Post Race!

[dday9]

I went to the programming interview today.

[dday9]

It wasn't good. But at the same time it wasn't bad.

[dday9]

He told me that he doesn't need windows developers really. Although occasionally he does and when he does he'll get in touch with me. Really what he's looking for is app developers and sites that work with the cloud.

[dday9]

I didn't want to lie so I told him that I didn't have those skills yet.

[dday9]

It just sucks because I finally get a chance... and I'm not even qualified.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Dilletante will be delighted. Somebody got rejected because they know Windows but not mobile app development? That's what he's been forecasting for a year or two, by now.

One interview is just that.

[dday9]

I know that it's just the first interview, it just that.... it took me so long to even just find somebody that would interview me.

[dday9]

Every time I post a resume, they don't even give me the time of day to interview me because of my lack of education. I've had 3 people from hiring companies confirm this.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I have tons of education and went through something similar. I had actually written a program for one place that people thought was so great that they wanted all the other facilities to use it....so they hired somebody else to take my program and generalize it to the other facilities. I couldn't even apply for the job because I lacked the qualifications to do what I had already done.

It turned into quite the debacle, too. The guy they hired was pretty good, and a nice guy. The crap got to him after a few years and he walked (he was a little too nice, I'm afraid), as did the second guy a month later. Eight years later, they finally got a program that did what my program did, but not quite as well.

In the meantime, though, a new position opened up that was written in a way that I wasn't excluded. Hiring is largely more crap than most people realize. The people doing the hiring often don't know all that much about what they want, so they are given some kind of filter and they apply it. A buddy of mine was an excellent fish biologist with a Masters and tons of experience. He applied for a job as a fish biologist and found that his application had been downgraded by a few points on the subject of his "knowledge of small boat engines." That's rather an odd requirement for a biologist to begin with, so he called up the admin department and asked how the grading was performed on that particular question. As it turned out, the only way you could get credit for that area is if you had spent time as a professional boat engine mechanic. How many biologists fit THAT into their careers?!?!?!

[Shaggy Hiker]

On the other hand, when I was looking for a job 16 years ago, my sister told me to send my resume to Microsoft. I pointed out that I was a biologist with not even so much as a course in computers. She told me that they had just hired a professional flute player. She had no idea why Microsoft needed a professional flutist, but they hired one.

[dunfiddlin]

It just sucks because I finally get a chance... and I'm not even qualified.

I once got turned down for a job for which I was fully qualified and was the only applicant! You'll live to fight another day, Grasshopper!

[dunfiddlin]

What does blithe mean?

With casual and cheerful indifference. Have you never seen Blithe Spirit?

[dunfiddlin]

It means Mr. Christian had a lisp.

And a terrible inability to remember people's names it would appear!

[Shaggy Hiker]

My reference was obscure enough without you going and adding an even more obscure reference.

[dday9]

I'm lost.

[dday9]

But then again it is the post race. If I wasn't lost I'd be worried.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Yeah, I don't spend any effort trying to make sense around here. Most people make too much scents, anyways.

[dday9]

Mine is riesling scented.

[Pc Monk]

post racers

[FunkyDexter]

Hang in there DDay. Did you mention in the interview that you have 7 green gems? That would have sealed it.

[Pc Monk]

[dday9]

I should've said: "You know I got 7 green gems, you know how little of a life I have" and gave him a sexual look. I'm sure I would be rolling in the dough now... or in jail it's really a 50/50 chance.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I'm counting 8. Was that a recent addition, or am I seeing double (just a little bit) so early in the morning?

[dday9]

Hmm it might be. I did get a rep today which put me over 900, but I'm not sure if that gave me another one or not.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Well....I count 8. You and FD were talking about 7. Therefore, there are only a couple possible answers here....

[dday9]

I think the answer is banana.

[szlamany]

@dday9 - you don't answer your pm's but you post all night and day here - what's up with that

[Shaggy Hiker]

He may not know when he gets PM's. For a long time I didn't know about them, either. All email coming from VBF was being sent to my spam folder, so I tended to overlook any such message.

[szlamany]

That's why I came to where I know he hangs out!

[Shaggy Hiker]

On that point, you are most certainly correct.

[dday9]

Let me go check the PM hold on un Segundo.

[Pc Monk]

maybe he doesnt know how to check it

[Niya]

Oh my. Dunfiddlin got banned. Sauce on this anyone ?

[Shaggy Hiker]

Doubtless only temporary. Probably got too annoyed at a question.

[dday9]

That wouldn't surprise me. He tends to go a bit overboard when people either:
A) Don't put in effort
B) Don't do it a certain way

[Niya]

Doubtless only temporary. Probably got too annoyed at a question.

That wouldn't surprise me. He tends to go a bit overboard when people either:
A) Don't put in effort
B) Don't do it a certain way

Yea, he has a way with words, I'll say that but none of his recent posts seemed so fierce as to warrant a ban. I checked. I'm thinking there was some kind of exchange via PM that resulted in this outcome.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Or some things got moderated. He really tore into some poorly written code a month or two back. It was sufficient to warrant a warning from a moderate moderator, so perhaps the more modern moderator was wary of a warning to that wayward one.

[szlamany]

Wow - that was way out...

[Shaggy Hiker]

Well, the wayward one's ways were wanton....and found wanting, while a modest and moderate message from a moderator missed the mark, so dun was doomed to be dunned a day, or so.

[szlamany]

I finally understand what "loquacious" means!