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 Resume Cover Letters and Employee Evaluations

My sources (which are certainly not above reproach) tell me that the following comments were taken from real resumes and cover letters. 
  • I have lurnt Word Perfect 6.0 computor and speasheet progroms.
  • Received a plague for Salesperson of the Year.
  • Wholly responsible for two (2) failed financial institutions.
  • Reason for leaving last job: maturity leave.
  • Failed bar exam with relatively high grades.
  • It's best for employers that I don't work with people.
  • You will want me to be Head Honcho in no time.
  • I was working for my mom until she decided to move.
  • Marital Status: single, unmarried, uninvolved, no commitments.
  • I have an excellent track record, although I am not a horse.
  • I have become completely paranoid, trusting absolutely no one and absolutely nothing.
  • My goal is to be a meteorologist. But since I posses no training in meteorology, I suppose I should try stock brokerage.
  • I procrastinate, especially when the task is unpleasant.
  • Personal Interests: donating blood. Fourteen gallons so far.
  • Instrumental in ruining entire operation for a Midwest chain store.
  • Note: Please don't misconstrue my 14 jobs as 'job-hopping'. I have never quit a job.
  • Marital Status: often. Children: various.
  • Reason for leaving last job: They insisted that all employees get to work by 8:45am every morning. I couldn't work under those conditions.
  • The company made me a scapegoat, just like the three previous employers.
  • Finished eighth in my class of ten.
  • References: none. I've left a path of destruction behind me.
  • Since my last report, this employee has reached rock bottom and has started to dig.
  • His men would follow him anywhere, but only out of morbid curiosity.
  • I would not allow this employee to breed.
  • This associate is really not so much of a has-been, but more of a definitely won't be.
  • Works well when under constant supervision and cornered like a rat in a trap.
  • When she opens her mouth, it seems that this is only to change whichever foot was previously in there.
  • He would be out of his depth in a parking lot puddle.
  • This young lady has delusions of adequacy.
  • He sets low personal standards and then consistently fails to achieve them.
  • This employee is depriving a village somewhere of an idiot