Setting yourself apart.
 

Memo to File:

Female law students interviewing with PLF please add the following to their resume:

Interests
Drinking homebrew, smoking hash, making fun of co-workers and sleeping with my superior.

SETTING YOURSELF APART
 

My general rule is that if anyone ten years out of college still has their fraternity accomplishments conspicuously posted on the front of the resume - it goes right into the shredder. Also, I can have a distasteful candidate out of my office in under 15 minutes.

SETTING YOURSELF APART
 

What fraternity accomplishments? Banged x chicks? Century club member 4 years running?

I think that would be more entertaining reading than the usual "interests include dog-walking, sleeping and taking big dumps"

Setting yourself apart.
 

See, I look at it from a different angle. I don't give a flying fuck what this person does in their spare time - are they going to do my work the way I want it done?

You like to travel? Good - go down the hall and get my coffee for me before the meeting where I give you your assignments.

You like to read? Better. Here - hope you like reading the 1500 boxes for diligence.

You like your family? Excellent. We'll leave some room on your desk for pictures of them, and will even have a summer picnic where you can see them in sunlight.

C(hmph. some partner you'd make.)deuced

Taking v. Giving
 

Unless a glass coffee table was involved*, I don't think any of us has "taken" a dump. Why isn't the phrase "giving big dumps"?












*See, e.g., resume of NoMore, Slave under the Fraternity Accomplishments Section

Setting yourself apart.
 

I assume that "spending time with family" isn't going to curry favor with you as an interest, then.:D

Cancel the interests and use the extra resume line to brag about what you'll do for my organization. I'll find out if you're a well-rounded person when I interview you.

P(actually prefer well rounded, as anyone who can't find a life worth living outside a law library is highly suspect)J

Requium
 

Super Mario was done last year when he had no response to McEwan on the Champs-Elysees.

But aren't there still several sprinters' stages left?

Setting Yourself Apart
 

I was trying to find a sample resume - I think that I really did shred them. As I recall, they list things like "fraternity president," "head of pledge class," etc. If that is the highlight of your life, we don't need you here.

Singh apologizes to Sorenstam
 

Some sports are better to watch when the women are playing, some when the men are playing, and some it doensn't matter. A huge generalization here, but when grace predominates, the women are more watchable and in timed events it doesn't matter.

Some examples:
women's gymnastics, figure skating

men's basketball, hockey

For some reason I also find women's soccer more fun to watch. Perhaps there is less diving/bicthing to the ref in the women's game. The women just seem to go about their business.

equal
swimming, running, skiing, speed skating

I also think tennis is equal. But it's pretty player specific. I have no interest in watching Hewitt or Clijster play, but I would watch Serena or Agassi.

Why is men's golf more fun to watch? Probably becasue it's got a richer sense of history (courses, players, records), that the anouncers always shove in our faces. We're told we should care that Mickelson has never won a major, and that Byron Nelson won 11 tournaments in a row, and for some reason we actually do care. A lot of the reasons people watch golf have very little to do with seeing the ball go in the hole.

Maybe women's golf is currently establishing it own history that will make it more watchable in the future. Or maybe the vast majority of people who watch golf are men, and men like to watch men golf rather than women.

Skip if you're sick of golf talk
 

So many images come to mind. Is this you, Thurgreed?

http://www.digikitten.com/playhousev...py/12grogn.gif

Or do you, Less, and Spooky look more like this?
http://www.digikitten.com/playhousev...uppy/marsh.gif

Perhaps what you are waiting for is this -- :flag: or :bow: or :cry:
because you think you've done this -- :whip:

We know you don't want one of these: :hug:

And you couldn't possibly have this in mind: :rofl:

In the end, though, perhaps the best way to sum up the golf thread is with this -- :sleep:

Requium
 

Domina was perfect on today's stage -- absolutely flawless -- and Cipo could not get around Lombardi.

Phil and Paul were predicting he'll take the "express train to Milan" but I hope he will remain in contention at least until Tuscany.

Even(glad they must wear helmets now)Odds

Edited to add: Mario ended last year's season with a dominant sprint performance in the Vuelta, and then a victory in a little thing called the world championships in October. He hasn't raced in the TdF since he left Saeco for first Soap & Water and now Domina. Given his performance in the Giro, it's doubtful Domina will get an invite. McEwan beat Zabel, if I remember correctly.

Setting yourself apart.
 

Do people seriously put personal interests on their resumes?

Setting yourself apart.
 

What the hell kind of candidates are you getting? The fucking Mickey Mouse Club? If I received a resume with a "Personal Interests" section I would throw it in the trash. What makes that person think I give a flying fuck about their interests. I don't care about any interest you may have except doing the job I am looking to hire someone for. I want to see your credentials and will feel-out your personality in an interview where I MIGHT ask about personal interests. Come to think of it, you can impress me by having a "Personal Interests" section and putting NONE so that I know you will have no issues about slaving your ass off for me. Personal Interests, you are a lawyer for fuck's sake so you don't have time for personal interests. What is with kids these days?

Edited to say that I should have read the other responses before repeating essentially what everyone else fucking said. Shit.

Requium
 

I played poker, drank Bushmills and listened to Maceo Parker and Willie Nelson. No TV. Plus I perused Outside magazine's gear guide and thought about buying a new daypack. TITS!

Requium
 

Speaking of cycling, but in the leisurely "let's cruise along on a flat surface then stop for a bottle of wine, some cheese, a baguette and some grapes" category, I have seen my dream 500-lb. one-speed steel cruiser at a bike show, and it is a pearly pink schwinn with a martini-and-cocktail-shaker design.

But I purchased Tangerine Sparkle Handbag-from-Heaven instead.