You beat me to it and I couldn’t have said it better myself. Watching this trailer only confirms how horrible this movie will be and how much it never needed to be made in the first place.
This might just be my local WF, but while you walk in and see tattoos and piercings on nearly every employee, I’d say less than 1% of the WF shoppers have any visible tattoos.
This. This a thousand times. I used to have a coworker that had her name with “B.A., MPA” after her name on emails. There’s a reason she’s a former coworker.
Well I only interned on the Hill for a semester in college, so I couldn’t really speak to the federal side of things, but coming from a southern state government perspective, the salary depends a lot on which agency hired you. There are “tiers” of state agencies–such as DSS and DMV usually being the bottom “tier” that usually pay their people nothing and make them work horrible hours and deal with the shit that nobody else wants to deal with, and the upper tier being a job working for an agency that regulates private industries (like utilities) or something like a state dept of commerce that exists to bring business to your state. The golden jobs are jobs working for state senate/house committees as a general counsel or research analyst, but those jobs require that you be related to/be very close with a state legislator.
I know this article was about how awesome government work is, which I won’t say it doesn’t have its upsides, but the biggest problem at any agency I’ve worked at or dealt with is stagnation. All too often, people are promoted based on tenure with an agency and not their actual work ethic or leadership qualities. So what you’re left with can be a bunch of older workers at the top who are basically retired or retirement age who won’t physically leave (and who can’t really be fired), which prevents younger people from being promoted. The best way to move up in state government is to jump around….do 2-3 years at XYZ agency and then hop on over to a higher paying job with more responsibility at ABC agency. I also forgot to clarify my earlier comment: not “all” loans are forgiven after 10 years, only federal student loans (not private).
As would North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. 14 major Revolutionary War battles were fought in SC alone. There’s nothing wrong of being proud of where you came from, but you missed the biggest reason people hate the north: snobs like you.
Putting aside the fact that I know this movie kicks off the Justice League storyline, I’ve never understood what any other superhero can add to Superman. This is pretty much sums it up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G4Y8JtT1j0&feature=kp
That’s pretty damn close to the reaction I had when I got home after having a staff meeting, where our director said there would be no Christmas bonuses this year…and probably not next year either. I have a job interview at another office scheduled for this Friday.
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Seriously. I’m not a fan of GoT at all, but the minute you say House of Cards is basically Scandal is the minute I tell you to go fuck yourself.
You beat me to it and I couldn’t have said it better myself. Watching this trailer only confirms how horrible this movie will be and how much it never needed to be made in the first place.
This might just be my local WF, but while you walk in and see tattoos and piercings on nearly every employee, I’d say less than 1% of the WF shoppers have any visible tattoos.
…or Kendra.
You beat me to it. Seeing a motivational quote in a work email makes me want to reach through the screen and slap the other person as hard as I can.
This. This a thousand times. I used to have a coworker that had her name with “B.A., MPA” after her name on emails. There’s a reason she’s a former coworker.
Will, in honor of Hamm’s win tonight, who do you like more? Don or Roger?
Interviews suck, but you know what sucks more? Waiting to hear back from them.
Yeah it just got to the point where I started telling a different and completely fabricated vacation story to each person that asked.
Embroidered polo? Ha! Try an umbrella. FML.
I was in this exact situation. Thank you for writing this, because all of it needed to be said!
Well I only interned on the Hill for a semester in college, so I couldn’t really speak to the federal side of things, but coming from a southern state government perspective, the salary depends a lot on which agency hired you. There are “tiers” of state agencies–such as DSS and DMV usually being the bottom “tier” that usually pay their people nothing and make them work horrible hours and deal with the shit that nobody else wants to deal with, and the upper tier being a job working for an agency that regulates private industries (like utilities) or something like a state dept of commerce that exists to bring business to your state. The golden jobs are jobs working for state senate/house committees as a general counsel or research analyst, but those jobs require that you be related to/be very close with a state legislator.
I know this article was about how awesome government work is, which I won’t say it doesn’t have its upsides, but the biggest problem at any agency I’ve worked at or dealt with is stagnation. All too often, people are promoted based on tenure with an agency and not their actual work ethic or leadership qualities. So what you’re left with can be a bunch of older workers at the top who are basically retired or retirement age who won’t physically leave (and who can’t really be fired), which prevents younger people from being promoted. The best way to move up in state government is to jump around….do 2-3 years at XYZ agency and then hop on over to a higher paying job with more responsibility at ABC agency. I also forgot to clarify my earlier comment: not “all” loans are forgiven after 10 years, only federal student loans (not private).
No kidding. He forgot to throw in one of the biggest bonuses: after 10 years working for the gov, all school loans are forgiven.
As would North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. 14 major Revolutionary War battles were fought in SC alone. There’s nothing wrong of being proud of where you came from, but you missed the biggest reason people hate the north: snobs like you.
Too soon.
I’m guessing this survey was exclusively for upstate residents.
Putting aside the fact that I know this movie kicks off the Justice League storyline, I’ve never understood what any other superhero can add to Superman. This is pretty much sums it up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G4Y8JtT1j0&feature=kp
33. Kelly’s Irish Times and the one and only Pete Papageorge.
That’s pretty damn close to the reaction I had when I got home after having a staff meeting, where our director said there would be no Christmas bonuses this year…and probably not next year either. I have a job interview at another office scheduled for this Friday.
Truer words have never been spoken.