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Now Hiring! Prestige Jobs Available at Ann-S-Thesia! (NOT!!!)
Now, I'm the last person in the world to deny the existence of "The Ugly American." But Americans are by no means the sole offenders in the RUDE category. I have lost track of the unsolicited resumes I have received in my inbox that have come from people in former eastern-bloc or middle eastern countries. Come on, why not send out an email first *asking* if I am *interested* in receiving a resume? (Because as you'll see, there's absolutely NOTHING on my main site that says "Now Hiring!" or "Jobs Available at Ann-S-Thesia!") But no, they send the resume with large graphic attachment, unsolicited. Now some people think this is a compliment toward my ability to look like a professional web development company. Well, it's only a compliment if it feels like a compliment, and it doesn't. I can't even afford to pay someone to cut my hair or repair my car or house (we do ALL those things ourselves) let alone hire someone to work for me as an assistant designer or something. I mean, they'd have no work to do! I'd have to put them to work doing dishes or mopping the floors, that is, if I even had money to pay them. Aaargh. It's just rude.
When my mom visted Czechoslovakia back in '85, she encountered some relatives that wanted her to send them blank VHS tapes so that they could record movies on their VCR. She and I really had a laugh over that one...neither one of us owned a VCR! They also wanted her to send them other stuff that they had a hard time getting over there, stuff that my mom wouldn't even treat herself to! What some people in other countries just don't get is that not all Americans live like the way they're portrayed on TV shows, in fact MOST don't! When my grandmother immigrated to this country in 1920 in hopes of being able to send back money to her family, she worked as a maid. What was someone who spoke no English supposed to do? Maybe she wasn't better off coming here, I don't know. My grandfather immigrated from England because he thought America was the land of opportunity and he was tired of working as a "Clark" (clerk) in England's class system. Instead, he worked odd jobs, like laundry delivery driver. Yeah, real land of opportunity.
This land is not made of milk and honey...it's made of non-dairy creamer and high fructose corn syrup. I wish people would understand that (and stop sending me their resumes).
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Speaking of high fructose corn syrup, what the heck is Campbell's soup doing with their product? We ate a can of Campbell's Tomato Soup last night and it was practically inedible. I had to over-salt it. High fructose corn syrup was one of the new main ingredients. Gaaack. Do people actually like this sweet food? I can't stand it. No more Campbells. I hate this trend toward adding sweetness to food that doesn't need it, like soups and salad dressings. It makes one have to over-salt to compensate, and that's not good either. It's getting really hard to find edible food. Stan and I have started making our own bleu cheese salad dressing (bleu cheese, half-and-half, mayonaisse, garlic...no sweeteners) because it's impossible to find a ready-made product that isn't sweet-tasting.
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I get weird resumes, too. Sometimes it's just short emails without even a name or thank you at the end.
Wondering if maybe people are doing this with the expectation that it's fulfilling unemployment quotas. I've always thought that might be it.
Posted by hoopty @ 02/19/2002 03:45 PM CST
I'm also seeking employment at Ann and Stan, I can do housework, play guitar, sing nice and noisy songs and strip, as you can see I'm a multitalent ;o) Hire me!
I would take it as a compliment if anyone would work with me - or do anything else with me for that matter ;o)
Posted by Nick Aliasso @ 02/19/2002 05:13 PM CST
Back in the old days in the RayGun era when I was officially unemployed, (as opposed to freelancing and working on one's own business which is a euphemistic way of saying one is unemployed, without the benefits) I could send out as many resumes as I wanted, but only *physical* contact in person counted toward the quota, i.e., interviews or physically going to the place of business. But I don't know what it's like in Uzbekistan or wherever these people are coming from.
And Nico, I heard Ann and Stan pay lousy.
Posted by Ann @ 02/20/2002 09:43 AM CST