Big Lunch

You know the inflation numbers are a lie when it’s right at $50 for two people to eat lunch at a lunch counter type place (not even a real sit-down restaurant). And yeah, sure, it’s California. But I go to a lot of other states and places and it’s nearly the same in all the others too.

Prices are mostly irrelevant to me, but damn that seems like a lot.

Bait Hate

Not quite for either person’s analysis, but close. The interviewer is baiting Sydney by attempting to be affiliative/friendly. She’s trying to incite Sydney into saying something provocative or damaging with a credible attempt at comity. And it failed utterly, though it would’ve worked on most people. Such a great clip. 999 out of a 1,000 people would’ve fallen right into that trap. It made me like and respect Sydney a ton more that she batted it aside effortlessly.

The interviewer is attempting to play her and got played instead. You love to see it.

Natural

I’ve noticed that nearly all of the people who claim there is no such thing as human nature have never had kids. No kids for me and I will never have any, but there certainly is a human nature. It’s completely obvious if you spend even a little time around small children.

War and Chaos

If people have told you this doesn’t matter: they’re wrong. It does. There’s been a categorical change in humanity’s relation to the world of the actual. The consequences are hitting hard now. This also happened after the advent of the printing press. And it took hundreds of years to work out, along with much chaos, destruction and war.

Circa

If the evidence weren’t so apparent in other people, I don’t think I’d believe in circadian rhythm. Because I just don’t have that.

It means no jet lag, so yay on that. But it means I am always — from the perspective of other people — maladapted for everywhere. The first time I stayed with a friend, she was aghast that I’d do things like go to sleep at midnight and get up at 2AM and then not go back to sleep till like 4PM for a bit.

She got used to it and realized nothing was wrong. Eventually. And no, it’s not insomnia. I always drift off in 5-10 minutes; I sleep and feel fine.

Just thinking today of all the ways I have trouble being like and relating to normies.

HR Lady

A large part of what CHH writes in the excerpt just isn’t true. Particularly in larger corporations, HR does indeed both create and substantially alter job descriptions for listing after the hiring manager provides some basic requirements. This is why these jobs often require 10 years of experience with a product or technology that has only existed for three years. The hiring manager would never make that mistake. HR, though? They have no idea.

It’s obvious CHH has never worked in a decently large corporation because it’s very common in those that HR is the primary part of the org handling all the job description creation, maintenance, approval and listing on job boards.

You Mean the Trash Gets Trashed?

Why!?

This seems extremely common for users to do and I’ve wondered about it also over the years. People will store important emails in the “Deleted Items” in Outlook and files in the “Recycle Bin” on Windows and the “Trash” when it used to be called that.

I think because it’s easy to do? Even though it’s dangerous. I assume they are attempting to use these places like an archive. Stupidly, poorly, and with no thought behind it at all, but I guess that’s what is going on. At previous roles I’ve had to make announcements via email and Slack that, “We do not back up the Windows Recycle Bin or Deleted Items in Outlook. Do not store needed or important items in those locations. They will be deleted and will not be available for any recovery or restore.”

It worked better than nothing, but people still did it anyway.

Use AI

To those (idiots) claiming no recruiters and no ATSes use AI, the company I work for absolutely does use AI for filtering submitted applications. Extensively. We do not use any AI interviewers or other horrible abominations like that, but the first and second pass of all resumes and job apps 100% use AI all the way through.

This is the common case now, no matter what anyone on Reddit says.