Potatoes are awesome. With a little oil they stick to your ribs for a long time.

Potatoes no nutritional value?

GIRL, I feel ya.

If ever there was a thread in which to use fishandry.gif, this is it.

I must incorporate this into my bus commute.

“the story of an animal who leaned the fuck in:” I’m going to be chuckling over that all weekend. Thank you....

I told that shithead if he bumped into me one more time I was going to bite his fucking head off. I am many things but a promise breaker I am NOT.

“an animal who leaned the fuck in”

It’s right up there with “Must have Bachelor’s Degree”. I’m 45. What earthly good would a degree from 1992 do me as an AngularJS programmer?

this is one of the reasons why we need unions again...

So much exposure! You can cash that exposure in for karma, upvotes, or stars on social media platforms!

Years of “experience” can be laughably meaningless, too.

They also tend to fixate on those years of experience being in a very narrowly focused thing when lots of other types of experience would be relevant.

“Chief Happiness Officer” - *pushes back from desk; gets up and walks out of room; wanders out of building and into traffic*

I briefly worked for a horse’s ass who billed himself as the Chief Happiness Officer. The 2nd in command was the Chief Chaos Officer. They were always giving impromptu rah!rah! meetings, but they were just horrible people when the spotlight dimmed.

I’m half-sorta looking at some job postings and I see a lot of “must really love coding/programming/etc.”, usually combined with other tell-tale oh-hell-no phrases. To me this means they want someone who is so enthralled with the main job that they’ll put up with whatever abuse and other crap is flung at them,…

The ‘must have two years experience’ thing is insanely annoying. I get that it is expensive to train people, but college degrees don’t automatically come with two years experience on your resume. Everyone has to start somewhere and I feel like a lot of companies lose out on potentially good employees (who they get to…

I think my personal favorites are still the “requires X years of experience in ABC” when ABC has only been in existence less than X years.