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mostly don't lie in an area where they can easily prove it


... gotta make work for it

 

Just watched a good movie on Showtime called Good Kill.. came out last year

If any of you cretins are fans of our military like I am this flick showed a first person look at the life of a remote drone pilot. I don't mind watching Ethan Hawke movies and I sure don't mind watching anything that has January Jones in it.

Fairly accurate, slightly jaded and probably all too real in it's cynical view of the BS that Langley pulls

 

20 years later he's back

 

More wannabe gangsta thugs wearing ridiculous chains spouting self centered repeating lyrics about a girl that didn't think he was a "real man"?? Whatever.


What? You still trying to be 19??

Another 20 years without that drivel would be a good 20 years.



Sorry hoss you know I have difficulty not calling out BS when I see it.

 

Yeah they check if your job is going to put someone in jeopardy or danger.. which most don't.


No not much has changed that I've seen


I've got a buddy that graduated with a 3.94 GPA... and is wholly unemployable for myriad other reasons. He hasn't held a steady job for 30 years. University level schooling only matters so much most of the time

 

There's truth to both camps.
I've hired PHD's who were semi worthless (couldn't program worth a shit so I put him in a doc control position) and also seen qualified people refused jobs that were only seeking degrees. Some of those are gubberment type outfits that themselves get rewarded by Uncle Sam per degree. I.e. the department has 28 people but with 54 degrees so they get paid more and thus only want the sheepskins.

And interviews only matter so much because some pretenders interview exceedingly well but then can't deliver.

 

Yeah we agree
It's darn hard to fake it in a face to face interview
Which is probably why I've always rocked interviews

References matter only a little since no one provides a bad reference
And most are schooled that they can only say so much
for liability reasons

I like speaking to their previous supervisors
and asking a single Q
"Would you hire them again?" tends to answer a lot

 

Do big tits count and a really short skirt? Not wearing undetwear like Sharon Stone?
Not on the guys though.

 

Okay, I worked at an investment bank and then became a corporate attorney.

Here's the deal. In investment banking and law you need a group of people who are exceeding smart. They can crunch the numbers, create new products, research the hell out of an issue, create novel transaction models, etc. You can't be stupid in order to do this. That's why grades and what school or MBA program you attended matter.

However, you may be a brilliant mathematician, statistician, banker, researcher or legal theorist, but if you can't schmooze and cajole, or basically be the devil in velvet, you are not going to reach the top.

But industries like these need both. They need brain power people and the street smart people who can generate money. So you hire for need and the qualifications are different.

You don't hire for sales by looking at PhDs. You don't hire in the technical field by looking at middle of the road students or experience.

One thing that is pretty constant though.....secretaries or assistants that did not have the important duties of managing, scheduling, and handling important organizational issues for an executive, were usually the hottest. Those criteria were different.

In NY, my assistant was gorgeous. She was at a club once and the owner of one of the popular strip clubs in NYC once asked if she was willing to be stripper there. Those were the days.

 

Didn't realize that CA has got the big weed legalization thing on the ballot next week...I don't recall reading a word about it in here...
Whatever can that mean?