Dear Sirs:
Thank you for your recent job offer. You’ll enjoy my direct, no-nonsense approach to my work beginning right now. My experience with my previous employer’s collapse compels me to ask a few quick questions about your business to qualify your offer.
1. Is your accounting department encouraged to be “creative?”
2. Have you stolen company or [...]
Entries from April 30th, 2009
Job counteroffer? Why not?
April 30th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Finding a job, Humor
Tags:finding a job·funny·money
Gossip Zappers
April 15th, 2009 · No Comments · Coping, Humor, Losing a job
“The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.” Oscar Wilde
In case you weren’t sure, the neighbors are buzzing about you. Your company is gone and they know it. While you’d like to pretend nothing happened to you, face it. Your job is gone. The neighbors want to know what happened [...]
Tags:Coping·dignity·Losing a job
Too Many Members
April 8th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Coping, Losing a job, New members
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” C.S. Lewis
I was shocked and saddened by the number of companies I added to the Memorial Garden (below) during routine blog maintenance today. What has happened to all these former employees? What about their families? Their sanity? Mortgage payments? Health insurance? The extent of [...]
Tags:dead company·failure·finding a job·Losing a job·New members
The Radioactive Resume
April 6th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Finding a job
I hadn’t planned on writing a resume ever again, even after my company died. With my background and contacts I expected my choice of interviews, a warm reception, and eager offers.
Dumb. I waited for employers to call. I didn’t acknowledge that the market was saturated with job seekers at all levels. Demand faded after the [...]
Tags:finding a job·resume
