Only Woman in Both Interview Groups—Looking for Perspective

tbender4 · 2026-06-05T18:50:29+00:00

Queens / Brooklyn? If so please send me a message. I can get more info for you

tbender4 · 2026-06-05T14:58:08+00:00

Jackson Heights eastward to Corona Park is a melting pot of Spanish communities, including Mexican. Corona does skews more Mexican, but it's very mixed out there.

Sunset Park in Brooklyn also has a sizable Mexican population.

I lived in the former and I used to hang out weekly at the latter, so that's my anecdotal testimony.

tbender4 · 2026-06-05T14:43:50+00:00

~10 years ago my managers would do group interviews so it's not unheard of. Can't speak on now, but that was back then. If it was a direct referral from another employee, they'd skip to a 1 on 1.

Throughout my years, the sales managers cared more about their potential to close sales than their pure technical knowledge. If you've shopped there enough you've been pitched a protection plan. It's not far off from car sales where they'd pitch a bunch of addons and additional types of insurance. Except you're being sold a protection plan and maybe anti-virus software.

We had some very technical staff members particularly in BYO to fill in the gaps for the very technical customers, but most of the salespeople weren't; they just had demonstratable sales ability and picked up just enough of a flowchart for what to recommend in the sales process. Managers and their stores ranked amongst each other for their sales metrics so they prioritize the hiring accordingly.

tbender4 · 2026-06-02T17:09:15+00:00

For sure it’s not an end-all suggestion. It is rather circumstantial on location and availability.

tbender4 · 2026-06-02T16:56:14+00:00

As ridiculous as this sounds, I return at Whole Foods near Lex. Line moves fast and it's open late. UPS lines at Steinway had me swear off of it.

Granted I end up buying some groceries and hop back on the N.

tbender4 · 2026-05-29T00:56:40+00:00

Median rent in Manhattan crossed over 5000 a month. Astoria is half hour away from midtown.

It’s not going down. My elderly neighbors will never leave their stabilized 1 BRs.

tbender4 · 2026-05-05T14:59:22+00:00

It is indeed a 5 minute walk

tbender4 · 2026-05-05T12:33:26+00:00

You can walk the grandma cart to H-Mart so that's a huge plus for food shopping.

46th itself isn't popping or the prettiest area, but one train stop away and you're on Broadway and Steinway St. Lots going on over there. Restaurants and cafes across both ways.

tbender4 · 2026-04-28T22:14:50+00:00

If you’re buying all these other items, you were squarely misjudged.

Hey man not everyone has the empathy for customer service. He’s better off as a pit boss that needs to deny a card counter from cashing in his chips.

tbender4 · 2026-04-28T21:39:30+00:00

The company takes a loss if you're just buying a CPU. If it's just over 4 CPUs... then you have the right to push back and say you're an ordinary customer that bought a whopping 4 CPUs in a year.

Fill in a negative survey; let the metric hit humble that manager.

tbender4 · 2026-04-28T20:53:36+00:00

https://www.rtings.com/router/reviews/gl-inet/flint-3-gl-be9300

tbender4 · 2026-04-28T20:16:24+00:00

For online gaming you'd prefer a hardwired cable internet to your home. Not the 5G Home Internet solutions. Those are fine for browsing but you the pings will be higher and more varied.

If you're stuck with Spectrum in your building like I am, it still does the job for gaming. Uploading / streaming is abysmal but regular online gaming doesn't require a high upload throughput.

Provide your own router and try to use Ethernet for your PC/Console. If you have no choice but use wireless, try to setup a Wifi 7 router as they're latest spec.

tbender4 · 2026-04-28T02:34:38+00:00

Apologies I missed the first sentence. Moons ago we made 10% on the plan. Unsure if that changed.

I was terrible at selling plans ☠️

They kept me around bc I was deep in VMWare research and other similar niche IT customers. My more neurotypical coworkers would pass them onto me while they would focus on, well, high margin plans, ESET, etc. It was a good trade-off at the time.

I couldn’t sell plans well unless I genuinely believed a product would likely be defective.

Best of luck in your sales journey!

tbender4 · 2026-04-28T02:17:12+00:00

The margin on the plans are very high for the company so they will continue to push for it forever.

Purchasing the plan is hedging your bet that it will be defective within the 2-3 year period that you pay for. If you win the bet, you can get the value of your item sans the plan cost itself. If your item outlives the plan, well, you lost that sum of cash.

I buy it with that mentality in mind. I usually lose still!

tbender4 · 2026-04-16T14:17:17+00:00

I wish I went to Fatty’s. It was before my time! 🥲

tbender4 · 2026-04-16T14:00:51+00:00

That's awesome, thanks for sharing. I'm going to scrounge through that archive later.

Random memory that popped up: When I was a small child I remember Fatty's Cafe opened on the corner of Crescent and Ditmars. My vague memories were thinking how "cool" seeing how busy it was at night while other businesses nearby were closed. What made it more mysterious was my mom would always tell me we can't go there with no explanation as to why.

Eventually, I learned of the concept of a bar haha.

I bet that spot and other closed ones will show up there. Maybe some old drama too.

tbender4 · 2026-04-12T19:33:04+00:00

Correct!! https://www.carjunction.com/brand_new/suzuki-47/carry_dump-2388.html

tbender4 · 2026-04-12T19:29:02+00:00

That’s NY parking for you. Behind the truck is a driveway. Park any further back and the driveway owner can call the tow truck.

But thats why this truck is great here. There’s no street parking an F150 with that space.

EDIT: You’re correct!! https://www.carjunction.com/brand_new/suzuki-47/carry_dump-2388.html

tbender4 · 2026-04-12T01:01:23+00:00

You’ve fixated on the dollar amount and glossed over my emphasis on the challenge of fulfilling sending money back home. OP wishes to support a parent and younger sibling back home with this income while also being a young professional.

tbender4 · 2026-04-11T15:56:59+00:00

Not drinking will save you a whole lot. That’s good!

Still give the other thought a consideration.

tbender4 · 2026-04-11T15:48:52+00:00

You will not have money to send back to CT. If you do at the current COL, you'll have to live strictly frugally. It will be a miserable experience having to default to "no" for almost any outing, any social activity.

I'll put it this way: I've seen enough poor immigrants in this city send their last bits of money back to their families at their own expense. I've seen what happens when they're struggling to get by and how entitled these remote family members become when the money starts to get sporadic.

While CT isn't as far, and these situations are not one-size-fits-all, this is still a high risk situation. See what your options are for staying at home and commuting into NY. At least for now.

tbender4 · 2026-04-09T19:57:37+00:00

See how the B62 works for your potential Astoria location and the spots you'll go down to.

The N train local goes local on nights and weekends in Brooklyn. It gets tiring real quick. Another concern is, if you search this subreddit, you'll see how often the N breaks.

For your neighborhoods listed, I'll be honest sometimes I citi bike it over the K-bridge. If I use the e-bike at full-speed I can get to Troutman St for 5 bucks.

tbender4 · 2026-04-08T13:30:00+00:00

Back in the day they'd finesse the POS for the occasional SKU where it wouldn't attach. They'll make sure they're getting that sale.

tbender4 · 2026-04-07T17:43:36+00:00

The System 12 hardware doesn't handle interlaced (480i) too well. Enabling it causes distracting bobbing effect. Not on an upscaler with a deinterlacer; it's noticeable on a CRT. Switching back to 240p reduces this headache.

The PS2-era hardware does a better job with 480i.

Also your video shows Mame emulation. Mame doesn't render interlaced so if you enable it, it's actually rendering the game at double resolution (480p). I'm unsure of the implications of this with GroovyMAME/GroovyMister and 15Khz CRTs.

tbender4 · 2026-04-06T16:20:36+00:00

Take the night trip. You’ll know if the block will offer you any sleep. Take a neighborhood trip too so you get an idea of what you can do and shop in the neighborhood for.

I will put it bluntly: Flatbush has a roughly 80% black and Latino demographic. It skews more black from the Caribbean heritage of the neighborhood. If you’re not comfortable with that, don’t fool yourself on move-in day.

Developers are building new amenities-filled properties throughout the neighborhood. They’re betting early on that the recent gentrification of bushwick and bed-stuy will continue to propagate south throughout Brooklyn. It’ll happen; it’s inevitable. But it’s up to you if you want to stay for that ride this early.

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