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Wednesday, June 6, 2007 2:33:35 PM
Its been just over 3 months since I joined a part-time job. It happened when I was doing 'research' for the post 'Beware: Uselessness ahead'. Apart from uploading a bogus resume on Monster.com, out of sheer curiosity, I uploaded my own resume, which went like this:
Name : Mr M**** R**
Age : 18
Skills : -
Languages Known : English, Kannada, Hindi (Everybody lies in their resume)
Qualifications : -
To my surprise, I got a call from Pennywise solutions offering me the job of being a content writer (Neighbourhood Guru) for their recently launched website - tolmolbol. All I have to do is eat my stomach's content in a restaurant and then review it in their website. They also sent me cool looking visiting cards with my name on it.
I knew that telling my parents about the job is going to be kinda tough because they're from the previous generation (gen H - 'H' for Hippie), technology is as far apart as George Bush and intelligence or Michael Jackson and testosterone. They eventually said yes, but in the process gave me advice, which was bizarre to say the least.
Mom gave the weirdest advice because all the information about the net she received is from the Oprah Winfrey Show episodes about paedophiles and pornographers.
Mom: When somebody asks you to upload a naked picture of yourself on the net, please don't do it.
Me: What?!!!! Firstly, I'm not that stupid. Secondly, the only website that'd want my nude pictures would be horrorpics.com
Dad's advice wasn't that great either...
Dad: Don't give out personal details like mobile number or phone number. I don't want more solicitors irritating me.
Me: Then how do I receive the checks?
Dad: Give them your Ajji's (Maternal Grandmother in Kannada) phone number. She'll love all that company over the phone. Remember how she was chatting for hours with the country club salesman yesterday?
The bad advice is just a testimony of the generation gap between Gen H and Gen X. As each generation gets a better grip on the technology around them, this generation gap becomes bigger. I remember the dirty look my Grand mom had when my mom told her about E-mail and hotmail ("Hot Male?", she said in disgust).Sometimes, my mom asks me "I saved this attachment, where did it go?". I reply "check either your desktop or my documents". Mom replies "Why will it be there on the desk or in your documents?". As crazy as it sounds, its true. But I'll save all these 'Lost of translations' anecdotes for later.
Name : Mr M**** R**
Age : 18
Skills : -
Languages Known : English, Kannada, Hindi (Everybody lies in their resume)
Qualifications : -
To my surprise, I got a call from Pennywise solutions offering me the job of being a content writer (Neighbourhood Guru) for their recently launched website - tolmolbol. All I have to do is eat my stomach's content in a restaurant and then review it in their website. They also sent me cool looking visiting cards with my name on it.
I knew that telling my parents about the job is going to be kinda tough because they're from the previous generation (gen H - 'H' for Hippie), technology is as far apart as George Bush and intelligence or Michael Jackson and testosterone. They eventually said yes, but in the process gave me advice, which was bizarre to say the least.
Mom gave the weirdest advice because all the information about the net she received is from the Oprah Winfrey Show episodes about paedophiles and pornographers.
Mom: When somebody asks you to upload a naked picture of yourself on the net, please don't do it.
Me: What?!!!! Firstly, I'm not that stupid. Secondly, the only website that'd want my nude pictures would be horrorpics.com
Dad's advice wasn't that great either...
Dad: Don't give out personal details like mobile number or phone number. I don't want more solicitors irritating me.
Me: Then how do I receive the checks?
Dad: Give them your Ajji's (Maternal Grandmother in Kannada) phone number. She'll love all that company over the phone. Remember how she was chatting for hours with the country club salesman yesterday?
The bad advice is just a testimony of the generation gap between Gen H and Gen X. As each generation gets a better grip on the technology around them, this generation gap becomes bigger. I remember the dirty look my Grand mom had when my mom told her about E-mail and hotmail ("Hot Male?", she said in disgust).Sometimes, my mom asks me "I saved this attachment, where did it go?". I reply "check either your desktop or my documents". Mom replies "Why will it be there on the desk or in your documents?". As crazy as it sounds, its true. But I'll save all these 'Lost of translations' anecdotes for later.
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Deke # Sunday, June 10, 2007 12:21:09 PM
Still, she did manage to write a note to a site about the Chisolm Trail, and I've never seen anyone so chuffed when she received a reply from a guy who lived right on it.
Even if he did say it was a motorway nowadays...