Lies I told on my CVI've not had to lie on my CV (resumé for all you 'merkins) for a while, but way back when I was a teenager and C was a cool programming language, I listed it as one of my skills.
My new boss was remarkably nice about me spending my first week's employment reading a "how to program in C" book.
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chthonic, Thu 6 Jul 2006, 15:55)
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I didn't lie. I was just unqualified.My current job involves termites (termites|setimret, imagine that!). Problem is, I had never seen a termite before I interviewed for the job.
On the interview, they took me out to the woods to show me their field site. I kicked over a piece of wood, and there were all these white bugs crawling around.
I looked nervously at my hosts, and I thought "I'll bet those are termites."
One of them said "Oh, look, there's a soldier running around."
"Ah, yes," I said, "look at him go!"
I had no idea what a soldier termite looked like.
I've been on the job for five years now.
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setimret likes his metaphors mixed, not stirred, Thu 6 Jul 2006, 16:22,
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