As someone looking for a job, I fucking hate this. It is so annoying to hear HR people commenting that you should make sure to put a lot of effort into the jobs you are applying to and write a new cover letter tailored to each job. Bullshit. Maybe if you were not getting 300-500 applicants for your posting for a mid level position, I might consider it. There is zero possibility they are looking at more than a dozen out of the 100 that are qualified.
This is, of course, industry dependent. My wife was able to land a fairly decent job in her industry despite not meeting every qualification because there are simply not a lot of people in it. I'm in tech in Seattle where I have to contend with HR getting flooded with applicants which means they start looking for unicorns that somehow have experience in the combination of the dozen systems the job uses along with a decade of experience in them. I also have to contend with job postings getting canceled after applying, once while I was on the phone with the fucking recruiter.
My advice if you are in the tech industry is to work with recruiters. Eventually you will find one who is not shitty at their jobs.
Are you in the Seattle area? Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Salesforce have all done pretty large layoffs in the area over the last year and a half. That has led to a ton more IT professionals in the area than there are openings so each opening has 100 applications at a minimum.
My previous job, I put in my resume for and while I did not get that position, they created one that also worked for me. My job before that, I had applied to a few jobs and the one I got I did not have all of the requirements but it was a fairly niche product so they did not expect to find anyone that checked all the boxes.
Currently basically just looking for a job that pays more than a nanny (>$35/hr which is significantly less than those two previous jobs). So if you have any suggestions in the Seattle area, I'm all ears.
I'm currently waiting to hear back on one that is being held up by HR unfortunately. I think they are essentially holding it open for a more diverse candidate which is understandable (the team is a bunch of white dudes) but kind of sucks.
Another one that annoyed me was a job I got rejected by that I saw get reposted. I actually emailed their HR along for some feedback and was surprised to get a response. They said the team was looking for someone with more enterprise level NOC experience. Guess what was not even mentioned in the job description?
One good thing that has happened in recent years though is that several states (including Washington lrequire postings to include the pay range so at the very least I can avoid an interview that would waste everyone's time.
Transgender activists have flooded a Utah tip line created to alert state officials to possible violations of a new bathroom law with thousands of hoax reports in an effort to shield trans residents and their allies from any legitimate complaints that could lead to an investigation. ...
Misinformation campaigns increasingly target the cavity-fighting mineral, prompting communities to reverse mandates. Dentists are enraged. Parents are caught in the middle....
More likely is that one of them will leave it in the bathroom after having removed it to take a shit. Happens a decent amount of times with school resource officers.
Mine ends in July. There are definitely some decent shows on Prime but I'm not going to spend an extra 25% to get the same shit and I'm not going to watch their ads. Products on Amazon are near worthless so there is not much value there.
Consumers have embraced 'Buy Now, Pay Later' products that allow them to pay for purchases in installments, but it's not clear how many of these loans are out there....
Swimming in lakes was not something I ever would have done when I lived in Louisiana as a kid. Pools are fairly common but gators make lakes pretty unattractive to swim in.
You worry about those too. I definitely recall when my mom thought my brothers were playing a prank on her and had put a fake snake in the house. Nope. It was a real water moccasin (cottonmouth). I did not go in bodies of water I could not see at least a few feet down in which meant I only went in pools.
Handled poorly. Nipped at or actually bit? Did that happen often? Did your uncle not train the dog? Was there nobody who could take the dog? Was there no vet who could ensure the dog was put down humanely?
Noem's dog did not bite anyone. She said it tried to bite her a couple times but made no mention that it bit anyone. Same with the billy goat. She said it chased some kids but never mentioned it biting anyone. That one is even worse because it took her two shots to kill it. In reality, she shared the stories to try to seem rough and hardened. I grew up with lots of ranchers and farmers. None of them would do that shit. I have seen a lot of idiots claim that animals on farms are tools and once they are no longer useful, they are gone. I can't say I have ever come across a rancher or farmer who actually takes that stance especially with a dog.
And she knew it was an aggressive dog because the people who gave it to her told her so. She is claiming that she put the dog down for the safety of her children but apparently that was not a concern when she knowingly got an aggressive dog.
The first sign of trouble bubbled up from gopher holes a stone’s throw from Stan Ledgerwood’s front door. The salt water left an oily sheen on the soil and a swath of dead grass in the yard....
Did she take too much Xanax before that interview? I only got a few minutes in but there was zero inflection in her voice even when they called her on her bullshit of claiming to have met Kim Jong Un.
Not sure how it is now but the chapters in the South of the one I was in 20 years ago were still pretty damn racist. They were surprised we let in black people. While they did not officially exclude them, they probably did not make it too welcoming.
The senator, who ran for the Republican nomination for president last year, repeatedly refused to say whether he'd accept this year's presidential election results, regardless of who wins....
A man with no backbone. His answer is clearly no but he does not want the repercussions of saying it. I'm certain he doesn't actually doubt the validity of the results either. He just knows his voters are gullible idiots.
This seems to be something people don't always give second thought to. When people talk about the homeless, the first things thought about are images of people on busy city streets in rusty clothes waiting around near allies. In there, the answer is quite static, because it can be I guess. But if that's the case, change the...
You don't know what you are talking about. There are absolutely homeless people in rural areas. While you might not see people begging on the street downtown, there are absolutely people living in their car, camping, or sleeping under a bridge.
I grew up in a very small rural town of 2500 nowhere near a city. There were absolutely homeless people. You seem to have a view of homeless people that only exists in the movies.
He is now denying the validity of dna tests. I don’t want to say the past 35 years of having him treat me worse than he treats his sister had anything to do with his assumptions of my dna, but he was upset to learn that I am more Irish than him. I wonder what he thought of my mother before these results…
Not surprising. My mother was told by her mother that one of her great grandmothers was full blooded native (no specific tribe) which would make me 1/16 native. DNA showed 0% and one my mother took showed 0% for her. She chalked it up to her mother being nuts but it is a fairly common American family myth.
In my case the story was definitely believable when I was younger. My grandmother and one of her sisters were orphaned and sent to a workhorse because my great grandparents could not afford them. I used to think my grandmother did not know her parents but using ancestry.com my mom connected with someone who she thought was simply a family friend growing up but turned out to be her cousin from her aunt who was not orphaned. Going through my ancestry, there is almost certainly nobody who is native. Grandma may have been a little nuts (one of the caregivers beat her do bad that she lost an eye so being a little nutty is fairly understandable).
Good point on few data points for native Americans. Many of them stay the fuck away from DNA testing nowadays so I don't see that changing anytime soon.
That's just evaporative cooling. People have been doing that for thousands of years. It's pretty damn effective at lowering the temperature a good amount in dry climates.
Babcock told police what he could see on his Ring camera made him think someone was breaking into his car, so he went outside and started shooting.
Turns out your life is not in danger of someone is breaking into your car and it is not legal to shoot at them. I'm guessing this dipshit considers himself a responsible gun owner.
Medicaid expansion efforts fizzled and died Thursday in Republican-led Mississippi because top lawmakers could not agree on a final proposal to send to the House and Senate....
He's a staunch free market Republican. Dude is seriously just throwing out dog whistle BS to conspiracy theorists. What is wrong with eating bugs? Does the little pansy give them icky?
You thankfully have not been exposed to enough conspiracy theorists. Many of them think the government is going to ban meat and force everyone to eat bugs instead because they are a more sustainable source of protein. It's a fucking weird conspiracy that makes no sense because would the government force you to eat bugs instead of just forcing people to become vegetarians?
Anyway, this was a clear call out to those whackos. Don't be surprised if you also see him push legislation against public transit and mention 15 minute prisons (aka walkable cities).
The company made a net loss of 629bn roubles (£5.5bn) in 2023 amid dwindling gas trade with Europe, once Gazprom’s main sales market, as a result of sanctions and the throttling of pipelines to the continent.
That was a good episode but it is also very outdated at this point since it is over 7 months old now. The reason nobody was buying it was indeed because the government had set a rate that was completely out of whack with its actual value and they implemented exchange controls to stem the outflow of foreign exchange reserves to put up the appearance of legitimacy. Milei removed the capital controls though and floated the currency. It was expected to free fall and it has. Milei is a far right nutjob but a pegged currency to encourage investment followed by exchange controls has never worked out for Argentina.
Probably not a good political move but he sure as hell is not wrong. Instead of allowing some immigration to help with their decreasing population, they chose robots.
It was pretty quiet here in Seattle. Went to a park with my kids and only saw a small housing protest. Considering the very decent affordable housing plan that the right wing city council just shot down, I'm surprised that protest was so quiet.
I never discovered Tom Scott until his announcement that he was taking a break which many other channels made videos on. Looking through them, as well as seeing the suggestions, I can kind of get the gist of the channel. Suggestions I haven't seen yet:
Climate Town - climate and environment related
Rebecca Watson - science and critical thinking
ContraPoints - philosophy related
Adam Conover - Currently more politically oriented but Adam Ruins Everything was more general
In the grand scheme of things, yes. Despite the number one cause of death for children being gunshots, school shootings only make up a very small amount of those. There are a fuckton of schools and the probability that your local school having a shooting is pretty damn small.
Don't get me wrong, there are way more than there should be and certainly more than damn near any other country per capita but that does not mean they are common. We should still work to prevent them though because what is needed to prevent them has many other benefits.
Absolutely. Active shooter drills are a focus on litigation instead of prevention. Prevention would mean stopping bullying and also providing proper mental health services. The anti bullying campaigns that have been popular over the last couple of decades are little more than for show. Many zero tolerance policies conflict with anti bullying and ends up punishing the one being bullied. Mental health issues are just pushed off onto the parents who often do not have the resources to help or are a major source for the issues in the first place. Combine those with easy access to guns and you have high rates of school shootings. Treating those causes will do a hell of a lot more and have benefits outside of simply avoiding shootings than jusy doing active shooter drills. Active shooter drills treat a symptom that is very unlikely to occur rather than treating the cause which cures a lot of symptoms in the end.
Catholic Group Defrocks AI Priest After It Gave Strange Answers ( futurism.com )
I used resume spammers to apply for 120 jobs. Chaos ensued. ( www.businessinsider.com )
This School for Autistic Youth Can Cost $573,200 a Year. It Operates With Little Oversight, and Students Have Suffered. ( www.propublica.org )
Transgender activists flood Utah tip line with hoax reports to block bathroom law enforcement ( apnews.com )
Transgender activists have flooded a Utah tip line created to alert state officials to possible violations of a new bathroom law with thousands of hoax reports in an effort to shield trans residents and their allies from any legitimate complaints that could lead to an investigation. ...
Panera says it's phasing out its controversial Charged Lemonade nationwide ( www.nbcnews.com )
Lawsuits have blamed the highly caffeinated drink for at least two deaths....
Medical freedom vs. public health: Should fluoride be in our drinking water? ( www.nbcnews.com )
Misinformation campaigns increasingly target the cavity-fighting mineral, prompting communities to reverse mandates. Dentists are enraged. Parents are caught in the middle....
World’s top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target ( www.theguardian.com )
Planet is headed for at least 2.5C of heating with disastrous results for humanity, poll of hundreds of scientists finds...
After calls for gun safety, Tennessee votes to arm teachers ( www.npr.org )
Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause ( arstechnica.com )
As if the Prime Video app couldn't get any worse.
Americans Are Racking Up 'Phantom Debt' That Wall Street Can't Track ( www.bloomberg.com )
Consumers have embraced 'Buy Now, Pay Later' products that allow them to pay for purchases in installments, but it's not clear how many of these loans are out there....
Lilium (LILM) receives firm order from UrbanLink to put 20 eVTOL jets into service in Florida ( electrek.co )
Colorado Senate Rejects Bill Barring Rent-Setting Algorithms ( www.pymnts.com )
A man tried to shoot a pastor during a church service but his gun wouldn't fire, state police say ( abcnews.go.com )
Alternate source:...
US man has brain damage, mother says, after allegedly being pushed into lake ( www.theguardian.com )
Yolanda George, mother of Christopher Gilbert, calls on police to make arrest after incident in Louisiana in April...
Kristi Noem defends killing dog: ‘I’m tired of politicians pretending to be what they’re not’ ( www.theguardian.com )
South Dakota governor and possible Trump running mate says she made ‘a choice between [my children] and a dangerous animal’...
Oil Companies Contaminated a Family Farm. The Courts and Regulators Let the Drillers Walk Away. ( www.propublica.org )
The first sign of trouble bubbled up from gopher holes a stone’s throw from Stan Ledgerwood’s front door. The salt water left an oily sheen on the soil and a swath of dead grass in the yard....
Kristi Noem Cries ‘Fake News’ After Disastrous Interview on CBS ( www.thedailybeast.com )
Fraternity Boots Bro Who Made Monkey Noises at Black Ole Miss Protester ( www.thedailybeast.com )
Jack Dorsey departs Bluesky board. ( techcrunch.com )
Sen. Tim Scott dodges on whether he would accept 2024 election results ( www.nbcnews.com )
The senator, who ran for the Republican nomination for president last year, repeatedly refused to say whether he'd accept this year's presidential election results, regardless of who wins....
What's a job you couldn't get paid enough to do?
A cool guide of what 1500 calories look like at the most famous fast food restaurants ( i.redd.it )
cross-posted from: https://lemmit.online/post/2838142...
Video of Chinese Manager Beating African Workers Sparks Racism Debate ( www.ndtv.com )
Automakers Want AM Radios Out of Cars. Congress Is About to Require Them ( www.wired.com )
Where do the rural homeless near you live?
This seems to be something people don't always give second thought to. When people talk about the homeless, the first things thought about are images of people on busy city streets in rusty clothes waiting around near allies. In there, the answer is quite static, because it can be I guess. But if that's the case, change the...
After years of being told I was part Cherokee, someone was mad that I wasn't. ( lemmy.world )
He is now denying the validity of dna tests. I don’t want to say the past 35 years of having him treat me worse than he treats his sister had anything to do with his assumptions of my dna, but he was upset to learn that I am more Irish than him. I wonder what he thought of my mother before these results…
Arizona is boosting efforts to protect people from the extreme heat after hundreds died last summer ( apnews.com )
Teen pizza delivery driver shot at multiple times after parking in the wrong driveway ( www.nbcnews.com )
Interview with the victim....
Medicaid expansion effort collapses in Republican-led Mississippi Legislature ( apnews.com )
Medicaid expansion efforts fizzled and died Thursday in Republican-led Mississippi because top lawmakers could not agree on a final proposal to send to the House and Senate....
Ron DeSantis bans 'global elite' lab-grown meat ( www.bbc.com )
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has banned lab-grown meat, saying he will "save our beef" from the "global elite" and its "authoritarian plans"....
Arizona governor signs into law measure to repeal 1864 abortion ban ( www.theguardian.com )
State supreme court had ruled that the near-total abortion ban could be enforced, unleashing unprecedented outrage...
Ex-Bothell council member arrested for investigation of killing woman ( www.bothell-reporter.com )
Gazprom slumps to first annual loss in 22 years as trade with Europe hit ( www.theguardian.com )
The company made a net loss of 629bn roubles (£5.5bn) in 2023 amid dwindling gas trade with Europe, once Gazprom’s main sales market, as a result of sanctions and the throttling of pipelines to the continent.
Javier Milei Fuels Wild Rally That Makes Peso No. 1 in World ( www.bloomberg.com )
Italy can reclaim 2,000-year-old Greek statue from Getty Museum, ECHR rules ( www.theguardian.com )
Biden calls U.S. ally Japan 'xenophobic,' along with China and Russia ( www.nbcnews.com )
15 Portland police cars badly burned Thursday morning; arson suspected ( www.oregonlive.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14943650
What are your go-to YouTube channels to fulfill your Tom Scott itch now days?
Wisconsin school district says active shooter 'neutralized' outside middle school, lockdown ordered ( apnews.com )