Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Animated, Being

When interviewing for a library job, applicants should demonstrate their "excellent interpersonal skills" by talking like a robot and gesticulating wildly.

6 comments:

Kathy said...

I would if I could get an interview.... Just kidding about the robot part, not the interview part.

Jonathan said...

"You don't know ineffiency until you've tried to reach consensus with a hundred Quaker-educated teenage radicals."

QFT. As an Antioch alum (and a currently unemployed librarian), I loved it.

shushie said...

I think I was at that three hour meeting about how to load the copier with paper...

Anonymous said...

Waiting for another librarian to die is always a good career move. And also voodoo dolls:
http://www.officeplayground.com/Notepad-Paper-Voodoo-P890.aspx

R. said...

I'm actually pretty glad I didn't see this before I went into my program, because it would have scared me to death!

Anonymous said...

Gotta have a sense of humor and see the absurd, out side of that it was freakin' hysterical.