DarkHorse

I'm off to a gig this weekend in London. It's in Elephant and Castle.

Anyone recommend a hotel which is convenient for there, in a safe area and cheap? Budget = to 70 per night.

I work far too hard' date=' and my boss agrees, so she's given me finance to hire a P/T assistant. The past couple of days I've been interviewing people at work - what a bunch of misfits! One of the candidates (who looked the best on paper) couldn't string a sentence together! and another girl turned up for her interview in a dirty chav tracksuit, and then sat with her legs spread as wide as possible for the whole interview! I'm a complete virgin when it comes to interviewing / Hiring folk and am finding the whole process rather scary.

Anyone else have any experience of hiring/firing? Got any tips for me?

Also anyone looking for a P/T job (16-20 Hours/week) - 6.41/hour Excel & Access experience preferred send us your CV because I'm definately not hiring any of the applicants I've interviewed so far.

Man, I'm stressed out! o_O[/quote']

Firstly analyse the job you are recruiting for. Note the aims and relationships of the role.

From this create a job description. The recruitment and selection 'seven point plan' (A Rodger) is a good model to start with (look up "seven point plan recruitment" on the web). Form your ad from this. Place it in the media which covers your target audience.

Personally I don't apply for jobs where a salary / wage isn't stated but I see you state a wage.

Think about your firm, are there any unique selling points which might attract particularly commited motivated people? Try and include this in the ad to attract decent applicants.

Create a structure for the interview so you and the person you are interviewing with can get most out of the interview.

Scan their CV before they come in the nterview room.

Start off with an ice-breaker. Ask them if they had an OK trip in to the interview. Ask them about any hobbies or interests that you share. Sometimes people bullshit on their CVs even with interests. This is a good test for sincerity.

After breaking the ice advise them of the structure of the interview. State at this time your preferred time for their questions - throughout the interview or at the end.

A good candidate will say "I'll take notes" and never "can I take notes?".

Ask them if they know anything about the firm. Discuss the firm, where it's going, where the role fits into the current firm and it's future.

Ask them to tell you a little about themselves.

Ask them specific direct non-leading questions about experience of theirs that is relevant to your company.

Ask them at the end if they have any questions. Shuffle your papers at the end to close or you'll be there all day.

Remember .... SMILE

If you require competency in, say an application perhaps set a technical test to test their level of competencey. Set a few questions on paper leave them to do it. For excel for example give them a table of raw purchase data ask them to create a purchase ledger spreadsheet or a pivot table.

Ensure no interuptions to any interviews, delegate your responsibilities to others.

Allow up to one hour for each interview, half an hour may suffice in the interview but you may want to make notes after.

What I look for in candidates is firstly that they are pro-active and have done some research and secondly that they have effective interpersonal skills. It's easier to have someone with good interpersonal skills and basic technical skills working for me than a technical wizard who can't string a sentence together.

They will perhaps have a presentation or overhead slides on a pertinent topic. They will certainly be quite buzzword efficient in the parlance used in the job description I have sent out. They will probably have a copy of the annual report of the company and refer to it during the interview. In general they will demonstrate an interest in working for the company. They will also have gone through the job description in detail and addressed most of the key points at the covering letter stage.

What kind of turntable(s)?

Is it for mixing or playing music?

If for mixing the DJ shop on Mounthooly can get s/h Technics /Numarks etc.

If for playing music at home the hi-fi shops my have s/h turntables (serious hi-fi ones) they sell on for customers at reasonable prices.

I'd personally recommend you pay as much as you can afford for an analog source.

I guess I'll be there

I wanted to be a communications engineer for a space agency or a council electirican.

john 00 fleming has played aberdeen quite a few times

The last time I was unable to go. teh time before I didn't know he'd got into psy-trance and before that I stayed in for 3 years.

I was being 'realistic' as stated

Astrix

Astral Projection

Alien Project

Dark Soho

Shpongle

Infected Mushroom

Kalium

MFG

Safi Conection

Analog Pussy

But mostly ASTRIX and Astral Projection

DJ I'd most like to play Aberdeen (realistically): John '00' Fleming

You should get the rough trade post punk compilation...

also... more duran duran.

On this I agree,

also Dark Soho - Sun Spot LP and newer Combustion LP

Well' date=' whatever happens, you'll still find Sauerkraut of the Polish variety on the shelves of our supermarkets. Sauerkraut's fine when cooked well. M'on the Poles![/quote']

Nice in a Bigos.

And if you need Polish Wodkas, or Sliwowitzes I have in various Polmos, Nisskosher and premium brands from time to time. Gotta have a wodka with a bigos

OK - you got me' date=' I'm taking your bait.

In every country there is an area that is sneered apon. In Germany, for example they have Schwabia, here in Scotland it's Aberdeen. The people of Aberdeen have a high incidence of indiginant descent, mixed with cosmopolitan interbreeding. I myself am a mix of Irish, English, Dutch, German, and God only knows what else. But at least 50% of me is pictish. Whereas elsewhere in Scotland the bloodline stems mainly from Ireland.

Aberdeen was relatively unkown and infrequently visited (except by sailors) until after the second world war. It developed in it's own little microcosm. This pretty much continued right through until the late 1970s. We are only 550 miles from London but it might as well have been 5050 miles.

Our native language is Doric which has been corrupted over time by Latin and other languages. There are even some words of German origin. It is an real bona fida language though, not just a dialect.

Aberdonians are softly but quickly spoken. We seldom moan, complain, or protest. Being aware that we live in a small town, we know to mind our own business. We have our own humour.

People from elsewhere in Scotland are, to all intents and purposes, a foriegn culture. Most outsiders, particularily English speaking ones, talk much louder than we do, coming across as over powering, over bearing, bossy, and domineering. They drown out our own gentle humour. Instinctively we tend to clam up, ignore them, and let them do whatever they want.

Most of them integrated alongside us, decided they liked it here, learned to talk quieter, became less outspoken, started minding their own fucking business, and stayed <--- those are compliments BTW.

But a small minority, aided and abetted by our own home grown assholes, walked all over us, imposing their own (virtually self-appointed) politicians. They demolished our beautiful buildings, and shipped our precious granite elsewhere at a profit, rebuilding ugly crap in their place, all for purpose of their own corrupt convenience. They took away our jobs, and got our children hooked on shite... And they are still doing it.

...AND YOU ARE STEREOTYPICAL OF THOSE CUNTS. SO FUCK OFF AND LIVE SOMEWHERE ELSE BEFORE YOU DO ANY MORE DAMAGE. Christmas island would be a suitable destination.

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What about Urbaniak? Is that a good strong Polish name?

What on earthg is a strong Polish name?

http://www.dumbvideos.com/streetdrummer.html

Anyone know where I can get free buckets? ' date='I am going to learn how to do this[/quote']

Local pipe bands are always looking for drummers.

wow you wash your body only one for a week?

!

What , once a week - whether you need it or not?

let me ask you something' date=' but I want you to be totally honest with me.

what do people in Scotland think about Poles?[/quote']

They never have their own cigarettes.

They can't read maps and always looking for directions.

in last few years number of Poles in UK has increased severely. many of them went there only to make some cash.

Are they making good impression on local people? or maybe people in Scotland don't have good opinion about them?

please be honest.

There are a significant minority of Poles who don't make a good impression on visitors to Poland.

In the Rynek in Krakw suppoosedly an international city, FFS, they were selling pictures of Adolf Hitler, stolen copies of Torah and Talmud.

An awful lot of skinheads going about not just 'fashion skinheads' they were sporting Skrewdriver, white power and similar T shirts.

Neo-nazi graffiti everywhere.

Skinheads harassing visitors to Auschwitz in Oświcim town centre and on trains leaving Oświcim.

Really bad customer service, particularly with old women from the communist era "Nie ma".

Shocking treatment of Roma and Sinti population, openly, even from Poles representing their country in army uniform. There were no other minority communities apparent.

I was mugged in a bar in Gdańsk while the bar staff and bar manager looked on and laughed.

I'll never go back there. Dreck like those above can stay in Poland.

let me ask you something' date=' but I want you to be totally honest with me.

what do people in Scotland think about Poles?[/quote']

in last few years number of Poles in UK has increased severely. many of them went there only to make some cash.

Are they making good impression on local people? or maybe people in Scotland don't have good opinion about them?

please be honest.

sent in error, complete post is below.

' date='there is a local guitarist who is rated in the top ten british blues/rock guitarists his name is Jerry Jablonski is that a Polish Name?.[/quote']

I understand he has roots from Poland. Though knowing his family heritage I doubt he would self-identify as Polish.

Jablo (pron yablo) means apple.

If I fail a course (which I suspect i have just done)' date=' what implications does this have on my degree?

I have no idea and haven't been told a scooby.

I'm in 3rd year and doing an MA.

Any info would be appreciated.[/quote']

Did you fail on a written examinatiuon or an assessment?

If it was on an assessment you could ask a third party to independently review the marking of it. Perhaps this is possible for an examination too.

Your first course of action should be to refer to the course document. This will detail how the course works, what units comprise the degree, the curriculum of each unit which may be defined in competence terms and the marking schema. The lecturers will be using the course document to set their lectures and the examination board to set their exams.

A bloke I know had failed a 3rd year Geology assessment. The examiner criticised his scientific method, discussion of errors, language used and structure of the report. I took home a copy of his marked assigment dissected the marker's comments and wrote a letter to the examiner.

In it I pointed out why it was an essay worthy of a pass; that even I a geology luddite and not the sharpest knife in the rack understood the hypothesis, experiment and his report; that it was evident scientific method was employed; that even I could repeat the experiment; that he discussed his errors instead of fudging results to fit; that in communication of science plain English is best. I did note in the letter though that some of her criticisms were justified particularly his handling of errors and included some reading suggestions for him. His marked was raised to a couple of points above a pass and he passed the year.

What course are you doing?

Dumpex' date=' how can you be so inhumane about this!

Everyone knows that innards will be gutted out and the space filled with TNT for the carcass to be "dismantled" about 30 miles off the coast of Brighton (probably)[/quote']

Damien Hirst could make something useful of it.

nice bash quotage

though inaccurate.

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What?

btw: Do you work with Polish peoples?

Nie

Do you knows any Poles?

Tak' date=' oscziewiescie. Jestem po Polakiem ale moj Polski jezyka jest nie dobra.

What are you thinking about as?

Anti-Semitic.

I twoj imie jest Sadam? Ojez!!

I hear that in Edinburgh are over 25 000 Polish emigrants... I have contact with some Polish guys from Aberdeen but they aren't very friendly.

Same as in Poland then.

It's a idiotic rule' date=' that Polish peoples abroad never helps, and never be friendly to other Poles who wants goes to thier city, miserably but true :/[/quote']

Glasgow has a larger Polish community and a Polish cultural centre 'Klub Sikorskiego' Perth also has an established Polish community and many Polish servicemen immigrated into Fife.

Aberdeen used to be a tolerant multi-cultural city but so many have moved here who want to import their racism and intolerence from the old country.

DarkHorse - about the weather - today in Suwalki in Poland we have a -27C. I'm not wanna comes to Abeerden to sunbathing...

Hahahaha.

You won't be.

Hello. My two friends and I have some questions to people from Aberdeen. We are planing to removal to Aberdeen at july (we are from Poland). What interesting about this city you can tell as? Is it good place to live in? How about the partys? 4 Every information I will be thankful ;-) (please (use)speak simple language:D)

The streets are paved with gold here. You can make a fortune here really quickly, for example in fish processing industries or as a labourer on our many construction sites. You'll really enjoy our weather and experience the equally warm hospitality of our people.

The nice areas to look to live in where you'll find some Polish people are Torry, Ferriers, Sandilands, Bedford and Tillydrone.

Stick around, hope we can help more.

I hate it when girls are all "Let's be friends" then go on about how much they like you. This means one of two things: a) I must be very ugly for them to not go out with me; 2) they go out with guys they dislike.

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It's like getting a job interview and the employer tells you that you are great for the role but they are going to employ someone else. The employer than contacts you to complain about how crap the new employee is. Then when they fire the person they gave the job to instead of you they contact you to let you know how bad an employee they were. Whenever they take on a subsequent person for the role they let you know it and give a running commentary on the employee's performance.

Here's the basic problem:

http://london.mfa.gov.il/mfm/Web/Main/pic.asp?pic=24726.gif&tit=

The yellow areas on that map are Arab countries (this is merely a subset of Muslim countries e.g Indonesia) with membership and influence of the UN. Oh and they have OIL.

The tiny wee sliver of blue in the middle is Israel and even a fair chunk of that has Arab territory. The Yellow countries don't like the Joooooz having even that.

But do they have a right to be a part of Israeli life? The impression I get is that the Israelis don't want them on their territory' date=' so their right to access it is a questionable one, especially as Arab countries in the Middle East aren't exactly welcoming to Israelis.

As for the annexation - from my understanding of the situation, one side was always going to annex part of the other's territory, and it simply so happened that Israel managed to do it first. In the grand scheme of things, Israel hasn't tried to annex too much territory - enough to give them a buffer, but not enough to make the West Bank unviable. Jerusalem is an interesting study, but from what I've found, both sides have been equally guilty as far as annexing territory.

[url']http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Jerusalem is a pretty fascinating article on things.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Bank_Security_Fence is also pretty fascinating.

From what I understand about the whole deal, Israel wants to completely close off the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, while allowing limited through traffic between the two. Is that so bad? Do Palestinians have a right to access Israeli territory? The annexation isn't a good thing, but Israeli are the undisputed power in the region and powers tend to make the rules.

I don't think the Israeli mentality will tolerate anything short of a total barrier between the people - so why try and force them into anything else? If the end result is an Israeli state and a Palestinian state, seperated by a barrier and with little contact between the two sides, what would be the problem in the long run? It would mean an end to terrorist attacks in Israel, and an end to IDF attacks in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, meaning that both sides can go about their daily business without fear.

Yep.

Israel has better things to do with it's money than send IDF conscripts into danger into PA territory to find wanted terrorists, rocket factories and the like.

It's quite a simple solution PLO etc stop the terror (it looks like the terrorists have stopped but it's in fact the separation fence) Israel doesn't have to make incursions.