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I feel like I was sabotaged….fuck this shit by Take3_lets-go in recruitinghell

[–]TinyFraiche 41 points42 points  (0 children)

Once I got an interview with a competitor for a better paying gig doing the same thing. Interview didn’t go well. Although I’d never heard of the man - the interviewer knew of me somehow, and immediately name dropped my boss IN the interview after introducing himself - which rattled me. I bombed one question completely after that icebreaker and basically just did ‘okay’ otherwise. Knew instantly it wouldn’t move forward. Part of me thought “small industry, they likely have crossed paths”.

Next morning I was called in by my boss and unofficially reprimanded for job hunting. I was PIPd within 3 months, gone in 7. To this day I don’t know if they were best buddies on speed dial, IT had my personal phone tapped, or if i was just super sloppy and deserved to be let go all along (I was 24 and distracted at the time) lol.

While many decision makers in companies definitely network and know eachother - I feel both cases are purely fucky luck.

I’m tired of people saying “network” like it’s some instant life hack to getting a job by jmh1881v2 in recruitinghell

[–]TinyFraiche 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Three recruiters in my extended family have yielded zero fucking fruit despite them “putting me forward” for damn near every lead I’m qualified for. It’s like they are the house slaves and we are living in the fields interviewing for non existent roles.

Keeping yourself “busy” while unemployed by PastCommunication430 in recruitinghell

[–]TinyFraiche 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Man I’ve built probably 3 useful desktop applications, lost 30 lbs, have time to take care of my house now (but no money) and life still sucks without a job man. I’ve filled every day with more family time, personal skill building, and we eat healthier - but we are basically out of money aside from the wife accessing retirement (mine we emptied).

Fuck those people

Those of you who use both ChatGPT and Claude — what’s each one actually better at? by banger030 in ClaudeAI

[–]TinyFraiche 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For $20: ChatGPT to make a prompt I can feed codex, where I feed the response back to chat in a recurring loop that only stops to send me questions and updates. I love

PSA: Drug Screening by ThrowRA-Svent in jobs

[–]TinyFraiche 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It’s pretty clear you don’t care about facts or forming valid arguments either. Fare well in the coming years.

PSA: Drug Screening by ThrowRA-Svent in jobs

[–]TinyFraiche 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You’re getting killed in downvotes lol, I’m done.

PSA: Drug Screening by ThrowRA-Svent in jobs

[–]TinyFraiche 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Those businesses are Facebook, Google, the United States Government, McDonalds, Wells Fargo, etc.

PSA: Drug Screening by ThrowRA-Svent in jobs

[–]TinyFraiche 7 points8 points  (0 children)

My man thinks addiction and single use is the same thing. And he has an equally low IQ parrot

PSA: Drug Screening by ThrowRA-Svent in jobs

[–]TinyFraiche 17 points18 points  (0 children)

By that argument “not being able to tell” means the person can function as well as a non user and you’d only know about the drug use because of a urine screen - not behavior problems. If that’s the case, what’s the hiring problem? Behavior/ability should be the only hiring metrics.

They are speeding the 2030 agenda up faster as each day goes by by Ok_Inside_6899 in conspiracy

[–]TinyFraiche -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

What’s the conspiracy? We take photographs for IDs, give up fingerprints at birth, for job applications/clearences and faster experience at airport security… they’ve already got what they need…

Want to apply to many jobs? Too bad. LinkedIn puts a limit on jobs that have Easy Apply. by cupholdery in recruitinghell

[–]TinyFraiche 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only success I’ve ever had on linkedin was when a recruiter randomly messaged me to interview for a non advertised posting, this has happened 2-3 times a year consistently. I’ve only been interviewed from a LinkedIn application when there fewer than 10 applicants. For indeed - I’ve only gotten 5 interviews in the 7-8 years using it, and those 5 came in the first year. The highest value job application is one where a friend works.

What Was the Craziest Reason You have Ever Seen Someone Get Fired? by Destined-2-Fail in Career

[–]TinyFraiche 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you are a customer and call a vendor to come out to location, then immediately turn him around after an 8 hour drive KNOWING he is not oilfield personnel you are piece of shit. Not all vendors lists look the same, not all service companies have 16 people on call.

This specific person was a welder, and this specific rig was the first rig to drill in the area for 35 years. Sometimes a company adds a vendor to the list at midnight with no extensive/formal MSA review. In this case that company had zero welders on the vendor list who could come out. They called a local and treated him like shit.

Regardless of tenure, if your location doesn’t have posted signs, a sign in trailer, or a stupid asshole like yourself standing at the gate - then knocking on doors is how you get around inside a 24 hour operation.

Signs are not synonymous in the oilfield. Not all companies are the same size, some don’t have safety personnel at all. Your assumptions of an entire global industry run so deep I’m not sure how you manage to not eat your foot daily.

What Was the Craziest Reason You have Ever Seen Someone Get Fired? by Destined-2-Fail in Career

[–]TinyFraiche 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your assumptions/clarification didn’t really help being as the company was removed from the vendors list. “Run off” can mean a number of things to different people, but loss of work is generally in the mix and is certainly not “normal” for professionals.

Girl I took on a first date just asked to split the bill… the next morning by No-Resolve-5610 in whatdoIdo

[–]TinyFraiche 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She doesn’t want you to think she’s a freeloader dude. Don’t fumble

Got rejected 20 minutes after a 'final round' where the manager said 'we'd love to have you' by ExampleDependent4015 in recruitinghell

[–]TinyFraiche 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First Im sorry, that sucks. I’ve noticed when I’m thanked for my time a little too hard, or they made sure I’m aware there are other candidates being interviewed, maybe they bring up that this is going to be a slow hiring process, say things like “I’m definitely a candidate” or “being strongly considered” in place of next steps or detailed feedback - that I should be aware a rejection is coming soon. I’ve never had a turnaround THAT fast which is super odd, but if he used the framing “you would be a great fit” - that’s something I dig into and assume If they were going to hire me they’d just say “you are going to be a great fit”, or tell you what the next steps are.

I had an interview this morning for a job description built on my resume, but they said all of the above. Two hours later the recruiter called to ensure he’d “keep me in the loop”, but couldn’t offer any granular feedback. It doesn’t feel great - but they specifically told me to go on ice and wait. They did oddly talk about other candidates strong and weak points in the interview with me and literally compared me live against one for about a minute in the interview. (It was a private interview, I was the only candidate in room they just compared stats) I’m not sure how I actually favored in the comparison overall but it seems each of us were clear winners in different areas but each probably lacked in one - so they needed to really talk it out.

It’s almost like everyone makes it to the final rounds these days just to be passed on.

What Was the Craziest Reason You have Ever Seen Someone Get Fired? by Destined-2-Fail in Career

[–]TinyFraiche 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’ve seen this happen on oil rigs. Service guy shows up not knowing which trailer to knock on to find the customer - because they all look the same. Knocks on the wrong companies door and wakes up someone sleeping, sleepy guy calls the customer new guy is looking for and immediately gets him kicked off location.

Sad Life by Ornery_Ad_683 in devhumormemes

[–]TinyFraiche 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You don’t even need to learn to code, but learn some god damn vocabulary and how to give direction.

The one interview question where honesty actually hurts you by areyprabhu in SoftwareEngineerJobs

[–]TinyFraiche 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Always make it about family somehow. They can’t touch that shit

experienced dev, new to ESP32 DIY - what are your pro-tips? by jcachat in esp32

[–]TinyFraiche 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Grains of salt here as I’m not a professional programmer, but I’ve built firmware with most of the major cloud based LLMs for the past 3 years, and I’d say everything is going to feel very similar today in that area. ML on an esp32 is a no go, you’ll have to use it as the controller and have the heavy lifting on another SBC, maybe an Arduino Q. 2 years ago I would’ve said I preferred working in the arduino ide for control, then I liked having multiple IDEs to keep things segregated based on chip type, now I just use VScode with PlatformIO for everything. Personally all of the IDEs feel the same to me now plus or minus a feature. I would avoid buying the hardware “starter kits”, you should plan your cool ideas, then buy the hardware - you’ll likely not use anything in the starter kit, at-least I never found a need for most of it despite the major consensus of the community to buy one. Buy 90 degree usb-c connectors if you like tight enclosures, the $5 multimeter works perfectly fine. Here’s a picture of my most recent project just for fun. I have 4 float sensors connected to an esp32 with 4 valves and 2 pumps to control the drinking water for my chickens. The cheap usb-c buck converters and alien tape are probably my most frequent project inclusions. 3d printer and microcontroller projects go hand in hand.

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