I have to remember back to my unemployed days of 2018 and 2015 thru 2017 that even though I may get phone calls responding to my job applications, they may be only from middle man recruiters representing those jobs or[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m guessing many of these companies that subscribe to the use of these tests, to give possible interviewees, do so because some consultant somewhere, sold them on the idea that using these will supply the with the “best” candidates. It’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m not going to add anything more to this comic but will instead bring up something that in the big picture doesn’t matter, though I think it’s fairly unique. Since I began these daily, diary comics in February of 2010[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
With each questionable step that I encountered with this “job” I realized that something wasn’t kosher. Had they asked me for any personal information along the way, like my Social Security number, I wold have shut it down fast. I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
To be fair I didn’t work with him that long. He’d only become my department supervisor (my third in two years) only several months before Siemens sent our jobs to India and all of ur conversations were cordial and professional.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m a very stubborn and disciplined person (probably more stubborn than anything else) and even though I haven’t made a cent with these comics, I feel as if I need to record/write/draw one for every single day. It would be[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This was a revelation of something I always suspected. During my nearly 3 full years of unemployment there were many, many positions that I applied for, that I thought I was a good or better fit for, only to never[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It was just 12 days ago (as this comic from 2/14/19 will show) that Chase and I discussed putting in motion what was needed to get me on full time. Twelve days and this is how far we’ve come. With all of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Now, I see the advantage in this. In fact I like this option. I remember starting with new companies in the past and having to spend so much of the first few days just filling out forms, it was annoying.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As I wrote and drew this comic, the more I thought about it, the more I think I found and applied to this job on Linkedin. And I know it’s easy to make fun of Linkedin (I’ve done so in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…