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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Interview madness Post 302522955 by zaxxon on Tuesday 17th of May 2011 09:52:21 AM

05-17-2011

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@Pludi and his Condom: lol Smilie

Would have liked to be witness of that interview Smilie

I had some "funny" or sad things and some awkward stories from coworkers:

My interview lasted about 1 hour and about short after it had begun, the big boss had incomming a private phone call with some old friend that lasted about 45 minutes.
The small boss was a bit embarassed but we had a good interview talk meanwhile, sitting next to the big boss still talking in a loud voice as if he was alone... We talked with a low voice since we didn't want to disturb him and got along.
I had an interview in some company and after getting the information, that there is no Unix but only Windows and some telephone system I would have to deal with, I said that I am sorry and not interessted.
They had my documents still there and I said they don't have to send them back to me - I can just take them with me. They agreed, handed them over and on the back was a yellow post-it with a short note "possibly too expensive". I couldn't hide my grin and handed it back to them, saying "Excuse me but this seems to belong to you". I know, looks a bit arrogant but I wasn't able to resist
In another company, I sat there with the big boss and he was telling me this and that and told me, that in the probation time, I will have to make some of those (MCP?) single MS tests to get certifications in the company to proove my worth etc. I told him that I am MCSE already (the certificates were in the documents they got from me of course) and he... was a bit baffled and moved on to another topic

From coworkers (maybe rumours but I think they aren't Smilie

One coworker wasn't able to speak German. He was barely able to answer the big boss with "ja" (yes) and "nein" (no). He was accepted and afterwards his coworkers noticed he wasn't able to speak German heh.
A coworker was accepted and on his first day, nobody knew that he was there. Nobody knew who accepted him for the job. He came to our secretary and she started asking around, where he was assigned to and nobody knew it. He was parked in our team for some time. It took several hours until it was clear, where he was assigned to and who accepted him.

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bosskill

BOSSKILL(8)						      System Manager's Manual						       BOSSKILL(8)

NAME

       bosskill - send a signal to your boss, or terminate your boss

SYNOPSIS

       bosskill [ -signal ] <bossname>

DESCRIPTION

       bosskill  sends	the  TERM  (terminate,	15) signal to the boss with the specified bossname.  If a signal name or number preceded by `-' is
       given as the first argument, that signal is sent instead of terminate. The killed boss must be in the  system  administrator's  supervisory
       chain.

       The following is a list of all signals with names as in the include file <signal.h>:

       SIGHUP	 1     hangup.	Forces	bossname  to re-read his/her job description and figure out that he/she knows squat about sysadmin work or
		      life, in general.

       SIGINT	 2    interrupt. Prevents the bossname from interrupting the sysadmin for one hour.

       SIGQUIT	 3    quit. Causes the boss to quit his/her job with no explanation.

       SIGILL	 4    illegal instruction. Makes the boss believe the last instruction he/she gave was illegal, so he/she withdraws it.

       SIGTRAP	 5    trace trap. Display the exact location of the boss.

       SIGABRT	 6    abort. Makes the boss go home and try again tomorrow.

       SIGKILL	 9    kill. Game over.

       SIGBUS	 10   bus error. Boss's transportation fails on the way to work.

       SIGSEGV	 11   segmentation violation. Boss realizes he/she is trying to do something for which he/she is not quailified and stops.

       SIGSYS	 12   bad argument. Boss loses.

       SIGPIPE	 13   smoke pipe. Boss samples some green leafy substance and mellows out.

       SIGALRM	 14   alarm. Boss is startled and falls over. Best used when boss is walking next to his/her boss.

       SIGTERM	 15   termination signal. Boss is fired.

BUGS

       Sending a SIGABRT to a boss that is already home will cause him/her to walk aimlessly in circles for two hours.

HISTORY

       Written by Eric L. Pederson <eric@bofh.org.uk>.

								 27 September 1995						       BOSSKILL(8)