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 Post subject: Re: Why hiring someone can be hilarious...
PostPosted: Thu May 05, 2011 10:17 pm  
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People are mocking him because he's clueless. Why would anyone want to switch their life with someone who has to make outrageous claims about it?

This guy is like that shyster used car salesman who tries way too hard.


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 Post subject: Re: Why hiring someone can be hilarious...
PostPosted: Thu May 05, 2011 10:38 pm  
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Are you trying to sell me a car? I have enough. Thanks though!

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 Post subject: Re: Why hiring someone can be hilarious...
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Krunkz wrote:
Are you trying to sell me a car? I have enough. Thanks though!

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But you don't have a car like THIS car! Now you look like a clever sort of man, Mr Wrigley, so let me tell you about this car and why you NEED this car. Now, again, I'm not gonna tell you why you oughtta WANT it, I'mma tell you why you NEED it, though you don't realize it yet.

Your current car. Yeah, you've had it a while, I'm sure you're very happy with it. But I'll give you three reasons why you NEED this new car:

1. It's new, this car is old. You think your old car is as good as a new car? New > old. I mean, if we didn't have new cars, we'd all still be driving around Model Ts. Is that what you want? The US car industry, sir, which built this great land, sells 500 MILLION cars a year sir, 500 MILLION. Now that's a lot of cars, sir, a lot of new cars. And I'm sure you want to be one of those 500 MILLION guys with new cars each yeah, yes sir, we couldn't have four hundred million nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine cards sold in this good Year of our Lord twenty-eleven, now could we? When you're buying this car, sir, you're buying a piece of America. You're helping keep America fresh and new, keeping your real estate prices up and whatnot. You don't want to be THAT GUY in your neighborhood, do you, the one guy draggin' everyone else's home prices down with your old car, do you? You don't want your boy to ask his pa why you've been driving the same old hunk of junk all these years, do you?

2. Because this car will take you places! Sure, you might say, your old car does that just fine. But does it really? Is every journey a step up the celestial staircase to the good Lord's heaven, is every trip to the supermarket air-conditioned bliss? No, sir, I'd say not, and if you think this car won't change that then sir, I'd say you can't know till you try. Fifty years odd ago, sir, people went to the moon, to TRY and see if it could be done, and all we're asking you to do is to try this car out. Did you know, this car, is the same car, that Prez Obama drove to his first job in Harlem, yes sir it is. Same make, same model, you don't think that the man who personally killed Osama bin Laden could be wrong in his choice of car, do you?

3. This car got the highest review on performance, design, and general sex appeal by yours truly in a lineup of all the cars in this parking spot, yes sir, the very highest. This car sir has been reviewed by Consumer Reports and eBay Motors and many other prestigious automotive columns, yes sir it has. This car was designed and built by over a thousand college graduates, yes sir, the best and brighest, out of parts delivered right here to the good ol' USA, yessir, all these parts in this car are right here in the USA as of this time. I'm not gonna ask you to buy some car that hasn't even been imported, this car is right here in the USA, designed by real college grads, I guarantee it.

4. Now I'd said I'd give you only three reasons, sir, but lemme give you a fourth, and that is, like I said sir, you're a real swell guy, a smart guy, a clever guy, and a hell of a man if I may say so myself sir. And I judge a man just like I judge this awesome here car, and you're top of the line. Now I got five kids, five mouths to feed, sir, three sons and three daughters, sir, and I'd be much obliged if I could be telling them that we won't be goin' hungry tonight. So I think you're a great guy sir and so this is the car for you.

Now don't feel rushed to make up your mind, sir, you can just go ahead and have all the coffee you want from this here dispenser, though I'll have to ask you refrain from using the bathroom because there's not a pan for a hundred miles and the cops don't look too kindly on exposure round these parts.

If you ever want to call me night or day with your decision, sir, here's my number and I'll be sittin' on the line waitin' for that call, I got all the paperwork filled out and just need your signature right here and you're good to go, now you have a nice day now you hear?


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 Post subject: Re: Why hiring someone can be hilarious...
PostPosted: Fri May 06, 2011 12:45 am  
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So did you hire him?


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 Post subject: Re: Why hiring someone can be hilarious...
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DAE think this person was Aestu?
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 Post subject: Re: Why hiring someone can be hilarious...
PostPosted: Fri May 06, 2011 2:47 am  
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Gonna have to call a Jim Brown on this one.

thanks folks, nothing else to see here!


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 Post subject: Re: Why hiring someone can be hilarious...
PostPosted: Fri May 06, 2011 3:26 am  
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azelma idk what the job is but hire me.


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 Post subject: Re: Why hiring someone can be hilarious...
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Krunkz wrote:
It didn't feel like he was bragging about his Harvard summer course


I disagree - perhaps we look at this completely differently...but the whole "impressive reason #1" thing...the whole talking about all his "connections" at Stanford and Harvard (and the fact that his kid used to play on a soccer team with Obama's kid lol)...he is completely bragging. To make matters worse, he's bragging about things that aren't that impressive to begin with (like the Obama kid thing - what the hell does that have to do with this job opportunity?). Maybe he's trying to say something about continuing education with the Harvard thing, but I highly doubt it. He's saying the Harvard/Stanford stuff to try to be impressive. One of those people who actually DOES think that their academics automatically make them amazing.

The sad thing is, if he had left well enough alone, and just had the Stanford diploma and Harvard course listed on his resume (without saying how "prestigious" it all is), I would have been slightly impressed. I would have thought "oh wow, this guy went to Stanford, that's a tough school to get into." To highlight it in such an arrogant way though was what amused me.

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Stupid ass that he is. And what is with all that confidence, guy is obviously full of shit. No one on these boards are that cocky, for sure.


Oh I'm sure there are people on this board who are that cocky. However, I think there is a very fine line between confidence and arrogance. Also, I don't think anyone on this board would be stupid enough to come across so haughty in a job application (riddled with grammatical mistakes).

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Conclusion. Another fubu post made so people can feel better about their position in life. HOO RAH!


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azelma idk what the job is but hire me.


Okay - as long as you wear skimpy outfits to work every day.


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 Post subject: Re: Why hiring someone can be hilarious...
PostPosted: Fri May 06, 2011 10:07 am  
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Connections are powerful things to have and if he truly has connections with people (who we hope are well connected) then you may have benefited greatly from hiring him. He clearly knows the worth of connections in the business world; they can sometimes make or break a company - especially when it comes to contract acquisition.

Giving him an interview and trying to learn more about his connections would've been my move.
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 Post subject: Re: Why hiring someone can be hilarious...
PostPosted: Fri May 06, 2011 10:15 am  
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[quote="Eturnalshift"]Connections are powerful things to have and if he truly has connections with people (who we hope are well connected) then you may have benefited greatly from hiring him. He clearly knows the worth of connections in the business world; they can sometimes make or break a company - especially when it comes to contract acquisition.

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 Post subject: Re: Why hiring someone can be hilarious...
PostPosted: Fri May 06, 2011 10:24 am  
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Azelma wrote:
Eturnalshift wrote:
Connections are powerful things to have and if he truly has connections with people (who we hope are well connected) then you may have benefited greatly from hiring him. He clearly knows the worth of connections in the business world; they can sometimes make or break a company - especially when it comes to contract acquisition.

Giving him an interview and trying to learn more about his connections would've been my move.


I guess it depends on your business. With what we do, we don't give 2 shits about "connections." We don't need investors (and wouldn't take any if we had them), so really there's no point in connections.

Good call. In the defense industry you need to have connections and people who can push through contracts so that's the mindset I have... I guess I forget that not everyone is in such a crooked industry like I am. I envy you for that.
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 Post subject: Re: Why hiring someone can be hilarious...
PostPosted: Fri May 06, 2011 10:36 am  
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Eturnalshift wrote:
Connections are powerful things to have and if he truly has connections with people (who we hope are well connected) then you may have benefited greatly from hiring him. He clearly knows the worth of connections in the business world; they can sometimes make or break a company - especially when it comes to contract acquisition.

Giving him an interview and trying to learn more about his connections would've been my move.


Something we agree on! See! Republicans and Democrats CAN get to an agreement after all! :)

Honestly, it's becoming more and more apparent that it's not what you know, but who you know. I have found this out personally for the past 3 summers. While I do have pretty good qualifications on paper, I am almost guaranteed my annual summer job at NIH through connections. It's almost right across the street after all. And Obama's extra funding seems to have helped them become more receptive to student applicants.

EDIT: Oh btw, what industry are you in anyway Eturnal? Not sure if you have said this before, but I just realized I have no idea what you do lol. Just curious :)


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 Post subject: Re: Why hiring someone can be hilarious...
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It hasn't been what you know over who you know since before the roman empire.

every job i've had, including the ones i was vastly over qualified for (lolmovietheater) i got because i knew someone who worked there or who did the hiring specifically.


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 Post subject: Re: Why hiring someone can be hilarious...
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I flatly disagree with that viewpoint.

Who you know is more important than what you know only if you're a talentless philanderer. It's not possible to make a viable organization out of those kinds of people, and no, they aren't useful as part of an organization either; worthwhile organizations aren't going to be challenged to find business partners.

If you want to go back to the time of the Roman Empire, Usd, the increasing value placed by society on "who you know over what you know" was a major factor in the decline of the Roman Empire. Tacitus described how, during the Imperial era, the emphasis on connections and obsequiousness over skill both watered down the quality of the Roman educational system and led to moral and intellectual decay. This was a common theme in late Roman comedies.

Late Roman technology was also substantially less advanced than that of earlier eras because the emphasis on connections over skill caused skill to go into decline. By the third century AD, it got so bad that the Romans stopped being able to make things they knew how to make earlier on, and wound up having to simply import, steal or repurpose older artifacts and infrastructure. When the last stronghold of the empire finally fell in 1453 AD, it was because other civilizations (the Turks and Germans) had developed skills and know-how the Romans didn't have.

If someone has skill, they can contribute, and the connections will come in time. If all they have is connections then why would anyone who isn't a fool choose them over someone who can get real results?


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