Filling out applications is not fun. Each company wants to know so much about me -
why? Do you really have to know my favourite
colour in order to make that critical hiring decision? My fingers ache from all the writing and typing. I am tired of having to continuously rewrite my details and particulars. When I nod off to sleep I see forms (in triplicate) hovering on the edges of my dreams.
Oh, blessed employment, why do you taunt me so? And all this information - it can't be good for the HR folks, can it? How can they be expected to decipher what kind of applicant I am from all that stuff? Imagine, day after day, trucks delivering unending streams of single-spaced, small-printed forms filled with information about people who want jobs. It is enough to make even the most didactic soul bitter. Which might explain why it is so damned duece difficult to find work these days...
Filling out applications is not fun. Each company wants to know so much about me - why? Do you really have to know my favourite colour in order to make that critical hiring decision? My fingers ache from all the writing and typing. I am tired of having to continuously rewrite my details and particulars. When I nod off to sleep I see forms (in triplicate) hovering on the edges of my dreams. 
Oh, blessed employment, why do you taunt me so? And all this information - it can't be good for the HR folks, can it? How can they be expected to decipher what kind of applicant I am from all that stuff? Imagine, day after day, trucks delivering unending streams of single-spaced, small-printed forms filled with information about people who want jobs. It is enough to make even the most didactic soul bitter. Which might explain why it is so damned duece difficult to find work these days...
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Thanks, man! I see you enjoyed it (heard only good things about it).
No - I was being facetious, but not by much.
Some of the information that companies ask for is both invasive and pointless - it just seems that they ask just for the sake of asking.
BTW: since the topic of colours is now up, my favourite colours are blue and green. What about you guys?
Yeah, I don't have a particular shade or tint of blue and green that I could definitely say are my favs, but I am particular for lighter, slightly faded out hues (would "washed avacado green" be a suitable description?).
When I was eighteen I briefly worked as a printer, and one of the things they taught us was how to mix colour inks - it has always come in handy when trying to imagine colour combinations.
I bet you miss the Japanese way of doing things: fill out the standardized form from your local conbini; spend the interview nodding, smiling and grunting in all the right places as the interviewee talks incessantly; then if your favourite colours match, you can't go wrong with blue and green, the job is all yours.
That's true - the Japanese method of using astrology, blood types and favourite colours made finding a job a whole lot easier!
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