Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

And no dogs to jostle them or drool in them, or send them flying when someone comes to the door!.....I see the benefit!! (I just wouldn't pay that!)

Used to have ferrets which would hide stuff in them though!

And a few months ago there was a huge slug......Never worked out where that came from. :rotfl:

GDB2222

A few years ago, my 19 year old did 2 weeks' work experience with a social marketing company. He went back several times, and he is now working for them in his gap year - earning minimum wage, but I guess that's not bad at all for an internship. Today, after 4 months in the job, he's received an email from a headhunter ... So, he's officially a yuppie. I'm quite envious, really.

lemonjelly

GDB2222 wrote: »

A few years ago, my 19 year old did 2 weeks' work experience with a social marketing company. He went back several times, and he is now working for them in his gap year - earning minimum wage, but I guess that's not bad at all for an internship. Today, after 4 months in the job, he's received an email from a headhunter ... So, he's officially a yuppie. I'm quite envious, really.

Congratulations to him.

Fantastic to hear someone getting a job in these times!

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

Today, after 4 months in the job, he's received an email from a headhunter ... So, he's officially a yuppie. I'm quite envious, really.

I did some work for a headhunter in about 1993, in fact that was when I first found out what a degree was all about/for.

I'd taken on a self-employed task of opening all the CVs they'd received from adverts in posh papers. I used to open the envelope, punch holes in the letter/CV, put them into a lever arch file then write their name on the front sheet. Next, I offered to do the first sorting for her, sift out those that matched the criteria -v- those that didn't as she was receiving about 100 applicants per advert. In doing that I realised that these people were my age and applying for a job at £250,000/year (I was on £14,000 at the time) and the only difference was "they had done a degree and their first job was really posh sounding and all their other jobs were posh sounding and now 10 years on they were applying for jobs at £250k because they had already had 6 posh sounding jobs". So I phoned up the OU and started

Anyway .... I got laid off from my dayjob and went to do more self-employed work for this headhunter. There, I found out how it's done.

She was recruiting, say, partners in northern law firms. She had a fat book of law firms and somebody literally phoned each one (starting at the beginning of the book) and asked to speak to their "top solicitor dealing with ...." and got their name. Once she had their name a phone call would be made to them asking them if they'd potentially be interested in moving firms to a role in XYZ. If they said yes they were invited to send her their CV for consideration.

So all these people who are "headhunted", always makes me laugh because I know that quite often it just means they worked for a firm at the start of the alphabet, answered the phone the day her 'researcher' called and sent in their CV. I'm sure people who worked for Xylophone Big Boys Company hardly ever got that call as the jobs were taken by the time the researcher had phoned to the letters G-K.

She'd then schmooze over champagne/caviar with people at the Savoy - and put that on expenses too. Nobody knew she was a 1-man band, working from a tiny house in Norfolk, with a part-time staff of one.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

A few years ago, my 19 year old did 2 weeks' work experience with a social marketing company.

It's odd you said that today, as I only ever heard of the phrase "social marketing company" yesterday, in a discussion on MSE that was resurrected from 2008 yesterday.

lemonjelly

lostinrates wrote: »

I'm going off MSE again. I get fed up of people spouting the ''Daily Mail'' readers line, expecially when they go on to write a DM style....

I'm not going off MSE, but I am getting a little fed up with the DM style rants, blinkered views, and the dogmatism encroaching here.

I joined up to learn stuff. I feel I am not learning as much. I still get much from MSE, & in general it is still a pleasure to be here. Only, perhaps a little less frequently, & for slightly less time.:o

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

I'm not going off MSE, but I am getting a little fed up with the DM style rants, blinkered views, and the dogmatism encroaching here.

I joined up to learn stuff. I feel I am not learning as much. I still get much from MSE, & in general it is still a pleasure to be here. Only, perhaps a little less frequently, & for slightly less time.:o

Dogmatism (besides being a name we've short listed for a dog) is only unpalatable, it seems here, if it contradicts ones on dogma. (there is ''proof'' for all arguments I think)


[cuts big tract of text because its the nice people thread and I like the nice people]

vivatifosi

lemonjelly wrote: »

I'm not going off MSE, but I am getting a little fed up with the DM style rants, blinkered views, and the dogmatism encroaching here.

I joined up to learn stuff. I feel I am not learning as much. I still get much from MSE, & in general it is still a pleasure to be here. Only, perhaps a little less frequently, & for slightly less time.:o

Now is not the time to give up lj! You've just got a thanks from MARTIN. That's MSE MARTIN, not Martin some random bloke in cyberspace who we don't know from the telly. He values you. You come up with important ideas for an important campaign. You got him to sign the petition...

Now where's that "we're not worthy" emoticon when you want it?

tomterm8

Pastures new, have you ever checked out candle making?

lemonjelly

lostinrates wrote: »

Dogmatism (besides being a name we've short listed for a dog) is only unpalatable, it seems here, if it contradicts ones on dogma. (there is ''proof'' for all arguments I think)


[cuts big tract of text because its the nice people thread and I like the nice people]

What I was trying to conver LIR is the dogmatism form of blinkered thinking, where reasonable proof or evidence won't even get some posters to consider alternatives.

Personally I am happy to be challenged, and I like to hear alternative viewpoints.

vivatifosi wrote: »

Now is not the time to give up lj! You've just got a thanks from MARTIN. That's MSE MARTIN, not Martin some random bloke in cyberspace who we don't know from the telly. He values you. You come up with important ideas for an important campaign. You got him to sign the petition...

Now where's that "we're not worthy" emoticon when you want it?

I saw, & am truly honoured Viva!

Martin is a gentleman. & I now owe him a favour if ever asked. I still feel it is a privelige for us to be allowed to post here (which I think some people forget). After all, MSE doesn't have to run this forum, but chooses to. I try to see this place as another persons home. His rules apply here. I have no right to complain about what I do or do not like, or how I want it to be - though if asked, I would be both honoured & willing to respond.

Mr Lewis publicizes values which I agree with wholeheartedly & support. He does on a macro level, what I try to do on a micro level. I also find him to be very articulate, which is why he's so good at what he does!

I'm nowhere near giving up Viva! I've mentioned a short while ago that owing to things going on, I may be around a little less, but such is life.

I still get much from MSE, and also feel a responsibility to pass on some of what I have learned to those yet to learn...:)