So, Like, I got Hired ... - Page 2

Griff · 03-23-2012, 08:04 PM

Hooray!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Undertoad · 03-23-2012, 08:03 PM

Quote:

I've been handed a lot of cups of water over the years. I know how that trick is done.

I was impressed by the procedures at the place. Clever, they are.

so certain are you. always with you it cannot be done.

Clodfobble · 03-23-2012, 10:11 PM

Thank God, I was really jonesing for some new Really Cool/Really Suck stories.

Lola Bunny · 03-23-2012, 10:16 PM

Congrats to you!

richlevy · 03-24-2012, 12:00 PM

Congratulations Wolf.

On an unrelated note, although I love tea I have never been to a tea house. This has a lot to do with the fact that many of them have very limited hours of operation.

BTW, I do think drug testing has gotten out of hand. The original excuse was to test for impairment, especially during to the operation of heavy machinery or vehicles. It has since devolved into a weird public-private partnership to invade privacy and check for even trace amounts of illegal drugs.

Let's say you get to choose your bus driver. It's Monday and:

1) Bus driver A has not had alcohol or drugs recently. He did, however, stay up the night with a crying baby so his wife could sleep. He's had about 3 hours sleep, on and off.

2) Bus driver B went on a drinking binge on Saturday and spent Sunday drying out.

3) Bus driver C smoked 1 marijuana cigarette on Friday night.

Because marijuana is illegal, even a trace amount will get driver C reprimanded or fired even though he is probably the least impaired of the group.

I don't drink or use drugs, but part of the lessons I learned from history is that the most progress is made when people care about issues outside of their narrow self interest.

I really wish I could start a company and announce with a big banner "We don't f***king care about your drug use, just show up ready to work". I could then get all of the best and brightest who would normally be worried about random testing.

I we applied strict random testing rules to 'ALL' employees, how many CEO's would have gotten the axe? How many U.S. presidents?

ZenGum · 03-23-2012, 10:17 PM

Teh Bunny!

Just in time for Easter, too!

footfootfoot · 03-23-2012, 10:28 PM

Great news, hope you ace the whizz quiz!

zippyt · 03-23-2012, 10:57 PM

Congrats Wolf

xoxoxoBruce · 03-24-2012, 01:28 AM

'Bout time, you should have used your majik long ago. Is this private sector?

wolf · 03-24-2012, 09:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

Thank God, I was really jonesing for some new Really Cool/Really Suck stories.

Me too!

Quote:

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

'Bout time, you should have used your majik long ago. Is this private sector?

Yes, it is.

I had been using the majik, but I hadn't turned it up to 11. A lot of the time I would have been searching more aggressively, I was spending time with crazynurse.

regular.joe · 03-24-2012, 09:54 AM

By the way. CONGRATS WOLF!!!!!

classicman · 03-24-2012, 09:57 AM

Wolf, I am thrilled that you are joining the workforce again. Sad for your geocacheing adventures though

We'll have to do lunch again to celebrate. Hugs.

DanaC · 03-24-2012, 10:03 AM

Congrats Wolfie!

Oh, and Carrot would like to congratulate you too, with a wet puppeh kiss (with teeth).

wolf · 03-24-2012, 10:25 AM

I loves the puppy kisses!

Thanks everyone. Will advise as the adventure proceeds.

Sundae · 03-24-2012, 11:13 AM

Am puzzled by the codes in this thread.
The Mighty UT seems concerned in some unfathomable way. Questioning the Wolf? Seas boiling, the moon turns to blood etc.
Anyway, discreet is as discreet does.

I'm made up for you Wolf. I know the pain of unemployment.
It's the opposite of winning or inheriting shedloads of money in that getting work is like breathing again.

03-23-2012, 08:04 PM	#1
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03-23-2012, 10:11 PM	#3
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03-24-2012, 12:00 PM	#5
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	Congratulations Wolf. On an unrelated note, although I love tea I have never been to a tea house. This has a lot to do with the fact that many of them have very limited hours of operation. BTW, I do think drug testing has gotten out of hand. The original excuse was to test for impairment, especially during to the operation of heavy machinery or vehicles. It has since devolved into a weird public-private partnership to invade privacy and check for even trace amounts of illegal drugs. Let's say you get to choose your bus driver. It's Monday and: 1) Bus driver A has not had alcohol or drugs recently. He did, however, stay up the night with a crying baby so his wife could sleep. He's had about 3 hours sleep, on and off. 2) Bus driver B went on a drinking binge on Saturday and spent Sunday drying out. 3) Bus driver C smoked 1 marijuana cigarette on Friday night. Because marijuana is illegal, even a trace amount will get driver C reprimanded or fired even though he is probably the least impaired of the group. I don't drink or use drugs, but part of the lessons I learned from history is that the most progress is made when people care about issues outside of their narrow self interest. I really wish I could start a company and announce with a big banner "We don't f*king care about your drug use, just show up ready to work". I could then get all of the best and brightest who would normally be worried about random testing. I we applied strict random testing rules to 'ALL' employees, how many CEO's would have gotten the axe? How many U.S. presidents? __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama**

03-23-2012, 10:17 PM	#6
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	Teh Bunny! Just in time for Easter, too! __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

03-23-2012, 10:28 PM	#7
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	Great news, hope you ace the whizz quiz! __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

03-23-2012, 10:16 PM	#4
Lola Bunny Junior Master Dwellar Join Date: May 2011 Posts: 2,728	Congrats to you!

03-23-2012, 10:57 PM	#8
zippyt LONG LIVE KING ZIPPY! per Feetz Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Arkansas Posts: 7,661	Congrats Wolf __________________ "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. " Brother Dave Gardner

03-24-2012, 01:28 AM	#9
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	'Bout time, you should have used your majik long ago. Is this private sector? __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

03-24-2012, 09:54 AM	#11
regular.joe Старый сержант Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: NC, dreaming of large Russian women. Posts: 1,464	By the way. CONGRATS WOLF!!!!! __________________ Birth, wealth, and position are valueless during wartime. Man is only judged by his character --Soldier's Testament. Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature. - Marcus Aurelius.

03-24-2012, 09:57 AM	#12
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	Wolf, I am thrilled that you are joining the workforce again. Sad for your geocacheing adventures though We'll have to do lunch again to celebrate. Hugs. __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

03-24-2012, 10:25 AM	#14
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	I loves the puppy kisses! Thanks everyone. Will advise as the adventure proceeds. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

03-24-2012, 11:13 AM	#15
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	Am puzzled by the codes in this thread. The Mighty UT seems concerned in some unfathomable way. Questioning the Wolf? Seas boiling, the moon turns to blood etc. Anyway, discreet is as discreet does. I'm made up for you Wolf. I know the pain of unemployment. It's the opposite of winning or inheriting shedloads of money in that getting work is like breathing again. __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

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