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Journal by MichaelDavidCrawford
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!
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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else
follows in the same way.
-- Alan J. Perlis
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday November 12 2018, @12:55AM
I was stressing yesterday because I thought their EFT would come out on the eleventh.
I'll call Comcast's "No, you can't terminate service or we'll cut your nuts off" department shortly.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 12 2018, @01:13AM (1 child)
What a quotable trilogy.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday November 12 2018, @03:05AM
Michael Caine in "The Dark Knight".
I salute you, Sir. I know lots of men like that.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 12 2018, @01:22AM (4 children)
The AC who squawks about no coder jobs may just be a troll who enjoys playing that character. The other day he posted [soylentnews.org]
The guy leaving town isn't exactly something a company would tell an applicant. Making himself the cause of the vanishing act seems a bit extreme, almost like he was over acting.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 12 2018, @01:54AM (2 children)
And yet the guy leaving town is exactly what that particular company told me, an applicant. I am not making this shit up. Your problem is real reality is too unrealistic for you because you're a sheltered idiot.
People like you who have jobs have no fucking clue about what's happening outside of your climate controlled office buildings with your security checkpoints.
We the people are unemployed out here in the real world. You the liars running your job scams are the reason there are millions more unemployed than you want to believe.
Fuck MDC
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday November 12 2018, @03:12AM
I readily agree that most in the industrialized world have very little concept of how bad it is for those who are in other lands.
My Facebook friend M. lives in Sierra Leone. One time I mentioned that the Bill And Melinda Gates Foundation supplied free mosquito netting to Africa. My friend wanted to know how he could get one, so I looked into it. No it turns out that the Foundation is supplying nets to just _one_ African country. I'm hoping this is just some manner of ramp-up study.
When M. gave him the bad news, he wanted to know how he could get the Foundation to supply nets to Sierra Leone too. Honestly I have no clue.
My friend is disabled. My plan is to teach him Python over the net, so that he can eventually provide for himself by remote coding. But the chances are pretty good that M. will die of Malaria first.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 12 2018, @11:47AM
Salty Spice, I'd like to believe everything you say, but it is impossible because before I started my own small software shop I worked for a handful of companies as a programmer. So the jobs do exist (someone even had to replace me whenever I moved on from a job). Hell, one of my biggest clients even has two full-time programmers on staff.
My office is "climate controlled" because I open the windows for fresh air, and once in a while turn on the AC when it's just too humid outside. My "building" is called a "house" most of the time (though I do drag my carcass to the office once in a blue moon).
I'm not looking for additional staff at the moment, but when I do I'll have to post the job somewhere. Do you suggest telephone poles in my neighborhood, or maybe the public bulletin board at my local grocer?
Just to be clear, the only people denying the amount of unemployed are those who publish or tout government statistics. But it is not the responsibility of every small (or medium or large) business to hire more people than they need, or hire everyone who applies. If you are really so, so bad at interviewing then unfortunately the problem is you. If that is the case you should set yourself up as a freelancer. If you don't want to be a freelancer then ask yourself "do I want to be unemployed more than I want to be a freelancer?". Sometimes you have to make compromises along the way to get to where you want to be.
The entire tech industry is not playing charades just to frustrate you. There are plenty of fake job postings placed by recruiters who are simply trying to harvest resumes so they can try to fill jobs they they have not been contracted to fill. Those types of recruiters are a problem, but if they hate you as much as you hate them, then they'll only contact you once no matter how many jobs you apply for by "clicking".
I do wish you the best of luck, but as I have said many time before, your toxic attitude will always outweigh any talent you have. No one wants to bring that into their office, not even for the best <insert job title here> ever.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday November 12 2018, @03:07AM
During the Dot Com Crash I applied for a job twenty minutes after the timestamp on the post.
My mail bounced because that employee was no longer with the company. Perhaps she wasn't authorized to advertised open positions.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 12 2018, @02:12AM (2 children)
Probably an obese, soy-swilling, antifa incel. Let the proud boys deal with him!
Godpeed MDC.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday November 12 2018, @03:22AM (1 child)
Things are starting to look up for me. Had I not had health insurance I would be fucked - even if I could have got the operation for free, uninsured Americans are twice as likely as the insured.
During the spring I told my shrink that "I'm doing the best mentally as I have in years". She agreed, but continued to encourage vigilance on my part so as to not lose that precious state of mind.
Then I got paid fifteen grand all in one check, and proceeded to spend the whole thing in just _eight_ days - not eleven as I'd first said. I was in heaps of trouble with my credit union because I'd overdrawn both my accounts by a total of $250 with no clue as to how to cover it. My friend who often lends me money was obviously reluctant to do so this time round, so I didn't even ask.
Back to "Dining At The St. Francis" as I was wont to say when I was a UCSC student, but here it's actually the Portland Rescue Mission, the Blanchet House Of Hospitality and here in Vancouver, the Share House. Happily I have housing, so I was able to get food boxes from the St. Vincent DePaul and FISH.
(A simple line drawing of a fish is an important symbol to Christians.)
I've got a metric fuckton of groceries right now, my only challenge is to find interesting ways to eat rice and beans but I'm generally able to do so. There are six hamhocks and a corned beef in my freezer.
I had a total of three manic episodes during the Summer, but am now back to what I regard as being the best mentally in years.
However, this evening I'm required to demonstrate that fact to my shrink by unclogging my bathroom sink. While I've got a plastic sink trap with plastic nuts, I've been reluctant to remove it because I fear The Scunge that I shall without a doubt find within.
If I show up to Elena's office without having shaved, she'll curse me up in heaps.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 13 2018, @05:40AM
Got a slow cooker? Pork and beans all the way.
(Score: 2) by mrpg on Monday November 12 2018, @02:35AM (7 children)
Help people who want to be helped.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 12 2018, @03:14AM (5 children)
Gee whiz by golly jolly good sir genius jackass. I want a job. Why the fuck else would I fucking waste my fucking time applying for fucking jobs every fucking day.
Fuck MDC
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday November 12 2018, @03:24AM (4 children)
-ss?
I too was unable to get a job, either perm or doing business as my previous consultancy. So I registered a new domain, the website upon which discusses nothing other than drivers, embedded with some coding tips articles to draw organic links.
There is _no_ doubt in my mind that you really _are_ a good coder, likely even an excellent one. Why don't you hang out your own shingle like I did?
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 12 2018, @04:12AM (3 children)
Because I'm not you. I'm not interested in selling a product to customers. I'm not interested in sales pitches or maintaining relationships with clients or advertising or marketing or search engine optimization. I refuse to blog and I don't use Facebook, and I scorn GitHub and I despise Stack Overflow.
I'm interested in coding and it's abundantly clear to me that coding jobs don't actually exist, despite the blatant lies being told everywhere about lucrative coding jobs.
I code alone in the darkness and my code works. Idiot coder bros hate me whenever I send code samples because I don't follow their social groups and I don't care about their idiot coding patterns. They don't actually understand the languages they use so reading my code is too difficult for their incompetent minds. Especially since I don't comment anything because I can fucking read code.
There's a verse from Baba O'Riley which I live by:
"I don't need to fight to prove I'm right
"I don't need to be forgiven"
I know what I'm capable of and I don't need praise from you.
Fuck MDC
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday November 12 2018, @07:44AM
I fear to think what you would be like to your coworkers were you ever able to actually land a job.
You remind me a great deal of my dear friend Robert. The man is a great genius, and a linguist. He writes chatbots [subbot.org] for fun, then sets his bots to chatting with each other. There is also an IRC channel where anyone can chat with his bots.
When I pointed out to him that he could easily get a quarter million starting salary were he to write Natural Language AI for Google, he replied that "I don't like office politics".
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 3, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday November 12 2018, @08:38AM
- to _write_ code.
Well-written code needs very few if any comments.
I used to be quite verbose about my comments but Scott Lydiard, at the time my boss at Geonex Verde, an aerial photography firm - pointed out that "comments are rarely maintained in parallel with the code".
I think it was Bjarne Stroustrup who pointed out that "The implementation is the documentation" but maybe it was someone else.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 12 2018, @12:00PM
Just for shits and giggles, read what you wrote aloud ... but pretend someone else is saying that to you. Because of your great talent you would think they are completely full of themselves when telling you what you do or don't understand. Then try to remember than everyone who knows something usually thinks they know a lot about it, so their reaction to you will be similar to your reaction to them saying that to you.
First, I love that song. Second, "I don't need to fight to prove I'm right" is very fitting considering you seem to want to pick a fight in every one of your posts. Since your claims of "there are no tech jobs and the industry is only set up to stymie me!" are so wrong you really can't prove anything right (except that you seem to turn off interviewers en mass).
Don't worry, you won't get any praise from me. But you may want to read about the Dunning–Kruger effect [wikipedia.org] to see if you are really capable of what you think. And if you are, maybe understanding DK will help you better deal with those you have such utter contempt for when asking them for a job.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday November 12 2018, @03:32AM
"You have insight. You know you need help. That's half the battle." -- Dr. M., at the end of our first fifty-minute hour.
A significant problem with the treatment of both addiction and mentally illness is that it is quite common for the patient to not be consciously aware that they have a problem. In both cases they patients cling to their delusions so tightly that they give their lives rather than accept relief from those who offer it.
In the case specifically of Schizophrenia, this was determined to be due to injury that the disease does to a structure in the brain that gives us insight. One of the very worst problems with Schizophrenia is that, if left untreated it causes physical damage to the brain that is irreversible. This can be seen from CT scans of brains, as well as autopsies - the surface of the brain shrinks away from the skull.
I write so much about my own Madness in the hope that some of the uninsightful will see themselves in my essays and so seek treatment.
But many never read my writing or the writing of any other mentally ill folk, because as _I_ actually said to a friend when my disastrous course _could_ have been reversed, "Shrinks or for crazy people, and I'm not crazy".
This is one of the world's greatest unsolved problems. I don't expect you to supply a solution.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 12 2018, @03:00AM (5 children)
Your economy is fucked as long as employers refuse to employ anyone. Employing people costs money and savvy employers accumulate more money by not spending money. The only reason you're not seeing widespread rioting is employers realized all they need to do to pacify the jobless is to provide false hope of jobs. Hence every job board is filled with fake jobs. Unemployed people wasting their time applying for jobs which don't even exist are people who are too busy to riot.
As the death spiral continues, you will see increasing unemployment, which is happening. You will see increased begging and theft and homelessness, which is happening. You will see increased security at workplaces to keep rich people safe, which is happening. You will see increased security at gated residential communities to keep poor people out, which is happening. You will see increased police brutality to beat poor people to death while rich people grow ever richer, which is happening.
You accuse me of mental illness, and I tell you the employers that you help are delusional pathological liars. I have applied for night jobs where the delusional employers only conduct interviews during daylight business hours. I have applied at charities that ostensibly assist the mentally ill to find jobs, and there the delusional employers conduct background checks to exclude the mentally ill from assistance. I have applied at companies where interviewers openly admit there aren't any available jobs but company policy obliges them to lie about open jobs and interview candidates anyway.
Soggy Jobs is not helping job seekers. Soggy Jobs is only helping fraudulent employers. Soggy Jobs is part of the problem.
Fuck MDC
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday November 12 2018, @03:50AM (4 children)
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.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 12 2018, @04:48AM (3 children)
Sure thing, dickhead. So you say I'm just playing a psychological game.
Your armchair analysis might have some merit except for the fact that I'm actively seeking work every day and not simply declaring my situation is hopeless. My prospects are indeed hopeless because employers have decided to game the system but that doesn't stop me from trying to play. Techbros love to chant "learn to code" which I did and "get good" which I am. It doesn't fucking matter because the fucking moneyed elite shitscum employers broke the fucking job market.
It occurs to me upon rereading my comment about your economic death spiral that I forgot to mention we had recently yet another mass shooting by a disgruntled loser.
As your economic death spiral continues, you will see increasing numbers of mass shootings as the disenfranchised will realize the futility of their circumstances and will kill as many people as possible before suicide. This is happening, and you deserve it.
Fuck MDC
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday November 12 2018, @08:40AM
You'd rather play Berne's Games than get a job.
I should have pointed out that because your own Survival Strategy saved your very life, your delusion is quite deeply held.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday November 12 2018, @08:41AM
Please tell me that you're not planning to become an Active Shooter yourself.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 12 2018, @01:27PM
You are declaring the entire industry a sham or a scam or a <insert your favorite accusation here>. So are you knowingly and willfully participating in a futile exercise by applying for jobs you claim don't exist?
And this is why you will never get a job. Your vitriol is so evident that you cannot hide it.
These shooters are not frustrated with the job market. They lose their grip because of political hatred or bullying (actual or perceived) or racial/xenophobic hatred or even religious reasons. Shooting up a bunch of people because they can't get a job will never get them a job. But shooting up a bunch of people they hate (for whatever reason they have concocted) will always punish those they target with their hatred.
I'm not saying disgruntled workers don't occasionally shoot up their (current or former) places of employment. But these are not random mass shooters like the ones that shot up Thousand Oaks, or Las Vegas, or Sutherland Springs, or Sandy Hook or or or.
The fact that you seem to justify, and even embrace, these shooters is concerning. With your anger issues, and your hatred of everyone who has a job, it's possible that your powder keg potential shows through during your interviews.
You have potential, but with every post that potential seems to shift more towards negative acts rather than employment. So, Salty Spice, you seem to get more salty with each post.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday November 12 2018, @03:02AM
https://www.google.com/search?q=cancel+comcast+internet+over+the+phone [google.com]
There are some other fun reads for that search.
The advice I found was to tell them that you're moving somewhere they don't offer service. I was concerned that my Customer Service Rep might actually know something about Nepal, so I told him I'd got a coding job in Gaeta, Italy - I lived there when I was six. My father was in the Navy, you know.
"When are you moving?"
"The airport shuttle for my flight to Vancouver BC is coming tomorrow morning at five."
I was concerned they might continue my service while claiming they had terminated it, so I started ping going while my rep took a good long time to actually implement my cancellation. I'm pleased to report that he really _did_.
There was a possibility that my clever plan could have fallen through: I don't actually know whether there are any flights from PDX to Vancouver BC tomorrow.
However I was under the impression that I was charged ahead of time for each month's service, and that by cancelling before the thirteenth, I would not be charged at all. But no: Comcast charges around the middle of one's month, but he said they'd pro-rate this month's charge, which turns out to be completely cool for me: had they charged the full amount, it would have overdrawn my business account.
I'm at Taco Bell just now. I eat here because I don't regard Taco Bell as Mexican food, rather it is a dietary genre unto its own, and I can get more with a very minimum amount of cash than that same amount of cash would purchase at a taqueria.
I at first intended to work on Soggy Jobs tonight, but there is still not so much pain in my abdomen, but discomfort. I won't do any real work at all until my potential client sends me their Windows and Linux source so I can prepare my quote for a Mac driver. It's a Thunderbolt gadget - Thunderbolt is cable-connected PCI express.
One Last Word:
I'm no better than anybody else; I put mild salsa on my burrito.
But I promise to go back to Fire when I no longer get the shits as a result of my Nephrectomy. Hopefully that will be soon.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday November 12 2018, @06:57AM
I'm quite dismayed to report that my iPhone's Personal Hotspot has been working poorly this evening. I hope that it's just because T-Mobile is heavily loaded on Sunday evenings. I've used it at home before, and it worked well then.
Also my MacBook Pro seems to have a hard time with pairing with my Cyber Acoustics Bluetooth Speakers - CA calls them "Party Speakers" so as to give them some market differentiation I expect, because there are many brands of BT speakers, but these are the only ones to the best of my knowledge that plug into the mains. Where was I? It's unreliable to play music over Bluetooth from my Mac while at the same time using my phone's Hotspot.
Sucks To Be Me.
While I still haven't unclogged my bathroom sink's drain, I did at least ladle out the sink full of really gross water with a soup pot. That's a step in the right direction.
I've decided to show up at my shrink's tomorrow afternoon without having shaved, at which point I'll confess to the fact that it's common for my only shave of the week to occur the night before our session.
I'm - haltingly - listening to Lady Gaga's "A Star Is Born" soundtrack. I like it.
Lady Gaga is mentally ill too,
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]