MetaFilter posts tagged with jobs and brokenlink

Legitimate Job Test or Something Wacky?

etaoin — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 05:26:58 -0800

Legitimate Job Test or Something Wacky? H.J. Cummins of the Minneapolis Star Tribune writes about personality tests--never meant to screen job applicants--being used or misused by employers. Test sample items: "I see things or animals or people around me that others do not see." "My soul sometimes leaves my body." "I have a habit of counting things that are not important, such as bulbs on electric signs, and so forth."

Work more or less

xtian — Fri, 27 Aug 2004 11:13:59 -0800

Add to this week's professional “secrets”, and scams to rube employers another idea of work: one person’s career can be your next hobby.

Canadian Tax Dollars at Work

Coop — Tue, 20 Jul 2004 14:58:41 -0800

Canadian Tax Dollars at Work I am sure there are some hard ~~drinking~~ working Metafilterites out there that could be Canada's official wine co-ordinator. You would have to give wine away to senior politicians and hard stuff like that.

Who deserves a break today?

mischief — Sat, 08 Nov 2003 22:45:30 -0800

McDonalds CEO Puts McJob in Mainstream. By taking Merriam-Webster to task for including McJob ("low paying and dead-end work") in its latest Collegiate Dictionary, McDonald's CEO Jim Cantalupo has ensured that yet another disparaging fast-food web-fed meme joins the venerable "You want fries with that?" If this had been Fox, I would have said it was intentional.

Form an orderly queue

MintSauce — Fri, 01 Aug 2003 02:14:13 -0800

Wanted. Worlds best programmer. Location - Superyacht. Salary - Outrageous. (Found in this weeks London Times)

She works, he doesn't

aacheson — Thu, 15 May 2003 11:09:47 -0800

She works, he doesn't Last week's Newsweek had a story about women who work and their husbands don't-either laid off or for other reasons. Personally, I know of at least 10 couples where the woman has been the "alpha earner" as well as where the men have been out of work for long periods of time. They may not go out and golf the whole time and they surf the internet "looking for jobs", but the bottom line is they don't go out and get a job, any job, to pay the bills, and appear to be okay letting their wives (who aren't happy about it) earn the money. Why is this happening? It wasn't "ok" just a few years ago. Is it a passive-aggressive thing? A reaction to years of expecting to be the sole bread winner? Why do all my women friends in this situation agree that if they were laid off, they would get ANY job immediately, but their men seem to think it's okay to coast for months to years. And why the double standards? Why does being the sole earner make women angry and resentful, even though they may embrace the feminist agenda wholeheartedly?

eas98 — Tue, 07 May 2002 14:46:13 -0800

THE CITY DOES NOT EMPLOY INDIVIDUALS WHO NOW USE OR HAVE USED TOBACCO PRODUCTS WITHIN THE LAST TWELVE MONTHS. - Is this legal? I myself do not smoke, but it seems dangerous that governments or corporations may be able to refuse to hire you based on something you may legally do on your free time. Is this common? More importantly, is this the start of a very slippery slope?

kingmissile — Mon, 04 Mar 2002 07:43:21 -0800

German Town Promotes Sleeping on the Job. So when can we expect to see this system go into effect here in the U.S.?

dchase — Sat, 03 Nov 2001 17:04:22 -0800

Need a job? Read the source code.

donkeysuck — Fri, 15 Jun 2001 16:49:11 -0800

I'm not really sure if I feel for these people or not. A lean job market is no picnic, but c'mon, there are other jobs out there. Maybe it is some sort of divine retribution for these shelter denizens after spending months cutting people off while yapping on the cell-phone behind the wheel of the leased Porsche. Yes, that was a run-on sentence.

jcterminal — Wed, 09 May 2001 11:30:51 -0800

If you're reading this, then you're probably qualified. This is my job, but I've tendered my resignation so I can move out to Wyoming and become a carpenter. If you know a web-master/designer who's been 'down-sized' (and who doesn't?), hook a brother up.

It's actually a nice place to work. I don't dig the corporate thing at all, but the IS dept is very friendly and you do get a measure of creative freedom. (and i've broken them in, so they're used to off the wall ideas.)

amanda — Mon, 09 Apr 2001 10:19:27 -0800

Free costume dry cleaning. The Justice League of America seeks new heroes. I'd apply but it says quite clearly that "Your weakness cannot in any way be related to a food or beverage." Damn.

barbelith — Thu, 22 Feb 2001 01:21:12 -0800

Wanted: Web Designer for 'egg': must like startlingly honest employers who don't beat about the bush.

crushed — Fri, 02 Feb 2001 00:37:52 -0800

51,631 dot com layoffs as of Feb. 01, 2001. Is it that the web allows us to simultaneously view the usual failure of 99% of new businesses, a sign of the coming recession, or just a result of bad business plans and get rich quick schemes? Or was it simply too good to last? Whatever the reason, it's depressing.

Dean_Paxton — Thu, 19 Oct 2000 10:36:13 -0800

Imaxo pays you go on job interviews Fees for interviews range from $25 - $1000 Some people could You can only interview a maximum of 12 times a year, so you couldn't live off of doing this unless you had a lot of aliases