Oh, yes, I did have a specific company in mind.

Actually, it did help the process. My money was in my bank account the next day.

I'm not taking about average customer service. I'm talking about a company that accepts your order, charges your credit card, doesn't have your item in stock and never intends to, and ignores or puts off your email inquiries for three months. In other words, they committed a crime.

I am the same way. I start with nice and polite. But, from that, I expect a nice and polite response, and I expect a satisfactory result. My next step is somewhat situation specific. I never go to screaming and swearing, but I have been known to begin a follow-up call with, "I am also recording this call, and will be…

Wow. I will never rent from Hertz.

I ended up getting a scholarship to college, but if I hadn't, I couldn't have afforded college, and I would have just moved some random place. I grew up in Oildale, CA, which was profoundly unpleasant for me. I felt strongly enough about leaving Oildale that I would not have considered the option of staying at home…

Here's a Catch-22 for you. If I become facebook friends with someone, and I still can't see much of their page, I move them to "limited". So if we became facebook friends, you would first automatically move me to limited. I would look at your page and say, "Hey, he's not showing me much...I bet he has some kind of…

Success story here form another late-bloomer:
I used to think that I really wanted to have an Audrey Hepburn-like flair. Really sleek and chic. But I always looked frumpy. Well, that's because I outweighed her average weight, have a larger chest and hips than she did (but not waist) and am 5 inches shorter than she…

I never fell asleep easily before midnight, even as a little kid. I get a surge around 9 or 10pm that lasts a couple of hours. The only way I can crash really easily is if something has disturbed my sleep or forced me to rise early (before 7 am) several consecutive nights, and I am reaching the point of exhaustion…

I am a "sometimes".Because of what I do, I have to have a domain with my real name and pics, etc. IT's just a fact of life. So I have my real name on my twitter and foursquare, and I have a widget on my webpage. I check into places that do support the image that I am trying to present on that website, which is that I…

I do this too!

Something I have found frustrating while traveling internationally is that I can check in at the airports, but not anywhere in the actual country unless I want to get raped by data charges on whatever phone I'm using, if I even have on that works overseas.

GUYS! When shaking hands with a woman, here's how to tell if you are being too rough.

My first few weeks in college I felt like the total weirdo because I had a scholarship that required me to keep a 3.5 gpa and no safety net, so I felt like it was super-important to be on time for every AM class and keep totally on top of studying and being well-rested. And it seemed like everyone was partying all the…

So, I'm curious, in your opinion if my reaction to people on a team seemingly not wanting to be part of the team is not good, what should my reaction be?

Yep, that's me. I work for someone in recruiting as one of 2 survival jobs. I'm not a FT recruiter myself, though I do some consulting.

You sound like a cool person in a tough spot, and I like how you responded to my comment which was a little judge-y (I admit it!) with an explanation instead of going ballistic. I have a lot of friends in recruiting and in IT, and in IT recruiting. I'm Denise Ivanoff and I'm on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter — I…

Also, interestingly, none of the things that I have discussed doing, which basically all fall under trying to build rapport with team members, fall under the Gen X criticisms. However, blaming the Gen X member for taking issue with Millennial rudeness, and attempting to reframe a genuine interest in trying to get to…

But if Gen X preferences and tendencies are the only ones that count on a team, it isn't really a "team", is it?

So then it's basically the problem that it is an entry-level job. Your only hopes are to be promoted, if there's room for that, or find a higher ranking job that requires your qualifications in a different company.