Ah, the primary one went south, although I think the two I have had the past couple of days have gone well. They asked for references, so that means they are seriously considering me. The 1st place actually got a little pissed that I was taking too long (about 36 hours) to make a decision. Then they criticized my grammar, which was both inaccurate and a bit harsh.Originally Posted by Assertn
Will you know straight after the interview or something? And do you have to reply on the spot? I suppose the "ASAP" part puts you on the spot a bit. Otherwise yeah, I'd just wait a bit to see which jobs actually send you an offer for the position.
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My driver's side headlight burned out. My car is a model such that the entire assembly must be removed to replace the lamp. The assembly is attached with three bolts. Get the first out, get the second out, and the third is wedged in a tiny space. It struggles to come out, and I get it out...where it promptly makes a short drop...somewhere inside the engine compartment. Didn't hit the ground. No clue where it is. I'm hoping it dislodges itself safely in my driveway, rather than depositing itself into a swiftly moving engine component while I'm on the highway, where it will then be projected into other components.
Might I suggest passing a somewhat powerful magnet to where you suspect it might have fallen. You might catch it is a magnetic material.
Marik, might want to check your warranty. Or call up a local repair man they should parts for older models.
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The magnet would stick to the car frame itself, making that trick harder. But I suppose it could work.
Monday, I was washing some clothes and my washer started making this really loud knocking sound and leaking water. I called GE to schedule a repair and was told they'd have someone out between 8-12am this morning. The repair guy shows up and proceeds to tell me that one of the suspension rods that holds up the basket was broken and he'd have to order a replacement since he doesn't stock the rods for my washer.
About an hour later, I received a phone call from GE Consumer Relations telling me that the rod for my washer is no longer available. I am now without a washer.
If it's under warranty and they are out of the parts required to fix the machine, they owe you a new washer. I imagine if you called GE directly for repair, then it is under warranty, because otherwise it'd be a lot cheaper to get it repaired locally.
I did the same thing the other day while replacing my battery... dropped the little nuts not once but thrice into the engine bay. Luckily I have a magnetic pickup tool and the battery area doesn't have too many crevices.
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Depends on how powerful the magnet is and certain components are made from aluminum (which isn't magnetic). Same concept as a magnetic tip screw-driver or socket wrench.
If you have one try a magnetic hammer, if the screw is magnetic should find it, maybe.
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________ we may fuck up alot but we always pull thru.
My car's engine compartment has tons of crevices and shelves for stuff to fall on. It's a sub-compact, the engine compartment is tight and full of supports, braces and components. It's right near the radiator and fan.
So there is metal all over the general area where it fell. Magnets wouldn't help...if I could even snake a tool down in there.
Train a cockroach to fetch it. They don't even live that long, so taking care of its retirement pension afterwards wouldn't ruin your finances.
As in the grammar was inaccurate, or the criticism was?
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The accusation was. I looked the email over and saw no issues.
It doesn't bode well for the working atmosphere if they see it fit to criticize your first email - and without a reason to boot. Better forget it.
Went back to uni today for this "orientation" day that was compulsory for my new degree.
I sat there for 5 hours today listening:
Not to:
-How to obtain our student ID cards
-How to obtain our timetables
-Information about the structure of the course
-Information about what to expect from each type of teaching environment in the course (lectures vs tutes vs practicals vs placements)
-Information about assessments, workload expectations
-Textbook, labcoat, stethoscope purchases/requirements
But instead we listened to:
-A bunch of academic staff introduce themselves
-The lives of these people and how medicine has changed over the years
-Who to cry to when you see your first death/dead body
While what we did isn't entirely useless, it's pretty stupid to talk about those topics for so long, on the first day of the course. Really, "changes in medicine" could have been the first lecture in a topic called "Professionalism" or "Medicine and society" or something. Death could have been the second lecture.
I wanted to hear about the administrative running of the course, but instead they expect you to learn it yourself since it's available from their onlinewebsitelabyrinth. The online material itself is all over the place and incomplete since if the degree doesn't conform to the normal university calendar, it obviously shouldn't conform to the university's standards about setting the course material up before classes start neither.
Example:
-The site says that med students don't get their student cards like normal students do, and are handed out to them instead on Orientation day. Nobody mentioned this today, so I asked the university support centre. We get our cards the same way everybody else does.
-Email said that our timetables will be available on Orientation day. It seems by "available", they mean online.. and only for the first 2 weeks. Of course, they expected us to figure this out ourselves as well.
All in all, a rather frustrating, uneventful and wasted day.
PS: same shit tomorrow.
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enjoy your seven years of non-stop studying.
orientation days are mostly just for you to see for the first time all the lectures. find a senior student (even a 2nd year senior) and get your information from him.
It's a post-grad degree so it's only four years, but then there's one year intern, 2 years residency and other college/specialisation training.. so yeah.. goodbye freedom, lol.
The program went under a complete audit/review for the first time in 30 years or something, so the entire program/structure's pretty much changed. Will see what the student organisation has to say about everything though. (Average age of the cohort is like.. mid/late twenties..... it's kind of weird, heh)
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Wow, that's a lot of schooling. I'd say it's worth it though. My brother was 34 before he completed his studies. He's been rolling in success and the fruits of his labor since then, so stick with it. The real world and the daily 8-to-5 grind sux anyway.
Bitch: my retired mother has few things she enjoys doing in her waning years, one of which was going on boat cruises with friends. Now with this cruise ship accident in Italy, that will be one less thing she'll want to do to get out of the house. She's real bad about "once bitten, twice shy," even if she wasn't the one that was bitten.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
Thank god she never watched titanic.
I put up some ads to sell off some stuff I have no use for. I got a reply from one guy last night saying he's interested but I never heard back after I responded to his message. Same thing happened this afternoon with some other assclown. What the fuck is up with these flakes? Do they have nothing better to do than waste my time?
I have yet to officially hear back from that company I interviewed with, but I heard that they have been calling my references and members of the project team that I interviewed with have been adding me on Linkedin. I have no idea what is going on, and I turned down a job with another company. I hope I have not screwed myself, and that people don't just randomly add people they interview with on Linkedin.
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