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Subject:Re: The Results (Long)/Addendum From:Michele Davis <michele -at- krautgrrl -dot- com> To:Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com> Date:Mon, 18 Aug 2003 19:38:11 -0500
Bruce has pushed me to the edge tonight. lol. I am American, my Uncle is
a retired dentist and my Aunt is a retired hygienist, I also worked as
an office manager for a dental practice during college. You have been
warned, DO NOT attack me! I went to look at trucks ~2 years back and the
salesperson was slovenly dressed (didn't bother me) and had the WORST
teeth I have seen in America (not in Europe where I lived for a number
of years, DO NOT attack me!) and he dissed the truck I wanted.
I was, obviously, offended. I called the manager. He wanted to know the
sales guy's name and I couldn't remember, and as I was shuffling through
my papers for his name I finally blurted out that he had the worst teeth
I had ever seen. Greenish in cast and crooked as a politician's back
(OK, I stole that from Forrest Gump) and the manager replied, "What are
you, some freak, are you a dentist?"
In conclusion I would have never hired this man simply b/c he had a foul
attitude and t/f I will not go back to this dealership for a vehicle
ever again.
:) Michele (who is doing digital plastic surgery to Minnesota Models,
who are ~15 years old, for a calendar and needed some levity tonight.
--
Michele
"I've learned that sometimes all a person needs is a hand
to hold and a heart to understand." Andy Rooney
www.krautgrrl.com
Bruce Byfield wrote:
eccentrics that I have to remind myself that eccentricity isn't always a mark
of brilliance. After meeting and befriendng trans-gendered tarot readers,
Gothic wicca with harps, Catholic monks with a fondness for brandy and Fats
Waller, and writers who do sword exercises late at night when writers' block
strikes, I don't imagine there's much that couldn't surprise or delight me.
The same goes for the interviewer, of course. If an interviewer greets me in
ragged jeans and a torn T-shirt, then plants his sandalled feet on the desk so
that I can see his filthy feet (which actually happened to me once at a
reasonably large company), I think I have the right to be a little insulted.
