I have an interview tomorrow for a job that has "engineer" in the title. Beyond pushing an Ethernet cable into the back of a phone what else do I need to know? I'd hate to miss out on the promised land through sheer ignorance.
I have an interview tomorrow for a job that has "engineer" in the title. Beyond pushing an Ethernet cable into the back of a phone what else do I need to know? I'd hate to miss out on the promised land through sheer ignorance.
You might also have to sell things for no commission.
I threatened to leave unless I could drop the selling part
It still needs considerable strengthening.
How are those commissions going?
Fine, if I was actually unemployed I'd have doubled my salary by now. So take that.
Our office alcoholic came in shitfaced today and got aggressive when she was sent home. Bleak.
Currently doing subtitles in Malawi but they haven't given me timestamps so I'm just looking at when they stop for a breath and guessing.
I'm not going to have "engineer" in my job title in the immediate future. The dream of being more like Pepe is over.
My employers are really dragging their feet with my reference. Is that allowed?
New HR rang me on 1st August saying they were sending for references. I said to send the request for personal one but hold on sending the one to my current boss because I haven't told them yet. Never got round to telling them and a request for a reference was sent on Wednesday 8th August and new HR still haven't heard anything back. I pestered my boss on Friday who then claimed to have sent it on Saturday. I've been on holiday until today so rang new HR checking everything was as it should be and if they could give me a start date (so I can officially hand my notice in) and they said they hadn't received anything. I messaged my boss telling her to send it. "Will do " was all I got back. I'll ring them again tomorrow and they have better bloody received it.
How long can they delay it for legally?
I'm a twit
Do jobs actually care about references? I've got them but I've never been asked to present them.
Engineering is wank anyway. Avoid.
Sales is where it's at.
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Better yourself yo.
Did my first on-call yesterday.
So ridiculous. So out of my depth, far too much to cover for one person, asked to do so many dangerous things. Just absolutely horrible.
I don't think I'll be staying in clinical medicine long-term. I don't have the risk tolerance required - when the thing at risk is someone else's health - to work in the NHS in it's current state. Looking at medical writing, since it will use some of the skills/knowledge I already have whilst also giving a bit of a creative outlet which I definitely need.
You could start a medical and blancmange crossover Instagram account.
I'm a twit
I'll give you a non-paying credit for the idea when I'm a millionaire.
Sounds to me like you can't handle the pressure. Kids these days...
Yeah, IDK, maybe I'm just a pussy. Either way.
‘Maybe I’m just a pussy’ says the Chocolatier.
First day of classes today. Donned it.
First actual vacation that isn't just taking off the time between christmas and new year in 3 years.
Spent half of today watching video tutorials by some Australian wanking on about some business analytics software. It was like psychological torture.
Yeah Youtube culture has made learning awful. The amount of things that I have to watch an 8 minute video where the first 4 minutes are burnt giving shoutouts to his subscribers and asking for likes is infuriating. Back in the day when they just gave you a 1 through 8 steps in text from made it easy to breeze through.
I quite like video tutorials (it was on Udemy where I've bought a few courses for myself before), it was more just the grating accent (sorry Ital) and the boring subject that isn't anything like what I expected to be doing when I signed up for the job.
Results are in, and my class have done surprisingly well - one lad was predicted a 5 and got an 8 (that's B to an A* in old money). The other class however have dragged us right down. They weren't intentionally split by ability but they really were. Think I'll go into school though to see them, maybe try and recruit a few more for A-Level.
What are you trying to get out of using it?
Seven days to go.
I'm a twit
I’m done with my job and all the horrible people associated with it.
I'm a twit
Yeah. I don't like it very much. Also, I took this job thinking I'd be doing some fucking coding and I've done fuck all so far. This Qlik Sense crap is new as some clients want some shit made with it and I'm the first one learning it so I'll end up getting pigeon holed in it.
Good job I'm leaving in a few weeks for the other job that I was offered at the same time.
It's just SQL which isn't coding per se. It's interesting if you want to go further into data stuff but frankly learning basic SQL and getting into something like Python is going to be more generally applicable.
Yeah, I know SQL. You don't even need it to use Qlik Sense though.
I took the job under the impression it was a Java development job (my job title is 'Developer'). The online test I did for it had Java and SQL (and Unix although I didn't know any of that at the time) and was the hardest job application test I've taken (3 interviews, 3 jobs, 100% strike rate ) but there's really not very much code involved in the actual job at all. There's not even that much for the more senior guys. So I'm off to the other place to work on C# stuff. It's an actual software engineering (go team!) job so hopefully it'll give me better experience.
Is this the one in London?
Was transferring cash onto my credit card and noticed my balance was massive. I'd forgot my bonus was coming in. It's the most I've ever had in my account so it's blackjack and hookers this week.
So having still not clarified a commission plan (we have raised it multiple times but got nothing back), and having both sold products...the end result is this month's pay having no commission. Ha. Who'd have thought!
Imagine if they backpay that.