Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

vivatifosi

Another horsey theme. Just saw a trailer: C4 Sunday at 8pm there's a programme called War Horse, the Real Story, about the million British horses that served in WW1. I don't think I'll watch it as I think I'd find it too sad, but I know others have mentioned War Horse and thought they might thought it interesting. One for the planner perhaps.

sss555s

vivatifosi wrote: »

:rotfl:
Well I've tried to redress the balance, a bit. But I'm all out of threads to start now. Give it an hour and we all know which one will be at the top. It won't be this one and it won't be any of the new ones:eek:.

That's a nice effort your putting in there viva and I applaud you :T:T

I'd recommend you for promotion, In fact, give me your bosses email...

:A

chewmylegoff

scratch one offending thread. REJOICE.

PasturesNew

JonnyBravo wrote: »

Congrats doozer.


re interviews
I usually finish off interviewing with questions around "risk". (Not the board game - the key is holding Australia or S.America early on )
Do they consider themselves a risk taker? - You get interesting views on whether its good or bad etc and that leads into stuff which helps me decide how self aware they are.... as those who say yes, I ask them to describe risks they've taken where it's gone wrong. Surprisingly few of the "risk takers" actually have examples.
Poor memory, lying as they think "risk taking is cool"or they don't really take risks but aren't aware of that?

I've never heard/seen the game Risk.

I am not a risk taker at all.... I'm a right wuss. Two rules: [1] Don't take risks [2] Make sure somebody else is making the decisions.

In my line of work, decisions are made, it's just my job to make sure everybody knows what's going on, to monitor and identify risks, flag up issues/risks, pull people together so that important people make the decisions ... and I just make sure it happens, it works, everybody's happy and it's on time.

I suspect, at interview, I don't sound exciting enough

PasturesNew

zagubov wrote: »

In interviews a tricky artithmetic question would be 3/4 of 90. Everybody expects it to be easy as if you could rattle off the answer from memory.

Tis easy... but I like numbers.

PasturesNew

Generali wrote: »

The best interview question is, "What's 7X8?".

Easy

Generali wrote: »

...synergies, pro-activity, going forward (like a Christian soldier presumably) and solutionizing.

That's why I'd come 2nd in those interviews: "best candidate, but didn't answer 1-2 daft questions the way we like them answered".

Generali wrote: »

You could just as well ask what the Magna Carta was,

A bit of paper some King signed on Runnymede a few hundred years ago.

Generali wrote: »

...the best way to get from one town 50 miles away to another a similar distance away

I'm new around here, where?

Generali wrote: »

or who won the FA Cup in 1981.

No idea. That's football, right?

Generali wrote: »

PS I'm wearing my pinstripe, a nice pink shirt and nipple tassles.

Normal day then.

PasturesNew

Doozergirl wrote: »

... I'm rather tall so you can see my tummy ...

I'm dinky, so my sleeves have to be folded back 4x - and the legs turned up 3-4x. And the overall look is "swamped". I buy on price, not because something's 4-6x as much but has a 'petite' label. QS, £6.

And I can't buy a smaller size as buzzums dictate size

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

The trick with pyjamas is never to wear matching tops and bottoms. Wear a plain top with patterned bottoms or vice versa, dress them up with a necklace and a belt and people won't see close enough to look at the material and will think you're wearing some foreign creation instead.

I can't believe you're common enough to [a] know this works have spent time working it out!!

My PJs are for my eyes only.....

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

I can't believe you're common enough to [a] know this works have spent time working it out!!

My PJs are for my eyes only.....

I have been known to buy nice PJ tops in the US and wear them in this country where nobody would know as nice tops under jackets etc. It's all down to how you wear them. Plus, if you doubt that I'd wear my PJ bottoms out, never forget the trousers that I showed you a while back that I'd have no problem wearing in public. To quote from chewy yesterday "my eyes, my eyes".

JonnyBravo

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've never heard/seen the game Risk.

I am not a risk taker at all.... I'm a right wuss. Two rules: [1] Don't take risks [2] Make sure somebody else is making the decisions.

In my line of work, decisions are made, it's just my job to make sure everybody knows what's going on, to monitor and identify risks, flag up issues/risks, pull people together so that important people make the decisions ... and I just make sure it happens, it works, everybody's happy and it's on time.

I suspect, at interview, I don't sound exciting enough

I'd rather have someone who is self aware like that.
Thing is I often interview for sales positions and there's something about sales people that makes them think it must be good/cool/desirable to take risks.
So most say they take risks.
Most then can't tell me any risks they've taken where it's all gone wrong.
I usually then ask them again, bearing in mind that answer, if they think they take risks.
Some of the blank looks I get are priceless, and then there's the standard "ah yes but I only take calculated risks" rubbish attempt at keeping their original answer even though it's blatantly not true.

All quite enlightening.