>>>>> "Ask" == Ask Bjørn Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ask> On Nov 23, 2006, at 11:17, Dave Rolsky wrote: >> I know the advice of "never talk smack about former employers", but I call >> BS on that. I've been looking for a new job, and the main reason is that I >> really dislike my current position, and I blame that on the employer. >> >> I've talked about this, and the specific issues I have, in my interviews, >> and I've gotten job offers from places where I did this. Ask> How you express it (and maybe your history or lack of history with that sort Ask> of issues) makes all the difference... That's what I was trying to get at. Few would fault me if I claimed that my former employer practiced "incessant micromanagement", as long as I had a few sane examples to back up my claim. However, the phrase "repeated attempts to police the employees like a bunch of kindergartners" seems a lot more emotionally loaded, perhaps even indicating some unresolved psychological flashbacks that I wouldn't want to take on as a new employer. Perhaps there's actually no difference between those phrases. Dunno. But it triggered me enough to respond to it. Maybe I'm not typical. In that case, take my message with that disclaimer. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <merlyn@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!
