This. Also we use a few fake profiles of local sounding names, if you get a friend request on those apps that DO have decent enough privacy settings while interviewing, don’t accept. That and the replies work for me on Twitter. Instagram is more challenging, but not impossible. I can usually figure out if you’ve been tagged in posts, and there’s a tool we use that will usually let me see a handful of your posts. ESPECIALLY if you link your account to something else and cross post.
I work for a company in a role that has me part time stalking high level candidates. We don’t check the min wage crowd, but if you’re looking to be in the management/higher ups crowd, I promise you that no amount of “private” settings on your account can keep me out too long. Take the time to actually clean your accounts out properly, some joking around is fine, but if we find anything really problematic, I promise you your hiring team has seen it before the interview.
My rule of thumbs are:
1. Do I have enough money to do most of what I want, but not enough where there’s no drive or challenge.
2. If I really feel like bragging, have I done something recently enough to brag about?
3. Do I have enough vacation time to take a day off to just sit on a couch/kayak/camp/recover from a rough night?
I was on the US Fencing National team for about two weeks in 2004, prepping for Beijing. I broke my leg being a stupid high school kid and they kicked me off. Allow me to correct you: Fencing is done by some seriously scary Russians.
I’m the only web developer within 50 miles of my job, I was employed at the local college. Interviewed at the hospital out of curiosity, when asked why I wanted the job, “Well, I really don’t, but I want to keep the other applicants honest.” Ended up working for the hospital, they doubled my salary and gave me a 5% raise after three months.
I personally don’t care, but I think it’s one of those things where if you love dogs, you simply cannot understand why someone else wouldn’t. Like veganism, but actually tolerable.
Plus, depending on the scientist you talk to, dogs may have bred us to like them just as much as we bred them to like us, so it might just be evolutionary.
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This. Also we use a few fake profiles of local sounding names, if you get a friend request on those apps that DO have decent enough privacy settings while interviewing, don’t accept. That and the replies work for me on Twitter. Instagram is more challenging, but not impossible. I can usually figure out if you’ve been tagged in posts, and there’s a tool we use that will usually let me see a handful of your posts. ESPECIALLY if you link your account to something else and cross post.
I work for a company in a role that has me part time stalking high level candidates. We don’t check the min wage crowd, but if you’re looking to be in the management/higher ups crowd, I promise you that no amount of “private” settings on your account can keep me out too long. Take the time to actually clean your accounts out properly, some joking around is fine, but if we find anything really problematic, I promise you your hiring team has seen it before the interview.
You get credit for the first pre-7am off color joke.
This is gonna be the next Spiderman: Turn off the Dark
3 rocks? You monster. 1. Maybe. Preferably just a cold square of marble stone.
Oh, great. Now you’ve let all the normals know and they’ll ruin this for me just like zuckerburg did when he stopped limiting Facebook to .edu emails
pghrproblems wouldn’t know. BUUUUT dating someone who is drunk is key.
TSM: offering to help cover costs when you’re unemployed
Bless you for these.
I used to take the time to the sous vide and crock pot route. Manager special hunk of beef, leave the for day, come back to food prepped and ready.
Of course, now 90% of what I eat is protein bars, which is it’s own form of depressing.
I’ll take one for the team. Either me or deuce, I guess, is due.
Yea, I fucked that up. It’s friday afternoon and I’m focused on the drink I’ll get in an hour.
My rule of thumbs are:
1. Do I have enough money to do most of what I want, but not enough where there’s no drive or challenge.
2. If I really feel like bragging, have I done something recently enough to brag about?
3. Do I have enough vacation time to take a day off to just sit on a couch/kayak/camp/recover from a rough night?
Everything else is ancillary.
This is the most poetic thing I’ve ever read. It legit redefined my outlook on fights, haha
I was on the US Fencing National team for about two weeks in 2004, prepping for Beijing. I broke my leg being a stupid high school kid and they kicked me off. Allow me to correct you: Fencing is done by some seriously scary Russians.
I’m the only web developer within 50 miles of my job, I was employed at the local college. Interviewed at the hospital out of curiosity, when asked why I wanted the job, “Well, I really don’t, but I want to keep the other applicants honest.” Ended up working for the hospital, they doubled my salary and gave me a 5% raise after three months.
totally fair
^ this
Yea, so….I messed up there. I have two dogs, Whiskey is a girl, Scotch would be the guy. Or would be. If I’d done my stuff right.
I personally don’t care, but I think it’s one of those things where if you love dogs, you simply cannot understand why someone else wouldn’t. Like veganism, but actually tolerable.
Plus, depending on the scientist you talk to, dogs may have bred us to like them just as much as we bred them to like us, so it might just be evolutionary.