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Author Topic: Things that made you RRRRRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Trust-o-nomics Edition  (Read 3751293 times)

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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: SalmonBot Edition
« Reply #12375 on: June 14, 2012, 12:49:10 pm »

Well it's clearly an advertising piece that the advertisers managed to screw up the formatting on (or maybe Yahoo copied and pasted it wrongly somehow).
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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: SalmonBot Edition
« Reply #12376 on: June 14, 2012, 02:20:39 pm »

I think I shall, too.

'well, you see, he should have gathered that money by legal means then distributed it to the lazy basta-'
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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: SalmonBot Edition
« Reply #12377 on: June 14, 2012, 02:26:47 pm »

So, my department building got hit by lightning. At that very moment a large number of staff laptops were having windows service pack 1 installed and a few other software and hardware specific updates installed. The resulting power surge/outage did something wierd to this very one I am typing off, and it required a fresh installation of Windows 7. It took almost 3 days to perform for one reason or another, and resulted in the loss of some useful (if not massivley important, hence the reason whi it wasnt backed up) stuff, including a saved Lets Play, notes for my RTD and a bundle of photos/notes/presentations.

3 days. Bah.

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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: SalmonBot Edition
« Reply #12379 on: June 14, 2012, 03:18:43 pm »

"That position has been filled."

I'm 0 for 4 now, I believe.
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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: SalmonBot Edition
« Reply #12380 on: June 14, 2012, 03:22:23 pm »

"That position has been filled."

I'm 0 for 4 now, I believe.
I'm 0 for 35+ on Federal jobs.
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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: SalmonBot Edition
« Reply #12381 on: June 14, 2012, 03:27:40 pm »

Well considering you're twice my age and therefore probably a significantly more appealing worker (having this "experience" I keep hearing about but am unable to obtain) this does not bode well for me.
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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: SalmonBot Edition
« Reply #12382 on: June 14, 2012, 03:40:35 pm »

Well considering you're twice my age and therefore probably a significantly more appealing worker (having this "experience" I keep hearing about but am unable to obtain) this does not bode well for me.

The reverse is probably true. Sure they may want people with experience, but younger workers have lower expectations, are willing to sacrifice more to keep their jobs and generally expect lower pay than older people with families, mortgages and what not.
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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: SalmonBot Edition
« Reply #12383 on: June 14, 2012, 03:41:01 pm »

Ah, but I keep on getting passed over for jobs as experience costs money. Why take me on with my many years of proven success when a newbie who will do as they are told and not start bossing chumps around is less than half the cost?

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« Reply #12384 on: June 14, 2012, 03:44:41 pm »

So they tell old people they want younger people and they tell young people they want older people?

I give up trying to understand this.
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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: SalmonBot Edition
« Reply #12385 on: June 14, 2012, 03:47:49 pm »

Yea, as long as they give you a reason why you aint getting the job, it doesnt really matter how real it is as long as it sounds plausible.

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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: SalmonBot Edition
« Reply #12386 on: June 14, 2012, 03:53:10 pm »

Well considering you're twice my age and therefore probably a significantly more appealing worker (having this "experience" I keep hearing about but am unable to obtain) this does not bode well for me.
Catch-22 of unemployment. You're not alone in that regard. Here's my business card for the BEMAC, Beneath Existential Minimum Austerity Club.

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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: SalmonBot Edition
« Reply #12387 on: June 14, 2012, 04:09:05 pm »

I fell really bad now, browsing this forum on paid work time as I do jack squat, but believe me I feel your pain folks.  I kicked around with a college degree and existing employment for over a year before I was finally tapped for an internship that turned into a paying position only after paying a recruiter to find the guy for me, and then only by picking up a new skill as a hobby and bullshitting my way through the interview, leaving my diploma to gather dust.

There are a million fucking reasons why you won't be hired from any particular job, and there's no getting away from it all boiling down to too much competition for the same position.  If you're young, there's a guy with ten years experience who just got laid off and is desperate enough to take the same starting pay you would have.  If you're older, there's a young guy they can train to their specifications instead of having to retrain you and worry about your more expensive health insurance.  Now everywhere it's a competition between laid-off experience and fresh potential with useless degrees, both willing to work for peanuts.  And it's not going to change until the whole damn economy improves, and the economy isn't going to improve so long as nobody has any spending power because they have shitty income and a load of debt.

So yeah, rage the fuck out, and know that your old friend Aqizzar is still there with you, even as I get paid to sit on my ass and rant about bullshit.  Because the greatest joke of all is, when you finally get that stable paying job and pull yourself up out of the doldrums, you remember what mankind has known since the dawn of time.

All jobs blow moosecock.  Sometimes, enough to find yourself wondering if that bohemian non-existence was really all that bad.  At least you had plenty of free time.
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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: SalmonBot Edition
« Reply #12388 on: June 14, 2012, 04:11:48 pm »

All jobs blow moosecock.  Sometimes, enough to find yourself wondering if that bohemian non-existence was really all that bad.  At least you had plenty of free time.

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« Reply #12389 on: June 14, 2012, 04:16:35 pm »

All jobs blow moosecock.  Sometimes, enough to find yourself wondering if that bohemian non-existence was really all that bad.  At least you had plenty of free time.

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Or not, when you're dumpster diving for your next meal. Bohemian to me translates to "has a family willing to put up with your unemployment." Otherwise, you're just poor.
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