Hiring may be a "crapshoot" for you and in that case, yes, testimonials or references probably wouldn't work. Some hiring managers take a more analytical, and less cynical, approach. That approach also leads to lawsuits based on bias so trend carefully if you aren't using objective data to make a hiring decision.

Way classier than Jeter ever could have handled things. One game advance notice, subbed out, thanks the fans, and is out. Did NOT take him 162 chances to say goodbye. God forbid he take his time to say good-bye to every country he played against!

Top 10 awkward hugs of 2014...LD and JK

As soon as he got the death shakes my stomach dropped. Been in that position many times myself, only I was going much slower.

If this is true and you're selling your 5 at a good price, I'll buy that.

Remember kids: Phablets are a stupid idea unless Apple makes one, then they're the greatest thing ever.

Ray Rice gets two weeks (initially).

It was a good interview, but it doesn't beat Charlie Sanders

"I don't have time to watch propagandistic sob stories" but you clearly had time to write all of that...

War sucks ass! I was once war, me, a stupid 11B daring the enemy to fire. I was awakened on the battlefield and have become the man I am today because of it. I plead for it to get cold out so everyone just goes back the fuck inside!!

Because women are incapable of being calm during a crisis situation?

No amount of ice buckets can restore the faith in humanity I've lost over the fact that opening an iPhone box is worthy of a live cable broadcast.

I hate to be navel-gazey, but this is exactly how it worked for me. I was a Lifehacker commenter for years and I submitted a guest post or two in the hopes of getting hired on, but I never did. I started writing at a fan-made site called the Noisecast (run by Gizmodo readers) and used that to get a job at RootzWiki.…

if you've never waited a table in your life, then you don't know wtf you're talking about. if you can't afford to tip, or if you refuse to tip, then you don't go to a sit down restaurant... PERIOD!

I actually had an on-site segment with Josina earlier this month and asked her about the showering habits of the Countdown guys:

What is this person studying and why aren't there any textbooks in his book bag?

Incomplete without the huge stash of credit cards and/or checks to pay back all of the student loans.

I like how our public narrative is "obamacare is forcing companies to not have full time staff" rather than "companies are so fucking amoral and greedy, they'd rather not function than treat their employees well."

You are to investigate when you have probable cause. You are not to treat all citizens as if they were guilty and lying from the get-go. You are not an investigator all the time. Going to extremes to try and establish probable cause for investigation is not ethical, either. Either you have probable cause to…

The problem with all this advice is that cops are basically liars and when your case goes before a judge, they will lie and make themselves look good and the judge will believe the cop.