YouTube roundup: How to talk like a pirate, The FanBoiz – Smoke The Wii.
Scott Adam’s is my new hero. I only recently started reading his blog more than casually, and it’s gold post after gold post. Pearlers like these: Oops, The Ultimate Test and many many more, just read it. Thumbs up.
The world is out to get me. Late last year I applied for an internal vacancy, for a firewall engineer position. I had nothing but positive feedback from everyone involved, including the manager of that position and my current manager, surely that was great. Later I heard the external applicants that got interviews were all majorly lacking in one or more areas. Sure I had no formal training for this role (well beyond that useless CS degree I have) and only 10 years of linux experience, but that didn’t appear to matter as even the previous person in that role said I’d be more than capable of it. Sounds rosy doesn’t it. Well, I heard nothing for 2 months (over a month past the expected start date of the position) and then overheard that they were restructuring that role from being a specialist to a generalist role, which I thought was great for me, but now I realise that was the death nail for any chances I had. What I now think happened, is they realised they had either too few applicants or no qualified applicants, and didn’t want me to get the job by default (if they think I’m capable of it). So what happened is it became a global wan engineer position. I got told this was happening and to expect the vacancy posting to go up within the next 2 days. Ultimately it didn’t show up for 2 weeks, and when I found it, was 1 day before it closed. I’m now thinking they didn’t want me to get the job, so they changed the requirements so I wouldn’t appear as favourable as before. As I have no qualifications or experience in this area it’s easier to dismiss me as being unsuitable. The illusion of career building is complete. This company is dead and I’m leaving the sinking ship before it’s too late, the writings on the wall, and has been for years now, but I really need to go now before I totally lose my mind.
Beware the winged pig!
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