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Quote: SimonWing @ February 21 2013, 5:16 PM GMT

Job Hunting online:

90% of the jobs on Monster, SimplyHired, Gumtree (etc.) are:

Telesales
Street Harassment
Work From Home (Pyramid schemes etc.)
Commission-only lettings agents
Unpaid internships of 3-6 months in low-demand industries (i.e. slave labour), or "training courses"

Cherry-picking the remaining 10% of generic office admin positions, will lead to each one taking you off to some other site for which you have to register to apply.

Said site will then spam the crap out of you with random and completely unconnected vacancies.

90% of these applications will go unreplied, with a further 9% sending a standard cut-paste rejection letter.

That leaves the surviving 1% of applications, for whom you'll take several interviews (with expensive travel), before losing out to one of the other 6732864728642892384 university graduates who applied, or the manager's nephew.

And don't get me f**king started on companies who ask for a CV, and yet make you fill-in their time-consuming forms about your work experience and qualifications. Read the f**king CV, you twats.

You have my sympathy! I don't miss those days at all. I still bear an extreme hatred towards employment agencies who treat you like product and then give you shit and take you off the books when you turn down the opportunity to make a 4 hour round trip to cover someone's lunch break for £6 an hour.

Dermot o'dreary

I want to stab him up the buttocks with a penknife

don't you mean with

YOUR KNOB!!!!!

Ha I am the master of wit, bow before me peasants!

Angry

Laughing out loud

Bloody ipod doesn't know how to group audiobooks, so it just dumps all the chapters of all books into one long list. Annoyingly, this issue has been a problem for nigh on 5 years according to frustrated forum posts and nobody seems to have come up with a decent solution.

I had somebody really interested in buying my late parents property.

Got two valuations and suggested a price to them.

They came back with an offer 27k lower !

F**k the f**k off !!!

Quote: Harridan @ February 22 2013, 9:08 PM GMT

Bloody ipod doesn't know how to group audiobooks, so it just dumps all the chapters of all books into one long list. Annoyingly, this issue has been a problem for nigh on 5 years according to frustrated forum posts and nobody seems to have come up with a decent solution.

Don't buy an iPod?

Quote: sootyj @ February 22 2013, 9:25 PM GMT

Don't buy an iPod?

Already got one...

Quote: Oldrocker @ February 22 2013, 9:17 PM GMT

I had somebody really interested in buying my late parents property.

Got two valuations and suggested a price to them.

They came back with an offer 27k lower !

F**k the f**k off !!!

If you're not desperate for the money, let it lie till you get what you want.

TTPYO: British actors playing British characters in American TV shows who use American pronunciations of words rather than the British pronunciation that the actor and character would use.

Ooh yes, Elementary.

Or was it something else... SOMETHING I watched recently did that anyway.

Quote: zooo @ February 22 2013, 10:51 PM GMT

Ooh yes, Elementary.

Or was it something else... SOMETHING I watched recently did that anyway.

YES! He said 'route' instead of 'route'. Grr

Ooooh it's annoying!

What annoys me that extra bit is that Jonny Lee Miller will have said it properly and then someone will have asked him to say it the American way just so that any stupid people in the audience won't feel alienated.

Twats.
Our heads don't explode when we hear Americans pronounce pasta wrong. I'm sure they could bloody deal with it now and again.

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