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[–] 60 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Rockstar always gets me.

"Okay, so is it cool if I roll out of bed around noon, pound a 40, and come to work for a few hours while expecting a high salary and constant praise?"

"No, of course not."

"Then, in your own words, why don't you tell me what you think a rockstar is. Is the rockstar in the room with us right now?"

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Everybody wants a rockstar employee until I show up coked out of my mind for work smh.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Hey, as long as you're a good coder, I don't care how high you are. Though I'll need to find a way to explain the new "Misc" category in my budget.

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  • You've done your company a great service, and we thank you and we trust you found the compensation satisfactory.

    Oh, the money's fine.

    The situation's totally unacceptable.

    Well, gentlemen, I guess that just about wraps it up.

    Where is the miscellaneous account?

    I thought we'd settled that.

    The miscellaneous account is somewhere very safe.

    From whom?

    The account is a source of important funding and it has to be internally audited.

    And it will be, I assure you, Mr. Brody,

    Dr. Jones.

    We have top men working on it right now.

    Who?

    TOP...MEN

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    How do you manage to fuck up so many things?
    Quotation marks missing
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    All but one entry after the equals sign not being capitalized

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  • [+] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
    [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Yeah these are pretty much all red flags, however...

    I love 'wearing multiple hats'. Otherwise I get bored! And if you e got a good manager, the inefficiency that comes with multiple hats is understood.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I use ‘self starter’ at work to describe someone that I don’t have to manage and will figure out what they need to do to manage their own project without me holding their hands.

    I provide my own continuity binder and am there to answer any questions once we’re done with a brief left seat/right seat… but, I need someone who is capable of handling themselves instead of me being their parent.

    What’s a better word than ‘self starter’ if people see that negatively?

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago*

    They have Initiative if they are able to act on their own based on their training. As in they don't require being told to do their job all the time, they just do it.

    If you don't bother with training then you want self starters and hopefully you are fine with whatever shenanigans they come up with.

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  • I've only had one job that wasn't all of these red flags that wasn't my self employed gig. this fucking economy

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    This makes me curious if there's a study focused on the effectiveness of job listings with these buzz words vs without. I wonder if more people would apply or if people actually buy into these phrases.

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