So I found myself needing to mail a package. I had one of those flat-rate boxes at the house from USPS and figured, “Hey. I’ll just go to USPS and buy the postage, print it out and just drop it off.”
Get to the website, and I need to create an account or log in.
I didn’t remember ever having an account, so I’ll set one up.
Username. email. password. address. Create…
Hey! You already have an account
Okay, click on “Forgot Username” … and they can’t send you your username, it just makes you create another account.
Tried a few Usernames that it might have been, but no ggod.
Create a new account and when I get to email I do the old “Add a plus and a descriptor”, so Email+USPS@domain.com and I’m good.
Okay. We have an account now. We go to buy the postage and it errors out with EMAIL now flagged in red. So I remove the +USPS and it goes through.
The position is similar to my other reports, but I am looking for some specific skill sets I do not currently have
So I write up my req. I put all the bits that are important that they have and the parts that are Nice to have. And then expect them to put on the usual boilerplate bullshit.
I finally (40+ days after submitting the req) get an email asking me to approve the position.
I think they just randomly tossed skill requirements together. They have a couple of my Nice to haves, completely missing a required skill and added some stuff I don’t care about it.
So now on top of all the other stuff Monday has presented me with, I get to ride into battle against HR.
Our previous HR didn’t put the actual job requirements in the job advert but just the generic role description. When I questioned them on this (because we were going through yet another reorganization and I was applying internally) they said “we don’t put the job description in because then too many people would match against it”.
we outsourced recruiting shortly after, which was surprising as we’re usually very bad at spotting that level of incompetence.
I know someone who was contacted by the hiring manager to apply for a position. He did, but his resume never crossed the manager’s desk. Next time they meet, the manager asked why he hasn’t applied, and my friend explained he had.
The manager told him to write at the top of his resume, “I have experience in [list of specific skills using jargon the manager provided]”. It was in the resume already, but not in a way HR could understand. So he did, and then the wheels of bureaucracy flowed a bit more smoothly and he moved onto the interview process and getting hired.
On the one hand, I feel bad for HR. On the other hand, if you’re going to work in such-and-such an industry, why wouldn’t you want to learn about that industry? I’m in banking IT, and most of our HR people come from banks or insurance companies. It just makes sense.
There are several train crossings near me with Flashing Lights on the signs for “Caution: Train Crossing” that continually flash.
So I always approach them going…okay are those the “Train Coming, Crossing arms will drop momentarily” or just the damn “Hey, we got train tracks here” signs…and almost get rear ended
I got honked at last week by some kid. I was in a crosswalk. She had a stop sign. Like … If I wasn’t there, she’d have to stop. If I were ten people, she’d have to stop. If there was a different car coming, she’d have to stop. My presence did not, at all, change anything for her. The fuck is her problem?
I often have to cross away from the intersections, because of the turn signals. My neurologist wants me to avoid turn signals. I heartily agree and want to know how.
I don’t know what to suggest about the blinking lights. Do sunglasses help at all? AR goggles may eventually have an app for that (i.e., detecting flashes and turning them into constant lights), but I doubt it’s there yet. Or just turn reality into a moving average (which might be dangerous).
It depends. I got a 78 in Drama, for example, and the only plausible reason seemed to be that the theatre review I wrote mentioned one actor didn’t do a very good job – and he turned out to be one of the prof’s pets (not to mention she directed the play, which I still think is a conflict of interest).
In a history class, granted, that should be much less of an issue.
Tell them I said to take that stick out of their ass… but then I consider my 2.6 GPA pretty fucking awesome for the fuck all amount of work I put into it. I was always thrilled with an A-.
