Useless Conversation

[Yegolev]

I am sitting here interviewing offshore Indian SAP basis admins.  Very, very exciting 

Don't forget to ask basic not-in-the-study-guide questions that any retard would know.  You'll thank me later.

I hope you all enjoy your kidney stones.

If I was going to pass one, I'd have done so by now.  I think most people underestimate just how awesome I am.

[K9]

I don't drink coffee, I don't really like the taste.

[Nevermore]

I stopped drinking coffee years ago.  Since I'd only drink it at work, I'd get nasty headaches on my days off.  It was either stop drinking it at work or start drinking it at home.  Laziness won out; I didn't feel like making the effort to make it at home.

[Cyrrex]

I am sitting here interviewing offshore Indian SAP basis admins.  Very, very exciting 

Don't forget to ask basic not-in-the-study-guide questions that any retard would know.  You'll thank me later.

Actually, they are basis admins applying for low level security admin slots, so they same questions no longer really apply.

Here's a question.  When did an 8 page resume become acceptable?  I hate that shit.

[rattran]

I drink 2 pots of coffee a day. I can goa day or two before the headaches start, but I love the taste of different coffee so I see no real reason to quit. Today is a Yemen Mocca Sanani blended with a Tanzanian peaberry. Full City roast, quite tasty.

I cut out soda years ago, the few times I've had a sip of someone else's it's been disgusting.

[Yegolev]

Actually, they are basis admins applying for low level security admin slots, so they same questions no longer really apply.

I feel smug.

Here's a question.  When did an 8 page resume become acceptable?  I hate that shit.

Pretty sure the answer is "never".  Even if you did work at thirteen jobs in four years, pick out the good ones.  I think two pages is pushing it.

[JWIV]

I am sitting here interviewing offshore Indian SAP basis admins.  Very, very exciting 

Don't forget to ask basic not-in-the-study-guide questions that any retard would know.  You'll thank me later.

Actually, they are basis admins applying for low level security admin slots, so they same questions no longer really apply.

Here's a question.  When did an 8 page resume become acceptable?  I hate that shit.

It's not.  That's someone who doesn't know how to write a resume.   Especially if this is a junior position. I'll allow two or three pages for a senior position, but that's it.

[Cyrrex]

Pretty sure the answer is "never".  Even if you did work at thirteen jobs in four years, pick out the good ones.  I think two pages is pushing it.

I agree, but it's been a long time since I've seen one under, say, 4 pages.  They all have to list out all the same damn SAP buzzwords, and then repeat the same shit for each company.

[Yegolev]

Do the resumes literally reek of desperation?  Do they seem world-weary and broken in spirit?  Are there work visas on the line?  I think I'm getting a mild chubby.

[stray]

Geez, here I was thinking that my one page resume was already saying too much.

I follow the do unto others rule. I mean really, the fact of reading ONE one page resume is bad enough. No need to push it.

[Nebu]

Holy crap... my cv is like 10 pages long, but I can still jam it onto a 1-2 page resume when needed.  Some people don't know how to self-edit.

[schild]

I have 3 different resumes.

One is the most insane resume ever. With an intentionally blank page that says it's intentionally blank.
One is two pages long.
The last is half a page. Job descriptions like "It's tech support. Bullet points seem superfluous."

[stray]

Have you ever actually the used the tech support one and got hired with it?

[schild]

Have you ever actually the used the tech support one and got hired with it?

That sentence makes no fucking sense.

Ok. I parsed it:

Have you ever actually used the tech support bit and gotten hired?

I haven't used it. But eventually I will. Mostly because I'm fed up with most companies.

[stray]

My bad.

Anyways....yeah, I've made resumes like that for certain bullshit positions and never landed the job. Apparently, some people take their work seriously. 

[Cyrrex]

Do the resumes literally reek of desperation?  Do they seem world-weary and broken in spirit?  Are there work visas on the line?  I think I'm getting a mild chubby.

But that's just the thing...it isn't like that at all.  The offshore guys are worse, but even the the highly qualified onshore pros send 3-4 page resumes.  I never, ever see one shorter than that. 

[Yegolev]

I'd discard them from consideration almost immediately, but I'm sort of harsh like that.

[Bunk]

Sometimes this thread goes for days with nothing, and now we get three pages in two days.

Lanty - glad you're ok. Forget the nails in the window, get a German Shepherd. 

Coffee - I'm a cubicle monkey supervisor that starts at 6:00 AM. I open the day with a Timmy's extra large, usually have a Coke Zero at lunch, and a cup or two of green tea in the afternoon.

Resumes - just got through interviewing for a new hire last week. They were all one to two pagers, luckily. We had to disqualify two of the potential candidates for being too nice and innocent. Seriously.

[Margalis]

I find the long resumes tend to come from Indian and Chinese people who are working with some sort of consulting or placing agency.

[Cyrrex]

Yep, the Indian ones are the worst, and yes, they are usually from consultants.  Not sure how consulting firms got into this bad practice of 8 page resumes, but it's fucking annoying.  It just guarantees that I am not going to read the entire thing, and the interview is going to be poor as a result.  Which means you aren't getting the job, more than likely.

[Trippy]

Lanty - glad you're ok. Forget the nails in the window, get a German Shepherd. 

Don't know about Texas but around here very few apartments would allow a pet that large if they allow pets at all.

[Signe]

There is a rule here that you can have two pets, cat or dog, any combination, any size.  There is a one time fee of $200 per cat, and $300 per dog.  Of course, there is lots of space to walk them and tons of those little bins with baggies to take care of the waste.  There are areas of woods around us and we're on a golf course which you can walk along the paths during the evenings when it's closed.  I love that there are pets here.  I wish they'd get rid of the kids, though.

[Sky]

Lanty - glad you're ok. Forget the nails in the window, get a German Shepherd. 

Don't know about Texas but around here very few apartments would allow a pet that large if they allow pets at all.

[Lantyssa]

Don't know about Texas but around here very few apartments would allow a pet that large if they allow pets at all.

My landlady is fine with pets.  She has a golden and a Siamese, plus her SO has a golden.  Costs a $300 deposit unlikely to be refunded, plus the pet expenses.  I really don't have the time, space, or money for anything more than a goldfish right now though.  I was waiting to buy to decide if I really want another pet.

[stray]

Lanty - glad you're ok. Forget the nails in the window, get a German Shepherd. 

Don't know about Texas but around here very few apartments would allow a pet that large if they allow pets at all.

I like how she has a hippy sticker on her gun.

[rattran]

Today I scraped and primed the cement pillars on the front porch. I am tired, but the house looks better. Next week I'll paint the porch and finish the rest of the house, then figure what contrast color to use on the trim. I'm thinking a dark green to set off the navajo white.

[Ironwood]

Withdrawal symptons are killing me.

[JWIV]

Withdrawal symptons are killing me.

Caffeine, nicotine, or Dr. Who?

[Ironwood]

Citalopram.

[Sky]

navajo white.

NAVAJO WHITE! Love it. Did my living room in it after agonizing over a bajillion off-whites and tans. Then I learn it's this popular off-white that tons of people use. That would've saved some time. My mini house update - got some gutters up, installing a dehum, trying to dry up the basement. Got some experience filling rotten wood holes, and the contractor left a big channel cut out of my blacktop. I threw some gravel in it, and I guess I'll be re-learning concrete because I'm getting a lot of "Fill that hole before someone breaks their ankle!" (someone being the author of the comment, my fiancee :)). New gutters =  , half the house wasn't guttered and the half that was wasn't done properly.

Stray: that dead sticker threw me, too. Nice touch imo. I just wanted to think about an intruder running into Lantyssa all gussied up like that. "Howdy, stranger!" BLAM BLAM.

[Yegolev]

Citalopram.

I understand sort of, I'm on the escitalopram and once went without for six days.  I had to sit down a lot.  Also good luck.

[JWIV]

Citalopram.

Ouch.  Good luck.

[Yegolev]

Today's quote from my wife:

I thought we established that you weren't to send me pictures with diarrhea in them.

Relationships are hard.

[voodoolily]

Dang how many people here are on "Don't Shoot Yerself" meds?

[Reg]

So that premature ejaculation problem is cured then?