Most important of all, take new Adidas motto, “Impossible is Nothing”. How many people believed United States was unbreakable before September 11th? How many people believed Red Sox would be forever cursed? How many people thought that Nortel would be a Blue Chip and not go into a sudden nose dive? Impossible simply means that a solution has not been successfully implemented yet. Use resources at your disposal, be it colleagues, friends, web tools, whatever, and put together your plan in a way that will turn your boss’ head and earn his approval. If you know that your boss will not be receptive to your plans in advance, then plan for it it a non-confrontational way. Set up a meeting after you have gathered all your supporters. Try and get other people at his level that believe in benefits of your objectives and get a meeting all together. Propose your plans in a team setting so that it does not just pit you against your boss.

Make it happen.

On why they want a job with us -

“My neighbor Joe Blow works for you, and he’s not half man I am. You’d be better off to send him home and call me in to work for you.”

“My friend Jambo works for you, and he never comes home sweatin’, so I figure your company is place for me.”

“I can’t draw assistance until they put through paperwork, so I need something to tide me over right now.”

“Right now I work for my in-laws. The money is bad, and my mother-in-law has a thicker mustache than mine. And she’s type that likes to kiss you a lot.”

“I worked for XYZ fast food chain, gained a lot of weight, and my boss let me go because I couldn’t fit into my work uniform anymore.”

“Your dad dated my mom, and I’m sure you don’t want that to get out.”

Y’all see what I mean? The really bad thing is that I could have written another ten pages chock full of these type comments. Honestly, you have to wonder what in devil people are thinking when they put this kind of stuff on their employment applications. I choose to think that they are just not thinking clearly at time, and I think it’s best to just leave it at that. Life is life, I suppose. If you think about it, though, there is a bright side to all of this - if you happen to be among those who are out there looking for a job, know that you will pull ahead of some of your competition by simply filling out your employment application in a neat, coherent manner. If you do that, you might even be able to get around fact that you need a job simply because, as one applicant so succinctly put it, “... my old Aunt Gertie is winkin‘ and smilin‘ at me a lot these days, and I think that I might need to get out of house a little more than I am...”