Archive for June, 2007
Hiring
We are hiring at my work and I have seen so many crappy websites and resumes it is turning my brain to mush. So the question is, is there a better way? This has been quoted all around the web and I think it would probable work for larger companies.
HOW DO YOU RECRUIT PEOPLE INTO A BUSINESS?
See the answer below:
Put about 100 bricks in some particular order in a closed room with an open window. Then send 2 or 3 candidates in the room and close the door. Leave them alone and come back after 6 hours and then analyze the situation.
- If they are counting the bricks. Put them in the accounts department.
- If they are recounting them.. Put them in auditing .
- If they have messed up the whole place with the bricks. Put them in engineering.
- If they are arranging the bricks in some strange order. Put them in planning.
- If they are throwing the bricks at each other. Put them in operations .
- If they are sleeping. Put them in security.
- If they have broken the bricks into pieces. Put them in information Technology.
- If they are sitting idle. Put them in human resources.
- If they say they have tried different combinations, yet not a brick has been moved. Put them in sales.
- If they have already left for the day. Put them in marketing.
- If they are staring out of the Window. Put them on strategic planning.
- And then last but not least… If they are talking to each other and not a single brick has been moved. Congratulate them and put them in top management.
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No commentsOakland
Alanna and I spent another nice weekend in the east bay. Doing some hiking out in Tilden Park and eating Chinese food in downtown. I spent a few hours on sunday reading a book I bought about Warren Buffet.
After some dinner with a friend we headed back to the city to finish out our night.
No commentsBig headed famous people
Let me tell you the key to being famous. Having a huge head. Now I know what your thinking, but I mean this in the literal sense. Didn’t you ever meet someone famous and think “Oh, my god they have a huge head.” Yes… I’ll bet you did. You want to know why? (And I am not talking about Jamie Zawinski’s big head people in the background phenomenon)
People with abnormally large heads compared to their bodies look better on camera. I mean take a look at some famous people and its like a bobble head collection. Bono? He’s like 5ft nothing with a huge head. Deniro? he is like 5.5″ with a huge head. If your body is proportionally correct you have absolutely no chance of being famous. I mean on screen that is.
Paris Hilton is like a watermelon attached to a match stick, and she has not discernable talent what so ever. How does this work?
Maybe the phrase “He’s getting a big head” has some basis in fact?
No commentsThe double level Pot Rack
Here is our nice and sporty new pot rack. It looks nice and sturdy doesn’t it… This one will not come crashing down anytime soon.
When you live in a small space like we do, you have to fight for every inch that you can get. Look at all that glorious space that we can fill with stuff that we have crammed in other small spaces in our kitchen. I could park a tractor trailer on that pot rack!
No commentsWii
I got the new Wii today and came home and hooked it up. Wow. So much fun. The golf and tennis are enough to have me hooked. And I was bad at them. I can definitely see how people have thrown those remotes though. I was getting pretty close to smacking the TV while doing some bowling.
Alanna will lose it for sure. I think I need to buy some Mario Cart or something. Oh wait. I think I should wait until she is finished with some school.
No commentsWeekend wedding sites
Alanna and i were all around the bay last weekend looking at sites for our wedding reception. There were some really cool ones, like the Log Cabin in the presidio. and lots of Julia Morgan places like the womans club in Sausalito. We also did a little running around in the east bay.
In the end we are going with the first place that we saw which is The Sanbenito House in Half Moon Bay.
I think we just came to the conclusion that it had everything that we needed. Alanna is now free to create lots of registries all over the web. Not sure what we are going to do with it all once we get it but, I guess we worry about that later.
You can check out our Wedding Blog here >>
No commentsWii are excited
Our Wii is on the way. We had been selling a bunch of old stuff and things we don’t need and I built up a nice chunk of change at Paypal so I put bid in on a Wii and I was surprised that I won. So now we have a Wii on the way. mmmmm bowling.
No commentsWarehouse Bar
Alanna and I stayed in Oakland yesterday doing some house/cat sitting and we walked down the street to this kinda weird looking bar. When we got there, there was a guy holding a bloody rag to his face out front. Right there we thought “Maybe we don’t want to go to this bar.”
We walked by like we were just going for a stroll in a desolate warehouse district and then noticed a bike and bag in the middle of the road. We put 2 + 2 together and figured out that this guy fell off his bike and in fact did not get his ass kicked at the bar. So we helped him with his bike and bag and stopped in for a drink. Turns out it was the safest place to be in the neighborhood.
We played pool with a funny couple on their first date. Hope it turned out ok!
No commentsmmmm new racks
I have already been looking around the net for a new potrack… And where do you think I found a cool one? Why, http://www.allpotracks.com/ of course…
mmmm double decker
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