Lost me at "millennial". How can people jump on the millennial-hating train and not see it as the "kids these days" "get off my lawn" horseshit that it really is?
The author could use a good editor.
“Millennial savages me on Glassdoor for giving constructive feedback”
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#12Guy tries to show how much more mature he is by stereotyping an entire generation? Sounds to me like both parties involved are a little low on the EQ spectrum.
I think I agree with the glassdoor review actually. An unsolicited and unnecessarily harsh critique with language like "My English and history professors at Cornell would have ripped this to shreds (as I just did)" is not appropriate as an application response.
Fair point. At first read I thought she was being a bit sensitive, but maybe I was reading too much into her response which could also be read just as a reasonable warning to future applicants.
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#13If he graduated college in 2004 then he would be in his mid-thirties and considered by most definitions to be a millennial himself or very close.
I shouldn't be surprised that a business owner would publicly trash someone to make themselves feel superior after seeing it happen so often, but how could he not see how embarrassing this would be? No wonder he needs a communications specialist.
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#14I suppose I can understand why a guy named Jonathan Pollard is so sensitive about proving his innocence & credibility. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Pollard
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
>The first comment strikes out the word "subsequently," calling it "entirely unnecessary and redundant" before exhorting "Don't use unnecessary words." Well, speaking of unnecessary words, how about "entirely" and "redundant" in your own comment? Not that I disagree with your overall point, but are you implying that feedback/commentary should be held to same standard as what it is critiquing?
I think it should be. Lead by example.
It seems to me that having to polish all feedback to a publishable level of quality would (greatly?) reduce the amount of feedback someone could give. I've appreciated informal feedback that I've received in the past and if that was the bar that needed to met I would have likely never received anything back.
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#16It's like a squabble between children. Applicant with an over-inflated ego submits a sub-par writing sample. Owner with an over-inflated ego rejects it with a gratuitous insult on top of some helpful criticism. Applicant throws a fit. Owner throws it right back. Oh, wait. Did I say "helpful criticism?" The first comment strikes out the word "subsequently," calling it "entirely unnecessary and redundant" before exhort…
Dig a little deeper (or at least clean the dirt off the nameplate). This is a legal position and the written product is what they essentially sell. Your argument is the equivalent of hiring an applicant who submitted a regression analysis to handle time series data.
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#17It's like a squabble between children. Applicant with an over-inflated ego submits a sub-par writing sample. Owner with an over-inflated ego rejects it with a gratuitous insult on top of some helpful criticism. Applicant throws a fit. Owner throws it right back. Oh, wait. Did I say "helpful criticism?" The first comment strikes out the word "subsequently," calling it "entirely unnecessary and redundant" before exhort…
Dig a little deeper (or at least clean the dirt off the nameplate). This is a legal position and the written product is what they essentially sell. Your argument is the equivalent of hiring an applicant who submitted a regression analysis to handle time series data.
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#18The timestamps on his edits indicate this all happened nearly a year ago. The timestamps also indicate he invested about three minutes in editing the writing sample (assuming that's all of it). So I looked up the Glassdoor review, and sure enough it was posted on the same day...
I love stories so I wondered what else this fellow was up to around that time. Turns out he was writing non-stop and cranking out video content.
I have to wonder if this recent post isn't something he planned to write back then but ran out time. In any case, for a guy working 9,000 hour weeks he sure had a lot of time to write great big articles about his life.
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#19It sounds like Pollard was trying to emulate his writing professors (forgetting he is supposed to be a businessman now). I've met people like that. Trying to teach "life lessons" (in which they don't succeed) instead of sticking to the prime objective. And Pollard's writing professors sound like blowhards who don't have much else going on in life but pompous critiques. Pretty much like a number of university soft sci…
As a Cornell alum, I can confirm the accuracy of your assessment. The nice thing about math and engineering is that it's objective; you either solved it correctly, or you didn't. My liberal arts requirements and freshman writing seminars, not so much.
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#20I suppose I can understand why a guy named Jonathan Pollard is so sensitive about proving his innocence & credibility. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Pollard
That's quite the non-sequitur.