Not A Fun Task

Next to interviews (which I seem to be great at), I really dislike cold-calls to check on positions that I've applied for.  HR departments used to reply right away with messages that claimed that they were evaluating your application to check for a fit.  That gave you a warm-fuzzy that they at least received it.  Now very few applications (at least in my experience) are acknowledged.  This forces a cold-call after what seems forever, but may only be a week.  While they are evaluating many, many applications, I only want to know about mine. What ever happened to manners?

Some companies work very slowly.  It could take a month for them to come up with a suitable suite of applicants to interview.  Waiting is horrendous...

BTW, can anyone claim that they bought a "Made in the USA" Christmas present for a gift?  If you didn't, then consider yourself part of the problem...

"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"  (Who can watch the watchmen?)
    -- from the Satires of Juvenal

Overheard on Dear Abby

Dear Abby, A couple of women moved in across the hall from me. One is a middle-aged gym teacher and the other is a social worker in her mid twenties. These two women go everywhere together and I've never seen a man go into their apartment or come out. Do you think they could be Lebanese?

Dear Abby, What can I do about all the sex, nudity, language and violence on my VCR?

Dear Abby, I have a man I never could trust. He cheats so much I'm not even sure this baby I'm carrying is his.

Dear Abby, I am a twenty-three-year-old liberated woman who has been on the pill for two years. It's getting expensive and I think my boyfriend should share half the cost, but I don't know him well enough to discuss money with him.

Dear Abby, I suspected that my husband had been fooling around, and when I confronted him with the evidence he denied everything and said it would never happen again.

Dear Abby, Our son writes that he is taking Judo. Why would a boy who was raised in a good Christian home turn against his own?

Dear Abby, I joined the Navy to see the world. I've seen it. Now how do I get out?

Dear Abby, My forty-year-old son has been paying a psychiatrist $50 an hour every week for two-and-a-half years. He must be crazy.

Dear Abby, I was married to Bill for three months and I didn't know he drank until one night he came home sober.

Dear Abby, Do you think it would be all right if I gave my doctor a little gift? I tried for years to get pregnant and couldn't and he did it.

Dear Abby, My mother is mean and short-tempered. I think she is going through her mental pause.

Dear Abby, You told some woman whose husband had lost all interest in sex to send him to a doctor. Well, my husband lost all interest in sex years ago and he is a doctor.