Reading some resumés can be enlightening and surprising. I was always amazed at how some folks could guild the lily when it came to previous employment.
One lady’s CV stated that in her previous job, she’d been the Director of First Impressions – in reality, the company’s receptionist.
What is really sad is that some human resource departments encourage creativity. When applying for a higher-ranking position [essentially just a pay raise for the job I had been doing for several years], I was told my application didn’t get passed on to the review committee because it ‘lacked an awareness of current terminology in the field’. I discovered this when a couple of the committee members told me they were surprised I hadn’t applied for the job and I checked to see what had happened.
The person who got that job lasted only a few months before being promoted to a different job, and then to another. Eventually he ended up with a high ranking title that allowed him to do a lot of PR but no real work — because that was the only thing he was good at — spinning words.
Idle curiosity inspired by sight of dead elephant: “GOP” stands for “Grand Old Party”. Where did the “old” come from? The Republican Party was founded in a schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin, in 1854. The Democratic Party goes back half a century before that. Shouldn’t the Republicans be something like, I dunno, “GYP”, for “grandstanding young party”?
Weird pattern recognition. A quick glance at this cartoon out of the corner of my eye made it seem like it was the upper torso of a guy lying on his side facing us; the curvy black lines on the right were like his hair, and the scribbly wall-drawing lines were facial features. Is this just an overactive imagination, or has anybody else had the same odd sense of facial recognition?
C almost 2 years ago
There’s an art to that
salakfarm Premium Member almost 2 years ago
No relation to George Santos [if that’s his name], of course.
Grandma Lea almost 2 years ago
He does the elephant symbolism quit well, embellishment has for the most part killed the beast
Superfrog almost 2 years ago
It’s a mammoth undertaking.
TwilightFaze almost 2 years ago
Here we see the ancestor of the politician, Og Santos
Erse IS better almost 2 years ago
Lying is lying, no matter what you call it.
in.amongst almost 2 years ago
He’s figured it out.
SHIVA almost 2 years ago
I’m retired now, but once in awhile I’ll run across a copy of my resume from years ago!! What a crock!!!
shanen0 almost 2 years ago
Early Congressional art?
YourFriendlyNeighborhoodAmoeba almost 2 years ago
ELEPHANT, n. A mouse designed by a committee. Sometimes, a committee of one. Are the modern committees-of-one on paleo diets?
PraiseofFolly almost 2 years ago
Beware of elephant roadkill. Not only could you run into it if you’re not alert, but it stinks worse than a crooked politician.
Doug K almost 2 years ago
This is what he would look like if …
Ermine Notyours almost 2 years ago
Are you a mouse? Or a mammoth?
keenanthelibrarian almost 2 years ago
Well, I suppose if all you can use are hieroglyphs and cave paintings in order to get noticed …
Count Olaf Premium Member almost 2 years ago
Dopey Joe has a pic of him driving a semi. “Breaker, breaker good… good… good… ummm.”
cripplious almost 2 years ago
He did kill something. And maybe he had a fear of mice so that to him it was like a Mammoth.
Linguist almost 2 years ago
Reading some resumés can be enlightening and surprising. I was always amazed at how some folks could guild the lily when it came to previous employment.
One lady’s CV stated that in her previous job, she’d been the Director of First Impressions – in reality, the company’s receptionist.
GreenT267 almost 2 years ago
What is really sad is that some human resource departments encourage creativity. When applying for a higher-ranking position [essentially just a pay raise for the job I had been doing for several years], I was told my application didn’t get passed on to the review committee because it ‘lacked an awareness of current terminology in the field’. I discovered this when a couple of the committee members told me they were surprised I hadn’t applied for the job and I checked to see what had happened.
The person who got that job lasted only a few months before being promoted to a different job, and then to another. Eventually he ended up with a high ranking title that allowed him to do a lot of PR but no real work — because that was the only thing he was good at — spinning words.
HOTLOTUS1 almost 2 years ago
I think I’d have drawn it with it on my back carrying it
sandpiper almost 2 years ago
Given that Buttercup ‘won’ the so-called election as Rep candidate, that dead elephant and its stink will flavor the news a lot more in coming months.
dflak almost 2 years ago
My resume starts off with: “Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound.”
It’s in response to a job posting for for mild-mannered reporter.
monya_43 almost 2 years ago
He must be applying for “Head Executive Hunter”.
Richard S Russell Premium Member almost 2 years ago
Idle curiosity inspired by sight of dead elephant: “GOP” stands for “Grand Old Party”. Where did the “old” come from? The Republican Party was founded in a schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin, in 1854. The Democratic Party goes back half a century before that. Shouldn’t the Republicans be something like, I dunno, “GYP”, for “grandstanding young party”?
MaybeMaybe almost 2 years ago
Clever pun name.
SofaKing Premium Member almost 2 years ago
One of George Santos’ early ancestors.
NickelAlloy almost 2 years ago
We may not like it but as long as you can convince the rubes that you’re Batman without having to actually BE Batman, the lying will never stop.
mindjob almost 2 years ago
If you want to believe that guy felled a mammoth with a club, that’s on you
198.23.5.11 almost 2 years ago
Ah,but did cavemen and mammoths actually exist in the same place at the same time?
tee929 almost 2 years ago
How do you eat a mastodon? One bite at a time!
gary.eddings4157 Premium Member almost 2 years ago
G. Santos, Doctor of Prehistory?
Jml58 almost 2 years ago
Mammut, a mouse built to goverment specification.
thedogesl Premium Member almost 2 years ago
Santos: The Early Years
Fuzzy Kombu almost 2 years ago
Fine, as long as he’s not asking anyone to hire him on the basis of the embellished resume.
Richard S Russell Premium Member almost 2 years ago
Weird pattern recognition. A quick glance at this cartoon out of the corner of my eye made it seem like it was the upper torso of a guy lying on his side facing us; the curvy black lines on the right were like his hair, and the scribbly wall-drawing lines were facial features. Is this just an overactive imagination, or has anybody else had the same odd sense of facial recognition?
MFRXIM Premium Member almost 2 years ago
Let’s talk about "the elephant in the room”.
johnec almost 2 years ago
He can draw all he wants, but can’t eat the drawings.
Show. Me. The. BBQ!!!
SrTechWriter almost 2 years ago
https://www.storyberries.com/fairy-tales-seven-at-one-blow-by-Brothers-Grimm/