is the only word in the language that should always be used in quotes.
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Yoru
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Sounds like they're doing a big hiring push at Mountain View. Technical phone interview in a couple weeks. Should be fun interacting with an engineer that'll make me feel like a moron for a solid 45 minutes.
It's weird. Of the people I went to university with, or worked with in my first two years out of uni, fully half of them have been absorbed into the Google mothership via various means. The other half work for defense contractors. Go figure.
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Rasix
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I don't believe I'll be absorbed. I thought they contacted me for a completely different reason/skillset than they actually did. This will likely be a lot of cramming and relearning for little chance at success. Still, worth a shot. Current employer really has no clue what they're doing is and is eventually going to mismanage an entire division into oblivion. Yay.
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Sjofn
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Does this mean you'll be in Mountain View at some point? :P
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God Save the Horn Players
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Rasix
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Must pass 45 minutes of doom first. Then it's onto first person humiliation and shame. So.. maybe?
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Yegolev
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My favorite thing about you is your undefeatable optimism.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question. They called it The Prayer, its answer was law Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Salamok
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Good luck to you! I barely manage to be productive now and I work at a place with few distractions, I can't even imagine how unproductive I would be at Google. Then again working at Google isn't anything I would ever have to worry about.
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schild
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Good luck to you! I barely manage to be productive now and I work at a place with few distractions, I can't even imagine how unproductive I would be at Google. Then again working at Google isn't anything I would ever have to worry about.
Need a sidekick in doing nothing? Because that sounds fantastic.
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Salamok
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Good luck to you! I barely manage to be productive now and I work at a place with few distractions, I can't even imagine how unproductive I would be at Google. Then again working at Google isn't anything I would ever have to worry about.
Need a sidekick in doing nothing? Because that sounds fantastic. There is some difference between doing nothing and being unproductive even if the results are the same. They aren't hiring for the foreseeable future, my guess is the next position to open up will be mine in 18 months or so when I leave. I doubt you would enjoy this particular nightmare though, we do get to yell and curse at each other a lot so it is somewhat better than my last gig at least. edit - You should sniff around the Google building they appear to be hiring large quantities of people that do mysteriously things while appearing to drink beer and ride scooters around the office, Austin is mostly made up of various levels of account reps I think. edit2 - And by account rep I mean the technovangelist type not the parts supplier type.
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schild
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I check Google periodically, unless there's an intranet list of jobs there, the ones they've posted externally for Austin are basically shit.
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Quinton
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I don't believe there are very many projects operating out of the Austin office. Google has a quite a few regional offices, but tends not to stretch and teams projects between sites if it can be avoided.
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Furiously
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It really sucks after being a stay-at-home dad for six years to realize all your old bosses either died or retired.
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Ironwood
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It really sucks after being a stay-at-home dad for six years to realize all your old bosses either died or retired.
Why does that suck ? I would like to do the same to most of my old bosses with a sniper rifle.
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"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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Chimpy
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I think maybe he is having trouble finding someone to answer reference check calls?
Job interview on Tuesday for one of two positions at the central IT office on campus. Jobs are in the office that runs endpoint management (SCCM, IBM Enterprise Manager, McAfee EPO) for the university. I am going to be cramming every bit of information I have forgotten in the last year since I had SCCM training plus anything else I can pick up this weekend..
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'Reality' is the only word in the language that should always be used in quotes.
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Yegolev
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My answer to Windows tech questions is usually "I'm sure it's in a menu somewhere."
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question. They called it The Prayer, its answer was law Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Ironwood
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F1 Mastery.
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"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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Furiously
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It really sucks after being a stay-at-home dad for six years to realize all your old bosses either died or retired.
Why does that suck ? I would like to do the same to most of my old bosses with a sniper rifle. It sucks because can I really list my 7-year-old as a reference?
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Ironwood
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Yes. Yes, you can.
You can also specify HR as the reference and let the hirer figure that shit out. It's really Not Your Problem.
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"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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Furiously
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It's my problem since they require me to upload them into their system.
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Furiously
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I also am apparently deceased according to my college.
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Rasix
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Do you have any evidence to show them that you aren't? They'll need at least 3 documents.
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Miasma
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I also am apparently deceased according to my college.
That's a pretty extreme way to get out of those annoying alumni letters.
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Furiously
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Do you have any evidence to show them that you aren't? They'll need at least 3 documents.
Apparently a driver's license is sufficient.
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IainC
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If anyone is looking for a linux sysadmin gig, my company is hiring. The job is in Madrid but relo assistance is on the table, the company works in English too.
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Salamok
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Given the more than 25% unemployment rate in Spain right now importing a foreign worker seems almost like a human rights violation.
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Teleku
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The US has been struggling with unemployment rates also, yet there are many industries, both in tech and manufacturing, that cannot find enough skilled workers among our over 300 million population to take the jobs they desperately want to fill. Industry and the job market has changed radically in the industrialized world over the last decade or two, and one of the biggest challenges nations face seems to be getting their workforce retrained towards what the domestic market actually demands. Until we figure out how to manage that more efficiently, skilled immigrant labor is going to be a necessary fact of life for companies to stay afloat.
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"My great-grandfather did not travel across four thousand miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this nation overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland. That's the rumor." -Stephen Colbert
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KallDrexx
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So I just sent the CTO (my boss) an email, this should be interesting. It was about how certain things going down at one time haven't gone unnoticed. Things such as: 1) They sent out a new severance policy that states there is no severance unless you have a signed letter from the CEO (I didn't even know this was legal). 2) Removal of 3 days of PTO (yes, 3 weeks before the end of the year they change the PTO policy and reduce our total PTO from 18 days to 15) 3) Removal our awesome coffee pot for some tiny piece of shit 4) The lawyer has been going around showing off random people the office talking about the utility of spaces and hwo they match building plans they were given. Since my company is in a shitty monetary situation I'd put my money on them wanting to sublease our office space out. fun times ahead
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Chimpy
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Queue Ironwood telling you to "get out now" in ...3...2...1
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'Reality' is the only word in the language that should always be used in quotes.
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Strazos
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Wait, that's like 2 weeks leave a year, which is to be used for both vacation and sick days? Fuck that noise.
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Fear the Backstab! "Plato said the virtuous man is at all times ready for a grammar snake attack." - we are lesion "Hell is other people." -Sartre
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