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Old 06-09-2013, 10:27 PM
 
Location: southern california
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great post. this is by far the most important part of the employment game, not getting but keeping the job. and 18 months from retirement the game gets very ugly.
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Old 06-09-2013, 10:53 PM
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Location: Tall Building down by the river
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For real. Most businesses fail miserably in the first year.

I was lucky enough to sell mine and get a job out of it. The brutal truth is that if you're not smart enough, and dynamic enough, to win the interview process, you won't have the tenacity, smarts or capability to run your own business.

Exactly, Post of the Month
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Old 06-11-2013, 05:42 AM
 
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They did this very thing at a fortune 500 company I used to work for. I left before I was put in such a position.
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Old 06-11-2013, 08:21 AM
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I've known two workplaces where this was done and in both of them, the interviews resulted in most of the older employees not being retained. If I were an older worker being asked to go through this, I would expect the worst.
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Old 06-11-2013, 12:42 PM
 
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Today at my friend's workplace they announced that anyone who ''deliberately'' fails the interview will not get the severance package!
Now how they are going to ''prove'' that is beyond me! I think this place is beyond evil and I hope the ''rejectees''get together for a class action threat.
That is sad. It seems like they want any employees who see the writing on the wall and decide now is the time to leave to have to go through the motions of groveling to keep their jobs anyway. Why not just say we need X number to leave and we'll take volunteers before we start layoffs? I guess they figure the volunteers would be the best workers, since those would be more likely to find new employment quickly.
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