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  • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

    Body language, obviously.

    Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

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    RUs123
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    I'm getting good at reading female body language.. for example if her arms are around your neck, I'm pretty sure that's meant to express anger.

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    • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

      Body language, obviously.

      Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

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      Ravi Bhavnani
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      Seen on a resume:     Languages: C#, C/C++, Java, JavaScript, Body. /ravi

      My new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com

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      • D den2k88

        ppolymorphe wrote:

        Brute force!

        FTFY

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        Patrice T
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        This force id much more common. :laugh:

        Patrice “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein

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        • L Lost User

          To live, work or visit? Small 1 High street Town. Just off Portsea Island but probably still classed as Portsmouth by most. Reasonably nice area/houses in East Cosham, slums in West Cosham (Paulsgrove) where they had the Paedophille riots 10 years back.

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          xiecsuk
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          Why are you raking up the past!!!! It's been 30+ years since I lived in Waterlooville. Going to Portsmouth was always a nightmare. Everything has been quietly laid to rest over those years and been forgotten. Now the nightmares will start again.

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          • N Nagy Vilmos

            Maybe work and if it looks good then move towards the area. I've looked and rightmove and, compared to Woking, property is very cheap, maybe as much as half what we'd pay here!

            veni bibi saltavi

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            Lost User
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            I've heard good things about them. The line of work they do sounds very interesting too. A friend of a friend had a 2nd interview recently (the 1st was a telephone interview) for a Project Manager job I think. The first question they asked her was 'Tell us about what we do'. She didn't have a clue and the interview was terminated there and then. I know your not going to make that mistake though.

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            • X xiecsuk

              Why are you raking up the past!!!! It's been 30+ years since I lived in Waterlooville. Going to Portsmouth was always a nightmare. Everything has been quietly laid to rest over those years and been forgotten. Now the nightmares will start again.

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              Cool, what was you doing in this neck of the woods? Agree with you about going into Portsmouth, I try to avoid it as much as I can.

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              • L Lost User

                I've heard good things about them. The line of work they do sounds very interesting too. A friend of a friend had a 2nd interview recently (the 1st was a telephone interview) for a Project Manager job I think. The first question they asked her was 'Tell us about what we do'. She didn't have a clue and the interview was terminated there and then. I know your not going to make that mistake though.

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                Nagy Vilmos
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                I got caught on something like that many moons ago; some time in the early 90's. since then I have made a point of knowing as much about a company as is possible from public sources including criticism.

                veni bibi saltavi

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                • N Nagy Vilmos

                  I got caught on something like that many moons ago; some time in the early 90's. since then I have made a point of knowing as much about a company as is possible from public sources including criticism.

                  veni bibi saltavi

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                  The friend gives me a lift into work and it was somebody else at her agency that failed the interview. She was due to have an interview there also as we are getting rid of all our contractors at the end of next week but I think she's decided to put the job-hunting on ice till after Christmas now. I'll ask her Monday if she ever did go and pass on as much info as I can.

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                  • L Lost User

                    Cool, what was you doing in this neck of the woods? Agree with you about going into Portsmouth, I try to avoid it as much as I can.

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                    xiecsuk
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                    I was working for Havant and Waterloo District Council designing and building a few of the new roads in the District; the road from the dual carriageway onto Hayling Island being one of them.

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                      I was working for Havant and Waterloo District Council designing and building a few of the new roads in the District; the road from the dual carriageway onto Hayling Island being one of them.

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                      xiecsuk wrote:

                      the road from the dual carriageway onto Hayling Island being one of them.

                      Ah so it's you that I have to blame for the two lanes going into one palava.* * I know it's not your fault, it's the idiots that race to get there first.

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                        xiecsuk wrote:

                        the road from the dual carriageway onto Hayling Island being one of them.

                        Ah so it's you that I have to blame for the two lanes going into one palava.* * I know it's not your fault, it's the idiots that race to get there first.

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                        The small dual carriageway piece is there because of the large number of people that used to work at the IBM site. It reduced congestion at the morning and afternoon peak times. I don't know how many work there now but my assumption would be "not many". It was fun working on site. I used to get invited in for afternoon tea by the large houses on the right as you drive on to HI. It was, of course, to give them an update of progress and forewarning of any difficulties.

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                          The small dual carriageway piece is there because of the large number of people that used to work at the IBM site. It reduced congestion at the morning and afternoon peak times. I don't know how many work there now but my assumption would be "not many". It was fun working on site. I used to get invited in for afternoon tea by the large houses on the right as you drive on to HI. It was, of course, to give them an update of progress and forewarning of any difficulties.

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                          xiecsuk wrote:

                          The small dual carriageway piece is there because of the large number of people that used to work at the IBM site.

                          It's where I work now. Was IBM then Xyratex now Seagate. There is also Lockheed Martin on site aswell as a number of smaller businesses.

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                            I'm getting good at reading female body language.. for example if her arms are around your neck, I'm pretty sure that's meant to express anger.

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                            Gary Huck
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                            Uh, I think if her arms are around your neck that's good. Alternatively, if her *hands* are around your neck, that's bad.

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                              Uh, I think if her arms are around your neck that's good. Alternatively, if her *hands* are around your neck, that's bad.

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                              RUs123
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                              Meant hands, wrote arms.. don't know why :-D

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                                Meant hands, wrote arms.. don't know why :-D

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                                User 5680157
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                                You know why. Because you are good at female body language but not good on written English body language.

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                                  xiecsuk wrote:

                                  The small dual carriageway piece is there because of the large number of people that used to work at the IBM site.

                                  It's where I work now. Was IBM then Xyratex now Seagate. There is also Lockheed Martin on site aswell as a number of smaller businesses.

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                                  xiecsuk
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                                  As far as I know, IBM sold part of the drives business, possibly to Xyrates, and then moved the rest of the company elsewhere. I then worked for IBM at Warwick for 20 years before taking early retirement to go contracting.

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                                  • C chriselst

                                    Just reading through a job spec I've been sent by a recruiter and got to this line;

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                                    • Possess excellent communication skills, with an emphasis on verbal and written skills

                                    An emphasis on verbal and written communication skills. As opposed to what? Mime? Interpretive dance? Semaphore?

                                    Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

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                                    Kirk 10389821
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                                    Clearly they are referring to an ability to be REDUNDANT both verbally and clearly in their written communications!

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                                    • C chriselst

                                      Just reading through a job spec I've been sent by a recruiter and got to this line;

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                                      • Possess excellent communication skills, with an emphasis on verbal and written skills

                                      An emphasis on verbal and written communication skills. As opposed to what? Mime? Interpretive dance? Semaphore?

                                      Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

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                                      marcus obrien
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                                      The irony of someone asking for good communication skills particularly written skills, and appearing to be in need of them themselves....priceless.

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                                      • C chriselst

                                        Just reading through a job spec I've been sent by a recruiter and got to this line;

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                                        • Possess excellent communication skills, with an emphasis on verbal and written skills

                                        An emphasis on verbal and written communication skills. As opposed to what? Mime? Interpretive dance? Semaphore?

                                        Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

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                                        jschell
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                                        chriselst wrote:

                                        As opposed to what?

                                        Well obviously the position they are looking to fill will be the one writing the next job specification.

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                                        • X xiecsuk

                                          As far as I know, IBM sold part of the drives business, possibly to Xyrates, and then moved the rest of the company elsewhere. I then worked for IBM at Warwick for 20 years before taking early retirement to go contracting.

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                                          xiecsuk wrote:

                                          As far as I know, IBM sold part of the drives business, possibly to Xyrates

                                          Yes that's correct. I think it happened late Eighties early Nineties, it was a management buy-out. A hedge-fund then got it's claws in in 2013 and eventually sold to Seagate, making those original mangers millionaires whilst the rest of us dodge round and round of redundancies.

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