Emails From Crazy People

Tyler, provider of today’s earlier post, has graced us with some follow-up material from our cubicle-loving, very particular, job-seeker.

Subject line: “The three resumes that will be used for 3 career types, why, and what makes me and other people in my age group tick.”

I feel as though we’re about to learn something. Here’s hoping.

After regrouping the past few days within my regrouping the past few years, I have come up with a plan. This plan involves two sides at least: the company and myself. In learning about the soft science of generations and why people born between 1961 and 1981 are having a hard time in the workforce, getting into the workforce, and interacting with other generations in society in general, I have found what kind of contribution I have a life long ability to use the correct word, survive. I am a person that was born to reinvent “parts” of the wheel; not the wheel itself all by myself, but with other people in my age group. Not slackers or “unwilling to put in our dues” or just out right “grow up”. These are steriotypes that have been scientificly proven to be obsolete by Harvard and Think Resources at the very least. At any level, it is in my (or our) physiological profile to make a difference at a micro level. Whatever part of the wheel we operate in at whatever level of the organization, I must make it better. Boomers and Y-ers will not understand, because in the history of generations, the “bookends” have yet to understand.
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This is natural and I am using this science to my advantage. Myself assesment gives me most of the attributes of an X-er with a few Y-er characteristic due to my parenting of my teacher father not “wanting [me] to run wild like [he] [saw] the other kids.” Therefore, I had helicopter parents at a younger age while dealing with the issues and rubbing off attitudes of those I grew up around. I believe I have the ability to bridge the generational gap between the X-ers and Y-ers, because of not my mixed life experience, but how they were experienced.
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What a company needs to look for in me and I in a company:
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Ability to have feedback.
Ability to absorb information.
Challenge and be challenged.
A DIVERSE working environment found in corporate or corporate-like environments, but not necessarily if the company is small and have the attitude of diverse work environments.
Ability to grow AND STAY with a company that maintains a healthy relationship between one another.
Ability to try, retry, fail, and succeed at the parts of reinventing my part of the wheel to add value to the company and my skills set.
And with Y characteristics, not have to reinvent the wheel and just ride on a reinvented wheel.

The three paths are not indecision on my part, but more options to what is important and that listed above. This is what I am trying to match, though your feedback is very very welcome so I “might” improve on my plan.

Thank you for your time,

PW

All I wanted was a cubicle.

Want to learn more about our friend? He’s just getting started . . .

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I work at Geico (Stafford location) and have a LOT of accrued sick time. Unfortunately, they will not let me use it without a valid doctor approved sickness, so it just keeps piling up with me not having any access to it. With the holiday season right around the corner, and me having way more sick leave than vacation time, I would like to use the sick time for a change and allow my vacation time to accrue. So, that being said- does anyone have the swine flu, aka H1N1 that is living or commutes through the Stafford/Fredericksburg area. If so, I would like you to infect me. I can come to your house or meet you somewhere, and if successfully infected- I will give you twenty bucks. This will also give me the opportunity to infect my team leader by licking her phone, mouse and keyboard- so it will be a double win for me!!

Submitted by: BettiePage

OK, this is a long one. A challenging one. For easier reading, you may want to click to the jump page for the text version. Good luck, and if you take the apartment, please forward a finder’s fee.

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So “wetware” is finally a go? Sweet! I need to update my Netflix queue.

“As much as we all appreciate the latest and greatest high technology, imagine there is a guy in R**** England (for real) illegally using satellites to stalk, harass and terrorize my family and others. He uses the same concept as television, the upload/download thing but instead of computer to computer, he does computer to human. You bet it is painful! Pornography (including small children), hate crimes against blacks and other people of color, etc. Imagine those images flashing before your eyes! The fact that what he is engaging in international terrorism is beyond frightening and can be performed by anyone with a high powered computer and some latest and greatest tech tools. I cringe at the day this will be mainstream techonology. Yes, the FBI and other intelligent agencies are hot on his trail……

Imagine being fed the worst images and words every conceived, flashing before your eyes and ears with no ability to control the feed.

The person responsible is ***** *****, 40 C**** Lane R****, United Kingdom. The FBI and other intelligent agencies have been contacted and we did hire a private investigator who confirmed the above. I believe no one has ever done this to another before (upload/dowload from computer to person).

Please Steve Jobs: Do not make this your next latest and greatest invention. The tools designed by Apple and others are what are being used to perform the worst kind of terrorism known to man….”

Submitted by – Thomas