This reminds me of a situation that happened at my previous job, for some reason. A lady applied, was interviewed and when the hiring manager called her previous employment her previous manager disclosed she had a lot of no call no shows. So our hiring manager didn’t pursue it any further. Somehow a month later the…

When I did hiring, I basically only called references to see if they were real. If they were not (which happened a lot) then I dismissed the resume. Why lie when any friend or previous co-worker will give you a reference? Other than that references always gave the same practiced responses. I let the interview do the…

This is absolutely correct when providing an employment verification. When calling references you may ask a little more info, basically limited to the above article.

I think RC stuff is awesome, especially planes. However, when they start reaching scales this large I start to lose understanding of the point. No offense to the RC community, but for the same money and effort I would rather build a small plane and fly it myself. Although...... if that plane should crash, it would be…

ROLF this is good, thank you!

Holy crap I loved these books when I was little. I loved the art, the stories, how they just felt scary. Goosebumps was a close 2nd.

I get this tactic seems to be successful. However, whenever someone does this to me, albeit salesperson, my boss/co-workers, etc. I instantly shut them down. There are not too many more annoying persuasion tactics out there than this and this one to me feels fake, rude, and bait-y.

That’s it?! Dude the pyramid scheme I’m involved in is WAY more profitable than that. They’re taking your sucker ass to the bank ya sucka! Check this out ——> www.youasucka.com

It’s called taking the high road. People will express their opinions no matter what. If religion didn’t exist they’d use something else. Bickering with them will get everybody nowhere fast. Yes I realize the hypocrisy of my statement.

Yeah, we had similar theories, thus far we’re all still here *knock on wood*. That’s terrible about Zynga, though.

Can confirm. I work for a tech company based in Palo Alto, but I live 5 states away. In our little regional office we do the nitty gritty accounting, finance, and forecasting work. It’s fine, we’re fine, everybody is fine here. One day about 3 months ago corporate sent an email which basically said, “Pack your shit,…

Never discount what a person can learn from any form of education. It’s not just the content students learn in college. Granted I have a BS, however I learned more about my ability to push myself and do well than I ever could have imagined. I learned a lot of useful content from GE classes outside my major (don’t…

I remember doing an experiment in college to determine how much electrolytes sports drinks really contained. It’s small. I mean it’s so small that the tap water we tested was far higher. In fact the sports drinks we tested were barely above our distilled water control. So, depending on where you live, you’re better…

I have absolutely no doubt Amazon was granting a lot of refunds. I used to sell on Amazon and as a seller it wasn’t a great experience. I shipped everything over $50 in value so it required a signature upon arrival. AND YET, people would claim they never got their products, even though they signed for it. Sure some…

No shit (pun intended). I’m not really surprised someone studied this, haha!

Pics or it didn’t happen.

Great tips. I have never encountered a wolf before, but I have encountered bears, bob cats, and mountain lions. From my experience all large predators are very curious by nature. If you’re in a very remote area, expect them to be very curious about you. It’s usually hard to tell when you’re at risk of danger or if…

HA! ....so true

Uh, hate to break it to you but underwear isn’t doing a thing to keep the fecal particles contained when you fart.

Ummm, why all the negative comments? Nobody has ever slept naked? Sure it’s not suitable to do it all the time. Some living arrangements outright make it impossible. I say if you can, do it.