eh?

Feb. 17th, 2004 11:02 am
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I just got a phone call for an interview, set up tomorrow at 11am for a secretarial position. The man on the phone says something to me along the lines of, "If you're copyproofed and editing minded, then shouldn't you have caught the typo in your cover letter to me?"

I remembered the other day that I had found a typo in my former emailed cover letter template, but didn't think there had been one in my new one or my faxed version. So, I ask him where it is. And he tells me it's IN MY NAME.

SWEET MOTHER OF SUFFERING CHRIST

After I hang up with him, I rush to my computer to check this. About eight resumes were faxed, using this cover letter, by Miss Robin. Right potential jobs fucking ruined because I spelled my own name wrong...

...or not.
I pull up the cover letter I emailed to Robin for her to fax and check it out. My name is just fine in it. Everything's spelled correctly and looks all fine and dandy. Now, unless Robin made some changes (which I doubt), then this is guy doesn't know what he's talking about. Maybe he, like a million other people, spell my last name with a Mc instead of an Ma. I don't know. But, I'm sure as hell going to secretly enjoy pointing it out to this guy tomorrow morning.

>:)

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Date: 2004-02-17 08:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aprilrobin.livejournal.com
Well, if it was a formatting issue (it's at home so I couldn't say) just say "oh, I didn't have access to a fax that evening and wanted to get it to you right away so I emailed it to my friend to fax for me. Must have been a cross-platform conversion issue".

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Date: 2004-02-17 08:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ninjalicious.livejournal.com
Definitely. If only for the excuse to say "cross-platform conversion issue". I'm going to work that into my day to day speech, somehow.

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Date: 2004-02-17 09:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] meetzemonsta.livejournal.com
I thought the same thing, too. heh.
I'll probably have to write it on my hand to remember, though.

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Date: 2004-02-17 10:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vivaemptiness.livejournal.com
haha. haha. hahahaha.
nothing to add except gleeful cackling.

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Date: 2004-02-17 11:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chicanerys-muse.livejournal.com
Tell him it was a wardrobe malfunction!!

It worked for Justin Timberlake..:)

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