The New & Unproved Work/Job/Career Thread

[E.H. Ruddock]

Just talking and being a good host, of course.

[Jorge]

Wow what a pervert

[E.H. Ruddock]

[spike]

Ruddo’s scenario is more understandable than twat’s.

[Peeps]

Late to the game wease. Would it hurt to contact them and explain you liked their qualifications but the salary they are looking for doesn’t match and ask if they are still interested?


3 jobs ago I hated working there. When I got hired at the next job I took a pay cut just to leave. It can’t hurt to reach out can it?

[Bammer]

Things your co-workers say: Mrs. Bam took me out last night including overnight hotel stay. Multiple female co-workers last week said to me something to the effect of “Ooooh you’re gonna make triplets this weekend!”

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[Bammer]

In a not unexpected juxtaposition, male co-workers were all like “She better not try and say she’s on her period or some bullshit like that.”

[Higgs]

So as part of my responsibilities, I have to hire new people for my centers. We’re in the beginning phase of opening a new center and I’m going thru provider applications/résumés. I’m looking at one right now and and the first thing I look at what kind of salary they’re looking for. This one is asking for way more than what I can pay so in my mind, it’s immediately in the NO pile. But then I start reading the resume and they outline working with transgender patients and managing their meds and just overall caring for that particular group. Then I immediately start thinking that if I just say no and be done with it like I would any other resume, what if this person thinks I turned them down based on what they’ve listed in regards to the trans patients. Which I fully support, btw. I don’t want them to think that but I can’t help feeling there’s no way they wouldn’t. Now I don’t know what to do.

Make sure you keep a decent work paper justifying your decision to go no based on unrealistic pay expectations against budget.

Move on to next applicant.

But seriously, why are salaries and pay rates such big secrets. Kinda sucks that a person can get automatically shit canned because they come out and say what they want to be paid whilst the person hiring never has to mention the actual pay for the position.

[LetMeSleep]

People often take pay cuts if the job is right. I just did that. Open communication is the key. If salary is the only hindrance, at least make a phone call. Then it’s them that is turning it down based on facts.

[wease]

At this point in the process HR handles the communication with the applicant. They give me the info and I decide whether or not I will consider them for the position and if I do then I contact them and set up an interview. If I don’t, then HR gets with them and let’s them know we’re not moving forward with them.

[CopperTom]

I resigned from my job today. I really liked this position. I was even choked up. I haven't told my staff yet. That's going to tug at the emotions. The new job is better on paper across the board.

[wease]

Congratulations coppertom

[CopperTom]

Thanks!

[spike]

Congratulations coppertom

[LetMeSleep]

Congrats dude.

[Higgs]

Hope you enjoy the new position at least as much. Gotta look after you and yours Pal.

[Bammer]

Hey wease what should I do with this resume’ that just came in?
- Says he only wants a job for about a year until law school starts
- About 30 years old based on school dates given
- Discloses his high school nickname
- Indicates he is married, expecting baby, and states how many siblings he has
- Namedrops both his dad and his grandpa
- Has been to (Jeff Ament’s hometown of) Havre, MT

[spike]

fucking millennials

[E.H. Ruddock]

Ask him who his favorite pearl jam drummer is