{"id":325,"date":"2004-04-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-10T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paragonis.com\/Emails\/?p=325"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"Corporate Lingo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/?p=325","title":{"rendered":"Corporate Lingo"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Employer Lingo<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;Competitive salary:&#8221;  We remain competitive by paying less than our competitors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Join our fast-paced company:&#8221;  We have no time to train you;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Casual work atmosphere:&#8221;  We don&#8217;t pay enough to expect that you&#8217;ll dress up; well, a couple of the real daring guys wear earrings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mmust be deadline oriented:&#8221;  You&#8217;ll be six months behind schedule on your first day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sone overtime required:&#8221;  Some time each night and some time each weekend.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Duties will vary:&#8221;  Anyone in the office can boss you around.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Must have an eye for detail:&#8221;  We have no quality control.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Career-minded:&#8221;  Female Applicants must must be childless (and remain that way).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Apply in person:&#8221;  If you&#8217;re old, fat or ugly you&#8217;ll be told the position has been filled.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No phone calls please:&#8221;  We&#8217;ve filled the job; our call for resumes is just a legal formality.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Seeking candidates with a wide variety of experience:&#8221;  You&#8217;ll need it to replace three people who just left.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Problem-solving skills a must:&#8221;  You&#8217;re walking into a company in perpetual chaos.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Requires team leadership skills:&#8221;  You&#8217;ll have the responsibilities of a manager, without the pay or respect.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Good communication skills:&#8221;  Management communicates, you listen, figure out what they want and do it.<\/p>\n<h2>Employee Lingo<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m extremely adept at all manner of office organization:&#8221;  I&#8217;ve used Microsoft Office.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m honest, hard-working and dependable:&#8221;  I pilfer office supplies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My pertinent work experience includes:&#8221;  I hope you don&#8217;t ask me all the McJobs I&#8217;ve had.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I take pride in my work:&#8221;  I blame others for my mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m personable:&#8221;  I give lots of unsolicited personal advice to co-workers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m extremely professional:&#8221;  I carry a Day-Timer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am adaptable:&#8221;  I&#8217;ve changed jobs a lot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am on the go:&#8221;  I&#8217;m never at my desk.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m highly motivated to succeed:&#8221;  The minute I find a better job, I&#8217;m outta there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employer Lingo &#8220;Competitive salary:&#8221; We remain competitive by paying less than our competitors. &#8220;Join our fast-paced company:&#8221; We have no time to train you; &#8220;Casual work atmosphere:&#8221; We don&#8217;t pay enough to expect that you&#8217;ll dress up; well, a couple of the real daring guys wear earrings. &#8220;Mmust be deadline oriented:&#8221; You&#8217;ll be six months [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corporate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}