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JerkyBoy · Joined: 12 Jan 2012 Posts: 485

I appear to have caught the tail end of the hiring season. Some jobs are stipulating an April start.

I want to come now.

Do you need to take something ASAP or can I wait for a week or two?

battleshipb_b · Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 189

In the magic kingdom hiring season is year round. People come and go at the weirdest times, particularly after a break - you find a lot of peope just do a runner and places are caught short. That's why you see ongoing advertising for new teacher in almost every institution although the universities and tech colleges mainly do hiring on a semester basis but sometimes they are caught short when someone takes off (like my former office mate).

JerkyBoy · Joined: 12 Jan 2012 Posts: 485

Why do you call it the magic kingdom? Is this irony?

johnslat · Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 10:21 pm Post subject:

Dear JerkyBoy,

Irony? Wh, yes - but in addition, people tend to disappear very suddenly. Poof, like magic Very Happy

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Also, it's such a Mickey Mouse place.

"Mickey Mouse
adj. Slang
1.
a. Unimportant; trivial: "It's a Mickey Mouse operation compared to what goes on in Lyons or Paris" (Jack Higgins).
b. Irritatingly petty: the school's Mickey Mouse requirements for graduation."

In the UK and Ireland, it also means poor quality or counterfeit.

Regards,
John

cmp45 · Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 1475 Location: KSA

Magical Kingdom= unreal, having a job that is, in many ways like playing pretend -a fantasy, upredictable- a place where anything can happen -usually good vs evil as in most kingdoms full of princes (real or imagined) and princess(real or imagined)...A place unlike anywhere in this world...I saw a flying carpet swooshing past the Kingdom Tower the other day Shocked

posh · Joined: 22 Oct 2010 Posts: 430

BretHarte · Joined: 17 Aug 2011 Posts: 94

It's Scary! · Joined: 17 Apr 2011 Posts: 823

...most...

It's a bit closer to reality!

BretHarte · Joined: 17 Aug 2011 Posts: 94

Funny. I'd written "most" but thought that sounded too cynical.

johnslat · Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 4:51 pm Post subject:

Well, based on my experience in the Magic Kingdom, even there that's the "road less travelled." So, I'd go along with BretHarte's "some."

And I wonder if those non-British reading this thread even know what we're talking about since I believe the term is British slang.

Needless to say, IS, BH and I all journey on the "road more travelled." Very Happy

And that's the "straight dope."

Regards,
John

posh · Joined: 22 Oct 2010 Posts: 430

Any dope would be great. Straight, bent or curly.