I'm at a client for a few days, so blogging will be continue to be minimal. It's nice to get out of the office sometimes, though there are definitely certain drawbacks. One big pro - it's nice to have these big things called "windows". The view from up here is actually pretty nice...
Meanwhile, the world keeps getting smaller. It's gotten to the point that I feel like everyone is within just 3 degrees of separation from either myself or Serach... and in a few different ways. Take Jameel - we've discovered that we're probably connected in over a dozen ways. (Okay, so admittedly, Jameel is scary.) And granted, both Serach and I are related to a lot of people in different parts of the world... but it's still getting a bit crazy. After a meal once, a headhunter asked Serach if she could hire her... and wasn't kidding. The world is ridiculously small... does anyone out there not know me, Serach, or someone who knows us?!
takes Ezzie by the collar and slaps him a few times
ReplyDeleteget over yourself
HH,
ReplyDeleteDon't be so hard on him, it's not his fault. This type of thing runs in the family ;p
-it's Adar, and the gloves are coming off!
Don't get me started about headhunters...
ReplyDeleteHH - Oh, I am *so* going to get you.
ReplyDeleteG - It is ON! And the Sixty(+!) Years' War continues... :P
Is your dad still a clown?
Avrom - Go for it :)
No matter where I go, I always seem to bump into people I know. It's a joke already with me and my friends.
ReplyDeleteHH - Oh, I am *so* going to get you.
ReplyDeleteHA!
You talk big for a man that sits in a cubicle all day.
who?! what?!?! how did i get here?
ReplyDeleteMordyS - E-mail me, btw!
ReplyDeleteSaraK - Must be a Baltimoron thing. :)
ReplyDeleteHH - It's called a pod! Hey, at least I get kosher pizza. :P
For sure I've known Serach's family, both sides for decades.
ReplyDeletemuse: then you probably know the people i'm staying with in LA!
ReplyDeleteOne of these days I'll have to unveil and then you'll see how connected we are.
ReplyDeleteOk,
ReplyDeleteI have found headhunters to be useless. Not a single headhunter has ever gotten me an in-person interview, let alone a job.
I have had the following things happen to me:
- A headhunter who contacts me about a job in the States, when I explicitly say the "Toronto area" in all of my contact information.
- A headhunter who tells me about a contract position when I told him I was looking for a permanent position only
- A headhunter who argues that a contact position is "like a permanent position" since it might lead to one or it is a long contract.
- Headhunters who never email back responses to simple questions
- Headhunters who never call back.. when they said they would.
- A headhunter who had me on the phone for 30 minutes to go over material that would have taken 5 minutes had he focused on the issues at hand. (I never heard from him ever again afterwards.)
- A headhunter who tells me a company was looking and then they weren't looking but they may do so in the new year (and then he never responded in the new year).
- and the latest... a headhunter who calls me in for an interview with him, arranges a phone interview with the company for the very next day, tells me "things move very quickly", I take the interview, and then hear nothing from either party, for a week and a half (and counting).
We're losing sight of the real question at hand; namely, who's more connected- Jameel, Serach, or Ezzie?
ReplyDeleteAnd how is Jameel scary? Just because he tracked down the blog of someone who hosted me for lunch a few weeks ago, and emailed me the link, doesn't make him a stalker...
Yeah, he's real scary when he's got his M-16 (or whatever it's called) slung over his back one minute, and one of his littlest kids in his arms the next minute. Heck, he doesn't even speed (that ambulance driver's license is very important to him, of course)!
Connected?...A Goldish?!...HA!!
ReplyDeleteCommitted, oh sure. But connected, I think not. People who grew up in Ezzie's neighborhood are not connected...unless their last name starts w/ the letter 'D'.
--now if you want to talk about scary people...
You think Jameel is scary holding an M-16? You should hear the message he left me at work.....in a french accent.
ReplyDeleteBatya - See?
ReplyDeleteSarah - That part of the family may have been too young...!
Jack - I agree! :)
Avrom - Well, did you follow up? :) In all seriousness, that's probably true of a lot of headhunters. I happen to know this one is pretty good, but in a specific field.
TNSPR - Jameel kicks me, but Serach kicks the world. Trust me.
G - HA! (So wrong...!)
But as you know, that is NOT the kind of connected I mean. Plus, we live across from some of those D's... and my dear ol' Uncle Irv Stone had some nice connections there. But yeah - Goldishes are about as connected as... well, you. :)
Hey - at least we have 3rd row Browns' tickets. What do you have? (Uncles don't count!)
Ezzie, left email and VM and nothing.
ReplyDelete--dear ol' Uncle Irv Stone had some nice connections there.
ReplyDelete--(Uncles don't count!)
Exactly.
--But yeah - Goldishes are about as connected as... well, you. :)
LOL! True, very true.
--Hey - at least we have 3rd row Browns' tickets. What do you have?
Nothing of value, same as you. (and yes, I am envious)
G - Actually, we (as in SerandEz) own upper-deck 50-yard line seats with our mutual friend "Howie" and another person. :P
ReplyDeleteAvrom - :( Weird...
I'll come clean...I actually know Serach IRL.
ReplyDelete[ducks and runs]
Really!?
ReplyDeleteReally. I cracked up the first time I saw your avatar. :)
ReplyDeleteWell, you're welcome to email me who you are if you'd like. :)
ReplyDelete