Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

Spirit_2

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Still, I have total faith that the process is fair and transparent...

and mad.

If they offer it to you at the end of the six weeks, you must turn it down.

chewmylegoff

Spirit wrote: »

and mad.

If they offer it to you at the end of the six weeks, you must turn it down.

My current working draft of my planned response should I be offered the job is: "I will need a reasonable period of time to consider whether to accept your kind offer, I will respond in six weeks' time".

zagubov

lostinrates wrote: »

Neither do I. .

I love reading it though. . Its also like when you talk about online stuff though. That's just...I fathomable to me.

There was something on the radio that fascinated me this morning. A biologist was talking about how you could ask some blind people whether it was light or dark, and they could get it right all the time.

These people had no working rods and cones and claimed they couldn't see anything visually. It turned out they had a third set of cells that detects light and it sends the signals to the pineal gland to regulate circadian rhythms, but doesn't contribute to vision, so they are aware of the light without,as far as they're aware, seeing it

This was all new to me, and I had to go and look it up

Sorry Lydia, biology's the science for this century!:D

LydiaJ

Spirit wrote: »

That is why I like NP so much.

They care about the most unlikely things.

chewmylegoff wrote: »

My current working draft of my planned response should I be offered the job is: "I will need a reasonable period of time to consider whether to accept your kind offer, I will respond in six weeks' time".

:rotfl:

misskool

zagubov wrote: »

There was something on the radio that fascinated me this morning. A biologist was talking about how you could ask some blind people whether it was light or dark, and they could get it right all the time.

These people had no working rods and cones and claimed they couldn't see anything visually. It turned out they had a third set of cells that detects light and it sends the signals to the pineal gland to regulate circadian rhythms, but doesn't contribute to vision, so they are aware of the light without,as far as they're aware, seeing it

This was all new to me, and I had to go and look it up

Sorry Lydia, biology's the science for this century!:D

I am a true cell/molecular biologist but watching a tv programme on stuxnet a few days ago and exploring the possibilities of quantum encoding and how to merge biology and physics for network security. that's just amazing. I love the true science fiction part bit of science (which is mostly physics)

misskool

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Got told today wouldn't find out about job until end of first week of September... Six weeks from interview to decision. I can't imagine anyone can even remember what happened in any of the interviews now. Still, I have total faith that the process is fair and transparent...

isn't that the norm for civil service jobs?

chewmylegoff

misskool wrote: »

isn't that the norm for civil service jobs?

Not in my experience. I used to work in the civil service and was rejected the same week as I applied for internal promotion!

vivatifosi

lostinrates wrote: »

Not sure if its one of those that out source. This admin is going astray in a town down the road from me and the head office for this stuff in uk.

I think the issue is that some big orgs don't give people authority. If you are in a call centre anywhere, or even just in a big office, you are not unidentified or expected to go look for things, so to keep customer happy your route is to offer the option to complain, perverse but true.

Spelling and auto correct... unidentified should be incentified. GGGGRRRR....

I am in bed with virus hence on tablet.

vivatifosi

zagubov wrote: »

I dunno- a lot of it may be stored in porous rocks. I remember once being puzzled when I visited Majorca at the lack of lakes and reservoirs and water storage facilities. All the riverbeds were dry and we never saw rain but tapwater and irrigation was plentiful.

I know there's also meant to be loads of water in places under the sahara. There's a channel called the Great Underground River (or similar) in Libya IIRC.

That was a pet project of the previous president of Libya. Not even going to try to type his name. I think for a while it was the biggest civil engineering project in the world. Well worth reading up on. I find the Yangtze Gorge project in China amazing too. It's amazing what these countries are up to while we can't even organise high speed trains or a secure energy policy.

vivatifosi

A belated happy birthday Lydia! Sorry I am reading backwards.