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[PeteHulbert37]

Personality questionnaires posing as a "pre-employment assessment" are total horse manure. It's a big, fat burning pile of manure.

 

[CeasarBoobage]

Random recent rant

When interviewing for a new job:

I understand running a background check. That's all good.
A drug screening? Maybe, I'm 50/50 on it.

But...
A running your credit report as a condition of employment? And refusing the job for a score they don't like? F**K NO. Unless the job involves working with money, there is no flipping reason to run a credit report to be a IT geek, a teacher, a prison guard, or a secretary. I've seen that it happen for those jobs, and the BS comeback of "it's policy" is lame. My debt/payment history for 'x' years doesn't have a bearing on how well I can fix a PC, tutor a student, escort a prisoner, or transfer phone calls. Too many companies have passed over good people because of a low score or a refusal to run the report.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Most of the time management already picked a winner (not you, not me), and the bull shit exists to give management a plausible excuse to reject the losers in case anyone makes trouble.

 

[Laurel]

Either walk slow enough for me to pass you, or fast enough that you don't get in my way. Don't walk in front of me and change speeds every three steps or I will kick you in the heel "accidentally".

 

[DesEsseintes]

Either walk slow enough for me to pass you, or fast enough that you don't get in my way. Don't walk in front of me and change speeds every three steps or I will kick you in the heel "accidentally".

Same applies double for cars on a motorway. Only the payback tends to be proportionally greater.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Lame rants...

 

[DesEsseintes]

Here's a genuine one from today.

I saw my first solar eclipse today - the clouds parted a few minutes before hand, the shadows lengthened, and the birds stopped singing, only to burst out again in relief and joy when the moon passed away and the sun came back. It was a memorable experience, and as someone who used to want to be an astronaut and is still fascinated by space, I can only imagine the sublime, awe-inspiring effect it would have on young people with their lives ahead of them.

Except they won't have seen it. Any of them. Because in an inspired compression of everything I hate about the modern world, schools across Britain decided that they were not insured in case parents sued them because of children staring straight into the sun and damaging themselves. So the children all had to stay indoors, even those who would have been doing PE. But so as not to seem killjoys, the school set up screens in each classroom so they could watch it digitally. With the curtains drawn in case any of them were tempted to peek.

So let's do a quick run-through of what's happened here:

1. Obsessive fear of being sued, in a climate where people genuinely are sued for absurd things.
2. Parents who take no responsibility for instructing their own children.
3. Children who cannot be trusted to obey clear instructions, and who, if damaged by a failure to follow such instructions, are entitled to compensation. For their own stupidity.
4. A preference for indoor, safe, virtual experience rather than outdoor, potentially dangerous, actual experience.
5. And overall, a diminishment of the glorious wonders of the universe, and of the inspiration they can bring to a new generation who will one day lead this world, because of a terror of health and safety legislation.

Pretty much every single one of my 'modern life is rubbish' tick-list right there.

For fuck's sake.

 

[marshalt]

I wasn't in the cat picture thread.

 

[DesEsseintes]

I wasn't in the cat picture thread.

Oh! Was THAT why you said you hated everybody?

Light dawns. I'm sorry - I don't know you well enough. But I'm sure someone does.

 

[marshalt]

Oh! Was THAT why you said you hated everybody?

Light dawns. I'm sorry - I don't know you well enough. But I'm sure someone does.

No, that was for entirely different reasons.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I fucking hate everyone who has ever adopted the attitude that you cannot blame the whole religion, that it is a religion of Peace, and that it is as fucking benign, soft and fluffy as PBS children's programming. Can you teach me how to blow up Sesame Street...

For insight into the workings of Muhammad’s mind, consider Chapter 33 of his Koran, entitled “The Confederates.” This is one of the chapters Muhammad composed in Yathrib (later called Medina) where he fled after his Meccan compatriots determined they needed to kill him to preserve their way of life.

The chapter is like a wild theme park ride that races in and out of numerous topics. In the 73 verses that make up the chapter, Muhammad covers the following, using the God-voice he adopted for the Koran: He recaps a recent battle with the Meccans and excoriates people who were afraid to fight and die for him; he gloats about his extermination of the men and boys of one of the Jewish tribes of Yathrib, the confiscation of their property, and the enslavement of their women and children; he authorizes himself to take as many wives as he likes, permits himself to marry the wife of his adopted son, forbids himself from taking any more wives after he has taken as many as he likes, but allows himself sex slaves.

As the verses of this “revelation” continue, Muhammad imposes full body and face cover for women when outside the home, threatens people with humiliating punishment in the afterlife for annoying him, threatens to murder his critics, prohibits the practice of adoption, and dishes up images of sadistic torture in Hell awaiting people who don’t believe in him. He also praises himself as a “lamp spreading light,” and holds his behavior as a “beautiful pattern” for people to follow if they want to score well with Allah.

...

F. W. Burleigh


http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/03/the_mind_of_muhammad.html#ixzz3UvAt3GOz

 

[RobDownSouth]

I fucking hate everyone who has ever adopted the attitude that you cannot blame the whole religion, that it is a religion of Peace, and that it is as fucking benign, soft and fluffy as PBS children's programming. Can you teach me how to blow up Sesame Street...


F. W. Burleigh


http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/03/the_mind_of_muhammad.html#ixzz3UvAt3GOz

Assessing blame is job one in your life right now, isn't it Chief?

Good ole Sensei K would slap you silly if he lived long enough to see what a whiner you turned out to be.

HAI!

 

[miles]

Personality questionnaires posing as a "pre-employment assessment" are total horse manure. It's a big, fat burning pile of manure.

You must have failed one recently.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

You must have failed one recently.

No, that would be the drug test.

 

[Lord Pmann]

When interviewing for a new job:

I understand running a background check. That's all good.
A drug screening? Maybe, I'm 50/50 on it.

But...
A running your credit report as a condition of employment? And refusing the job for a score they don't like? F**K NO. Unless the job involves working with money, there is no flipping reason to run a credit report to be a IT geek, a teacher, a prison guard, or a secretary. I've seen that it happen for those jobs, and the BS comeback of "it's policy" is lame. My debt/payment history for 'x' years doesn't have a bearing on how well I can fix a PC, tutor a student, escort a prisoner, or transfer phone calls. Too many companies have passed over good people because of a low score or a refusal to run the report.

I think it's a pretty decent indicator of responsibility. There are, of course, exceptions to this. People whose financial situations are sound tend to be less susceptible to dealing with personal financial problems at work and all. Also, for jobs like escorting prisoners or working in situations like that, it makes people less likely to take bribes or whatever.

As I said, there are certainly exceptions and people who have had shitty circumstances, especially with the housing debacle of the last decade. However, employers have few indicators on people before investing their time and money into training employees. And just like GPA isn't a perfect indicator of performance, it's one of the few metrics they have. I mean, if you consider an interview, at most you spend a couple of hours with the people and they then invest tens of thousands of dollars on the employee. If it were my money, I would use every tool available to me to find out how the person is.

 

[Tathagata]

Either walk slow enough for me to pass you, or fast enough that you don't get in my way. Don't walk in front of me and change speeds every three steps or I will kick you in the heel "accidentally".

^
Yep

 

[PeteHulbert37]

People who ask a question and then talk over you while you're trying to give the answer. They're listening for the one word that they can twist into the answer they wanted to hear. Shut up and listen! You asked because you don't know. I do! Rude!

There's a "rude" skit from Mad TV or something that conveys this well but I can't Google and attach the url from my phone.

 

[PeteHulbert37]

I found it!

 

[glynndah]

I finally found the tea I like on Amazon {I live in a very small town and the closest place to buy it in real life is over an hour away.} All of other kinds from this company come in boxes of fifty. The problem is, the one I want only comes in boxes of three hundred.

I know, white girl problem, but it's the only rant I've got at the moment.

 

[lovecraft68]

Grrr...

This morning-early-6am- I had a cop knocking on my door saying the neighbors were complaining my German Shepard was running around loose and "terrorizing the street"

I assured him my dog was in the house and even if he weren't my yard is fenced in with a locked gate.

He is insisting the neighbors said it was my dog and he tried to jump a fence and attack a neighbors dog.

As we're speaking I see something running across the street.

Its a Coyote

I told the cop to turn around because I think I just found his suspect.

I don't think he appreciated the sarcasm.

 

[lovecraft68]

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