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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!
Here's the Problem I've Got With AC
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(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.