Casual Dress Friday: Top Ten Questions not to ask in an Interview
A quick shout out to good friend of Career Waymark, Cap’n Schwartz for sending in today’s casual dress Friday entry. It definitely made me laugh. Hope you enjoy it.
Top Ten Questions Not To Ask In A Job Interview
10. What’s your company’s policy on severance pay?
9. How long does it take your company’s bureaucracy to get around to firing somebody for poor performance?
8. Do you have a random drug testing policy?
7. Does your company’s life insurance cover suicide?
6. How in depth are your criminal background checks?
5. Does your company’s insurance consider genital herpes a pre-existing condition?
4. How many sick days do you allow each employee before you stop paying them for not being here?
3. Does your insurance cover sex-change operations?
2. Does your internet access have a firewall that blocks pornographic websites?
1. How frequently do your accountants audit petty cash?
Until next time…
Casual Dress Friday: The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same
It’s a long held cliche that in tough economic times that ‘the rich get richer and the poor get poorer’. Two news stories further cemented that belief this week.
First off ExxonMobil announced their second quarter earnings this week, guess what? The oil giant posted second-quarter earnings of $11.68 billion Thursday, the biggest quarterly profit ever by any U.S. corporation, but the results were well short of Wall Street expectations. Cry me a river. It’s good to know that while we were paying $4.25 a gallon for gas our good friends at ExxonMobil were continuing to line their pockets.
On the flip side Delta announced this week that they will be increasing their fee for a 2nd checked bag from $25 to $50 in response to rising fuel costs. A third bag will run you $125. So now I could potentially pay more for my luggage to fly than it costs me. Does my bag get a movie and a meal with that? Southwest keeps looking better and better.
Oh yeah and Jaime Lynn Spears announced that she and boyfriend/my baby’s daddy Casey Aldridge will wed this fall in a private trailer park…errr…backyard ceremony. This has nothing to do with anything, I just thought I’d throw it in. Have a great weekend!
Until next time…
Casual Dress Friday; Internship or Slavery
The other day I stumbled across a blog post that compared internships to slavery. Filled with sarcasm, it seemed like a good fit for our Friday post. The site is called stuffwhitepeoplelike.com and despite it’s name, it is not a racially based site, rather a sarcastic look corporate life from a Caucasian point of view and the irony the inevitably ensues. Below is a bit of their post comparing internships to slavery, to read the entire post click here.
In most of the world when a person works long hours without pay, it is referred to as “slavery” or “forced labor.” For white people this process is referred to as an internship and is considered an essential stage in white development.
The concept of working for little or no money underneath a superior has been around for centuries in the form of apprenticeship programs. Young people eager to learn a trade would spend time working under a master craftsman to learn a skill that would eventually lead to an increase in material wealth.
Using this logic you would assume that the most sought after internships would be in areas that lead to the greatest financial reward. Young White people, however, prefer internships that put them on the path for careers that will generally result in a DECREASE of the material wealth accumulated by their parents.
Have a great weekend.
Until next time…
