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In reply to the discussion: 5 Ways to Tell How Well a Potential Employer Would Treat You as an Employee [View all]justabob
(3,069 posts)34. your number 3 works for all levels
The team sports thing is interesting. Many moons ago, I was working in a busy corporate chain restaurant. We had a huge wait staff- 50-60 waiters, including a core of really good ones and other not so good ones. I got it my head one day to do a very informal, completely unscientific survey.... I asked everyone if they had played team sports growing up. Almost to a man, the people you wanted to work with, the ones who actually did their share of the work and helped out if you got in a bind played team sports. The lazy, whiner, "do I have to?" people did not. It was fascinating. That may or may not hold up in a larger sample, but it was interesting in that time and at that place.
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5 Ways to Tell How Well a Potential Employer Would Treat You as an Employee [View all]
KurtNYC
Jul 2012
OP
Having a chit-chat with the receptionist will tell you a lot. They know everything...LOL..n/t
monmouth
Jul 2012
#1
No shit. It's like Carl in "Breakfast Club" said, "I am the eyes and ears of this institution."
HopeHoops
Jul 2012
#3
It pays to be careful what you ask the receptionist, or maybe just HOW you ask.
KurtNYC
Jul 2012
#10
People also hold on to their beaters longer when they're not confident of their economic situation.
Gidney N Cloyd
Jul 2012
#77
I'm self-employed now, but I temped for three years all over the Twin Cities in the 1980s, and
Lydia Leftcoast
Jul 2012
#8
I figured it had to do with access to and appropriate disposal of hygeine products,
RadiationTherapy
Jul 2012
#31
The next-to-last company that I worked for had management consultants come in to run a seminar.
Ikonoklast
Jul 2012
#15
Worked for a failing grocery company that was decades behing the competition
MattBaggins
Jul 2012
#38
If they would have just paired you guys up and blindfolded one out of each pair
KurtNYC
Jul 2012
#43
The ownership believed that the regurgitated pablum fed back to them by upper management was
Ikonoklast
Jul 2012
#39
I've got to know, which firm was this? It sounds very familiar to me. n/t
Egalitarian Thug
Jul 2012
#50
Might be more instructive to see who has participated in any team or group activity since high scho
Mopar151
Jul 2012
#51
What I was trying to get at was more in the vein of "do people stay" or "does the company
KurtNYC
Jul 2012
#75
Another - If possible, meet with who will be co-workers or those working for you.
Ruby the Liberal
Jul 2012
#35
This is a MUST for everyone especially the unemployed. Cars in the Parking lot are KEY!!
swayne
Jul 2012
#37
6. If the interviewer cries when you ask if they get depressed in their windowless office
Matariki
Jul 2012
#66
Great post. Thanks for the insight. I've worked for a company for almost 20 years
davidwparker
Jul 2012
#73
The company I worked for had a seminar that just made everybody read "Who Moved My Cheese?"
thelordofhell
Jul 2012
#81
My company just put in a cereal bar and gave us all personal bowls and spoons.
Kablooie
Jul 2012
#87