Disqualified from a job because of a book I didn’t read

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So, basically, you think you're the best and brightest? Thats a sure road to failure.
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I agree that you need good people in your company. Good people can communicate with others and are generally pleasant to be around. ....after these two items are satisfied the candidate needs to have the capacity for original thought and problem solving.

...Rather than the behaviour of continuous naysaying you need the candidate to exhibit a balance of positive contribution and critical analysis.
 
Tomcole:

Are you having a bad day trading or is something else bothering you? All of your posts are on this thread are antagonistic.



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So, basically, you think you're the best and brightest? Thats a sure road to failure.
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Quote from formikatrading:

Tomcole:

Are you having a bad day trading or is something else bothering you? All of your posts are on this thread are antagonistic.
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its not just this thread...hes very bitter about something. jim
 
Not bitter at all - I just respond in a forthright manner to comments made here.

Every employer makes a pitch of hiring the "best and brightest" but as this thread shows and most companies P&Ls show, most companies embrace mediocrity as a way to maintain stability and job safety.

I'm not advocating hiring brilliant yet disturbed folks, just saying when you hire, "... someone a slight notch below who is normal and easy to work with than someone who is a constant problem. That 0.1% extra is probably just not worth it. Sorry, but that's the way it is in life....", its a sure way to be mediocre.

The writer states he can only attract folks 0.1% above average/normal. To me, statistically, thats insignificant and means he just hires average people and will only get average results. Whats so special about that?
 
umm, so I'll bite cuz I'm dumb and uneducated....

How is "Mozart" spelled wrong?

- The New Guy

Whoops, I see you corrected it for him in your post. The incorrect use of quotes threw me off.... :D
 
Quote from cnms2:

Interesting. I googled "Why is a manhole round?" and found many bitching about it, about Microsoft, etc. not trying to use their brains to find an answer. On the other hand Google gave a link to a PrisonTalk chat room where somebody gave some reasonable answers, although you could imagine some of the other comments ...
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A manhole is round because it's the only basic shape that CANNOT fall through the ground at any angle.
 
Well nothing can really fall through the ground unless you drop it from a high building and it dives right through the asphalt so the shape does not matter....


Quote from FaderTrader:

A manhole is round because it's the only basic shape that CANNOT fall through the ground at any angle.
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The best answer overall was...
The manhole cover is round because the manhole is round.
Makes installation easier vs a star shaped manhole.

I wonder how Ed Norton would have answered this question.


:p
 
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Well nothing can really fall through the ground unless you drop it from a high building and it dives right through the asphalt so the shape does not matter....
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You mean that a Square manhole cover couldn't fall through if inserted vertically and/or diagonally? It can.

Try droppng a round manhole cover vertically through a hole in the ground of the same size at ANY angle. It cannot fall through.
 
Ahh so now you made a hole in the ground huh....

Quote from FaderTrader:

You mean that a Square manhole cover couldn't fall through if inserted vertically and/or diagonally? It can.

Try droppng a round manhole cover vertically through a hole in the ground of the same size at ANY angle. It cannot fall through.
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