He says goodbye
The fog obscures as /
he says goodbye to his love. /
He sees clearly now.
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“He says goodbye”
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The Job Application
A new year had begun, and the blathering idiot resolved to find a job.
The blathering idiot applies for a job
He saw a Help Wanted sign in the window of a building and went inside to apply.
He sat at the table with the form and did his best to fill it out. The first line said: Name.
He wrote: I have one.
Sex.
He wrote: Yes
Place of birth.
He wrote: A hospital, though I don’t remember the exact event. This is what I have been told.
Put your hometown here:
It won’t fit.
References:
Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary, Gregg’s Reference Manual, Chicago Manual of Style.
What attracted you to this position?
The sign in the window.
Salary expectations:
To get paid regularly.
What sort of challenges are you looking for?
I am not looking for challenges. I am looking for a job.
When he was finished, the blathering idiot looked over the questionnaire one last time. There was one question he had skipped, and he still did not have an answer for it. He looked at it again, first staring at it and then looking away. He felt he should write something, but what?
The blathering idiot was about to give up and return the form incomplete, when it struck him what he should write. He had seen this exact wording on similar pages in other documents. He had never fully understood what it meant until now.
The question was: Use the blank side of this form to provide any additional information.
To which the blathering idiot wrote: This side intentionally left blank.
Filed under blathering idiot, Job Hunting, satire, word play, words, writing
Two bits of two-bit application advice
One, don’t eat spicy food the evening before an interview. I generally like spicy food and ate some good, very spicy Thai food with a friend the evening before an interview with a placement firm. Normally it is no problem, but I guess nerves being what they are, I kept feeling a “fire down below” during the interview process, and this was on a very cold winter morning. The office I was in was floor to ceiling glass windows on one side with some degree of condensation on it, so you would think the extra “heat” I was packing would have been welcomed by me. Not really. But don’t worry, I did not make unwanted noises or odors. But I was relieved when the interview was over and the “fire down below” began subsiding.
Two, make copies of the answers to the written questions you are asked. I have made several applications online, and the information used on one online application can generally be used in other applications. At least for me, it saves having to completely re-engineer an answer. It also gives you a chance to review what you wrote and possibly improve on it the next time around.
Filed under interview, Job Hunting, writing
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