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If you fail at getting a woman to fancy you until your mid 30s, come down to Bolivia and find a wife.

They'll even take jews.

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@AFL_ITALIA I know you're browsing this thread :p

Same goes for you.
nah ive seen what happens to latinas after marriage :mino:

i'll stick with vegan girls, at least they are thin and dont reek of greasy mexican food.
 

AFL_ITALIA

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Jun 17, 2011
29,588
How's the job hunting or whatever you were trying to do going?
The fucking HORSESHIT that this was so far :lol:

Story time.

Ok. So my original plan was to sign up for a certification in web development offered by one of the city universities. Cool, that's settled then, would take a year or so to complete. But wait, old coworker is telling me about his job that he moved onto. Pay is excellent, people are great, overall sounds like a nice place to work. They're looking to hire, and for me to perform the job I would only need to learn SQL, which isn't particularly difficult at all. So awesome, I'll just learn this one language and go for this job and get a ~40% pay increase while having an entry into a new industry where I can grow, fuck yes. He warned me though that their hiring process is pretty long, maybe it would take a month. No problem, I think to myself.

So I take a class, learn what I would need to, and get sent a test from the company recruiter where I would have to solve a few problems using SQL. Take it and pass it in the first week of October, no problem. Around here I learn that the company was recently bought out by a equity and venture capital firm, remember this. Recruiter contacts me and says I passed, the next step is to have a phone screening with him. Did that, now onto the next thing. He says that the next step would be to have another phone call, this time with the office manager. So I schedule a time on a Friday with her and wait. Day comes and passes...and no call. "What the fuck?" I say to myself. I text my old coworker this and email the recruiter. Coworker apologizes and talks to some people there and basically tells me that because of the merger, there's some confusion as to what the hiring process is now (one person thought I was going to be called, another thought I was coming in for a test, etc), but I had a date to go on so I didn't have time to deal with this nonsense.

Next Monday the recruiter contacts me, reiterates that there was some confusion on their end, and tells me that the next part is that I would need to take a timed cognitive and personality test (ccat test), where he would need to watch me take it through a web camera to ensure it's not someone else taking it. Creepy as fuck imo, but whatever. I do it and pass it. Apparently this is the new first step for their hiring process so I had to do it, as mandated by the equity firm. Anyways, now comes the actual second call, but with the head of the department. It's actually a nice discussion, she seems very knowledgeable and genuine. And she comes from a data analytics background, something I may want to get into so she would be a great resource for me. Things seem up, maybe all the bullshit is behind me now, around the end of November.

The next step is to come into the office to take another test, sort of like a practice for a day in what the job would be, followed by a panel interview with 5 people in the office. Though it's my first time doing any sort of work like that, I do a decent enough job, do well on the panel interview, and leave with a good feeling. The next week the recruiter contacts me and says that they'd like a reference (again, process mandated by the firm). I mean, you could've fucking asked that in week one but sure, why not waste some more time. I contact my old manager and ask for her as a reference, she says sure, I give the recruiter her information and he emails her. Next week comes, I find out they can't get into contact with her. Now I have to fucking track her down because that entire goddamn department can't read a fucking email. She apologizes and says she's out of the office today, but remind her tomorrow and she'll do it. Next day comes, and she replies to the email as well as calls and leaves a message. Maybe he's in a meeting, whatever. "Surely this is done with now, I just need to wait" I think to myself.

Next week comes, I find out the recruiter was in a mother fucking accident and has been at home recovering. Pretty sure I'm just cursed at this point, can't do anything but wait now. The next week while at the gym, coworker texts me and says FINALLY they're talking with each other. I damn near shed a tear in the squat rack between sets. This is around Christmas, so of course everyone takes off then and nothing is going to happen, that's understandable. January comes around, and I haven't heard anything for a while. I email the recruiter, and he replies that they just finished bringing on new executive hires, who are still getting familiar with the organization, and have to determine hiring needs. I'm ready to blow up something at this point. Coworker tells me there's no way that they don't hire more people, but at the moment it seems there's a hiring freeze. All that would need to happen after this is I get invited to a lunch with some people from the team, and I basically have the job. But nahhhh lets fuck around instead for almost 4 goddamn months.

They could call me tomorrow, they could call me in a month from now. I don't even care anymore, I'm fed up with this. None of this is the end of the world by any means, just a colossal waste of time and a huge annoyance. So now I either wait for the spring semester for the originally considered web development program, or I apply to a bootcamp for training in either cyber security analytics or data science (leaning towards the former, if I have to choose right now.

tl;dr - top tier bullshittery caused by a merger, HR dragging their ass, a bit of incompetence, and the holiday season.
 

Dostoevsky

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May 27, 2007
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Two things:

1) Our debt is a lot higher
2) Such statistic usual give totally wrong pics as you can have 2 gigantic companies in your country. It makes economic pic a lot better but it means dogshit to the average Joe.

Due to our slave policy our work force works here for ~1.3e/h as the minimal wage. Huge companies are coming here to exploit not only that but our corrupted laws as well where you work extra hours without getting paid. So getting ~300e a month here is pretty regular while it's usually 6 days a week and most of the time with plenty of extra working hours.

But then, like I said ,statistics are usually pure shit because according to plenty of sources we have 2-3% inflation, just because they measure it in the most idiotic way. So it's quite often you see (for example) chocolate bar going from 100g to 80g while the price stays the same. They don't mark that as inflation because the price is the same, despite the product being smaller and smaller. Numbers are easily being manipulated everywhere, not just here, but it's a lot worse here when you look at the standard. Also, you can read at many places how we lowered our unemployment rate. You know why? Because 50.000 each year leaves the country and it's mostly youth.

:D never saw that one. However there are more and more famous people coming out with their perfume :rolleyes: Btw, D&G the One is a beautiful smell, it's a pity it lasts for a couple of hours only.
 

IliveForJuve

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Jan 17, 2011
18,396
The fucking HORSESHIT that this was so far :lol:

Story time.

Ok. So my original plan was to sign up for a certification in web development offered by one of the city universities. Cool, that's settled then, would take a year or so to complete. But wait, old coworker is telling me about his job that he moved onto. Pay is excellent, people are great, overall sounds like a nice place to work. They're looking to hire, and for me to perform the job I would only need to learn SQL, which isn't particularly difficult at all. So awesome, I'll just learn this one language and go for this job and get a ~40% pay increase while having an entry into a new industry where I can grow, fuck yes. He warned me though that their hiring process is pretty long, maybe it would take a month. No problem, I think to myself.

So I take a class, learn what I would need to, and get sent a test from the company recruiter where I would have to solve a few problems using SQL. Take it and pass it in the first week of October, no problem. Around here I learn that the company was recently bought out by a equity and venture capital firm, remember this. Recruiter contacts me and says I passed, the next step is to have a phone screening with him. Did that, now onto the next thing. He says that the next step would be to have another phone call, this time with the office manager. So I schedule a time on a Friday with her and wait. Day comes and passes...and no call. "What the fuck?" I say to myself. I text my old coworker this and email the recruiter. Coworker apologizes and talks to some people there and basically tells me that because of the merger, there's some confusion as to what the hiring process is now (one person thought I was going to be called, another thought I was coming in for a test, etc), but I had a date to go on so I didn't have time to deal with this nonsense.

Next Monday the recruiter contacts me, reiterates that there was some confusion on their end, and tells me that the next part is that I would need to take a timed cognitive and personality test (ccat test), where he would need to watch me take it through a web camera to ensure it's not someone else taking it. Creepy as fuck imo, but whatever. I do it and pass it. Apparently this is the new first step for their hiring process so I had to do it, as mandated by the equity firm. Anyways, now comes the actual second call, but with the head of the department. It's actually a nice discussion, she seems very knowledgeable and genuine. And she comes from a data analytics background, something I may want to get into so she would be a great resource for me. Things seem up, maybe all the bullshit is behind me now, around the end of November.

The next step is to come into the office to take another test, sort of like a practice for a day in what the job would be, followed by a panel interview with 5 people in the office. Though it's my first time doing any sort of work like that, I do a decent enough job, do well on the panel interview, and leave with a good feeling. The next week the recruiter contacts me and says that they'd like a reference (again, process mandated by the firm). I mean, you could've fucking asked that in week one but sure, why not waste some more time. I contact my old manager and ask for her as a reference, she says sure, I give the recruiter her information and he emails her. Next week comes, I find out they can't get into contact with her. Now I have to fucking track her down because that entire goddamn department can't read a fucking email. She apologizes and says she's out of the office today, but remind her tomorrow and she'll do it. Next day comes, and she replies to the email as well as calls and leaves a message. Maybe he's in a meeting, whatever. "Surely this is done with now, I just need to wait" I think to myself.

Next week comes, I find out the recruiter was in a mother fucking accident and has been at home recovering. Pretty sure I'm just cursed at this point, can't do anything but wait now. The next week while at the gym, coworker texts me and says FINALLY they're talking with each other. I damn near shed a tear in the squat rack between sets. This is around Christmas, so of course everyone takes off then and nothing is going to happen, that's understandable. January comes around, and I haven't heard anything for a while. I email the recruiter, and he replies that they just finished bringing on new executive hires, who are still getting familiar with the organization, and have to determine hiring needs. I'm ready to blow up something at this point. Coworker tells me there's no way that they don't hire more people, but at the moment it seems there's a hiring freeze. All that would need to happen after this is I get invited to a lunch with some people from the team, and I basically have the job. But nahhhh lets fuck around instead for almost 4 goddamn months.

They could call me tomorrow, they could call me in a month from now. I don't even care anymore, I'm fed up with this. None of this is the end of the world by any means, just a colossal waste of time and a huge annoyance. So now I either wait for the spring semester for the originally considered web development program, or I apply to a bootcamp for training in either cyber security analytics or data science (leaning towards the former, if I have to choose right now.

tl;dr - top tier bullshittery caused by a merger, HR dragging their ass, a bit of incompetence, and the holiday season.
Fgs :lol: what a shit show. Big corporations disgust me.

Do you have any sort of background in computer science or are you going completely blind into this?

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Two things:

1) Our debt is a lot higher
2) Such statistic usual give totally wrong pics as you can have 2 gigantic companies in your country. It makes economic pic a lot better but it means dogshit to the average Joe.

Due to our slave policy our work force works here for ~1.3e/h as the minimal wage. Huge companies are coming here to exploit not only that but our corrupted laws as well where you work extra hours without getting paid. So getting ~300e a month here is pretty regular while it's usually 6 days a week and most of the time with plenty of extra working hours.

But then, like I said ,statistics are usually pure shit because according to plenty of sources we have 2-3% inflation, just because they measure it in the most idiotic way. So it's quite often you see (for example) chocolate bar going from 100g to 80g while the price stays the same. They don't mark that as inflation because the price is the same, despite the product being smaller and smaller. Numbers are easily being manipulated everywhere, not just here, but it's a lot worse here when you look at the standard. Also, you can read at many places how we lowered our unemployment rate. You know why? Because 50.000 each year leaves the country and it's mostly youth.



:D never saw that one. However there are more and more famous people coming out with their perfume :rolleyes: Btw, D&G the One is a beautiful smell, it's a pity it lasts for a couple of hours only.
We also have a slavery policy/culture in place here. USD 300 is the minimum monthly wage and it's perfectly legal for males to work up to 48 hours a week (women can't work more than 40) and employers don't give a shit about overtime either. You can work 60 hours a week and you won't smell a cent of overtime.

And we don't have it cheap here either. Inflation is also manipulated by adding luxury goods to the basket of goods and services.

I'm pretty sure that you have more people connected to the internet as indicated by the statistics. And better human development indicators.

All I'm saying is that the picture is perhaps not as dark as you think. People can thrive even under less than ideal conditions.
 
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AFL_ITALIA

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Jun 17, 2011
29,588
Fgs :lol: what a shit show. Big corporations disgust me.

Do you have any sort of background in computer science or are you going completely blind into this?

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We also have a slavery policy/culture in place here. USD 300 is the minimum monthly wage and it's perfectly legal for males to work up to 48 hours a week (women can't work more than 40) and employers don't give a shit about overtime either. You can work 60 hours a week and you won't smell a cent of overtime.

And we don't have it cheap here either. Inflation is also manipulated by adding luxury goods to the basket of goods and services.

I'm pretty sure that you have more people connected to the internet as indicated by the statistics. And better human development indicators.

All I'm saying is that the picture is perhaps not as dark as you think. People can thrive even under less than ideal conditions.
Before this, it didn't even sound real. They used to have "mimosa Fridays," where they just start drinking at like 11 am in the office. Software companies are wild. Of course, the merger put an end to this :p. I wouldn't say going in completely blind, I know a thing or two. But overall there's a lot I need to learn depending on the role I go for.

Sounds like you really need to leave there though
 

IliveForJuve

Burn this club
Jan 17, 2011
18,396
Before this, it didn't even sound real. They used to have "mimosa Fridays," where they just start drinking at like 11 am in the office. Software companies are wild. Of course, the merger put an end to this :p. I wouldn't say going in completely blind, I know a thing or two. But overall there's a lot I need to learn depending on the role I go for.

Sounds like you really need to leave there though
That does sound pretty crazy. I know a start up here with a similar culture. The founders of the company are 26 years old.

And yes, I need know get out of here ASAP but not for the reasons stated above. Girlfriend is going back to England in a few months but it's really hard for me to move there.

Cursed by nationality :touched:
 

AFL_ITALIA

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Jun 17, 2011
29,588
That does sound pretty crazy. I know a start up here with a similar culture. The founders of the company are 26 years old.

And yes, I need know get out of here ASAP but not for the reasons stated above. Girlfriend is going back to England in a few months but it's really hard for me to move there.

Cursed by nationality :touched:
They work hard, but there's plenty of money. Plus if you could get some equity out of it, all the better.

Just in time for all the Brexit fun. You can't get into another EU country first and then go there? I have no idea how it works.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...but-portugal-wants-immigrants-to-lift-economy
 

swag

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Sep 23, 2003
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now that i think about i cant really laugh, ive seen naked people on bart and people openly doing heroin. numerous times and i rarely even use it
True. But I swear I've seen chickens on the 14 Mission owl service bus overnight in the Mission District.

Someone in the street yelled at me "lucky bastard!" because of my girlfriend.

White women are goddesses on this land.
I can only imagine that if she's also blonde, they'd probably kill themselves to die happy.
nah ive seen what happens to latinas after marriage :mino:

i'll stick with vegan girls, at least they are thin and dont reek of greasy mexican food.
:lol: MLAE is a documented affliction... Married Latina Ass Explosion.

The fucking HORSESHIT that this was so far :lol:

Story time.

tl;dr - top tier bullshittery caused by a merger, HR dragging their ass, a bit of incompetence, and the holiday season.
Bummer bro. But that sounds like the job search life to me though. Hang in there. If it's meant to be, it will happen.

Just in time for all the Brexit fun. You can't get into another EU country first and then go there? I have no idea how it works.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...but-portugal-wants-immigrants-to-lift-economy
Yeah, I'm kind of helping their cause here... even if I am taking advantage of a tax program that kind of makes my being here a little criminal relative to the locals who have lived here all their lives.

Who would have thought that I would have paid far less taxes than the US in a socialist country. :D
 

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