Today is a good day to die.
I didn't say for whom.
Posted on 01/30/2011 6:21:25 AM PST by lowbridge
“I’m ready to offer my services for ur project. Contact me at ur earliest convenience 2 arrange for interview. Thanks in advance for ur consideration.”
That’s a real cover letter from a real person claiming to be a real professional, who thinks she can get a real job. The letter was fielded by publicist and trend-spotter Richard Laermer, who gets so many of these he collects them and, when asked, forwards them to reporters for fun.
The letter “just made me shake my head till it nearly fell off.” But it isn’t rare. In fact, Laermer says, it’s typical.
“Lazy is the new professionalism,” he says.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
None of my three sisters, who are all in their fifties or sixties, know how to cook. Reason: my mother refused to teach them how to cook. And there was no home econ course in the parochial high school they attended. By the way, their husbands are all excellent cooks.
Sounds good to me, when’s dinner? LOL.
Good for you teaching your daughter to cook and choose food. My daughters started in the kitchen at 2 years of age by tearing the lettuce for the nightly salad. Daughter #1 will be the next Martha Stewart and Daughter #3 cooks exotic (Thai, Punjabi). Daughter #2 joined the Marines, so she is playing catch-up with her sisters, but since she married a second generation Mexican, she is learning to make all the fun foods like Menudo and scratch tamales (START WITH A PIG’S HEAD).
One of my pet peeves is the use of “there” to mean “their” or “they’re.” I even see that on this board.
I credit our state controlled “schools” for kids’ illiteracy & inability to write in any lanbguage other than TextSpeak.
loose for lose. I can usually tell the age of someone when I see two os for lose. It must be in common usage by the younger set.
And don’t forget your for you’re.
I actually liked it. It put a little challenge into the day.
That was over 20 years ago, when I was an assistant. Now I'm the boss and answer directly to the Board. Quite literally, I have the best job in the entire world! Great pay, make my own hours, interesting, and flat out FUN. And I get the pleasure of serving some of the hardest working folks I know.
Ultimately, though, I would not be in the position, nor would I be able to keep this position, if it weren't for my parents drilling into my head the importance of hard work. I've pulled all-nighters to get a project done just right, or juggled like a mad woman to meet the needs of my family and my members. Less than a week after my latest child was born, I was back on the job, making sure our 25th Anniversary Party went off perfectly.
A lazy non-starter would fall flat on their face.
Those 18-hour long work days during crunch time are balanced by easy breezy weeks during the summer slow time, when I can hit the pool with my kids. The 1:00 AM projects are balanced by attending my family's events.
In the end, it's the results that matter. Performing programs, happy members, big sponsorship numbers, a growing organization in a down economy. Half-hearted efforts are not good enough.
I am assuming that somewhere along the line these people were never told that it is unacceptable in the real world to use text shorthand for official business.
The article doesn’t actually talk about lazy job applicants. It talks about a trend toward “lazy chic”. I’m not into snuggies and such but as long as you don’t find it appropriate office wear, I’m not offended. Why not be comfortable?
I’m guessing this writer is typing about how horrified he is with America’s laziness while sipping on an instant coffee that somebody else pre-grinded so he didn’t have to pick and grind the beans himself and he might have had the audacity to add a dairy creamer where someone else milked the cow and processed it into a non-refrigerated form he could sprinkle into his instant coffee which he might have just popped into a microwave oven to heat up for 20 seconds because it got cold while he wrote about the horrors of slothfulness.
I don’t like housework either really.
Correct. Also remember in the early days of texting there was a character limit too (164? I cant remember) So thats why people abbreviated their words.
The problem that so many do’nt realize, is that there is a PROCESS to success, mainly through ahrd work, but learning the right skills to go along with it. In the entertainment industry, things either happen or they don’t. In the real world, it’s quite the opposite, there is a PROCESS to getting that great job and requires sacrifice at an early age.
You sound like my husband. He did the majority of the cooking for the first few years of our lives together and is a fabulous cook!
I think my being raised in the "TV Dinner" generation had something to do with it. Mom popped plastic covered plates into the oven and out came dinner.
I've moved away from all that. Started slow; making one meal over and over until I perfected it. Then branched out into other meals. Then experimenting, changing recipes. All fresh; I now hate frozen foods, hate cooking frozen foods.
It's like everything else; the more you do it, the easier it is. My favorite days are Sundays, where I can plan all week what I'm going to cook and take great care in preparing it.
Being taught to cook involves more than just putting something in a pot or pan. It starts with knowing when food is ripe and/or fresh. Why there are so many different cuts of meat and types of bread and cheese and why some things go together and some don’t.
It also involves knowing which vitamins and minerals are in which food and which of those break down during heating and which ones should be cooked to give a person the best benefit for their health. If a mom (ideally) or a dad knows these things because they were taught them, then it is very painless to teach it over the course of a childhood.
As some posters have said they didn’t learn the easy part (putting food in a pan and heating it)until they married, so unless they are dedicated to learning the other stuff and simultaneously teaching it to their kids, the next generation will grow up knowing less.
My mom didn’t garden, so I didn’t learn it. Starting from scratch, at my age, to learn backyard farming is overwhelming to me.
“This is because far too many people believe that the job exists to give them money. “
Another reason businesses move overseas.
I've had some great bosses, and not-so-great bosses. But I tried to learn something from each job I had, and build on my skills as I went along.
I've had some great bosses, and not-so-great bosses. But I tried to learn something from each job I had, and build on my skills as I went along.
I don’t see this writer working at anything other than typing words.
:)
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