Comments on: You know what happened to thought, don’t you?

By: MrsTwink

MrsTwink — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 21:10:43 +0000

Its a good thing my power of positive thinking is keeping me from taking it personally that you called it crap!

yay positive! (hope you didn’t just vomit… because honestly, its hard not to make myself vomit with all of this positivity crap)

Oh! And btw - I do know what a Twink means… but it was something that J discovered AFTER I created this lame nickname. Who knew? I was just trying to stay with the whole “twinkie” theme. I didn’t think I was calling myself a young gay man. Whoops!

By: smack

smack — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 23:30:18 +0000

suckass!! That is the best scenario of the future i can think of

By: another wet noodle

another wet noodle — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 23:29:09 +0000

That is so discriminatory! It’s like saying they’re not going to hire you because you grew up in Ohio and that’s just “so culturally different” from NYC. I love how some people just think they are so the shiz that they can say idiotic stuff like that to people and think they can get away with it. But karma baby, it always comes back with its bitchslap. They are going to hire some suckass from a startup who will squander their funds and take three hour lunches in the copy room with the CEO’s teenage daughter. But maybe that’s what they meant when they were looking for someone more culturally similar.

Seriously, I wish people could just tell you no without feeling like they had to give you some bullshit answer. (”No, it’s not you, it’s ME!”) Jerks.

By: mtbrooks

mtbrooks — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:06:06 +0000

I work quite a bit with IBM now, and it seems like nobody ever sees each other and they spend their entire lives on conference calls and not really doing anything. So being a wet noodle there would probably lobotomize you.

By: smack

smack — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:46:23 +0000

the more I’ve been thinking about it (or should I say overanalyzing it) today I’m tending to agree with you on that end. If only to feel less like I’m the turd in the situation.

By: mtbrooks

mtbrooks — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:41:39 +0000

Wow. That’s a really insecure company - so worried about their culture that they pass on a qualified person so as not to challenge their fragile idea of who they are.

I went from a huge fortune 100 company to a 25 person startup that prided itself on culture…which sucked, because they took themselves so seriously and tried to fake the hip, web 2.0 culture. I then moved to another 25 person company with an authentic, creativity based culture. Huge difference.
You might have dodged a bullet.

By: smack

smack — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:35:49 +0000

gosh boy that sure put me in my place! I’ll never give attention to my own problems again! gee wow!

By: Robin

Robin — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:31:47 +0000

Lately I’ve wished I hadn’t survived the accidents and overdoses. It’s a little better today. It’ll end badly, but maybe not today. Peace.

By: smack

smack — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 20:55:14 +0000

no, it wasn’t a person, it’s the actual company. the recruiter for the startup that was SO VERY INTERESTED in my said that if I had come from an agency or a startup with the same credentials they probably would have moved on me. however because I worked at a huge corporation like IBM, psychologically they can’t get over the cultural difference.

What a sad limitation they’re putting on themselves. And what an uncontrollable piece of me - i literally can not do anything about my past experience, which is chock full of stuff, however, it’s what’s holding me back. And i can’t change it.

This is the sorriest state of affairs ever.

By: minnie

minnie — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 20:52:58 +0000

holy crap. did some fuckwit give you a less than stellar referral?! if so, that person will burn in hell. totally unacceptable. that just isn’t done.