I suspect that some job applications are actually psychological studies to see just how far subjects will go in pursuit of a job. Be especially careful if they ask you to deliver near-lethal electric jolts to other applicants....
Xander: Look who's got a bad case of Dark Prince envy. Dracula: Leave us. Xander: No, we're not going to "Leabbb you." And where'd you get that accent, Sesame Street? "One, Two, Three - three victims! Maw ha ha!"
'Lessons'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Theodosia - Jan 27, 2009 12:50:30 pm PST #3830 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Pete, Husband of Jilli - Jan 27, 2009 12:52:59 pm PST #3831 of 30000
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd
shrift - Jan 27, 2009 1:00:18 pm PST #3832 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Okay, this job application wants me to upload a copy of my diploma.
Dude, I didn't even have to do that for my job. Transcript, sure, but not actual diploma. Which I think is hanging on a wall back in Michigan.
brenda m - Jan 27, 2009 1:05:04 pm PST #3833 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
That's insane. And unless you're applying within academia, even the transcript is pretty over the top, especially if you've been out of school for a few years.
Kathy A - Jan 27, 2009 1:10:16 pm PST #3834 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Car meets church.
OMG! Talk about your flying cars. And here I was thinking it was going to be just a car driving into the side of a church at street level.
Which is what happened at St. Mary Nativity church in Joliet back when I was in high school, but that church was only the width of the sidewalk away from the street, so having a car drive into it wasn't that unusual. We did make jokes about it since St. Mary's was notorious for having short masses (20-25 minutes, usually) which were nicknamed "drive-in masses"--the driver apparently took the nickname seriously!
Pete, Husband of Jilli - Jan 27, 2009 1:16:47 pm PST #3835 of 30000
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd
Kathy, I added an extra comment to clarify the rather aerial nature of the collision.
Or maybe to make you look craxy, YMMV.
lori - Jan 27, 2009 1:30:26 pm PST #3836 of 30000
LEGO Inaugural scene. Updated for the First Family fashions. [link]
Kathy A - Jan 27, 2009 1:30:32 pm PST #3837 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Why, how adorable of you to make me look craxy!
It is a pretty cool picture--I wonder just how drunk the driver was to get the car that airborne.
Kathy A - Jan 27, 2009 1:32:20 pm PST #3838 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Updated for the First Family fashions.
They've even got Aretha in there with her hat!
Ginger - Jan 27, 2009 1:36:53 pm PST #3839 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I think it was the combination of keeping me in the dark and the gratuitous comment about my entire salary depending on the magazine that did it (at least as far as I'm concerned).
It's a shame that corporate culture frowns on doing the dance of neener, neener down the halls.
I looked at some jobs that were equivalent to mine in SF a few years ago. The pay was 20% higher at most, while housing costs would have been a minimum of triple Atlanta's. Several companies have moved corporate headquarters from California or the NYC area to Atlanta because they had trouble finding people willing to be promoted to the corporate headquarters because of the cost of housing. My old employer has had that problem on a statewide basis. The pay scale was the same throughout the state, but for the cost of my small elderly ranch in Atlanta, people in south Georgia could have a 10-acre farm and stable, plus a five-minute commute.