So a few months back, when I was unemployed and looking for work around Oslo, I thought I’d try what I thought was a clever and novel approach to job hunting. Abandoning the half lies, deception and the general bullshit that stank up my regular CV (“hardworking, innovative and passionate”? ought really to read “lazy, clumsy and absolutely never on time”) I thought I’d write a very different, more honest CV. Anyway, it didn’t work, nobody offered me a job, but as I have just discovered my novel and I realise now very stupid CV did turn up Facebook:
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i applaud your subversive efforts and gusto– much better than mastering corporate double-speak. in a further movement to revamp the application process, i propose HR department employees be schooled in literary analysis of satire and farce. this will hopefully help them detect and discard bullshit, therefore eliminating our need to submit it.
This is hilarious. I love it. I would have give you the job