June 27, 2007

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 2:54 pm

If I get the job then I will be in Songfighter Central, aka San Francisco.

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 4:07 pm

Cool Fluffy, the bay area rocks. Quite a diverse population there. Let's just say, it's a very liberal City. But if you are into a West coast version of New York, San Fran is it.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 4:31 pm

Yeah, I know. Of all the places to move to on a whim, San Francisco is high up my list. (Though Seattle was always at the top. I kind of don't want to leave here especially after just 2 years, but most of the good tech jobs are on the east side which is hellacious to commute to from where I live, so I'd basically have to move ANYWAY, and the west-side companies I've applied to won't even give me the time of day for some reason.)

If I do get the job I will probably live in Mountain View, which means blue and I would be near-neighbors. That'd rule. (For me, anyway.)

anti-m · Post by **anti-m** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 5:10 pm

fluffy wrote:If I do get the job I will probably live in Mountain View, which means blue and I would be near-neighbors. That'd rule. (For me, anyway.)

Oooh! Was your interview with the Google? My little bother[sic] works for the Google.

In any case, Mountain View seems like a cute town with some good eats. (Though it's no Seattle, of course.)

sausage boy · Post by **sausage boy** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 5:13 pm

Rabid Garfunkel wrote:Print Monkey. I've stopped paying attention to the job titles, as the company I work for has changed them every 8 months for the past 4 years, each one more meaningless and empty than the last (although I rather enjoyed being a "Digital Specialist", giving people the bird with impunity... that title didn't last long in the corporate reimaging).

Been doing pre-press, computer & traditional, for the past 16-odd years at a variety of printers and service bureaus on the west coast.

Spooky. I've been doing pre-press (computer) and design work for about 5 years now. The company I am currently with, I have been with for almost three years, and I keep amassing and changing titles too.

I haven't gone as far as to give anyone the bird, but I am always completely sarcastic towards everything we do here.

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 5:26 pm

Mountain view? Yeah, that's not too far from Santa Cruz if I remember right, which means your not too far from my favorite beaches. Manresa State Beach has one of the best north swells on the west coast, 36th and East Cliff, the hook. Pretty much that whole stretch is awesome. I haven't been there in ages.

All this Santa Cruz talk is making feel like taking a 3 day weekend.

edit: for some reason I just noticed that I spelled you're, your.

edit 2: For some reason I did this second edit.

Heather. Redmon. · Post by **Heather. Redmon.** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 6:18 pm

Tomorrow is my Round 2 interview with the big wigs. I'm less nervous this time, so hopefully it will go well.

Congratulations on your successful interview Fluffy!

QotD:

I work in the Registrar's Office of a major online university (you get 10 points if you guess which one). I have held a few different positions in the RO, but my current title is Registrar's Office Specialist. I am really a training coordinator, managing the on-going training for 75 representatives. As I've mentioned many times (too many I'm sure) I'm in the process of interviewing for a supervisor position.

Looks like I may have to argue with my auto insurance company to prove that I wasn't at fault yesterday when that guy opened his car door into my passenger side mirror. It was totally his fault.

Work was pretty good today, the training session I was in ended way early so I got to get some actual work done.

Phil took the kids to the library and out to a late lunch, so when I got home, the house was quiet and I got to take a nap!

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 7:09 pm

The interview was not with Google (actually very few of the sorts of projects developed at Google are something I'm interested in working on, and also most of that stuff happens up here in Kirkland, WA anyway). I'd rather not say who the company I'm interviewing at is, though, for various reasons. Let's just say that it's very likely that you own some of their products.

Mountain View is basically the halfway point between San Francisco and Santa Cruz (it's just West of San Jose). I'm mostly interested in living there since I have a lot of friends in that general area and the office I'd be working at is right next to the SFO Caltrain station (like, right across the street) and Mountain View has Caltrain as well as a decent night life without being scary-big.

And, yeah, being 45 minutes from Santa Cruz (according to Google Maps, which is of course a terrible liar) is a huge win.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 10:55 pm

Yay, they want me to come for an in-person interview!

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 1:17 am

Tell them to come to you.....and they better bring cake.

j$ · Post by j$ » Thu Jun 28, 2007 1:44 am

fluffy wrote:Yay, they want me to come for an in-person interview!

Hmmm, if you get there, and there's a couch .... good luck!

QOTD (Well QOY now, but I am slow) I am the Director of Programs for a Drama School for American college-age students to get experiences of British Styles of Drama. It is based in London except for one month a year, in Oxford, weirdly at the very same college that I studied for my english degree. I arrived yesterday and for the third year running I am weirded out.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 8:07 am

Is that why so many American actors are trying to fake various English accents lately? (and doing a terrible job of it?)

j$ · Post by j$ » Thu Jun 28, 2007 9:07 am

Yes, I am entirely to blame.

Billy's Little Trip · Thu Jun 28, 2007 11:52 am

He does it on purpose so that he can have a laugh.
Remember Renee Zellweger in Bridget Jone's Diary? .......that was J$'s doings.

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 1:37 pm

Billy's Little Trip wrote:He does it on purpose so that he can have a laugh.
Remember Renee Zellweger in Bridget Jone's Diary? .......that was J$'s doings.

I'm not a Pom - but I thought Renee Zellweger's accent was pretty convincing. As was Gwenny Paltrow in "Sliding Doors". But as I said, I'm not a Pom - so I am probably wrong on that. I don't think I have ever heard a foreign actor do a convincing Aust. accent (thinking Merryll Streep in "The Dingo Ate My Baby" movie, eww - truly cringeworthy)

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 1:53 pm

Well, I'm no Dundee, but I agree, Meryl Streep in A Dingo Ate My Baby was a laugh.
Maybe because I'm used to Gweneth in other movies, but I thought her accent in Sliding Doors was awful.

Now, that Mike Myers, he does a good British accent.

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 8:01 pm

Software engineer, and 10 years in a couple weeks... weird.
-bill

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 11:05 am

QotD: I'm a legal assistant for the Department of Homeland Security. Translate- I throw people out of the country for a living.

Billy's Little Trip · Fri Jun 29, 2007 12:44 pm

Niveous wrote:QotD: I'm a legal assistant for the Department of Homeland Security. Translate- I throw people out of the country for a living.

An alien bouncer if you will.