Meandering

Found yet another blog today better than mine: http://fishinmyhair.blogspot.com/. I've spent the past hour systematically reading back through her posts and giggling. And the fact that I'm supposed to be working on job applications and a free-lance database job had nothing to do with it. She would have been just as funny without the added attraction of work-avoidance.

I have a question. How come companies that have received and read your resume turn around and make you complete a whole application before they'll talk to you? Why do I have to hand write all the pages of employment history and education that were so beautifully presented on my lovingly crafted resume? How come I can't just check off the boxes that say I'm over eighteen, legal to work in this country, and have never been convicted of a felony then say "Refer to resume" for everything else? Maybe it's a test to see how interested I really am. If I dutifully copy out all the pages of info I'd already given them does that prove I'm someone they can take seriously? Does that really weed many people out? How many times does an applicant throw down their pen after the second or third page and stomp out? Or maybe they think I made up all that stuff in the resume and they're trying to catch me in an inconsistancy.

Or perhaps HR departments are universally staffed with hyper-anal drones who honestly couldn't find my name if it wasn't in the designated slot of the appropriate form.