Get it off your chest!

[kathycf]

Alone, very alone, and helplessly lethargic. Oh well.

Hey kandaurov, you take it easy. You are a cool guy and I like reading your posts. I don't know your circumstances, so won't presume to know how you feel, but just so you know...somebody out in the world thinks of you...and when you have Niamh stalking you, how can you say you are alone? Ok, the last part was a joke, but I was being sincere before.

Exactly! I cant go in to work because its a virus! Would they prefare it if i got half the staff sick and absent instead?

Employers are buttheads a lot of the time. I have had similiar experiences like what you and Shalot describe. I had pneumonia and worked anyway and collapsed because of it. So not worth it. I ended up being absent much more than if they had just given me three or four days off to begin with.

Nossa and drama, isn't school almost over for the summer? Think how nice it will be when that happens.

[Madhuri]

I was feeling guilty. I am new in taking interviews, and I feel bad when I have to reject a candidate. This is the second time I have to say no. It's about someone's career and what if I took a wrong decision? I don't want to do that.

This particilar candidate has been teaching computers in a school, but when I asked him about testing, very basic questions, he was so lost, none of his concepts were clear. He has been studying books and reference material from net, I don't know what he studied. Besides, his confidence was very low, and I assume that a teacher has experience in public speaking, as in, dealing with students, talking to an audience, he should atleast be able to talk with confidence.

Maybe next time when I take an interview I won't feel so bad, it's new for me too.

[Scheherazade]

This particilar candidate has been teaching computers in a school, but when I asked him about testing, very basic questions, he was so lost, none of his concepts were clear. He has been studying books and reference material from net, I don't know what he studied. Besides, his confidence was very low, and I assume that a teacher has experience in public speaking, as in, dealing with students, talking to an audience, he should atleast be able to talk with confidence.

Those who can, do. Those who cannot, teach!

[Niamh]

...somebody out in the world thinks of you...and when you have Niamh stalking you, how can you say you are alone? Ok, the last part was a joke, but I was being sincere before.

Hey! last time i checked sneakily slipping coffee and scones out of the coffee thread door to a hungry man wandering the general chat coradoor in a wig didnt constitute as stalking!

(PS Kathy: better watch your back in the PAM thread missy! )


Maddie...responsiblity can be very difficult sometimes. But you'll get use to it.

[Pensive]

I was feeling guilty. I am new in taking interviews, and I feel bad when I have to reject a candidate. This is the second time I have to say no. It's about someone's career and what if I took a wrong decision? I don't want to do that.

This particilar candidate has been teaching computers in a school, but when I asked him about testing, very basic questions, he was so lost, none of his concepts were clear. He has been studying books and reference material from net, I don't know what he studied. Besides, his confidence was very low, and I assume that a teacher has experience in public speaking, as in, dealing with students, talking to an audience, he should atleast be able to talk with confidence.

Maybe next time when I take an interview I won't feel so bad, it's new for me too.

But it's your job, you are being true to your job. Hey, don't feel guilty!

[kathycf]

I was feeling guilty. I am new in taking interviews, and I feel bad when I have to reject a candidate. This is the second time I have to say no. It's about someone's career and what if I took a wrong decision? I don't want to do that.

I think under the circumstances I would feel guilty too, but you are doing your job...which I think entails doing your best for your company. You considered the applicant's qualifications and while you are kind, you had to be honest also, and he just didn't seem to meet the specifications for a position in your company. That's business. What if you had hired him and he totally crashed and burned? That would have been far worse and more damaging to his career (and maybe yours for making a bad decision.)

Hey! last time i checked sneakily slipping coffee and scones out of the coffee thread door to a hungry man wandering the general chat coradoor in a wig didnt constitute as stalking!

Yea, yea...sure sure. There are none so blind as those who will not see [their stalkeriness]
(is stalkeriness even a word?--stalker like qualities? Bah, you know I am just teasing you anyway, Niamh. Being silly today)

(PS Kathy: better watch your back in the PAM thread missy! )

Oh, I'm so scared! Bring....it...ON!

[Niamh]

Yea, yea...sure sure. There are none so blind as those who will not see [their stalkeriness]
(is stalkeriness even a word?--stalker like qualities? Bah, you know I am just teasing you anyway, Niamh. Being silly today)

ye better be! (i'm also feeling silly today! think its in the air! Or a combination of antibiotics and fruit juice! )

Oh, I'm so scared! Bring....it...ON!

OH ITS ON!

[Madhuri]

Thanks guys I was warned by one of my colleagues that if you send such a candidate for the next round, where my boss will be taking the interview and she finds out that the candidate was to be sent back in the first instance then I will have to listen. So, I just updated my boss on this person's performance (I told her that he hasn't done well) and she said not to worry she will find out in five minutes where the person stands. I was so relieved (sp?) and saved from a sound thrashing that I might have recieved from her on taking a wrong decision.

From next time onwards, I will decide there and then (instead of thinking, what if? and this and that), I will not be a softie...

[Lote-Tree]

Those who can, do. Those who cannot, teach!

And those who can't do anything work for the government :-)

[Themis]

Half an hour spent in a hospital and now I'm ill! That is so unfair. And if it wasn't someone coughing in my face at the hospital, it's equally unfair to fall ill because my trousers were a tiny bit wet after trudging through the rain!

[Niamh]

My twin sister is off to Austrailia tomorrow for three months. What i want to get off my chest is this....
I'm kind of glad shes going. And i feel really bad for feeling this. All i keep thinking is Peace and quiet. No arguements and watching her trying to act like a southside yuppy snob who is getting more and more self involved.(southside of dublin)
Is this bad of me?

[Lote-Tree]

My twin sister is off to Austrailia tomorrow for three months. What i want to get off my chest is this....
I'm kind of glad shes going. And i feel really bad for feeling this. All i keep thinking is Peace and quiet. No arguements and watching her trying to act like a southside yuppy snob who is getting more and more self involved.(southside of dublin)
Is this bad of me?

Twin Sister Ha? So it must be like arguing with yourself all the time :-)

As for "is this bad of me"?

That's just terrible. Makes want to have a twin sister of my own :-)

Just kiddin :-)

Of course not!

Sibling aggro is part of growing up in a family :-)

[Pensive]

Why does a man have to be hard on his daughters because he could not have sons? They didn't ask to be born! How can a father regard his so nice and wonderful daughters as if he they don't exist? How can he call them ill-mannered and obstinate when they are constantly bearing his silly commands? They hardly go out to their friends' places. How can he be angry at them if they ask him to take them out for dinner/something even when he can afford it? How can he kill the happiness inside them with his harsh words on their result day when they have showed him such an excellent result?

How can a person belief in Heaven after such a treatment of his daughters? What kind of believer is he? Where is religion then which instructs him not to hurt others???

Feminists do have a point!

[Niamh]

Persive thats though. But i know how that feels. I'm trying to figure out why my Dad is hardly saying anything to me. But i think some dads are just like that. upsetting.

[Pensive]

Persive thats though. But i know how that feels. I'm trying to figure out why my Dad is hardly saying anything to me. But i think some dads are just like that. upsetting.

Yes, even if that does not happen to us but someone we love, it hurts.