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[–] 144 points 9 months ago (4 children)

"We opened a position in response to feedback from the person whose former role you're interviewing for."

"You increased staffing?"

"No. We created an opening in response to their feedback."

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  • [–] 76 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    "Employees were complaining about low morale. So we threw them a mandatory after work pizza party for team building! It was a real hit, almost everyone showed up!"

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  • [–] 17 points 9 months ago* (7 children)

    I think we put in speed bumps a few years ago due to an employee complaint about speeding. I hate whoever suggested that. Not because people weren't speeding/ riding tails, but now half the people drive 10 MPH going over 20 MPH speed bumps.

    In reality we've had a lot of good things due to suggestions over the years.

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  • [–] 23 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    Speed bumps now are designed to make SUVs do 20. I don't have an SUV, I can't do 20 over them!

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Meanwhile in my jeep, "what speedbumps?"

    It's almost as if speedbumps are stupid. If they really wanted to address speeding traffic calming designs would have done it better and been prettier to look at.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    You're right. We should replace them with an automatic speed camera hooked up to automatic machine guns.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago*

    Seriously though, lane narrowing is more effective at speed reduction and traffic calming than speed bumps. Both, even, are better for particularly stubborn stretches of road.

    This does a much better job at reducing car speeds, and it is also vehicle size agnostic. People on SUVs feel far more threatened by narrowing lanes and will absolutely slow down. While they will plow through a speed bump because they can't feel them with their emotional support tank's suspension.

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago

    Cue the LinkedIn lunatic ranting that employment candidates asking critical questions of hiring organizations are a cancer on all industries.

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago

    Those surveys are just theatre is what I want to hear.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago

    If they don't answer with the STAR method I am walking

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    does the bathroom have a good fart fan

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  • [–] 34 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Your average hiring manager for IC level employees will have no insight into that.

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  • [–] 34 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Add I the end of the question, "that had a positive impact on you" they're an employee too afterall

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  • [–] 48 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    What's studdering? Something to do with breeding animals, I assume?

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  • [–] 74 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    I think they mean if they put on an eye piece and start repairing a watch in front of you. Happened to me so many times.

    Someone who studders.

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  • [–] 31 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Ahhh - thanks for the excellent explanation, my fellow simian!

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago*

    Seeing this picture just made me more grateful for the job I have. Things might suck sometimes, but at least I'm not hunched over a table using tweezers to hand-thread watch studs.

    More power to those who can do it, there's probably a calm satisfaction to be gained. But man, it looks tedious.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago

    Oh yes, this is delicious! I'm making a note now.

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  • [–] 44 points 9 months ago (50 children)

    If i wanted to be jobless, sure. lol

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago* (4 children)

    It behooves you to ask the interviewer some questions, too. It helps to give you an idea about whether or not you want to work there.

    There were definitely times when I had a bad interview, I still got the job, and I wished that I hadn't. Don't ignore warning signs because you're desperate! Sometimes it's better to have no job at all.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    For the people that can't afford not to take the crappy job, sometimes it's best to just take it but keep looking for something better. Not everybody has money in the bank to be picky about employment.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Not sure about you, but I don't think having no job would be good for me.

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  • [–] 36 points 9 months ago (26 children)

    Thank you.

    People who post shit like this seem to think the streets are littered with such a rich variety of job offers that we can pick out the best ones like we’re shopping for avocados, completely oblivious to the fact that the vast, vast majority of us need a job right fucking now to survive, and are going to happily snag the first offer we get no matter what evil fuck it’s for.

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  • [–] 33 points 9 months ago (11 children)

    Remember post COVID how people were quiet quitting and CEO's were talking about how workers had too much power?

    I remember.

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  • [–] -1 points 9 months ago (9 children)

    If your argument is that this is good advice, mine is that it’s only good advice for someone who has the luxury of putting it into practice.

    Let me make sure my family has a home and won’t starve, and then I’ll happily join you on your quest to improve corporate culture.

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  • [–] 21 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    No, my argument is that there is a class war and we're losing it.

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  • [+] -12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (7 children)

    Attention, single moms working at McDonald’s: In case you were unaware, there is currently a class war going on, and according to this guy I was talking to on Lemmy, we’re losing, and it’s your fault because you chose feeding your kid over being a smart ass in the job interview.

    Edit: for those of you making yourselves mad over my little splash of reality here, kindly do the following once your breathing normalizes:

    1. Re-familiarize yourself with Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

    2. Examine your own life and circumstances and ask yourself if you’re truly the revolutionary you’re pretending to be right now.

    This post was never about class war. It’s bad interview advice and that’s it. Settle down.

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

    You're itching for a fight, when nobody started a fight with you. I am not saying whether this is good or bad advice. I am saying that the fact that this looks like bad advice is because we are losing the class war. I am saying that I remember a time when the balance of power was different, when we temporarily had the upper hand in the class struggle due to the COVID weirdness. During that time, people were actually doing things like quiet quitting, and strong-arming employers, and that in that environment advice like the one in the meme did not come off as bad advice.

    I'm describing a dynamic, not blaming workers. If I had anything to say to the «single moms wokring at McDonalds» (you did an instrumentalization there, like the «kids in Africa») that would be «hey, how can I help you folks unionize?».

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  • [–] -5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Thank you for articulating your point. That’s all I needed to hear.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    If you wanted them to explain their point more, why was the only thing in that comment a aggressively rhetorical appeal to no one based on your presumptions? Instead of articulating yourself that their point was unclear, you launched directly into an attack. Does the dissonance of that not...register with you?

    You didn't even apologize for the unwarranted and unflattering mischaracterization of their message. You just acted like they were the one holding out from a civil conversation: "That's all I needed to hear."

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  • [+] -7 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Did you deliver a similarly sanctimonious lecture to the people who told me to shut the fuck up and called me names? No? Then you can fuck all the way off.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago*

    Feel free to copy my response in a reply to them. And that doesn't change the contents of your own response, isolated in the exchange between you and the thread OP.

    However, I'm not reading every comment, so I'll take my own advice and apologize if I caught you in your least charitable moment.

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  • [–] -2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    It is about class warfare. Of course it is. You being bad at capitalism by having kids and buying a house without a stable job sure sounds like a you problem. Maybe you should settle down and put some more job applications in?

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago

    I've been there, too. I ignored warning signs because I was desperate, and then wished I hadn't later. Saying that you will accept any job that comes your way is a good route to getting fucked over.

    You might think that you need the money, but it really isn't worth it when you lose your job a week later and your temp agency won't answer your calls anymore. There are some crazy, toxic workplaces out there.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (11 children)

    You're right. Better to lick the boot. Don't even think about saying anything that might even be slightly uncomfortable, just accept what they let you have and be happy, right? Fuckin scab

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    You’re talking mostly to Americans here- what else do you expect?

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  • [–] -1 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I'm an American. I'm kicking fascist ass every single day. And every pansy crying about how "it's too hard" has no idea how hard things are really gonna get if they keep taking it lying down.

    Unless you're an American, and unless you're fighting too, shut the fuck up. No one needs to hear from you.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (7 children)

    If licking boots is the only thing keeping someone alive, maybe don't berate them for licking boots. It must be really nice living rent free in your mom's house but many of us have to choose between having jobs or being homeless

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Incorrect.

    If licking boots is the only thing keeping someone alive, they have ZERO excuses not to fight back.

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  • [–] -2 points 9 months ago* (3 children)

    Jesus Christ. Listen to yourself. "The only thing keeping someone alive" means the alternative is death. Do not fucking tell people that they have no excuse not to fight back when fighting back kills them.

    We're talking about employers being dirtbags here. This cause is not worth dying on the streets because you can't hold down a job. You serve your species better by tolerating minor transgressions so you can more meaningfully fight against the larger ones. Any individual donating $5 to charity is helping mankind infinitely more than you will if you intentionally bomb every job interview to the point where you have to survive on said charity.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Every day, more posts from Americans revealing that they never believed the bullshit “values” their country’s been dining out on for 200 years.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    It must be really nice living rent free in your mom’s house

    Nice projection, loser. I paid off my mortgage on the house i didn't inherit and now I support my wife, a child, and two dogs on a business I built.

    You're a little cry baby piss ant boot licker, and nobody asked or cares what you think.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    The “elite” don’t have any more power than what you give them. At the very least, shut the fuck up if the only thing you can think to say is negative, defeatist garbage.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Don't be so sure. Honestly, even if this question would have made me feel uncomfortable in the moment, I can tell you that it would elevate my opinion of any candidate I was interviewing because it's actually a very thoughtful but also important thing to consider. I actually can't recall at the moment anybody ever asking something like this in any interview I've done -- normally it's the basic stuff like "do you like working here" or "can you walk me through your typical day" kind of questions.

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  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago (15 children)

    If nobody ever questioned anything, nothing would ever change. Be the change you want to see, and stop shitting on people for actually standing up for something.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (9 children)

    I don't think they're shitting on anyone, just acknowledging that this is a very good way to not get a job

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    And if everyone maintains that mentality, then nothing will ever change.

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  • [–] -2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    To be clear, that "mentality" is not wanting to die starving on the streets

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    No, that mentality is subservience.

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    I love that you're offended because of my comment about me not having job opportunities.
    Social media in a nutshell, tbh.

    Maybe not everything is about you, hmmm?

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (1 child)
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    "studdering"?? I wish I could afford that

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    It will give you those insights but it won’t give you the job .

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    This would a funny question at my work.

    You want a change? Scope it and present at the sprint planning. If it makes sense it gets built.

    Happens multiple times every 2-3 weeks.

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  • [–] 20 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    But that's a code change, that's like saying "we changed the products from being in the back to being on the shelves".

    Do you also change your process? Do you divide the work differently? Did you hire a new person to take care of those tasks that are never prioritized and then suddenly become emergency fixes?

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Depends on the scope! To stick with your analogy, there’s currently a product you need to drive around to the back of the store, load in your truck, and assemble at home.

    There will be a new area in the store dedicated to that product 95% assembled, with people who need to be knowledgeable on 5% that customers need to do.

    Kinda clumsy I know, maybe I’m missing the point of the post.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    I gathered that your earlier comment's wording implied your primary work was in computer programming, so the responder assumed the kinds of changes you were talking about were normal changes to the product/code, as opposed to operational changes within the company. What you described sounds like it does appropriately qualify for the "operational" category.

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