Informed Unemployment

I just searched for this site “Informed Unemployment” by searching for something along the lines of “Audax worst interview” and found that Glassdoor.com had copied and pasted my writing verbatim and have it posted on their site!

I’ve emailed them a demand to remove the content immediately, and will follow-up this week with a certified letter demanding the same. Unlike some sites, the content on all of my sites are not creative commons licensed, and its clear. All my pages have a clear copyright notice at the bottom.

I’ve had this problem before, so its not totally surprising! First with Retrevo, then with Fixout.net:

• http://www.informedlicensing.com/blog/2009/04/i-sent-retrevo-a-removal-request.html
• http://www.informedlicensing.com/blog/2009/11/fixoutnet-infringing-on-my-copyrights.html

Like I said about these other infringing parties, its unfortunate that Google and the other search engines do nothing about such rampant copyright infringement. No wonder the copyright holders are up in arms in Washington.

Its one thing to quote someone, link to them, and give credit, its another thing to wholesale rip off someone’s work and add it to your site.

Apparently they believe they can safeguard themselves because they have a statement on their site about copyright infringement claims. Furthermore, they state the post was made anonymously, however, you must register on their site to use it.

I’d like to subpoena them to find out if they themselves copied and posted the content, or if they have an automated system to do so - or if they are paying people to do so. I’m not making any claims against them at this time, but they clearly do not have the right to copy my content, must cease and desist from doing so or must pay the consequences.

In addition to sending them the removal request, I’ve taken screen shots of the offending page as proof of their infringement.

I recently had the worst interview in my entire life with Audax Health Solutions, Inc. / Careverge.

If the company had sent me an apology for how they handled the interview, I would have let “sleeping dogs lie”. Since they have not, I feel obliged to let other potential applicants or even people who may interact with the business so that they may know how it went so they may feel prepared.

I met approximately six people who I enjoyed meeting. I also met one who I thought I would be glad to know as well, until he started acting rude and unprofessional.

The conversation went like this:

Interviewer A:

Please explain how you would program a website with a user in PHP.

Me:

That question is extremely vague... are you asking about how I would structure the templates? Could you be more specific?

Interviewer B:

Just show us how you would program the site.

Me:

Well, I don't have enough information, but these days I probably wouldn't choose [PHP](http://www.php.code-experiments.com/). Regardless, I would probably start with a framework.

Interviewer B:

Why would you use a framework?

Me:

Because it would be a faster development process.

Interviewer B:

You don't even know the requirements!

Hmmm, didn’t I already ask for more information?

Me:

I'm not going to argue with you about this.

Interviewer B:

Well, I have to go anyway.

Me:

Thank you, goodbye.

Yes, I got up and walked out. In my humble opinion, there is no excuse for treating people in this type of antagonistic manner. I find it derogatory and insulting.

Certainly I was not who they were looking for, but again in my humble opinion that is no excuse for this behavior. While initially Interviewer B seemed like a genuinely nice person, he was also appeared to be stressed out about something. I hope that is why he acted like he did, but still, its no excuse.

After the interview, I sent this email:

I sent my resume to you over the weekend and spoke with Ricardo on Monday
to exchange more information about opportunities at your company and my
skills and experience. Not surprisingly, I was pleased when he asked me to
come in for a meeting.

Naturally, I was on time when I came into your offices for an interview
today and enjoyed meeting several members of your team. Thank you for the
opportunity to do so. Unfortunately, partway through the interview, the
tone became rude and unprofessional, so I got up, said thank you, and
left.

It is completely understandable that, for a myriad of reasons, your
company and I might not be an appropriate match for employment.

I don't understand what was meant to be accomplished by treating me in a
derogatory, antagonistic, and disrespectful manner.

As an entrepreneur myself, it is my sincere hope that you and your company
find great success. Your company, however, may wish to revisit the way it
treats its applicants in the interim. I can't hurt!

Based upon my experience, it makes sense that I did not receive an apology or even a response.

Potential applicants: you may want to take my experience into consideration.

I gotta hand it to this poster:

The announcement that the current United States government administration created or saved 1,000,000 jobs sounded wonderful when I heard it on the news a few weeks back. It was good news to an otherwise dreary reality for average Americans, even while the banking bailouts had made a significant impact on Wall Street.

Now I'm hearing reports that the numbers were exaggerated, faulty, or fabricated and that it totally disappointing.

What's actually going on here? Are the numbers right or wrong? I certainly hope this isn't partisan posturing.

For the great majority of my business, I’ve worked as an independent contractor, self-employed, and as an employee of my own business. I have also worked as an employee of other businesses, where I received a W2 at the end of the year.

While I value working for myself much much more than working for someone else, I have to say that filing tax returns with a W2 is way easier!