Parmistan, Resume
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Feel free to print and post in your cubical for quick reference. -- Mike Gries
(Insert Name Here)
123 Street
Anywhere, USA
Tel: 555-5555
email: mjgritchie@hotmail.com
Objective:
To find a job that I can briefly hate less than the one I currently have.
Work Experience:
Soul-Destroyer Technologies, Inc -- July 2002 – Present
Trained Monkey
- Participated in witty interchanges over email that generally amounted to me calling my friends buffoons, repressed homosexuals, sluts, slobs, drunks, cowards, wimps, or fat-asses.
- Stared vacantly.
- Briefly expressed strong feelings that the decision to take out “XYZ” functionality from “ABC” platform was a mistake, before realizing that I really shouldn’t care.
- Nodded and smiled during meetings to feign interest.
- Made plans for the weekend. (Generally done only on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays.)
- Feverishly processed things out of a queue with no attention to whether I was doing anything correctly in order to keep stats up.
- Learned how to reclassify items in queue in order to get credit for them, without actually doing anything with them.
Ball-Crusher Amalgamated March 2001-July 2002
Interchangeable Cog
- Thinly veiled my seething hatred for customers as chief call center representative.
- Ogled “Paycheck Girl”
- Developed both benign and mean-spirited impressions of bosses and co-workers.
- Held prolonged and impassioned conversations about The Simpson’s, Temptation Island/The Bachelor, and the latest Diane Sawyer Interview.
Dream-Dasher Limited -- September 1999 - March 2001
Automaton
- Developed a cyclic pattern of activity that created the appearance of productivity:
- Shuffle papers.
- Get coffee.
- Use the bathroom.
- Type a few things.
- Cross out item on legal pad.
- Crinkled up and throw out Post It note.
- Repeat.
- Used white out, paperclips, and whatever else was around to create little works of art.
- Cried in bathroom stall.
Computer:
Proficiency: Email and Internet
Stuff I have seen Once Before, Never Used, but Wanted to Put Down: Photoshop, Quark, SQL, PowerPoint
Education:
(The second choice College you went to after getting rejected from your first choice) -- May 1998
Bachelor of Arts – (Whatever major you stumbled into.)
Concentration: Drinking, Skipping Class, Sausage Parties, and Bullshit Philosophizing.