Dammit, it’s “September 11th”! Stop calling it “Nine-Eleven”! That sounds too much like “7-Eleven”. That bugs the hell out of me. I dunno why. Maybe it’s like I can’t stand it when people use “email” instead of “e-mail”. Countless exceptions aside, word “email” should be pronounced similar to “emissary”, “emory”, and “empty”…”em-ale”. Hyphenate it in […]
Read More It’s March already?!Got an interview on Thursday afternoon. Woo! 🙂 It’s about 45 minutes away and that commute would be a pain, but if they’ll pay me a decent salary then I won’t complain. Had our first real Anime Boston staff meeting on Saturday. Was nice to meet everyone. We didn’t accomplish much, but that wasn’t really […]
Read More InterviewSo that guy called be back and wants to have me in for an interview next week. (Woo hoo!) …but it was odd. Instead of first asking me about my background like most HR people who call me, he starts by asking if I have any questions about the company. I thought that was odd. […]
Read More Starting at the end?I’ve noticed there seem to be a lot more openings posted on Monster.com lately. It comes and goes in waves, but I haven’t seen this many potential jobs in my region/field in a long time. I just applied to a bunch a few minutes ago. I got a message on my machine earlier today about […]
Read More Jobs and stuffI’m getting used to this kind of e-mail… Thank you for the telephone interview for the Web Designer position with PUMA North America, Inc. Unfortunately, we are unable to offer you a position at this time as we have other candidates whose background and skills are a closer match to our current job requirements. We […]
Read More Rejection!On Sunday, I went and picked up Jody and Sam and brought them down to Boston. After a quick side trip to Harvard Square, we came back to my place. Sam used my PowerBook to do her web page homework while Jody worked in my Renamon costume some more. I drove them home around 1:30am […]
Read More No news isn’t necessarily good newsI got a call from my brother just as I was rolling out of bed Monday at the crack of noon. He wanted the names of the people I interviewed with at his company last week so he could send them a recommendation. (Different division, but still the same big company.) We talked for a […]
Read More What’s goin’ on…I interviewed with four people…well, actually I interviewed with two, met with one, and the HR woman just told me about the place. It seemed to go okay. I’ve had better interviews…and I’ve had much, much worse. …but after paying $13 for parking, I’d better get SOMETHING out of it. It turns out they found […]
Read More Post-InterviewI just spent the last FIVE HOURS filling out a stupid job application for the interview. It was five pages long and needs my whole life history (except the stuff they can’t ask…age, sex, religion, etc.) My hand hurts now. I haven’t written that much with a pen since college. It’s kind of funny though… […]
Read More I hate writing with a penI’ve got an interview with the company my brother works for (different office) tomorrow at 1:30. Woo! This will be my first in-person interview in…um…a long time. If I remember right, the last time I had an in-person interview, it was with Idealab. That was in late August…long before FreakBoss.
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