@Lilienthal Make sure to not enter the address in the "To" field as you vent out. If you accidentally hit Send, the half-complete rant will make you look an idiot. Actually, I made it a habit to enter the address at the end in my "regular" emails as well.
Imagine you are interviewing a candidate (for an internship*) who becomes nervous enough that they break down to the point of tears, resulting in a "no hire" because they cannot communicate their technical skills. You believe they might have sufficient technical skills but they were not able to d...
@Lilienthal one of the first things I was taught about job hunting was never even entertain a counter offer, and they gave a laundry list as to why. I thought it was beaten into everyone's head, apparently not.
@RaoulMensink The reason a company would do this would be if the person was a key person who is literally the only one who knows what is going on. Usually, the tactic is to placate the person who wants to leave until you can bring other people up to speed. We just had an example, but in this case the guy was smart. Working one day a week for a huuge rate while he kept his new job.
Sometimes, it's a negotiated slow departure. But once that bell has been rung it cannot be unrung
@RaoulMensink I've seen it time and time again. They let one friend of mine go, and literally could not replace him. He gave them a ridiculous consulting rate and they couldn't afford him. This current guy tried to pull the same thing, so they are actually paying him. He said, well, if they're going to pay me THAT much.... suffice it to say he's making more working 16 hours a week than he was making 40
@enderland. I had PLENTY of practice, LOL! Right decisions come from experience, experience comes from wrong decisions
@RichardU yeah. the question I asked came from being super close to seeing this happen to us and I realized it'd be an awkward/difficult situation to deal with
I've my own ideas on how to address it but I am also curious what other folks come up with :-)
I believe Gmail is the best free email service out there. I don’t want to get my own domain name but I want my email address to look professional. I understand that firstname.lastname@gmail.com is probably the most professional looking email address anybody can get but it is not available for me....
@RichardU I'll take Outlook over Gmail any day. Thanks to its' corporate customer (& Revenue) base, Microsoft has limitations on data-mining its' customers emails that Google does not.
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Employer asked me to leave the job in 30 days
If you look at the edit history, you'll see that it's been edited by user58078, and the edit was approved.
The problem as I see it is that this information wasn't given by the OP, so where did it come from and why was it approved?
That's ridiculous. TDD forces code to pass tests and forces all code to have some tests around it. It doesn't prevent your consumers from incorrectly calling code, nor does it magically prevent programmers missing test cases.
No methodology can force users to use code correctly.
There is a sli...
I have Asperger's syndrome which makes it difficult for me to navigate the social aspects of the workplace, and I understand that other conditions such as depression, anxiety, et cetera can also cause difficulty in interacting with others at the workplace.
I have tried several approaches in the ...
@ChristopherEstep Personally, I studied sales techniques, body language, learned when to lean in to express interest. Every last movement and tone I have in an interview has been rehearsed to death. Oh, facial expressions too
@enderland Yeah. It's a strange dichotomy. On the one hand, subtle & subconscious social cues go completely over my head. On the other hand, having had to explicitly study people and body language and effective communication just to function effectively in the world, it means I consciously notice a lot of things that most people don't.
@enderland Yeah. And then of course, it's one thing to know a lot about body language, it's quite another to consistently manage your own. Especially in social interactions when my brain is *already* rather preoccupied.
I get tired after a full day because my "default" affect communicates "angry person", when I'm not. I have to maintain an affect that shows that I am not angry.
@RichardU I am an introvert, which means when someone says something, I think about it - but I give off an "angry face" that hardcore communicates "enderland thinks you are a moron" apparently :(
One of the benefits of learning body language is that I can easily tell when the other person is faking it. I also happen to have a keen interest in reading about psychological sales tricks. The result is that no salesperson has ever sold me any crap that I wasn't explicitly looking to buy.
In my office, we take dinnerware-related tasks in weekly turns that consist of getting dirty dishes and cutlery around the office, stuffing them in the dishwasher and organising them in cupboards, making sure nothing comes out dirty (and keeping that in the dishwasher, if it happens). We're 20-so...
@Lilienthal More of your favorite questions: http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/141767/would-the-one-ring-work-if-it-was-worn-on-the-toe-instead-of-the-finger
I'd love to abolish the review queue, at least for Close. Every question that's got a close vote or two doesn't need to be considered across the board.
@ChristopherEstep I agree. Once it gets in the queue, boooom! I doubt that many people bother to read the questions. When I go through the queue and am not sure it should be closed, I skip it, if I know it shouldn't I vote leave open, though I'm not sure if that has any effect
@RoryAlsop It's not directed at you specifically. But looking at dupe closes, it's obvious that there are many who don't even bother to read beyond the title because the question isn't even CLOSE to being a dupe. It happens too many times.