Why job interviews are a joke

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This article (“A scruffy dillema”) is something I wholeheartedly agree with.

While she was away, I scanned the form which she’d been completing during the interview. Viewed from upside down it made little sense.

But there was one scrawled comment across the top of the form which was clearly legible. I shifted slightly to the left to bring it into focus. And there it was, the verdict on all my smooth talking, on all my shows of interest, on all my engaging smiles and enthusiastic nods.

It read: “Scruffy. Suggest Stock Room.”

I always wonder if it used to be different. If people could just knock on someone’s door, say I’m looking for a job and get it, based on the fact that they’re capable, looking for a job and thus willing to work… without sitting in a room confronted by people who can’t look past a pose, clothes, beard, hairstyle or glasses. Not even a spotless academic record will save you from them.

These kind of job interviews get old fast, they stifle progress, and are based on the idea that people who look different are inherently different, thus making superficial discrimination okay. It’s human cattle herding. It’s freaking ludicrous.

Someone should’ve stuck Einstein in a storage room.

Posted on August 7th 2009 in Mumblings, Sadness

Somebody gimme 3 million dollars!

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If you’re looking for a sign that we live in a digital world that cares not for the physical manifestations of our analog past, you need only look at Paul Mawhinney’s record collection. At over 3 million records, it’s the largest in the world. He’s trying to sell it due to his advancing age and health problems. Unfortunately, as he puts it, “no one gives a damn.”

Paul’s been building his collection for most of his life. He used to run a record store, and while running it he never sold the last copy of any album or single, instead keeping it for his archives. Over the years, those really added up.

Now, at an advancing age, stricken with diabetes and legally blind, Paul wants to sell the collection. It’s been appraised at about $50 million, but Paul is asking a mere $3 million. He’s had no serious offers, and an eBay auction back in February fell through.

In a time when you can access pretty much whatever music you want online, hard copies of albums are declining in value, both monetary and sentimentally. But to see such a mindblowing collection as this sitting in a basement, unwanted, is really heartbreaking. This is historic, no matter that we live in the iPod era or not, and it belongs in a museum. If only one cared enough to buy it.

Video.
Source.

Posted on August 20th 2008 in Earcandy, Sadness

RIP George Carlin :(

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From Wikipedia:

He was considered by many to be a successor to the late Lenny Bruce and was described by Comedy Central as the second greatest stand-up comedian of all time behind Richard Pryor, and right before Lenny Bruce.

Now go and watch all his stuff at Google Video

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Posted on June 23rd 2008 in Sadness

RIP

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Na negentig rondjes om de zon is deze absolute grootheid naar de maan. Dit is zijn laatste boodschap aan de wereld.

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Posted on March 19th 2008 in Sadness, Sci-Fi

Betalen voor je muziek

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Benn Jordan, die muziek maakt onder de naam The Flashbulb, heeft een interessant stukje tekst geschreven over de muziekindustrie. Wat er mis mee is, wat er is gebeurt met Sublight Records (het onafhankelijke label waar mijnheer Jordan zijn muziek kwijt kon) en waarom ik nog steeds muziek koop (het liefst bij de platenlabels zelf) kun je hier lezen.

Posted on August 13th 2007 in Earcandy, Sadness

Drexciya, still making waves

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Hier vind je een onlangs teruggevonden interview met James Stinson, een helft van electrogroep extraordinaire Drexciya. Hij is een paar maanden na het betreffende gesprek overleden. En wat een zonde was dat…

Overigens vind je dit en veel meer boeiende info over Drexciya en detroit electro/techno in het algemeen op deze website.

Posted on August 3rd 2007 in Earcandy, Sadness

The dreaded day has arrived

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Film director Bergman dies at 89.

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Posted on July 30th 2007 in Sadness

Een fraaie kutfilm

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Pan’s Labyrinth is een film zonder fundament. Fraaie beelden en geforceerde emoties vechten om het begrip van de kijker. Een kutscript ligt hier ten grondslag aan, iets wat al jaren hip is in Hollywood en nu door lijkt te sijpelen naar buurland Mexico.

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Posted on May 5th 2007 in Sadness

Don’t fuck with the Dead

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Bedroeving alom. Naast het feit dat Kurt Vonnegut voorgoed onder de zoden ligt, gaan ze ook nog ‘The Evil Dead‘ remaken… Wat opzich raar is, want ‘Evil Dead II‘ is eigenlijk al een remake. Hoe dan ook, het is een erg domme move en wat het eindresultaat zal betreffen, ik ben sceptisch.

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Posted on April 13th 2007 in Mumblings, Sadness

James Brown is dead

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Ging ik vorige week nog uit m’n dak op z’n plaatjes in de SJU en plaatste ik gister nog een mix met zijn shit… heeftie vanochtend de pijp aan Maarten gegeven. Tja. That’s not so funky, momma.

James Brown

Posted on December 25th 2006 in Sadness