Tubby Tobin had a job interview today

[BattleHymn]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018853707

I'm just gonna leave this right here.  So many jokes to be made, so little time:

Fri Apr 1, 2016, 05:45 PM
Star Member Tobin S. (8,466 posts)

I had a job interview today.

It's a local unionized company. The starting pay is $3 an hour more than I make now. The insurance is better than what I currently have at about the same price. The best thing? I can see a future at this company and my bachelor's degree may help me work into better positions. At my current employer, they don't even care that I have a degree. Just drive the truck, dummy, and turn off your brain.

Things have really slowed down at work. I was getting 55 hours a week on average there for a long time, and I needed that overtime to help me get by. Then they hired another driver when they really didn't need one and I started losing hours. Maybe it makes more sense to them to try to avoid paying overtime, but it's going to result in them losing a good driver- if I must say so myself...and around there nobody else is going say it.

Another good thing about the potential new job is that I'd no longer be out on the road all day. The new job is loading trucks, switching trailers, and ensuring the trailers out in the yard that are loaded with product are at the correct temperature. It's a food processing company and all of their trailers are temperature controlled. I'd be working in a cooler most of the day. It's 43 degrees in there so I won't be sweating my ass off anymore in the summer. I know that prolonged exposure to that temperature can make you mighty cold, but I'm pretty sure I can handle it if I dress right for it and I'll be moving around a lot so that will help me keep warm.

They want to do a background check on me and they are going to get back with me on Monday. I really hope I get this job.

[Carl]

but it's going to result in them losing a good driver- if I must say so myself...and around there nobody else is going say it.

Probably because in the real world you are an imbecile and screw up.

[franksolich]

comment 3112:
http://conservativecave.com/index.php?topic=81827.3100

[landofconfusion80]

It'll end at the background check when they find out he posts at the dump. His mental wellness will be called into question

[FlaGator]

I never realized that they had a bachelor's degree in truck loading and unloading. I thought it was one of those skills most people are born with. I guess next you're going to tell me that they offer degrees in women studies too!

[BattleHymn]

It'll end at the background check when they find out he posts at the dump. His mental wellness will be called into question

I've found that the best way to avoid having primitive coworkers is to only work at places that employ what I call the "quadruple threat":

1. Background check
2. Credit check
3. Drug test
4. Aptitude test

The process filters out 99% of primitives from the workplace. 

[I_B_Perky]

Fri Apr 1, 2016, 05:45 PM
Star Member Tobin S. (8,466 posts)

I had a job interview today.

It's a local unionized company. The starting pay is $3 an hour more than I make now. The insurance is better than what I currently have at about the same price. The best thing? I can see a future at this company and my bachelor's degree may help me work into better positions. At my current employer, they don't even care that I have a degree. Just drive the truck, dummy, and turn off your brain.

Things have really slowed down at work. I was getting 55 hours a week on average there for a long time, and I needed that overtime to help me get by. Then they hired another driver when they really didn't need one and I started losing hours. Maybe it makes more sense to them to try to avoid paying overtime, but it's going to result in them losing a good driver- if I must say so myself...and around there nobody else is going say it.

Maybe?  Damn Tubbs.  Don't you have a business degree?  If so, you should demand a refund.

Perky gonna help you out and 'splain it to you Lucy.


Some scenarios:

1. The company took one look at you, decided you was probably gonna keel over with a coronary and decided to have a backup. 
2. The company figured with your high powered degree, and you posting about your job search on DU, and probably telling everyone there that you post on DU, you may not be there if you luck into another job. 
3. The company has had it with your stupid ass, the owner has a heart and does not want to fire your ass outright, and is gently nudging your ass out the door. Encouraging you to leave in other words.
4. The health insurance for your fat ass is so expensive they are kicking you to the curb.

I, with no business degree, can figure the above out in the time it took me to type it.  You should really, really demand a refund from whatever school was dumb enough to give you a degree.

[BannedFromDU]

Maybe?  Damn Tubbs.  Don't you have a business degree?  If so, you should demand a refund.

Perky gonna help you out and 'splain it to you Lucy.


Some scenarios:

1. The company took one look at you, decided you was probably gonna keel over with a coronary and decided to have a backup. 
2. The company figured with your high powered degree, and you posting about your job search on DU, and probably telling everyone there that you post on DU, you may not be there if you luck into another job. 
3. The company has had it with your stupid ass, the owner has a heart and does not want to fire your ass outright, and is gently nudging your ass out the door. Encouraging you to leave in other words.
4. The health insurance for your fat ass is so expensive they are kicking you to the curb.

I, with no business degree, can figure the above out in the time it took me to type it.  You should really, really demand a refund from whatever school was dumb enough to give you a degree.

      1. The company is Frito-Lay, and he drove a Cheetos truck. They hired another driver to make sure something got to the shelves.

[USA4ME]

Tobin S.

At my current employer, they don't even care that I have a degree. Just drive the truck, dummy, and turn off your brain.

The new job is loading trucks, switching trailers, and ensuring the trailers out in the yard that are loaded with product are at the correct temperature.

The degree to which a job goes from "turn off your brain" to one where, it seems, a brain is necessary is an extremely short distance in liberalworld.

After it takes 5 years for the Tobin S. primitive to almost become competent at this job, no doubt he'll be ready to put that degree to good use and move on to being the guy who checks the tires on the trucks to make sure they're properly inflated.

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[GOBUCKS]

I've always thought that DUmmy Tobin S. could form a hell of a truck driving team with DUmmy rsmithnumbers.

rsmithnumbers could handle all the forward driving and DUmmy Tobin S. could  take over whenever the job required reverse gear.

Like Harry Callahan said, a man's gotta know his limitations.

[BattleHymn]

I've always thought that DUmmy Tobin S. could form a hell of a truck driving team with DUmmy rsmithnumbers.

rsmithnumbers could handle all the forward driving and DUmmy Tobin S. could  take over whenever the job required reverse gear.

Like Harry Callahan said, a man's gotta know his limitations.

The only problem with that is no truck company worth their salt would hire that team as doubles.  They'd be over limit on the scales just as soon as both of them set foot in the tractor.

[Karin]

Response to mackerel (Reply #12)

Sat Apr 2, 2016, 01:16 AM

Star Member Tobin S. (8,480 posts)

20. It was a fairly easy interview.

The toughest question I had involved a job that I had only worked at for a few months 5 years ago. They wanted to know why I was only there for a short time. I had a good answer for them, though. I told them the truth. 

I didn't get the question you were asked. I also didn't get the, "What do you consider your greatest weakness?" question. I had an answer prepared for that question, though. I'd like to say, "My wife's lasagna," but if I were asked that question, I'd say something along the lines of being a workaholic. 

Does anybody ask that question anymore?  His "workaholic" answer is pat and clichéd.  I'd think an interviewer would roll their eyes.

I wonder what his degree was in? 

[Patriot Guard Rider]

Does anybody ask that question anymore?  His "workaholic" answer is pat and clichéd.  I'd think an interviewer would roll their eyes.

I wonder what his degree was in?

Many lifetimes ago, I had a job interview and I broke every rule you could possibly break.

Q: How is your sense of humor?
A: I work in telecom, what do you think?
That got a laugh

Q: Why do you want to work here?
A: I don't know that I do (even though I was desperate for the job), you called me.
From that point on, THEY tried to SELL me on working there. I was basically interviewing them.

Doesn't work everywhere, but there, it did.

They got 400 resumes at the initial job posting. They whittled that down to 30 to go under the first round of interviews. Then that was whittled to 20 for a second interview, 10 for the third interview, 3 for the fourth, and just me for my fifth interview for that job.

The process took 3 months.

[SVPete]

I can see a future at this company and my bachelor's degree may help me work into better positions. At my current employer, they don't even care that I have a degree. Just drive the truck, dummy, and turn off your brain.

Hello! Truck driving is a skill position, not intellectual. Unless it's a large company needing lots of manglers and accounting people, a college degree would be superfluous. With an attitude like Tob's he probably doesn't get on well with fellow drivers or supervisors. So the company is probably shifting hours from Tob to the new guy to make it worth Tob's while to move on without the complications of canning him or an unemployment claim.

Edit: changed a verb to the proper mood.

[Patriot Guard Rider]

Hello! Truck driving is a skill position, not intellectual. Unless it's a large company needing lots of manglers and accounting people, a college degree will be superfluous. With an attitude like Tob's he probably doesn't get on well with fellow drivers or supervisors. So the company is probably shifting hours from Tob to the new guy to make it worth Tob's while to move on without the complications of canning him or an unemployment claim.

Yup. He probably complains about having a degree doing "that" job. Lets everyone know he's smarter than them.

My ex-wife has the same problem. She considers herself the smartest person in the room (including her boss), has no problem looking down her nose at people and is openly resistant to taking the advice from anyone who has less than her degree (she has an MBA).

It's cost her dearly in jobs but she won't listen to me. I don't have anything but high school, but I out earn her. It drives her up a wall.

[I_B_Perky]

      1. The company is Frito-Lay, and he drove a Cheetos truck. They hired another driver to make sure something got to the shelves.

 

H5! That made me LOL!!!!

My ex-wife has the same problem. She considers herself the smartest person in the room

I thought that was a requirement for all women.   Did I just say that? 

[SVPete]

My ex-wife has the same problem. She considers herself the smartest person in the room (including her boss), has no problem looking down her nose at people and is openly resistant to taking the advice from anyone who has less than her degree (she has an MBA).

It's cost her dearly in jobs but she won't listen to me. I don't have anything but high school, but I out earn her. It drives her up a wall.

Losing all those jobs cost her dearly in $$, too: she never got the raises and promotions that come with years at one place; she's always starting near the bottom at every new job; many potential employers see her job instability and toss her resume' into the round file. Obviously academic education and wisdom are not automatically connected.

[SVPete]

      1. The company is Frito-Lay, and he drove a Cheetos truck. They hired another driver to make sure something got to the shelves.

Ridin' shotgun on a Cheetos truck! H-5!

[Karin]

They got 400 resumes at the initial job posting. They whittled that down to 30 to go under the first round of interviews. Then that was whittled to 20 for a second interview, 10 for the third interview, 3 for the fourth, and just me for my fifth interview for that job.

The process took 3 months.

Oh my God.  How did they manage to get any other work done?  There's probably written summaries/evals for each one of those data points, too.  And you must have been sick of them and it by that time, as well. 

[GOBUCKS]

The DUmmy Tobin S. saga.

First it's an academic triumph:

Sat Dec 20, 2014, 08:09 PM
Star Member Phentex (11,839 posts)

* * * * * * * * * * * * * GRADUATION PARTY FOR TOBIN S. * * * * * * * * * * *

HE did it! Our very own Tobin S. has graduated from college!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018702795

Many of you remember the path he has taken to get here and realize he has come a very long way since his "Droopy" days here at DU. Back then, he was honest and open about his mental health struggles and there were times I felt he might never "see" the sunshine.

With a diploma!



But then, alas, just seven months later, bankruptcy:

Sat Jul 25, 2015, 03:27 PM
Star Member Tobin S. (8,486 posts)
I'm going to file for bankruptcy on Tuesday.


It could have been worse for my creditors. I'm leaving about $16,000 on the table in unused credit on my credit cards.


I've tightened my belt and we've cut out things to try to make it work. I've leased my condo when I could. But even on our bare bones budget we're still coming up about $600 short a month. My savings are down to about $3000. If I manage to lease my condo again it will only give us about five more months before we are out of money. Might as well file now and put an end to the stress.

I qualify for chapter 7 bankruptcy. It will wipe out about $1300 a month in debt payments so we'll be back on the positive side again. I'll get to keep my car. Our house is in my wife's name and she is not filing. It will make my credit look shitty for a long time, but I don't foresee us needing credit any time soon. The next big thing will probably be a car for my wife and I think her current one will last another three or four years.

But now he's the prime candidate for a new job. Hope that bankruptcy seven months ago doesn't trip him up.

[Patriot Guard Rider]

Oh my God.  How did they manage to get any other work done?  There's probably written summaries/evals for each one of those data points, too.  And you must have been sick of them and it by that time, as well.

It was basically the same questions over and over. I guess they wanted to see if I was lying on the first interview or two. I had nothing to worry about, because I was truthful but every time the phone rang and I expected to hear, "you're hired", it was only, "can you come in for another interview".

They actually had HR in Houston, the data manager in Houston and two managers in Atlanta reviewing everything. I really don't want to go through that again, but going in for an interview and saying, "Am I hired or not" is not a good strategy.

[Karin]

He did not return to the thread.  This job seemed kind of physical, loading/unloading, and they might want someone in better shape, with that expensive workers comp in mind.