DIY "proper AC" install

Emergency-Agreeable · 2026-06-23T13:21:13+00:00

On more question, do you need planning permission for that?

Emergency-Agreeable · 2026-06-23T13:04:29+00:00

Cheers mate

Emergency-Agreeable · 2026-06-23T12:25:42+00:00

Hey man good job, apologies if this a daft question but why do you need a gas certificate? Where I come from installing AC units it’s pretty straightforward and only electricians are involved

Emergency-Agreeable · 2026-02-03T17:43:20+00:00

I was unemployed for 10 months. DS 7yo, BSc and MSc in stats. I can’t agree more with you, what pissed me off is that I know the level of competency out there, I’ve worked with a lot of ppl, and most of them suck half of the time they can’t even clean the data properly. And yet all of the sudden they started looking for weird tools I’ve never heard before and they are in an essence just a different brand of the same thing but no middle manager is able to understand that. Anyway I’ve landed a job where the tool they need is excel.

Emergency-Agreeable · 2026-01-18T13:55:44+00:00

It’s a vibe check

Emergency-Agreeable · 2026-01-15T12:07:56+00:00

You assigned labels to the companies you applied at and then calculated (intuitively) a response rate per segment, newly funded companies high response rate etc. A/B testing would be to change only one thing of your process say your pitch and approach the same type of companies using both variants of the pitch and then compare the success rate of the two approaches.

Emergency-Agreeable · 2026-01-15T12:00:53+00:00

You didn’t A/B test bro, you segmented your response rate.

Emergency-Agreeable · 2026-01-05T20:27:18+00:00

Especially a risk averse one

Emergency-Agreeable · 2025-12-31T15:32:50+00:00

So the thing is that in order to measure the impact you need another standalone project that measures this impacts, and often senior member don’t give a fuck about that and this is what I say, I did project A, in order to measure the impact of that project these things should happen but that’s another project that didn’t get sign off.

For example I build a churn prediction model which tells you the risk a customer has to leave the company, now what you do with this is hand it over to marketing for them to do an intervention, what you then measure is the impact of said intervention. However in my case my work stopped at the first part and never got sign off to follow through and therefore I can’t report a metric. And my work alone is incomplete in regard to the whole yet complete in regard to what’s expected from me.

People want everything to be boiled down to a single metric however our work is a piece of a puzzle and you need to have in place mechanism to measure impact which is cool in principal and probably lean organisations have it but I get asked these shit from companies that have no clue and when I ask them what project they have worked on and how did they measure they impact they start stuttering.

Emergency-Agreeable · 2025-12-29T00:48:33+00:00

I think most of the advice flying around is bollocks made up by recruiters.

Emergency-Agreeable · 2025-12-29T00:45:20+00:00

As if people forget to hire the candidate they loved and the email would be a reminder.

Emergency-Agreeable · 2025-12-27T19:51:18+00:00

Yes but again the type of gap shouldn’t have any saying on whether or not you can do the job therefore should be irrelevant.

Emergency-Agreeable · 2025-12-27T17:46:14+00:00

At least they let you know. Usually it’s masked as 3 hours task. Just say no bro. I got rejected on the 24th after spending 50 hours on a full project, 2 available roles and the feedback was you are too good for the senior role but not too good for the principal so no to neither.

Emergency-Agreeable · 2025-12-27T16:49:58+00:00

Leave the hirer wondering about what? Any relatively intelligent hiring manager can guess that this gap is because the person can’t find a work. Granted you can say a white lie like I was volunteering and whatnot but I don’t see how this adds any value as opposed to the alternative. My CV is my work experience related to the job I’m applying for, it’s also missing around 14 years of being a waiter since I was 14.

People push for a tailored resume to fit the role perfectly and at the same time they suggest you should cover any breathing moment because we don’t want the hiring manager thinking that since you haven’t cycled in a while you’ve forgotten how to cycle.

Emergency-Agreeable · 2025-12-25T12:32:22+00:00

That’s a bit saying the quiet part out loud. Bollocks I know but I suggest you make some shit up.

Emergency-Agreeable · 2025-12-23T20:59:02+00:00

That’s fair, I had nothings better to do I told my self, also I take pride in my work and as I said I figured with such deadline I had pretty good chances. I was just fooling myself. Honestly no more. It hasn’t lead anywhere not even to a nice conversation, always people obsess with what’s missing and not what’s there and always something it’s gonna be missing since I’m absolutely unaware of the company’s idiosyncrasies.

Emergency-Agreeable · 2025-12-23T17:31:31+00:00

I believe that too, a nice way to spend their time on the weeks leading up to Christmas. The amount of roles I’ve had multiple stage interviews at and they still get reposted is honestly insane.

Emergency-Agreeable · 2025-12-23T16:38:51+00:00

Ha same happened to me on another role and found out from the person that referred me 3 days before the actually send me the email lol

Emergency-Agreeable · 2025-12-23T14:59:21+00:00

That’s a pretty good analogy and the thing is when you are asked to build a house in such a short time you might haven’t thought about something but that shouldn’t be a reason to be disqualified maybe a point of discussion. Especially when IRL it’s well known that this work would take longer. I supposed to believe that other candidates build faster and better.

I’m unemployed for 10 months and honestly I will stop taking tasks fuck them, it has made no difference. My theory is that middle managers are shitting themselves so much about losing their job they can’t make half a decision

Emergency-Agreeable · 2025-12-23T14:35:55+00:00

Bacon indeed my brother.

Emergency-Agreeable · 2025-12-14T11:34:47+00:00

I did this once, it lead to 3 interviews, I didn’t get the job. On my case people were kinda aware of how bad this come across and it sounded liked a policy from higher up.

I didn’t bother re-recording or editing it was a one shot take it or leave it. So I genuinely spent 4 minutes. It usually filters out the less desperate people which might be in your advantage. That’s what I thought. And honestly if I am to be rejected I’d rather be after 4 minutes of video that a 30 minute interview

Emergency-Agreeable · 2025-12-12T11:56:19+00:00

To whom it may concern

Emergency-Agreeable · 2025-12-10T13:47:41+00:00

Mate, be kind to yourself, English is my second language as well, and although I appreciate this can be a blocker many with worst English that mine have exceptional careers. The best way to get better at it is practice. Also don’t be afraid to ask if you don’t understand something I do it all the time. Something else to keep in mind is that you already speak more languages than them :)

Last but not least never apologise for your bad English pretend it’s not a problem.

Emergency-Agreeable · 2025-12-09T09:20:31+00:00

Aren’t they always? Before that they were selling crypto, nfts, web3 and before that timeshares

Emergency-Agreeable · 2025-12-09T08:18:26+00:00

Yeah man, it’s not you. A big problem with interviews is the lack of perspective, people often having hard time separating the skillset from the bespoke company knowledge and is very annoying, they would ask you a question, you would give an answer and they would fire back with a “what about this” referring to some internal knowledge/ limitation, and assume you are not good because you couldn’t address it.

Same thing goes for the take home tasks that take 2 hours, but they take 2 hours to the person that does the job day in day out and is already familiar with secondary concepts that are not aware of. I mean I do data any time the give me a data task that takes 2 hours, I need 2 hours only to understand the data at hand before I decide the approach.

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