No more Mediocre employees?

@MrGlass essentially the info isn’t the company’s to contain - it’s more a matter of employee rights. You can search any company and find out who has a linkedin profile and admits to working there.

@snapster Yeah, that I’m fine with. Employees can do what they want. Its the centralized location some companies have, and the request/requirement to post my name/photo on that page, that really irks me.

But maybe it bothers me more than it should.

@MrGlass for some companies they wish to cut down on the need for a receptionist by providing a means by which to locate the employee you need and contact them directly.

@jbartus I’d believe that if they listed anything more than my social media profiles

@MrGlass o_O That is weird, and it’s mandatory?

@jbartus At my previous two employers. Its pretty common in small/medium sized startups.

@hollboll Who’s in charge of the kitty resources department?

http://shirt.woot.com/offers/cats-resume

@narfcake kitty resource department? That’d be me for sure.

@hollboll I’m theoretically curious except I have no idea what skills I have to offer. Oh, wait, maybe that works out…?

@f00l Herm, maybe you should try
/giphy CV

@MrGlass
I don’t think my current version emphasizes my lack of skills sufficiently. perhaps you are wise in this.

/giphy have no skillz

@BillLehecka you like heat and humidity right?

@BillLehecka it’s not alabama

@BillLehecka um, you get seasons and stuff? Do you like homecoming mums?

@BillLehecka giant bugs?

@BillLehecka I’m sure you’re a big fan of high school, college, and pro football?

(Or are these replies just for employees?)

@BillLehecka
Not comprehensive, but:

Heat and humidity. Football. Bugs. Redneck culture. Tornados. Horses and cows. Being in the apparent center of the universe (ask anyone). Hurricanes. Football (HS and college level rock). Earthquakes. Pickup trucks and suburbans. Mono-politics and Gerrymandering. Wide open spaces. Participant sports activities. A really big sky. Awesome Mex and Tex-Mex foods. Once you get away from urbania, open roads. Austin. Yeah, football. Texas Monthly magazine. Taking it easy. Hunting. Gardening. Alamo and associated mythology. A legislature that appears to be seriously for sale. Dying newspapers. Extreme friendliness. Did i mention football? Beaches where the waves are sometimes 6 inches, I promise! Once you get here, you might gotta drive for a while to leave (not always a bad thing). NASA. Tolerable art museums. San Antonio. Seriously gracious people. The Yellow Rose of Texas (not a flower). Alcohol, including wineries (in many counties, some are dry). Blue-bonnets. Real live panthers. Real live roadrunners. Football, I think they play that here. Other sports. Varmints. To some degree, affordable acreage. Getting away. Being despised by the residents of Colorado, possibly for valid reasons. Manners. Neighbors - actual neighbors - depending on locale. A decent and genuine welcome. Firearms. Sunsets. Decent public universities. Tolerable cities. Traffic no worse than, and sometimes better than, many other cities of comparable size. Rodeos and cutting horses. Highly variable landscapes. Football. Drive-thru-you-name-it. Fishing. Good quality NPR if that’s your thing. Amusing and annoying billionaires and their hobbies. Autumn. The Republic of Texas. World-class medical care in certain specialty areas.

Lotsa stars.

@f00l You forgot to mention:
Practically brand-new craft beer scene. It’s an exciting vibe that’s mostly died down to background noise in those progressive places like WA, CO, CA, etc.
And don’t forget football and accessories like cheerleading, dance squad, flag corps, majorettes, and even (sometimes) marching band.

@compunaut
And I forgot music. A fair amount, this ain’t NYC, but quite lively

And: TACO TRUCKS. Not on every corner yet, but we’re getting there. Soon, I hope.

/giphy taco truck

@compunaut
Marching Bands Rock.

/giphy marching band

@f00l You forgot it’s not Alabama.

@Mehrocco_Mole
yeah guess i should have mentioned
not alabama
not any other state period
not Colorado, tho we’d like to steal the mountains
not NM, ditto
not Cal, tho Texans admire the geography
not other teeny tiny states
not hawaii, tho we ought to annex it for grins
not alaska, ditto, since they barely have enuf people, and they prob need our help.

not alabama either. or something.

/giphy texas

@f00l Armadillos. You forgot Armadillos!

@harrison @BillLehecka Even better it is not Mississippi

@BillLehecka compared to other tech areas, the cost of living is reasonable. also now that i have a pool i actually like it hot. the culture in DFW is quite diverse, and when you do encounter a “typical” southern, their famed hospitality is a real thing.

@BillLehecka cost of living is reasonable. people are generally pretty nice. you’ll end up knowing your neighbors and such. no state income tax, which helps your money stretch a bit. sports. outdoor spaces. heat and humidity, sure, but on the days that the wind is strong enough from the west and that humidity goes away, it’s really remarkable. there is a lot to see and do. you are in the middle of the US, so getting to either coast is relatively painless. everything is here. with companies moving here and constant growth, it’s still evolving enough to be interesting. lots to love.

@BillLehecka
Forgot to mention.
That middle-market $2.5 million house in CA?

Perhaps $200k here.

@Kidsandliz
@brendles
@BillLehecka

Technically Mississippi is one of those teeny tiny states that Texas is Not.

I did forget to mention Armadillos, or to give them their due.

Ok here goes

Our Armadillos and Jackalopes are just about way bigger than all your teeny tiny itsy bitsy little states. So there.

Excepting Alaska. Which we will annex soon enuf anyway. And they will love us.

(Did I mention that some residents of Colorado think Texans have an attitude? Yeah, maybe, but we annexed Colorado already, so too bad, so what, Get Over It! Since Colorado technically belongs to Texas, that makes medical marijuana potentially technically legal in Texas, under certain road-trip conditions.)

/image Armadillo

/image Jackalope

A technically and geographically correct map

Or

We have long range plans for Canada, but no rush. Canadians are so nice, and we share with them a love of quality duct tape. All good.

No plans at present to take Manhattan. Mostly because we like to visit foreigners and exotic locales with actual verifiable literacy!
And it amuses us to continue to watch Dallas pretend to be Manhattan and /Fail

A possible future map addition

We’re so friendly. If you don’t come to Texas, you just might look out and see Texas come to you!
Don’t worry. We love BBQ, and you’re invited!

@f00l Personally TX can have MS because in my opinion it should be part of the Gulf of Mexico (the entire country would be better off then). And you are trying to take over the Gulf anyway by trying to suck the gulf water into Galveston in order to hoard it, and probably Houston is next to use as a Gulf water holding/hoarding location because you are not preventing enough river water from flowing to the Gulf when you periodically spread it all over the place there there…

@Kidsandliz

And additional info:

You know why Texas doesn’t fall into the Gulf Of Mexico?

Because Oklahoma Sucks!

The 111th meeting between Texas and Oklahoma is set for Saturday, Oct. 8 at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas.

Welcome, Sooners! We will have plenty of sheep-dip stations ready to go at the Red River! No need to worry about excessive delay!

That game has calmed down a little. Once during the 1950’s or 1960’s, the after-game-partying (entirely normal fun that takes over the city) caused a number of foreign diplomats staying at a luxury downtown hotel for an economic meeting to believe an state-wide insurrection or revolution was in progress, and to demand protection from their embassies and the US govt.

Turns out that all those kids banging on the diplomats’ hotel room doors just wanted the diplomats to come out and join the party. The kids offered to do the buying. All happy before the night ended.

here are way too many songs

texas

from elvis

famously, galveston

el paso

fort worth

laredo

dallas

rio grande
(ambient - like this one a lot)

amarillo

luckenbach

san antonio

la grange

houston

possum kingdom

texarkana

dumas

and from Townes Van Zandt

@f00l
Lubbock

Amarillo

London?

@2many2no
how did i miss Lubbock?

i guess i skipped pasting the REM Texarkana song

marching band stuff

@f00l
galveston. perhaps this one will embed and play