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Hunter S. Thompson's brutally honest Canadian job request

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Re: Hunter S. Thompson's brutally honest Canadian job request

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Hunter seemed to be heavily inspired by Hemingway at this point in his career.

When Hemingway started out, he worked for the Toronto Star (another Canadian newspaper). He wrote his first novel during this time: The Sun Also Rises, about expatriates living in Paris.

Hunter decided to apply to a Canadian newspaper after admittingly not being familiar with it. Then not long after he wrote his first novel - The Rum Diary - which was heavily inspired by Hemingway's first, about expatriates living in Puerto Rico.

Re: Hunter S. Thompson's brutally honest Canadian job request

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sarcasm? you really think the majority of HN users are startup founders?

No - but many of them have dreamed about getting jobs in vancouver

One thing I've learned from my brief time on HN is that HNers don't like humor. I couldn't read your original comment, but I voted this up because this was a funny response.

Re: Hunter S. Thompson's brutally honest Canadian job request

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

No - but many of them have dreamed about getting jobs in vancouver

One thing I've learned from my brief time on HN is that HNers don't like humor. I couldn't read your original comment, but I voted this up because this was a funny response.

It's not that we don't like humor. Most people just aren't as funny as they think they are.

Re: Hunter S. Thompson's brutally honest Canadian job request

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post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One thing I've learned from my brief time on HN is that HNers don't like humor. I couldn't read your original comment, but I voted this up because this was a funny response.

It's not that we don't like humor. Most people just aren't as funny as they think they are.

Haha, fair enough.

Re: Hunter S. Thompson's brutally honest Canadian job request

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I remember once telling an HR person at M$FT when interviewing for an internship ( 12 years ago ) that "I don't like to be micromanaged." I've since learned to be less forthright in my job interviews.

In other words, you do (it turns out) like being micromanaged. :-)

Re: Hunter S. Thompson's brutally honest Canadian job request

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I don't know anything about Thompson as a person, so I'll refrain from judging. I'm only glad that I'm finally able to put a term to what I despise most about journalism in our country (U.S.), evidently the term is "Gonzo journalism."

"Gonzo journalism tends to favor style over accuracy and often uses personal experiences and emotions to provide context for the topic or event being covered." --Wikipedia

I don't care about what the journalist thinks or feels. I'm an adult and I can form my own opinion, based on my values. Give me the facts! Just please give me the damn facts, I beg you! I don't need the anchor to "show attitude" and give me "what if" scenarios to wiggle my imagination while bending the facts in the process.

Currently, this technique is king among the major news networks in the U.S. It makes them completely incapable of reporting the news in its natural form: facts. It is unethical and amoral for journalists to swing public opinion with eloquent narrative that favors "style over accuracy."

Re: Hunter S. Thompson's brutally honest Canadian job request

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I have always hated writing bullshit cover letters. Now I just write short, honest introductions. As an aside, should I make a plain text version of my resume and put it in the body of the email itself? Or is a pdf attachment enough? I figure the overhead of having to download and open the pdf could be overcome by putting the resume in the body itself. Thoughts?
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