If you still have your Christmas lights up after January, I think that qualifies you as a redneck:
If you still have your Christmas lights up after January, I think that qualifies you as a redneck:
I found my new Slashdot sig, I believe... maybe even an all-encompassing sig for all websites that I frequent:
Secure multi-mediation is the future of all webbing.
Gary rocks! ROFLMAO!
Figures that it's Florida plates... I lived there for a couple years, and that is one retarded state!
@RaspenJho said:
When is Feburary?
ROFL! Nice catch!
My mother tells a story of getting into a fight with her English teacher when she was in grade school about the spelling of February. My mother insisted to the teacher that it was spelled with two R's, the first one coming right after the 'b', but it wasn't until she showed the teacher the dictionary entry for the word that the teacher finally relented and agreed with my mother's correct spelling of the word. Granted, this was rural Ohio that she grew up in, but still, it was an English teacher!
BTW, anyone else notice the other numerous errors in the two preceding paragraphs as well? "cial" (probably meant civil), and "presently quality" (which in no way fits the sentence)
I'm glad to see my tax dollars going to such worthy causes as employing the unemployable "public relations professional;" a term a use quite loosely in this case.
@Saladin said:
These kinds of cases always involve the person suing for emotional distress because they "couldn't sleep at night" and "suffered detriments to the quality of their personal, social, and professional lives."
In other words, yeah, she's making a huge deal over nothing on purpose because she wants free money. Throw out her case and make her pay the court costs IMO.
IANAL, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night! (That, plus my wife really IS a lawyer): Don't worry, this case won't even make it to court. It'll settle for $500 + lawyer fees, maybe. Emotional distress, contrary to stupid public opinion, is not something easy to prove or win any monetary judgement over except in extreme circumstances, and obviously this is not one of them.
The real WTF is that not only is this woman a friggin' idiot, but she that she was able to find an attorney so unethical that they would even consider suing (if in fact she found a lawyer to take the case on) because any lawyer worth passing a bar exam *should* know that this is borderline unethical since they're probably only doing so to extract money for themselves from the situation, knowing there's little chance they could ever come close to making worth their client's time and money to pursue a lawsuit like this. Again, I'm not a lawyer, but in seeing some of the truly WTF situations my wife describes to me on a weekly basis regarding clients and dumb-ass attorney's, I think it's relatively safe to make the assumptions I did that the lawyer in this case is where the big WTF lies.
Owww! My eyes, my eyes!
Bobby Spiropoulos, huh? Sounds like a Greek to me. There are only two things I hate in this world: people who are intolerant of other people, and the Greeks.
@Sander Marechal said:
Well, I'm back!
All in all I think it went rather well. It's been a nice talk and the senior programmer and HR lead were both really nice people. The job description is slightly different from what they advertised on their website but it sounded really good to me. There was only one question I had trouble answering. At some point they asked me how I was and I responded like "enthousiast, hard-working, flexible, etcetera" and also that sometimes I was a bit stubborn, which is good at times and not so good at other times. They asked me for an example where it had turned out not so good and I couldn't give a decent example. I told them about one time when I disagreed with a certain project implementation. I got overruled but it turns out I was right in the end anyway. They didn't really seem to like that example. The rest went well. I got compliments for doing some research on the company beforehand and apparently I was the first programmer to bring printed code samples :-)
Thanks all!
Well, you could have certainly done better, but it doesn't sound like you bombed interview #1. Next time, try to offer up "ways I've screwed up" with a follow-up example of how you have recognized that screw-up, how you are working or worked to correct it, and how you plan to avoid it happening again in the future. Obviously an example like "well I was right about management's bad decision in the end anyways" demonstrates that you're elitist to the interviewer, not that you are capable of noticing your own mistakes and working them out on your own. Just an interviewing tip from someone who has been through a lot more interviews than you. ;) Good luck!
By the way, be very observant about every little detail about the office they want you to work at, the people you'll be working with, and how they approach the topic of compensation. The less professional any of those details look, sound, smell, or feel to you, it'll make that issue about 10x worse in reality. Trust me, this has been true of the 5 different jobs I've held in the past 8 years, and that's only been in 2 different companies. Pretend that taking on a new job is like getting married. You're prepared for bliss, but you MUST also be prepared for all those little things that look like they might annoy you now to be issues that will annoy you 10x as much once you're hired/married.
For instance, if the HR droid hadn't even read your cover letter but called you so quickly after you answered the ad, chances are that HR will be 10x more harried and less willing to actually read anything you talk to them about once you're hired, AND the business is probably dying to get someone in there now to clean up a mess or finish off a badly lagging project ASAP - so be careful. Granted, this is 100% typical of HR - HR SUCKS! - but notice these kinds of things with the people who you'll be eventually working with or for as you interview. If you get along great with them and things click - that's good; if the discussion is forced and the head programmer glares at you the entire time - that's bad. Just a heads up as you continue on in your interview process.
@chrismcb said:
@fennec said:if(strlen(words)<256)That reminds me... We just had a bug where we weren't cleaning up an array. So my fellow "developer" went in and fixed the bug:count = 0; //count is how many items are in the arrayfor(int i = 0; i<256; i++array[i] = 0; // whatever, clear out this itemI looked at this code, and I asked him "What is 256?" He told me "its the size of the array."Sure enough the array is defined: int array[256];Great, I suggested a slightly better alternative, lets only delete the items we placed in the array.And while we are at it, lets fix the possible buffer over run (the guy filling the array checks to see that we are out of bounds)I gave him some sample code using sizeof(array)...His response: "The array is hardcoded so I don't need to calculate the size."!!!
Guys, seriously, quit making baby coder Jesus cry.
Yes, perhaps QA can get you development experience, but I did QA for a couple years thinking I would get into development and it was my experience both at that job and this one that development generally loathes QA groups. QA is "beneath" their abilities, and I personally never saw anyone migrate from QA to IT Development, only from QA to QA Management, or QA to Business-side jobs like business analyst and such. (like me)
I think your better bet for cracking into the development world would be to just apply directly for the "Jr. Developer" and "Entry level developer" roles. They may not pay great, but if you prove yourself over 2 or so years your resume will all of the sudden become waayyyy more marketable for other 0-2 years of experience type development jobs that do pay decently. Another 3 years and you'll be considered a professional in the field and can start playing around with learning new languages, possibly trying out different types of side jobs like a little dba or network admin type work, or even considering work outside of just IT.
My BS in Comp Eng Tech from DeVry really doesn't matter anymore on my resume. It's all about my experience level in my career field these days.
OK, I know that the job board is probably bringing in a little revenue for this popular site, and so I'm not going to complain about the fact that it exists on this site - some of the jobs HAVE looked like good, quality, non-WTF jobs posted by intelligent companies and/or recruiters familiar with the IT industry. I also LOVE Bose speakers, but seriously, their job postings are hosted by a big WTF company: http://www.getthejob.com/View.aspx?id=4593036&t=-1&cc=2&q=&l=
The site doesn't display AT ALL in Firefox. It's an .aspx page for gods sake! Idiots! If you want to attract talented software developers and software people you need to make sure your job listings are available to all, not just those of us who have Windows IE to view your job listing. Not to mention that this makes me question the WTFery that may be going on behind the scenes at Bose with regards to IT software (regardless of how great their audio engineering department is) and the choice of who to hire as a 3rd party vendor. I can understand designing a page to have extra bells and whistles in IE over Firefox or Opera or Konqueror, and even having it not display quite right in non-IE browsers would be sort of understandable if the reason you were using Microsoft only technologies really benefitted the layout, flow, content, and maintainability of your website, but making it completely invisible to those of us without the latest, greatest IE software is a big WTF to me.