Pre-work assessments

jss09

"SSits" wrote:If you spend extra time doing these courses and spending time in New York, that costs money.
The magic money fairy doesn't wave her magic money wand to pay for it.
The team you will be working for gets charged for your course and for your accomodation. Even if they are a cost centre and not a revenue centre, it hits their budget.
On top of that, they are paying your salary. Rather than you turning up on schedule, they are paying your salary for additional time that you're not being productive, as well as the costs above.
In the meantime, work needs to be done. The work you were hired to do.
Everyone in the team has to do more work to shoulder the workload you are not present to handle.
So, you're making your team work harder and reducing their bonus pool.
Then you'll tell them that you failed deliberately because you wanted to spend more time in New York.
Perhaps you'll tell them you were networking while they were doing your work, because you are angling to ditch them and get a job in New York.
Is there a word for "empathy" in your native language?

Pretty much sums it up, not surprising this thread was edited. For anybody viewing post-edit thread title was about purposing failing a pre-employment test at a BB to be able to stay in NYC a few weeks longer over the summer.

This isn't a response with regard to this thread in particular, but is anyone else really tired of OP's being able to delete their post in its entirety? I'm sure that some people are embarrassed about their post and therefore delete it, and some people seem to delete for no reason other than to say "question answered" (wicked selfish by the way dbag) but once we the people of WSO respond to a post and put time into it, we all have spent time answering a dumb or good question and then it's gone. I, and others with business experience, post on WSO to hopefully give younger, less experienced folks our advice and I'd hope it adds to the overall value of WSO. Please AndyLouis don't allow people to delete their posts, only edit them via an edit function posted at the bottom of their original unedited post. You're also in the midst of a major conversion so I get that.

I stayed off WSO for a little while because, in addition to just being incredibly busy in general trying to purchase a nuclear power plant, I wrote thoughtful responses with what I thought was helpful information to those with less experience and the OP deleted their post. Felt stupid wasting my time offering advice only to have the original question deleted because no one else would read the subsequent posts because the OP said "....". I don't consider myself the end all and be all, and I'm sure that only 50% of certified posters think they're deities, but I'm probably not the only one thinking it discouraging.