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Quote from: Particle Person on August 22, 2013, 11:47:21 AM

Nobody cares, Thork. So I got a job as an IT specialist at a small medical company. When nothing needs to be fixed, I'll be filling the role of pharmaceutical technician. So I'm basically a doctor now and I expect everyone to address me as such.

So you basically got The Knowledge's job?  Well done.

Quote from: Saddam Hussein on August 22, 2013, 01:35:30 PM

Quote from: Particle Person on August 22, 2013, 11:47:21 AM

Nobody cares, Thork. So I got a job as an IT specialist at a small medical company. When nothing needs to be fixed, I'll be filling the role of pharmaceutical technician. So I'm basically a doctor now and I expect everyone to address me as such.

So you basically got The Knowledge's job?  Well done.

I thought The Knowledge was a simple CAT scan machine technician?

Quote from: Lorddave on August 22, 2013, 02:02:25 PM

Quote from: Saddam Hussein on August 22, 2013, 01:35:30 PM

Quote from: Particle Person on August 22, 2013, 11:47:21 AM

Nobody cares, Thork. So I got a job as an IT specialist at a small medical company. When nothing needs to be fixed, I'll be filling the role of pharmaceutical technician. So I'm basically a doctor now and I expect everyone to address me as such.

So you basically got The Knowledge's job?  Well done.

I thought The Knowledge was a simple CAT scan machine technician?

Like Marie from Breaking Bad.

• Bullet points.
• The fact that everyone has seen all the animations and templates before.
• Clip art.
• Rehearsal of what to say.

Quote from: Saddam Hussein on August 22, 2013, 01:35:30 PM

Quote from: Particle Person on August 22, 2013, 11:47:21 AM

Nobody cares, Thork. So I got a job as an IT specialist at a small medical company. When nothing needs to be fixed, I'll be filling the role of pharmaceutical technician. So I'm basically a doctor now and I expect everyone to address me as such.

So you basically got The Knowledge's job?  Well done.

I thought The Knowledge was a simple CAT scan machine technician?

And for my next interview, they want me to deliver a powerpoint presentation.

People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.

Quote from: Ævan on August 22, 2013, 03:40:34 PM

And for my next interview, they want me to deliver a powerpoint presentation.

Quote from: Steve Jobs

People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.

Man on telephone: "You will need to give a 5-10 minute PowerPoint presentation as part of your next interview."

The aim of the interview is not to find out if I know what I'm talking about. Its to find out if I can send their customers to sleep by subjecting them to 21st century beige.

But if you didn't use PowerPoint or the like, you could show that you are able to deliver a more powerful message, assuming you can remember all of the material.

Quote from: Junker on August 22, 2013, 03:51:54 PM

But if you didn't use PowerPoint or the like, you could show that you are able to deliver a more powerful message, assuming you can remember all of the material.

If I don't use powerpoint, I have failed to adhere to the strict rules of this tedious game. It is like me entering an egg and spoon race and you telling me that I could run faster if I just put the egg in my other hand.

I know this, but I'm not trying to win an egg and spoon race. I'm trying to be a business douche. I need to dress like a business douche. Talk like a business douche. And make a powerpoint presentation like a business douche. I didn't make the rules. I'd be happy living in a cave and clubbing hot ladies over the head whenever I got horny. But I was born 40,000 years too late and so powerpoint it myst be.

Quote from: Ævan on August 22, 2013, 03:56:33 PM

Quote from: Junker on August 22, 2013, 03:51:54 PM

But if you didn't use PowerPoint or the like, you could show that you are able to deliver a more powerful message, assuming you can remember all of the material.

If I don't use powerpoint, I have failed to adhere to the strict rules of this tedious game. It is like me entering an egg and spoon race and you telling me that I could run faster if I just put the egg in my other hand.

I know this, but I'm not trying to win an egg and spoon race. I'm trying to be a business douche. I need to dress like a business douche. Talk like a business douche. And make a powerpoint presentation like a business douche. I didn't make the rules. I'd be happy living in a cave and clubbing hot ladies over the head whenever I got horny. But I was born 40,000 years too late and so powerpoint it myst be.

And so it must be.  Also, this is the longest interview process I have ever heard anyone having to go through.

Thork, if you hate the requirements for this job so much, why are you applying?

I must have done a dozen PowerPoint presentations in school. And if you're going to be a business douche, you'd better get used to it right quick. Instead of bitching, you could be coming up with a nice, clean layout.

They haven't given me the topic yet, so I can't get an early start on it and make something awesome. So its gonna look like every other piece of shit pp presentation.

I hate the interview process. Not the job. The job is flying around the world talking to people and being paid lots. What is not to like?

Quote from: Ævan on August 22, 2013, 04:09:28 PM

Quote from: Parsifal on August 22, 2013, 04:07:45 PM

I hate the interview process. Not the job. The job is flying around the world talking to people and being paid lots. What is not to like?

How can you hate the interview process but not the job? That implies they are interviewing for skills that aren't used in the job, which makes no sense.

Best of luck.  I am not far from LA.  If you get it and end up there, I will buy you a pint to celebrate and let bygones be bygones.

Quote from: Andrew on August 22, 2013, 04:09:44 PM

I must have done a dozen PowerPoint presentations in school. And if you're going to be a business douche, you'd better get used to it right quick. Instead of bitching, you could be coming up with a nice, clean layout.

Quote from: Ævan on August 22, 2013, 03:40:34 PM

They haven't given me the topic yet, so I can't get an early start on it and make something awesome. So its gonna look like every other piece of shit pp presentation.

I would end up doing something terrible. Drenched in your blood and crouched over your flinching body I'd be screaming "Its flat, see how fucking flat it is! Say its round now I've torn your jaw off, say its round you piece of shit noob!" 

Its probably best we don't meet just yet. I'm not ready.

If Thork makes it to GA he will be very close to me. This is actually a tad frightening.

Quote from: Ævan on August 22, 2013, 04:17:15 PM

I would end up doing something terrible. Drenched in your blood and crouched over your flinching body I'd be screaming "Its flat, see how fucking flat it is! Say its round now I've torn your jaw off, say its round you piece of shit noob!" 

Its probably best we don't meet just yet. I'm not ready.

After one pint?  I am curious to see how things go when you take a woman out for a date...

Also, I know the Earth is flat.  I am not sure why that would come up as a topic.

I'll be high on beta-blockers and airline sweeties. You won't want to be anywhere near me.

I am taller, have bigger guns, and weigh more stone(s?).

Quote from: Junker on August 22, 2013, 04:23:43 PM

I am taller, have bigger guns, and weigh more stone(s?).

I am smarter than you.  False.
I have more money than you.  False.
I have more friends than you. Maybe?
My family line makes your look like a line of homeless people.  Probably.
You will never be as great as I am and will be. Gay.
You can't even touch me.  Also gay.

Oh Junker.

The job is not giving examples of a time when I did something and how I overcame the obstacles that arose. but most of all, I'm not being paid for any of this. Its a lot of time to put in to get nothing out of it. This is why I don't want to make it to the final two if I'm not going to get the job. Imagine giving up a few days to fly half way around the world for a meet and greet ... for free.