Profpointy
Legendary Member
I've found the amount of garlic recommended in recipes to be about right by and large.
If it calls for a "clove" then this is what I put in
Motivational phrases & sayings
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I've found the amount of garlic recommended in recipes to be about right by and large.
If it calls for a "clove" then this is what I put in
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Z’ha’dum
Some years ago I went for a job interview
They wanted someone for who "good enough" was never good enough and asked my view of this
I think I lost the job because I said that "good enough" was OK in some circumstances
e.g. if you have 20 jobs on your list and they are all urgent then doing each job to perfection means that the next 19 jobs have all had to wait longer than was necessary
It would be important to revisit some of the jobs to get them fully up to standard - but if it is really good enough then it frees you up to start on the next job
I gave as an example a projector in a classroom of the school I was working in - the cable leading to the computer at the front of the class was broken
I COULD have taken the whole projector down and removed the old cable - then threaded a new cable through the support pillar and properly along the trunking
Instead I left the old cable as it was and would a new cable around the outside of the support pillar and just laid it along the trunking loosely - then down the wall to the computer outside the wall trunking
That got the projector working over lunch and lade the classroom fully functional again rather than taking several hours to do the job properly
I could then fix it all properly during the school holidays when I had time and would not interfere with the class.
They were not impressed - they wanted someone who always strived for perfection
I presume they had never had a busy front line job!!!
They wanted someone for who "good enough" was never good enough and asked my view of this
I think I lost the job because I said that "good enough" was OK in some circumstances
e.g. if you have 20 jobs on your list and they are all urgent then doing each job to perfection means that the next 19 jobs have all had to wait longer than was necessary
It would be important to revisit some of the jobs to get them fully up to standard - but if it is really good enough then it frees you up to start on the next job
I gave as an example a projector in a classroom of the school I was working in - the cable leading to the computer at the front of the class was broken
I COULD have taken the whole projector down and removed the old cable - then threaded a new cable through the support pillar and properly along the trunking
Instead I left the old cable as it was and would a new cable around the outside of the support pillar and just laid it along the trunking loosely - then down the wall to the computer outside the wall trunking
That got the projector working over lunch and lade the classroom fully functional again rather than taking several hours to do the job properly
I could then fix it all properly during the school holidays when I had time and would not interfere with the class.
They were not impressed - they wanted someone who always strived for perfection
I presume they had never had a busy front line job!!!
DRM
Guru
- Location
- West Yorks
Usual b*locks from someone who can’t do the job they’re interviewing for
AndyRM
XOXO
- Location
- North Shields
presta
Guru
When I was young, my first job was a PDS engineer, 'Post Design Services' is essentially is cleaning up after it's all hit the fan: if a design fault surfaced after something had gone into production it was my job to sort it. They said it would be good experience, and it was, it taught me a lot about the time and work that's saved by getting the job right in the first place.
Bonefish Blues
Banging donk
- Location
- 52 Festive Road
Nope it's genuine.....it says so on the label
Typo-based amusing posts don't work if the poster doesn't realise
Beebo
Firm and Fruity
- Location
- Hexleybeef
They are talking nonsense.
Any sensible employer knows time is money. So employees do what ever is the most productive, and perfection is very rarely productive unless you have too much time and not enough work.
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Z’ha’dum
Exactly - but this company liked trite phrases
They also wanted people who see challenges and not problems
idiots
Beebo
Firm and Fruity
- Location
- Hexleybeef
“If you don’t expect too much from me, you might not be let down”
A phrase I live my life by. But it’s also a lyric from one of my favourite songs.
A phrase I live my life by. But it’s also a lyric from one of my favourite songs.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Then none of them are urgent or at least an urgent status serves no purpose and can be dismissed.
Punkawallah
Über Member
If there is a list of 20 ‘urgent’ jobs, you are short staffed, or whoever deals with taking work on needs to be sacked.
AndyRM
XOXO
- Location
- North Shields
I had to deal with multiple clients at my old job, all of whom would claim their job was urgent or top priority. After about two weeks of this, I got 5 of them in a meeting and said something along the lines of,
"If you all come at me with urgent jobs it's impossible that need doing immediately this isn't going to work. Give me your actual deadlines, not "right now" and everything will be fine."
And it was. Until my manager found out and went nuts at me, because he was the kind of fella who'd drop everything if the head of marketing asked for something on a whim, no matter how vague or ridiculous.
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Z’ha’dum
When I was working in schools I was applying for jobs at the end purely as an IT Technician rather than as an IT Teacher
One of the common interview questions was how to set priorities to jobs
you were often given a list of jobs and asked to say what order you would do them
There was always one job something like "The HeadTeacher needs a something printing today and the printer in his office is not working"
That was a trap - it is only needed today not NOW - but it is for the Head - but if a projector in a classroom is not working then that disrupts a lessons which should be done first
this was common and a lot of school did it
When it happened in reality things varied! - although I was lucky and school I worked in did it properly
(except one - but the IT manager tended to just tell people to f*** off - he was NOT a people person!!!)
Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
I'm so glad that these sorts of "interview questions" haven't reached Germany, or at least not my sector.
