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Ideologue

#10200
September 01, 2011, 05:43:28 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on September 01, 2011, 04:54:06 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on September 01, 2011, 04:39:16 PM
Yeah, okay, I read the actual application this job again, and I think I know what testing they mean.

QuoteAfter clerical testing (if necessary), an interview will be required of the highest qualified candidates. Selecting officials will conduct reference checks and may consider corrective action files and performance appraisals before making final selections.

So, my feeling now is that I am just in the basically qualified camp at present, amongst an army of applicants.  So, the best case is that I get to drive back up to D.C. again for an interview.  And that's only if I even am in the highest qualified category.  I suspect that I might be, and while this is a job I think I would enjoy (working for a court), it's just a JS-7, so not a lot of money, and it's not in a preferred geographic location, and its promotion potential is not sky-high (only to a 9).

I dunno.  I'm pretty desperate, so I'd hate to spit in any reasonable opportunity's face.  But at the same time, without some minimal expectation of success, is this really a reasonable opportunity?  I can't afford to jet around the country taking typing tests, you know?

I'd say don't bother. I'd also say don't take advice from me.

THIS SENTENCE IS FALSE.
Kinemalogue
Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

MadImmortalMan

#10201
September 01, 2011, 09:00:47 PM
A great big data dump from Wikileaks today. Expect scandals in 3-2-1...
"Stability is destabilizing." --Hyman Minsky

"Complacency can be a self-denying prophecy."
"We have nothing to fear but lack of fear itself." --Larry Summers

CountDeMoney

#10202
September 01, 2011, 09:02:34 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on September 01, 2011, 09:00:47 PM
A great big data dump from Wikileaks today. Expect scandals in 3-2-1...

No, just more dead people overseas that used to be marked "source protect".  On behalf of a grateful nation...

Razgovory

#10203
September 01, 2011, 09:11:47 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on September 01, 2011, 09:00:47 PM
A great big data dump from Wikileaks today. Expect scandals in 3-2-1...

I've been unimpressed with the "Scandals" so far.  Video of chopper pilots shooting up some assholes.  Embassy staff getting the impression that Putin is a dick.  Not exactly earthshaking.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Neil

#10204
September 01, 2011, 09:52:08 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on September 01, 2011, 11:38:46 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on September 01, 2011, 11:35:57 AM
Well, I don't mind it as a general rule. :lol:

I do. No smokers. No Dopeheads.
Ide requires a smoker, as it helps them maintain the superskinniness that he requires.
I do not hate you, nor do I love you, but you are made out of atoms which I can use for something else.

Eddie Teach

#10205
September 01, 2011, 09:55:47 PM
He could date a distance runner instead.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

LaCroix

#10206
September 01, 2011, 10:04:06 PM
Quote from: Neil on September 01, 2011, 09:52:08 PMIde requires a smoker, as it helps them maintain the superskinniness that he requires.

tell that to my ex :wacko:

ritalin is the answer

jimmy olsen

#10207
September 01, 2011, 11:00:05 PM
Sent you another message Yi.
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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CountDeMoney

#10208
September 02, 2011, 09:09:46 PM

Razgovory

#10209
September 02, 2011, 09:43:11 PM Last Edit: September 02, 2011, 10:59:30 PM by Razgovory
 :lol:

I like the one with Rosanne Bar getting hit with a log.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

PDH

#10210
September 02, 2011, 10:54:54 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on September 01, 2011, 05:18:49 PM
I want to have Marshal Davout's manbabies.
:)
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-Umberto Eco

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Syt

#10211
September 03, 2011, 12:40:26 AM
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

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Neil

#10212
September 03, 2011, 07:04:16 AM
What the shit is happening?
I do not hate you, nor do I love you, but you are made out of atoms which I can use for something else.

jimmy olsen

#10213
September 03, 2011, 07:05:09 AM
The soviet flag adds a surrealist touch to whatever it is.
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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1 Karma Chameleon point

mongers

#10214
September 03, 2011, 07:15:35 AM
Haven't you noticed it's set on a roller coaster ?
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"
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