@GrayCygnus Yeah, it's ridiculous on a site like this to allow immediate acceptances. It makes sense for SO but not here. I think 6 hours at least, if not more.
@GrayCygnus I used to have 3 monitors at one job... it was awesome! Then I went to one where all I had was a 15" laptop screen with a crap resolution, it was utterly awful trying to code on it.
@SnarkShark Ugh..you have my sympathies. My cold/sinus infection from the other week is mostly gone but seemingly refuses to go away entirely
@SnarkShark it's so hard to go back to just the one isn't it? Other than the stint at my last company I've had dual monitors (or more) for working on for the last 15 years
@SnarkShark I find the reverse to be true... I'm much faster typing on a flat keyboard but my wrists hate me for it. MS "Natural" style all the way for me
I did try one of those a few years back, I really couldn't get used to it. I think I'm used to my hands automatically crossing over that YHB line while I'm typing. I never did learn how to tough type properly.
@SnarkShark I started using them about 15-16 years ago when a doctor advised me to as I was developing early signs of carpal tunnel in my right wrist. I hated it at first - took me ages to get the hang of them. I never got anywhere near my old speed but I never had problems with my wrist while using them
Yeah. the flat keyboard cured my wrist pains. Someone at work uses the natural keyboard, she broke her wrist a few years ago and never regained full use.
I got reply from the VP yesterday and the message is as below Here is a short review -Tech. Knowledge is set up in specific areas which is not commonly used in our organization. -we wont be able to able to satisfy your approach in continue focusing on both front end and back end development. -Lacking of design expertise which is required in our organization. Please not that it is not about your abilities and knowledge but about how does your current experience suits to our needs
can you please guide how should I reply him? During the interview he asked me which one I would like to work front end or back end?I said I am ok for the both. BUt he must have understood that I want both
why do you think its not required to contact him again. I am thinking if I stay in contact then he may refer to any other opening if he has got any in future
@SpringLearner on reflection not contacting him is possibly not correct, the more I think about it the more I think a simple "thank you" email is best. You're leaving it on good terms and if future opportunities come up and you apply for them he will hopefully remember you positively
If by "staying in contact" you mean more than that.. then no I wouldn't advise it
Rejection is a huge part of hunting for jobs. As much as we think we'll find a great job, that doesn't often happen. Just shrug it off and move on to the next opportunity.
@SnarkShark that's a new low.. admittedly the pickings are slim this week
it's good answer though
I keep scouring the question list hoping it changes and something interesting crops up. It's starting to feel like when you keep re-checking the fridge hoping that somehow, through magic something you actually want to eat has appeared
it's not helping that I'm not in a great place this week and could really do with the distraction
@Dukeling Small correction: Take your head out of your ... uhm, smartphone and just tell them you want X. I think a lot of these communication issues that look silly and trivial to oldies like me is because people these days are way too busy looking into their smartphone and don't really know how to talk to a human face to face.
@SnarkShark indeed.. they make me wish for a device that allows you to strangle other people through the internet
I've been dabbling over on mechanics a bit this week, there's some frighteningly simple questions from people over there. How they are ever allowed to drive is as mysterious as it is worrying
The amusing thing about ISP is that it feels like most of the responses there come from people with some kind of social disorder.
And the people who complain about the simplicity of it either forgot what it was like to be young, or have the advantage of all this stuff being natural to them ;)
What I mean about responses is that they all read like learned behavior, btw. These are people (including myself) who had to learn social interaction the hard way.
I have a good question for IPS. I will ask it some time over the long weekend, if I find some time. It is Diwali time here in India, so my work week ends today. :)
I have a coworker at my place of work that I am somewhat friendly with. Often times when I pass his desk, we'll both say hi and talk for a couple minutes about this or that. We're not exactly close friends, but it's fun talking to him.
I cannot remember his name.
As far as I can tell, there is ...
@GrayCygnus That question is a good example of why "protected" should be renamed to "restricted". :) Clearly, protection hasn't prevented poor answers from being posted.
Of course, this is mostly for academic interests and our own amusement, since SE has clearly drawn a line in the sand on that request.
@DavidK I made peace with the repcap by looking at it as a way to let others help people. And of course, it reminds me that I have a life outside Workplace.
@MisterSortofPositive I quite liked it when I was first learning it many, many years ago. Then I learnt C# and realised that it had everything I liked about Java and more, plus far fewer annoyances
@SnarkShark don't be, that's just Brian. As long as you don't have to deal with him when he's hungover he's not such a bad guy. Gives terrible advice though.
I hated my Classic ASP Purgatory with a passion.. like you @SnarkShark I got trapped with dealing with a whacking great inherited code base that had the organisation and structure of a bowl of spaghetti and the stability of a house of cards on boat caught in a hurricane
After spending four years learning and working with strongly typed OOP languages at uni to spending another 50 years trapped in that freak show was something of a culture shock to say the least! :D
I'm currently doing an internship in a company. Supposedly, after finishing the internship they are going to hire me, that's what the told me when I first had the interview, but the thing is that I have no physical proof of that.
In the meantime, I have a friend that told me that in their compan...
Honestly @Nofel the solution remains the same - you need to get out. You've clearly got some good front-end dev skills and yeah the economy isn't exactly racing along at the moment but your skills are in demand and I honestly think you'll be so much happier working somewhere else
you don't always need the latest though.. the way the JS frameworks in particular move so rapidly means that there's always something of a lag in adoption. Plus companies that have adopted them usually allow for some expectation that not all candidates are going to have experience with them
I appreciate that it's scary, believe me I do but if the worst happens and you need to hunt for something else then you'll be in a worse position - job hunting is much easier when you already have a job. So getting a few balls rolling now is basically all upside for you
if I'm being frank you are possibly a bit lacking in those areas, but so are many people and you have come on massively over the last few months from what I can see. And honestly it wouldn't be a big deal if you weren't working for an asshole
By the term bullshit job, I refer to the notion coined in David Graeber's article. By bullshit job, he means some contrary of useful and enriching our society.
Since I just finished my Master's degree in mathematics, I am currently looking for employment. It seems to me that the typical employ...
I've never been good at playing the workplace politics game, I'm a straightforward sort of person, add in my autism and anxiety and I generally struggle in environments where it is a large factor, but they really aren't representative of all workplaces.
this is the danger of staying in a shitty, toxic environment like this - after enough time of some asshole telling you that you suck you start to believe it, even though if you were able to step back and look at it rationally (imagine a friend describing the same situation to you) you can clearly see it for the utter bullshit it really is
@Nofel gotcha.. then all you need to do is work out what wage you need to cover your outgoings and when negotiating salary you don't move below your minimum
at the moment what's happening is that you're afraid, this is totally normal and healthy. Where it goes bad is when you let that fear rule you.
Keep in mind that you're essentially trading your sanity for money. If you make $200 a month more in this job than you would in another, you are valuing your sanity as being worth $200 a month. Personally, I think my sanity is more valuable than even an entire month's salary ;)
@Nofel I know I'm just some randomer on the internet and I know I sounds like a broken record on this subject but the consequences of toxic work environments on your mental health are very, very real and very, very severe. I experienced two of them back-to-back. My health disintegrated, all my significant relationships failed or disappeared, oh and I washed down half a packet of paracetamol with a bottle of Jack Daniels. GET OUT NOW
@Nofel yeah it could be as bad, or it could be worse. Those are possibilities but that's all they are. That your current one sucks and is damaging your mental health is a certainty. In those cases I'll take another roll of the dice any day of the week
"A roll of the die" means literally just accepting the next job without even looking. And yeah, statistically, even that is likely to be an improvement over where you are now.
@Erik actually I met it more in the sense that taking any new job is always like a roll of the dice. You don't know until you are there whether it is mediocre (like rolling a 3), dire (like rolling a 1) or brilliant (a 6), but if your current job is a 2 you really don't have much to lose
I agree if you're just going to accept without looking, but it's not like you have no idea what you're going in to if you're doing the interviews properly.
I'm not suggesting you should blindly take the first thing that comes along though - you can take a sensible approach and try and get a feel for whether you want to work there
And while you are currently employed (and therefore the bills are getting paid) you can afford to be choosier about it. When you're out of work and desperate for something, anything to pay the bills you have to lower your standards which lets some of those 1s and 2s creep in that you would normally run screaming from.
@Nofel I think you are far more skilled than you give yourself credit for being. Move on. It sounds like literally ANYWHERE would be better than you are now, and be AGGRESIVE about it.
@Nofel apologies.. for clarity: Job hunting while you already have a job is good because a) you are more likely to get the job and b) you can afford to turn down jobs that don't seem like a good fit
@Erik well, all that lesson cost me was every last dollar I ever had, plus debt, plus divorce, plus every seeing my kids. Other than that, it was a good trade
RESTful API's aren't too complicated, basically just HTTP calls that generally return JSON objects. An hour or so reading will give you the basic concept and enough knowledge to get through most interview questions
SQL is a bit more complex but I doubt they are looking for anything complicated given the other skills, most likely they are looking for the basics of SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE queries and a weekend (at most) playing with the guides on W3Schools will give you the basics
@Nofel it's very scary.. when I was facing being jobless earlier in the year I lost more than a little sleep over how I'd lose my home if it happened. All the more reason to start job searching NOW
you can do this Nofel :) and when you find something better you'll look back and wonder why on earth you stayed so long!
and he called in anger saying where is it and where r u
when I got back, he was pissed byut ok, so one day he asked me to insert a slide in PP, which i never did but I did and he came running down saying, u cant align things
look at that, and at that point i asked him, can we out outside and talk and said "u dont like my work, I cannot take it anymore, so here is my regisnation"
When I started at my current role (which was straight after two bad ones), even though they are a pretty reasonable bunch of people to work for I would still have panic attacks when my manager asked "have you got a minute?" - and it was all because my brain had "learned" to be fearful of that. Given time where that sort of shit doesn't happen you do return to "normal"
those things imprinted on my mind. coz what he did was worse, he forwarded my reason for leaving to employees on my department, which told him it is pay that he feels is paying less
yet I remember it was my team who hated me for my skills coz when no one knew jQueyr or firefox debugger I told them
@Nofel yep.. but your brain can be trained back to being in alignment with a more rational view of the work world, it just takes time in a better environment, which you can get
By the term bullshit job, I refer to the notion coined in David Graeber's article. By bullshit job, he means some contrary of useful and enriching our society.
Since I just finished my Master's degree in mathematics, I am currently looking for employment. It seems to me that the typical employ...
