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#6501 Re: The Sunset Strip » New Kids on the Block to Reunite? » 954 weeks ago
I predict this will fail miserably.
#6502 Re: The Garden » The NFL 2007-08 Season thread » 954 weeks ago
^^ I heard this on the radio, Brady was kindof joking actually. It was pretty funny the way he said : "I wish he had said 45-42 and gave us a little credit for scoring more points."
#6503 Re: The Garden » NY Post endorses Obama » 954 weeks ago
An endorsement from the Post means nothing; the post is a conservative paper. The New York Times endorsed Clinton and McCain. .
Oh yeah, I got the two confused. The Post is secondary. Although new polls do show Obama only 3% behind in CA. The RCP Average is using polls ending Sunday and some prior, barely after his S Carolina win & Kennedy endorsement.
#6504 Re: The Garden » THINK before you give a bad reference » 954 weeks ago
I really can't stress enough that this isn't a case of one rogue person. In my extensive time at Best Buy this was common practice by people in HR positions all over the US.
While I don't have anything to do with Best Buy any longer, I have many friends who work for either them or Circuit City and it's still the same to this day.
Oh yeah, I understand what you mean. I acttually posted your response (not stating your screen name or anything) back on the site I originally found it.
#6505 Re: The Garden » NY Post endorses Obama » 954 weeks ago
The votes that would have went for Edwards are going to be the key factor for the rest of this race.
Absolutely, with more & more Obama support it's possible they will sway towards him. This endorsement is huge. If Obama wins NY & CA it's over. If I recall New York City'ers were never big on Hillary, they looked at her as a bit of a farce moving to NY to run for Senate, but she managed to win. Also, I imagine Unions are huge in NYC, and with new stories coming out about Hillary's Walmart board of directors (http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4218509&page=1 ) and Walmart being very Anti-Union it'll be interesting to see where they vote. They might end up speaking with their Chicago counterparts to see how Obama worked with them (I don't know much about his union stance there).
Tuesday's going to be a big day. I'm going to make a prediction (albeit a not so bold prediction), NY & CA have to be split. If either candidate wins BOTH it's over. They're going to get the Democratic nod. HUGE debate tonight. The longer format might benefit Obama, he likes to talk very long, drawn out responses. Hopefully he talks alot about ideas & plans he will implement, he needs to start talking more about that rather than continuing the motivational speeches he's been giving. He's great at it, but he needs to start giving substance. If he doesn't, Clinton might be ready to attack him for that.
#6506 Re: The Garden » THINK before you give a bad reference » 954 weeks ago
Meanwhile, it's not even HR's responsibility to provide references. That would be a direct supervisor's job.
That should be a direct supervisors job, until you get a renegade HR rep like this one who decides to take matters into her own hands.
#6507 Re: Guns N' Roses » Chinese Democracy's Fate » 954 weeks ago
^^ As more time passed the more I beleived in that theory. Now, I'm pretty sure for the most part that is true.
#6508 Re: The Garden » The NFL 2007-08 Season thread » 954 weeks ago
I think a big reason it may seem there isn't as much interest is the Presidential race is in full swing. I'm not saying in the past CNN turned into ESPN 24/7, but I'm sure they'd cover stories more, as would CBS news, NBC nightly news etc, now with the Presidents taking up 5-8 minutes of a 30 minute show, they need to focus the rest of their time onto more "real news" onto spending a little time on the SB. If the spent 8 minutes on the Prez 08, 8 minutes on the SB, they'd hardly have any time to report national & international news. So that is why we're seeing a little less of it. News programs are only spending 1 or 2 minutes on it.
#6509 Re: The Garden » THINK before you give a bad reference » 954 weeks ago
Meanwhile, are prospective employers allowed to contact past employers without the employee's position? Here, the ethical thing to do would be to ask for references and people would provide names and contacts of people who would give them a good reference. Prospective employers also ask if it's appropriate to contact past employers. I mean, if the guy was fired from Best Buy and listed them on his resume, you'd think he'd expect the other companies to contact Best Buy to see what he was like as a worker. The logical thing would be to remove Best Buy from your resume altogether.
I assume you meant "permission" as the final word, and yes they are. As long as it's a FORMER job (which this was). Normally, if the employee is still working there, they ask on the application "Are you willing to allow us to contact your current employee?" and it's usually ok to put "No" Most companies will understand. As for removing BB from the resume, that can be hard. If he worked there for years it would have a gap in work experience unaccounted for, and most people (at least I am) are under the impression companies usually just verify length of employee, not make it personal, like this lady did. Again, from what I know, most HR is told to just say "They worked from this date, to this date."
#6510 Re: The Garden » John McCain says "I don't really understand economics" » 954 weeks ago
I think Hillary will win also, but in the last few days Obama has crept up.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/104044/Gallu … -2008.aspx
Obama really needs some kindof surge or momentum to actually surpass her, (win California) but overall I think Hillary might win more delegates on Tuesday, which, while it won't give her a mathmatical victory, will give her the momentum again to ride out the rest of the states. Although, they're very spread out after Tuesday (like 2 states a week on average) so it'll drag on. Ultimately though, it wouldn't surprise me if Hillary wins the Democratic ticket, it just won't be on Tuesday.
