sometimes you get what you deserve (a flashback)

so occasionally, i cheat on here…i have a dull day, nothing to really write home about (let alone write here about) and so i go surfing around on cnn.com or whatever and try and find shit. and i saw a story on the technology page of cnn.com that caught my eye. it was the kind that just off the title, i thought i knew what angle i would take, how i would bitch, etc, etc, etc…

i lose.

my fault for overestimating the american public. it all goes back to one of the movie quotes i always tell people you live your life by, you can’t go wrong. it’s dan akroyd, from the movie tommy boy, and it says, “what the american public don’t know is what makes them the american public”. this proves it. i had this whole “protect the victim” mode kicking in my head till i read the story and realized that some idiots are just born victims. this would be their story. at least, some of them. the headline read:

“Latest ID Theft Scam: Phony Job Listings”

that’s just wrong. uncool to the highest degree. have you ever been LOOKING for a job? sure…we ALL have. to think someone could take your monster.com profile, resume, etc and scam off your identity while praying on your career seeking, desperate, financially destitute ass is just wrong. but then i actually READ the article, and in the last paragraph we get this…

i’ve heard of the corporate politics stuff. and dress codes. and “power words”. even key phrases you should have in your resume (none of which apparently are in mine) that can get you hired quicker. there’s the first interview, the second interview, the power luncheon, all that good shit. but if they ask you to ship them plutonium? probably a bad call. if they ask you to enter their “credit sweepstakes” where you give up all your credit card numbers and if one of them is lucky you win a prize? (i ripped that off from the simpson’s). bad sign. and if you’re stupid enough to give up that shit to a total stranger when you need a job? you get what you deserve. you can lead a job-questing horse to water, but you can’t make him drink. by the same token, if he buries his face in the water and drowns himself voluntarily, you can’t really feel guilty about that, either.

Replies: 6 Comments

Common sense is a must in these situations, just think think think! LOL

Squig said @ 03/02/2003 03:30 AM CST

nairobi. if that is your real name, that is very beautiful…but you don’t read me to often, do you?

sean said @ 03/02/2003 01:31 AM CST

you’d be surprised just how uncommon it is.

astrofishy said @ 03/01/2003 12:46 AM CST

You think that’s bad? I get these e-mails, occasionally, from some guy in Zimbabwe: “Dear American Venture Capitalist”, “Please deposit 1 million in the bank of Zimbabwe so that we can retrieve 23 million more.” The last time that happened, I called the F.B.I. and asked if they even wanted a report, and the Fed on the other end of the phone says,”Nah, we get so many of those, we just ignore them.”

Which means someone, somewhere, is posting millions to some random bank in Africa.

Now THAT is bad.

nairobi said @ 02/28/2003 09:58 PM CST

unfortunately, common sense isn’t so very common.

fredlet said @ 02/28/2003 06:59 PM CST

I totally agree, some people are just born victims. All it takes is a little common sense, especially in this case.