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Specifically, the AC who claims that all job posts are works of fiction and that Soggy Jobs is a fraud.
It is specifically for people like him that I built it. I want to facilitate the employment of those who find it difficult to find work.
However, I am forced to concede that I'm stymied by this particular AC. I expect he has some manner of mental illness whose paranoia leads him to be completely convinced that _nobody_ actually works as a coder.
The booming Portland economy is centered around the Pearl District and its Downtown. Locate your startup there and you'll get VC like there's no tomorrow.
But you won't hire any coders.
Have you any advice as to how I can help him? Help me out here, I'm begging you!
Reply to: Eric Berne MD On "Why Don't You - Yes But"
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(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday November 12 2018, @03:50AM
What you just posted, as well as many of your previous posts after the past few months, are examples of the Game of "Why Don't You Yes But" in the book "Games People Play", published in 1965 and written by Psychiatrist Eric Berne MD.
The observations in this book grew out of his collaboration with the San Francisco Psychiatry Seminars when it took up the puzzling question as to why a phenomenon known as "Failure To Thrive" leads newborn infants to lose all will to live, whither away then day.
Some infants that would otherwise so-cruelly perish are able to live because - despite still being unable to do anything more than suckle and soil their diapers - adopt "Survival Strategies" whose effect on these infants' mothers leads those mothers to cherish them in a way that infants and children do not merely appreciate, but require for survival.
Most of the book is a catalog of the games the Seminars had documented at the time of the book's writing, the first chapter being a theoretical introduction of their theories of Failure To Thrive as well as what at the time was a new school of psychology called "Transactional Analysis".
(Berne started his work on Transactional Analysis well before the Seminars were established, and had published some technical papers on the topic, but this was the first published work that was intended for the nonspecialist.)
The final chapter concerns Life Without Games.
Thee are times that I myself experience Life Without Games [warplife.com], but I readily admit there are more times when I play one of Berne's Games then the times I do not. In particular, "Why Don't You Yes But" is classified as a Therapy Group Game - the games that members of a therapy group play with each other - is quite familiar to me.
I could answer this particular objection of yours but to do so would clearly be unproductive. So I'll raise you: admit to the fact that you are playing one of Berne's Games.