Getting Over the Stigma of a Previous Job? 678
Subm asks: "Some friends-of-friends worked at a company with such a high profile downfall their past employer became a liability. They weren't involved in causing the downfall, but with the name 'Enron' on their resumes, interviews were spent defending their past employment. SCO is more focused in its industry than Enron, was and its reputation is in a downward spiral in that industry (Unix and GNU/Linux, not lawsuits, that is). SCO's staff will have to look for other jobs sooner or later, and most within the Unix/GNU/Linux community. Can good workers get over the stigma of an employer's reputation? How will working at SCO affect its staff's careers? Does anyone at SCO talk about this?"
Industry? (Score:5, Funny)
Which industry is that? scamming and defrauding people?
Just leave out that time period (Score:5, Funny)
At least that's something respectable.
S.C.O (Score:1, Funny)
Beat this! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:It's about skills, 99.9% (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Don't know about SCO, but ... (Score:5, Funny)
Would the answer: "What do you think dumbass!", cause me to *not* get the job?
Re:I Was In Prison (Score:4, Funny)
ah yes. be careful about leaving that stint blank though (q: "what did you do for those two years?" a: "played cards. lifted weights") - i work for a company that's owned by americans and it was a bit awkward after a year of employment to confess that i wasn't allowed into the united states.
McBride? (Score:4, Funny)
SuDZ
The solution (Score:5, Funny)
I would gladly hire Darl... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:nope. (Score:2, Funny)
A little soda water works wonders.
KFG
Whorehouse Piano Player (Score:5, Funny)
When your interviewer asks you what on earth a whorehouse was doing repackaging and integrating AT&T SYSV code, tell him it you were actually working at SCO back when SCO was a software company with a mediocre UNIX distribution, and that you left when you saw the writing on the wall when its then-CEO said Linux would never amount to anything.
Then say "But there's still less stigma that comes with saying you were a whorehouse piano player."
Re:Not allowed into the US? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Just leave out that time period (Score:1, Funny)
I have only one thing to say (Score:1, Funny)
Sorry, someone had to say it
Cry me a river! (Score:4, Funny)
-You were paid to have sex
-with women
-and you're posting, looking for sympathy
-on Slashdot?
Talk about trying to get blood from a stone!
Re:I have only one thing to say (Score:5, Funny)
Where the hell is that Post Anonymously button.
Re:It's about skills, 99.9% (Score:5, Funny)
He put under education - High School.
He put under Hobbies - BS,MS,PHd.
His first interview with the modified resume - the guy doing the hiring states "We approve of hobbies
Some times it's how you put the resume together!
Re:Resume Madness (Score:3, Funny)
Re:It's about skills, 99.9% (Score:1, Funny)
I'm reliable and honest. What's your credit card number?
This reminds me of an old joke (Score:5, Funny)
Dear Abby,
My mother, an alcoholic, is currently serving a life sentence for murdering my father after discovering that he was selling child pornography to support our family. I'm helping to raise the illegitimate child of my sister, who is in drug rehab and currently appealing a prostitution conviction. I spent most of my youth in foster homes and on the street, supporting myself and my cocaine habit by robbing the elderly. Finally I took a high school equivalency exam, enrolled in college and learned computer programming. I am now making a good salary working as a developer at Microsoft.
Recently I met a really wonderful girl. She is caring and loving, and I want to have a serious relationship with her, but I am afraid that if she finds out more about me she won't want to see me again. So the question is, should I tell her that I work for Microsoft?
Methinks (Score:4, Funny)
New Words (Score:5, Funny)
Enroned (v. p. p.), To have one's rsum or reputation tarnished by a former (or current) employer.
USAGE: Man, I was totally Enroned the second it hit the news that my CTO was skimming the pot I've got no chance at a good job until this dies down a bit.
The stigma of a previous job. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Going postal (Score:2, Funny)
Mind you I know how it goes, your in the moment: the bullets are flying, blood is spraying, intestines are spilling onto the floor along with matted gore and hair. You're hot & sweat is making your finger slip off the trigger. The screams of the begging dying ring through your ears.
Future job references dont seem important at that moment do they? JUST DONT DO IT AGAIN!!
Re:It's about skills, 99.9% (Score:3, Funny)
Are we talking about the same industry here? In most of the place I worked at, there were a good half dozen MCSE 2000 Losers that didn't know jack shit about Active Directory, Networking, or anything else covered on those god damn test.
The problem is NOT the abundance of "highly skilled, educated, certified and talented people", but more the paper factor. All these certified people who have no idea what they are doing have, with their incompetence, have filled all the jobs that would otherwise be taken by people who know what they are doing.