.zero

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Aug 8, 2006
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Long arm of the law.

No, looking for a new opportunity to shake things up ... something came through in Lisbon and I wuz like, "WTF? Why not?" So here I is...

MLB isn't too big here, I must warn you. But if you're into bearded men with nail polish or chubbies with Princess Leah haircuts, we gotz that. At least with Urovision in town.
Good stuff man :tup:

If the weirdo usovision dudes end up sticking around then I might make my way there
 

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L'autista
Administrator
Sep 23, 2003
84,942
Alrite man, hope it goes really well for you! And wife gotta be pleased to be back on familiar ground too!

Now that you've done it I think to myself you should have done it a long time ago :D
Thanks, Martin. Appreciate the kind words. :)

While the wife is Portuguese and has dual citizenship, she also never lived outside of Northern California before.

You are also probably right about that, though... haha. I think a lot of our friends were surprised less out of us finally doing something like that, but rather that it took us so long to try it out. ;)

Good stuff man :tup:

If the weirdo usovision dudes end up sticking around then I might make my way there
Hey, we have foreign-looking expat dudes in man-buns serving coffee as baristas ... so if it ain't the Urovision dudes, we got the hipster thing covered too.
 

ADP1897

Senior Member
Apr 17, 2014
1,593
Another suicide bombing today in Surabaya city, Indonesia.. They targeted church and police station. Some said they will bombed mall and public transport.
I was supposed in Surabaya tommorow, and can't help but be worried and wonder if i should cancel my flight.

Just last year we have a serial shoting in our capital, and murican can live with guns? Madness

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Enron

Tickle Me
Moderator
Oct 11, 2005
75,704
Another suicide bombing today in Surabaya city, Indonesia.. They targeted church and police station. Some said they will bombed mall and public transport.
I was supposed in Surabaya tommorow, and can't help but be worried and wonder if i should cancel my flight.

Just last year we have a serial shoting in our capital, and murican can live with guns? Madness

Sent from my SM-N950F using Tapatalk
Wrong thread bro.
 

Dostoevsky

Tzu
Administrator
May 27, 2007
89,205
Apparently they are giving me 5 working days off during the summer for my vacation. :lol2: Everybody else got 10 (or 14 days), but I got half of it because I started working on February 14th. They don't even know how to calculate the days, yet they tried to lecture me today how I'm supposed to have 5. They are so ignorant they fail to realize I already have rights to use 5 days even at this point, let alone in August. I'm afraid to go to the work tomorrow because knowing my big mouth I'll set the whole building on fire. Fucking retards. And that's not the whole story. Apparently, well, when I use those 5 days, the next vacation I'll get is next year in August. Nothing before that.
 

ALC

Ohaulick
Oct 28, 2010
46,619
Time for the job application process to begin again :sigh:
economy's on the up, so that's good. spam your resume, honestly. there's always companies looking to hire.

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Apparently they are giving me 5 working days off during the summer for my vacation. :lol2: Everybody else got 10 (or 14 days), but I got half of it because I started working on February 14th. They don't even know how to calculate the days, yet they tried to lecture me today how I'm supposed to have 5. They are so ignorant they fail to realize I already have rights to use 5 days even at this point, let alone in August. I'm afraid to go to the work tomorrow because knowing my big mouth I'll set the whole building on fire. Fucking retards. And that's not the whole story. Apparently, well, when I use those 5 days, the next vacation I'll get is next year in August. Nothing before that.
That doesn't sound right, it's a certain amount of days per year, you can take them whenever.

I get 10 days too and I've been told not to take them all at once after I used them to go to Albania last summer.
 

AFL_ITALIA

MAGISTERIAL
Jun 17, 2011
32,012
I've only been fired once in my life, after one day of work :p

Learn a new skill, seriously however long it takes
I've been thinking of programming, but no idea what to begin with or focus on.

economy's on the up, so that's good. spam your resume, honestly. there's always companies looking to hire.
:agree: This is what I'm thinking as well, trying to get a good salary while I can, since my company doesn't seem to value my department much so there's little chance of lateral movement.
 

GordoDeCentral

Diez
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Apr 14, 2005
71,051
I've only been fired once in my life, after one day of work :p



I've been thinking of programming, but no idea what to begin with or focus on.



:agree: This is what I'm thinking as well, trying to get a good salary while I can, since my company doesn't seem to value my department much so there's little chance of lateral movement.
I meant don't quit your job but at the same time learn a new skill
 

X Æ A-12

Senior Member
Contributor
Sep 4, 2006
88,207
Time for the job application process to begin again :sigh:
I graduated from college with minimal references, no internships, basically no work experience that was resume appropriate, no help from the career center at my college and no groups or accomplishments of note I did in college that would help me find a job. I had a meeting with a career counselor at the school and she, upon hearing this, tried to recommend to me retail management :howler: :howler:

Within six weeks after graduating I had received two job offers (one which is my current job) that were far better than anything I had expected to receive. Basically I waited until the last minute but then as soon as I graduated I worked for several days straight to make the most out of my resume than I applied to every single job that was possible day and night. I picked supply chain as a field (my degree was in finance) and just resume spammed like a mother fucker. I went to job sites like glassdoor and indeed and I searched over city and government job websites, hospitals etc basically things I imagined would have possible openings in supply chain and would require a lot of employees.

Went to a bunch of interviews, talked to job placement experts etc most of it turned out to bs. In fact I ended up with a few interviews that within seconds were obvious pyramid schemes. Even when its complete shit you gain experience, confidence and some funny stories for your friends.

Basically I learned two things. First tap your friends, family, drunk strangers you meet at bars or parties hard. Not only the opportunities they have but the ones they know about, their friends have, theyve heard about, everything. Get social, even if its not your thing

Two, apply to every single online job you would be remotely interested in taking regardless of whether you meet the qualifications or not. Just get on your computer and stay up all night spamming applications.

it's a lot like early days of trying to get laid. Stop being shy or worrying about a rejection, take your pants off and run through the streets and eventually someone, with a hole to fill, is gonna like what they see.
 

ALC

Ohaulick
Oct 28, 2010
46,619
I graduated from college with minimal references, no internships, basically no work experience that was resume appropriate, no help from the career center at my college and no groups or accomplishments of note I did in college that would help me find a job. I had a meeting with a career counselor at the school and she, upon hearing this, tried to recommend to me retail management :howler: :howler:

Within six weeks after graduating I had received two job offers (one which is my current job) that were far better than anything I had expected to receive. Basically I waited until the last minute but then as soon as I graduated I worked for several days straight to make the most out of my resume than I applied to every single job that was possible day and night. I picked supply chain as a field (my degree was in finance) and just resume spammed like a mother fucker. I went to job sites like glassdoor and indeed and I searched over city and government job websites, hospitals etc basically things I imagined would have possible openings in supply chain and would require a lot of employees.

Went to a bunch of interviews, talked to job placement experts etc most of it turned out to bs. In fact I ended up with a few interviews that within seconds were obvious pyramid schemes. Even when its complete shit you gain experience, confidence and some funny stories for your friends.

Basically I learned two things. First tap your friends, family, drunk strangers you meet at bars or parties hard. Not only the opportunities they have but the ones they know about, their friends have, theyve heard about, everything. Get social, even if its not your thing

Two, apply to every single online job you would be remotely interested in taking regardless of whether you meet the qualifications or not. Just get on your computer and stay up all night spamming applications.
lol sounds very similar to my experience. love the pyramid scheme ones tho. especially when they make it sound nothing like it in the job application, you walk in and a 20 year old in an ill fitting cheap suit tells you he's the CEO of the company and you can make a shitload of money if you work hard.
 

X Æ A-12

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Contributor
Sep 4, 2006
88,207
"account manager" :howler:

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I'll even tell you guys one of my stories. So I went to one of these "account manager" positions (it was early in my application days and I was happy just to get an interview) I dressed up well, brought my resume and was as prepared as I thought I could be. Once I got there I noticed I had coffee breath so I took two pieces of gum and started chewing outside the building waiting for the scheduled time. Once it became I took the elevator up and met with a woman outside the suite door who told me they would have me in shortly. I didn't want to be chewing gum on the way in so I took out my gum but there was no trash can. I couldn't just throw it on the ground (bitch was standing there) so I subtly put it in the pocket of my pants. Once they opened the door for me I entered and approached the receptionist.

Situation was immediately weird, everyone in office looked in their 20s and the receptionist was blaring loud EDM music out of her computer (wtf?) Anyway the receptionist was this super hot (very casually dressed) asian girl who gave me the eye and a form and clipboard to fill out and attach my resume. I sat down in a waiting room, pulled my resume from my pocket and then put the forms on top to fill them out. The forms started off with basic information before it got weird (describe your personality, rate yourself in these situations, stupid shit etc) but then when I attempted to turn the page I noticed they were stuck together. When i pulled them apart it tore. There was this sticky blue stuff on it and suddenly I noticed there was a bunch of it on my pant let too and I realized that when I stuffed my used gum in my pocket it got all over my resume which then stuck to the papers and somehow globbed all over the clipboard.

I quickly put that shit down, said I had to go to the bathroom ditched the fuck out of there and got on the highway out of hayward. As I'm leaving hayward I get several calls from this business (dont pickup) then several pages of text messages telling me that I had created a health hazard, that nobody at the company could touch it and I would have to come back to throw out the contaminated materials (clipboard, forms, chair) and compensate them for such or else they would contact "an authority" and I was liable for health hazard etc.

fucking lol. I told this story and my friends called me Costanza for a month.
 

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