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I'm one driven dude...
Had my interview at Hillpeak this morning. Went extremely well. The usual discussions of the requirements, my qualifications, etc. They were trying to deal with a problem when I arrived, so I had time to sit and observe. While waiting for Gordon (the big boss) to resolve the problem, the other person in the office asked to see if I could find a file on his computer. I thought this meant he was going to tell me the fill name and see if I knew how to use the Search function on Windows. No, he just wanted to see if I could use a mouse and read the screen! Makes me wonder about some of the people applying for jobs around here.
After a while, Gordon and I went driving. Some city streets, some freeway driving, all in the pouring rain. We chatted more about the job. His main concern is that I'm married. This does involve being away from home for weeks at a time. I tried my best to assure that Kiri and I had discussed this, and had handled separation before. They both agreed I be a good fit, so I'm going onto the background check phase tomorrow. Right now, they don't have an immediate opening, but there might be something soon.
But until then, I'm still looking! Have an interview tomorrow for another driving gig, and sent in my resume for this:
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After a while, Gordon and I went driving. Some city streets, some freeway driving, all in the pouring rain. We chatted more about the job. His main concern is that I'm married. This does involve being away from home for weeks at a time. I tried my best to assure that Kiri and I had discussed this, and had handled separation before. They both agreed I be a good fit, so I'm going onto the background check phase tomorrow. Right now, they don't have an immediate opening, but there might be something soon.
But until then, I'm still looking! Have an interview tomorrow for another driving gig, and sent in my resume for this:
Driver
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Weeks at a time? Will you be driving out of state then?
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Just throw me in that briar patch.
I'd be getting $12/hr plus a $110 per diem (for all seven days, not just my work week.) So if I find a cheap place to stay (one with a refrigerator and microwave in the room) and avoid eating out, I can pocket a decent amount of money out of the per diem.
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Now, I don't have a plain-vanilla desktop. I usually keep one of a couple of pictures of Sailor Jupiter as my wallpaper, for instance, and there are a lot of icons on the desktop; however, it's not especially wild other than that. There was at that time an Access icon on the desktop. There was also the Office Shortcut Bar (Office 98) along the top of the screen, and you could of course also launch it from the Start menu.
He couldn't do it. He couldn't figure out how to launch the application on which he claimed to be so proficient, even though there were a minimum of three ways, two of which were in plain sight. Wanting to be generous, I thought it was possible that my having anything other than a plain-colored wallpaper confused him, so I launched Access myself and we continued.
He was hopeless. He clearly knew very little about any of the Office applications beyond the most basic of entry-level skills. Now, we don't need (or want to pay for) expert programmers for every one of our engineering positions, but this guy was impossible. We would have had to spend all of our time teaching him basic concepts. We expect all of our incoming engineers to have at least intermediate proficiency with Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint. And by golly they'd better understand the Windows interface enough to be able to know how to use the mouse and read the screen!
I ended the interview and was polite while he left, then I went and told my boss that I was downchecking the candidate on the grounds that he couldn't possibly have done the things he claimed to have done on his resume. I later heard that a bunch of the examples he'd submitted had been done by his wife, who did have some skills (but wasn't in the market for the job we were offering). How this guy thought he was going to hold onto the job if he got it was beyond me.
I wonder sometimes when I've shown people my resume if everyone assumes that everyone else is inflating everything they put on it and thus they deduct a certain amount. Since I do not pad my resume -- although I do spin things like chairing a Worldcon in the most positive language I can think of, e.g. "CEO of a $1M international literary conference with a staff of several hundred" -- I probably come up short when anyone who thinks like that.
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(shakes head)
Ah well, good luck anyhow!
~Y~
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So sure, 10 points for being human, minus 100 for giving a trial lawyer something to drool about.
:P~
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It's not just not ok, it's possibly actionable. They're *not allowed to ask about your marital status*. Or your age. Or whether you have kids. Among other things. Bummer that they've had people flake because relationships took top priority, but that's not an excuse.
If you get the job? Suggest they do the research and stop exposing themselves to possible liability.
If you don't get the job? You can legitimately file a grievance just because they asked. Might not be worth the time or trouble, but you could.
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