I was just finishing preparing a cover letter for the resume I’m sending to a certain company, when I noticed something that made me say “Goddamnit” and raise my fists in anger at the cruel godlings above.
I was pretty much copying and pasting an older cover letter to a new one, and changing some of the stuff around so that it made sense and was, well, relevant. All was going well until I discovered in the older cover letter — the one that’s already been sent out, the one that I can’t change at all — that instead of writing the word “much,” I used “muck.” Okay, not too huge of a deal. Sure, I feel like a complete retard, but that’s mostly because I’m a perfectionist and stupid errors like that piss me off to no end. With most jobs one applies for, the HR person might frown when they see that little gem, but she wouldn’t necessarily exclude me as a candidate solely based on my undiscerning eye.
But the kicker is this: the job I applied for is a copy editor position with Cox Publishing. If I were the HR person and I saw a typo in the fucking cover letter, I’d toss that resume in the trash and move on to the next.
So again, goddamnit.
Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.
JAB
5 Responses to “CRAP”
At least you can take solace in the fact that Wal-Mart will always take you in like the wounded-grammatically-retarded baby bird that you are. J/K LOL ROTFLMAO!!!!!
Although funny, you do have my condolences. Too bad you weren’t hooked up to an fMRI so we could have seen the parts of the brain that are involved in the “Oh, shit!!” response.
If it was for the job(s) at Middletown I can give a fresh copy to John, if you like. If it’s at Dayton then I’m afraid my powers are useless.
That is a true shame. I have had a similar problem with my cover letter as well, except I used the word “form” instead of “from”. It happens to the best of us unfortunately.
See, this is why I don’t write important shit and apply for jobs late at night when I’m tired. I get careless and fuck things up easily.
Brigitta: I think it was for the Middletown location. I can’t be for sure, however, because I went to the DDN job-search-thingee and can’t figure out how to check on the status of my application.
Today’s been a good day so my annoyance has dropped significantly. Nothing like hunting through used book stores to cheer one up. Well, cheer me up at least.
JAB
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