Fashionistas you have arrived 3-25-03 - 10-3-03

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
Amen. Besides, as several associates here have discovered to their sorrow, some the bigwigs may have far more concern for their menials' feelings than for your continued employment.

Ditto. I've said before that a person who cannot, without browbeating, screaming, or threatening, persuade a secretary to put em's work at the top of the pile has no business being in a profession in which we persuade others to adopt our view of things.

Of course, to the extent DS has a tacitly dismissive attitude toward valuing menials' feelings over the associates, I disagree unless it relates to something mild, like a misperceived snub. Being actually abusive to a subordinate is grounds for firing for multiple good reasons, potential liability among them, and I'm secretly pleased to see someone like that go.

Originally posted by Mister_Ruysbroeck
First, what did we decide was a brazillian? Completely bare?

Second, how many of you really have brazillians?

Third, answer DS's question if you're a home-waxer, what do you use?

I homewaxed for a bit using the Bliss stuff. It was

1) a fucking mess
2) fucking painful
3) not that much fucking cheaper than the real deal.

It would work if you just did an old school bikini wax and trimmed the rest (guys is that not acceptable anymore?) bc the outer hair yankig doesnt hurt quite so much.

This asian gal I know does herself and I asked how she did it. She buys drug store shit but she also said that asians had much finer hair than us whiteys (how does she know?) so it was easier.

[lawyer_princess]

We had this conversation some time back, and I was pretty much alone in saying that personal interests don't belong on resumes.

Here's what I posted:

It seems that I am being considered by some people on this board to be stuffy because I don’t like to see items unrelated to the job on a resume. Just to prove you wrong, and because I am inspired by Lady Greediva’s myriad accomplishments, I am updating my resume as follows. Please let me know if you find any of these items inappropriate.

Lawyer Princess
La Palace, Third Tier City

Education: First tier college in first tier city first tier suburb , second tier law school in first tier city

Experience: Second tier firm in third tier city; first tier company in third tier city

Honors: voted Most Likely to Procrastinate; Nevada State Schmoozing Champion; Guinness World Record Holder for Most Consecutive Times Telling a Four Year Old She Is Not Getting a Sleeping Beauty Barbie Because She Already Has Enough Barbies; Three Time Recipient of the Buy 12 Dozen Bagels, Get 13th Dozen Free Award; The Parking Karma Medal (for the uncanny ability to find a parking space near the entrance even when the lot is full)

Hobbies: commuting; straightening up; making fun of the local news; shopping the sales; inserting tab A into slot B; buying Barbies; organizing photos; laundry; buying new makeup and throwing away old, unused makeup; enjoying fine whisky; perusing the Yahoo clubs.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by Ritz
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.

I have interviewed someone for a lateral (i.e., not even a summer associate) position who had high school awards on her resume.

How she made it past the screening process is a mystery to me. I think my written evaluation was that, after she left my office, I stared at the guest chair where she had been sitting for 15 minutes and found it far more interesting in her absence.

Is "asshat" past tense for "is shit" or "to be shit"?

How does "has shatten" fit into the mix? Or "was been shitten"?

Enquiring minds. . .

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by infinitytrack
This is actually an amusing poll topic. If you were submitting your resume to PLF's firm, what would you put in the Personal Interests section?

Personal Interests: Metro-sexuality; couture; the latest Rave drugs; working mind-numbing hours on subjects of legal interest

Taking really bad photographs of family and zoo animals, buying history and philosophy books that I think I still have the patience to read and throwing them back on the shelf as soon as the new issue of Esquire comes in the mail, cooking meals elaborate enough that my wife won't realize I'm using all kinds of ingredients that I'm not supposed to eat anymore, and trying to get certain posters to believe that I really am an amoral sleazeball and would happily take a horizontal romp with them. And spending time with my family.

Originally posted by Ritz
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.

I had my personal interests on my resume and some asshole headhunter told me to remove them.

I am still at old job.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
So why don't you stop being so damn snobby about it?

You are right. I have no cause to complain about the topics people choose to address here, or the manner in which they address them. I should be more accepting, and kinder, and just . . . just . . . nicer.

Like you.

(Cool. I actually typed that with a straight face. I was wondering if I would make it.)

Asshat.

(Slave told me that's the new, fashionable phrase.)

Originally posted by paigowprincess
This asian gal I know does herself and I asked how she did it. She buys drug store shit but she also said that asians had much finer hair than us whiteys (how does she know?) so it was easier.

Is this the same friend for whom lusts?

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by infinitytrack
For me, I would not risk being friendly with people that one must kill before climbing over their dead bodies on the way to the top.

Dude. You are missing half the fun.

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
I agree that is was funny to me for the first time every. Although I found it funny on beer.

If you don't find the show funny, then why do you continue to watch it? I believe this might be bilmore's point.

and tying threads together, The Office was HIGHlarious last night. I need Tivo for BBC.

And I would put selfwaxing as a hobby, or is it an interest?

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by infinitytrack
Will & Grace never gets me in that kind of mood unfortunately. Maybe next time I should watch it with Taxwonk, a gallon of champagne and a defibrillator.

No need for the last item. I had my own installed. Kind of like a bespoke suit, only the suit seldom leaves a scar.

Tax(ok, I've made my monthly fashion reference)wonk

[c2ed]

Originally posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone
http://www.arkansasnbc.com/Global/story.asp?S=1279826

Willie Nelson has sent bandanas and whiskey to the Texas legislators holed-up in an Oklahoma hotel. That rawks. I wonder if he also sent them weed?

I love that the story talks of "G-O-P-dominated districts."

C(hope the delegates are having fun at the Y-M-C-A)deuced

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by ThrashersFan
Whatever. I guess I am an asshat because I think personality matters should be left to the interview and it is unprofessional to place them on a resume.

No, I don't think it matters if interests are on a resume or not. But the whole "the only thing I care about is how many consecutive hours the person can stay awake and still research and write coherently" schtick is unconvincing to me.

I hate people in general and would never waste the energy to distinguish.

Hey, I have a healthy respect for your misanthropy, and I don't have a problem with people who have no interest in socializing with co-workers. I have a problem with people who have no interest. As your co-worker, I have to sometimes work late with you, have meals with you, travel with you, work weekends with you. If you are a mind-numbing personality vacuum who can speak of nothing other than how many hours you billed and the fascinating bit of dicta you recently came across, you are going to make an already-painful job infinitely more painful. As it turns out, I do actually socialize (to some extent) with my co-workers (some of them). I went on a multi-day, out-of-state bike trip with one of my co-workers last summer. Being friends with this co-worker makes it not only easier to work with her - I also trust her and know that she has my back around here. The same can be said to varying degrees of others around here. Some of my co-workers have seriously helped me out in tough situations and have gone above and beyond the call of duty doing so, and they have done so because I am friends with them. So even from a purely Machiavellian standpoint, it does not hurt to have some people you like and trust in the office.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
If you don't find the show funny, then why do you continue to watch it? I believe this might be bilmore's point.

I don't keep watching it. Sometimes it's on the TV and I don't leave the room. Beer makes many things tolerable. Ask Less.