Feb 28, 2022
Facebook gets 15,000 applications for every announcement of a new job opening, You would need an army of screeners to review these applications; giving each one personal attention is out of the question. So the company, like most big companies these days, use algorithms to sift through the avalanche of applications that arrive.
Fortunately, there is one way to make sure that your application is read by human beings. Indeed, using my system will insure that several humans will pay close attention to your cv.
Buy an empty 24 foot container. It will cost you about $800 in North America. Tape your cv inside the container on the floor, in the center of the floor. Arrange for the container to be delivered to your prospective employer. They will have no idea who sent the container or why. When they open it up, the only document they will find is your cv. The guys on the loading dock will send the cv upstairs because they don’t know what to do with the container. Upstairs, they will read your cv. I guarantee it.
This submission procedure is a little more expensive than email, but is it worth $1000 USD to have your cv read? (You have to include cartage fees). Of course it is. Better yet, they will call you in order to get rid of the container; you can agree to “meet” to discuss. That initial meeting, however styled, is an interview. Even if it’s only an information interview.
What’s the downside?
They return the container to you. You can park it in your driveway, empty field, local desert or “U-Store” facility. Now you have a convenient locker for record storage. Or take the doors off, sink it in the Caribbean and so make an artificial reef.
You can thank me later.
Feb 26, 2022
It’s the best we can do.
Feb 26, 2022
Colonel Sanders, International Man of Mystery
You may only know him as a Kentucky lawyer who came up with an internationally-recognized recipe for tasty fried chicken. What you don’t know is that in the 1970’s, at the request of the American government, the Colonel undertook several clandestine missions in the Middle East on behalf of his own and other governments.
To this day, he is fondly remembered by certain governments, who in honor of his secret accomplishments, commemorate the connection with green buckets to carry the chicken cooked with the Colonel’s special blend of herbs and spices.
Now you know.
Feb 18, 2022
Usually at this point I would rant about McKinsey’s advice to US companies to offshore and outsource production to cut costs and so “increase shareholder value.” China is the greatest, though not the only beneficiary of this largesse. China’s economy now rivals that of the US. As a European friend once asked me when I told him of my experience riding a 300 km/hr Maglev train in Shanghai: “how many Maglev trains does the United States have?
Feb 4, 2022
A certain Big 4 accounting firm had a client who wanted a cat-catcher license in the Canal Zone, a jurisdiction no longer in existence. Big 4 would also work on the matter. I didn’t bother to vette the client because Big 4, who presumably had done their accounting, was along for the ride. The client soon discovered that getting a cat-catching license in the Canal Zone is no trivial matter. You must show that you are experienced and have books, manuals and appropriate guidelines in place, like a “Know Your Breed” (KYB) procedure. When they said they had no manuals–after Big 4 asked me to prepare them and then denied they did–I knew a) the cat-catching applicant was full of merde and b) the Ministry of Feline Affairs would never give them a license. $25k of work in, Big 4 informed me, “too bad” because they were still at Phase I and had forgotten to include a ‘kill fee’ in the contract in case the project were abandoned. The license application wasn’t abandoned–to avoid paying, the applicant simply stopped doing anything. Big 4 didn’t get paid either.
—as told by Col. Justiano von Schlossberg
Jan 28, 2022
The Thai Prime Minister, Prayut Chan o Cha, visited Riyadh on Tuesday, January 25th. Following his visit, the two countries announced the re-establishment of diplomatic relations. What caused the breach? Thirty years ago, a Thai gardener stole 100 kilograms of gems from Prince Faisal, son of the then king, King Fahd. Among these was a rare, fifty-carat blue diamond. The Thai police quickly found the culprit and recovered the gems. But the stones they returned to Saudi Arabia were fake. Three Saudi diplomats sent to Thailand were murdered. The real gems ended up in the possession of high-ranking police officers.
Saudi Arabia viewed Thai official behavior as adding insult to injury and broke off diplomatic relations. For thirty years, the two countries only spoke to each other unofficially.
In 2014, a whistleblower in the Thai police broke ranks and accused his superiors of masterminding the murder. He claimed to have burnt the body of one of the victims in a rusty, 55-gallon drum. A ring was still on the hand of a severed arm, which was later recognized as belonging to one of the victims. The case was nevertheless dismissed by a Thai judge because no Saudi witnesses appeared to testify in court.
The rapprochement was supposedly brokered by the king of Bahrain. There’s more to the story. Supposedly the blue diamond itself is in the possession of the former queen of Thailand, the mother of the current king. She was urged to return it to Saudi Arabia, but refused. Whether that is true or just gossip, no one really knows.
The blue diamond was never recovered.
More: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-60133105
Still more: elibrary.law.psu.edu/jlia/vol1/iss1…
Jan 28, 2022
Jan 28, 2022
Freedom from responsibility. America’s freedoms have been boiled down to one issue: “do they make you wear a mask?” Maybe this should be added to the Bill of Rights.
“Arrive on vacation, leave on probation.”
Jan 26, 2022
The MSM has pushed Ivermectin as a horse dewormer, and anyone who attempts to contradict this dogma runs the risk of censure and deplatforming. But now there’s this:
This implies that 89% of the participants benefited from taking Ivermectin as a form of preexposure chemoprophylaxis. Ivermectin has a significant clinical benefit as a preventive drug against COVID-19 for hospital personnel in settings with limited resources.
Source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34975139/
Jan 25, 2022
Following a crash involving a dump truck, three macaques escaped from their cages while being transported to a CDC-approved quarantine center. The macaques had just arrived from Africa; the breed can carry the Ebola virus and in the past has transmitted it to humans.
After a brief monkey hunt, the escaped macaques were captured by police and euthanized. As none of the other monkeys were euthanized, it is unlikely that the CIDC has provided the whole story.
Again.
In the 90’s, a shipment of macaques arrived at Miami International. All of them were dead in their cages. Seeking to avoid panic, the CIDC said, “nothing to see here, move along.” Since it is very likely that Covid-19 escaped from a lab in Wuhan, this macaque escape is also in the nature of the lab breach. It would be nice if the same transparency we demand from the Chinese government were shown by our own agencies.
(25 January 2022)