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It's amazing isn't it, an Englishman can just wander over the border without any documentation. Say hi to my family when you get there. :-) Regardz Colin J Davies
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**The minion's version of "Catch :bob: "It's a real shame that people as stupid as you can work out how to use a computer. said by Christian Graus in the Soapbox
ColinDavies wrote: It's amazing isn't it, an Englishman can just wander over the border without any documentation yeah but is it safe ? ;) however,... " any male with Welsh blood in him would best steer clear of Hereford, England. It seems there's been a law on the books for 1,000 years that gives the English the perfect right to slaughter any Welshman (women apparently being exempt, in an early form of sex discrimination) who sets foot in the town. This ancient by-law does have a few provisos. Terminating Welshmen with extreme prejudice is legal only if you do it in Hereford's Cathedral Close, on a Sunday, using a longbow and shooting from a distance of exactly 12 yards. Otherwise you risk being hanged, drawn and quartered, and believe me, you really don't want to know about that. ".... and the english wonder why the tafs don't like them ;) bryce --- Publitor, making Pubmed easy. http://www.sohocode.com/publitor
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ColinDavies wrote: It's amazing isn't it, an Englishman can just wander over the border without any documentation yeah but is it safe ? ;) however,... " any male with Welsh blood in him would best steer clear of Hereford, England. It seems there's been a law on the books for 1,000 years that gives the English the perfect right to slaughter any Welshman (women apparently being exempt, in an early form of sex discrimination) who sets foot in the town. This ancient by-law does have a few provisos. Terminating Welshmen with extreme prejudice is legal only if you do it in Hereford's Cathedral Close, on a Sunday, using a longbow and shooting from a distance of exactly 12 yards. Otherwise you risk being hanged, drawn and quartered, and believe me, you really don't want to know about that. ".... and the english wonder why the tafs don't like them ;) bryce --- Publitor, making Pubmed easy. http://www.sohocode.com/publitor
In Chester, you can only shoot a Welsh person with a bow and arrow inside the city walls and after midnight. In York, excluding Sundays, it is perfectly legal to shoot a Scotsman with a bow and arrow. All English males over the age 14 are to carry out 2 or so hours of longbow practice a week supervised by the local clergy. In Scotland: 1457: Scottish Parliament bans "futeball" (the precursor of both soccer and American football) and golf on the grounds that these sports were distracting men from practicing the archery needed in the country's many wars with England. http://www.centenaryarchers.gil.com.au/history.htm[^] umm yeah ;), glad i'm a kiwi bryce --- Publitor, making Pubmed easy. http://www.sohocode.com/publitor
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Amazing - a programming job here! I've got an interview of sorts in the morning. But I have no idea what to expect. The Ramada Express casino used a pre-interview personality interview to cull the applicants. They get a group together and make them do silly and humourous things, give a speech, sing a song, tell a joke, strangle a mime, then decide whether each applicant should get an interview. Ridiculous! After all, they're hiring a geek - they expect personality? I've been designing, building, programming, and maintaining computer systems for over 25 years - trust me, you don't want a stand up comic coding your business systems! Ever heard of anything so silly?:laugh: "Your village called -
They're missing their idiot."At least they are doing it at the beginning of the interview process. I once went through 2 technical face to face interviews, and 3 weeks of waiting before I was rejected by an HR VP that had me take an online personality profile.
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At least they are doing it at the beginning of the interview process. I once went through 2 technical face to face interviews, and 3 weeks of waiting before I was rejected by an HR VP that had me take an online personality profile.
Holy shite! What a waste of everybody's time - not just yours, but the technical management people who interviewed you! That was a very expensive exercise... hopefully expensive enough to touch the bottom line and make the HR VP look like the utter fool that he/she is. "Your village called -
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Roger Wright wrote: They get a group together and make them do silly and humourous things, give a speech, sing a song, tell a joke, strangle a mime, then decide whether each applicant should get an interview. Ridiculous! Yep, ridiculous. Don't expect HR to use common sense. Regardz Colin J Davies
*** WARNING *
This could be addictive
**The minion's version of "Catch :bob: "It's a real shame that people as stupid as you can work out how to use a computer. said by Christian Graus in the Soapbox
ColinDavies wrote: common sense Now there's a handy oxymoron! I do have a song in mind, if they should happen to ask me to sing, but it's not appropriate for the Lounge. I wonder if that will count against me?:-O "Your village called -
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Amazing - a programming job here! I've got an interview of sorts in the morning. But I have no idea what to expect. The Ramada Express casino used a pre-interview personality interview to cull the applicants. They get a group together and make them do silly and humourous things, give a speech, sing a song, tell a joke, strangle a mime, then decide whether each applicant should get an interview. Ridiculous! After all, they're hiring a geek - they expect personality? I've been designing, building, programming, and maintaining computer systems for over 25 years - trust me, you don't want a stand up comic coding your business systems! Ever heard of anything so silly?:laugh: "Your village called -
They're missing their idiot."Think about it: your future co-workers actually passed this test. This tells much about the working environment there. Trying to make bits uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet. -- Bruce Schneier By the way, dog_spawn isn't a nickname - it is my name with an underscore instead of a space. -- dog_spawn
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Amazing - a programming job here! I've got an interview of sorts in the morning. But I have no idea what to expect. The Ramada Express casino used a pre-interview personality interview to cull the applicants. They get a group together and make them do silly and humourous things, give a speech, sing a song, tell a joke, strangle a mime, then decide whether each applicant should get an interview. Ridiculous! After all, they're hiring a geek - they expect personality? I've been designing, building, programming, and maintaining computer systems for over 25 years - trust me, you don't want a stand up comic coding your business systems! Ever heard of anything so silly?:laugh: "Your village called -
They're missing their idiot."Methinks you have personality enough to overwhelm em :) But really! (Insert stern headmaster voice here when he discovers a small boy doing unspeakable things to a worm). Strangle a mime? It's not that mime's don't deserve a good strangling but what the hell does that have to do with a programming job? Are they looking for a structured approach? Top down strangling? (oh the images, strangle the ears first, then the nose, then at the neck, finishing at the toes...) Will you be marked down if you choose a spaghetti strangling*? I imagine they think they're looking for candidates who can think on their feet and are creative. But, as you say, do you really want stand up comics coding mission critical software? *Actually, anyone silly enough to choose spaghetti as a strangling tool probably deserves to fail :) Rob Manderson http://www.mindprobes.net "I killed him dead cuz he was stepping on my turf, cutting me out of my bling the same way my ho cuts cookies, officer" "Alright then, move along" - Ian Darling, The Lounge, Oct 10 2003
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Amazing - a programming job here! I've got an interview of sorts in the morning. But I have no idea what to expect. The Ramada Express casino used a pre-interview personality interview to cull the applicants. They get a group together and make them do silly and humourous things, give a speech, sing a song, tell a joke, strangle a mime, then decide whether each applicant should get an interview. Ridiculous! After all, they're hiring a geek - they expect personality? I've been designing, building, programming, and maintaining computer systems for over 25 years - trust me, you don't want a stand up comic coding your business systems! Ever heard of anything so silly?:laugh: "Your village called -
They're missing their idiot."Good luck!
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Methinks you have personality enough to overwhelm em :) But really! (Insert stern headmaster voice here when he discovers a small boy doing unspeakable things to a worm). Strangle a mime? It's not that mime's don't deserve a good strangling but what the hell does that have to do with a programming job? Are they looking for a structured approach? Top down strangling? (oh the images, strangle the ears first, then the nose, then at the neck, finishing at the toes...) Will you be marked down if you choose a spaghetti strangling*? I imagine they think they're looking for candidates who can think on their feet and are creative. But, as you say, do you really want stand up comics coding mission critical software? *Actually, anyone silly enough to choose spaghetti as a strangling tool probably deserves to fail :) Rob Manderson http://www.mindprobes.net "I killed him dead cuz he was stepping on my turf, cutting me out of my bling the same way my ho cuts cookies, officer" "Alright then, move along" - Ian Darling, The Lounge, Oct 10 2003
I suspect that you're right, and passing the test is not a worry. I can see the value of it for those positions that require direct dealings with the public; frustrated gamblers can be hard to take at times, and a cheerful attitude is a must. But for a technical position it seems ridiculous! "Your village called -
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I suspect that you're right, and passing the test is not a worry. I can see the value of it for those positions that require direct dealings with the public; frustrated gamblers can be hard to take at times, and a cheerful attitude is a must. But for a technical position it seems ridiculous! "Your village called -
They're missing their idiot."On the other hand if you've ever worked with someone who definately couldn't pass a personality test you may see the idea differently Cass