You work in HR and you’re hiring for a skilled tech position. The job description you’ve been given “requires” a college degree. You’ve narrowed it down to two applicants: one just graduated college with a Bachelor’s, the other has no college at all, but four years working in the industry doing exactly what you need them to do. They are otherwise basically identical. Same age, good references, etc.
Which one do you hire?
The kid right out of college. Experienced guys can be resistant to change. We want to train them up our way!
The guy with the actual experience. There’s no substitute for that. I don’t want to have to teach some kid everything!
Do you ever ponder one of these polls, and finally give up and skip it because all the answers provided are very specific, and none accurately describes your perspective?
Yes, far too often
Eh, maybe sometimes, but I am usually okay with the closest answer
No, I just answer whichever is best, and don’t care if it’s “right”
No, my answer is always among those listed (as far as I can recall)
“Do you ever ponder one of these polls, and finally give up and skip it because all the answers provided are very specific, and none accurately describes your perspective?”
Sorry, is that me? Apologies, that’s just how I hear it in my head when I come up with it.
Yes, please just stop after the first sentence. Thank you!
Meh. It’s your poll; you do you, man.
No, that wasn’t necessarily about you.
No, that wasn’t necessarily about you, but you should still stop doing that. Thank you!
I’ve never lived in a state where cars are taxed yearly. I don’t mean sales tax when you buy one—it’s more like you paying property tax on real estate, but on personal property (cars, motorcycles, RVs, boats). Apparently once a year they calculate what your vehicle(s) are worth and tax you. Pick as many as apply.
The powers that be do that where I live, too.
The powers that be don’t do that where I live.
The powers that be require vehicle inspection as well.
The powers that be do not require vehicle inspection.
I don’t own a vehicle/Not sure what they do (e.g. spouse deals with it)
In @lobotomyboy63’s poll, did you count emissions tests as an “inspection”?
No, I took “inspection” to mean the safety inspection some states require, not merely an emissions test.
Yes, I counted the emissions test, or “smog check” as Californians call it, as an inspection. Or I would have if I lived some place where it was required.
Basically a princess and her not royal suitor are found out by the woman’s father, the king. He puts the man in an arena where he can choose between two doors—one has a lady whom he will marry or a tiger which will devour him. The princess hates the woman already because she sees her as a rival. The princess knows which is which. Her lover looks to her for help. She signals which one to open. What does he find behind it?
