The Wacken Hot Tub (General Chat)

[Alix]

Moin

 

[Carpathian_Wolf]

I'm here

but gone again

Damn

 

[Alix]

We had around 60000 people for Iron Maiden in 2007 (first metal concert in the country, ever) and standing up straight was hard. The venue will brutally packed with massive shoves coming in from every direction.

Sounds exactly like an Aussie crowd. There's no way you could nudge your way into the part of a mosh pit that you want saying "excuse me" and expect people to move.

 

[Alix]

Stop living in the future!

Stop living in the past!

 

[Alix]

Food service worker, or something like that. It's in the metro (underground, tube or whatever) depot. I would do some cleaning, cash register work, and some kitchen work.

I'm going to pretend here that you haven't had the interview. If they are desperate for staff, the interview questions will go something along the lines of "can you follow basic instructions? Do your hands and feet function? When are you available? When can you start?" and if you answer "yes" they'll hand you a uniform I can't say I've had such luck with all food places for which I've applied. I once applied for McDonald's cos I was getting really desperate and they asked me the most bullshit/irrelevant questions

 

[Alix]

... which is why I want to get the hell out of here ASAP. But sadly, most developed countries avoid immigrants from south-west asian countries (india included) like a plague.

Not if you have a PhD in medicine

 

[dishayu]

Sounds exactly like an Aussie crowd. There's no way you could nudge your way into the part of a mosh pit that you want saying "excuse me" and expect people to move.

hehe yeah, there isn't an inch of space... Here in India, we make jokes about how you can almost reach the front row at a gig in Europe by just saying "excuse me" a few times.

And how Canadians go "sorry (play that in Canadian accent" if they knock someone over in a moshpit. xD

Not if you have a PhD in medicine

I only have an MBA in marketing and information systems, rest assured i'm not being run over with job offers.

 

[Alix]

I only have an MBA in marketing and information systems, rest assured i'm not being run over with job offers.

Shame Does it at least pay pretty ok in India?

 

[dishayu]

Shame Does it at least pay pretty ok in India?

There's plenty of demand for MBAs in the country, so local jobs are rather easy to come buy. As far as pay numbers go, I'm inclined to go with "barely ok" as a reply. But according to statistics, I am in the top 0.2% in the country, so... :S

It's not so much that I get paid really well. Just that the rest of the country gets paid really low. (60% of the country earns less than 2$ per day)

 

[Milkie]

Moin

Moin!

I'm going to pretend here that you haven't had the interview. If they are desperate for staff, the interview questions will go something along the lines of "can you follow basic instructions? Do your hands and feet function? When are you available? When can you start?" and if you answer "yes" they'll hand you a uniform I can't say I've had such luck with all food places for which I've applied. I once applied for McDonald's cos I was getting really desperate and they asked me the most bullshit/irrelevant questions

I haven't had it yet, it'll be monday.

That would be nice, haha. It'd be quite easy.

 

[Alix]

I haven't had it yet, it'll be monday.

That would be nice, haha. It'd be quite easy.

I hope you have such luck I really shouldn't be giving interview advice; I've only had three successful interviews ever. The first was as previously mentioned, the second was even easier as the original plan was to have someone fill in for only a few weeks, and the third one I had the opportunity to demonstrate that I was the best for the job (my boss said the "interview" part wasn't that great).

 

[dishayu]

Done with office work, time to head home

 

[Alix]

Actually, speaking of interviews, I'm going to attempt one for a secondment while someone goes on holidays for a couple of weeks. It's a level 5 (I'm currently level 3) so that's probably about $10 extra per hour and very minimal "customer service". I've attempted this sort of job before and didn't do too terribly in the interview but didn't get it. It's in Brisbane and the parking there is a nightmare, oh well. The application makes it look like it's going to be such a hard and responsible job, but I'm pretty sure they're exaggerating (they always do )

 

[Quark]

Not if you have a PhD in medicine

Or if you are a Master (Master, meaning, perferably 2 Masters) in IT.

I only have an MBA in marketing and information systems, rest assured i'm not being run over with job offers.

And that's not enough for here. We have plenty of MBAs ourselves.

But you can always try to get a job at a big multinational!

 

[Alix]

Done with office work, time to head home

Have a good night

Speaking of which, I should have been gone a good hour ago Good night!