Originally Posted by Roody

Yeah, but then you'd have to go through that whole interview process again, and decide if yourself is the best qualified.

Originally Posted by I-Like-To-Bike

Third time, then I will quit asking.
What "ethical"job have you found that meets your personal integrity requirements?
A response that it no one's business but your own is alright. But you seem to repeatedly post that you can't find a suitable interviewer, let alone a suitable job.

Originally Posted by I-Like-To-Bike

I'm sure I have seen some movies where that situation is played for laughs. Someone insults or slights someone else whom they never expect to see again, and guess who turns up as the new boss, or prospective in-law. Can't think of the specific movie titles.

Originally Posted by Smallwheels

Just where did you read that I can't find a suitable interviewer? Your inability to grasp the obvious is showing us all where you would be on the scale of emotions.

You don't deserve to view my résumé. Right now I drive a school bus. How about you? Who have you murdered lately?

Originally Posted by I-Like-To-Bike

Any particular reason for changing jobs so often? Did your transportation assets have anything to do with it?

Originally Posted by Roody

Lol isn't that supposed to be the whole purpose of a job interview? But you're right of course. There is no way for the interviewer to let to know the applicant in an interview. That's why there's an entire industry of seminars and self-help books to teach people how to lie and B.S. their way through the interview.

Originally Posted by 350htrr

Construction, job finishes, need to get another one... As for the transportation I pretty well HAD to have a car as the jobs were in different areas all over the country even... I wonder if I ever would have tried to get any of these jobs telling the interviewer that all I had was my bicycle for personal transportation, how many of them I would have actually got?

Originally Posted by wolfchild

What I meant was that a short interview is not enough time to really get to know your potential boss and what type of a person he/she is ( ie. unless you're a psychic and know how to read other people). How could a job applicant hate their potential boss when they haven't even worked for them yet ??...Also it's not a very good idea to tell lies and BS your through an interview, beacuse it can come back and bite you in your ass later on... I've never needed any self-help self improvement books to land me a job..So all those self help books and other self empowerment stuff out there is just BS.

Originally Posted by Roody

I guess the irony goes right over your head. You say that you can't get to know another person in a short interview, but the whole point of the interview is for the boss to get to know you! So you're contradicting yourself.

Originally Posted by Roody

And now I'm learning from several of the posts here that the interviewer might even come back in the distant future, when you're working at a different job, and make your entire life a living hell!

Originally Posted by I-Like-To-Bike

Makes sense. Or how many of the jobs you would have gotten arguing with the interviewers over any subject, no matter how right you may have been.

Originally Posted by Roody

i know we're brainwashed throughout school and college that a job interview is a sacred rite like the Mass, and you have to do everything just right, with proper reverence, or God (the interviewer) will hate you and send you to Purgatory. And now I'm learning from several of the posts here that the interviewer might even come back in the distant future, when you're working at a different job, and make your entire life a living hell!

Originally Posted by Newspaperguy

Consider a job interview as you would consider a first date. If your date makes a bad impression then, chances are good you wouldn't even consider a second date. The same is true if your date is disappointed with your behaviour at that point. Later, as the two of you become more familiar with each other, the mood relaxes somewhat.

The same should be true at a job interview. You and the potential employer are both working to determine whether things should go any further.

Originally Posted by Newspaperguy

Consider a job interview as you would consider a first date. If your date makes a bad impression then, chances are good you wouldn't even consider a second date. The same is true if your date is disappointed with your behaviour at that point. Later, as the two of you become more familiar with each other, the mood relaxes somewhat.

The same should be true at a job interview. You and the potential employer are both working to determine whether things should go any further.

Originally Posted by I-Like-To-Bike

All very true. You wouldn't think that adults would need such advice.

Originally Posted by Newspaperguy

Sadly, I've seen or heard too many stories about bright, qualified people who blew their chances at a job by doing something dumb during the interview. And I've seen or heard more than a few stories about employers who were not able to get good workers because of the way they acted in the interview.

Originally Posted by I-Like-To-Bike

It a possibility that some people are pressured into taking job interviews by some authority such as parents, welfare office or parole officer, and the interviewee is not disappointed when rejected. Another possibility is the interviewee has no intention of getting a job but places some other agenda first (bicycling issues for example) that does not include/allow taking the interview seriously.

Originally Posted by wahoonc

Add unemployment to that list. In NC you have to "prove" that you are actively seeking a job to draw unemployment.

Aaron

Originally Posted by Artkansas

That's pretty standard. It's the same in California and Arkansas for sure, and probably in every other state.

Originally Posted by Jared.

That's the main reason? Really? It's not all lollipops and rainbows up there either.

In the US, my sister received ACL surgery in less that 6 weeks through workers comp insurance. In Ontario my mother-in-law had to wait for over a year and a half for knee replacement surgery.

My brother-in-law received shoulder surgery in the US within 3 weeks of an injury. Years previous he was told the wait time for an MRI for his shoulder was over six months (in Ontario).

My wife cannot currently find a doctor (in Toronto, Canada's largest city) because no one is taking new patients, and it took 3 visits to a clinic and one to an emergency room for a diagnosis for a condition that would have been diagnosed within one visit in the US.

I recently received my permanent residence in Canada, and I don't receive any provincial health care coverage for 90 days, even though I will be working well before then. In the US my wife was covered even when she had no status.

The list could go on. There are problems with each system. Everyone is always so quick to state how much better the Canadian health care system is, but it's not always only about cost.

Originally Posted by kmv2

In the US, would you be able to go to the doctor for preventative care and as many times a year as you want - for free?

Originally Posted by Roody

Yes, this is being phased in now. Before long, both private and public insurance will pay full cost for preventative care, including annual well person exams.

Originally Posted by kmv2

That's good.

And sorry to be rude to "Jared", I just honestly don't believe every one of his stories.