“you’re irreplaceable” is a nice compliment, but not to be taken literally
I spent the morning reviewing résumés for the Controller position I will soon be vacating. The job has been on Craig’s List for just over a week, and there are 114 applications so far – from ex-CFO/CEOs, VPs of Finance, stock analysts and day traders, investment bankers, Ivy league and MBA graduates, mortgage brokers, entrepreneurs, a truckload of real estate agents, and one earth-mover.
Carmen is discussing.
Carmen 10:55 pm on October 8, 2009 Permalink
Wow. I’m familiar with this uncomfortable position and mainly I find it pretty entertaining. I don’t have the same kind of dedication as you do and also realized the limitations that were already in place – like, yeah right, good luck trying to find someone better than you at doing your job. Its pretty much impossible. Sorry to burst your bubble on that.
What I am most intrigued by is this use of punctuation/
Whats that about? I have not gotten the memo that a backslash is now a period. Is that a secret code for something? Hold on, let me google it….
Ok, I think its some sort of programming thing, I found this:
“it has an easy mnuemonic: If a back slash means concatenate the next line onto this one then forward slash means force the line break here.”
And I’m assuming you are wondering what concatenate means:
without getting all complicated, it means “linked together”. So I think what these nerds are trying to tell you is that they are wicked smahhht. Too smart for their own good. When you tell them that they didn’t get the position (or even an interview) tell them to use a period next time.