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How do I convince my friend not to lie in her CV ?

Ha! I accept! ;-)

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A Nanny From Hell..

Ah, yes, the solution! Here it is!

1. Be brimming over with self-confidence. Don't worry, most of us don't have enough of it. We fake it. It's true!

2. Set your sights high. Do not compromise on character. Don't even date someone whom you could not see as a possible life mate.

3. Don't reveal too much of yourself at first. Let the guy earn your trust.

4. Don't go overboard. Bend over backwards in the initial stages, and he'll think you are desperate--that is the kiss of death.

5. Be a complete person in your own right. Don't look for someone to "complete" you.

6. Never date someone because you feel sorry for him, believing him to be an underdog. If he's an underdog, it's probably for a reason.

7. If you see red flags, heed them--and cut things off immediately. Trust your gut. Your gut is almost always right.

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How do I convince my friend not to lie in her CV ?

The hiring process isn't really fair these days. Now, I'm not condoning outright lying on a resume or curriculum vitae; however, we now live in a world in which lazy human resource drones use computers to select "keywords" from resumes and CVs, and if you don't have enough of those keywords, your resume/CV goes into the trash without anyone looking at it. It's also a fact that companies are taking longer to hire new employees--again, it's because of the lazy drones in the HR department. If you want to get hired, you have to get your resume/CV out of the hands of the drones--where it is yellowing in one of their inboxes, or languishing in one of their computer hard drives--and get it in front of a hiring manager. Lastly, when those "job descriptions" are drawn up for new positions, the HR drones are writing them up for the "purple squirrel," not realizing that after someone with 35 years' experience leaves, you're not going to find a replacement with 35 years' experience--plus a whole bunch of other requirements that have nothing to do with the job. I think all organizations should fire everyone in their HR departments about once every year, so those HR types will end up on the street and in the unemployment line. Then, when and if they do find another HR job, they will have gained some very valuable experience in filling jobs--from the perspective of the job seeker!

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A Nanny From Hell..

Girls, I have to tell you something, and I believe that Docteur Ralph--and many others--will back me up

In the past, you wouldn't look twice at a decent guy. You found decent guys boring. You wanted pizzazz, panache. So you only accepted dates from the bad boys. You never gave any of the good guys any sign that you were interested. Again, they were boring and unimaginative.

Most of you ended up with one of the bad guys. You found them sexy--so you ended up having a kid or two. Then you made an amazing discovery: the bad guys were not very supportive or good father material. Most of you ended up divorced, and single mothers. Now you are able to appreciate the good guys--and most of you want one, but some of you still chase after those guys in the lower 70% of the male spectrum.

You might want to take a swing at me, but if you will think about it, you will see that I am right. I have seen these scenarios play out time and again. I have seen friends get a woman away from an abusive boyfriend or husband--only to see her go right back to him. Am I wrong?

Women are not as smart about men as they used to be. Thirty or forty years ago, women had a set of criteria that men had to meet. Men who didn't make the cut--well, they ended up without a woman, or they inevitably met up with one of the skank-types. Then--then--women started seeing a boyfriend or husband as a status symbol. If their girl friends had a guy, they had to have one, too. It was rather like accessorizing--like having a purse or a scarf. Their criteria went out the window, because in this "new culture," women were seen as being defective in some way if they couldn't get or keep a boyfriend or husband. The bad guys exploited this paradigm shift to the hilt.

I am still seeing it play out around me. Decent guys don't stand a chance unless the woman has had some hard life lessons taught to her. There are exceptions, of course--but by and large this is the rule!

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Whatโ€™s the point.

Occam's Razor reigns supreme!

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What happens after a death (practical not spiritual).

Daft Puck. Sorry. I was (and still am) an editor for years!

Miss her a lot!

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One question a day...

Yesterday I was watching "The Roy Rogers Show" from 1952!

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My cat died today and I burst into tears at a work meeting.

Employeล•s need to come out of tve 19th century. Losing a pet is the same as losing a family member. You cannot just go back to work!

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Whatโ€™s the point.

When a job creates more frustration than fulfillment, it is indeed time to look for a new job!

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trying to control life is like chasing individual bubbles like kids often do in fields, you try and grab every moment and tie them together forgetting that bubbles pop when you touch them.

All in this world is . . . vanity!

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