I have recently been sitting in on interviews at work. I rarely have to do this and I am very glad. It's not that I mind interviews, nor do I mind sitting in on them. However, there are a few things that can make me turn off to whatever else you have to say in an interview and start singing show tunes to myself in my head...
When I ask you to describe yourself to me I don't want to hear that you are organized as that is something that you can't prove to me. I have never opened your junk drawer nor seen how your closet is arranged so when you tell me you are organized to a fault I am either going to hear "I am obsessive compulsive" or "I am lying". Also, don't ever tell me how organized you are while fishing through a purse the size of a number three washtub for your drivers license when I tell you I need to make a copy of it.
Not to offend anyone's sense of religion, but when I ask you what your greatest achievement is the answer is not your love of the Lord and his ability to pull you through. I have no doubt of your love or your belief in a higher conviction but that answer is not going to tell me anything about how you are going to perform as an employee.
Gum chewing is no no and one that is going to irritate me to distraction.
When I ask you what your greatest weakness is your answer, under no circumstance, is "I don't think I have one." Here is hint, if you tell me you don't have a weakness, I automatically assume that you have two weaknesses. You are arrogant and you are conceited. The flip side of this is that I also don't want to hear "I tend to procrastinate (I am not going to procrastinate in not hiring you) not do I want to hear something like "I tend to fall in love to easily" If your answer sounds like it came from a fortune cookie I am not interested.
Most when asked to describe yourself there is no such thing as a "people person". If I had a nickle every time I heard, "I love people!" or "I am a people person" I wouldn't be interviewing you because I wouldn't have to work. The very fact that you are alive makes you a people person because you are a person who is part of the people. The funny thing about the phrase "people person" is that, whenever I ask someone to tell me what that means they say "I am good with people. Okay.
Interviews were meant to highlight your strengths and be honest about your weaknesses. You aren't accepting an Academy Award for best actor in a mini-series so I expect you to be yourself. You know, a highly organized, gum chewing, God fearing people person...
Made a wrong turn once or twice...Welcome to my silly life
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Hmmmmmm
I have prided myself on being a relatively smart man. I did well in school, I am a relatively good conversationalist and even though I am opinionated I do have an open mind. I have posted before though that there are some things in the world that I just don't understand:
1. Politics in general - I have never quite understood them so I don't discuss them., much the same way that I don't really talk about religion. I'm Catholic, and honestly it doesn't bother me that you're not.
2. El Nino or LaNina: I don't know who these Latino siblings are or where they came from but their power to control my weather from wherever their homeland is amazes me.
3. Kony2012 I am sure this is political, hence my complete and utter confusion on it.
4. The inner workings of a microwave over. The fact that after my house burned there were still uncooked potatoes in it, yet putting them in a metal box for four minutes and they are BLOWS MY MIND. I don't know why we aren't currently all glowing in the dark. I just don't trust something that gets that hot that quickly with no visible means of fire.
5. Fax machines. There is no way to even attempt to explain this to me because I am never going to get it.
6. The Olsen Twins. If I am being honest, I am not sure if I don't understand them or if my blinding hate of them is what is keeping me from embracing both their fashion and action brilliance
7. Polyester. I don't even think I need to expound on this.
That aside, I'd like to revisit number one on this list because I think that in today's world people hide behind politics and religion in order to hammer a point home and usually it is a point that they do not have any understanding on. I have found, as have most people, that if you are against interracial marriage you probably are not in one. If you are against gay marriage, my bet is that you are straight and if you fell that a same sex couple shouldn't adopt or raise a child together then you probably had heterosexual parents.
See, here is how I think the world should work, and it may be simple but it works for me - If you are against interracial marriage, marry within your own race. If you are against gay marriage, I would strongly you not marry a gay person. If you don't want your child raised by a same sex couple then refer to not marrying someone of your own sex.
As I see it none of these problems are about politics or religion. They are issues of love an commitment. Which are things that we are all entitled to...and no higher being, whether it be political or spiritual should care about that!
1. Politics in general - I have never quite understood them so I don't discuss them., much the same way that I don't really talk about religion. I'm Catholic, and honestly it doesn't bother me that you're not.
2. El Nino or LaNina: I don't know who these Latino siblings are or where they came from but their power to control my weather from wherever their homeland is amazes me.
3. Kony2012 I am sure this is political, hence my complete and utter confusion on it.
4. The inner workings of a microwave over. The fact that after my house burned there were still uncooked potatoes in it, yet putting them in a metal box for four minutes and they are BLOWS MY MIND. I don't know why we aren't currently all glowing in the dark. I just don't trust something that gets that hot that quickly with no visible means of fire.
5. Fax machines. There is no way to even attempt to explain this to me because I am never going to get it.
6. The Olsen Twins. If I am being honest, I am not sure if I don't understand them or if my blinding hate of them is what is keeping me from embracing both their fashion and action brilliance
7. Polyester. I don't even think I need to expound on this.
That aside, I'd like to revisit number one on this list because I think that in today's world people hide behind politics and religion in order to hammer a point home and usually it is a point that they do not have any understanding on. I have found, as have most people, that if you are against interracial marriage you probably are not in one. If you are against gay marriage, my bet is that you are straight and if you fell that a same sex couple shouldn't adopt or raise a child together then you probably had heterosexual parents.
See, here is how I think the world should work, and it may be simple but it works for me - If you are against interracial marriage, marry within your own race. If you are against gay marriage, I would strongly you not marry a gay person. If you don't want your child raised by a same sex couple then refer to not marrying someone of your own sex.
As I see it none of these problems are about politics or religion. They are issues of love an commitment. Which are things that we are all entitled to...and no higher being, whether it be political or spiritual should care about that!
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Apparently Eight Isn't Enough....
It is no secret that I have a disdain for a lot of reality television and don't quite understand the appeal of it. No, I am not speaking of the Kartrashians...it is pretty clear that their meteoric rise to super star status both bewilders and pisses me off at the same time. No, the things I don't understand are far more simple. They include:
1. How the real housewives are called housewives when most of them are divorced. To be a wife you either need a husband or another wife.
2. Theresa Caputo on "Long Island Medium" can not talk to the dead. Period. End of discussion
3. On "Say Yes to the Dress" if you are not marrying me I don't give a damn what your dress looks like. Who am I kidding? If you are marrying me you wont be wearing a dress.
4. As I have mentioned before, if you are on "Extreme Couponers" and you are buying things like cat food and diapers when you don't have a cat or a baby you need help I can't give you.
5. The Duggars
While these things and others I have not mentioned do not generally cause me the same amount of heartburn as my sisters Kourtnee, Kim and Khloe do, there is someone out there who does. She has yet to have her own "reality" series but she has been making the rounds ever since she did what can only be described as the most ridiculous thing in the world. My disdain for her runs far deeper then it does for the Kartrashians.
She is Octomom.
There really are no words in any language that I think are quite strong enough for her but the first one that pops in my head is "stupid." I remember thinking when she first popped out that she was going to have her hands full with eight bundles of joy then I heard that she already had six waiting for her when she got out of the hospital and that she had not conceived ANY of them naturally. She was in financial straits before she got pregnant with her octuplets. Now, I have never been a mother but a lot of my friends are and I think that any mother worth her salt will tell you there is nothing more precious then the time they spend with their children. This time is cut dramatically short though when you have fourteen of them with eight being exactly the same age. Now I have a brother who is seven and half years younger then me and together we ran our poor mother to death. If she would have had TWELVE others between us I am certain that she probably would have started giving some of us away because there was no way she could have ever kept up with us,much less fed us.
Which brings me to my next set of issues with her. According to news reports she is living in squalor, her kids are wearing clothes belonging to the opposite sex, she is about to lose her house, she has filed for bankruptcy and she is about to resort to doing porn. WHAT. THE. HELL. I understand people fall on hard times and I understand that you do whatever you need to do to take care of them. However, had you not been so foolish as to bring these helpless children into the world with no other help you would not be in this situation...not to mention that I can't think of anyone on the planet that wants to see this beast do any kind of porn.
So, Ocotmom, this is what I want to happen. I want you to open your eyes, realize you can not care for these children and let them be put with people who will love and support them. Do not keep crawling your skanky ass on "Entertainment Tonight" trying to get a reality television deal because apparently the only show you are qualified to be on is HOARDERS.
1. How the real housewives are called housewives when most of them are divorced. To be a wife you either need a husband or another wife.
2. Theresa Caputo on "Long Island Medium" can not talk to the dead. Period. End of discussion
3. On "Say Yes to the Dress" if you are not marrying me I don't give a damn what your dress looks like. Who am I kidding? If you are marrying me you wont be wearing a dress.
4. As I have mentioned before, if you are on "Extreme Couponers" and you are buying things like cat food and diapers when you don't have a cat or a baby you need help I can't give you.
5. The Duggars
While these things and others I have not mentioned do not generally cause me the same amount of heartburn as my sisters Kourtnee, Kim and Khloe do, there is someone out there who does. She has yet to have her own "reality" series but she has been making the rounds ever since she did what can only be described as the most ridiculous thing in the world. My disdain for her runs far deeper then it does for the Kartrashians.
She is Octomom.
There really are no words in any language that I think are quite strong enough for her but the first one that pops in my head is "stupid." I remember thinking when she first popped out that she was going to have her hands full with eight bundles of joy then I heard that she already had six waiting for her when she got out of the hospital and that she had not conceived ANY of them naturally. She was in financial straits before she got pregnant with her octuplets. Now, I have never been a mother but a lot of my friends are and I think that any mother worth her salt will tell you there is nothing more precious then the time they spend with their children. This time is cut dramatically short though when you have fourteen of them with eight being exactly the same age. Now I have a brother who is seven and half years younger then me and together we ran our poor mother to death. If she would have had TWELVE others between us I am certain that she probably would have started giving some of us away because there was no way she could have ever kept up with us,much less fed us.
Which brings me to my next set of issues with her. According to news reports she is living in squalor, her kids are wearing clothes belonging to the opposite sex, she is about to lose her house, she has filed for bankruptcy and she is about to resort to doing porn. WHAT. THE. HELL. I understand people fall on hard times and I understand that you do whatever you need to do to take care of them. However, had you not been so foolish as to bring these helpless children into the world with no other help you would not be in this situation...not to mention that I can't think of anyone on the planet that wants to see this beast do any kind of porn.
So, Ocotmom, this is what I want to happen. I want you to open your eyes, realize you can not care for these children and let them be put with people who will love and support them. Do not keep crawling your skanky ass on "Entertainment Tonight" trying to get a reality television deal because apparently the only show you are qualified to be on is HOARDERS.
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