Monday, 28 January 2008

• listening to:

  Adam Tensta

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMTB_LJKIh4
  

  M Pokora and Timbaland

  http://youtube.com/watch?v=_HWEd94B9G4

   

  2nd interview today!

  This one was a tech-y interview and went SO MUCH BETTER than the first one. Although i wouldn't say it was a breeze. The technician who interviewed me was really nice and I got to ask a lot of questions about the job. And he said it wasn't a super technical job so that's good (sweep away nightmares of installing crazy hardware). But then he surprised me with a three-part quiz thing. One situational quiz, one technical quiz, and one general questionnaire asking me which softwares i knew.
  

  ok the situational one was um, rather hard. I kinda panicked when they asked
  1. "what would you do if the computer or an application froze?"
  
  Ok i SO know what to do if an application froze. Do the Ctrl-Alt-Del thing and try to close your program from the Task Manager. And for MacOSX, programs NEVER crash. They just quit themselves and 5 minutes later ask you if you want to submit a bug report. So that part of the question is done. But if the computer FROZE? NEVER HAPPENS TO A MAC. IT WILL RIGHT ITSELF IN DUE TIME! well of course i couldn't really write that. Even though you know it's true. (hahhahaha i see FUMES of anger rising from the antiMacProPC people) For a PC, honestly i'd just wait impatiently for 5 minutes, chalk it up to a typical sign of PC inferiority, and press the big on/off button. But obviously i couldn't really write that. So i just wrote some crap.
  
  More questions included:
  
  2. Name two anti-virus softwares.
  W. T. F. I only know ONE! NORTON! And after being told Norton and Symantec are the same thing, I'm glad at least I didn't put both down. BUT there's a happy ending to this question! I sat there WTF-ing about how this question is grossly unfair, when I remembered my brother had installed some ghetto-ass cracked anti-virus for his PC! Wait, what was the name? Thinkthinkthink. It rhymes with sky. Like skype. But not. Um. Kasskype. No. Um..
  So it took me about 5 minutes of digging through files in my brain and playing around with the letters of the alphabet before I remembered. Kaspersky! And gleefully wrote it down. Wow, come to think of it, Kasskype is really similar to Kaspersky. Just rearrange the p and the e and add an r. Anyways..
  
  3. Tell me what all these file extensions STAND FOR. exe,jpg,mpg,mov,avi,pdf,doc,txt,mp3, pptetc.
  
  My god. I know knew the simple ones. Like exe. and xls. and ppt. and doc. But jpg mov avi? WELL then i asked my tech-y savvy friends and they couldn't do it either. So I felt a bit better. But not before they all knew what pdf stood for and i didn't.
  

  Well I tried my best. I know I didn't sound like I knew absolutely NOTHING. And I was really interesting in the job and I demoonstrated that. One thing that didn't quite sit well with me was:

  
  After my interview was over, I stayed behind and made use of the computers that were there. There was this one software that I used last fall, and I talked about it to the guy who interviewed me but he said it was no longer available here but was available elsewhere and I didn't bother to follow that info up just yet. So after a while, I decided i DID want to know, and popped over to the helpdesk (the one where I would be behind if i got the job) and asked where I could find this software now since it wasn't available anymore.

  Two things happened:

  1. I had to REPEAT myself because the girl had never HEARD of that software before.

  2. After repeating myself, she just brushed me off with "I have no idea."

  Ok, how did you get to be behind that desk? You don't just get paid to sit behind that desk and EAT your food when it clearly says no food and drinks allowed and let the smell waft around tempting other people. aoirjhagioriogra. I have a feeling I won't get this job and it will make me mad because I think I'm more competent than her. Or at least nicer.
  

  Ok must do hw I don't want to do! :(

  Ps. listen to Adam Tensta! sick beatz, yo. My favorite part of discovering his music was reading the comments on youtube.

  commenter #1: There are black people in Sweden?
  

  commenter #2: And here come the Perez Hilton readers.

  HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA. And I SO didn't discover Adam Tensta from Perezhilton.com. SO didn't.

  Now I shall leave you with a picture of what we should all be like to make this world a better place.
  

  
  

  

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