March 2006

Jill Carroll is free

Jill Carroll has been released…at last….thank God. 

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Dear Stanford House…you suck

I got my pro forma turndown from Stanford House.  “Dear Candidate….blah, blah, blah, blah…”   I’m now trying to decide if I should be mature and just forget the whole thing, or give in to my desire to vent my displeasure.  Here’s what I would say in a vent: Dear HR Person from Stanford House, Thank […]

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Interview update…

…there isn’t any.  I figured both, but especially the last, couldn’t work quickly enough to scrape me off their plates, metaphorically.  But perhaps I’m being presumptuous to assume that they fully follow a formal HR protocol and do the ‘thanks but no thanks’ response. 

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The Hell of the job interview…

I had today the two worst job interviews of my long, heretofore somewhat successful life.  Not two of the.  But the worst.   I don’t know if I can even go into what made them so awful, especially since it’s almost midnight now (okay, it’s 11 p.m., but that’s close).  Since I’m tired and p.o.ed and […]

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So That’s Why the Brits are Sometimes Fools…

  I was reading a short profile of mystery author, Ruth Rendell , in which she was being asked about her dual occupations of best-selling mystery author and member of the House of Lords.  The focus of the piece was the fact that this woman, who is 76, does so damn much, so well and at two so […]

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