It’s kind of amazing how much information you can impart in just five seconds when speaking.
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I’m looking for a better paying job. The US job market is supposedly on fire but I’ve gotten very few phone calls about jobs I’ve applied to. Very few responses at all actually. I wish I knew was going on so I could correct it.
Job market is bizarre right now. Everyone seems to want to hire, but no one is actually hiring.
Good luck, keep trying, and try not to get depressed about it. (The latter is, for me, easy to do.)
I’m trying not to get depressed but it’s hard. I’m pretty much the only income in our household aside from Mrs. Force10 doing Uber Eats, which she hasn’t been able to do for the past week because she fell and hurt her knee pretty bad. That’s only a short term solution though. She needs a real job pronto. But she’s getting even less interest than I am. Probably because she hasn’t worked since January of last year.
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This ought to be fun. I have a Zoom interview tomorrow morning. The manager of the department is a gentleman I briefly worked with back in 2008. Boy is he in for a surprise.
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Best of luck. I did one Zoom interview and the manager didn’t even have his camera on. I hurried to have mine on. (My usual ‘home’ machine has no camera, I was going to use my wife’s laptop but couldn’t remember the password, so hurried to nail up an iPad at a good angle so I wasn’t presenting the ‘up the nostrils’ shot.)
Honestly, from the interview I’m kind of wondering if I got the ‘token interview so we can say we interviewed a fee people but already have a plan on who we’re hiring’ or the manager was just introverted and a bad interviewer. He basically did a list of pre-written questions and wasn’t amazing handling my questions.
From past discussions, I will not burden @Force10 with:
- Any job listings unless I am 100% sure they’re viable.
- Any mention of moving.
- Unasked for advice since I’m bad at interviewing.
- Interview advice that is a decade+ out of date,
Pretty much goes for everyone, though.
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Bold of you to assume I could afford to move even if I wanted to. 
I’ve been part of a few of those. It blows.
I’m going to be doing it from my phone so I can’t talk too much shit.
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I never said reasons, just that it’s on the Forbidden Topic list.
I’m open to moving… the interview I mentioned actually had us looking at options, even. Moving scares me a bit, though. I’m a homebody and the idea of moving and then a job goes south makes me nervous.
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We should really find a way to get rid of these G7s before we have to add as many G8s in the space in my office.
Sitrep on said zoom meeting?
Yeah they never called me back. Not even an email saying “Better luck next time”. Which is unfortunately becoming the standard. Oddly enough I have another Zoom interview in about 3 hours.
There’s a guy on a local buy/sell page who in the last few days has posted all manner of board games, role playing games/aids, Battlestar Galactica blueprints, card collections, Star Wars memorabilia, Lego sets … you get the picture.
All I can think is, “Did you finally find someone to move in with you?”
I know. That’s not fair, and not nice, and impacts me personally.
Unloading possessions may be a symptom of a mental health issue.
They may also have a terminal condition and don’t want to burden their family with a bunch of “junk” when they pass.
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Or it may be the belongings of someone who has died and it’s the family getting rid of the stuff they don’t want.
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In my inbox this morning
Job Title – Deskside Engineer
Location – Boston MA , Atlanta GA, Dearborn MI, Scottsdale AZ, New York & White plains NY, Cleveland OH, Brooklyn OH, Washington DC, Charlotte NC, Malvern PA, San Francisco CA
Client – TCS
Max Rate – $23/hr on w2
I get these all the time but usually from people on the east coast who don’t realize how large California is. This guy, however, is in Milpitas, which is just north of San Jose. He’s in the freaking Bay Area and should definitely know that San Diego is approximately an 8 hour drive each way from where he’s at. Also, $23 an hour is a crap wage for most of the locations listed.
I’m trying a new authentic Indian takeaway tonight. Wish me luck.
Line I don’t have a story for yet…
“Someone, somewhere, is playing Powerhouse and laughing at me.”
I had a phone consult with the doctor scheduled - so I put it in my calendar.
My phone automatically goes to do-not-disturb when I have meetings scheduled (yeah, you probably know where this is going).
I had my phone on my desk right beside me all afternoon, but it didn’t ring.
Because it was on do-not-disturb.
From the phone consult meeting with my doctor I had scheduled in my calendar.
The new voice mail I got was from my doctor telling me he was going to ring me back (still waiting for that one).
Bugger!
Is there a name for this? Stupid smart technology? PEBKAC? ID10T error?
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My phone silences any call from a number that isn’t in my contact list. So I end up missing a lot of callbacks from places because their incoming phone number (which is in my phone so I can call them) is different from their outgoing number. Or they call me from 3 different places, each with a different number. Or someone calls from a mobile.
I have six different numbers saved for the dealer we got the camper from because of this.
Hey, Australians. How many vowels are in the word ‘no’? Eight?