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Zero(?), but I have also never had a "great" job that I had to fight for. Regardless, I think everyone knows through experience that an employee's technical ski

by bcook 10y ago

Zero(?), but I have also never had a "great" job that I had to fight for. Regardless, I think everyone knows through experience that an employee's technical skills are practically useless if said worker is socially inept.

tobz 10y ago
Sure, but what I was trying to get at is: if you had a string of interviews that felt "bad", and/or rejections, that you would probably be a little sour, and that's what I get from the article. It doesn't strike me that the author is particularly socially inept. As someone who watched previous coworkers, who are older, go through the interview ringer, I can sympathize with the author on the pigeonhole one can get stuck in due to seemingly trivial reasons: I don't have a classic CS background, people think I'm past my prime, etc. These aren't imaginary problems, and I struggle to believe that I would be all "go-getter" and "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" after continually being rejected, too.
- bcook 10y ago
  I guess my confusion stems from the article's lack of a conclusion. Yes, _blank_ is sub-optimal, but how did you overcome the obstacle?
wott 10y ago
And what are your social skills? You, who can't even see that the "fuck you, I quit" attitude does not come up first out of nothing but after a series of rejection and nonsensical situations, i.e. that it is a consequence of successive experiences and not the reason of these experiences. You, who decide unilaterally from your failure to understand the logic of events in a blog post, that the blogger is once and for all "socially inept". Great social skills without a bit of understanding and empathy, no doubt. Gee, I am also very tired of people for which stuff went well, and think it is be the same for others. Can't you even imagine there is a variety of situations out there? Can't you imagine it may happen to you one day? Do you think people who encounter this kind of problems never had a shiny position earlier, and their "social skills" were considered perfect before some conceited internet stranger decided they were "socially inept"? And you dare to talk about "experience", seriously?
- bcook 10y ago
  You started your post with a veiled ad hominem attack, which instantly sets an illogical, angry tone... :( Yeah, I have no social skills, so what? I may also have a below average mind, so what? I did not call the author "socially inept"; that sentence was a hypothetical example of how an individual's incredible technical skills can be overshadowed by other problems. I am sorry if I offended you. I thought my posts were critical but logical...

by bcook 10y ago

tobz 10y ago

Sure, but what I was trying to get at is: if you had a string of interviews that felt "bad", and/or rejections, that you would probably be a little sour, and that's what I get from the article. It doesn't strike me that the author is particularly socially inept. As someone who watched previous coworkers, who are older, go through the interview ringer, I can sympathize with the author on the pigeonhole one can get stuck in due to seemingly trivial reasons: I don't have a classic CS background, people think I'm past my prime, etc. These aren't imaginary problems, and I struggle to believe that I would be all "go-getter" and "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" after continually being rejected, too.

bcook 10y ago
I guess my confusion stems from the article's lack of a conclusion. Yes, _blank_ is sub-optimal, but how did you overcome the obstacle?

wott 10y ago

And what are your social skills? You, who can't even see that the "fuck you, I quit" attitude does not come up first out of nothing but after a series of rejection and nonsensical situations, i.e. that it is a consequence of successive experiences and not the reason of these experiences. You, who decide unilaterally from your failure to understand the logic of events in a blog post, that the blogger is once and for all "socially inept". Great social skills without a bit of understanding and empathy, no doubt. Gee, I am also very tired of people for which stuff went well, and think it is be the same for others. Can't you even imagine there is a variety of situations out there? Can't you imagine it may happen to you one day? Do you think people who encounter this kind of problems never had a shiny position earlier, and their "social skills" were considered perfect before some conceited internet stranger decided they were "socially inept"? And you dare to talk about "experience", seriously?

bcook 10y ago
You started your post with a veiled ad hominem attack, which instantly sets an illogical, angry tone... :( Yeah, I have no social skills, so what? I may also have a below average mind, so what? I did not call the author "socially inept"; that sentence was a hypothetical example of how an individual's incredible technical skills can be overshadowed by other problems. I am sorry if I offended you. I thought my posts were critical but logical...