You don’t have to love unions, you don’t have to believe that their policy positions are always right, to recognize that they’re among the few influential players in our political system representing the interests of middle- and working-class Americans, as opposed to the wealthy. Indeed, if America has become more oligarchic and less democratic over the last 30 years — which it has — that’s to an important extent due to the decline of private-sector unions. And now Mr. Walker and his backers are trying to get rid of public-sector unions, too. There’s a bitter irony here. The fiscal crisis in Wisconsin, as in other states, was largely caused by the increasing power of America’s oligarchy. After all, it was superwealthy players, not the general public, who pushed for financial deregulation and thereby set the stage for the economic crisis of 2008-9, a crisis whose aftermath is the main reason for the current budget crunch.

That is such a useless line of questioning - the interviewee lies, the interviewers know they lie, and everyone thinks they know each other a little better (or they all realize they are wasting time playing Kabuki theater). Starting a relationship by being put on the spot and asked to lie to your new co-workers and bosses isn't a great strategy. If you want to find out a potential hires weaknesses ask some interesting indepth questions and discuss detailed relevant business scenarios - which most HR drones are too lazy to do or prepare. This is a good example of amateur hour HR questions from HR drones or lazy hiring managers - if those questions are the best they can offer then they either need re-training or replacement. What are they going to do next? Play the goofy hiring games from the 1980's where they had interviewee's working like lab rats trying to figure out how to get ping pong balls out of tubes to show they have analytic capability?

My answer is always the same to that tired question, "hire me and find out". One time I said this and the HR drone started explaining why she thought this was an important question, so I cut her off and explained why only an idiot would admit to faults in a first meeting and only an idiot would expect an honest answer - she was dumbfounded (a normal state for most HR drones) - but the manager I would be working with laughed and hired me on the spot.

People hiring seem to forget that an interview is a two way street and you are being accessed by the interviewee. If you ask dumb HR laundry list questions, any interviewee with half a brain thinks s/he is dealing with an organization of low caliber people. If you honestly engage the a perspective employee with interesting involved questions, you get interesting, involved conversations - that will show the wheat from the chaff and build better companies.

ROUND UP

What's more offensive?

a) there are Hardee's restaurants in Egypt?
b) they had to shut down due to the shit that's going on there?
c) there are Hardee's restaurants in Wisconsin?

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Lil Wayne's ODE to the PAckers:



PLACE I'VE CRIED OR PLACE LUDACRIS CLAIMS HE HAD SEX IN HIS SONG "WHAT'S YOUR FANTASY"?