Posted: 2/23/2005 1:07:10 AM EDT
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NOT! Just sent an email to a recruiter for an overseas security contractor, stating that I was attaching my resume. Hit send. I FORGOT TO ATTACH THE FREAKING RESUME  Hit forward, attached the resume, and sent. Hopefully he won't just think I'm an idiot. Man. I get the ASSHAT OF THE DAY award. 
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No no no.. Send ALL of the messages. Dupes and all. The last one should say, "Apparently, i'm having challenges with my ISP and want to make sure you get my intentions.  It will show that you're very interested, and want to ensure all communication gets through. PLUS - Your name will be in his / her's inbox several times, resulting in seeing your name more than once. Most interviewers see hundreds of names....it can't hurt to have one stand out. |
It's already done. Don't need any stories, but when you're applying for a job with potential to make a quarter of a million dollars a year, you don't want ANYTHING to go wrong... I'll just let the resume speak for itself. |
Attention to detail on important subjects, I guess. Notice I said PROBABLY  He wrote back, so maybe I'm not dead, after all. Of course, the Sunnis may want to correct that 
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 Don't feel bad. We have all been there a time or two. |
No I didn't know that. SOmeday if you can tell us about what goes on over there I would love tyo hear about it. As for the guy in the pic, well...I faint alot also when I have to stand for awhile. SGatr15 |
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Nothing to tell, actually. 6 months here in Kosovo so far. Beer is forbidden, though the Muslims here drink like fish. Tragic poverty, except for the Albanian mob, and the UN has their fingers in everything. I stand guard duty and access control at a US Army facility to free up the soldiers to go do their peacekeeping mission. Other than that, I'm safer than I am back home. In fact, the window glass in my back door back home was shot out 2 weeks ago by neighbor kids with a pellet rifle. Scared the bejeezus out of my girlfriend, who was 3 feet away at the time. I'm going home in 6 days for a 2-week leave, and I'll be having a little "talk" with the kids and their parents, who have already owned up to the damage. I'll probably wind up teaching the kids proper weapons safety, since obviously their folks weren't up to it.  The police took a report, and that was it.There have been a couple of IEDs here, with 1 fatality, but nothing directed at US troops. The fatality was a UNMIK (United Nations Mission In Kosovo) cop from Nigeria, who didn't check his vehicle for wires prior to starting it. Oops.  The other IED was an attempted Albanian mob hit, where a US Army EOD guy inadvertently detonated the device after being called in to assist in disarming it. He made it.I stay on base, so very few problems. There are a lot of Muslim KBR employees (remember the DFAC in Mosul?  ) so we still watch ourselves on base.
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Nope. We use dollars, Euros, or "Eagle Cash" which is an Army-issued smart debit card. We are NOT allowed to use dollars out "on the economy" to prevent money-laundering, so we use Euros out there. In Macedonia (where we go to get away from Kosovo), we have to use Macedonian Dinars, which are about 60 to the Euro. |