A futurey-techno-utopian vibe where gender and racial equity are the norm, yet puzzling questions persist to perplex the populace?
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Have you ever had a previous employer contact you 4 years after you quit to ask questions about something from 13 years ago?
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Ask for a timesheet booking chargeline?
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Boy, at this point I have to wonder “Where isn’t Waldo?”
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Am I really 16 hours late to this joke?
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Wouldn’t I say “totally clueless” employer that alienated all the decent employees so those who are left don’t know what’s what?
Aren’t my response choices either to
- ignore it completely
- say “Screw you and the horse you rode in on”
- say “Pay me $$$ and I’ll talk to you”
and am I not leaning heavily towards #1?
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Do you have glue and some plastic model parts?
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Isn’t #3 the best cold dish, served with a side-order money?
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How do you not do #3 first? Tell them your highest rate (we call it a “go away” price) and let them ignore you, right?
Worst case you get the cash and have to tell them stuff as best you remember, is that all bad?
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Something about re-opening old wounds and not wanting to do so?
Don’t I wonder whether they already contacted the people who were above me in the food chain at the time in question (and made the decisions/told me what to do), and their rates were too high to consider?
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why do I keep reading that egyptian thread?
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Why do I keep reading that Egyptian thread?
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Or more to the point why do you keep engaging with that thread?
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Do you enjoy banging your head against brick walls?
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Isn’t it like Brokeback Mountain, where I wish I knew how to quit replying, and it’s a love that not all approve of, except not gay, but me replying to ancient history mutilation?
Maybe?
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When it’s a domain you happen to know more about since you started a PhD in that field and have read a fair amount, isn’t it way harder to cope, though? Like Homeric Epically harder? Also, isn’t it even harder after a few drinks?
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So, you’re worried that they are contacting you last because they consider you incompetent, but not as incompetent as anybody in their current employ? And you’re worried that how they think about you will make their money taste like ashes in their bank account? And that by taking the job they’d think less of you than if you didn’t take the job?
(I can certainly see a downside; I was doing contract work for a former employer; the hourly rate was nice, but I eventually got so frustrated with all the things that frustrated me while I worked there that I could no longer bring myself to work. A pity. I could have made a couple of extra thousand that year.)
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Brick walls inscribed with secret, ancient, hermetic knowledge lost to the ages?
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It’s not that I think that they think I’m incompetent - isn’t it that they want me to give them info for free, info that I documented all those years ago, but now they can’t find it?
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