Dannihilator

Good luck.

truckstop

so columbus cancelled all school today because of the storm. so far there's been half an inch of rain, which has switched to snow that is not accumulating.

i find this hilarious.

milwaukee doesn't cancel school unless there's at least a foot of snow on the ground. what's the fun of a snow day if there isn't even any snow?

RUOkie

@truckstop

Ramona_W

Just because you feel you were awful doesn't mean *they* felt you were awful. (Was this your first interview via skype? I was once promised (threatened with?) a skype interview but it didn't happen and I've still only ever skyped with somebody in the same room.) It's really difficult to tell sometimes. I had an interview at the end of which the interviewer and I seemed on our way to becoming BFFs and she wanted to adopt me if she couldn't hire me. She did neither but did sound like she was going to cry when she told me on the phone I didn't get the job.

Have the jobs you've been applying for required "applicant questionnaires" AKA personality/psychology tests? Some of those questions... "My parents are/would be proud of what I've accomplished in my life." Not especially and how is this relevant? "The traditional values of my childhood are very important to me." I'm immediately offended by this for reasons I don't fully understand because I'm not sure what those values are to which they're referring. And, again, how is this relevant? At one point, I was doing three or four of these a day for various positions and started to take a perverse pleasure in seeing just how bizarre and/or intrusive the questions might get. If Target doesn't decide to keep me on, I'll have to start this process all over again and I'm wondering if I should have already begun it just in case.

Good luck on Monday!

mvnsnd

Definitely! Interviewing is rough, especially with more than one interviewer. Doesn't mean it was all that bad though. Just put it out of your mind and focus on the next one. Good luck!

rjones28 

Those are the best runs.

rjones28 

Good luck.

RUOkie

huge fun

all my neighbors thought I was insane

Dannihilator

I did experience something weird today every motorist gave me at least 3' of room. Normally it's 2 feet.

RollCNY

15 years ago I used the snow blower to build a gigantic snow fort pile in my back yard. All of my neighbors sat on their porches drinking beer, laughing at me. That was the finest neighborhood I have ever lived in.

RollCNY

@rjones28, 10% off full groups / groupsets/ gruppos (cringe) and everything else at Ribble. Buy and hoard. Buy and hoard.

LAJ

No good, truckstop. I have high hopes things will turn around shortly.

Interviewing in front of a panel is one of the weirder things I have done. Generally, if a tech has has 30-40K in tools, and a drivers license, the hiring process consists of holding a mirror up to their face, and looking for the fogging.

LAJ

That's why buying a November, IN November, was so good. Shopping BF deals, and after holiday deals, turned that thing into a true budget build.

LAJ

One of the best pictures ever.

rjones28 

No spending money on myself until after Christmas.

rjones28 

Coffee doesn't count.

truckstop

thanks all. i think it was particularly devastating because people have been asking me all week what i'm going to do next and i have to tell them i'm still figuring it out.

i'm wondering if it would have been easier to just ask my boss fire me. i'm sure i'd have regretted that in the long run.

LowCel 

Well here is what I pretty much traded my Zipp 303's and some zipp tt bars for. Sold the Zipp goodies then used the money to buy myself a track bike.

LowCel 

Oh and for the record, having the flu absolutely sucks!

truckstop

i've done a lot of video conferences, but this was my first virtual interview. it was unnerving knowing i was a giant blurry face up on a screen in a conference room. fortunately they were all in a tiny blurry window on my laptop screen so i couldn't see their disgust. we also had to modify my lesson demo (interview was for a teaching position) to be all on paper since the connection was too slow to do a screen share and live demo. i would have done better with weird psychological questions, but these were just long and very specific. there wasn't a flow to the conversation, they were just canned questions they're required to ask of every applicant, despite the backgrounds being different.

i expected it to be a little harder than fogging a mirror, but i was really thrown off from the start and never recovered.

truckstop

sweeeeet! i had the newer generation 600RR but that was one of my favorite track bikes. honda makes very linear power unlike the kawi or R6 which makes it much, much easier to ride.

LowCel 

I want to try the track but I want to do it on a budget. I don't have the nerve to risk crashing my 2013 636 there. I was really looking at a zx6r and an r6 but they were both well over 8 hours away. This bike was only 4 1/2 hours away and I was able to get it for $2,100. The Ohlins rear shock, front internals, and damper are worth that much.

Only things I plan on doing to it are a new windscreen, rearsets, and throw some plastidip on it.

truckstop

Good plan.

RollCNY

#unAmerican

RollCNY

Stop wondering. The fact that your current employer retained you, and supports your job search, shows prospective employers that you are not a waste of skin. This is a compliment to your contribution and professionalism. Worthless people see the door as quickly as possible. Future employers recognize this. Stay the course. Buck up little camper. Damn the torpedoes. Full speed ahead (not their cranks though, cause they blow monkey chunks per the 41).