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commodorified ([personal profile] commodorified) wrote2012-02-27 01:58 am

Skud is catching up on business correspondance

[personal profile] skud: I have a glass of bourbon which is nearly empty, and a google doc in which I am writing myself a recommendation letter.
[personal profile] commodorified: Don't forget to remove any sentences containing the words Acquitted, Squids, or Frottage
[personal profile] 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
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[personal profile] zingerella 2012-02-27 02:42 pm (UTC)(link)
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.