Comments on: Things I Learned from My Terrible Playlist

By: lisa

lisa — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 13:04:37 +0000

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By: Jane

Jane — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 15:37:28 +0000

I thought about this and Yessss your playlist might be disjointed but not your culture and department.

By: grannybunny

grannybunny — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 11:47:54 +0000

In reply to Scout Finch. What Scout said.

By: Phil Brown

Phil Brown — Fri, 29 May 2020 01:41:03 +0000

Hey Jude-Wilson Pickett
Dark End Of The Street-James Carr
Stop-Howard Tate
Dust My Broom-Elmore James
Leaving Trunk-Taj Mahal
Shake Some Action-Flaming Groovies
Dyin Flu-Albert Collins
Where There’s A Will There’s A Way-Lonnie Mack
Vietnam-Jimmy Cliff
Twist And Shout-The Isley Brothers
Alimony-Ry Cooder
Dr. Brown-Fleetwood Mac
Down At The Bottom-Howling Wolf
Gold-John Stewart
Gates Of Steel-Devo
People Who Died-Jim Carroll
Another Country-The Electric Flag
The Fat Man-Fats Domino
Gonzo-James Booker
Stay-Lorraine Ellison
So Far Away-Dire Straits
Big Bird-Eddie Floyd
The Kids Are Alright-The Who
I Believe To My Soul-Ray Charles
Ain’t Doing Too Bad-Bobby Bland

By: MariaRose

MariaRose — Thu, 28 May 2020 21:10:42 +0000

There’s a big difference in knowing how to work in a team and making the team run with I will team players. I used to quote the phrase there’s no I in the word team for dealing with co-workers who felt their version was the better way than the required company way. The song that helped me through was —-I will survive–sung by various singers.

By: James

James — Thu, 28 May 2020 21:01:45 +0000

I definitely agree that a list of favorite songs doesn’t necessarily make a good playlist. My list would include things like the following:

Orinoco Flow (Enya)
You Lost My Memory (Skyclad)
NIB (Black Sabbath)
Mummer’s Dance (Lorenna Mckennet)
Yatta (Yatta–well worth looking up on YouTube if you have a few spare moments!)

A playlist listing my favorite songs–bouncing between ethereal Celtic, heavy metal, and pure randomness–could quite easily drive someone insane!

The idea that you CAN over-think a song is weird to me as well. Music is art. It’s meant to be enjoyed, yes, but it’s also meant to be pondered. It took me a long, long time to fully understand my reaction to Orinoco Flow the first time I heard it, and I think that was time well spent.

By: Roseann Wilford

Roseann Wilford — Thu, 28 May 2020 16:45:02 +0000

The moment you said only one song per artist, you lost me. There are artists who have had such an influence on me there is no way I could choose only one song. I guess what I’m saying is while I love the idea of this exercise I would not be able to reasonably complete the task without overthinking each song.

Follow the Sun by the Beatles would have to be on my list. I always want to replay it 2 or 3 times whenever I hear it.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Thu, 28 May 2020 15:42:30 +0000

I’d be interested in more about hiring for culture if you’re willing to write it. The roadblock I see is that most places have a culture poster on the wall that says “We are every good thing!” Of course, they are not. Each company takes culture directions which include trade-offs between equally good options (like a work-hard-play-hard culture offers better career growth in exchange for poorer work-life balance.) But when they pretend to be both, candidates can’t really be informed, and hiring ends up on a know-it-when-I-see-it basis, which tends to inch toward decisions based on “same age/sex/race as we are.” How can a company be so honest about culture that candidates can be informed clearly and hiring managers really can use culture fit to make rational hiring decisions?

By: Evil HR Lady

Evil HR Lady — Thu, 28 May 2020 14:55:52 +0000

In reply to Mr Just Ask for It.. Ha ha. Oops.

By: Mr Just Ask for It.

Mr Just Ask for It. — Thu, 28 May 2020 14:53:59 +0000

Long ago, in a State not so far away, the Hatchet Man from corporate sponsored several small group lunches to get to know the Department. During the group lunch with me, he chose “name a favorite song” as an ice-breaker exercise. I was near the end of the ordered seating, and I was trying to select something “known, but not heard frequently, that I liked”. Songs spun thru my head, and when he called on me I blurted out:

“Money For Nothing” by Dire Straits.

A couple of months later I had a severance package and job search on my hands.

Prophetic, my wife says.