Chasing a dream in taiwan

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[quote=“vote4schlager”]Hi Guys,

It’s been a while since i posted the last time.
Sorry that i didn’t post updates asap, since I was quite busy.

I just recieved an email from Gigabyte… they are impressed by my effort and gave me an opportunity.
If I am able to reach 10.000 votes in oct 01/2014 i gonna get the job I was looking for!

Which is considering that i currently have 600 votes, not the most easy task.
Please Guys and Girls, if you didn’t vote so far; please do!

I gonna post updates as soon as i can.

Best regards,

Chris S.[/quote]

So you have managed 500 votes in 10 days since you last wrote here. Not bad but not good enough. What have you done to spread the word about your cause? Facebook? Twitter? Media? Have you called up ICRT? Written letters to the editor of your local paper back home? Made a youtube video about it?

You have about 100 days to sort this out. 100 clicks per day. I can write a comment on the daily mail website about football and get 500 clicks in a couple of hours. You have shown a good attitude to the shit people have dumped on you on here, so I believe with some focused effort you sail past 10000 clicks quite easily.

What is your plan now? Two dudes ran around the island and tons of people turned up to support them (plus the usual haters on here). If you capture people’s imaginations they will enjoy being involved.

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Why, OP, why?

Something missing in your life that you want to work for a Taiwanese tech company so badly?

Why!!!

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[quote=“finley”]Seriously? They’ll hire you on the basis of getting 10,000 votes on social media? Not, say, because of your skills? Please tell me this is a wind-up.

What kind of fucked-up, tin-pot outfit are we talking about here? I despair for the future of the human race sometimes.[/quote]

Yeah, I see this totally jacked. I mean, the idea itself seems to be totally absurd. Why should I hire somebody because he gets votes on a website? is the open position something like community manager or what?

However, I guess that it also demonstrates that the guy is very interested. But…

The response from Gigabyte could be seen also as a big absurd, BUT, it could be a nice-asshole way of saying him NO again, or it could be that they see this as some sort of strange promotion of theuir brand “Behold World how desperated people are to join our incredible company!”.

Anyway, OP good luck with it. A couple of weeks ago I met a friend’s friend who works at there. I felt envy because it’s a big company and because I have a high opinion of every job except mine.

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Wow, I feel envy again (I’m a lazy idiot… with no time anyway). Who and how and so?

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[quote=“headhonchoII”]Why, OP, why?

Something missing in your life that you want to work for a Taiwanese tech company so badly?

Why!!![/quote]

Something missing in your life that you can’t let someone else chase a dream without you trying to knock them off their stride?

Why do adults take such pleasure in being total downers?

Of course, you were just kidding. As am I.

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No you are right, dreams are there to be crushed like eggs that have just fallen off the back of a lorry on the M50.

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Wow, I feel envy again (I’m a lazy idiot… with no time anyway). Who and how and so?[/quote]

Here ya go. The thread plus the usual nonsense from the members of this community. https://www.forumosa.com/taiwan/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=121725&hilit=run+taiwan+coast

What exactly do you feel suspicious about?

It would take nothing for people to be supportive of a fellow human being. It is either jealousy, distorted ego or some past trauma which makes a person feel they need to crush the dreams of another.

“Daddy, when I grow up I want to be a spaceman.”
“What kind of arshole thinks that? You’ll probably end up working in an office, you stupid little cnt.”

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[quote=“finley”]Seriously? They’ll hire you on the basis of getting 10,000 votes on social media? Not, say, because of your skills? Please tell me this is a wind-up.

What kind of fucked-up, tin-pot outfit are we talking about here? I despair for the future of the human race sometimes.[/quote]

Hi finley,

They gonna hire me because of determination, and a combination of skills and the ability to push an unkown online campaign to a certain number.

Best regards,

Chris S.

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please someone confirm if the fb website is online or not. I have no idea why it should be offline…

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Everything works now again. Thanks for telling me. I am still wondering why the facebook page was disabled… and more important for HOW long…

Anyways, all good now :slight_smile:

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PS. I take zero offence by Users who are suspicious, since indeed i am a new user and noone knows me here.
@bumscloud;my twitter indeed seems a bit empty; if you have any ideas regarding content/transparency please let me know.

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I concur with Rocky Raccoon and HH2. You don’t want this job anyway, even if you think you do. How about a startup? There are plenty around lately, and you’ll have much more responsibility, opportunity and fun (and quite possibly better pay).

A year or two doing pointless work and losing at politics in a big-company bureaucracy you don’t understand isn’t going to add any value to your life on any level. Believe me, I know.

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Yes, that was my point. I’m still not convinced this guy is for real: his writing style is distinctly Taiwanese; for example, use of the verb ‘gonna’, which appears to be taught in Taiwanese schools as an actual word and would not be used by a European.

If he is real, there are really only two possibilities:

  • GigaByte HR dept. is having some sort of huge childish laugh at this poor guy’s expense, and will probably still say NO even after he gets his 10,000 votes.
  • They’ve already said NO anyway, so as someone else suggested, it could be a Taiwanese way of saying “look kid, there’s not a hope in hell, so try elsewhere, OK?”.

The whole thing reminds me of this:

In either case, this is not “a dream”. I’ve worked with a lot of big Taiwanese companies (as a customer), and I have yet to find one that’s full of competent, happy people. Most of the employees are slugs who slump in their cubicles and play with FB until they’re told what to do (exception: Indians). Smaller companies - 20-50 employees - often seem to be run by a much higher calibre of people; they’d be a far better environment for someone who wants to think outside the box, and they’re no less likely to get ARC approval.

If he still wants to go for it, well, good luck to him, but going all-out to chase something that isn’t particularly desirable isn’t necessarily admirable. It could simply be irrational escalation.

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[quote=“vote4schlager”]Nin hao!

This is my first time posting here at Forumosa so please be a bit patient with me.

Chasing a dream in Taiwan

I am 30 years old, from Austria (Center Europe) and living in Taipei Taiwan.
In the past 4 months i sacrificed pretty much everything to reach my dream, working for Gigabyte.
After endless interviews, more then over 150 Emails, i came close but not close enough.
At the end i got rejected by 1 Person there who does not believe that I am able to create [quote]awareness[/quote].
So i came up with an idea…

I created the website http://www.vote4schlager.com where people can vote for me.

Call me a naive dreamer but i thought - and still think -, that if I am able to create a critical amount of votes on my website they gonna see that I am able to [quote]create awareness[/quote].

Please dear users, visit http://www.vote4schlager.com and click the vote button.

But I have to be honest, right now i cannot give you anything in return except my gratitude and maybe a warm and fuzzy feeling in your stomach because you helped me to get closer to reaching my dream.

Please help me out, go to my website, tell your friends and friends - friends about it, your lovers and your enemies, your small wifes and big wifes.

It literally would mean the world to me.

Sincere regards,

Chris S.[/quote]

So, I assume that you have some girl here that you want to marry? Why else would some bloke dream to come to Taiwan?

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Yes, that was my point. I’m still not convinced this guy is for real: his writing style is distinctly Taiwanese; for example, use of the verb ‘gonna’, which appears to be taught in Taiwanese schools as an actual word and would not be used by a European.

If he is real, there are really only two possibilities:

  • GigaByte HR dept. is having some sort of huge childish laugh at this poor guy’s expense, and will probably still say NO even after he gets his 10,000 votes.
  • They’ve already said NO anyway, so as someone else suggested, it could be a Taiwanese way of saying “look kid, there’s not a hope in hell, so try elsewhere, OK?”.

The whole thing reminds me of this:

In either case, this is not “a dream”. I’ve worked with a lot of big Taiwanese companies (as a customer), and I have yet to find one that’s full of competent, happy people. Most of the employees are slugs who slump in their cubicles and play with FB until they’re told what to do (exception: Indians). Smaller companies - 20-50 employees - often seem to be run by a much higher calibre of people; they’d be a far better environment for someone who wants to think outside the box, and they’re no less likely to get ARC approval.

If he still wants to go for it, well, good luck to him, but going all-out to chase something that isn’t particularly desirable isn’t necessarily admirable. It could simply be irrational escalation.[/quote]

I am not from Europe(Austria) since i use the verb “gonna” , like seriously mate? Seriously? It would make no sense if i would be taiwanese since then all my credibility would be gone. (Since i “claim” to be from Austria)

Ich kann aber von nun an aber auch auf Deutsch oder noch besser in meinem Wienerischen Dialekt reden, wuerde mi fett wundern wenn a taiwanesischa bazi werner urban style redn koa. Owa echt jetz, dram ned umadum(m).

I am from Europe and god knows i get reminded on that everyday when i pass by a bakery store and would love to get some “REAL” Black Bread/Dark Bread.

Anyways, Yes i am Austrian, 100% legit Schluchtenscheisser.

Thanks for all the concern regarding i should not waste my time, potential etc. I appreciate it, though, since i still gonna pull this project off, I would appreciate it even more if you would rather vote for me then taking ur time to post here and try to convince me how little i have to win.

Best Regards,

Chris S.

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Lots of people use the moronic sounding “gonna” because of the yankee influence :smiley:

I find this thread awkward too, but who knows. What I believe is that in any case Gigabyte sees this as a way of weird self-image promotion. I mean, people would think that to work for them is like to work for Google xDDDDDDDDDDD

Anyway, as I said… good luck with that. I have also contemplated to apply for some position at Gigabyte, but it’s not like I’m dying for it. And I wouldn’t like to be hired because I got lots of votes on the web xD. I mean, what kind of merit is it? What other people here have suggested here sounded more smart, in example: to come up with some marketing campaign or some advertising idea or something. This is indeed some sort of, but… I wouldn’t contract somebody based of this. Real life problems are not solved with things like this. Well, unfortunately, some of the problems are kinda solved with things like this instead of real solutions xD

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well, i shared your link. many of my friends are in Taiwan’s tech firms, so hope you will reach that 10,000 goal.

and I learned the word “gonna” when I was installing Simcity 2000 on my DOS 5.0 in Hamburg Germany. I had to look it up in a dictionary, only to find out it’s not in my dictionary.

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Just voted.
Hey, how could you not vote for Schlager - especially in this summer heat.
It’s very easy - only requires one click. (well, one click to go to the website http://www.vote4schlager.com and then another click on a vote button.)

Good luck Mr Lager.

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[quote=“almas john”]Just voted.
Hey, how could you not vote for Schlager - especially in this summer heat.
It’s very easy - only requires one click. (well, one click to go to the website http://www.vote4schlager.com and then another click on a vote button.)

Good luck Mr Lager.[/quote]

just curious, does Schlager share the same root as the English word Slugger and striker?

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Yes, we are living the dream, here in our Taiwan hardware maker cubicals. it’s everything I ever wanted it to be. Existing, thrilling.
Be damned careful though if the guy before you has left a bunch of old computer lying around. There might be mice living in them. Even if the guy was called Ariel, he was not squeaky clean. Was a girl actually, but then we had a guy called Ariel afterwards.

And yes, I clicked on the damned button :wink: