Welcome to February

[ajva]

A great weekend in Cambridge, although I'm sure I heard my liver squeaking a bit in afeared subservience on Monday morning.

Anyhoo, I had my first experience of interviewing peiople for jobs yesterday. I was extremely nice to them all, but it definitely brought out my mean streak. One girl had put on her CV that she spoke Mandarin as she'd been teaching English in Taiwan for a year, so she got a hell of a shock when she came in and I started blabbering away in same. It's good to see the fear and eagerness to please in their eyes. *baddie chuckle*

In other news, I have developed a spot on my forehead that is perfectly placed to be a b(h?)indi. Maybe I can get away with claiming it as such.

Comments

[booklectica]

Ha! Excellent! Did she manage to respond?

Tiddlywinks weekend, was it?

[ajva.livejournal.com]

She rallied well, bless her; she managed to get a few choice phrases out. I forgot to ask her if it still rains in Taipei for 10 minutes at 3 o'clock every day in the summer. I seem to remember that being the weirdest thing about the place, for someone who comes from a coutnry where the weather is truly changeable.

Indeed it was the tiddlywinks weekend. When else can one drink an entire month's worth of alcohol in three days? :o)

[jhg.livejournal.com]

The scary thing is, those guys drink like that *all the time*.


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[thekumquat.livejournal.com]

Excellent! I've always hoped that people who stick on CVs that they can speak some language or other, when they can hardly utter a few phrases, get found out.
Mostly because I was too scared to put 'fluent German' on mine. I could probably get away with it now, though.

[dr-d.livejournal.com]

Livers should always be afraid. Keeps them on their toes. And only the strong brain cells can survive a weekend like that, so your IQ has probably gone up a touch to boot.

I've had the experience of interviewing people a few times now - always a wierd experience, as you never really see the true person. My favourite was a man who claimed his approach to difficult patients was always to show them empathy. I deviated a little from the script to ask him what he actually meant by that, and he couldn't even define the word. I'm surprised he managed to use it correctly in a sentence.