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Macanudo

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  1. So far. I know quite a few people out in that area. Most of them are in Amarillo proper but a few are north near Dumas and Borger. All of them are spooked right now.
  2. I was all prepared to post the Darts scene for Ted Lasso but then "All the dreams, all the hopes for the national championship come down to this play" is, well, the best live call I've ever heard. Keith Jackson is a TV God but Craig Way's radio call was something special.
  3. WTF. How could they get to that stage without noticing?
  4. Oh, and one more thing because I lost my fucking train of thought with that last no thanks just now... Several friends have told me that projects I created and implemented in my prior job and talked about in interviews have materialized within the departments of places I interviewed. Two friends specifically told me that the hiring manager got the idea from "someone they interviewed from Corebridge." I know this kind of thing happens but it sucks when it's your ideas and projects getting pilfered.
  5. The job market still sucks, at least from my perspective. There may be a ton of jobs but estimates are that 25% are ghost postings. A study from October shows it could be 50%. Companies post jobs to collect resumes (this is appears to happen more in the tech world), to appease current employees that the company is "trying to help staffing issues", etc. Around 50% have been posted for longer than 30 days. Related to jobs that I have applied to and gotten contact with the HR recruiter and/or hiring manager it has taken on average 24 days from application to getting the no go. https://mashable.com/article/ghost-jobs-survey Of those surveyed, 43 percent of managers said they post job openings online in order to give the impression that the company is growing. Another 43 percent said that they posted job openings to keep current employees motivated. And 34 percent took that one step further and said they kept online job posts active in order to placate overworked employees. So basically, nearly half of the hiring managers surveyed said that their company posted jobs with the intent to bolster their company's image, or provide false hope to their understaffed workforce that help was on the way. I have three open reqs that I applied and interviewed for in the last 60 days but have not been told no or been given an offer. I applied on 1/8, 1/14 and 2/16 respectively for those jobs. The app on 1/8 is with the company I was laid off by in September. I have known the hiring manager for 20 years. We're friendly, have worked together before and all interviews went well. But the last 2nd round interview was in January. For the app on 1/14, my last 2nd round interview was on 2/7. HR recruiter told me on 2/15 to give them until the end of the month to finish up their process (read: finish interviewing candidates.) Last minute edit before I hit submit: Just got the thanks but no thanks email on the app from 1/14. 43 days from application through the interview process to a no. Fuck me. I know that from decision to offer can some times take a few weeks as approvals from up on high take time. At Corebridge, all hires regardless of level go all the way to the top and can take 2-3 weeks for that to happen. But the longer it drags out the less confident I am that anything good comes out of it. I have interviewed for too many jobs that the process has stretched to 45 or even 60 days with multiple rounds of interviews only to get a "thanks but no thanks." One of the most frustrating things has been jobs I have applied to as a referral. I have had almost 2 dozen direct referrals and in none of those cases have I even gotten an interview. In several of those cases, I have still not even gotten a "no thanks" and all of those were 90+ days ago. In each case, I have spoke with the friend before they submitted the referral to make sure that it's a good fit for my skills and not just a waste of everyone's time. I sure as fuck don't know what I'm doing wrong.
  6. Saw a Cybertruck in the wild today. What an incredibly ugly piece of shit. I thought it looked bad in pictures but up close it's worse.
  7. To wish Greg's tree had done more for humanity.
  8. You should have stayed there and pissed all over the place.
  9. I can't decide whether the appropriate respone is: That's a big bitch. OR Anything's a dildo if you're brave enough.
  10. Anyone else ever heard the rumor that with the one in 2023 that we could pretty much read into where the ballon technology was sending it's information to and hence, we let it continue flying in order to piggyback into their systems? I am grossly oversimplifyng what happened but did any else here about this?
  11. Everyone else is playing for 2nd place. The opening scene of Saving Private Ryan is the greatest thing ever put on film.
  12. Yeah, but most of those are just Time/Life Series books about the Old West, Civil War and WWII. But he does probably have a full auto AK slung up behind him.
  13. It wasn't the fall from the window that killed him. It was the sudden deceleration at the end.
  14. Large American corporation fails it's customers? Why would the media report that? It would affect the share value of the media CEO's portfolios.
  15. Concrete Dildo Assault Brigade would be better. They could open for Black Flag.
  16. Best work you've ever done. And that bar is very, very low.
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