Largest Cucumber

Jean Lannes

a. “short, angry, ladderlord” b. “His personality is attractive, plus the portrait of him by Julie-Louise Volpelière is so fine.” c. “ITS LANNES also any1 who calls napoleon a whore with no fear of repercussions gets my vote”

Alexander von Humboldt

So initially I thought it was good to answer the final "Any questions?" question in the negative; I thought it indicated that I understood everything and was ready to get started.

APPARENTLY THIS IS FALSE, and it communicates instead that you have no actual interest in the position. So if you can't think of any questions that weren't answered already by the interviewer, you still have to ask them something. Definitely ask about parking, that's a good suggestion (indicates you have a reliable source of transportation even if you don't), but I've found that interviewers like these questions too:

"What is your favorite part/What do you consider the most rewarding part of working at [location]?" I've surprised a couple interviewers with this one! I don't think they expected me to ask them their personal opinions? If it's a decent job, you'll hear about the best parts of it; if it's a bad job, you may or may not hear them struggling to find silver linings. But whatever they say, you respond, "That sounds great! I know I'm going to enjoy that!" or something along those lines.

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

Make no mistake, by "not allowed to work from home," this employer meant "you will not be paid for work you do at home," while clearly expecting the employee to do work (such as answering work emails and taking work calls) while at home. (If the employer didn't expect that, then they wouldn't have noticed when the worker stopped doing it.)

If you're expected to respond when the boss summons you outside of work hours, you are on-call. If you're on-call, you should be paid.

Expecting white-collar workers to be on-call for no extra pay is wage theft, no different from if a retail or food service employee is told to, "Clock out before you clean up/close out your station, so you don't go over your hours."