Posted on 01/30/2011 6:21:25 AM PST by lowbridge
“I’m ready to offer my services for ur project. Contact me at ur earliest convenience 2 arrange for interview. Thanks in advance for ur consideration.”
That’s a real cover letter from a real person claiming to be a real professional, who thinks she can get a real job. The letter was fielded by publicist and trend-spotter Richard Laermer, who gets so many of these he collects them and, when asked, forwards them to reporters for fun.
The letter “just made me shake my head till it nearly fell off.” But it isn’t rare. In fact, Laermer says, it’s typical.
“Lazy is the new professionalism,” he says.
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I grew up in a family with a housekeeper. I taught myself to cook as a newlywed with the aid of The Joy of Cooking.
Both my children, now grown and married themselves, are real foodies, who eat and cook adventurously.
So many people would feel so much more secure if they had more to put on their resume than just a college degree, which says very little. An actual certification would look so much better and quite a few from diverse areas would look even better. I say that people should diversify professionally with their skill set and they’ll be just fine in the long run.
>>OMG WTF LOL. NO YOU CAN’T HAS APPT. KTHXBAI.<<
You win!
Sounds delish! My Daughter #2 is in San Antonio.
“It depends on what skills you have. Their are still some fields where highly skilled employees are in demand”
True. But had the poster been in that category, he would have said—as many programmers did in Silicon Valley during the 90’s—”Hey dude, I got a life. I’m outta here.”
“I’m shocked by the number of middle class people I know who have someone clean their houses.”
If someone earning $50 hourly can hire someone for $10 hourly to clean their house (or mow their lawn or clean their clothes), then electing to do these chores themselves costs society 5 times as much (in terms of the value of resources used) than if they buy such labor. Thus, what you view as sloth may actually be common sense contributing to efficiency.
You might well legitimately argue that such an individual won’t work any of the extra time saved by farming out chores. Fair enough. But then you have to ask what’s the value of time spent with a family? For people in that income bracket, it likely exceeds $10 an hour. Pretend it’s $30 an hour. Once again, giving up that time (even though unpaid) to do chores reduces the welfare/happiness of such individuals and their families. So how is protecting that time by buying out services that can be easily and cheaply done by others a sign of sloth?
Most of us don’t grow our own food, bake our own bread, make our own clothes etc. Is this seriously a sign of sloth, or progress?
I, however, am the lazy American about which we are talking. I still sew; but I seldom really cook. At the end of my workday, I'd rather drive-by than cook. It was, however, fun when I had someone to cook for.
I used to work for an insurance company that allowed employees to walk around barefoot...I don’t mean women slipping off their heels to walk around in hose-enclosed feet...I mean frickin’ barefoot. Late 90’s, so I can imagine what the place is like now...
I have been in workplace environments where basic competence was considered “intimidating behaviour”.
I was at a training session for an accounting database used at one location. During the part covering the account set-up and login, I inquired if strong password were required. I got called on the carpet since I was allegedly suggesting that cuss words be used as passwords.
A strong password does not resemble any word, name, or placename, has a minimum length, and is a combination of upper and lower case letters, numbers, and symbols, and is a common accepted practice in computer security. That explanation did not mean anything.
After mastering the basics from The Joy if Cooking, I spent each winter mastering a particular area, one year soup and other year bread and so on. Then on to international,
British, French, Italian and Mexican/South American.
We eat well.
As a former caterer I could name drop some of the famous people who have eaten and complimented my cooking. lol However Mr Clean would never compliment me on my sparkling floors unless he visits within a few days after my cleaning lady has been here.
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What's wrong with you?
I tend to avoid shorthand or emoticons, since most of my e-mails are business. I have caught myself onetime closing with “Mit freundlichen Grussen”. After years of working with German outfits, the Deutsch comes back every now and then.
Back on topic, I have a buddy who's teenage kid is notoriously lazy. Once we walked in and he was on the couch and sobbing while he was watching TV.....bud axed him what was wrong, and the kid said "I'm sitting on my balls...."
That's lazy!
If I were the manager, I'd love to have subordinates or coworkers with skills more advanced than my own. There is always somebody in the room smarter, wiser, and with more experience in certain subjetcs than yourself. That's a good thing. Not so however to many managers filling positions these days.
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I’m estimating that was .25 extra seconds of work. Definitely worth losing a job over....
Sooth,
you're assuming that this tw_t knows that ur is not the correct spelling for the contraction of the words "you are" or even what a contraction is.
Well the writer might be lazy but you’re stupid.
Government service.
I more often see people mix up “then” and “than”.
“Rather then”...wtf is that? “It's better then meatballs” ?
What does that mean? Whatever “it” is, was sick, got better, and now is meatballs?
Most of the time we'd go out for dinner somewhere. Sometimes somewhere casual, and then once a month something a little more expensive and a little out of the ordinary. Then once in a while we'd stay in and make dinner ourselves.
I found it that when I made dinner, it was often something like Fettucine Alfredo (homemade sauce), marinaded steaks (again homemade marinade) garlic mashed potatoes, fried ice cream, stuffed pork chops, things that require effort.
Often times the gal would do a box of spaghetti and a jar of sauce or frozen pizza or something as easy and simple.
I'd do work at their homes and my thanks was Pizza Hut or the average Greek owned generic restaurant 2 miles away, or some such.
When I do projects around the house or for friends, the words I hate the most, especially from myself are "Good enough!" Most of the time "good enough" is simply because we don't want to put the effort in to do it good. So when I put in the effort to do a GOOD job for someone and their response is Pizza Hut (is good enough) it sets warning signs to me.
In dating, thats the time you're trying to make a good impression. Trying to show off all your good points. Trying to sell yourself. If someone is lazy towards you in dating, why go any farther? Their going to be just as lazy in marriage. If making a nice dinner is too hard during the newness of dating, then it'll be even harder during the humdrum of daily married life.
My tagline is something I've adopted after 2 friends, who have never met each other, got me similar things for Christmas with the exact same saying. And BOTH said that when they saw their gifts for me, they instantly thought of me and knew they had to get them, because thats the way I approach life.
We have a microwave society. We want dinner in 10 minutes or less. We want the convenience of sitting and watching tv. We want lifes issues taken care of in 1 hour, just like on tv.
Our friendships today aren't even 5-10 minute phone calls. We send a half dozen texts back and forth and call it keeping in touch.
And whats the biggest complaint you hear from people today (especially the younger crowd)? "I'M BORED"
People are bored today because they're lazy. Too lazy to go out and grab what they want in life. To lazy to learn and experience new things. Too lazy to put the effort in to really do something with pride and excellence, and to feel the joy and exhiliration of accomplishment.
Seriously though, at what point does that reflect back at your buddy, for not raising and instilling COMMON SENSE in him???
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