Greetings and Salutations!
I wish to to thank you all at Gresespot for providing this forum. As so many before me, I felt alienated, as though I alone had escaped...
The following are questions I was actually asked at one time or another in job interview settings. The last is perhaps the most poignant:
"I see you have lived in IA, WA, MS, LA and now NM. Were you on some kind of 60's roadtrip?"
-No but I always wanted to travel and see as much of the country as I could...
"You have a great variety of previous experience. Can you tell me why you think working as a chimney sweep would make you qualified for a management position?"
-Did I tell you I also clean windows.?
"We are unable to establish a credit history for you."
-Oh. I have paid cash for everything for the last 6 years...
"We would like to offer you a job, but frankly your references did not check out."
-Oh. I think they are all in Ohio, but will be back by the first of September...
"I see you went to college at *** in the 70's. And I can't help but notice there is a 10 year gap on your resume. Were you in som e kind of trouble?"
-Out of the mouths of babes....
Again, thank all of you so much. Many tears of laughter and release have been shed here as a result of the communications concerned.
Perhaps will post more!
One of the almost 4,000
egilkent