TMI
- Punch Buggy or Slug Bug
- What movie can you recite verbatim?: Mr. Mom
- What's your biggest grammatical pet peeve?: Your/You're
- What book have you read the most?: The Cider House Rules by John Irving
- Honey Bucket or Wizards of Ooze
Jun 10
Soupytwist commented on City Council Bans Criminal Background Checks During the First Stage of the Hiring Process.
Soupytwist commented on City Council Bans Criminal Background Checks During the First Stage of the Hiring Process.
I'm thinking (please correct me if I'm wrong) of the catch-all online applications of Starbucks. Target, etc., that collect the information they need for background checks and, in some cases, automagically run background checks on all applicants and rejecting anyone with a criminal record.
This will require A PERSON to make the call to run a background check, hopefully AFTER an initial person to person interview or a phone screen. At which point, even if there's a criminal record, A PERSON can make the judgement call about moving the applicant forward in the interview or hiring process for what is likely an entry-level, food service, or retail position in which most people wouldn't care if a non-violent offender was employed.
This will require A PERSON to make the call to run a background check, hopefully AFTER an initial person to person interview or a phone screen. At which point, even if there's a criminal record, A PERSON can make the judgement call about moving the applicant forward in the interview or hiring process for what is likely an entry-level, food service, or retail position in which most people wouldn't care if a non-violent offender was employed.
Jun 10
Soupytwist commented on Obama Will Stop Blocking Emergency Contraception Access for Teenage Girls.
Soupytwist commented on Obama Will Stop Blocking Emergency Contraception Access for Teenage Girls.
It is, literally, about fucking time.
Jun 5
Soupytwist commented on Lindy West: An Appreciation.
Soupytwist commented on Lindy West: An Appreciation.
And that last comment makes me sound like a drunk squirrel.
Jun 5
Soupytwist commented on Lindy West: An Appreciation.
Soupytwist commented on Lindy West: An Appreciation.
@14 - Lindy has written quite a bit on who males these kinds of hack "jokes" and who is making them - it's all linked through the article to which Anna so conveniently linked!
May 17
Soupytwist commented on From the Mailbag....
Soupytwist commented on From the Mailbag....
Does Wenatchee allow comedy within city limits? I thought that was the domain of East Wenatchee.
May 16
Soupytwist commented on Regarding the Singles House.
Soupytwist commented on Regarding the Singles House.
@16 - YES.
@Everyone else - That movie is a touchstone for a lot of people I know who were teens in small town Washington in the mid-90s. We aspired to live Interesting Lives in The City. Singles was our 1990s Washington-specific aspirational version of Baby Boomer-nostalgia about The Big Chill.
Does that make sense?
@Everyone else - That movie is a touchstone for a lot of people I know who were teens in small town Washington in the mid-90s. We aspired to live Interesting Lives in The City. Singles was our 1990s Washington-specific aspirational version of Baby Boomer-nostalgia about The Big Chill.
Does that make sense?
May 10
Soupytwist commented on How Sexist Are Book Covers?.
Soupytwist commented on How Sexist Are Book Covers?.
@1 So things marketed toward women can't also be tasteful, intellectual, or upper-class?
I think you answered your own question.
I think you answered your own question.
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