New HR Folks

"Where do you live?"
-"Sungai Long"
"With your parents?"
-"No, I bought a place."
"I see, what about your parents?"
-"They're somewhere else."
"Where are they?"
-"I don't think that's within the purview of this interview."
"Excuse me?"
-"This is about work, let's talk about work."
"The hiring manager will talk about work. I'm here to talk to you about HR stuff"
-"That has nothing to do with the job. Let's try to stay focused here."
"OK."

/nosebleed
Omg that was better than the queerest things I've seen on OKC... Bwahahaha.

Coffee in Malaysia: Ideal Employer

Posted in a forum:

Anyone looking for a barman in August? I could be free. Based in Sungai Long myself, so Cheras/Kajang would be ideal, or nearer by.

The ideal business owner would be someone that looks like this:

- you're interested in specialty coffee (at least you think it's profitable)

- you think F&B is a no brainer, cash cow business (it could be otherwise, but you're very much aware how it is potentially like this)

- you like running businesses that are fully compliant with regulatory requirements

- you've got an appetite for fast business growth (doubling your headcount every 3 months - looking for ~200% quarter on quarter growth in revenue for 2-5 years, not averse to external investors, willing to expand regionally, willing to vertically integrate your value chain)

- you need a technologist who can help you execute this sort of growth plan (I've got a little experience in specialty coffee, process automation, venture funding cycles, and organisational development)

#dotNET

A tip I got from a hacker.

"Hi, read about your post in wckl jobs, i am not interested to apply but would like to give you some more info.

when you mentioned vbscript and asp, i guess many people will assume it is classic asp with vbscript which is in use around more than 10 years ago.

since you mentioned .net framework, i guess you don't want classic asp, but asp.net. But one thing, no one use vbscript for asp.net now, vbscript is not the same as vb.net.

The current programming languages for asp.net are vb.net and c#. c# is much more popular than vb.net though, so you need to decide which one to use.

besides, there are webforms and mvc for asp.net. however, please aware that microsoft just annouced asp.net vnext which don't seem to have plan for next webforms release. in my opinion, they favour mvc although their official response won't said so. you may need to decide which one to use and even mixing both(example: for the reporting purpose).

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2014/05/13/asp-net-vnext-the-future-of-net-on-the-server.aspx

but there is one thing missing from mvc, the microsoft ssrs rdl/rdlc report viewer(which is only supported in webforms, there are some tricks to use it in mvc but not a single one provides complete solution). unless you use third party library like devexpress or telerik and use their reporting tools. crystal report don't have report viewer for mvc too. so, if you use mvc and need reporting, you may need applicants to have knowledge of devexpress or telerik(these two libraries need license fee). devexpress and telerik also have many other functionalities/controls for asp.net webforms and mvc.

and you may also require applicants to have knowledge of entity framework for orm, web api or wcf for api/webservice, signalr for real-time functionalities, and/or azure api.

http://www.asp.net/"