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FEBRUARY 26, 2017

Can you bill for your time after a long interview process? A friend recently sat for 29 — yes, 29 — half-hour interviews (company size ~180) for the position of senior director. The interviews included the CEO, President, COO, CFO, etc. If so, how would she go about doing so, a simple request by mail? Here we go….

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Our workplace mails us donation requests. I work at a research 1 university and every year we receive mail (at home) soliciting for donations to the college we work in or the university itself. I’d apply, and then if you’re contacted for an interview, bring it up at that point and ask if they’d be open to it.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Students need food for an event? They can be mailed and that’s the cost of doing business. I managed to get an interview during what became the longest month of my life as it was the big storm in May and sadly my father passed. However I was still able to focus on the interview, I used all the AAM advice I could think of.

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DECEMBER 10, 2016

Unfortunately I have another friend who does the same, and in fact is now creating nightly live Facebook videos to showcase her MLM business (hers is food related, like spices and dip mixes. I was thrilled, and the interview went really well, but weeks went by and the position was taken off the website and seemingly no one was hired.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2017

We recently interviewed someone who was qualified in ways we could evaluate in an interview, buy had a short work history with a couple of interruptions. Should I mail a copy of my resume after applying online? Bring your hard copy to the interview if you happen to score one? Nope, definitely do not mail your materials.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

They have been mailed and are, luckily, no longer even remotely my problem! I have had a terrible relationship with food and my eating disorder therapist wanted me to work on this. I’m still working on my relationship with food and my weight but the cooking does help. Thanks so much for everyone’s advice! 4 at the link).

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AUGUST 21, 2018

If I leave at the same time to mail a package before the post office closes, that’s an hour of annual leave. Should I give feedback about why I turned down an interview? And I respectfully replied back rejecting the offer for an on-site interview. As for eating some of what you bring in: by all means, yes!

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DECEMBER 16, 2016

Salinger’s fan mail. If you like food and you like insidery details about the restaurant industry, you will find this fascinating. Food, gossip, snark — a delight. You may also like: why do interviewers ask about your favorite books or movies? The Martian , by Andy Weir. fake names on credit cards!)

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SnackNation

AUGUST 7, 2017

When the company expanded globally, its employee recognition plan lost intimacy as many people received major milestone gifts in the mail, without a human touch. Through the program, employees have been able to work on anything from sports sites to food blogs. The solution ? Be true to your culture.

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OCTOBER 28, 2015

She graciously agreed to do an interview for us, and here’s the Q&A. To be honest, when I first applied, I didn’t realize it was a prison because neither the name nor the ad made it sound super obvious, and when I got called for an interview I almost didn’t go. How did you end up in the job?

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JULY 19, 2021

I have shoulder-length hair and always pull it back at work because otherwise I shed SO MUCH hair over my clothes, workspace, paperwork, food, etc. (My Interviewing people on a rolling basis vs. waiting for an application deadline. Your company sounds like it’s getting this right (even if it should have come earlier!).

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MARCH 26, 2023

In theory, if every employee contributes $10, this would cover the cost of food, drinks, plates, and cutlery. Not every employee contributes money to the potluck, but every employee takes the food that is offered. She is now getting into monthly disagreements with coworkers who she feels should not take food if they did not pay for it.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2021

There’s food and fun and then they invite out the surprise performer who sings an hour set. One colleague was usually in charge of the food (because she was a control freak who didn’t trust anyone else to prepare it hygenically, but that’s another story). My roommate, a fellow teacher, mailed hers to her mother. ” 6.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Was this an interview faux pas. At the end of a series of interviews, to show how excited and interested in the job and company, I said if I was offered the job I’d definitely accept the offer. I had a phone interview with a company I’d be really excited to work for. Frequent interview-ending answers.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2019

s and working with a placement agency to find that perfect job that would take me out of food service. My agency contact had set up an interview for me for my dream job, the day after my birthday. I showed up at the interview not just hung over but still drunk. I tried again, only to be rejected a second time.

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AUGUST 4, 2021

Slowly over the years, she has started taking more and more liberties in regards to the food and ignoring our requests for her to do a task. She’s taking food she’s not supposed to take! If you wouldn’t, it’s not really about the food.). Is this delay between interviews normal? We’ve had one employee for about 2.5

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DECEMBER 15, 2017

Do Not Become Alarmed , by Maile Meloy. Free Food for Millionaires , by Min Jin Lee. why do interviewers ask about your favorite books or movies? It’s about the death of a famous children’s book author (modeled to some degree on Maurice Sendak) and the emotional legacy he leaves to the people he was close to.

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Mad in America

APRIL 23, 2025

Editor’s note: This is an interview conducted by Tiago Pires Marques, editor of Mad in Portugal. The interview was initially conducted on February 27, 2017, and then updated recently for publication on Mad in Portugal. The interview is an abbreviated version of the interview published in Mad in Portugal (1).

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Work Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

In the lead up to the election, Donald Trump would not directly answer questions about his plans for enacting a federal abortion ban, despite repeated inquiries in press interviews. Abortion pill access In recent years, anti-abortion advocates have cited the Comstock Act as a legal basis for prohibiting the mailing of abortion pills.

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