Sunday, January 28, 2007
and two more quart cans of stupid to kick over
There were a couple other stupidities to report yesterday but eluded me when I sat down at the keyboard. (Which is odd because I was at the keyboard when they happened. Rephrase as "sat back down at the keyboard after getting an orange juice" then.) 
They're obviously Internet related but the fault of a stupid human.
a) I started up a peer-to-peer file sharing program to hunt up a song I heard on the radio ("Lady" by Little River Band, if you were curious) and the first thing the program did was pop up a window saying that the trial period of this beta version has passed, so please download the latest version. I went to the source website... and this is still the latest version; whatever update they thought they were going to be putting out by now hasn't happened. At least it still let me run the program after I clicked Okay -- I've seen a program or two which have closed and refused to budge, despite there being no 'required' update available.
b) This is a continuation of the irony section of yesterday's post: I mentioned I have an interview with Rectangulon tomorrow (Monday). The woman told me to go to Rectangulon Jobs Dot Com, then fill out their application. "You can't miss it," she said. I thought she was talking about a printable form, but as you read they have an online form which punted me out for being honest about my work history in the preliminary questions. So I go to the site to find the printable form, I can't find it, and when I log in I get a message saying that due to the qualifying failure I am ineligible to seek work from them through this site until March 27. This wouldn't be the first time Rectangulon has given me bad directions then acted like I was too inept follow them. (The first was when they gave me their address for a mall kiosk job two years ago. They outsource their email handling, believe it or not, and the person had transposed two numbers in their address in that email. Since I didn't print the email [I didn't own a printer], thus would have been able to prove that it was not my error, I got a sneer when I told them why I was 10 minute late to the interview and didn't get consideration for the salesdrone job... which is something I can't cry much over.) We'll see what happens tomorrow.
I spent my entire unemployment check today on a ceiling fan, a gallon and two quarts of paint, some track lighting, and about five hundred linear feet of wood trim... we begin the diningroom and hallway renovation shortly.
They're obviously Internet related but the fault of a stupid human. a) I started up a peer-to-peer file sharing program to hunt up a song I heard on the radio ("Lady" by Little River Band, if you were curious) and the first thing the program did was pop up a window saying that the trial period of this beta version has passed, so please download the latest version. I went to the source website... and this is still the latest version; whatever update they thought they were going to be putting out by now hasn't happened. At least it still let me run the program after I clicked Okay -- I've seen a program or two which have closed and refused to budge, despite there being no 'required' update available.
b) This is a continuation of the irony section of yesterday's post: I mentioned I have an interview with Rectangulon tomorrow (Monday). The woman told me to go to Rectangulon Jobs Dot Com, then fill out their application. "You can't miss it," she said. I thought she was talking about a printable form, but as you read they have an online form which punted me out for being honest about my work history in the preliminary questions. So I go to the site to find the printable form, I can't find it, and when I log in I get a message saying that due to the qualifying failure I am ineligible to seek work from them through this site until March 27. This wouldn't be the first time Rectangulon has given me bad directions then acted like I was too inept follow them. (The first was when they gave me their address for a mall kiosk job two years ago. They outsource their email handling, believe it or not, and the person had transposed two numbers in their address in that email. Since I didn't print the email [I didn't own a printer], thus would have been able to prove that it was not my error, I got a sneer when I told them why I was 10 minute late to the interview and didn't get consideration for the salesdrone job... which is something I can't cry much over.) We'll see what happens tomorrow.
I spent my entire unemployment check today on a ceiling fan, a gallon and two quarts of paint, some track lighting, and about five hundred linear feet of wood trim... we begin the diningroom and hallway renovation shortly.
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Jamie Dawn said:
Commenting this time was a no go at your blog. An error has ocurred -unable to complete your request. Nonsense!!
I made the switch to New Blogger a couple of days ago. Up until then,it wouldn't allow me to make the switch even though it kept showing me the link that said for me to make the switch. I haven't checked out
any of the newfangled features yet. I will one of these days.
I think youv'e learned your lesson, and from now on you should not admit to having been in a Turkish prison when filling out any job applications.
I hope the interview went well. Rectangulon sounds like a comic book character.
Good luck with the continued home improvement projects.
I hope Ariel recieves the candy. Almond Roca... YUMMY!
Commenting this time was a no go at your blog. An error has ocurred -unable to complete your request. Nonsense!!
I made the switch to New Blogger a couple of days ago. Up until then,it wouldn't allow me to make the switch even though it kept showing me the link that said for me to make the switch. I haven't checked out
any of the newfangled features yet. I will one of these days.
I think youv'e learned your lesson, and from now on you should not admit to having been in a Turkish prison when filling out any job applications.
I hope the interview went well. Rectangulon sounds like a comic book character.
Good luck with the continued home improvement projects.
I hope Ariel recieves the candy. Almond Roca... YUMMY!
I'll be explaining more shortly, but the quick update to all that...
* Gee, there was such hope. You managed to get on and respond days earlier, what's up with Blogger? Good for you for upgrading, even if that didn't solve the old problems.
* Actually, I probably haven't learned my lesson. I interviewed with the folks Rectangulon was representing, it seemed great to me, and then I found out yesterday that they didn't want me. I'm guessing it was because my answer to "how often is okay to be tardy to work in six months?" was "once a month, that road you're on is horrible"... I should have gasped in horror and said "It's NEVER okay to be late!" Damn me for being realistic.
* Thank you, I completed a big one yesterday and will be doing another this weekend I presume. And I also hope Magyar Posta sees fit to not steal Ariel's box of goodies.
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* Gee, there was such hope. You managed to get on and respond days earlier, what's up with Blogger? Good for you for upgrading, even if that didn't solve the old problems.
* Actually, I probably haven't learned my lesson. I interviewed with the folks Rectangulon was representing, it seemed great to me, and then I found out yesterday that they didn't want me. I'm guessing it was because my answer to "how often is okay to be tardy to work in six months?" was "once a month, that road you're on is horrible"... I should have gasped in horror and said "It's NEVER okay to be late!" Damn me for being realistic.
* Thank you, I completed a big one yesterday and will be doing another this weekend I presume. And I also hope Magyar Posta sees fit to not steal Ariel's box of goodies.
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