Comments | jaymark108: High Blood Pressure?

jaymark108

High Blood Pressure?

Feb 12, 2010 13:52

It is interesting being married to a member of HR. You might think of human resources as the bloodstream of the company--they deliver oxygen (money) to the cells via payroll, and they fight germs (workplace problems) that could bring an organ or the whole company to its knees. Hearing Steph's war stories is like being able to peek into my own ( Read more... )

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daisydacia February 12 2010, 22:15:39 UTC

Miss you, glad to see you on here. Hope to hear from you soon.

P.S. I sent you an email.

cesarano February 13 2010, 00:02:20 UTC

I was never interested in trying to get all the Pokemon in Diamond/Pearl. Hell, I'm surprised I enjoyed them as much as I had, since I wasn't able to get into Gold/Silver. Still, the distribution of Pokemon across the world felt unbalanced.

I miss Red/Blue. Or at least, the feeling I got playing them. I couldn't get it back when I tried playing the GBA remake.

I have two Pokemon games I'd love to make. The first being a sort of House of the Dead style game where Pokemon have gone nuts and are killing people and you gotta shoot them all. It would be awesome. The other is a Pokemon MMO. I need to just open a document up and start taking notes as ideas occur to me, and one day put them out there into the universe and see if anything comes of it.

jaymark108 February 14 2010, 04:50:37 UTC

An MMO could really work. Imagine if Gym leaders were players--whomever has the best combination of Rock pokemon gets to be the rock leader. If you beat his pokemon with your regular team, you get the rock badge... If you beat his pokemon with an all rock team, you get to be the new leader.

godemperorleto February 13 2010, 19:37:13 UTC

You married someone who works for HUMAN RESOURCES?

My hatred for all things HR fills me with images of angry ex-employees machine-gunning hapless pencil-pushers.

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I have to go vomit now.

jaymark108 February 14 2010, 04:46:19 UTC

Steph clarifies that she works for payroll. Is that different?

godemperorleto February 14 2010, 06:07:49 UTC

Yes.

Sorta.

HR departments are responsible for hiring people who interview well but can't actually do the job. But the non-people-person guys who can do the job but don't say all the right stuff to the HR people during the interview don't get hired. And that's just the beginning of my issues with HR departments.

Besides, my Dad warned me that HR is not your friend, that if you have any issues, and you go talk to them like they say you always can, you end up on a collision course with the unemployment line somewhere down the road.

jaymark108 February 15 2010, 20:54:01 UTC

Actually, when I interviewed for my current job I talked to four IS managers for close to an hour each, and then had a 10 minute (practically a debriefing) interview with an HR guy.

I'm not sure I'd want to work for a company where HR did all the interviews. I'm afraid I wouldn't know enough about the company, and vice versa.