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  1. Borzak

    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    Probably a repost. Coincidence?
  2. Borzak

    What do you do?

    I can see that for people just out of college. The stuff he mentioned weren't really questions but comments about what they did. It was really really really easy stuff to notice it was completely wrong. The QC guy said he thought he did it to see if you would correct the boss when he was...
  3. Borzak

    What do you do?

    I did pick up a new interview technique from the president of the company here. When he interviewed me we took a tour of the shop and the yard. It took about an hour and he threw in a couple of things that obviously weren't true. Stuff like "We have always used D size plots" when they were C...
  4. Borzak

    What do you do?

    We really didn't have a long conversation. He did email me a copy of his hotel and flight receipt. Last night all I said was umm no. He said it just wasn't for him apparently. Maybe too many Mexicans lol I dunno. Probably not it's like 98% white here and the shop has about 5 out of 100. No...
  5. Borzak

    Looking for some career/education direction, advice appreciated

    I am just NE of San Antonio. The first town I lived in for a short period while the company put me up had 750 people in it 10 years ago. Now it's $20k+. Growing is an understatement. Also have an AFB in town and the place is growing. Amazon here now, FedEx just built a new center right across...
  6. Borzak

    Looking for some career/education direction, advice appreciated

    What part of TX? One thing I picked up on hiring a new IT guy was even close to Austin there seems to be a pretty good market for run of the mill IT guys who support a small business in day to day stuff. No clue but possibly the hardcore IT guys and developers in Austin can't be bothered with...
  7. Borzak

    Cheated out of my youth

    He is ruined for life. I'll give him that. Downhill from there.
  8. Borzak

    What do you do?

    I've heard from many people on the "inside" that many times they advertise a job when they know who they are going to hire before they take the ad out. CYA. I had to fill out an application to have it on record when I was hired here at my current job.
  9. Borzak

    What do you do?

    That sucks. Any chance the person that sent you the notice of decline didn't know what else was going on?
  10. Borzak

    Home buying thread

    They start at $300/month. They go up from there, 90% of them are catholic schools. Unlike TX where each little town has a school district there if you live in parish X you go to parish X schools. Which means if you live in East Baton Rouge parish you can be sent to any school in the parish....do...
  11. Borzak

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    He now says the guy listed on his birth certificate wasn't his fathere and says he's 100% (50% I guess) bi-racial.
  12. Borzak

    Home buying thread

    I would really rather get the opinion of someone who knows the area. Where I'm from lots of people send their kids to private school. That includes a lot who aren't what you would really consider wealthy, but everyday middle class. When the school district shifts, you send your kids to private...
  13. Borzak

    What do you do?

    Keep up lol. Pivot table - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  14. Borzak

    What do you do?

    I was asked about Excel in my current job interview. I told him upfront. Normally the only time I use it is to enter some data into an existing worksheet. That's pretty much what everyone here does. We get preformatted worksheets we enter shipping data, completion data etc..for the customer. I...
  15. Borzak

    What do you do?

    Thankfully next Friday hell or high water I'm out of this. Guy who I was supposed to come in for an interview, lunch and spend some time looking around at the town etc...called me just now. He got a flight this afternoon and flew back home. He wanted to know if he sent his receipt for his...
  16. Borzak

    Company Raises It's Minimum Wage to $70,000 and All Hell Breaks Loose

    If we shut those down a large portion of "students" would find out they aren't destined for college and instead have to work for a living. Can't have that.
  17. Borzak

    Company Raises It's Minimum Wage to $70,000 and All Hell Breaks Loose

    For every $100 that goes into sudent aid overall in the country tuition goes up $65 on average over all.. I don't have the link handy. Just pointing out that it's a never ending circle. Pour more money in and the tuition will go up. Tuition has skyrocketed while pouring more and more "free"...
  18. Borzak

    The Art of Conversation

    Start smoking then you can put the cigarette in your mouth instead of standing there being akward during the pauses.
  19. Borzak

    Company Raises It's Minimum Wage to $70,000 and All Hell Breaks Loose

    Read today that every $100 of aid that goes to students tuition goes up $65. Go figure.
  20. Borzak

    What do you do?

    I know I'm wordy but 1. I'm bored, my interview didn't show up as of yet 4 hours late. 2. I'm not cut out for this crap. I rather climb up a 200' pressure vessel when it's 100F outside in a cloud of steam and measure something that can be FIXED rather than meet, argue, meet, and argue some...
  21. Borzak

    What do you do?

    That's what I was told by the HR lady. We're running it thru our parent company which is much larger and basically deals with all the legal issues. One thing mentioned was spinning off the engineering department as a subsidary. The first place I worked "engineering" which is a loose term and...
  22. Borzak

    Cord-Cutting, Or How to Stream your Way to Success

    Curious what the future is going to being after the big hiccup earlier in the month about the media and especially how they targeted ESPN in many of the articles about having lost share etc...
  23. Borzak

    Phoenix & Arizona

    We have an office in Phoenix of like 6 people. I read a title on yahoo "Big heat wave in the southwest". So I looked at the weather deal. I think at 9pm local there it was 109F. Fuck that. The forecast for the next day was 115F. Fuck that. I don't care if it's a dry heat or not. I assume 115...
  24. Borzak

    Thailand

    I only heard about it at work because we were talking about going to visit a subcontractor. Kind of dropped off the media radar pretty quick.
  25. Borzak

    Best place to live

    According to that list a county where I own "land" in East, TX that is bankrupt. Provides no fire protection and no deputies but has pine trees ranks the same as the current county I live in that is in the hill country of TX that people are lined up to move to for the beauty of it. Go figure.
  26. Borzak

    What do you do?

    Also my idea of paying 100% of their insurance was deemed "illegal and subject to fines" under the ACA or some such. Oh well.
  27. Borzak

    What do you do?

    I stay off of much of it.
  28. Borzak

    What do you do?

    Sometimes you people scare me. Serioulsly. I ask very few questions in an invterview. We go over basic stuff. Have lunch and determine their ability to fit in. Tour the shop and talk while doing so. Hopefully in that time frame they talk about stuff they have done in the past that fit with...
  29. Borzak

    What do you do?

    Well for these jobs the only thing you would need to know in office is how to open a document someone else sent for the most part. Right now if someone with good qualifications didn't know anything about office they would hire an assistant to do all that for him/her. My 11:00 interview...
  30. Borzak

    Home buying thread

    You just have to know what to ask. At least in the south the better parts of town go with the better schools. They have code words. Like less than desirable school. Tough resell market due to the school here. Etc... I bought my parents a house 6 years ago and the agent was not shy about which...
  31. Borzak

    What do you do?

    I can't imagine doing that nowdays and what would be involved on the legal end.
  32. Borzak

    What do you do?

    I really don't know what you would need to pick up that weighs 5 pounds anyway. I change out the rolls for the plotter if runs out while I'm using it. But we could get someone else to do it lol. If we plot out an entire job at once it can weigh a good bit, but since I fired the IT guy that...
  33. Borzak

    What do you do?

    HR lady just forwarded me some more resumes for my replacement to go thru. I still look at resumes of people with college degrees, multiple years or decades of professional experience where they put stuff under skills like Microsoft word. I know I have a really long resume but you really need to...
  34. Borzak

    What do you do?

    I put a lot because most of the people I talk to where I have interviewed, competitors, and when I owned my own business it's very difficult to find people/attract people now. Very difficult. There's just not a very large pool nationwide to draw from and very few skills cross over. The...
  35. Borzak

    What do you do?

    Sorry I've been wordy. Bored as shit here at work. The 28th is my last day so I won't be posting from work any longer.
  36. Borzak

    Company Raises It's Minimum Wage to $70,000 and All Hell Breaks Loose

    No. His dad died of cancer while he was in the Navy. I offered him a job because he's reasonabley smart and needed a job. We pretty much went our separate ways. He once asked me and then my dad if we would sign his deal that he was looking for a job while on unemployment. Kind of went downhill...
  37. Borzak

    The Fast Food Thread

    Lol my real meal yesterday was a $6 po-boy while I ate breakfast at McDonalds, afternoon snack at Burger King, and a later dinner at whataburger. I had just never heard of gogurt. I eat yoplait light yogurt a lot. I'm having an ultra fancy meal for diner tonight. A banquet frozen pot pie...
  38. Borzak

    Blocking IP trackers

    This is related to the site for cheaters ain't it that got hacked and relased their info this week ain't it?
  39. Borzak

    What do you do?

    I talk about projects I have been involved in. I list precipitators, bag houses, carbon capture projects, furnaces, stacks, large duct work up to 21' in diamter, pressure vessels, platforms and give a typical customer and location for each example. Like say "Worked as project manager at the...
  40. Borzak

    Company Raises It's Minimum Wage to $70,000 and All Hell Breaks Loose

    Friend of mine does hiring and nurse training for the largest employer in the state which is a university medical hospital. He said way too many people got into nursing with no aptitude for it, but they knew they could get a job regardless if they were good at it. He's listed as upper management...