Complaints, Concerns, Errors, Suggestions, and Ideas!

in the USA there's this thing where once a middle-aged adult is down on their luck, employers start not wanting to touch this person even for very menial jobs, hell, especially for menial jobs.... they will hire people your age and tell the old, experienced guy who just needs to make his rent that he is overqualified or whatever... I actually had this happen to me a little while ago after I got laid off a few years ago, I wanted to take a low-stress nursing home receptionist job because there weren't a lot, or really any, openings at my pay grade where Iw as living then and I needed some income but since I was going to take a pay hit I also wanted to have a really stress free job with limited responsibilities as I was leanring to be a dad then... every easy job I applied for I was "overqualified for" and they hired really young kids or stay at home mom's with no work experience... but for a while I was unemployed and treated like a lepper by every employer with a job at my pay grade and I ahd to break bAck in by doing some consulting via an agency (who properly screwed me too, LOTS OF STRESS, EXTRA HOURS WITHOUT OVERTIME, THEY TOOK HALF MY PAY, OFFERED HEALTH BENEFITS THAT TOOK FOREVER TO ENROLL IN, argh, their client used me and discarded me, but t did make it look like my job skills weren't out of date.... just AH!)... and my story is a pleasant one, lots of people haven't gotten so lucky here, I know a lot of people from my parent's generation who 'retired' early to get some partial-income via their social security as well as selling their homes if they owned a home because they couldn't get a break even from places like Walmart stocking shelves (and these are skilled workers I am talking about)... there are people a decade or so odler than me who got edged out jobs in the new economy here and eventually I stopped hearing from them anymore. I wanna think they moved somewhere else and found work, but they could be homeless or they maybe killed themselves. I dunno

in the USA the younger you are and the less experience you have the better your chances of getting into a menial job... I thought that might be the case in Croatia... plus I kinda suggested you look for occasional 'creative' gigs doing grunt work and learning the ropes of some less conventional fields

thread hijack over because I just glanced at this:

http://equipboard.com/pros/esteban-caceres

here we go again

there is now way this Spanish guy's youtube noodling and poorly shot bar gig can constitute a professional music career

why does every yob with a local band have to try to make themselves look bigger than they are with artist pages on EB? either that or this guy's a legend in his own mind already, singlehandedly popularizing the Epi LP special II with his blazin' riffs... DUDE!

hahaha, wait, there's my bitter has-been streak showing again... shit

http://equipboard.com/pros/nika-kocharov-young-georgian-lolitaz OH GOD NO WHAT HAVE I DONE PLZ FORGIVE ME I ADDED THE BAND AS AN ARTIST KILL ME

I'm listening to the bar gig now. It's not that bad. I'm just wondering why this was shot with a potato. What's with people filming with potatoes? Where the hell do you get them!?

Edit: Oh God, that harmonica...

I didn't say it was BAD, just that he shouldn't be trying to hype his average working band with a pro page.

Would you kindly change this submission so that instead of a duplicate, it shows the original Fender Twin rather than the duplicate, please? And while you're at it, please delete the duplicate.

Hey all, just wanted to let you know I merged a METRIC TON of duplicate items over the last day and a half... whew!

For those that don't know, there actually is a little "submit duplicate" tool, you can find it here: equipboard.com/duplicate_items/new.

A MAJOR, MAJOR, MAJOR thank you to luxiu, narcist, absentwalrus, and everyone else who has been helping us flag duplicate items. You guys submitting those helped soooo much, and already the items database on EB feels much cleaner and better because of YOU. A ways to go still, but we'll get there.

We've been hearing your requests loud and clear, and we know duplicate items is a major bummer of the site, and needs to be cleaned up! So we're doing just that. We'll actually improve the duplicate items submission tool so it's even easier to use, and more easily accessible from item pages. Viewing the actual duplicate item queue will probably be a mod-only thing... we're still working out the details so stay tuned :)

A side note: This isn't to say that we've solved the "how to deal with 900 different Telecasters" on the site problem... that's a bigger issue. This is more addressing the issue of merging very similar duplicates like "Gibson SG Standard" with "2011 Gibson SG Standard" and "Gibson SG Standard Heritage Cherry" (since those absolutely don't need separate item pages).

What about different bands with the same name?

An example would help here, Lex.

An example would help here, Lex.

I wanted to add the country band "Traveller", but there's already a different group (something electronic I guess) in here.

howsabout all the different superfuzzes

univox super fuzz

black cat super fuzz (clone of the univox)

voodoo lab super fuzz (clone of the jordan bosstone)

behringer super fuzz (clone of the boss hyper fuzz fz-2 which in turn was a univox superfuzz with dedicated treble and bass controls and a 3rd mode for high gain boost)

Marshal Supa Fuzz (tonebender mk2 professional built by sola sound for Marshall with a proprietry fixed treble roll off)

there are probably more super fuzzes, that's just off the top of my head

Clones are different items…

Beat me to it, Luxiu.

Clones are different items, mate. They may have roughly similar circuitry, but they're made by different companies.

Butthe point is that they are all named super or supa fuzz and some areexactly the same under the hood

Jyst saying that i think that's what gchiaren meant.

Yeah, but you go to the store and they sell different items by different manufacturers even with whatever similarity "under the hood", and here the catalog is not about circuits but about products too.

okay, white flag, captain flame war

Seemed like a fairly tame discussion. But yes, you're in the minourity, Jim Sorry.

I was just kidding

Oh, ug- ugh, well in that case

http://i.imgur.com/LtQv4aM.gifv

Your mantis is showing...