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I Can Has Paycheck?

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Nov 072008
 

Had another job interview today—I hate to say I think it went well, because that’s what I thought of the last two job interviews, and then I never heard from them. But… I think it went well. By the end of the interview we were discussing the hypothetical hours I would work, my career goals for the foreseeable future, and what kind of pay I was looking for.

The place is essentially an accountant stable; they rent accountants to companies that aren’t big enough to have their own accounting department. They are flexible on their hours, so if I wanted to continue on the schooling track in pursuit of my CPA I could do that while working part-time. I would probably have to work over some Saturdays during tax season, but I expect that’s pretty much standard for any accounting job.

Keep your fingers crossed!

 Posted by at 8:45 pm
Nov 042008
 

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McD’s is doing their Monopoly game again—you collect your little game pieces, and if you manage to score one of the rare ones you win some money. The game pieces also have codes on them; you enter the code online and “play” a web version, nominally to increase you chances of winning.

I figure if we’re going to McDonald’s anyway, we might as well collect the things. My youngest son is in charge of that, because he loves collecting and sorting things. I believe he can tell you, without looking, which pieces we have and which ones we’re lacking.

This morning I went to the McD website to enter the game piece codes—again, might as well since I’ve got ’em. And I observed an interesting thing:

McD monopoly board

My little dog started out on Pacific Avenue, nine spaces away from the Go corner.

I rolled an eight, which should have landed him on Boardwalk.

The game moved him nine spaces to land him on Go.

Humph, I say.

I suspected the web version of the game was crooked, or a lot more people would be winning. With an honest pair of dice you can only go around that board so many times before you’ve landed on all the squares. Now I’ve seen it with my own eyes.

“You should report that!” declared my son.

“How would I prove it?” I doubt my screenshot would provide court evidence. I doubt we’ll even stop going to McD’s, since we weren’t going there any more or less for the game pieces. But just for the record, their web game is rigged.

 Posted by at 10:11 am
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