Don't you just hate application forms?

griobhta · 11-29-2001, 11:35 PM

Up all night filling in an application form for the Civil Service. driving me nuckin futs. It all comes down to three questions on competencies where you have two inches of space, bout 6 lines, explaine A Change orientation B Work with Information and C developing Self.

Got the first 2 stuck on wording for last one. Has to be done before I sleep and it is 5:30 am ARGHHHHHH

My first Application form that mattered for Years. Who needs a new job anyway.

Griobhta

vass0922 · 11-30-2001, 01:24 AM

LOL yeah I hear ya!

I'm currently filing for a petition to bring my wife into the US (she's canadian citizen) and we have to fill out forms in not triplicate! but QUADruplicate LOL

She filled out all her forms by hand... shortly after I realized I could fill them out on one page in Adobe and the software filled out the other 4 pages for me

(even if it hadn't oh dear press print -> 4 pages LOL)

Learn something new everyday lol
But still a lot of forms ...

the app I had to fill out recently for a job wasn't too bad but I had the pres of the company waiting for it and watching me fill it out

(small company LOL)

nodnerb2 · 11-30-2001, 09:19 AM

Vass0922,

You're obviously doing it all wrong. Just buy a good quality innertube and have your wife dropped in the sea just off Miami Beach. She wont need to fill out any forms and will be sped through Immigration whilst staying in a hotel as long as she doesn't give the game away by speaking English.

Cheers

Nodnerb2

vass0922 · 11-30-2001, 10:23 PM

Or maybe a board, and let her tell them she was in a storm?
She doesnt look haitian though...

refugee from ... italy? lol
damn she doesn't speak any italian...
maybe from france? lol

flea · 11-30-2001, 11:21 PM

AAAhhhhhhh hate the things. Even worse than interviews.

ocit · 11-30-2001, 11:34 PM

i couldnt stand remembering old employers addresses and phone numbers

griobhta · 12-01-2001, 03:53 PM

In many ways the application form is the hardest part of the process. I tend to do well in aptitude tests and alright in interviews but the dreaded application form is what really seperates the men from the boys. Or to be really pc the grownup from all the little 'ens

I've had friends who applied for jobs they could do in their sleep but never got past the form.

Griobhta

Richard Cranium · 12-01-2001, 05:34 PM

1. Name-- None Yo Bidnezz
2. Age -- I'm so old it's illega for you to ask
3. Location - When I get in your face you'll know
4. Sex -- On occasion if it's any of your business
5. Phone - 1-555-1212
6. Last Job -- Where they paid me last
7. Reason for Leaving -- I killed my boss for asking me to fill out forms
8. Former Residence -- Ft Levenworth Federal Pen

vass0922 · 12-02-2001, 04:37 PM

9. Have you ever been convicted of a felony or misdemeanor --- Dis year?

10. Current Address -- 3rd box on da right undaneaf 14th St Brigg

11. List every employer for past 5 years.
a. Beatin' da chiz out of da boss 01/1996
b. Yep him too 02/1996
c. Oh man that guy was SO deadmeat 03/1996
d. Damn that bosslady was fine! too bad she fired me... 04/1996
....
....
zz. How did dat bozz axpekt me to reakt he kame up behiend me! 01/2001
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osprey4 · 12-03-2001, 11:43 AM

My son is applying to two high schools that specialize in science and technology. The applications are required to be typed, but do they give you an electronic copy of the application? No! They give you a poor photocopy with not-quite-horizontal lines that can't even be read with decent OCR software. And of course, no one has a typewriter anymore!

Jn