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Daily Dose of Dumb

For your reading pleasure, the following are items that appeared in actual resumes and cover letters:

  • “Please don’t misconstrue my fourteen jobs as ‘job-hopping.’  I have never quit a job.”
  • “It’s best for employers that I not work with people.”
  • “I have lurnt Word Perfect 6.0 computor and spreadsheet progroms.”
  • “Received a plague for Salesperson of the Year.”
  • “The company made me a scapegoat, just like my three previous employers.”

(Sources:  Fortune Magazine, Idiots at Work by Leland Gregory)

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