You’re braver than me. Hopefully it’s as good coming out as it is going down.
I might have to pick some up for my daughter though.
The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.
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I might have to pick some up for my daughter though.
Yeah, I'm just sad about this economic reality.
Actual tasting starts at the 7 minute mark.
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For some, this might be a minor victory. For some, an epic win.
I haven't eaten pizza since moving out here. So I got Dominos for lunch. They evidently have this promotion where 1 in 14 orders gets a freebie--I won lava cake.
I'm diabetic, and don't like chocolate cake. So, it's just random crap. I kinda wish they'd let me know in advance what they were bringing me, so I could tell them not to waste the food by just having me throw it away when it got here
I haven't eaten pizza since moving out here. So I got Dominos for lunch. They evidently have this promotion where 1 in 14 orders gets a freebie--I won lava cake.
I'm diabetic, and don't like chocolate cake. So, it's just random crap. I kinda wish they'd let me know in advance what they were bringing me, so I could tell them not to waste the food by just having me throw it away when it got here
Perfect opportunity to go meet some new neighbors or something, no?For some, this might be a minor victory. For some, an epic win.
I haven't eaten pizza since moving out here. So I got Dominos for lunch. They evidently have this promotion where 1 in 14 orders gets a freebie--I won lava cake.
I'm diabetic, and don't like chocolate cake. So, it's just random crap. I kinda wish they'd let me know in advance what they were bringing me, so I could tell them not to waste the food by just having me throw it away when it got here
Maybe in a different time, yes. I'm not gonna go knock on strangers doors in the current climate and just offer them food.
@Squidleybits we made it!
But you'll accept random donuts from passers-by?I'm not gonna go knock on strangers doors in the current climate and just offer them food.
EDIT: Here you go, @Tinwhistler .
--Patrick
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Let those hooties flap!
Or play video games in your pjs? That's my go to.
Dave
Staff member
Okay so I have a quandary.
I have 4 interviews this week. I just had the first. It pays $20 an hour + commission, but is NOT outside sales AT ALL. It's delivering items and upselling to current clients and keeping them stocked. The second would be $20 an hour delivering Frito-Lay products. Which sounds like a blast to me, frankly. The third pays $50k a year and would be doing operations in a factory/warehouse. Monitoring and measuring safety levels in tanks, things like that. The last one pays $70k a year and would put me back into a cubicle doing IT stuff.
I get home from my interview - which I thought went really well - and I have a job offer from the USPS as a processing clerk. I'd be the guy who processes your mail and does stuff at the front counter. I have 3 days to accept or decline.
So here's my thing. The postal job only pays $18.69 an hour, but it's an offer. I don't HAVE any of the other jobs yet, even though I think I'm going to get an offer from at least the one I did today.
Thoughts? Should I accept and go through the background check and stuff knowing full well I might not take the job? I feel kinda discomfited doing that.
I have 4 interviews this week. I just had the first. It pays $20 an hour + commission, but is NOT outside sales AT ALL. It's delivering items and upselling to current clients and keeping them stocked. The second would be $20 an hour delivering Frito-Lay products. Which sounds like a blast to me, frankly. The third pays $50k a year and would be doing operations in a factory/warehouse. Monitoring and measuring safety levels in tanks, things like that. The last one pays $70k a year and would put me back into a cubicle doing IT stuff.
I get home from my interview - which I thought went really well - and I have a job offer from the USPS as a processing clerk. I'd be the guy who processes your mail and does stuff at the front counter. I have 3 days to accept or decline.
So here's my thing. The postal job only pays $18.69 an hour, but it's an offer. I don't HAVE any of the other jobs yet, even though I think I'm going to get an offer from at least the one I did today.
Thoughts? Should I accept and go through the background check and stuff knowing full well I might not take the job? I feel kinda discomfited doing that.
Whenever I've been out of work and needed a job, I've been in this same position: Less than ideal job came up while others were on the horizon.
If one seems to be a sure thing, I have always agreed to it, knowing in the back of my mind that one of the better possibilities may come up. I don't lose much sleep over it, because I know most employers aren't loyal to their employees any longer. I've been strung along for 3 weeks and gone on 14 interviews for a company, being told "they love you" the whole time, only to lose the job to someone else at the end. So, I really don't care if I string a company along while something better may be developing.
In the end, you have to take care of you. And if the USPS job is a sure thing, it's the only real position in front of you. All of the others may pan out, or may not. And if they do, you can call USPS and say "Sorry, something better came along." When I was hiring at my last job, I had that happen a few times...you shrug and move on to the next candidate.
Dave
Staff member
Everything for the USPS is impersonal and done online through links. So I absolutely CAN'T do that. I have to accept or decline without speaking to anyone.
I've been a manager and done a lot of hiring - if I were the guy who offered you the job, I'd just like you to be up-front with me. "Hey, I want this job, but I have been at some other interviews, and salary is a consideration." I get it, it's no big deal. Happy to have you if you join, cool with you looking out for you and famjam if you get a better offer.
I guess I'd look at as if you got a job paying $15/hr today, and without having other interviews, some amazing benefactor or old employer shows up and says, hey, I'll hire you for $30/hr. Of course you'd take that job. Is it frustrating I've filled out all this paperwork for you? Yeah, but so what? That's my job.
If it's impersonal I'd definitely wait to the last day, accept, and still be willing to move on if another position offers. So frustrating there's no one to talk to.
Dave
Staff member
@Tinwhistler is pretty much echoing what's going on in my brain.
So is @Chad Sexington but I didn't see his until I posted the first part of this.
So is @Chad Sexington but I didn't see his until I posted the first part of this.
If it was a small mom-and-pop company who you might string along, you know, it's perfectly normal to feel a bit icky about that.
Since it's a huge corporation who cares so little for you you literally can't talk to a human being about it, wait 'till the third day, accept it, and be 100% willing to walk away the moment something better comes along.
Since it's a huge corporation who cares so little for you you literally can't talk to a human being about it, wait 'till the third day, accept it, and be 100% willing to walk away the moment something better comes along.
It's actually a government agency but these days same thing
I would accept and if you can always give your notice later this week, or next, if needed.
That's a pretty good David Byrne impression.
