Random Rants

[Snowy]

Graeme, I know a few big US companies that do similar style of testing as a pre-screen to a phone interview these days. One of the larger ones does 2-3x in person interviews in 1 day where you're expected to write real-world code on a whiteboard for ~1hr each time to solve a problem. Not an aussie thing, think it's more a supply/demand problem.

[Graeme]

@Snowy I had an interview with Facebook a couple of years ago that was a day of interviews with whiteboard tests. I can't remember if there were three or four. My brain was fried about halfway through.

Didn't get the job, unfortunately.

I've just dropped a CV into Atlassian to see what they say.

[Steffen]

@Graeme Sounds like a total waste of Time, a work sample makes sense, that is the normal thing here in Germany to ask for.

[rio]

I was working on a knife's handle, it took me a day to get the slabs ready to glue , all perfect to size and them as I put on the first pin the fucking slab cracks on me!!! fuck I  hate when that shit happens , those two matched perfect and now…start all over again.rant off.

[Chris]

Screw you, NBCSN.  I don't want to watch SOU play LIV in the Premier League.  I don't know who those teams are, and I don't care.  I want to watch curling, luge and other obscure sports; which is what your online guide promised to be showing right now.

[neph93]

@Chris:

Screw you, NBCSN.  I don't want to watch SOU play LIV in the Premier League.  I don't know who those teams are, and I don't care.  I want to watch curling, luge and other obscure sports; which is what your online guide promised to be showing right now.

Those things you mention, “curling” and “loogies”, you just made them up didn’t you, they’re not real. You crack me up Chris [emoji1]

Also any sport without an offside rule isn’t really a sport and shouldn’t be on TV.

[Seul]

Except for snooker.

[neph93]

@Seul:

Except for snooker.

And darts. Seul is right. Games where you traditionally can smoke and drink while playing are absolutely TV approved.

[Seul]

And darts, of course.

And of course you have to drink every time a 180 is scored…

Oooooooooone hundred and eeeeeeeeeightyyyyyyy * GULP GUP GULP *

[Chris]

Curling is basically snooker on ice.  And how can anyone hate a sport that has broomstacking?

[Chris]

I just watched a great  tiebreaker match between the Chinese and Norwegian mixed doubles teams to decide who advances to the quarterfinals.  You bring shame to your country of residence, neph.

[neph93]

I’ll bet my left nut that the two EPL games on Norwegian telly today got bigger audiences than any Olympic programming. They bring shame upon themselves mate, they don’t need me to do it [emoji23]

[Megatron1505]

There was only one great sporting event today, wasn’t there @manufc10 

[manufc10]

@Megatron1505:

There was only one great sporting event today, wasn’t there @manufc10 

Let's not talk about that. Seriously what the eff is going on with them?!  Kudos to Newcastle and no disrespect to them but damn there is no reason we should be losing to them.  Can't we just put sir Alex back in charge?  He's at every freaking game anyways.

[EJS]

20 quid for a bunch of roses… feeling like a mug

[neph93]

@EJS:

20 quid for a bunch of roses… feeling like a mug

Sounds like a bargain. Try a ton for 12 long stemmed ones in my neck of the woods.

[EJS]

Wow, bet the champagne isn't cheap either..

[Jett129]

Good News-Wife allergic to roses,Bad News-She loves champagne truffles from Switzerland,and there’s 1 place in NYC you can get them. Roses would have been cheaper.

[UnTucked]

I front loaded our relationship with "I have an extreme pollen allergy (True), so you should never expect flowers"…..

Once or twice a year, I buy flowers, and she LOVES that I make that "sacrifice" for her...

I'll be driving home from Heathrow with flowers tomorrow, since I missed Valentine's Day. Hopefully, I can find some allergy medicine at the airport.....

[bryaneidins70]

Silk flowers, the flowers that keep giving…........allergy relief.