Deep thinking memes tonight. I especially like the one with the cars on the freeway. I think it’s a great one to share. Sometimes we need a dose of humanity.
I’m searching for a job too. It sucks. When you don’t do it very much you just aren’t very good at it lol.
I'm certainly missing the good old days when I could say walk right up to the front counter of the Marriot in my nicer suit and skirt and say "Hi. I saw your ad where you are looking for an English instructor." Then somebody could evaluate me right on the spot with the added bonus that they know I am in Phuket. The closest Marriot Bonvoy is easy walking distance from where we stay.
But in digital dystopia land I have to go through an online skills assessment which I will never pass, because my ideals have become too misaligned with corporate culture. I'm starting to think everything needs to be built from the ground up through not chain stores. I mean everything...
I had an extremely good track record with a company for 5+ years. I have not tried in 24 but in 2021 I couldn’t get past the fucking AI interview. According to people that I knew it was pointless to even try if you flunked their AI interview. I thought it should be pretty easy to say look at my numbers and my reviews over my 5 year span but it was futile.
That’s quite a name for a town “Phuket” 😂…been meaning to laugh.
I can’t remember, but did you guys finally break down and have Ka take the covid vax? Was telling my friend earlier today about how much trouble you guys are having. It’s insane.
Ka did not get the Covid jab or otherwise. All were refused on religious grounds. Yes that probably added trouble but the rest of your life is worth the peace of mind there...
Well the whole purpose of a resume and application is to get you to the talking part. I’m a premium LinkedIn (ugh I know but I need it). I can see how many applicants and sometimes it’s 350+. Most of the ones I’m applying for are well over 100 (Minimum).
There’s some other tricks tho which is why I need LinkedIn. I’m in sales tho so might be different. In my world it pays to be aggressive and follow up.
For more than a decade Hollywood has pushed the ludicrous idea that AI and robots would eventually become sentient and have "feelings", in other words that they would become more "human". The truth is that human beings will be required to become more like machines, like robots, and be forced to disconnect from their feelings and humanity...a very dark future indeed, and that's not even taking transhumanism and posthumanism into consideration.
And yet humanity is sleepwalking into this nightmare, because criticizing technology and "progress" is taboo, it is the equivalent of questioning religion in the Middle Ages, technology is the new religion and AI is the new god.
My neighbor is a psychologist, who never to believes anything I tell him.
For example, when we were discussing the safety of nuclear reactors, he told me that the Fukushima disaster in Japan in 2011 was caused by bad reactor design. However, only six people were killed by radiation leaks, but 20,000 people were killed by the 40 meter Tsunami wave coming ashore caused by an under ocean earthquake 40 miles away.
Yep. Fear porn. I read recently that post-analysis of Fukushima concluded the radiation leaks were not caused by bad design or even the earthquake itself but by service-access problems caused by the tsunami. Seems like "risky location" was the main issue.
I don't necessarily think 'he's new to this', insomuch that he's aware to the fact that it will make the most hardened of participants shit their pants when the blood and guts start fly'n.
Excellent report from the “How to fire before hire”. Tons of these fancy evaluations are developed by otherwise unemployable drones whose major skill is putting together irrelevant and stupid challenges for others. The fewer get through, the more “professional” the drone appears to be. Probably nobody is asking for detailed analyses of the results of these hurdles. These could tell those inanimate structures that, for example, the percentage of candidates for their jobs has been systematically below 1% over the last 10 years or so - which should have been interpreted properly as “stop wasting money here and relocate you business elsewhere” or “start doing something actually useful”. But, hey, we’ve got what we’ve got. Maybe it’s a higher plan to anchor those companies and their staff in wasted time as a means of preventing them from doing something really nasty to others.
Interesting. Do you have a link for it? Yes I could not help but think that these tests are based on very unhuman metrics. How have they become so popular in these corporate spaces?
That is my wild guess only. Nobody will dare to analyze these data in terms of their actual usefulness for the company :-)
I think that all those HR tricks are only a tip of the iceberg that I’d call the tyranny of IT people. Programmers rose from obscure parents’ garages to the effective dominance over every walk of life. They’ve managed to install in us the idea that mouse clicks are important for the quality of our life. Once they saw that playing keyboards is addictive, they simply spread out everywhere, neglecting and disregarding Life.
Their two successes have been destroying the world ever since. One is the tyranny of updates. Nobody is making any effort to produce a real working product any more. Prototypes are being sold to the public, with the “free lifetime upgrades” substitute of quality which we are expected to appreciate.
The other is the departure from real-life experience in developing products. Things are being “designed” on the screen, without any reference to the actual needs, dimensions, scale, performance or long-time feel of the product. Their sale figures are determined by equally unreal theoretical specialists from the marketing department. Shelf life has become more important than the life of the product itself. In some fields, this shelf life is below 6 months, because “Next Year Model” takes over, resulting in throwing away a lot of stuff that is perfectly well and working.
In short, we are multiplying useless entities (degrading our environment without any actual justification) in the push for $0.01 profit increase year-to-year. All courtesy of digital, non-existent, temporary, volatile indicators and their software creators.
Instead of… going out to the street and asking real people “What is it that you need?”
I found a better job after a former employer required all staff to make similar “How do I suck” choices. We were to choose one performance category we wanted to improve on. I figure there’s always room to be more efficient, so checked “Time Management.” A month or so later, the GM floated a work-from-home option, so I told my fat-head director I wanted in on that. But the fix was in. She said, “No. You already admitted you have a time-management problem.” Outrageous. What a nasty contrivance to accumulate against employees. Could be a growing trend in the business world.
Deep thinking memes tonight. I especially like the one with the cars on the freeway. I think it’s a great one to share. Sometimes we need a dose of humanity.
I’m searching for a job too. It sucks. When you don’t do it very much you just aren’t very good at it lol.
Great memes!!
I'm certainly missing the good old days when I could say walk right up to the front counter of the Marriot in my nicer suit and skirt and say "Hi. I saw your ad where you are looking for an English instructor." Then somebody could evaluate me right on the spot with the added bonus that they know I am in Phuket. The closest Marriot Bonvoy is easy walking distance from where we stay.
But in digital dystopia land I have to go through an online skills assessment which I will never pass, because my ideals have become too misaligned with corporate culture. I'm starting to think everything needs to be built from the ground up through not chain stores. I mean everything...
I had an extremely good track record with a company for 5+ years. I have not tried in 24 but in 2021 I couldn’t get past the fucking AI interview. According to people that I knew it was pointless to even try if you flunked their AI interview. I thought it should be pretty easy to say look at my numbers and my reviews over my 5 year span but it was futile.
That’s quite a name for a town “Phuket” 😂…been meaning to laugh.
I can’t remember, but did you guys finally break down and have Ka take the covid vax? Was telling my friend earlier today about how much trouble you guys are having. It’s insane.
Ka did not get the Covid jab or otherwise. All were refused on religious grounds. Yes that probably added trouble but the rest of your life is worth the peace of mind there...
Yeah no kidding, saw this today. It’s amazing scary stuff.
https://open.substack.com/pub/alexberenson/p/why-do-so-many-people-have-ultra?r=nvvvu&utm_medium=ios
Merry Christmas 🎄 it always feel odd to be called Sir lol ….. good Luck 🍀 fortunes. Looking for a job
I’d rather go get my wisdom teeth pulled out.
Prayers work and Holy Spirit is eager to bless us all.
Even when you’ve done a lot of job searching it’s demeaning and extremely frustrating annoying and
Etc… test … the whole applying for a job is humiliating. Used to be you actually would talk to someone in person like an interview.
The meme Newsome CA one: we did not hang them
And guess what they’re back again. 3 cases in the U.S and State of Emergency 🆘
Cruel joke, the last one started out the same. First ya think it’s a joke, it’s gay it’s ludicrous and last time they rammed pandemic through.
Well we see how much we’ve all learned.
Education has failed us, the so called smart ones play the go hard on compliance and maybe they won’t go hard on me.
Happy Solstice! ☀️
Well the whole purpose of a resume and application is to get you to the talking part. I’m a premium LinkedIn (ugh I know but I need it). I can see how many applicants and sometimes it’s 350+. Most of the ones I’m applying for are well over 100 (Minimum).
There’s some other tricks tho which is why I need LinkedIn. I’m in sales tho so might be different. In my world it pays to be aggressive and follow up.
I get it I was in sales marketing most of my life.
I hated the looking part.
Thankfully I’m happy ending my career with a transportation driving gig.
I wish you luck!! Betting on economy improving
Soon.
Thinking we all feel a bit in a waiting for catastrophe to hit before Jan 20 th.
Thanks and Merry Christmas sir!
For more than a decade Hollywood has pushed the ludicrous idea that AI and robots would eventually become sentient and have "feelings", in other words that they would become more "human". The truth is that human beings will be required to become more like machines, like robots, and be forced to disconnect from their feelings and humanity...a very dark future indeed, and that's not even taking transhumanism and posthumanism into consideration.
And yet humanity is sleepwalking into this nightmare, because criticizing technology and "progress" is taboo, it is the equivalent of questioning religion in the Middle Ages, technology is the new religion and AI is the new god.
This is a spot on comment, Raphael. The AI is not becoming more human, rather our compliance rituals with the AI is turning us all more robotic...
Very well put...compliance rituals!
Regarding wearing the bullet proof vest like a diaper.....caption: He's new to this.
Hey - maybe he just doesn't want to live if his junk gets shot up!
LOL!
Ha! Like, "I'd rather die than get shot below the belt."
When you just can't be bothered to put in the effort...
LOL! Great memes!
Ditto
Stands to pee _and lifts the lid_ Two assumptions there
My neighbor is a psychologist, who never to believes anything I tell him.
For example, when we were discussing the safety of nuclear reactors, he told me that the Fukushima disaster in Japan in 2011 was caused by bad reactor design. However, only six people were killed by radiation leaks, but 20,000 people were killed by the 40 meter Tsunami wave coming ashore caused by an under ocean earthquake 40 miles away.
Yep. Fear porn. I read recently that post-analysis of Fukushima concluded the radiation leaks were not caused by bad design or even the earthquake itself but by service-access problems caused by the tsunami. Seems like "risky location" was the main issue.
I don't necessarily think 'he's new to this', insomuch that he's aware to the fact that it will make the most hardened of participants shit their pants when the blood and guts start fly'n.
LOL! That is a great caption for that one!
Or to protect his family jewels maybe he values them more than his heart? Or he’s missing his depends.
Excellent report from the “How to fire before hire”. Tons of these fancy evaluations are developed by otherwise unemployable drones whose major skill is putting together irrelevant and stupid challenges for others. The fewer get through, the more “professional” the drone appears to be. Probably nobody is asking for detailed analyses of the results of these hurdles. These could tell those inanimate structures that, for example, the percentage of candidates for their jobs has been systematically below 1% over the last 10 years or so - which should have been interpreted properly as “stop wasting money here and relocate you business elsewhere” or “start doing something actually useful”. But, hey, we’ve got what we’ve got. Maybe it’s a higher plan to anchor those companies and their staff in wasted time as a means of preventing them from doing something really nasty to others.
Interesting. Do you have a link for it? Yes I could not help but think that these tests are based on very unhuman metrics. How have they become so popular in these corporate spaces?
That is my wild guess only. Nobody will dare to analyze these data in terms of their actual usefulness for the company :-)
I think that all those HR tricks are only a tip of the iceberg that I’d call the tyranny of IT people. Programmers rose from obscure parents’ garages to the effective dominance over every walk of life. They’ve managed to install in us the idea that mouse clicks are important for the quality of our life. Once they saw that playing keyboards is addictive, they simply spread out everywhere, neglecting and disregarding Life.
Their two successes have been destroying the world ever since. One is the tyranny of updates. Nobody is making any effort to produce a real working product any more. Prototypes are being sold to the public, with the “free lifetime upgrades” substitute of quality which we are expected to appreciate.
The other is the departure from real-life experience in developing products. Things are being “designed” on the screen, without any reference to the actual needs, dimensions, scale, performance or long-time feel of the product. Their sale figures are determined by equally unreal theoretical specialists from the marketing department. Shelf life has become more important than the life of the product itself. In some fields, this shelf life is below 6 months, because “Next Year Model” takes over, resulting in throwing away a lot of stuff that is perfectly well and working.
In short, we are multiplying useless entities (degrading our environment without any actual justification) in the push for $0.01 profit increase year-to-year. All courtesy of digital, non-existent, temporary, volatile indicators and their software creators.
Instead of… going out to the street and asking real people “What is it that you need?”
Hi there again, long time no see Amy. Best wishes from mothman777.
Hello and best wishes as well!
I found a better job after a former employer required all staff to make similar “How do I suck” choices. We were to choose one performance category we wanted to improve on. I figure there’s always room to be more efficient, so checked “Time Management.” A month or so later, the GM floated a work-from-home option, so I told my fat-head director I wanted in on that. But the fix was in. She said, “No. You already admitted you have a time-management problem.” Outrageous. What a nasty contrivance to accumulate against employees. Could be a growing trend in the business world.