1494last day of spring

Jun. 21, 2003

 

 

We went to Bull Creek last night. Then came back and had a neopolitan
ice cream bar & a glass of port. Sounds like good solstice ritual to
me :)

Today I am just hanging around waiting to hear from Rio. I am
wondering if I should go buy something to wear tonight to Elysium, or
just wear the same ol' stuff.

I am fat, I don't really wanna try on clothes.

And I have a whole closet of clothes, despite the whole 'nothing to
wear' whining I'm doing.

I made pancakes and coffee this a.m. for breakfast.

This worries me:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?
tmpl=story&cid=583&ncid=583&e=2&u=/nm/20030620/od_nm/life_employees_dc

'Bitch Boss' Remark No Way to Win a Job
Fri Jun 20, 8:23 AM ET Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo!



LONDON (Reuters) - One called her boss a "bitch from hell" while
another admitted "lying through his teeth" at interview.



Both the British job candidates were -- not surprisingly -- turned
down after prospective employers discovered their candid comments on
a public Web site.


The London recruitment firm which revealed the cases warned on Friday
that employers were increasingly scouring the Internet to check what
candidates are really like behind the rosy image they seek to project
in CVs and interviews.


"One media sales executive aged 24 had a job offer withdrawn after a
quick check on www.friendsreunited.co.uk revealed that the applicant
only planned to stay in London for a few months before embarking on a
world tour," London's Media Contacts said.


As well as missing out on the jobs they were aiming for, the
frankness of some also cost them their current employment.


"Another candidate, an account manager, 26, for a well-known PR
agency was forced to resign when she described her boss as a "Bitch
from Hell" and her employer as "a bunch of cowboys," Media Contacts
said.


In a third case, a senior sales executive seeking a move also ended
up getting fired after boasting to the Friends Reunited site, set up
to keep old school pals in touch, that he lied at interview and his
CV was "a masterpiece of fiction."


"People should think carefully what they say about employers -- past
and present -- and what they say about themselves in any public
domain," Media Contacts' recruitment consultant Gordon Cherrington
said. "Having fun...is a good thing, though negativity in any form,
rarely reflects well on the writer."


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Also, apparently Katress on d'land was demoted at work for
internet 'abuse' and had a big ol' shitstorm when her coworkers
discovered her d'land diary.

Time to cut my losses & not post anything personal publicly anymore.
Or lock it to friends-only on LJ when I'm bitching about work.

Now whether or not to lock or delete old entries...hmm...