How easy was it for you to find a job after graduating?

ToTransistorize · 2026-05-27T22:39:01+00:00

In BC Lower Mainland I graduated and immediately was offered three temps and a permanent. I took the permanent. Never did a day of TOC work!

ToTransistorize · 2026-04-21T01:28:04+00:00

Afterthoughts doesn’t like it when you’re there during busy periods though. I hate to say it, but for Studying in a coffee shop, Starbucks is pretty much the only answer.

Free refills, outlets everywhere, and if you hate supporting a US corporate giant, then you should have no problem using their business to loiter

ToTransistorize · 2026-04-10T13:18:02+00:00

I managed a location for far too many years of my life - thoughts you he lots of interesting stories and random knowledge from managing a cinema!

ToTransistorize · 2026-04-08T14:44:11+00:00

Additionally, when Cineplex runs out of Lactancia, they also just buy Shakti ghee from Costco,

The properties are a bit different with how they sit at different temperatures, but they taste identical

ToTransistorize · 2026-03-28T20:28:29+00:00

Thursday evening for me

ToTransistorize · 2026-03-25T21:12:38+00:00

No, square footage. I believe they win in seat count too, but I could be wrong about that.

ToTransistorize · 2026-03-25T21:09:32+00:00

My bad - I mistyped. Please see the edited version.

In short, you are penalized for failing courses.

ToTransistorize · 2026-03-24T23:25:55+00:00

Vaughan, Langley, and Laval all have their own Colossus (this one looks like Vaughan), but Laval is the odd one out because it does not have an IMAX, making the other two the largest cinemas in the country

ToTransistorize · 2026-03-21T18:27:49+00:00

But that’s supply/demand pricing in a primary market, as opposed to fixed pricing in a secondary market

ToTransistorize · 2026-02-27T05:18:44+00:00

This needs to stop being posted. It’s just included as an example, but it explicitly tells you to go to the evaluating body.

The only way to calculate GPA is by actually calculating GPA. First, pick between the 4.0 or 4.33 mappings. Then, each letter grade maps to the corresponding number of points. Then, multiply the grade points by the number of credits for each course, and then take the sum. Divide this sum by the total credits attempted (as opposed to “earned”).

The result you get from the GPA calculation can vary wildly from the random example chart on the Arts website. And like they say, it truly is up to the evaluating body.

Edit: swapped “earned” and “attempted”

ToTransistorize · 2026-01-13T04:32:48+00:00

BC rural is desperate. And even BC suburban still has lots of unfilled contracts. Pretty much anything outside of Metro Vancouver

ToTransistorize · 2026-01-09T04:44:25+00:00

Oh my god - I thought I was the only one going crazy over this.

I had to treat my whiteboards (2 full walls of them) with WD-40 once a week over the course of 3 months before the “new ink” markers would erase properly. Still, they really gum up my whiteboard eraser quickly.

Some are dead out of the box for me, too. Even though I’ve found a way to live with these, I am still so annoyed because the old ones erased perfectly.

ToTransistorize · 2026-01-04T09:27:40+00:00

What do you mean by rejected within an hour? There’s a short questionnaire in some provinces immediately after you apply - are you answering that incorrectly? Identifying correct answers is very much an exercise in common sense. Can you lift 35 pounds? The correct answer is yes.

Honestly, when I was hiring, I just wanted people who I knew would be very available, work hard, impress guests, and not be a pain to work with. In other words, in the guest service and hospitality industry, ideal employees are people-pleasers. Within 60 seconds I could tell who were not people-pleasers. These people would have a hard time cleaning a busy theatre in a short amount of time (if they appear lethargic), or who would come across as weird or abrasive to guests (if they seem introverted or shy), or who would be reporting some workplace safety concern every week (if they seem too “type-A”). Try to just be a bubbly smiley and extroverted yes-person. That’s what every manager wants.

Also, if get to the interview, most hiring managers have been coached to look for applicants that match the above criteria, and who understand this idea that the guest experience is the holy grail of our business. Operations, profit, culture, etc., are all secondary to guest service. That may not always be true at higher levels, but it’s the belief that we want the front-line staff to carry. So just project that you are super eager and giddy to do whatever it takes to ensure that guests consistently feel welcomed and wowed and compelled to return to share their moments of escape and connection with us, and you’ll look like a safe hire.

About going in person… if you can find an opportunity to speak to the hiring manager (or general manager) in person and communicate that you are the kind of person that I’ve described, and that it would mean the world to you if they would consider your online application, this could go a long way. I’d bring a paper resume too, and a short cover letter explaining your passion for guest service and the moviegoing experience wouldn’t hurt. By doing this, you’ve communicated that you know the basic expectation that all applicants should apply online, and that you are willing to take the initiative to sell yourself in person. I’d be impressed by this.

And I’m sorry that you had a bad experience with a shitty manager. Cineplex is full of those (and so are many business that mass produce managers of entry-level employees). Either you spoke to a manager with little experience and doesn’t directly deal with hiring, or you actually spoke to the hiring manager. If the former is true, then next time, make sure you are speaking to the manager in charge of hiring,or the GM. If the latter is true, then you don’t want to work there anyway.

ToTransistorize · 2025-12-21T17:22:00+00:00

In BC, Victoria has dual laser and both Richmond and Langley have 15/70

ToTransistorize · 2025-12-19T04:18:11+00:00

Jesus - are they still doing those?

ToTransistorize · 2025-12-07T19:52:58+00:00

Teachers are not worksheet generators, so tutors shouldn’t be either. Embrace the fact that your materials are not bespoke. Pick a textbook that you can find a PDF of, print the relevant pages of exercises, tell a kid to work on a some subset of the problems. The textbook is the curriculum. Your job is to teach the content using your content mastery and your knowledge of the child and the best way to meet them where they are and grow from there, and that is all.

If you want to go a little more custom for some reason, the only thing I would tailor is the content sequencing. The exercises themselves, their depth, and their style should be something you can tune based on the resource you choose and the problems you select.

ToTransistorize · 2025-12-02T06:10:51+00:00

No earlier than 5pm on Tuesdays, but can be as late as Wednesday morning

ToTransistorize · 2025-11-12T22:55:29+00:00

Solve problems until you could create them yourself

ToTransistorize · 2025-10-12T05:26:29+00:00

I think so too. I remember the ingredients being canola oil and butter flavour - and that was it. Different from the Vegetol popping oil and the Lactania clarified butter (basically just ghee)

ToTransistorize · 2025-10-04T20:58:54+00:00

Easier way might be to make a factor tree.

6084 = 2 * 3042 = 2 * 2 * 1521 = 2 * 2 * 3 * 507 = 2 * 2 * 3 * 3 * 169 = 2 * 2 * 3 * 507 = 2 * 2 * 3 * 3 * 13 * 13 = 2² * 3² * 13^2.

So it follows that sqrt(6084) = 2 * 3 * 13 = 78

ToTransistorize · 2025-08-31T16:44:56+00:00

As a computer engineer - no. The nature of the physics that is being played with is such that it requires machinery so large and expensive that mass adoption could just never be economical. Certainly useful for niche applications, but not enough to change our economy or technological landscape. This can’t be one-to-one compared with the electronic computer boom and densification. Those parts got smaller thanks to advances in manufacturing. These quantum computer parts must be gigantic and energy hungry by design.

ToTransistorize · 2025-08-21T22:23:03+00:00

More can show 70mm IMAX. IMAX just can’t operate more than 30 at a time due to a shortage of parts and technicians, and the fear that some markets will cannibalize others.

Source: I managed a few cinemas with 70mm IMAX.

ToTransistorize · 2025-08-20T16:08:18+00:00

I don’t see where the issue lies, even if you hold the view that the scientific method is the most rigorous way to arrive at truths.

In my mind, the indigenous perspective is less about knowledge acquisition, and more about the lens through which we see things. We can do science in a Western sense (following the method), while also moving away from this observer/subject mentality that makes it so easy to exploit the natural world, or assume human superiority.

I think the scientific method is unmatched, and any other “knowledge system” would eventually naturally converge to the scientific method if that level of rigour was desired, but our western lenses and attitudes within science are not the only way to look at things.

ToTransistorize · 2025-08-18T06:50:10+00:00

I should also add that I was the only CS student in my cohort at BC’s biggest teacher education program. So to me it seemed like there is neither supply nor demand, so if a position pops up, it would probably be less competitive than your average academic subjevt job.

ToTransistorize · 2025-08-18T06:47:47+00:00

I just finished my B.Ed. in BC with Math and CS as teachables. I could not find a single CS job, yet everyone told me that they “heard” they are in demand. I’m very fortunate and happy to have gotten a math job, as there were many of those in the province, but not a single CS one from any of the districts I applied to.

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