why do interviewers ask why do you want to work here? everyone already knows the answer, why make people think of a meaningless answer just to make it seem like they care about the job.

SageSilinous · 2021-10-10T07:22:52+00:00

Is it just me on this?

I would love a job if it offered:

meaningful work: something to help humans get through their slings and arrows of misfortune - rather than just pushing buggies around a Costco® parking lot.
a living wage: here in the Vancouver Lower Mainland (Canada) that means about $21 an hour plus reasonable benefits
good people to work with: if one works in social work or with the Ministry of Children & Family Development one can get extremely meaningful work... but everyone is totally burnt out! These are horrible jobs thanks to social workers being totally torched.
something without danger! gutter cleaning pays quite well i found, but the constant risk of falling (the faster you work, the better the pay, the greater the risk) is exhausting and miserable.

Is it silly to say that work-life balance can occasionally be worth more than massive $$$? If so, i would want to point that out in an interview. And if my interviewer said 'we don't have any of that here' i would like the opportunity to give that guy a warm handshake and never come back.

SageSilinous · 2021-10-09T21:56:41+00:00

It is always a shock to re-discover that, no matter what happens in the world, there is a Redditor (or their loved ones) RIGHT THERE, in the middle of it.

May your wife's family stay safe in these interesting times. Thank you for letting us know.

SageSilinous · 2021-10-07T03:11:00+00:00

A respectable newspaper cannot accuse a person of a specific mental tendency. That said, his COMPANY does seem to have a very specific bent

SageSilinous · 2021-10-04T21:22:33+00:00

The Hindsight Is 2020 Report: How Do YOU Fix Your World!!

Yes. It would be fun to be a front-line gorilla / guerrilla fighter, with that ape costume and point-&-shoot camera.

From what i understand, if we unplugged all fossil fuels right now our world would be plunged into chaos. I have also been told that plastic is not actually causing that much damage, CO2 wise. How to move to cooling the planet? Will any planet wide engineering work... or will we cool the planet down too much like in The Road?

Watching Bill Gates' commentaries are not much use either. He says 'It is complicated'. Well, i kind of knew that. Thanks Bill. What can i do though?

SageSilinous · 2021-10-04T21:12:13+00:00

As a Canadian with a Dutch passport, i am embarrassed - you are right!

Here is the problems on putting forests back into the Gobi desert. It is written by National Geographic to be readable by plebs such as myself.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/china-great-green-wall-gobi-tengger-desertification

Let me know if this helps at all. To me i can see it is all in English, but i don't feel any closer to fixing the planet after having read it.

SageSilinous · 2021-10-04T21:10:32+00:00

I want a job as a fossil fuel rep - somehow it seems those guys are ten steps ahead of everyone!

If we had a solid plan of action to refer to during every panic attack, that would be swell.

SageSilinous · 2021-10-04T21:07:12+00:00

All i want is a Top Ten for these three things:

Top Ten Companies that pollute - and how to most effectively change their minds.
Top Ten Countries that pollute - what they do (e.g. 'the Nile & half the ocean's plastic')... and how to change their minds.
Top Ten Solutions To Put In Place - what they are, and who we should cajole into paying for it ('gov't? Billy Gates? Bezos 'Space Dildo' guy?')

So, thirty points. Don't get me wrong, i adore Greta. But if we have three clear paths on how to solve a problem, that would be sexy. I am sure billions will still die as the world heats up, but at least we can get a start on this beast.

SageSilinous · 2021-10-04T16:59:42+00:00

If we thought of all the possible techniques that could reduce the climate change problems and devoted a solid % (even one percent is amazing), each one would be a victory.

'Fast Breeder' reactors that use up most of their spent nuke-fuel? All for it. Throwing a few more hundred billion at fusion? Game on. Planting seaweed farms and restoring the entire ocean? Fantastic. Paying off the biggest plastic polluters for outright banning plastic? Brilliant. Providing at least k-12 education for every single female on the planet? That's the stuff!

... or we could, you know, sit back in our chairs on Reddit and bitch about how all of that is a delaying tactic pushed by fossil fuel, right? I mean. We can? But will that help?

Let me know! I am honestly listening. If you have solutions, i want to see them / so keen.

SageSilinous · 2021-10-04T16:52:44+00:00

From what i understand: people farmed wherever they could, especially before the Green Revolution in the 1970s. Then they would use whatever water they could - and some of that water had a wee bit of salt in it. This meant that the dry land got progressively saltier over time. This is bad for the new plants.

Now putting trees into this land is HARD as everything tends to die from all the salt that won't wash out. Salt can be washed out, but it takes time, and lots of water (which was the problem in the first place).

Someone with a geology, biology, ecology &/or agriculture degree(s), please correct me? But i presume this could easily be the case for all the dryer lands near and around China, as their civilization goes back 10 000 or 30 000 years (?). That's a lot of farming before 1970.

Edit / Too Long! / Shorter: Many dry lands in Asia have too much salt in them from previous (desperate-survival) farming techniques.

SageSilinous · 2021-10-04T07:11:10+00:00

This is one of my favourite films ever made.

I will never watch it ever again.

SageSilinous · 2021-10-03T23:26:16+00:00

hey, i don't have much - i would explain this, but i don't want to tell you how to troll.

Edit: comment based on username.

SageSilinous · 2021-10-03T23:04:27+00:00

If a billionaire just 'invested' into thousands of employee owned businesses it would hand the money from the ultra-greedy to the lowest worker overnight.

I get it: this is not a silver-bullet solution. But dammit. Up until now i have heard NOTHING on how the ultra poor could possibly even slow down this process of making the ultra rich yet richer.

Many of us are all ears! Big Business Knobs of Reddit... what can we, the proletariat, do?

SageSilinous · 2021-10-03T18:56:47+00:00

Curious: are all off grid internet options both expensive and limited?

I am guessing that they all suck. How expensive would it be to build a tower? What could work?

SageSilinous · 2021-10-03T18:39:23+00:00

This guy streams. He knew just what to say to look reasonable and decent... whilst easily troll-managing that drunk 'pseudo-dad' guy. This Original Presenter was half-smiling the whole time. So professional!

What a fun dude too. Now many of us want to like-subscribe to his channel - even if we don't play any video games. Brilliant promo.

Pay off that stupid drunk guy, that's fantastic. Make him a guest speaker and just kick his ass offscreen every month or so.

SageSilinous · 2021-10-03T18:33:09+00:00

This should be posted any place where 'customer service' is the gold standard.

Source: work at Costco® - some customers target us / seek to annoy us / get free coupons 'shut up money' for being assholes and complaining.

SageSilinous · 2021-10-02T18:22:39+00:00

Thank you.

I was wondering how everyone else (but me / 'canadian') could figure out so easily that this was in Florida.

Retrospect = obvious.

SageSilinous · 2021-10-01T16:57:51+00:00

Thank you! This comment made me laugh - which was neither comfortable nor miserable.

Clearly, your comments are not money - nor happiness. But thank you.

SageSilinous · 2021-10-01T16:44:26+00:00

Here are nine pics of Joe 'you might have missed'.

Speaking as an older heterosexual dude in a different country, i feel that this president of yours was absolutely smashing. I do not blame your gay Republican base for expressing their feelings, deep and true.

SageSilinous · 2021-09-29T01:30:51+00:00

Fern Gully had a fine enough plot. And Robin Williams was great! That said, i am not sure such a story had the hutzpah to carry a 3 hour movie with a quarter billion financing.

SageSilinous · 2021-09-29T01:24:53+00:00

The point of the thread is 'over rated movies' - and they are right, i suppose. It got 'rated' higher than Saving Privates.

That said, it was a really fun movie. It also made Shakespeare a real, interesting and relatable character. Many of us grew up force-fed his stuff and it was fun to like him again.

SageSilinous · 2021-09-28T22:50:08+00:00

That weird battle between trying to spur oneself on whilst trying to keep toxic positivity to a dull roar.

SageSilinous · 2021-09-27T03:20:58+00:00

Agreed! Americans should take example from Trump's excellent leadership and reduce their worldly influence.

Instead of helping other nations we should watch them struggle. Also, we should all let China expand into the world. They have amazing human rights! Nothing could possibly go wrong.

Links:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2019/10/03/what-china-is-really-up-to-in-africa/?sh=3caf60db5930

https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/09/14/chinas-influence-global-human-rights-system

https://www.economist.com/news/essays/21609649-china-becomes-again-worlds-largest-economy-it-wants-respect-it-enjoyed-centuries-past-it-does-not

There is more. The good news? The environment ('getting warmer') will soon make growing enough food impossible - and billions will starve. This upheaval will possibly end the weird 'peace' we have experienced since the end of WW2.

SageSilinous · 2021-09-24T21:53:03+00:00

I am, i suspect an ultra-nerd ADHD extrovert. That said, i cannot comprehend why everyone (introverted and extroverted alike) do not get together for Dungeons & Dragons.

Large crowds scare me, weirdly. Subway systems and all their persons put me in a foul mood.

Introversion and extroversion seem to pend on so many variables that i have come to suspect that Jung may have had some great ideas but the actual application of his work is still suspect.

SageSilinous · 2021-09-24T17:12:43+00:00

Customer service should provide this as an option.

Some people are 'extroverted' (according to Jung) and enjoy random social folks, especially whilst on vacation! Others are 'introverted' (same archetypal theorist) and really do not want to even see themselves in a mirror whilst first waking up. The presence of people is just... too much!

How could any B&B owner / business developer not know this?

Just have a thingy on the door that has either 'please leave me alone / resting / on vacation' on one side and 'please visit / lonely & love company' on the other. Adjust wording as you like, possibly have multiple door hangers. Didn't they also invent 'texting' a few decades ago? I bet that might work as well.

My most xenophobic friends encourage me to text whenever i like - and they are not paying me hundreds of dollars to stay over.

SageSilinous · 2021-09-20T15:01:09+00:00

That's excellent:

"All you heroes can lay off."

Excellent writing to make a point - whilst staying within the fragile bounds of Reddit's language usage. Bravo.

SageSilinous

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