tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18251921.post164086065614180249..comments2023-05-28T06:10:12.908-04:00Comments on southernxyl: Laura(southernxyl)http://www.blogger.com/profile/02880277733341078157noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18251921.post-72576087959931428692007-02-03T10:06:00.000-05:002007-02-03T10:06:00.000-05:00It's hard not to, if you've been out in the real w...It's hard not to, if you've been out in the real world any length of time.Laura(southernxyl)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02880277733341078157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18251921.post-60668618954130880942007-02-03T09:46:00.000-05:002007-02-03T09:46:00.000-05:00A prospective employer called one of my references...A prospective employer called one of my references (a professor I was working for at the time). "What did they want to know?" I asked. I thought they might want to know if I could price stock options, how well I knew finance theory -- it was a job in corp finance.<br /><br />"They wanted to know if you show up for work on time," he told me.<br /><br />I had just gotten an MBA from a top 20 school and had a 4.0 GPA. And they wanted to know if I came to work on time. I guess they had come to the same conclusion you had.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18251921.post-2909286423030476122007-01-23T08:42:00.000-05:002007-01-23T08:42:00.000-05:00Glad I could help.Glad I could help.Laura(southernxyl)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02880277733341078157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18251921.post-62001880379787593782007-01-23T01:06:00.000-05:002007-01-23T01:06:00.000-05:00"if a process struck him as being the right and ap..."if a process struck him as being the right and appropriate thing to do, no one could convince him otherwise"<br /><br />Been there, done that - ended up in Employment Court. Nothing wrong with his intelligence but you have summed him up in a way I have struggled to do for the last three years.Sharonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00806815812532813897noreply@blogger.com