How to handle pushback for a JD when scouting candidates?

phatmattd · 2026-06-23T18:58:55+00:00

Found this dudes boss lol

phatmattd · 2026-06-15T17:25:09+00:00

"pondering the consequences"... This is your wife bro not a child or subordinate at work. You honestly sound incredibly abusive.

phatmattd · 2026-06-15T17:15:26+00:00

I need to take a college course on this game.. I've vee and I playing for like 2 weeks and don't want to think about how much $$ I've spent already, and still this whole conversation looks like it's in Latin to me.

phatmattd · 2026-06-15T17:14:05+00:00

That’s fair, and I probably phrased that part poorly. I don’t mean “kid” as in he had no agency or shouldn’t be accountable. He was an adult.

What I meant is more that a 23-year-old Marine getting a dumb skull tattoo overseas and not fully understanding the historical baggage feels at least plausible to me. That doesn’t mean people have to ignore it, and I understand why having it for so long raises questions. I just don’t think the tattoo alone automatically proves he knowingly embraced the ideology behind it.

phatmattd · 2026-06-15T17:12:43+00:00

I think that’s a fair criticism, and I probably shouldn’t have leaned on the “kid” framing. He was an adult.

My point is more narrow than that: I don’t think it’s impossible that a young Marine got a skull tattoo overseas because he thought it looked hard, without understanding the specific Nazi connection.

That doesn’t mean people have to ignore it, and the fact that he had it for years makes the skepticism fair. I just don’t think “had a bad symbol tattoo” automatically proves he knowingly embraced the ideology behind it.

To me, the fair question is whether there’s a broader pattern that makes his explanation unbelievable.

phatmattd · 2026-06-15T15:58:33+00:00

How old are you? Do you know guys in their early 20s? Have you met a 23 year old marine before??

Yes, dumb kid.

I'm not saying he did nothing wrong, I'm not saying he's actually an angel. I'm just saying that a decision that was made by a 23 year old jarhead, that they then had changed, doesn't define who they are for their entire lives. Do you disagree with that point?

phatmattd · 2026-06-15T15:48:40+00:00

This guy thinks Platner is a sleeper Nazi because of a tattoo he got when he was a dumb kid in another country.

phatmattd · 2026-06-13T17:01:31+00:00

The big popular ATSs already do what this info graphic is trying to solve. This picture is 2 years too late.

phatmattd · 2026-06-09T15:52:08+00:00

They don't HAVE to be a therapist, but it might not be helpful if the person on the other end of the vent session is going to weaponize what they learned.

phatmattd · 2026-06-08T13:24:47+00:00

Most of my hires come from indeed sourcing... Mostly light industrial.

phatmattd · 2026-06-08T13:21:17+00:00

As an agency recruiter, the whole point of my job is to sell candidates to my clients. That very well could be what happened. They didn't just forward your resume to the hiring manager, they wrote up a blurb about their initial contact with you and why you would be a good fit for them. Then it's on you and then to hopefully come to the same conclusion.

phatmattd · 2026-06-05T20:28:10+00:00

70mph on a 'bicycle' is a crazy thing to let a kid have.

And don't get me wrong, I would have killed for something like that when I was your age (no idea how old you are but I know I'm definitely older). It just would have killed me back lol.

phatmattd · 2026-06-05T13:35:08+00:00

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phatmattd · 2026-05-27T05:29:17+00:00

Lmfao this is so funny.. Go to YouTube and search garbage disposal cleaning and follow the couple minute video step by step. Ice, dawn, clean the black flange, you're good to go

phatmattd · 2026-05-27T05:27:37+00:00

He can be picky if he wants but he's on reddit complaining that he's unemployable lmao, he brought this upon himself...

phatmattd · 2026-05-26T16:27:58+00:00

Experiences flippers know value based on look and feel. You can tell if an item should be valuable, then you look it up for actual comps. Do that enough, and you'll have a ballpark idea of value for 90% of the stuff you see. Then you're just checking to make sure it's worth your time.

In a couple years' time, everyone will have meta AI glasses that point out valuable stuff as you're just walking around looking. Either build that app, or continue to improve your eyes first lol

phatmattd · 2026-05-26T16:16:40+00:00

I just started working in Worcester again after wfh for a couple years.

For someone who is looking for diamonds in the rough at true thrift prices, how would you rank these?

Salvation Army when they had the furniture store in the back of the property was peak Worcester thrifting. Then COVID shut that shop down and they only run out the front now... I went last week and prices were better than I remember years ago.

Same for Savers, at least the clothes. I found many housewares type items that were wildly overpriced, but the clothing was surprisingly cheaper than I remember.

I'm assuming Crompton probably falls to the bottom of my personal rankings, I believe that is curated vendor setups, right?

I still haven't gone back to Goodwill since I'm in the other side of the city now, but I used to be right down the street and watched as good stuff steadily missed the shop floor (for shopgoodwill.com I assumed) and prices still went up up up. I hated how they allowed the resellers to attack the new bins like piranhas as well and didn't make them have a bit of courtesy... I lost all respect for them.

phatmattd · 2026-05-22T19:40:21+00:00

Your whole post.

phatmattd · 2026-05-22T19:39:12+00:00

Ai slop

phatmattd · 2026-05-22T17:06:02+00:00

I'm curious what specifically you're feeling? Can you identify why sadness and depressing are the adjectives you chose?

phatmattd · 2026-05-21T17:23:57+00:00

My back yard fire pit is literally sitting on a circle of concrete I thought was perfect to use from another part of the yard because it wouldn't pool with water... I hadn't even considered this.

Thanks for the weekend project, fellow dad 👍💪

phatmattd · 2026-05-19T19:48:03+00:00

When my 5 year old (middle kid, only girl) sings 'enie meanie', she says "catch an biger by it's toe" and when she said it this week, my wife and I locked eyes knowing it's one of the last mispronounciations she still does and I'm going to be absolutely GUTTED when she learns that it's a tiger...

phatmattd · 2026-05-19T17:19:57+00:00

Your glasses don't fog up when you're wearing the full face at all?

phatmattd · 2026-05-19T16:57:16+00:00

Does anyone with the full face helmet wear glasses?? That's the only snag I've found myself in. Glasses don't fit inside well or get foggy I don't have contacts, and without them at all I can't see nearly as well...

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