RE: Advice for Job Seekers

["Secara, Maggie" <secaram -at- mainsaver -dot- com>]

Or just pick a different example.  Sure, they said, "worst" but will they
know if it isn't your absolutel worst?  Is it lying to select from your
past, especially if you aren't comfortable with talking about this?  If it
is, who cares?  

I prefer not to talk about old bosses, just to avoid the appearance of
whining.  I've worked for a lot of people, some good, some not, one or two
downright awful, but I haven't cataloged all the events that led to my
opinions of them.  And the bad ones I have largely put out of my mind.  And
maybe that should be my answer :)

Maggie



Maggie Secara
msecara -at- mainsaver -dot- com

"All the world's a stage, Mick, but some of us are dreadfully
under-rehearsed."


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> From: 	Beth Friedman[SMTP:bjf -at- wavefront -dot- com]
> Reply To: 	Beth Friedman
> Sent: 	Wednesday, April 05, 2000 4:35 PM
> To: 	TECHWR-L
> Subject: 	RE: Advice for Job Seekers
> 
> In our previous episode, Scottie Lover wrote:
> >Several people have suggested asking interviewees about differences with
> >previous bosses.
> >
> >Is there any remotely acceptable way to allude to a boss whom even HR
> >described as "a congenital liar" (and whom the Vice Chairman termed
> >"evil"), and/or to one who was very unethical (and, with whom I locked
> >horns on my very first day when she directed me to go around and cover up
> >the pirated software on all the computers to hide it from the auditors,
> >which I flatly refused to do), who was subsequently fired for
> embezzlement?
> 
>