The US attorney general, whose job is to enforce the nation's laws, in a hearing about why she is protecting the Epstein abusers instead of prosecuting them, refused to answer questions on the substance of the matter. Instead, she started making personal attacks against members of Congress, and when that failed to stop the questions she proceeded to shout about how the Dow was at 50,000.
My fam and I are all O. Like you, they don't like me. They'll go for anyone else. I also find that they will land on me and not try to bite - or if they do, they don't put in a lot of effort and don't pierce the skin. Even if they do bite, my skin doesn't appear to react and they seem to quit quickly.
Meanwhile, my poor spouse and kid are delicious. And they have soft, sensitive skin. It's ok, I always remember the repellent just for them.
Incompetence of HR staff plays a huge role in this. Hiring teams have zero understanding of what they're hiring for. They subscribe to services that design a candidate profile for them, which then filters candidates based on that candidate profile. There's a lot of keyword matching, education grading, even resume format analysis, and of course some subtle forms of discrimination (inferring age, for example). They want someone who is likely expecting the lower end of the salary band, as well, which is calculated. There's also a personality scoring system based on language and public profile analysis. All of this happens before a single person sees your resume. If the score isn't 9/10, the resume is discarded.
BCIS degree and the tool filters for "Computer Science"? Instant-reject.
And then there are ghost jobs. Companies have learned that the markets infer their health based on job openings, so they put up plausible openings with no intent to fill them. They might even promise internal teams that they will fill them, but they won't.
My employer has had a position open for 9 months, I've referred 2 people to it who were really good fits, and both were rejected within 4 hours. It's a ghost job.
The only reliable path to having a human make any intelligent judgment on your candidacy is with a referral from an existing employee.
Nobody has a textbook career history, but that's all recruiting teams know to look for. Most internal recruiters are failed sales people, and sales people are already pretty clueless most of the time. They outsource all of the thinking to external services.
And if their percentage was unreasonably high, their competitors would sell at lower prices. Strangely, they don't. Which tells us that Tim's complaints are nothing but bullshit.
Tuvix's death makes the entire series A+. If Janeway had a choice between keeping Tuvix alive and getting home immediately, or killing Tuvix and having to slog through the entire Delta quadrant, then clearly the latter is the superior choice.
Finance bro uses party drugs. Not exactly news.