Livestock in the Office
 

To answer your question in the first paragraph, you should ask the office manager to require that all dogs brought in by partners are trained as ratters.

Just how much suckin’ up should I do?
 

I have to admit, as someone who has done A LOT of interviewing (mostly summer associate candidates, but a few laterals), the only thing I've ever done with thank-you letters is show them to my fellow associates so we can giggle over them. Sometimes my secretary and I laugh over them too. They have never influenced me to change a negative recommendation to a positive one, and a few were so ridiculous in their attempts to "connect on a personal level" with me that I changed previously positive recommendations.

But maybe that's just b/c I'm a bitch. Apparently some people actually like gettin them. Better make sure there are no typos though.

Just how much suckin’ up should I do?
 

Here's my problem with 'em: I fill out the evaluation the same day I do the interview. Otherwise the form gets burried on my desk, or I forget to fill it out for some other reason. Hell, I usually forget about the applicant altogether within 3 hours (until I'm told "so and so accepted our offer," may prompt my mind to recall the person).

So, if I get a thank-you note a week later, my rec. is gone, and I'm not going to track it down to say the his/her ettiquette is so refined that em wrote me a note. Besides, the Man, not me, is making the decision in the end.

Just how much suckin’ up should I do?
 

On the plus side, this means that a truly embarrassing thank-you note can't hurt the sender with you.

Just how much suckin’ up should I do?
 

For a lateral, it's important to send along a note.

Often, the people with whom you interview are seriously considering you and you might do business with them whether or not they offer you a position or you accept it.

If you made a real, personal connection, send a brief email the day of your interview and and then send a letter along as well.

reality nuts
 

You're just upset because everyone's favorite lunatic came off looking like a bitter, stupid, callous old man.

Moore: "How many guns do you own?"

Heston: [More than any rational person would require.]

Moore: "You live in a multi-million dollar home surrounded by security."

Heston: "That's right."

Moore: "Have you ever had an incident where someone has broken in?"

Heston: "Never."

Moore: "Have you ever needed to defend yourself?"

Heston: "No."

Moore: "Then why do you have all these guns?"

Heston: "Because the Constitution gives me the right to."

Me: "Oh." (What a brilliant pick for spokesman.)

TM

Just how much suckin’ up should I do?
 

I disagree. At my old firm someone was hired who sent me a thank-you note saying that em was "thrilled" to meet me. I don't remember anything we discussed that could be described as "thrilling" so I was uncomfortable whenever I passed that freak in the hallway or stood next to em in the unirnals--especially because I am not sure em was a man.

Eventually the weirdness and tension got to be too much, so I had to start a rumor that em was stealing office supplies and got em arrested.

Now I don't read thank you notes anymore.

reality nuts
 

I think that whole experience being caught in a net and strung up on poles on Planet of the Apes must've really scared the hell out of him. Perhaps that explains the survivalist-nutbag ammo-hoarding?

p(and if that's not a sound basis for a constitutional argument, I don't know what is)j

Reality TV casting call
 

I saw this blurb this morning,
Given who is producing this, I fear that they're going to make the contestants repaint using their tongues or something, but on the other hand, this could be cool.

reality nuts
 

Why is that a stupid answer? If you think that people shouldn't have guns, then get enough support and change the constitution--it has been done before. If he wanted to take his millions and buy more whiskey than he could possibly drink, would you have a problem with that? So what if he wants to buy guns, that is his right. It may not be smart, but neither is eating fried foods, yet we don't try to tell those people that they have no right to do it because what they are doing is stupid.

I think trying to pass laws that abridge the 2d amendment are more dangerous than Heston's guns. If we buy the principle that a bare majority can pass laws that make an end-run around the constitution for "safety" or "security" then what is to keep the gov from trying to abridge the 1st amendment? The 4th amendment?

This country is about individual freedoms not majority rules.

reality nuts
 

He did come across pretty bad. Of course what are you supposed to think of someone who goes and holds a ralley in a city that has just had a tragedy, and actually chuckles about the fact the Mayor told him not to come.

I didn't think much of him when he did that. Just because you have the right to do something doesn't mean you need to do it.

And of course he didn't know about the little girl who had been shot in the other city when he went to visit. He just went there randomly, suuuure.

What a moron.


Did ya see the movie CtD? They did a pretty nice job of making him look dumb. Not that that is surprising, given the whole point of the movie.

reality nuts
 

Cool. A hidden, unsupported, and snide assertion. You HAVE been watching Moore.

reality nuts
 

There are lots of dumb people here, that doesn't surprise me. And I did see the movie, it was funny and raised some interesting points, but he does draw conclusions that I wouldn't, necessarilly, have drawn and he did play very fast and loose with the facts.

-The "missle" factory in Columbine that he claims makes weapons and ties it to Kosovo, actually makes satellites.

-Heston didn't give that Speach a few days after the Columbine killing, it was actually a year later.

He was also criticised in Roger & Me for flubbing facts. I think there are good enough arguments to make against guns without having to resort to distortions and falsehoods to get your point across though.

I didn't grow up hunting, like Moore, and I don't think I would know how to use a gun properly unless those Rambo movies are accurate protrayals of proper gun technique. So I don't want to own 50 guns--it's a waste of money--but I support the NRA because I think standing for the constitutional issue is more important than what they stand for. I liken it to allowing the march in Skokie Illinois.

reality nuts
 

No, I'm bitter because they gave the "Best Documentary" Oscar to this fat, flippant bastard who digitally alters speeches and stages events to make his point.

If you like to help repair this travesty, go here .

not7yS

reality nuts
 

I'm hoping all of this is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the USA PATRIOT Act, but the Second Amendment doesn't protect Heston's right to buy guys since he's not in a militia. I understand that the NRA has tried to read that inconvenient text out of the Second Amendment, but it's still in there. If you disagree, I suggest we take it up on the Politics Board.