OT: Hurricanes Lounge XXIII: Let's Go Bowling edition

[Navin R Slavin]

From what I can tell, this is how Trump will be paying for our overseas military bases.

 

[Finnish Jerk Train]

im a homeowner

 

[The Stranger]

From what I can tell, this is how Trump will be paying for our overseas military bases.

...had to look this one up too.

Reimbursement for US military bases in rich countries abroad

As for nations that host US. military bases, Trump said he would charge those governments for the American presence. "I'm going to renegotiate some of our military costs because we protect South Korea. We protect Germany. We protect some of the wealthies countries in the world, Saudi Arabia. We protect everybody and we don't get reimbursement. We lose on everything, so we're going to negotiate and renegotiate trade deals, military deals, many other deals that's going to get the cost down for running our country very significantly."
Trump then got into a specific example: Saudi Arabia, one of the more important US allies in the Middle East. Saudis "make a billion dollars a day. We protect them. So we need help. We are losing a tremendous amount of money on a yearly basis and we owe $19 trillion," he said.
Walking back trade deals and agreements that allow the US military to operate overseas is easier said than done. But Trump has tapped into a powerful anti-Washington populist sentiment.
Source: Foreign Policy Magazine on 2016 presidential hopefuls , Sep 28, 2015

http://www.ontheissues.org/2016/Donald_Trump_Foreign_Policy.htm

 

[the halleJOKEL]

im a homeowner

me too

it is nice

 

[Unsustainable]

im a homeowner

Not really, even after you pay off the bank note, you will be paying rent to the government for the residence. It's more like you have engaged in a contract for a lifetime.

 

[Sens1Canes2]

Not really, even after you pay off the bank note, you will be paying rent to the government for the residence. It's more like you have engaged in a contract for a lifetime.

Damn government.

 

[NotOpie]

#freecheese

It's a strategy you can believe in. Thank you government.

 

[Unsustainable]

Damn government.

In the roads we trust

 

[Blueline Bomber]

So since it sounds like we've had a lot of job hunters lately, I've got a question:

Does anyone else find themselves getting an obscene amount of calls about sales jobs?

I mean, I know sales is typically a "meat grinder" job, where it's about quantity rather than quality, so recruiters are looking for just about anyone to fill those roles, but there's no indication that I have any interest in sales on my resume and I'm getting tired of telling each different recruiter that I'm not a salesman. I don't have the personality for it.

Wondering if it's just me (or rather, something on my resume) or if it's just something that happens if you show any activity on the likes of CareerBuilder, Indeed, etc.

 

[Unsustainable]

I'm in the process of looking within my current company to move to a new position (engineering). So I wouldn't know.

 

[Finnish Jerk Train]

So since it sounds like we've had a lot of job hunters lately, I've got a question:

Does anyone else find themselves getting an obscene amount of calls about sales jobs?

I mean, I know sales is typically a "meat grinder" job, where it's about quantity rather than quality, so recruiters are looking for just about anyone to fill those roles, but there's no indication that I have any interest in sales on my resume and I'm getting tired of telling each different recruiter that I'm not a salesman. I don't have the personality for it.

Wondering if it's just me (or rather, something on my resume) or if it's just something that happens if you show any activity on the likes of CareerBuilder, Indeed, etc.

My guess is it's something in your background that sales companies like (which could be anything), especially if you have a resume with contact information floating around online. Or maybe somebody you know said something nice about you to a recruiter, but then again maybe not if the calls are coming from specific companies trying to hire you directly.

I used to get calls, emails, and LinkedIn messages from headhunters all the time when I was in public accounting, both from staffing agencies and directly from companies. I don't even know how they got my work number, but the last couple of years I was there, I didn't go a week without getting cold calls. Those calls have stopped now that I've spent the last two and a half years of my life in asset management at a low-income housing tax credit syndicator (read: nobody outside of a very tiny and specialized industry knows what the **** that even means, so nobody tries to hire me away from it).

 

[Anton Dubinchuk]

is your current company going through some crap?

typically headhunters target employees with good output and potential in situations they might want out of

even if its not your area of interest, those are the jobs they have, and they are probably banking on you being unhappy in your current role

 

[Navin R Slavin]

I constantly get headhunters asking me if I'd be interested in making hundreds of dollars a week from the comfort of my own home. I am a very attractive candidate.

 

[RodTheBawd]

I constantly get headhunters asking me if I'd be interested in making hundreds of dollars a week from the comfort of my own home. I am a very attractive candidate.

You can make hundreds of dollars a week from the comfort of my own home, big boy

 

[Carolinas Identity*]

I frequently *spend* hundreds of dollars from the comfort of my own home

 

[Finnish Jerk Train]

I frequently *spend* hundreds of dollars from the comfort of my own home

This doesn't surprise any of us.

 

[Novacane]

 

[Navin R Slavin]

You can make hundreds of dollars a week from the comfort of my own home, big boy

I didn't figure I was your type tbh. But if the money's good enough, meh.

In other news: I bought ice skates. I may have made a terrible mistake.

 

[Carolinas Identity*]

This doesn't surprise any of us.

money can be exchanged for goods and *services*

 

[the halleJOKEL]

I didn't figure I was your type tbh. But if the money's good enough, meh.

In other news: I bought ice skates. I may have made a terrible mistake.

soon youll be skating with the big kids on thursday nights in cary/garner

 

[Finnish Jerk Train]

soon youll be skating with the big kids on thursday nights in cary/garner

Don't listen to him. I'm still stuck in lower C after 2+ years.

Although to be honest, I'd benefit a lot from practicing once in a while. Haven't done that in a year.

 

[the halleJOKEL]

that league is borderline unsafe to play in

it terrifies me

 

[Finnish Jerk Train]

True story. Last week I managed to get high sticked and slewfooted in the same game.

 

[the halleJOKEL]

i got injured in that league more in one season than i had in the past 15+ years combined while playing

 

[DaveG]

Yep, the last injury I took in Garner was pretty brutal. I'm waiting for the Morrisville rink to open, though I've been told the conditions at both RCI and Ice Plex are better then Cary and Garner.

Wake Forest has solid rinks, but I wouldn't be able to keep up in that division there.