Up until last month it would have been Programmer, but the company is doing shitty and I was amongst the 15% laid off. So now it is hospitality as I'm handling the preliminary stuff for my soon to open franchise restaurants.
Surely it should be "Self-employed/freelancer" and a separate option for "Unemployed"? Not that it matters too much for a forum poll, but I would say being entrepreneurial and being on benefits are polar opposites. Anyway, mine would be Sales and Marketing, as I manage a small e-tailer, although given that we only have a couple of employees, it's a "jack of all trades" position really.
In case anyone doesn't realize this, an employer will most likely enter your name in google and hit enter.
Maybe in the USA, but this doesn't seem very common in the UK. Don't really see what that actually proves though.
Personality traits, like if someone's forums posts are littered with the C word, doesn't make a good impression now does it.
Thats a pretty crazy way of thinking imo. Anyone who is even semi professional knows how to behave at work and how not to. I sometimes shit with the bathroom door open at home - doesnt prove id do it at work. Everything else is the same concept. What someone does in their personal time is none of a companies business. But it certainly seems like an American mindset. Much like not taking Holiday (vacation) time due to thinking it will look bad. You guys are crazy over there in your work culture. If saying "the C word" was a problem, I would have been sacked a million times by now.
It's not even the context of what someone says online, it's the fact that people get stupid online. Yes, it's (most likely) on your own time, but it shows what kind of character you have. You could be the best worker and ace the interview, but if I find out that you act like an idiot when you get online, then I'm going to think twice before hiring you. The internet is eternal and remembers all of your idiocy...
Like I said, this thinking seems very common in the states. The fact you are even googling people that have aced an interview just shows the over reaching, corporate at all costs attitude over there. I'm not saying it's never happened here, but there really isn't this kind of mentality as normal - which is how it seems there. The only time I've ever heard of something like this here is when someone's said something bad about their work and it's got back to them. Little different than invading all your none job related chat and making a decision about you. Anyways, In the mean time, I'll enjoy all my entitlement of holidays without any guilt or feeling that it gives the impression I'm not thankful for my job.
I'm pretty sure the US gives and takes the most holidays than any other nation. Also I'd assume we give and take more vacation time than any other nation. Where do you get the strange idea that we don't have many holidays and are scared of taking vacation time?
Plenty of studies show that Americans (in general) don't take vacations as much as other nations, even when they have the time. I would, but I don't have the time...
We get 4 weeks off a year in AU, of course some people get more. I get this time off in the summer period so if I want to go overseas to Europe for example, I'd be going in winter which would suck. We do have something called a Long Service Leave which helps but you have to be working at the same place for 10 years. LSL can be taken any time provided you apply for it in advance. The trouble with overseas trips is that a lot of the time life catches up with you and you end up putting it off, then the kids and the mortgage come and you never end up going, or if lucky later in life :/ Totally doable if you are single and employed, helps if you going with someone and have friends or family to stay with
What you call vacation days, we call holidays. What you call holidays, we call bank holidays. As marsil said, read a lot about the USA folk not taking them. Here you are pretty much made to take them if you don't use them towards the end of the year. But your labour laws/rights seem very much pro employer - not pro employee as europe is (mostly).
People be like "why don't you try McDonalds?" like that would never of crossed my fucking mind in a million years. Sadly so many don't understand that not everyone gets the same chances in life as them, but we're the assholes for saying otherwise.
