One of the things that brought me here in the first place was that you also have a bunch of questions in the close vote and low quality answer queues and I wanted to know what makes them that way.
@Jefromi Good point about how fast people are doing the reviewing. I just figured you have a steady stream of lots of questions that people want to see closed.
@CaptainGiraffe I love all animals, without exception! People make fun of me because I pick up ants or spiders or moths and put them outside. And I kill nothing - ever!
@CaptainGiraffe I love preservation. How do you do that?
I should confess I'm not a vegetarian though. I used to be, but have gotten lazy. No excuse there. I don't care if people eat meat, I care that the animals are treated properly. I really admire people who care enough to protect the world for animals.
@CaptainGiraffe I'm only active on a few sites but they all have really good chat communities. I have no social media accounts, so when I want to hang out with people I don't actually know, I come to my few favorite rooms. (Here, Gardening, and Great Outdoors).
I have to run, but I loved your pictures, and that you believe in conservation. Hydroponics is fascinating, and I hope you check out the information at GL.
@Jefromi If you're still, here - bye, and thanks! @rumtscho and @Stephie - it was good to say a quick hello!
ElendilTheTall I won't ping you because I noticed you had a migraine. Those are awful, so I hope you're feeling better! Hi to Jolenealaska and all the other folks here too!
I have been watching Trump since he won the Republican nomination. I know him. He's beyond vile. He actually frightens me. I believe that people will die because of his words.
For my mom, it's been tough, but she learns how to emotionally distance herself from granny's irrational behaviour. And define clear limits. Gran has a hard time accepting that she's not "in control" any longer. She used to be a rather string and dominant woman.
Ah OK. I applied for that position last year, and at that time, I voiced my concern. Your HR person told me "no, you will be an independent contractor, there is no other option. But don't worry, it is no way this could ever be illegal".
@Stephie Well, if you have time to shop and look around, it's defintely an invite to explore applying once the jobs are posted
PMs with experience with our software are generally the most desirable. While the outside perspective someone unfamiliar with it brings is valuable, the time it takes to get up to speed is drastically reduced and you generally have a good idea of stuff you want to work on.
@rumtscho That's strange, I'll have to check into that. I know we've got at least one person in Berlin happily (and legally) working from home.
But like @rumtscho I probably prefer the relative safety and comfort of a German permanent contract. And I have a contract atm, just need a matching position.
If you mean Ben, I talked to him too, but he was considered an exception because of being among the first ten employees.
But whatever. If your company has by now recognized that you have to offer standard employment in Germany, then there is no problem for anybody applying in the future.
funnily, the HR person from SE was not the only one to disbelieve it. To this day, Jolene is convinced that this law cannot exist, because if it did, nobody in such a country would ever get employed.
Not many places for that. At least not near the stores I go to. But I do have one store that has tables and chairs available, even though they don't serve any food.
@Stephie fast food for me means only letting pasta dough rest 15 minutes instead of 30. I worked in fast food when I was younger and it's just utterly disgusting.
I was so happy when I finally got a job in a real kitchen.
I dislike stereotypical fast food like McD, have never liked the smell and taste outside of any hygiene aspects etc. But some of them like Subways tend to be OK for me. A bit on the cardboard side, but nothing worse than that.
@rumtscho The majority of it is, at least American fast food. But food able to be prepared fast isn't "fast food" to me, what matters is how you prepare it, where it came from, and what you put in it to stretch or preserve it.
