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[Aggelakis]

LOL. I clicked on that link:

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[LadyVamp]

On the one hand I'm rooting for Plan Omega, on the other I have altitus...

I can see some serious identity crisis's not to mention some serious gender issues with Plan Omega.

[LadyVamp]

Dont worry one of the players will become a super genius and create viable cloning and mind transfer. tech with in a week.

Not sure a lot of confused rodents (my mice toons) with assault rifles would be good.  "Take no prisoners!" said lil trigger mouse.

[LadyVamp]

I had an interview today at work for a full-time job.  I have been there part-time for a number of years.

I know I flubbed one question in particular.  I think I did pretty well on everything else.

I hope I am in the running for one of the two positions in question.  I should know something in about a week.

I wish I had City of Heroes to play right about now.

Every interview I ever had where I felt I made no mistakes, I didn't get the job.  Every interview I messed up on, I got the job.  Don't worry and good luck!

[LadyVamp]

You'll note that I never once mentioned other MMOs since they're pretty much universally all trash.

CoH started out just like every other MMO.  It was a game.  A simple game.  But then something special happened.  People started to see how it was different than everything else out there.  A large following came too and created a large group of people with a connection tying all of us together.  It was an amazing experience which has never been replicated by any other hero/villain modern day style MMO.  Now it is gone but that community is still here.  As you can imagine, that has left a big hole in our hearts.

We have a few efforts to make a spiritual successor.  Hopefully, we will get the IP or better still the actual game code back.  That is up to NCSoft and those who are in negotiations with NCSoft.  I am hopeful and still here with my torch held high.

We will have a city to call our own.  Paragon would be great, but I'll accept Titan if need be.  We will rise again.

[chuckv3]

Every interview I ever had where I felt I made no mistakes, I didn't get the job.  Every interview I messed up on, I got the job.  Don't worry and good luck!

I've been pretty much able to tell if it was a NO... They usually concentrate on questions that I didn't know very much about, or refute my answers to something. There have been a few that I felt like I did okay and never got a call. There were even a couple where I felt like I was more qualified than the interviewer, and still got no call. It's all a complete crap shoot. Some hiring managers concentrate more on personality matches than technical skills, and others simply don't understand what the worker bees actually DO all day long, and ask questions they pulled from the web somewhere.

Only once have I thought I did less than perfectly yet got the job.

One other time, I was interviewed by a guy who tried to use one of those stock brain-teaser questions, and he didn't even know the right answer (or how to explain it). After arguing with the guy for 2 minutes, I decided to just excuse myself. It was really hard to maintain a professional demeanor while basically walking out on the interview in disgust. I know someone is going to ask, so I'll answer ahead of time. The stupid brainteaser question was: Why are manhole covers circular? The correct answer is: because that's the only shape that can prevent the lid from ever falling through the hole (the lip below the cover has a diameter smaller than the lid, so the lid can never fit through regardless of its orientation). His authoritatively-asserted utterly-nonsense answer: Because the tunnels underneath are round. 

[Taceus Jiwede]

I've been pretty much able to tell if it was a NO... They usually concentrate on questions that I didn't know very much about, or refute my answers to something. There have been a few that I felt like I did okay and never got a call. There were even a couple where I felt like I was more qualified than the interviewer, and still got no call. It's all a complete crap shoot. Some hiring managers concentrate more on personality matches than technical skills, and others simply don't understand what the worker bees actually DO all day long, and ask questions they pulled from the web somewhere.

Only once have I thought I did less than perfectly yet got the job.

One other time, I was interviewed by a guy who tried to use one of those stock brain-teaser questions, and he didn't even know the right answer (or how to explain it). After arguing with the guy for 2 minutes, I decided to just excuse myself. It was really hard to maintain a professional demeanor while basically walking out on the interview in disgust. I know someone is going to ask, so I'll answer ahead of time. The stupid brainteaser question was: Why are manhole covers circular? The correct answer is: because that's the only shape that can prevent the lid from ever falling through the hole (the lip below the cover has a diameter smaller than the lid, so the lid can never fit through regardless of its orientation). His authoritatively-asserted utterly-nonsense answer: Because the tunnels underneath are round.

In that situation I just yell "WHAT AM I? A DOCTOR?!" and then run out of the room in tears.

Works.  Every.  Time

EDIT: I am an idiot and can't type apparently.  Fixed something.

[LadyVamp]

One other time, I was interviewed by a guy who tried to use one of those stock brain-teaser questions, and he didn't even know the right answer (or how to explain it). After arguing with the guy for 2 minutes, I decided to just excuse myself. It was really hard to maintain a professional demeanor while basically walking out on the interview in disgust. I know someone is going to ask, so I'll answer ahead of time. The stupid brainteaser question was: Why are manhole covers circular? The correct answer is: because that's the only shape that can prevent the lid from ever falling through the hole (the lip below the cover has a diameter smaller than the lid, so the lid can never fit through regardless of its orientation). His authoritatively-asserted utterly-nonsense answer: Because the tunnels underneath are round.

I can see how that would be frustrating.  As a manager, I've had to interview dozens of people.  I can usually size up an interviewee with two questions.  One a technical question about Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).  One is basically a carry me through your thought process troubleshooting an issue.  Even simple knowledge about RHEL can get a good enough answer.  I've always felt brain teasers are a waste of my time as either the interviewer or the interviewee.

[Sinistar]

Years ago I was going to start a job at a company. I had taken and aced all their little tests and interviews and they and I were confident I was ready.

ENTER: the current employee with allegedly years of seniority and experience who entered as I was doing paperwork and starting chatting with me in a semi friendly manner and began asking questions about my experience and every answer I gave he kept deliberately one-upping me.

The SUPERVISOR was in the room and was observing things. After three answers and three oneups by the jerk I looked at the supervisor and asked if there was a problem I should be aware of.

The employee then goes off on a rant in front of us about how I am subservient to him, he has seniority and I need to go through him to speak to the supervisor, blah blah blah.

I looked at the supervisor and asked again if there was a problem. He smiled and said "Not with you." then asked me to step out into the lobby where anyone in there could easily hear the words exchanged between them.  I simply leaned against a wall and enjoyed the music which ended with the jerk storming out, seeing me and approaching me claiming I got him fired just now.

Things kind of escalated from there......

[Arcana]

The stupid brainteaser question was: Why are manhole covers circular? The correct answer is: because that's the only shape that can prevent the lid from ever falling through the hole (the lip below the cover has a diameter smaller than the lid, so the lid can never fit through regardless of its orientation). His authoritatively-asserted utterly-nonsense answer: Because the tunnels underneath are round.

Actually, that answer is apocryphal.  The correct way to state the question is: "can you give a good reason for making manhole covers circular?"  "Because circular manhole covers cannot be accidentally dropped through the corresponding hole" is a legitimate answer.  However, there is no actual singular authoritative reason why manhole covers are circular, not the least of which because not all manhole covers are circular.  There are square, rectangular, and even in some odd locations triangular manhole covers.  Although most odd shapes including triangular ones are mostly being phased out over time, square and rectangular ones are not.  So actually, an interesting question is: why would you make a manhole cover *not* circular?  If you can't answer that question, you don't really genuinely know the answer to the original question.

[MM3squints]

The logic question for my job was, "You wake up and you are trapped in a room with no windows, no doors. There is only one light bulb, one chalk and a math problems all over the room. On the wall, on the floor, on the ceiling. Oxygen is running out, how do you get out?"

It was to test your logic no matter how abstract the answer was (I even asked him if the answer could be abstract) The question ironically as crazy as it seemed ring a bell I remember reading in a Children's Book when I was in the 2nd grade. I gave him that answer and he had a bemused look at me as if he got this logic test from that same Children's Book.

[Golden Aurora]

The better question is how do you get trapped in a room without windows or doors. I can think of only two possibilities. The first is it is build around you. The second is one wall (or more) are hinged and they close you in it. In that case it's basically a box or cage. Another probably fitting answer would be to try to break the wall with something. Another is to yell or scream for help. A third is to start running. If the room where spherical in shape it could be like a giant rat ball and you could just break it on something. Nobody ever said the room had to be square!

To dispute that answer of the bell, I would point out that the answers listed included fixtures mounted in the room. If the bell was mounted in the room as well it should have have been in the list.. Like a door bell! If the list is non exclusive then it's just as plausible to say climb up the stairs and open the pipe in the wall, then crawl out.

Point is... stupid question is stupid. ASK A BETTER QUESTION.

Like for instance, how would you go about calculating and maximizing the amount of ping pong balls you could fit in a 747 aircraft?

[MM3squints]

The better question is how do you get trapped in a room without windows or doors. I can think of only two possibilities. The first is it is build around you. The second is one wall (or more) are hinged and they close you in it. In that case it's basically a box or cage. Another probably fitting answer would be to try to break the wall with something. Another is to yell or scream for help. A third is to start running. If the room where spherical in shape it could be like a giant rat ball and you could just break it on something. Nobody ever said the room had to be square!

Ha I've seen "Saw" so when people say you are in a room without telling me the circumstances how I got in there, the first response that will pop in my head is, "Are you Jigsaw?"

Point is... stupid question is stupid. ASK A BETTER QUESTION.

Like for instance, how would you go about maximizing the amount of ping pong balls you could fit in a 747 aircraft?

Ya, can you imagine if I told the interviewer your question is stupid? That actually be funny and I can walk out like a boss. Of course I won't be getting a follow up call for the position :D

[Golden Aurora]

Odds are they probably weren't good for your career anyways, asking abiguous questions without even enough information to reasonably test your intelligence.

I mean.... I could also answer the question with "I release the box of rats I am holding and they gnaw through the walls."

It's like a bad pen and paper RP scenario hahaha. Roll your 2d100 for getting bubonic plague.

[Felderburg]

The logic question for my job was, "You wake up and you are trapped in a room with no windows, no doors. There is only one light bulb, one chalk and a math problems all over the room. On the wall, on the floor, on the ceiling. Oxygen is running out, how do you get out?"

It was to test your logic no matter how abstract the answer was (I even asked him if the answer could be abstract) The question ironically as crazy as it seemed ring a bell I remember reading in a Children's Book when I was in the 2nd grade. I gave him that answer and he had a bemused look at me as if he got this logic test from that same Children's Book.

So what was the answer?

[MM3squints]

So what was the answer?

It's a play on words. You take the chalk, break it in half, put it together and make a (w)hole where you then jump through. It was one of those if you didn't read this Children's Book and was told the answer, you would have an aneurysm for trying to think it through logically with no abstract.

[Codewalker]

Seems like it would be quicker to just turn your bag of holding inside out and walk through the walls.

[ivanhedgehog]

Seems like it would be quicker to just turn your bag of holding inside out and walk through the walls.

there is no problem too small that cannot be solved with explosives

or a light saber

[Ryo Kinsaru]

I don't know about you folks, but I'm just drawing a freaking door on the wall and walking out. No less plausible than suddenly being in that room for no reason.

[Ryo Kinsaru]

Oh, cool, I didn't notice that I got a promotion! Does this mean my next character will start at level 20?