We have Trump, for now. Brexit? You are going to be feeling the effects of that for years after Trump is long gone. Not that I’m bragging really. I feel sorry for us both.

As someone who has been and occasionally still is an active jobseeker in IT, I assure you, most are not this bad. Still, this article helps prepare you for the worst case scenario which will help you prepare well for any interview. That said, if I interviewed with a person like this I probably wouldn’t take the job.…

There are a lot of reasonable prospective employers out there who understand this. My workplace is one example. We need skilled workers, and experience helps, but for the right candidate we can teach them whatever they need to know. We discussed it internally and the keywords for us are attitude and aptitude.…

I have a formerly abusive family member who is like this. He spent decades convincing himself he never hurt or threatened anyone and that the way people treat him now is unfair. The people he hurt are making it all up to hurt him for no good reason. He truly believes it, and cannot take any accountability for his own…

Good point. I guess I am going on about more general opinion polls. The polls that indicate that x person said they don’t like y person. I mean, that’s what they said. Anytime you mention polls to these people all they go is “fake news” or whatever buzzword they’ve seen in their feed recently. ‘member nothingburger? I…

Another possibility is that the inept coworker here is capable, but lacks confidence. Next time they ask for help I would refuse, tell them I’m busy, and then circle back around later to see how they handled it. A lot of times when a person has been trained and is faced with a sink or swim situation, they realize they…

Occasionally, the silver lining to this approach is that the inept coworker knew what to do all along, just didn’t have he confidence to try on their own until you cut them loose. I have responded that way from time to time when we bring in newbies and it usually works.

Slightly sidebar topic here, but I’m so sick of hearing about “wrong polls.” A poll cannot be wrong. If Republicans are too stupid to understand how to interpret data, so be it, but a poll is simply an indicator of what a number of people say they think.

I was wondering the same thing. There is some absolute Kinja fuckery going on here lately. No way 70 regular readers of the Root are going to upvote this comment, however I’ve noticed similar things on sister sites recently too.

My son got in the habit of asking my if I “had a good day at work” when I got home. I started answering with, “There’s no such thing as a good day at work. That’s why it’s called work.” Now he asks me if I had a not-bad day at work.

I went to seminary as a young man, having been brought up in an deeply religious environment. I began to feel aware of my own cognitive dissonance when I realized that the Jesus from the Bible and the religion of Christianity were quite different. The closer I found myself to Christ the further I found myself from…

Eh, how about the thing we are actually talking about?

touche

I can’t, because in order for it to cause confusion you would have to operate under the assumption that Blizzard could be trying to promote pedophillia. Is that within the realm of things you think are likely?

Are the kinds of people who would be affected by the Republicans framing it that way the kinds of people who would consider voting Democrat in the first place? I think not. Democrats need to dig in their heels on this one.

What attribute do you roll against to determine success?

Have you ever once seen Trump smile in a way that looked like he was genuinely happy? There is a belief among some Buddhists that heaven and hell are not a places you go to after you die, but that they are places your choices bring you to in the present. I would argue Trump and probably everyone close to him is in…

I agree with this, but at the same time sometimes kids go off the rails all on their own. I have three, and each of them are so different you’d be forgiven for not realizing they’re related. Still, no racists yet (not for lack of the inlaws trying but that’s another story).

If you are sincere I would suggest using this as a time for introspection.

This is how that thought process works. White person hears about white privilege. The first thought that enters their mind is “how can I make this about me?” and then they start whining about refusing to feel guilty for being white. It’s just one of many tools used to deflect from a real meaningful conversation.