Skud is catching up on business correspondance

[commodorified]

skud: I have a glass of bourbon which is nearly empty, and a google doc in which I am writing myself a recommendation letter.
commodorified: Don't forget to remove any sentences containing the words Acquitted, Squids, or Frottage
skud: already removed them.

Which reminded me that, as I am somewhat ill and in need of amusement, it's time for word games, specifically for a round of:

Action Verbs To Avoid When Writing Your CV

I'll start:

Defenestrate
Abscond
Strafe

Comments

[dorothean]

Exorcise, inseminate, transubstantiate, decorticate, macerate, impale.

[automaticdoor]

Hey, if you were applying to be a priest, exorcising and transubstantiating would be perfectly fine!

[dorothean]

I think that technically God is supposed to be doing those things through the priest, though, so on a resume one might say

* Enabled sacraments
* Acted as instrument for exorcism

[automaticdoor]

That is true! Good call.

Action verbs to avoid on THAT CV

[commodorified]

"Reposess"

Re: Action verbs to avoid on THAT CV

[azurelunatic]

*sudden coughing fit*

Re: Action verbs to avoid on THAT CV

[azurelunatic]

Immanentize.

Re: Action verbs to avoid on THAT CV

[vass]

Simonise
Rationalise
Shun
Misappropriate
and finally,
Nail.

Re: Action verbs to avoid on THAT CV

[azurelunatic]

Nail.

*howls*

Re: Action verbs to avoid on THAT CV

[pauamma]

Unless you work for a debt collector. :-)

[vass]

Actually, I think it's "acted as instrument for deliverance ministry."

/nerd

[dorothean]

Impact.

[dorothean]

It does occur to me that macerate might be all right if you were applying to be a manicurist, and decorticate if you were applying to work in a ... paper mill?