π₯π₯ MLP Resume Boning :giggity:
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What if he's just into model railroads, and admires the huge detailed one they use for the show?
Or would you reject a 40-year-old who was into model railroads, too?
If it has nothing to do with the candidate's professional credentials, it doesn't belong on the resume.
If you really like it so much, maybe mention it in the interview; it probably won't be a red mark in the interviewer's notes if you expressed a personality and mentioned a few hobbies that you enjoy outside of work.
would it really be so much better if he made it look like something from Star Trek instead?
Not really. More likely to blend in with the average tech environment, probably, but it'd still show significant lack of professional judgement.
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I was talking about how @rc4 brought gender roles into a discussion that should have nothing to do with them.
Believe it or not, as much as "progressives" hate it, the genders are biologically different and there is science that supports that.
I don't care if you break them, but it's not unacceptable for them to exist because guess what? People are different, for the same reason some men are more effeminate than others and some women are more masculine than others. It's not unacceptable for gender differences to exist for the same reason it's acceptable for the lines to be blurred.
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Incoming jeffings!
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But would it really be so much better if he made it look like something from Star Trek instead?
No, because that is unprofessional. Perhaps to a lesser extent because it's within the target demographic (hence, less strange that he likes it), but still unprofessional (as that still does not belong on a resume).
Although his coworkers may also enjoy it, which is likely not the case with MLP or Thomas the Tank Engine.
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My favorite part was how @boomzilla participated but didn't jeff anything.
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You hate fun?
I don't see what fun has to do with this resume.
When I see it, I see obnoxious dork that I don't want to be around.
With a more conventional resume, we may have been able to get his foot in the door before I realized how much I hate him and want him to die.
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I don't think it would be so bad if he just kept it to himself (and had a conventional resume). What people do in their own time isn't really something I care about (as long as it doesn't bleed into work).
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But would it really be so much better if he made it look like something from Star Trek instead?
If he referred to himself as "this Starship Captain"? Shredder.
Bottom line is, except for some creative and personality-driven positions, nobody gives a shit what you gush over, and nobody appreciates being slapped in the face with your tastes.
I mean... do you think I should barge into an interview wearing a Tool T-shirt and ripped jeans? Because that's, like, totally so me, and yet I have some indistinct feeling a suit and tie would be much more appreciated.
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nobody appreciates being slapped in the face with your testes
I dunno, some people might be turned on by that.
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...and mute
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I am a Mod. Hath
not a Mod eyes? hath not a Mod hands, organs,
dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with
the same food, hurt with the same discobugs, subject
to the same cooties, healed by the same means,
warmed and cooled by the same sexist aircon and flamewars, as
a Regular is? If you troll us, do we not whoosh?
if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison
us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not
revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will
resemble you in that. If a Mod wrong a Regular,
what is his humility? Revenge. If a Regular
wrong a Mod, what should his sufferance be by
Regular example? Why, Jeffing. The villany you
teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I
will better the instruction.
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barge into an interview wearing a Tool T-shirt and ripped jeans
Oh, and do my resume in this font:
http://cdn.myfonts.com/s/st/ss/ca/183242.gif
Or perhaps this:
http://www.metalsucks.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/unreadable_11_01_11.jpg
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WAS ORIGINALLY DEVELOPED FOR GIRLS
While that's true, once the writers found out about bronies, they altered the show. It's no longer solely aimed at girls, but also aimed at bronies.
I mean, this Yo Dawg bit was not aimed at little girls
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I mean... do you think I should barge into an interview wearing a Tool T-shirt and ripped jeans? Because that's, like, totally so me, and yet I have some indistinct feeling a suit and tie would be much more appreciated.
But you are just
trying to live authentically.
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You know, I almost didn't post that picture because I feared someone might take it the wrong way and start a flamewar. But I thought "nonsense, WTDWTF is a mature forum that won't get offended just because someone posts a picture of ponies or because someone says those ponies don't belong in a resume".
Next thing I know there are 114 replies.
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Next thing I know there are 114 replies.
TBH, most of the posts were blakeyrat asking the same question over and over.
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TBH, most of the posts were blakeyrat asking the same question over and over
But why is that unprofessional?
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If that came across my desk I would reprint it on archival stock on the baddest ass press I could commandeer and frame it.
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I neglected to toss a polo on over my T-shirt today (I also walked out without my lunch). So I'm stuck wearing a zippered coat against the 0% chance that a customer will accidentally wander away from their tour, up a stairwell, follow somebody through a security door into this secure area and be offended by a programmer wearing a Ferrari T-shirt.
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@aliceif said:
TBH, most of the posts were blakeyrat asking the same question over and over
But why is that unprofessional?
WHY IS IT UNPROFESSIONAL TO LIBELOUSLY ACCUSE SOMEONE OF BRONYHOOD?
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Why is it unprofessional to do my job on your lawn?
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No, an undertaker. Where do you want this corpse buried?
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Sorry you didn't specify, but the back lawn will be fine.
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No. Just straight up nope.
Resumes are in a particular, and MOSTLY standard format for a reason. It's so that when some poor sod gets a huge stack of them, they can easily rifle through them without having to context switch after every damn one.
I'm sure this thought "But I need to make MY resume stand out". Well fuck you, buddy. Great, your resume stood out. Unless everyone who applied to the job made their resume special and unique just like everyone else. A huge pile of resumes of different shapes, and colors, and formats, and some play music, and this one is a pop-up book, oh and this one is a treasure hunt to learn all about Snowflake 7365, and this one...
Fuck you.
So now when someone goes through all the resumes, rather than being able to quickly look at the top section for some quick-filtering keywords ("Does it say vb.net for this vb.net position? No, discard, next. Yes, keep to next round. NEXT RESUME")-- they now have to stop and hunt through your clownvomit pony parade for your special skills. You've turned a 5 second task into a 30 second+ task. You are now hated by the person responsible for getting your foot in the door.
It's the exact same thing that any publisher will tell you about submitting to a slush pile. Follow the fucking format and don't be clever. You just make someone's life more difficult. Plus, I can promise you, someone else has already tried this. Many times. What you think is fresh and clever is actually tired, old, and just a bother. It's a sure-fire way to the bin.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
I'm sure this thought "But I need to make MY resume stand out". Well fuck you, buddy. Great, your resume stood out. Unless everyone who applied to the job made their resume special and unique just like everyone else. A huge pile of resumes of different shapes, and colors, and formats, and some play music, and this one is a pop-up book, oh and this one is a treasure hunt to learn all about Snowflake 7365, and this one...
Fuck you.
So now when someone goes through all the resumes, rather than being able to quickly look at the top section for some quick-filtering keywords ("Does it say vb.net for this vb.net position? No, discard, next. Yes, keep to next round. NEXT RESUME")-- they now have to stop and hunt through your clownvomit pony parade for your special skills. You've turned a 5 second task into a 30 second+ task. You are now hated by the person responsible for getting your foot in the door.
Until you come up with an actual reason to reject that resume, I don't give a shit what you think. Because you haven't thought.
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I mean, this Yo Dawg bit was not aimed at little girls
You just made me watch MLP. From now on, I will be lying if I say I've never watched it before. Damn.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
Resumes are in a particular, and MOSTLY standard format for a reason. It's so that when some poor sod gets a huge stack of them, they can easily rifle through them without having to context switch after every damn one.
Why do we even make resumes anymore?
If only there was someplace where people could have profiles with information about their job history and skillset that is update-able and linked to other people they've worked with so you can get endorsements and...
Most of the use of a resume seems to be automated filtering based on keywords, making the formatting irrelevant. It's obvious from talking to recruiters that they don't bother to read the resume themselves. Every phone call is a series of questions where I basically read my resume to them. I've tried to preempt these questions by putting all the commonly requested information on there and it does no good.
Do they need to hear it directly from me for some reason? Do they think a 3rd party may have altered it? Do they just want an impression of me personally? There may be some bias in that impression as I'm usually between annoyed and pissed off when they do that.
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I did come up with a reason to reject it. It breaks a standard process, and rewarding it will encourage others to break it too.
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I don't have that problem. I can turn up to work in whatever I feel like wearing. Even a t-shirt that reads: "Saturday / Sunday / Shitday / Shitday / Shitday / Shitday / Friday Night / Saturday / Sunday" if I want and no-one cares.
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I was almost dismissing the quote on his page as a joke, but there really was an article about him at the huffingtonpost:
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Every phone call is a series of questions where I basically read my resume to them
^^ This. A Resume nowadays is merely an encoded form for the computer to find buzzwords in.
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Seig Heils
It's "Sieg Heils". If you must pull the Nazi card, at least get your German right.
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Do they think a 3rd party may have altered it?
Having been in a position responsible for hiring new developers, this is a definite possibility. I have seen situations where a recruiter modified an applicant's resume before passing it on to me. Fortunately for the applicant, they were ready with an unmodified version of their resume, but they were not as good a fit as the modified resume made them appear. We stopped using that recruiter after that incident. I have also had caught direct applicants lying on their resumes when their interview answers did not match up to the stated experience on their resume. For me, it's just a way of checking the accuracy of the resume.
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Until you come up with an actual reason to reject that resume, I don't give a shit what you think. Because you haven't thought.
I know your IRL linkedin profile. I dare you to put a poney there.
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I had to know if he was crazy IRL, after the big leak of 2015.
(no results, there isn't much crazy associated with his IRL name)
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So much this.
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Believe it or not, as much as "progressives" hate it, the genders are biologically different and there is science that supports that.
Sexes are biologically different.
Genders are not necessarily.
That's why we have the two different words.
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Just some vague offense at it "not being professional"? Well guess what. That guy's an adult, and I'm an adult, and we're the people who get to decide what "professional" is.
Okay, I'm an adult and I decide it's not professional.
But maybe there's a wacky hipster startup where they are just waiting for him, with smoothies and shit.
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Sexes are biologically different.
Genders are not necessarily.
That's why we have the two different words.
Until just the last few years, those words were entirely synonymous.
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@blakeyrat said:
That guy's an adult, and I'm an adult, and we're the people who get to decide what "professional" is.
Okay, I'm an adult and I decide it's not professional.
Do we take a vote?
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