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hello my fellow capsuleers, i had a meeting with my jobcenter, don't know how you call it in your country, anyway... i've been working for several AAA companys, HP, toshiba, nuclear power plants...had some issues, nevermind... and now they're givin me MS office schoolings???? wrong planet anymore...
3 days ago
Yeah ours is similar. If they ask you what you do in your free time, you better answer "I apply for jobs" and nothing else, or your hobbies will be construed as obstructing your job search. They'll constantly pester you and send you for meaningless fluff training forever. · 18 hours ago
@m0xee btw if you are studing IT in germany, that's what you really do ;) implementing basic OSs/kernrld, building operational hardware etc... · 1 day ago
This world is whack asf and full of bureautards it's a waste, but stay strong, and stay lit you got this. That stupid bitch doesn't even know what a BSD is, and how it precedes any of her stupid MS office bullcrap. · 1 day ago
@m0xee what the hell is a visio chart? i can operate IBM mainframes, but this thing scares the crap out of me.... my sense of humor :P · 2 days ago
Yes, smart-pants, I see that you have worked on memory management system for a distributed virtualisation solution in your previous line of work and have also implemented a microkernel used in wirless network stations from the ground up, nerd-speak, blah-blah-blah… But can you make a Visio chart? 😏 · 2 days ago
well, the lady at the office could not even understand what i told her i think... i am a trained unix sysadmin, used to hpux/solaris/irix/bsd/linux/aix and stuff.... but in her eyes, i need a MS office training... · 2 days ago
Seems typical. I have to provide college transcripts for things that should be obvious anymore also. It's a paperchasing game for HR to justify their existance. · 2 days ago
that is sooo them. unbelievably stuck in their ways. someone must make a killing providing all these ms word classes. stupid af. · 2 days ago
It sounds about right for the UK right now. I feel your pain. · 2 days ago
@lufte that are official agencies to get you into a new job if you are unemployed and get money from the state. to make sure you have required skills for a new job they send you to serveral workshops/schooling. but the reality is, if they don't find you a job they send you to nonsense stuff just because you arent allowed to do "nothing" while waiting for answers to your letters of application (...) · 2 days ago
What's a job center exaclty? · 2 days ago