Job interviews

[FJRider]

Yeah fucking right it is

Especially if you like the odd 'Poo-Nami"

It may be shit to us, but its solid gold to them...

Plenty of shit jobs as a there alright ...

If you like getting wet ... it's another plus to being a plumber ...

[Voltaire]

I was told at my last interview by the Agent to wear a suit " as you only get one chance to make good impression".....
I hired one out...$160 ( as I didn't own one)
I got the job.....went out and bought a $600 suit......
Most days I wear black jeans and a shirt....every day I ride the bike...some days a $300 scootah....

Lesson there: do what you need to do to get the job...after that....what you can get away with.


My company found out I race a classic bike.....posted pics on their website.....I should hit them up for sponcership....

[Akzle]

Something will come up.

no it wont.
60 positions advertised at rotorua mitre 10, 2000 applicants. smoke dope, drink beer and enjoy shit.

relax and have a half decent summer instead of running around like a headless chicken watching life go by.

this.

I have enough behind me to last a fair few months the way I am living at the moment, very minimalisticly. But I need to work other wise I start going stir crazy. And being carless means I cant take the boat out fishing.

winz pay 180$ a week if you're sick or unemployed, minimalist enough for ya?

[caspernz]

I leave bikes out of job interviews.

I go to job interviews to get the job "anything that could distract from that need not be mentioned.

Bikes are one of those things that could distract.

While I agree with your stance, one could argue for and against, as many have done already. The variable being what's the job...

[FJRider]

no it wont.

smoke dope, drink beer and enjoy shit.

He wants to be a plumber .. that sounds like most of the plumbers I know ...

[clonak]

no it wont.
60 positions advertised at rotorua mitre 10, 2000 applicants. smoke dope, drink beer and enjoy shit.

If I got desperate enough to apply at Mitre 10, they would give me a management position. I have more experience in the building/timber industry then any muppet I have seen working there. Been doing it since I left school, in almost every role there is in the industry. But I have never liked it, except for driving the Hi-abs, that was fun, so I am trying to get away from the industry. This is the only time I have had to apply for jobs, everything has been refferals, or personally asked to work for them. Some thing will come up, I am confident in that. All I wanted to know was if any had taken thier bike t interviews, and the out comes. All in all seems fairly positive, but yes, I will wear good clothes underneath, and take the gear off.

Iv had to lay off the dope for the last couple of months because I noticed alot of jobs state pre employment drug tests these days. And the dole is not an option. I am not going back there.

[Akzle]

If I got desperate enough to apply at Mitre 10, they would give me a management position. I have more experience in the building/timber industry then any muppet I have seen working there. Been doing it since I left school, in almost every role there is in the industry. But I have never liked it, except for driving the Hi-abs, that was fun, so I am trying to get away from the industry. This is the only time I have had to apply for jobs, everything has been refferals, or personally asked to work for them. Some thing will come up, I am confident in that. All I wanted to know was if any had taken thier bike t interviews, and the out comes. All in all seems fairly positive, but yes, I will wear good clothes underneath, and take the gear off.

Iv had to lay off the dope for the last couple of months because I noticed alot of jobs state pre employment drug tests these days. And the dole is not an option. I am not going back there.

and none of that counts for a flying fuck because there's 1500 people better than you applying for the same position.

trust me, i'm fucking awesome, i don't apply for work, people apply to have me work for them.

good luck to ya, but don't expect too much about gainful employment with national's "market"-driven polciy.

as far as bike to interviews: it is your transport. own it. if they have a problem with that, you don't want to be working for them.

[Laava]

and none of that counts for a flying fuck because there's 1500 people better than you applying for the same position.

trust me, i'm fucking awesome, i don't apply for work, people apply to have me work for them.

good luck to ya, but don't expect too much about gainful employment with national's "market"-driven polciy.

as far as bike to interviews: it is your transport. own it. if they have a problem with that, you don't want to be working for them.

Jeez! Have you got a job now Rob?

[Akzle]

and the comment about "wear clothes that you could start work in nownow" is bang on.


fuck drug screening, asides from forestry, there's no industry that should be that hard-nosed on it. even forestry is pushing it, but they get a lot of niggers, and need to screen them with nous from them without, it's an easy "bahahahah, no, fuckoff" for employers.

without de-railing the thread, you have a legal right to defer drug "screening" for < 1 month (time to abstain and give a clean sample), this is for every test they ask you for, and if they boo you for it, you can piss and moan to whichever government agency handles pissing and moaning employees. not such a hot idea for getting a "job", but fine once you've got one.

the "ministry for social development" also offer business start up grants - you can get about 15k a year for starting up failing businesses as long as you can convince a government employee it's a good idea.
no shit, there are people who are 20 years down the line on this path and doing swimmingly.

a better idea would be go to business as a sole trader doing what you're awesome at, you'd be surprised what can be written off as tax deductable expenses. goes right against my grain (of "not talking to the government. at all. ever.") but might be up your alley.

[Akzle]

Jeez! Have you got a job now Rob?

"gainful employment" is the devil. i'm sure you're well above it.

PS, can i have your old bike?

((and since when did you know me as rob???))

-edit-
to answer your question, no. i sell crack to the brown kids in OT. who steal stereos out of cars at the basin to pay for it. so i'm propping up the local economy three ways.

[Edbear]

I was told at my last interview by the Agent to wear a suit " as you only get one chance to make good impression".....
I hired one out...$160 ( as I didn't own one)
I got the job.....went out and bought a $600 suit......
Most days I wear black jeans and a shirt....every day I ride the bike...some days a $300 scootah....

Lesson there: do what you need to do to get the job...after that....what you can get away with.


My company found out I race a classic bike.....posted pics on their website.....I should hit them up for sponcership....

Spot on! And of course you should ask about sponsorship!

[Laava]

"gainful employment" is the devil. i'm sure you're well above it.

PS, can i have your old bike?

((and since when did you know me as rob???))

-edit-
to answer your question, no. i sell crack to the brown kids in OT. who steal stereos out of cars at the basin to pay for it. so i'm propping up the local economy three ways.

Is it real crack or rock salt?

[unstuck]

Iv had to lay off the dope for the last couple of months because I noticed alot of jobs state pre employment drug tests these days. And the dole is not an option. I am not going back there.

There are kits that you can buy for that, or take someone else,s piss like a fella down here did. He was PREGNANT so did not get the job. I wouldnt employ a stoner my self, even though I can smoke my share.Most of the stoners I know down this way are absolute lazy cunts after a smoke.

[clonak]

well, doesnt look like Ill be taking the bike to any interviews. Thanks to the incosiderate FUCKFACE that pulled out in front of me across Church Street. Even had the decency to just drive off. Thanks alot mate. Just secured 2 interviews as well.

[unstuck]

well, doesnt look like Ill be taking the bike to any interviews. Thanks to the incosiderate FUCKFACE that pulled out in front of me across Church Street. Even had the decency to just drive off. Thanks alot mate. Just secured 2 interviews as well.

What happened, did you ride into someone?