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DesertRatt
All Bark, No Bite!
Further to my previous job interview advice, my friend observed this:
Bosses are looking for people who will take a bullet for the boss when he makes a mistake. There is no substitute for LOYALTY. Not knowledge, not hustle, not capability. It's all about loyalty. That's what they are measuring about you.
Bosses are looking for people who will take a bullet for the boss when he makes a mistake. There is no substitute for LOYALTY. Not knowledge, not hustle, not capability. It's all about loyalty. That's what they are measuring about you.
Verbal Kint. He did a masterful job of piecing together that story he told.
He would have gotten the job!
DesertRatt
All Bark, No Bite!
Random thought.......At least 75% of the work I've done as an employee .....was about as useful as digging a hole to fill the one you previously dug.
When I got my first job at an F-500 company I was floored by how much wasted labor was not only tolerated, but created on purpose. One of my favorite examples: My boss, the Director of Marketing, quit after 3 years to join another firm. His large office was lined with 6 or 8 file cabinets. My office mate asked the VP, "What would you like us to do with all the stuff in Kelly's office?" Without hesitation the VP responded nonchalantly, "Throw it all out."
When I got my first job at an F-500 company I was floored by how much wasted labor was not only tolerated, but created on purpose. One of my favorite examples: My boss, the Director of Marketing, quit after 3 years to join another firm. His large office was lined with 6 or 8 file cabinets. My office mate asked the VP, "What would you like us to do with all the stuff in Kelly's office?" Without hesitation the VP responded nonchalantly, "Throw it all out."
Quadman2
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This may or may not work, in trying to forge a friendly bridge with a potential future boss.
On the "may" side, he/she might enjoy bragging/sharing about past catches, or the pleasureable pastimes, and now there's a common connection made...esp if you have had similar experiences to share.
Or, he/she "may not" want to share, being a "closed" type, and appreciates his/her privacy. As well, the boss might be the "Let's get down to why you're here".
Depends.
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One that seems to work, check any diplomas on the wall. If you know anything about that college, a "breaking the ice" conversation prolly will be successful.
In that case, it's a good icebreaker.
In that case, you move on with the interview.
In either case, you have to be able to "read the room" and respond accordingly.
The Big Mac meal inflation works out to 4.4% per year.
The U.S. median household income numbers are $34,076 (1995) to approx. $89,000 (2026), or 3.1% per year.
My interview for my first job out of college was done by someone in HR at Motorola. I don't know to this day if he had any engineering background at all. He spent the whole time talking to me about what a great place Motorola was instead of questioning me. They hired me with no further interviews! Somehow I managed to convince the Monochrome TV Engineering department that I was a least somewhat competent.
DesertRatt
All Bark, No Bite!
Here's my hypothetical:Turning the "page"...Are pro-sport players, really paid too much, or are they really worth the millions in some cases.
I've always been on the "Fence" on this one.
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Would a talented 22 year old slugger, coming out of college, jump at the chance to play baseball, for 7 months if the pay was $200,000?
I think the answer for 90% of those offered would be "Hell yes." Enjoyable work outdoors playing a game every day. That's probably the rational value of the job. However, the baseball INDUSTRY is such a valuable advertising platform, and there are so many billions of ad dollars available, that the baseball industry becomes another lucrative AD PLATFORM awash in billions of dollars, so of course the players are going to want their share of it. Next thing you know $20M/year because a typical salary.
ADS, ADS, ADS, ADS, ADS, ADS,ADS, ADS, ADS,ADS, ADS, ADS,ADS, ADS, ADS,ADS, ADS, ADS,ADS, ADS, ADS,ADS, ADS, ADS,. There is a never ending demand to serve more ads whenever and wherever and however it can be made possible. If your eyelids are open, someone will find a way to put an AD in front of them.
That and a stadium is no longer just stadium. The Pats play at Gillette Stadium. The Spurs play at the AT&T Center, etc. In an NFL game, halftime was halftime. Now, it's the Toyota Halftime Report or the AT&T Halftime Report.... I don't watch sports anymore. Even the Superbowl, I track on the ESPN app. What counts as a HT Show is just garbage.
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Bill Ferris
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That, Sir. is one of the reasons why I totally turned my back on TV sports viewing, and interest in all sports just over 50 yrs ago as I noticed the ever increasing commercialization/sponsored trend exponentially evolving !
I refuse to "feed the machine" !
DesertRatt
All Bark, No Bite!
I don't want the machine feeding me, either Bill!
Quadman2
Lunatic Member
Where'd you learn all those long "polysyllabics", Sir Bill?
I can't even pronounce them...let alone know what they's meaning. But looked them up anyways, eh?
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Bill Ferris
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Well, Mr. Ted, I tend to think I sometimes make them up, being I`m a 10th grade HS drop out, and relying on my 2007 MS office`s background running spell check (never auto spell correct have I ever used !) and if it doesn`t scold me by red underlining what it determines I`ve typed to be incorrect, and after I proof read what I typed and seems to make what I somewhat deem sense, with my 2 remaining operative braincells, (I`m hopefully guessing here the quantity !) I send my typed offering out to the inter-webs, and see what kicks back, good, bad, or no comment indifference reactions.
I`m an avid every night book reader to read myself to sleep, for most of my 71 yrs. of life, and I guess some of the effort, I guess I retained, don`t know.
Mystic
We're all born mad
A collection in which I've had an interest for many years.
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