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God, don't you HATE seeing the people that are supposed to replace you?
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If you didn't want the job, why did you keep saying you were OK with the slow pace?
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My certainty level about WTF pieces being made up goes up all the time.
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I have been here for two years now - best job I ever had - really nice company.
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Heh, I took it to be a NetHack reference.
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Inclined to agree. Getting 1 or maybe 2 oddballs in a batch of 8 candidates is to be expected, getting 4 total nutjobs in a batch of 4 candidates is stretching it slightly past believable for me. And yes, I do interview for IT positions and have for about 6 years.
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You shouldn't talk about Hillary Clinton like that.
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Me:No I have not done xxx before and that was not in the job description
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May I also recommend www.computerworld.com -> Shark Tank. Although the literacy level is not at all commensurate with that of the postings here.
(Captcha: transverbero, how delightfully apropos!)
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Seems pretty unlikely, since the Mr. T guy stated he wanted the job for the health benefits. I'm not terribly familiar with the British system, but my understanding is that everybody has access to the NHS, and further health benefits don't generally come with employment.
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I'm a dumbass who hit reply instead of quote. The above post is in reference to somebody asking if this was a British organization.
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Which is why he said Britain, as it doesn't have sensible healthcare. (I'll gladly use my own money if I don't have to wait a year for needed surgery.)
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Yeah it's the answer you have to give to that question, otherwise it's unprofessional.
It makes it seem a bit of a pointless question though. I suppose some people may answer with "well I used to shout all the time, never did any work and was completely useless. So they fired me"
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The anti-static straps have single-failure-tolerant series bleed resistors. Or should have them, at least. Attaching yourself even to a 240V live wire via a proper (means: not a knock-off) static grounding strap is not supposed to hurt you. Imagine what: someone did actually think of that </sarcasm>
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It only uses the earth pin, the other 2 pins are plastic. At least I hope so.
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Touching a live wire while wearing such a bracelet is just as harmless as having it live. It's designed to be safe under such circumstances, dammit. Why do you talk about stuff you have no clue about?
Disclaimer: if you try it and get killed, don't blame me. Blame not testing your bracelet properly.
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If you're only spending 15 minutes doing it, you're missing out on "the experience"
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And, in fact, there are: glucose tabs. Think of a Lik'm'aid stick, but round.
Of course, those are a temporary measure--if you're experiencing a sugar crash, you should take one, and then use the time it buys you (maybe up to an hour or so) to get something more filling, with protein and/or complex carbs.
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What's wrong with Tolkein?
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The "Lord of the Rings" was good, the "Silmarillion" dragged a bit at times.
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You're just dumb. It wasn't static electricity that hurt you. Static dissipative straps can be worn essentially on any extremity. They become a trip hazard when you wear them on your legs (duh, dude), but apart from that they work just fine.
As for your predicament -- your tablet PC itself was not a generator of static electricity. Most likely the backlight inverter was somehow shorting to the case somewhere, somehow. Or the mains power supply had bad leakage.
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were you expecting "flames" ?
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Were you expecting "flames" ?
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That's odd... because I have a central heating system, my home does not require a radiator.>?
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Somehow, based on my own experience, the other side of this interview process probably resulted in a few highly talented experts in the field scratching their heads at their rejection letters and wondering why they weren't selected for the interview.
After all, so many hirers these days pre-filter out the most qualified applicants for all kinds of reasons: too old (over 30); too experienced (past IT experience not exclusively playing computer games); might show current processes up to be inadequate (almost any employer); knows more than the manager (almost any employer); older and more experienced than the manager, etc.
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To be fair, though, any good grounding bracelet will have at least a 1M resistor in-line to minimise the risk of shock.
In the UK you must not rely on water and heating pipes being grounded as they are often made of plastic, or in older buildings the soil ground stake can be in dried-out ground.
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That's a sizable assumption. If she were diabetic, I imagine she would say "I'm diabetic." I've met plenty of people who use "I have low blood sugar" as code for "I experience the same diurnal rhythms as everyone else, but I feel the need to blame something."
These people are usually pains in my ass, and they make me feel bad for my two diabetic co-workers who have to listen to their bellyaching.
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This isn't a WTF. If it's true, it's pitiful and heartbreaking
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Cool, could anybody name this movie? I really wanna watch it!
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That's true... I hear that all the time: "I have low blood sugar" when really, they are just hungry and want everyone to feel sympathy for them.
Real diabetics must hate that.
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Would our local tax dollars would be better spent in cases like this if they were spent on fewer, more skilled workers? Raises for everyone in government!
But then, those people wouldn't be out in business, working on growing the tax base, so perhaps it's better the way the article describes it.
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Hehehe... in spanglish that means, "You use it." hehehe... "strap on." </beavis>
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Worse yet, they actually put two of them in series, usually. You know, if one shorted out. They are so wasteful these days </sarcasm>
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Is it just me, or did the story sound vaguely familiar? Almost as if I had just read it before coming in to the forums. I wonder where, oh where, could I have JUST read a similar story, but from a slightly different perspective?
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Tuna? Consider yourself lucky.
I WISH this one woman ate tuna at our meeting instead of her roast beef sandwich. That thing stunk up a large conference room to high hell.
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The diabetes issue is part of the lawsuit against Google by their former director of operation, Brian Reid.
He has type II diabetes, and needs to eat at regular intervals. This was a problem when there were long meetings.
He was fired 9 days before the IPO, losing out on options worth 10M.
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Yes. Especially if they criticize your work... loudly... and talk to other people, including the VP of Operations, about "how retarded is this?" which is your work ... Loudly... Then when they ask you what a "GROUP BY" in SQL does, and it takes an hour and a half and many, many examples before they understand it.
Sigh I wish I was making that up.
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I had an extremely overconfident friend ask me if they should wear shoes or sandals to their interview. I said that they should wear "interview" clothes and dress shoes.
Its one thing to look "nice" wearing business casual / trendy clothes. Its another thing to show up to your first interview with dress pants, a t-shirt, socks and sandals.
So I dont doubt anything from the article.
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So, for people who can't do the math, that's 500uA (0.5mA) flowing between live, the resistor, through your body, and the ground, under single-fault conditions (one of the pair of 500kOhm resistors shorted-out), anywhere in the world as long as we limit ourselves to "consumer" low-voltage outlets (<250V rms to neutral).
Or, in other words, it's not gonna kill you, may be merely slightly unpleasant if you're wet/standing on we surface.
You're not supposed to rely on them anywhere in the world, to the best of my knowledge. Using a water pipe as a grounding source is illegal in most "consumer" cases, in the U.S. at least.
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Indeed, it would've been funnier with "flames".
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Both excellent submissions... "Song" would also have been acceptable.
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Same here, I always think you should dress well (biz casual in SF Bay Area), smile a reasonable amount, act interested in the company and its products, respond to questions.
It's kept me working despite a less than stellar work history and skill set.
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Some diabetics don't have that kind of pinpoint control on their blood sugar levels.
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I'm not sure what type of diabetes you are talking about, but I know that for a type 1 diabetic glucose is the normal response to hypoglycemia - glucose tablets when you are still conscious or if you pass out, a glucose injection. My wife is diabetic and I've seen her take glucose hundreds of times.
Typically you have to eat something more substantial to keep your blood sugar up over time, which might have been what the interviewee was trying to do.
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I'm a diabetic, and maintaining a metabolic process that your body normally handles by itself with an incredibly complicated process is difficult. Human metabolic processes fluctuate drastically and controlling your bloodsugar is not an exact science. Even with the utmost care and preparation taken every hour of every day, your body can and will surprise you when you least expect it. Her bloodsugar could have been absolutely perfect beforehand, and then it could easily have dropped to severely hypoglycemic levels in 20 minutes due to the exercise of entering the building, the stress of waiting, the change of temperature of the environment, and the sudden onset of her monthly period.
That applicant could have been better prepared. She certainly could have conducted an interview without talking with food in her mouth, but I think some people are overestimating the level of control a diabetic can potentially have over their bloodsugar with current technology.
By the way, severe hypoglycemia does not feel like being drunk. It's more like having your throat cut, all the blood drained out of you, and then being plunged into a sub-freezing torrential river and drowning.