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I hire people where I work. Nothing fancy, just pest control, but I don't give a fuck. If you're licensed and seem decent as a human I'll give it a go. Worst case scenario is you suck, in which case you're fired pretty quickly on your own merit and I hire someone else. There are so many smaller companies out there in nearly every industry and they're ran by normal people with normal fucked up lives like most of us.
I've been fortunate to end up where I am and what I do but all my employees have fierce loyalty to me simply for being normal and treating them like maybe they're normal too and I hate seeing things like this because even these big corporate jobs are still being ran by people going home and having normal human problems. I don't understand why so many jobs have entry barriers that exclude shit like, "shit happens, sorry for being poor?"
Hope that makes sense. I'm rambling but I also had a shitty day with work and came home and drank. So fuck judgement.
Hope your day/night gets better mate. Cheers
Cheers. Appreciate that. It'll be fine. Just the ebb and flow of life and whatnot.
Cheers, man. This, too, shall pass.
Like Ive never said, when life gets you down, be optimistic. Not sure what kind of jokes you call funny or dark, but when I'm down I just figure I'll hang out near an elementary school. Odds it'll be over goes way up for me.
~sorry for the dark joke, just hope it made you laugh
Oh man... I live in America so that joke is awful and makes me feel bad that I didn't think of it sooner.
I actually laughed at that. I shouldn't, but fortunately I graduated long before I wasn't physically able to.
Thanks
I'm around 50 miles south of Nashville, lol. Spent 29? Years in Florida where I was born. If you want dark, wet, muddy or why can't I breath, it's what I know lol. But seriously do take care. If you want to vent, type me a dm and I'll promise you to read it and respond or never respond if you say, but sometimes a blather about B's is good. Rather you send it to me than if you actually get drunk and send it to your sibling, lol. I'll respond, or just end or start with don't respond, and I'll read . *Promise
I'll take you up on that. Much appreciated. I'm about to fall asleep but it won't be my last shit day I'm sure! I grew up in Dallas and Oklahoma, so I know kinda how you feel lol. These days I'm in California, and despite the difficulty level of basic survival, I love it here. Lots of natural beauty and all that, but honestly anywhere you go it's still the same bullshit mostly. I appreciate the empathy, I really do. Honestly, I'll probably send you random messages occasionally just to get it out. Feel free to do the same, please. Seriously, thanks.
Thanks, please do. If I have to I'll ramble about some shit about blowing up a bottle of homemade wine or something and making the kitchen ceiling peppered lol. I didn't even do that in my really dark days of drinking, I just was making a few bottles for fun and the sugar apparently got around the rim snd "sealed it". Which normally you let it breathe while covering it for no bacteria going in. Exploded worse than the videos of mentos in diet coke. Coated the ceiling walls everything I was wearing for about 8 feet in EVERY direction. I still haven't figured out how to clean the ceiling other than painting it. Lol.
Seriously, just blather when you need. No judgement and I'll either tell you something I've done or input if you want
For funsies I made bread tonight, much cleaner lol
Oh no way! I'm just getting into making bread. That looks amazing.
I have had to do a decent amount of hiring over the years for my own corner the corporate meat grinder. I personally don't care about a gap unless the gap is too big. A big gap allows for a lot of rust to build, so it becomes a bit of a calculation of how much rust needs to get knocked off and if it's fine for this position if it takes longer to get productive. If they're still pretty sharp then the gap is no issue, and if they're really rusty then that can be a problem depending.
I interviewed a guy not long ago with a 3-year gap. No fault of his own, the economy sucks, so I didn't hold it against him. But despite knowing there was a technical interview coming up and knowing what skills we were looking for, the dude didn't put any effort into studying before my interview and he bombed pretty darn hard. Which is a shame because on paper he would've been an amazing candidate otherwise.
Anyways all of that is to say that sometimes a gap brings other stuff too, so a gap to me is a sign to look for that other stuff.