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When Allstate was not writing the wind and hail(aka hurricane) we had to write a split policy through the fair plan which is Louisiana Citizens, any admitted carrier can write through LA Citizens I believe. The policy with Allstate(W&H excluded) was cheap, like $700. The W&H through LA Citizens was ridiculous, I remember writing $2k - $3k W&H only policies.
Wind and Hail. I wish. Try getting volcano insurance. (aka Mount St Helens.) ;)
I'd just lava to get such a policy, but it's ashking too much around here.
There's a guy in my neighborhood who stands at the stoplight at the end of a freeway off-ramp with a sign "unemployed & homeless - please help." One day I rolled down my window and when he walked over looking for a handout I told him "I'll give you $200 to paint my garage." He told me to eff off and walked back to the curb.Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
And my garage still needs to be painted.
I'll do it for $200 and a flight up to yankee country!
Even if I bought you a bus ticket its still around $300 to get you here and back.
And Cleveland is NOT "yankee country" :mad: We hate the Yankees here...
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Anything north of I10 is yankee country.
I-10? Isn't that pushing the Mason-Dixon line really far south? I-40 seems more reasonable.
Yankee is a pretty funny term. Outside the US, it's all of us. In the south, it's northerners. In the north, it's either New Yorkers (baseball), or the Northeast. The further NorthEast you go, the further NorthEast it becomes...until you get to New Hampshire or Maine...and then they tell you to go home.
Nope
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I learned my geography wrong.
Yeah, they teach it wrong in schools. Kind like "history is written by the winners" so goes "geography is written by the locals"
Nah, that's just "Yank". We still think of "Yankee" as applying to the North but only in period dramas and Westerns... otherwise you're just one big mass to us (and I'm not talking about the obesity problem).Quote:
Yankee is a pretty funny term. Outside the US, it's all of us.
What many people don't always realise is that recruitment is a skill, employing the right people for you organisation is not always an easy task.Quote:
I had no idea how bad finding employees would be. I have a lot of friends who complain that they cannot find a job, but when I tell them that I'm hiring they always find an excuse for one reason or another.
I have done a fair amount of recruitment in my time and it always amazes me how wrong companies get it. Sometimes it is recruiting people who just aren't good enough but more often its actually recruiting people that just aren't quite right, maybe they aren't going to stick around or don't really really want the job so don't put enough effort in e.t.c.
When i do it i tend to spend as much time if not more trying to figure out the persons personality, and how bright i think they are than what there exact skill base is. Skills are important but sometime they can be focused on too much instead of making sure you have the right person who is going to fit in with you and your team.
What's the constant here?Quote:
I have a lot of friends who complain that they cannot find a job, but when I tell them that I'm hiring they always find an excuse for one reason or another
Only kidding.
I've made some bad hires on the basis that they were all that was available and I needed to hire someone. There's such a dearth of decent programmers out there and the company usually didn't want to pay top rates so you end up having to take what you can get. I'm not advocating this as an approach.
Mind you, I've had some great hires too. I just got lucky that they were on the market at the right time.
My hiring process is rather simple:
- Since I only need to focus on new business, I need sales people. I get all candidates interested in the position to take a personality test.
- I only then call those who tested as either a:
- Sales Superstar
- Sales Leader
- Closer
- During the interview I implement behavioral based interviewing in order to weed past the "I work great in a team environment" crap
- At the end, and this is the most important I will tell them:
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You seem like a great hire and if I had two positions available I would certainly hire you, but you just do not seem sales superstar to me.
- And then just shut up to see if they fight back from that objection
- If they fight back then I take 1-2 days to analyze the answers that they gave me in the interview and then call the applicant to let the know one way or the other.
One of our proudest cultural exports.Quote:
Originally Posted by FunkyDexter
I'm glad I don't have to hire, at the moment. What a pain.
Insurance and taxes more than doubles my mortgage payment.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker