What Are You Doing Right Now
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@black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Marcos
Never heard of Marcos Pizza. They also offer salads and sandwich too. Might have to check out one their locations near me.
They're a little on the pricey side here, but worth it!
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@black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Marcos
Never heard of Marcos Pizza. They also offer salads and sandwich too. Might have to check out one their locations near me.
That's what my in laws from NY, that now live in Texas, swear by. It's not bad. But we've found local pizza on our block in Dallas that is worlds better.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Marcos
Never heard of Marcos Pizza. They also offer salads and sandwich too. Might have to check out one their locations near me.
That's what my in laws from NY, that now live in Texas, swear by. It's not bad. But we've found local pizza on our block in Dallas that is worlds better.
I had this in Stockholm. Best pizza ever:
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NJ pizza is one of the only benefits of living here
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
NJ pizza is one of the only benefits of living here
Benefits? Not like it compares to NY pizza, so nearby. And even in NY, pizza gets better as you go north, NYC is the end of the good pizza southbound.
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@scottalanmiller That's heresy
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller That's heresy
Only to someone not into pizza. NYC pizza is pizza for tourists. As you go north of the city, pizza switches from being something casual and mostly for show, to being something insanely serious. And the best NYC pizza is made from ingredients shipped from up there. So you get the better water and ingredients up north. NYC has to ship in water to do good pizza, which almost no one does.
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Our interview process consists of two stages. Stage 1, a 20 min presentation they give us. Stage 2, a 20-30 min chat. We have about 5 minutes between stage 1 and 2 so that my team can privately discuss the presentation.
At the end of stage 1, I ask if the candidate would like another drink or would like to be shown where the toilets are if they need them - but others think asking them if they need the toilet is weird... is it? Ive never thought its weird. It's a strange office they have not been to before, they could have had a long trip to be here for the interview and may need to 'go'... is it weird to offer that?
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@jimmy9008 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Our interview process consists of two stages. Stage 1, a 20 min presentation they give us. Stage 2, a 20-30 min chat. We have about 5 minutes between stage 1 and 2 so that my team can privately discuss the presentation.
At the end of stage 1, I ask if the candidate would like another drink or would like to be shown where the toilets are if they need them - but others think asking them if they need the toilet is weird... is it? Ive never thought its weird. It's a strange office they have not been to before, they could have had a long trip to be here for the interview and may need to 'go'... is it weird to offer that?
I'm offered to be shown the bathroom at EVERY interview I ever go to, unless it's a tiny company and the bathrooms are like in the hallway right outside the door.
Most places I interview require escorts to the bathroom, anyway.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jimmy9008 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Our interview process consists of two stages. Stage 1, a 20 min presentation they give us. Stage 2, a 20-30 min chat. We have about 5 minutes between stage 1 and 2 so that my team can privately discuss the presentation.
At the end of stage 1, I ask if the candidate would like another drink or would like to be shown where the toilets are if they need them - but others think asking them if they need the toilet is weird... is it? Ive never thought its weird. It's a strange office they have not been to before, they could have had a long trip to be here for the interview and may need to 'go'... is it weird to offer that?
I'm offered to be shown the bathroom at EVERY interview I ever go to, unless it's a tiny company and the bathrooms are like in the hallway right outside the door.
Most places I interview require escorts to the bathroom, anyway.
My thoughts exactly. I didn't get why my colleagues considered it funny or weird to have asked them.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller That's heresy
Only to someone not into pizza. NYC pizza is pizza for tourists. As you go north of the city, pizza switches from being something casual and mostly for show, to being something insanely serious. And the best NYC pizza is made from ingredients shipped from up there. So you get the better water and ingredients up north. NYC has to ship in water to do good pizza, which almost no one does.
Next time you're in New Jersey we'll do a pizza taste-off with @BRRABill and @dbeato if he's in the area at the time.
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@jimmy9008 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jimmy9008 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Our interview process consists of two stages. Stage 1, a 20 min presentation they give us. Stage 2, a 20-30 min chat. We have about 5 minutes between stage 1 and 2 so that my team can privately discuss the presentation.
At the end of stage 1, I ask if the candidate would like another drink or would like to be shown where the toilets are if they need them - but others think asking them if they need the toilet is weird... is it? Ive never thought its weird. It's a strange office they have not been to before, they could have had a long trip to be here for the interview and may need to 'go'... is it weird to offer that?
I'm offered to be shown the bathroom at EVERY interview I ever go to, unless it's a tiny company and the bathrooms are like in the hallway right outside the door.
Most places I interview require escorts to the bathroom, anyway.
My thoughts exactly. I didn't get why my colleagues considered it funny or weird to have asked them.
I was offered a restroom or fresh air break several times too. I was never offended or at all think it's weird.
But then again, it was nearly a 7 hour interview.
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@obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jimmy9008 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jimmy9008 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Our interview process consists of two stages. Stage 1, a 20 min presentation they give us. Stage 2, a 20-30 min chat. We have about 5 minutes between stage 1 and 2 so that my team can privately discuss the presentation.
At the end of stage 1, I ask if the candidate would like another drink or would like to be shown where the toilets are if they need them - but others think asking them if they need the toilet is weird... is it? Ive never thought its weird. It's a strange office they have not been to before, they could have had a long trip to be here for the interview and may need to 'go'... is it weird to offer that?
I'm offered to be shown the bathroom at EVERY interview I ever go to, unless it's a tiny company and the bathrooms are like in the hallway right outside the door.
Most places I interview require escorts to the bathroom, anyway.
My thoughts exactly. I didn't get why my colleagues considered it funny or weird to have asked them.
I was offered a restroom or fresh air break several times too. I was never offended or at all think it's weird.
But then again, it was nearly a 7 hour interview.
Yes, I did not understand why they found it was strange. Its polite if anything. A previous employer used to show all candidates where the fire exists were just in case etc too.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller That's heresy
Only to someone not into pizza. NYC pizza is pizza for tourists. As you go north of the city, pizza switches from being something casual and mostly for show, to being something insanely serious. And the best NYC pizza is made from ingredients shipped from up there. So you get the better water and ingredients up north. NYC has to ship in water to do good pizza, which almost no one does.
Next time you're in New Jersey we'll do a pizza taste-off with @BRRABill and @dbeato if he's in the area at the time.
I've lived there, I know the pizza is okay, but also know it's not competitive. If you think NYC pizza is that good, that's a good indicator. NYC is good, if you are from outside NY. But inside NY, it's probably the lowest quality in the whole state. All of NY thinks of NYC as the low quality "pizza for outsiders." Like Italian pizza sold in Rome's airport, instead of what you get on a back street.
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Want good Pizza? Head up to Rochester or Buffalo. You'll get fantastic Pizza for a fraction of the price of downstate pizzas. Even where we are in the Southern Tier (where NYC gets their water) we have phenomenal Pizza... even at the crappiest NYC style places it's still good.
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Want good Pizza? Head up to Rochester or Buffalo. You'll get fantastic Pizza for a fraction of the price of downstate pizzas. Even where we are in the Southern Tier (where NYC gets their water) we have phenomenal Pizza... even at the crappiest NYC style places it's still good.
Honestly, it gets better as you go east. Do the drive sometime.... Buffalo -> Rochester -> 'Cuse -> Utice -> MV -> Albany
Each town gets a little better, a little different, and a little more passionate as you go with the peak appearing, to me, to be the west side of the Albany metro (west of the Hudson, still on the banks of the Mohawk.)
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I never understood the "It's not Delivery It's Digiorno" thing until I got delivery pizza at my inlaws around Pittsburgh. Digiorno is nothing like the Pizza we can get for about the same price. But down there it's definitely better then what they can get delivered.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Want good Pizza? Head up to Rochester or Buffalo. You'll get fantastic Pizza for a fraction of the price of downstate pizzas. Even where we are in the Southern Tier (where NYC gets their water) we have phenomenal Pizza... even at the crappiest NYC style places it's still good.
Honestly, it gets better as you go east. Do the drive sometime.... Buffalo -> Rochester -> 'Cuse -> Utice -> MV -> Albany
Each town gets a little better, a little different, and a little more passionate as you go with the peak appearing, to me, to be the west side of the Albany metro (west of the Hudson, still on the banks of the Mohawk.)
I can agree that 'Cuse pizza is better then Buffalo or Rochester. I'm not a big fan of what I've gotten in Utica or Albany... but that may be the places I went to.
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Our ISP is comcasting on us again today. Six outages since start of day!
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I never understood the "It's not Delivery It's Digiorno" thing until I got delivery pizza at my inlaws around Pittsburgh. Digiorno is nothing like the Pizza we can get for about the same price. But down there it's definitely better then what they can get delivered.
I know, right? Being from NY, this seemed insane. Like who would buy such an obvious lie. Then you go anywhere else and realize that most delivery pizza is garbage and Digiorno is actually... not all that bad for normal people. They just have no idea what good pizza is actually like.
