Currently a High School Senior, and sent the tuition fee for Riddle. I am terrified.
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Richman
JC’s Resident Curmudgeon
Networking >>>>> Plain Competence. It's the real life version of rolling a natural 20 on a charisma check.
I've seen totally, catastrophically incompetent people move ahead networking because "awwww, no, Jacks a good guy".
knot4u
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I once worked for a place that had a group of supervisors, during the morning break at 9am they'd all gather around the shop foremans aircraft carrier sized toolbox and discuss what was going on as they ate a snack or drank some coffee. It was at that point an intern from some local A/P school showed up, (nice kid, not a dummy, just had zero experience) and because he didn't know anyone on the floor other than the shop foreman he'd hang with them during break. Eventually he started buying donuts and bringing them in for the supervisors a few days a week. At the end of his internship he was hired full-time, he was still very inexperienced but he had a good attitude. I recall going into the supervisors office (they all shared one office with about 5 desks in it) one morning just before Christmas to ask a question and I saw a box with a bunch of bottles of booze in it. It was not uncommon to see a box full of booze, everytime we weighed an airplane we had to empty all of that crap out of it to get an accurate empty weight, normally they'd be stored on a bench, shelf or in a cage next to the airplane. But these bottles in this box were in the supervisors office and they all had bows on them. I asked them if they were planning a party at lunchtime, and added that we we're pretty busy and being drunk at work is frowned upon. Then I was told about how the former intern had figured out each of their favorite liquors (except for one who didn't drink, not because he'd ever had a problem, he was just one of those people that never drank in his whole life, his bottle was Martinellis). I left that company awhile later and eventually ended up going back there as a vendor and that intern was now off of the floor, was wearing khakis and a polo instead of a uniform, and didn't even have a toolbox on the premises. He still didn't have a lot of experience but he's a smooth tongued devil and suddenly everyone on the floor resented him. He was a full-blown lipstick kissass that'd add the tongue if he thought it was beneficial for him. Networking is different than removing any semblance of dignity as a kissass.