Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Happy fun money dance!
So, after much consideration(read 2 minutes), I applied for a job at National Chain Bookstore(genericized for fear of something or other).
The application for said job was routed through an online system that asks you the usual bits about references and work experience, as well as an extra 100 random bonus questions!
These questions include such gems as "do you correct people when it's necessary," and "do people often annoy you?" These aren't terrible, really, except that the answer choices are "Strongly disagree, Disagree, Agree, Strongly agree," and the questions themselves contain imprecise qualifiers like "always" and "necessary."
These words have multiple meanings. Assuming that "always" was intended to mean generally, your answer might be less of a bad mark against you than if it actually meant at all times, ever. Really, a little clarification. Please.
Also, when your largest hiring block is college students and you expect personal references to have known them for a minimum of five years, you may not be getting the most up to date info from those references. College only lasts 4-26 years, people.
The application for said job was routed through an online system that asks you the usual bits about references and work experience, as well as an extra 100 random bonus questions!
These questions include such gems as "do you correct people when it's necessary," and "do people often annoy you?" These aren't terrible, really, except that the answer choices are "Strongly disagree, Disagree, Agree, Strongly agree," and the questions themselves contain imprecise qualifiers like "always" and "necessary."
These words have multiple meanings. Assuming that "always" was intended to mean generally, your answer might be less of a bad mark against you than if it actually meant at all times, ever. Really, a little clarification. Please.
Also, when your largest hiring block is college students and you expect personal references to have known them for a minimum of five years, you may not be getting the most up to date info from those references. College only lasts 4-26 years, people.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Time for the fun stuff!
Well, I finally managed to get a little bit ahead in my classes, which means, Update Time!
I have one ridiculous class, Japanese Modern Lit, which eats up time. Little benefit there, except in realizing that Meiji era literature makes me depressed, as it follows an aesthetic of frustrated desire and death. So cheery.
My other classes all feel a touch more useful. Japanese, being my major, pumps vocabulary into my brain almost faster than I can forget it, though I'm working on retention. Scandinavian Mythology is perhaps one of the most interesting classes I've ever taken, lots of analysis of how the mythology came about and how it was altered through christian and Roman influences. Astronomy is amusing, we get to calculate fun things, like the luminosity of the sun.
Soil Science is... odd. They decided that a class based on guest lectures and group work should be held in a large class room that is incapable of seating a group in any configuration other than a line, which makes it rather hard to talk to each other. Being a devil's advocate during group discussions is enough fun to off-set this greatly, however.
Those are my classes in a nutshell. At the moment, they kind of dominate my life.
I have one ridiculous class, Japanese Modern Lit, which eats up time. Little benefit there, except in realizing that Meiji era literature makes me depressed, as it follows an aesthetic of frustrated desire and death. So cheery.
My other classes all feel a touch more useful. Japanese, being my major, pumps vocabulary into my brain almost faster than I can forget it, though I'm working on retention. Scandinavian Mythology is perhaps one of the most interesting classes I've ever taken, lots of analysis of how the mythology came about and how it was altered through christian and Roman influences. Astronomy is amusing, we get to calculate fun things, like the luminosity of the sun.
Soil Science is... odd. They decided that a class based on guest lectures and group work should be held in a large class room that is incapable of seating a group in any configuration other than a line, which makes it rather hard to talk to each other. Being a devil's advocate during group discussions is enough fun to off-set this greatly, however.
Those are my classes in a nutshell. At the moment, they kind of dominate my life.
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