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

[nenya_kanadka]

Hypnotise
Coagulate
Eternally damn
Pester

[zingerella]

I actually do use "pester" in cover letters: I'm a project manager, and a major part of my job is pestering people so charmingly that they don't feel pestered, in order to get them to give me their stuff by the deadlines to which they agreed in the first place.

[james_g4clf]

Speaking as a hypnotist (among other things) who has just sent a bio to Chicon listing this skill - why on earth not?

[nenya_kanadka]

Obviously the real-world set of jobs which involve CVs is larger than I realized! Apologies.