THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: The Fake Shemp on July 31, 2008, 03:40:55 PM
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Got to love that American economy!
Maybe I can get Malek as my next part-timer! :lol
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A political sciences major, no less! Swell guy, though. Really liked his interview.
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Amurica :american
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A political sciences major, no less! Swell guy, though. Really liked his interview.
"so who's going to win?"
"well i think that mccain is following a lot of the same strategies which led to the wins of..."
"mc-who? i mean sony or microsoft! you're a queerbo"
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Careful, don't hire 'em too smart. He could take your job!
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I have a Master's degree and I would have no problem working as a clerk at gamestop, at least while I am still in school. I am in a weird sort of limbo, no one wants to hire me for an hourly position because of my Master's, but I don't have the experience to get hired in my field. I know it seems illogical, but I would be better off with just a bachelor's degree right now :-\
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Maybe he just had a genuine thirst for knowledge and no desire to get the best job possible.
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Way to class up the joint. What's next A DOORMAN?!
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:bow US govt
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Did he wear a suit to the interview?
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Hah, he just wore a dress shirt and a pair of slacks.
He works as a research assistant at a thinktank in D.C. While his degree is nice, I hired him on his personality and prior retail/management experience.
He wants to move up the ladder or wait it out 'till sometime next year, when he can see what government jobs in civil services shake out from the winning candidate.
Either way, I've got a very qualified keyholder through quarter four.
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I went from ASM to SM in about four months. My former DM, now Regional Director, felt I was about two to three years away from being an Area Manager and/or District Manager. My former Area Manager, now a DM, feels the same way. See a pattern (in terms of moving up)?
It's kind of a matter of competency and how good you are at your job.
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Nice!
I have a degree, you should hire me. :)
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Done and done.
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Ballin'!
:D
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I have absolutely no idea.
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all the district managers i knew when i worked retail seemed to make a pretty good living... it depends heavily on how good the company you work for is, and how much they pay their store managers. almost all of them had to travel a hell of a lot, i know it was tough for the ones that had families. travel expenses for district managers are pretty much always on the company's dime, though.
the key to moving up in retail seems to be either sticking at one company, or having connections. my first promotion was all thanks to connections from my mom, who has been working in retail for about six years. in that time my mom moved up from assistant manager to store manager, although it probably would have gone faster if she'd stayed at one company (she had terrible luck with stores closing down and one company she worked for even went bankrupt). i knew people at Coach who moved up to management within two years, though, but that was usually due to a manager transferring to a new location or getting a promotion (managers at Coach don't typically quit that often, they make a lot of money).
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A full half of the guys tho work for me have a degree (one in architecture, two in history, and another in English). kind of weird to think that 4-5 years in college and the only job you can find is a part time clerks position.
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Lot of these guys have 15k to 20k in debt from college too.
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But come on, political science? history? English? Aren't booming fields are they.
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in other wacky hiring news, my company is looking for a phone rep to sit in a tier one support queue with a CCNA. Yes that's exactly why people get their CCNA because they want to do help desk for E/Us.
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in other wacky hiring news, my company is looking for a phone rep to sit in a tier one support queue with a CCNA. Yes that's exactly why people get their CCNA because they want to do help desk for E/Us.
Wow. CCNA and only Tier 1? Ouch.
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But come on, political science? history? English? Aren't booming fields are they.
No they aren't...but like most liberal arts degrees one would think they could find a job at least in business or advertising. Just because someone gets a degree in English doesn't make them an English teacher. One of my best friends in college got his BA in English and went to Harvard Law.