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He looks like a grumpy Jedi Master.

I'm working on my cover letter for a programming job in SF. Seems like there are a lot of us doing that right now. I'm not very confident in my abilities, especially since I have no Ruby experience and have to play the "I don't know your core language but I do know C and Perl and ActionScript and I'm a fast learner" fanfare, but I do have a Master's degree so that's bound to count for something.

My current job is excellent, and the only problem with it is that it's on the wrong side of the continent.

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Good luck on that, Subbes. Might I suggest handwriting your cover letter to demonstrate your special preference for pens?

Through a fluke my laptop ended up on a pile of plastic boxes [containing old Lego sets from me and my siblings' youth]. I'm typing this standing up and it's an amazing, active sensation. I know of exactly one person in the world who works behind his desktop standing. I know we generally sit down too much in our daily life - could standing up be a good solution? Besides health benefits, I must reiterate how awesome it feels. (My current laptop configuration isn't precisely ideal, since I need to crane my neck downward to look at the screen.)

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Is it at all possible to save up and coast out there just in case? Unfortunately sometimes with the game (and maybe technology?) jobs you have to know someone no matter how eager or skilled you are unless there's like hiring boom. But I am probably saying stuff you already know, Subbes and I bet even with savings San Francisco is still stupid expensive in comparison to Tallahassee, giving you like a month or two window. :wacko:

But the only way I got a job in a city 160 miles over in Texas was by coasting on my savings and eventually my girlfriend's money for months and in the meantime going to IGDA meetings and game developer get togethers that I found out about, then working at home on stuff jobs might want. Just bugging enough people led to someone actually considering opening an e-mail with my resume, but cold calling game studios for months was useless and no one would get back to me.

Maybe if you just e-mail little comic strips drawn in the margins of your resume over to Tim Schafer everyday they'll hire?

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Maybe if you just e-mail little comic strips drawn in the margins of your resume over to Tim Schafer everyday they'll hire?

This is a great idea, but the only things I regularly draw are birds.

(Perhaps Tim would hire me to develop a bird-based RPG.)

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Aaaaaaaand... got a rejection letter for the application I mentioned above. That was incredibly quick: three days. On one hand it's good not to be left worrying for months, on the other... was I really that easy to discount?

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Solliciting for jobs these days myself, I've learned to appreciate the quick replies. If they're negative at least you know, but all my actual interviews have been from companies that replied within a few days.

The trend I've noticed is that the smaller the company, the quicker the reply. The biggest instutions take weeks, or don't even bother.

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I heard from some job seminar thing once that you should ask for the reasons you did not get the job so that you can patch the mistake (if there are any). Unfortunately this has worked for me only a handful of times because most people just don't ever e-mail back if you do get a rejection notice.

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I've known for a little while that my flatmate was thinking of moving in with his girlfriend, and suspected for even longer, but tonight he announced that his tentative plan is to leave at the end of September. Since there is a two-month notice period for terminating the contract early, that means I have about two weeks to work out whether to try to find a replacement, or to look for somewhere else myself, with both of these options having to be resolved within a couple of months (unless I want to keep paying for the flat on my own, which would be pretty much all my money). I'm hopeless at this stuff (i.e. being an adult and making decisions).

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First of all, nobody can replace this guy, whoever he is. Don't try to find someone with his exact build, winning smile and personality. There are lots of fish in the sea, man. Put up one of those sheets that you can tear the bottom parts off of up on a cork board somewhere, and say you're a cool guy and have an Xbox.

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That seems far too much like university activity. I can't be having with any more of that.

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The solution is logical and obvious: Kill the girlfriend.

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If you're friend is leaving early, isn't it still his responsibility to pay the end of his month's rent up until the lease is over? I mean even if his name is not on it, it's only fair if he agreed to live there until the end of the contract.

I mean if you skipped out on your lease, that's what you'd owe.

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I agree.

My old roommates are paying the rest of their rent, even though they both have been gone for a month or more! Lease ends... tomorrow. U:

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You should start talking like you think you're moving in with them to the new flat. Talk about how exited you are and how fun it'll be to decorate the place and figure all that stuff out. It's a new phase in your life. Maybe one day her parents will come by and you'll get to meet them, wouldn't that be fun?

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If you're friend is leaving early, isn't it still his responsibility to pay the end of his month's rent up until the lease is over? I mean even if his name is not on it, it's only fair if he agreed to live there until the end of the contract.

I mean if you skipped out on your lease, that's what you'd owe.

No no, there's no ill will between us; if my post implied that, it was entirely unintentional. He's an old friend and we'd even talked about the eventuality of somebody wanting to move out when we first moved in together, and the possibility of leaving before the year was up was mentioned when we last renewed. The contract has a clause allowing for early termination (which is just as well, as otherwise it'd mean we'd only ever be able to move out at a specific date); it just requires two months' prior notice. My distress is more a product of the length of notice required (for understandable reasons) and my disorganization and inability to make important decisions (which are indefensible personal faults). I just don't like the situation, but it was one that was bound to come up eventually. It kind of amazes me that people manage to move from one abode to the next so seamlessly, without ending up living on the streets in-between.

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Going to the Batman marathon in Amsterdam tomorrow, looking forward to it. Not all Batman movies, but the 3 Nolan ones. I've succesfully avoided all Dark Knight Rises spoilers. Just one more day to go.

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No no, there's no ill will between us; if my post implied that, it was entirely unintentional. He's an old friend and we'd even talked about the eventuality of somebody wanting to move out when we first moved in together, and the possibility of leaving before the year was up was mentioned when we last renewed.

Whoops, I guess I read it wrong

So in the ongoing saga of the noisy obnoxious neighbors on the other side of our duplex, the landlord ended up threatening their eviction last month after my girlfriend had the idea of recording them when they were loud in their backyard (which we can hear easily from our bedroom or office window) during the early AMs. He said he needed proof and he could not get any, so he got it about three times, the last being a recording of the lease owner's roommate shouting obscenities at our bedroom window at 7 AM on purpose to be obnoxious. After that, the roommate was promised to be gone by out landlord and that the "good" tenant would stay. Needless to say I know this guy is not the good tenant because half of the times I've talked to them, called, looked out the window, etc. it's been him as causing noise.

So yeah, they've finally been quiet for the most part during the last month since, no more loud parties during Tuesday at 4 AM and no more loud bass playing from either the inside of the house or their big trucks all ours of the day. However I know from being compulsive Google for information type that last February the guy had changed roommates because I searched his phone number and found a want ad looking for a new roommate quickly so he could pay next month's rent and bills. This means he can't really afford the place on his own and I was hoping he'd just have to leave. Also, I have his phone number because he gave me it in person from one chat I had with him the noise, saying I could call him any time he was loud. Of course calling him only worked about six times and then he stopped answering and loudness continued, well until recently.

So here's the twist. Recently I've been kind of hearing a drunken sounding warbly lady in their backyard yelling at the dog or babbling at, once again, 4 AM and waking me up. It hasn't been anywhere as obnoxious because it's no longer parties in the backyard for hours on end and she doesn't talk for long, so I haven't bothered caring. But the other day I thought of Googling the guy's cell phone number again because I was curious if he put up a new ad for a roommate. Instead what I find is about four ads on multiple sites with some pictures of a trashy looking lady in her panties advertising $200 massages in South Austin (where we are) with his phone number. Backpage.com and Adultsearch.com are probably not good places where you find legitimate massages and I don't know if usual massage therapists advertise wearing their underwear on sites with porn ads. When my girlfriend looked at the pictures she noticed the layout of the room matches a reverse version of our office room. She also goes by Bella, which is the dude's dog's name.

So what I did yesterday is use my Google Voice number (which I haven't used ever with anyone nor published on the internet) and called the phone number. The same lady I've heard outside with the warbly drunken voice answered, I said nothing, and she said hello multiple times and then asked me to call her back. I was kind of hoping to confirm the phone number still belonged to my neighbor for sure, but no dice.

I just kind of want this dude gone already. After dealing with just noise almost ever other night and many rude awakenings for almost a year, I just kind of hate his guts and don't even want to see him anymore, so I'd like to see if I can go somewhere with this and just get him kicked out for good. I'm considering forwarding it to the landlord, but all I've found out so far is completely circumstantial. I haven't gotten a good look at the new person around their house so I can't confirm if it is the same woman. My girlfriend is not sure either. Plus she is only offering massages, right? But I guess I'm trying to think if it would be a good idea to tell the landlord anyway with what I have just because it's probably his business if prostitution is happening on his property.

I just want a nice neighbor that is quiet and smokes a pipe next to the fire place with a nice book. We used to have one but they unfortunately left to their own house. My girlfriend and I love our place and it's very preferable to all of the apartments we have lived in the past (although none have been as noisy as management usually took care of that pronto), but we have considered moving a few times.

So I might be getting too spiteful here since they are quiet now, but I really am having a hard time letting this go. Plus I don't want Johns coming around our house late at night.

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Haha, "massage". Yeah, definitely sounds legit. U:

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While I'm all pro sex workers rights and all, that sounds hella sketchy and could be dangerous. Turnitin(.com).

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Loud neighbours are the devil. It sounds like you've already dealt with the worst offences, so sticking out until the weed's fully eradicated shouldn't be impossible, right? Otherwise, make plans to move, hopefully to your own home with good neighbours.

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Well after I was up last night since they decided to have a party in the backyard from 3-7 AM, I'm just forwarding everything to the landlord. This is fucked up.

We confirmed looking out the window that the woman in the ad is definitely the same woman there now. My girlfriend got more recordings this time, one where her and the multiple guys out back decided to have a "spanking party" where they all took turns spanking her ass while she moaned. Seriously?! Seriously?!

FUCKING SLEEP I WANT SOME FUCKING SLEEP

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