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Vice, keeping a hand on the chest to feel the millennial pulse.

A place I had really wanted to get into but didn't recently reposted the job. Fortunately, not getting this particular job was a blessing in disguise. The person who did get the job quit after a month and posted a nasty and somewhat personal "WORST COMPANY I HAVE EVER WORKED FOR!!!!!" review on Glassdoor.

The place was a prison-like environment, complete with hydra-headed video and allegedly audio recording, micromanagement, and incessant turnover. There's 5 single-star reviews for every positive one in the last year.

And to top it off, the only places they have reposted this job are free sites, or are using large text to tell applicants to go to their portal and not use the on-site apply function that costs them money.

Hillary Clinton’s Energy Initiative Pressed Countries to Embrace Fracking, New Emails Reveal

BACK IN APRIL, just before the New York primary, Hillary Clinton’s campaign aired a commercial on upstate television stations touting her work as secretary of state forcing “China, India, some of the world’s worst polluters” to make “real change.” She promised to “stand firm with New Yorkers opposing fracking, giving communities the right to say ‘no.'”

The television spot, which was not announced and does not appear on the official campaign YouTube page with most of Clinton’s other ads, implied a history of opposition to fracking, here and abroad. But emails obtained by The Intercept from the Department of State reveal new details of behind-the-scenes efforts by Clinton and her close aides to export American-style hydraulic fracturing — the horizontal drilling technique best known as fracking — to countries all over the world.

Donald Trump Releases List of Supreme Court Picks

I thought this quote from Ed Whelan was funny. The part about Erick Erickson was added since I first read the article:

Ed Whelan, a former clerk to Justice Scalia and a prominent conservative legal commentator, praised several of the names on the list but reserved judgment about whether conservatives should trust Mr. Trump to follow through on what he says he will do.

“It’s a good list of some of the outstanding judges who give ample sign of being faithful to the Constitution,” Mr. Whelan said. “Whether a President Trump could actually be counted on to pick folks like this is a different question.”

Some of Mr. Trump’s most vocal conservative critics remained doubtful despite the credentials of the judges on the list. Erick Erickson, the conservative blogger who has been working to derail his campaign, insisted that Mr. Trump still could not be trusted with the court.

“Like every clause of every sentence uttered in every breath Donald Trump takes, this is all subject to change,” Mr. Erickson said. “He will waffle, he will backtrack, and he simply cannot be believed.”

Trump's List Of Possible Supreme Court Nominees Includes A Judge Who Mocked Trump

And it's not just a single incident of Twitter mocking.

DONALD J. TRUMP RELEASES LIST OF POTENTIAL UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT JUSTICES

Steven Colloton

Steven Colloton of Iowa is a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, a position he has held since President George W. Bush appointed him in 2003. Judge Colloton has a résumé that also includes distinguished service as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa, a Special Assistant to the Attorney General in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, and a lecturer of law at the University of Iowa. He received his law degree from Yale, and he clerked for Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Judge Colloton is an Iowa native.

Allison Eid

Allison Eid of Colorado is an associate justice of the Colorado Supreme Court. Colorado Governor Bill Owens appointed her to the seat in 2006; she was later retained for a full term by the voters (with 75% of voters favoring retention). Prior to her judicial service, Justice Eid served as Colorado’s solicitor general and as a law professor at the University of Colorado. Justice Eid attended the University of Chicago Law School, and she clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas.

Raymond Gruender

Raymond Gruender of Missouri has been a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit since his 2004 appointment by President George W. Bush. Judge Gruender, who sits in St. Louis, Missouri, has extensive prosecutorial experience, culminating with his time as the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri. Judge Gruender received a law degree and an M.B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis.

Thomas Hardiman

Thomas Hardiman of Pennsylvania has been a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit since 2007. Prior to serving as a circuit judge, he served as a judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania since 2003. Before his judicial service, Judge Hardiman worked in private practice in Washington, D.C. and Pittsburgh. Judge Hardiman was the first in his family to attend college, graduating from Notre Dame.

Raymond Kethledge

Raymond Kethledge of Michigan has been a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit since 2008. Before his judicial service, Judge Kethledge served as judiciary counsel to Michigan Senator Spencer Abraham, worked as a partner in two law firms, and worked as an in-house counsel for the Ford Motor Company. Judge Kethledge obtained his law degree from the University of Michigan and clerked for Justice Anthony Kennedy.

Joan Larsen

Joan Larsen of Michigan is an Associate Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. Justice Larsen was a professor at the University of Michigan School of Law from 1998 until her appointment to the bench. In 2002, she temporarily left academia to work as an Assistant Attorney General in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel. Justice Larsen received her law degree from Northwestern and clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia.

Thomas Lee

Thomas Lee of Utah has been an Associate Justice of the Utah Supreme Court since 2010. Beginning in 1997, he served on the faculty of Brigham Young University Law School, where he still teaches in an adjunct capacity. Justice Lee was Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Justice Department’s Civil Division from 2004 to 2005. Justice Lee attended the University of Chicago Law School, and he clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas. Justice Lee is also the son of former U.S. Solicitor General Rex Lee and the brother of current U.S. Senator Mike Lee.

William Pryor

William H. Pryor, Jr. of Alabama is a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He has served on the court since 2004. Judge Pryor became the Alabama Attorney General in 1997 upon Jeff Sessions’s election to the U.S. Senate. Judge Pryor was then elected in his own right in 1998 and reelected in 2002. In 2013, Judge Pryor was confirmed to a term on the United States Sentencing Commission. Judge Pryor received his law degree from Tulane, and he clerked for Judge John Minor Wisdom of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

David Stras

David Stras of Minnesota has been an Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court since 2010. After his initial appointment, he was elected to a six-year term in 2012. Prior to his judicial service, Judge Stras worked as a legal academic at the University of Minnesota Law School. In his time there, he wrote extensively about the function and structure of the judiciary. Justice Stras received his law degree and an M.B.A. from the University of Kansas. He clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas.

Diane Sykes

Diane Sykes of Wisconsin has served as a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit since 2004. Prior to her federal appointment, Judge Sykes had been a Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court since 1999 and a Wisconsin trial court judge of both civil and criminal matters before that. Judge Sykes received her law degree from Marquette.

Don Willett

Don Willett of Texas has been a Justice of the Texas Supreme Court since 2005. He was initially appointed by Governor Rick Perry and has been reelected by the voters twice. Prior to his judicial service, Judge Willett worked as a senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, as an advisor in George W. Bush’s gubernatorial and presidential administrations, as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Policy, and as a Deputy Attorney General under then-Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott. Justice Willett received his law degree and a master’s degree from Duke.

Crossing the Line: How Donald Trump Behaved With Women in Private

The New York Times interviewed dozens of women who had worked with or for Mr. Trump over the past four decades, in the worlds of real estate, modeling and pageants; women who had dated him or interacted with him socially; and women and men who had closely observed his conduct since his adolescence. In all, more than 50 interviews were conducted over the course of six weeks.

Their accounts — many relayed here in their own words — reveal unwelcome romantic advances, unending commentary on the female form, a shrewd reliance on ambitious women, and unsettling workplace conduct, according to the interviews, as well as court records and written recollections. The interactions occurred in his offices at Trump Tower, at his homes, at construction sites and backstage at beauty pageants. They appeared to be fleeting, unimportant moments to him, but they left lasting impressions on the women who experienced them.

What emerges from the interviews is a complex, at times contradictory portrait of a wealthy, well-known and provocative man and the women around him, one that defies simple categorization. Some women found him gracious and encouraging. He promoted several to the loftiest heights of his company, a daring move for a major real estate developer at the time.

He simultaneously nurtured women’s careers and mocked their physical appearance. “You like your candy,” he told an overweight female executive who oversaw the construction of his headquarters in Midtown Manhattan. He could be lewd one moment and gentlemanly the next.

In an interview, Mr. Trump described himself as a champion of women, someone who took pride in hiring them and was in awe of their work ethic. “It would just seem,” he said, “that there was something that they want to really prove.”

Pressed on the women’s claims, Mr. Trump disputed many of the details, such as asking Ms. Brewer Lane to put on a swimsuit. “A lot of things get made up over the years,” he said. “I have always treated women with great respect. And women will tell you that.”

Found another "Support Analyst" role today, with all the usual stuff, except in addition to the "extensive telephone work (90%)" and "24 x 7 on call rotation" it includes these gems:

Required Skills/Experience:
        Must be willing to work flexible hours (8am to 8pm)
        Minimum of 2 years of experience working in a technical support environment preferred
        Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Yes, because the first thing a computer science major wants to do is take calls all day long.

Technologies for the Enterprise Products:
        Microsoft Operating Systems
        Microsoft Office Suite
        Internet and networking technologies
        Web Servers (Apache or IIS)
        Databases and database management systems (SQL, MySQL, Oracle)
        Familiarity with a programming language (VB or C++) and ASP, Java Script and PHP-based web programming

When is this person supposed to work with any of these technologies or write code if they're taking calls 90% of the time? Either this company is really small, or they aren't sure what they need and are hedging their bets.

China will unveil a 100 petaflop supercomputer next month after investing $500 million to develop domestic chips after US ban on Intel Xeon exports to China

US Supercomputer Chip ban delayed China's 100 petaFLOP computer by 8 months and contributed to Intel laying off 12,000 employees

After many months of negative pregnancy tests, a couple weeks ago I was woken up to my wife smiling from ear to ear with a positive test in hand. Things are happening and if everything goes well, I should get to meet my son/daughter early 2017. I still have a hard time believing it.

I've since been reading all about pregnancy, and educating myself. I know we have all learned about it in school, but I didn't really care at that time. Now, when I am reading up on everything, it's an absolute miracle how everything happens. It's magical to think that inside my wife is a little grape with a beating heart and that grape will form in to a living, breathing baby.

My wife is so happy. Her breasts are sore, she is eating like a horse, and goes to bed early. We have our first ultrasound at the end of June. It's an exciting time.

I told my mom (things are still early, and the chance of a miscarriage is still there), and she cried with joy. She is having a hard time not telling anyone and keeping it all inside. My dad doesn't know yet (he is on vacation), but I plan on telling him when he returns.

I'm still seeing the girl I wrote about in the last entry. She has been really busy, and it has been tough finding time to spend together. We saw each other last night, and had a great night of talking, play, and cuddling. I let her know that my wife was pregnant (she knew we were trying), and she was happy for us.

I really like this girl. She is definitely someone that I could (and am) fall hard and fast for. She is smart, sexy and level-headed -- the same things that I love about my wife. I think we may be looking for different things though... I am looking for a full relationship. I would like to see her regularly and ideally grow a deep relationship. I think that she is ideally looking for something more casual, but really enjoys the time she spends with me. I think that there may be an imbalance of power (I think I'm more invested that she is), but I just can't stop myself -- I really like her. I'm really enjoying this ride, but I have a feeling that I'm going to have my heart broken.

Ex-Chemist In Massachusetts Was High On Drugs At Work For 8 Years

Nearly every day for eight years, a former chemist in Massachusetts was high on drugs — drugs stolen from the lab where she worked.

An investigation by the state attorney general found that from 2005 to 2013, Sonja Farak, 37, heavily abused various drugs including cocaine, LSD and methamphetamines and even manufactured her own crack cocaine using lab supplies. Though Farak was arrested in 2013 and sentenced to jail in 2014, the findings from the state's investigation into the scope of her misconduct were just released Tuesday.

During her career as a chemist, Farak worked for two years at the Hinton Lab in Jamaica Plain, Mass., and then for nine years at the state drug lab in Amherst, Mass. According to the attorney general's report, "her responsibilities involved testing, for authenticity, various controlled substances submitted by law enforcement agencies" and testifying "in court as to her test results, which served as evidence in criminal cases."

Applicant Tracking Systems suck, and not just for the dehumanizing data entry process, but for the user interfaces themselves. iCIMS is one of the more popular ones, yet inexplicably has some incredibly unfriendly behavior.

1) iCIMS does not treat the applicant as a service-wide user. So each instance of iCIMs they host requires both a new login account and reentry of all submitter data. So all that nice info that you've meticulously input at Acme's iCIMS portal must be re-input at Beta's iCIMs, etc. Recruiters generally prefer candidates who are working. How does this siloed account system serve those valuable candidates if they have to re-enter all their information each time they apply via iCIMS?

2) To make up for this, iCIMS has LinkedIn integration, but it wants to be a data vacuum:

iCIMS would like to access some of your LinkedIn info:

        YOUR PROFILE OVERVIEW
        YOUR FULL PROFILE
        YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS
        YOUR CONNECTIONS
        YOUR CONTACT INFO
        NETWORK UPDATES
        GROUP DISCUSSIONS
        INVITATIONS AND MESSAGES

How does LinkedIn define these options?

Other members won't be able to see any of your profile information that isn't already available when browsing around the website.

With your consent, applications may also take actions on your behalf such as sharing content, sending invitations, and sending messages.

By installing the application, you confirm your acceptance of our User Agreement. You also acknowledge that your use of the application may be subject to the application developer's terms of use and to the application developer's privacy policy.

Some application developers may request permissions to access the following, in order for their applications to function:

• Your Profile Overview - Name, photo, headline, current positions.
• Your Full Profile - Overview above plus experience, education, skills and recommendations.
• Your Email Address - Primary email address you use for your account.
• Your Connections - Your 1st and 2nd degree connections.
• Your Contact Info - Address, phone number, and bound accounts.
• Network Updates - Retrieves and posts updates as you.
• Group Discussions - Retrieves and posts group discussions as you.
• Invitations and Messages - Sends messages and invitations to connect as you.

That's way more than what's required or even asked for via their manual process, but there's no way to limit this data gobbling. If this application posts as the submitter, wouldn't the content posted give a hint that the submitter is job searching? That's a kiss-of-death in some places, and another thing to drive casual, employed candidates away.

3) If you do submit your resume as a file, the results are not shown to you. So however the system mangles the data isn't something you can see or correct! Entire sections of your resume can be eaten by this process and you'll be none-the-wiser. Due to the over-reliance on ATS systems, having a plain resume with no formatting, no tables, and in plain old Microsoft Word .DOC format is essential.

4) iCIMS does not notify you when there is a status change on your application, such as LinkedIn can do. There's no option to enable this either, only to unsubscribe from "mass emails" that I have never seen.

5) The Profile page has a time zone option that is mercifully optional. The full list of entries is 461 items, just in case you're in "Eastern Greenland Summer Time" or "South Georgia Standard Time".

6) At least in the version I used today, there's no option to upload letters of recommendation. There is a text field for the cover letter but no upload option.