r/facepalm Aug 29 '24

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ They really think this is a scandal?

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Who the hell puts their high school summer job on their professional CV?

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u/everythingbeeps Aug 29 '24

Assuming she did more meaningful things during college, it's very easy to believe McDonald's wouldn't be on the resume.

It's the kind of thing you put on there when you just have nothing else.

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u/ABookishSort Aug 29 '24

Yeah I mean my work history hasn’t been anywhere near as illustrious as hers but I don’t usually bring up my three months working at Burger King forty years ago.

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u/nooneknowswerealldog Aug 29 '24

I've learned a lot of skills as a busboy that have helped me throughout my career, including in my current job. But for some strange reason, people in the medical data analytics field are more interested in my specific skills in medical data analytics. (I mean, they're not completely incurious about my soft skills; every manager I've ever had asks me why my response to any question in a meeting is to say, "I'm not sure; lemme check with your server" and run out of the room.)

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u/Try2MakeMeBee Aug 29 '24

Same with medical billing. They for some reason don't care I waitressed a decade ago. I learned skills still useful but all they care about is my medical billing experience and education. How weird. /s

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u/StankoMicin Aug 29 '24

As a nurse, I have never had anyone ask me if my experience working concessions at the movie theater as propelled me through my nursing career.

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u/No-Youth-6679 Aug 29 '24

Same here, my experience detassling corn, working at Wendy’s and being a cashier at Hyvee in high school doesn’t enhance my 37 yrs as a nurse. During interviews detassling at 14 isn’t discussed.

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u/whatsasimba Aug 30 '24

Yep. Medical Editor here. I don't even include my years as a pharmacy tech, despite it being slightly relevant, because I'm not adding a third page just so I can talk about my retail (and waitressing, babysitting, etc) experience. Heck, my most impressive job title isn't even on there, because it was 30 years ago and totally irrelevant.

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u/slatebluegrey Aug 29 '24

“You are one of our top choices for CFO, except this puzzling gap in your resume. Can you explain this 3-month gap in employment between 10th and 11th grade?”

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u/Acceptingoptimist Aug 29 '24

I do IT consulting, but I think my work in retail and the food industry was important in learning and appreciating customer service and believe everyone should be required to work a little in both before graduation.

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u/cman1098 Aug 29 '24

Which is why this isn't some bombshell against Kamala. They are literally helping her. I respect that she was willing to grind at McDonalds and no job was above her on the ladder up.

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u/-rosa-azul- Aug 29 '24

You've gotta be able to talk to users and meet them where they're at. Retail CS and food service are great learning experiences for talking to all kinds of people.

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u/Representative-Sir97 Aug 29 '24

Lulz... check with your server... data analytics.

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u/Topinio Aug 29 '24

Yeah, my CV has only my relevant formal qualifications and my last 3 jobs on it as that covers the last 23 years and is what's relevant to the industry and role family I'm working in.

I don't have the space or the desire to waste people's time reading about how I did a paper round, farm work, or any of the other short term low paid teenage stuff. They're certainly not going to be more likely to be interested if I did, I wouldn't be when I'm hiring, I just want to see the recent and relevant info in a nice easy format when I'm sifting hundreds of apps.

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u/KadenKraw Aug 29 '24

Same for me for resumes. I do have all my past jobs back to highschool on linkedin though.

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u/drailCA Aug 29 '24

So I should take the 2 months I worked at KFC 25 years ago off my resume?

Fine, but I'm keeping the 3 week stint as a truck stop janitor I did when I was 14, only to quit after my first paycheck to actually go and enjoy the rest of my summer!

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u/Mudder512 Aug 29 '24

So tell us, did you REALLY enjoy that summer off? Or did you spend the whole summer RIDDLED WITH REGRET for throwing away an opportunity to join the fast-paced, high-stakes, dog-eat-dog, but highly compensated, world of the Sanitation Engineering industry? /s

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u/BojackTrashMan Aug 29 '24

It's so funny cuz if anything this just makes her more relatable

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u/Colosseros Aug 29 '24

And they are also openly displaying their disdain for the poor. 

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u/zombie_girraffe Aug 29 '24

They seem to be displaying a complete lack of understanding about how hiring for every professional industry in the country works.

If I saw McDonalds listed on a Resume applying for a Software Engineer position and the applicant wasn't a teenager or 20 something applying for an internship or Junior position, id view it as a red flag.

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u/CarbonWood Aug 29 '24

Surprise, GOP millionaires are out of touch with average Americans!

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u/TheDunadan29 Aug 29 '24

If I put every job I've ever had on one resume it would be pages long. Like at least 4-5. Maybe 3 if I'm really condensing to just the basics. But hey, you never know when someone's going to look at my resume in 30 years and say "hey you forgot to list that time you worked at the food court when you were 15!"

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u/TheManWhoWasNotShort Aug 29 '24

I’m only in my 30s and have done virtually nothing important and I don’t think my summer job flipping burgers makes it in even a long autobiography of my life

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u/Big-Summer- Aug 29 '24

At some point fairly early on in my career, I stopped listing the rather menial jobs I had in high school and college. It would have looked ridiculous and irrelevant when I was applying for jobs that required a Masters degree. Free Beacon is either ignorant and doesn’t understand that or they’re lying just to smear Kamala. Jerks.

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u/OoooShinyThings Aug 29 '24

I work in microbiology for 20 years now but I don’t mention the 2 months I worked at O’Reilly delivering parts in between jobs. One of the most fun jobs I probably had but it’s not relevant. 

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u/DanHero91 Aug 29 '24

What are you hiding? Next you're gonna say it's weird to fuck couches or something.

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u/sean0883 Aug 29 '24

Can confirm.

I worked at McD's for about 5 months before joining the military a little over 20 years ago, and I'm not sure you'll find a record of me listing it anywhere.

Now imagine how hard it would be to find if it was Kamala's 40 years ago.

It just isn't experience that was going to tip any scales. "Hmmm, 4 years of military service... but 5 months at McDonald's? Why didn't you start with that?!?"

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u/Romanbuckminster88 Aug 29 '24

Can you imagine being at an interview and you don’t get hired because you didn’t list your McDonald’s work experience from 20 years ago lol

Is this the world they want? Tons of moving goal posts, a bunch of “rules for thee but not for me”? Sounds great.

“Oh I see military here but what about before that? Any food service positions? We need to know you can take orders” 😆

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u/Portercake Aug 29 '24

The intended audience is more familiar with leaving a job off the resume because it didn’t end well.

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u/DasFAD70 Aug 29 '24

You solved it! Those conservatives don’t have nothing else to put there. That’s why it’s a scandal for them.

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u/Unfair_Welder8108 Aug 29 '24

I mean, aren't you supposed to limit your resume to the last five or six years anyway, unless it's really relevant? This absolutely also smacks of people who were inexplicably CEO of daddy's firm after they pulled themselves up by the bootstraps and bought their way through college

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u/AdEmbarrassed9719 Aug 29 '24

For real, like, I'm a graphic designer and have been since the mid 90s. If I was applying for jobs nobody is going to care about that summer job at the shoe store (that I can't even remember when the heck it was), my first job running rides at an amusement park in 1992, or that I worked daycare in summers and holidays during college. Knowing how to run an old fashioned wooden roller coaster, warm bottles and change diapers isn't anything that's come up during my career, and while working a retail job probably did influence Harris (I think everyone should work at least one retail job with the public so they get experience dealing with nitwits so they are less likely to become Karens) for the good it's not like as president she's going to need to run a cash register or fry up some nuggets.

Why is it a scandal that a young Kamala Harris worked a normal young person job for a while just like the vast majority of people who weren't born into wealth? If anything it makes them look more elitist and out of touch by making a big deal about it.

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u/rissak722 Aug 29 '24

I care about your job running rides at an amusement park in 1992. I mean that sounds like fun.

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u/AdEmbarrassed9719 Aug 29 '24

I added some rambling as a reply to my post! It was a great first job for sure. Not sure I could do it now (too much sun and heat) but it was really great between high school and college.

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u/AdEmbarrassed9719 Aug 29 '24

Oh wow so since it seems people are interested, a little about my job at the amusement park! It was Carowinds, on the NC/SC line, and halfway through the summer I worked there was when Paramount bought the park (Cedar Fair owns it now). Prior to Paramount it had a deal with Hanna Barbera, and I worked specifically in the lower half of the kiddie section that had some of that theming. It was my very first job ever.

The wooden coaster at the time was called Scooby Doo, and it is still there themed to Woodstock from Peanuts. Driving the coaster was my favorite shift (we switched positions hourly) because it was seated in the shade with a fan blowing on you, and it was fun to handle two trains running, and to try to perfect the braking to bring the cars into the station as smoothly as possible to stop them in just the right spot. There were automatic brakes of course to stop the train flying into the station, and controlling them meant pressing buttons (2 at a time) to open the three sets of brakes. So press-release-press on the left and middle button, then press-release-press on the middle and right hand button. Done well there was no jerking or sudden stops and the train would glide right in gently (last time I rode it a couple years ago I was very tempted to offer to assist the driver because they did NOT have that skill, though they probably have changed how the system works by now).

All while reciting the spiel on a microphone, because there were no recorded ones at the time. "Welcome back and I hope you enjoyed your ride on Scooby Doo! Please lift up on your lap bars and exit to the right of the station and down the ramp. Remember to grab all of your belongings and take small children by the hand. Enjoy the rest of your day here at Carowinds!" (usually followed by "your right. Exit to your right. Your other right..." and sometimes "please no running on the ramp!") and as soon as the last of the people had gotten out of their seats, you'd open the gates for the next riders - "Welcome to Scooby Doo! Please take your seats quickly and pull down on your lap bars, securing any loose items and making sure small children are riding with an adult. Please raise your hands as the attendants check your lap bars and remember to remain seated with hands and arms inside the car at all times. (at this point lap bar attendant gives a thumbs up saying all is good) Enjoy your ride on Scooby Doo! (said while releasing the train from the brakes to start the ride)" Then there was the usual "please do not sit, stand, or swing on the railings, please!" callout every few minutes in the station.

At the end of the night some of us would have to climb around under the roller coaster structure to collect the items people had lost on the ride. This was before cellphones were ubiquitous so none of those, but lots of sunglasses and hats. I really liked being the driver of the coaster last shift of the day as the park was about to close - the crowds would dwindle and if there was no one waiting for people's seat, they could stay on for a second ride. And if the last train came in and there was no one waiting to get on, I'd give the whole train one last ride if they wanted it.

The other rides I operated were the carousel (it's now been moved out of that area), the baby swings, the little train (actually riding in the train engine!), and a couple other kiddie rides none of which I think are still there. With the circling rides like the carousel the operator controlled how long the ride ran, so if it wasn't crowded it could go longer. I'd also try to practice stopping it at a certain spot. And if someone was being obnoxious they'd get deliberately stopped the furthest from the exit gate (and if it was really slow and they were the only ones on, might get a shorter ride).

Everyone got an hour on broom and bucket sweeping up trash (lots of cigarette butts back then) each day as well. You didn't want that one last thing if you could help it because you might have to go help out with the upper section, which had a funnel cake stand, and powdered sugar does not sweep up off of asphalt easily! We had outfits themed to each area, I had a baby blue set and a pink set... shorts, a white square neck blouse with puffy sleeves (it was really cute), and a gingham pinafore with ruffled edges worn over that. The park at the time was themed to regions of the area so the coastal area had people dressed as pirates, mountain area had a more old timey country look, etc. Shoes were black and were Reebok low top sneakers that had "Carowinds" where the Reebok logo should have been and Fred Flintstone on the tongue of the shoe. I have never been so tan before or since than I was that summer. At college I got compliments on my highlights in my hair, from being in the sun all summer.

Interestingly as the park is on the state line, I lived in NC, would park in SC, walk to work in NC, go have lunch break in SC, then go back to work in NC, then back to SC to get in my car to leave.

I think I still have my name badges from working there!

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u/MochaHasAnOpinion Aug 29 '24

That sounds like so much fun. Thanks for sharing! 😊

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u/djinnisequoia Aug 29 '24

I too am delighted to hear that you ran an old fashioned wooden roller coaster back in the day. I have fond memories of one of those. Lol rickety in the extreme, but charming.

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u/TraditionalHeart6387 Aug 29 '24

You are also supposed to tailor your resume to the job you are applying for. 

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u/Unfair_Welder8108 Aug 29 '24

AOC was a bartender, Harris worked in McDonald's, it's absolutely disgusting. Why didn't they just have parents who were already millionaires, then they could have worked their way up from the bottom

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u/Squirrel_Chucks Aug 29 '24

AOC was a bartender and Republicans belittle her by saying she was just a bartender.

The supposed party of the working American really hates the plebs it pretends to champion.

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u/WhoAreWeEven Aug 29 '24

I think thats a dogwhistle.

To us plebs someone working at shitty job at some point seems like relatable thing, like a good thing I guess.

But people who are billionaires thanks to their lineage, like the kings of the past, a contemporary ruling class ofcourse dont want us plebs to have power. They want one of their own in there.

So thats a red flag for those people. We sit here and laugh and think hows that a bad thing. But for some it actually is a bad look.

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u/Unusual-Thing-7149 Aug 29 '24

I doubt Trump has ever been shopping in a supermarket in his life and probably the only time he's been in one was if he was buying it or looking for a photo opportunity. At least AOC and Harris know what a crappy job is like

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u/Emergency-Leading-10 Aug 29 '24

This! He thinks we have to show ID to "buy bread".

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '24

A little off topic here, but to your point.. Remember that time Paris Hilton didn’t know what the heck Walmart is? These folks live in a bubble.

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u/iwonteverreplytoyou Aug 29 '24

“You gotta pull yourself up by your bootstraps”

AOC becomes a bartender and later a politician

“Wait no! Not like that!!”

Incidentally, the “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” phrase they love so much is actually, hilariously, way more apt than they realize.

It is fundamentally impossible to literally lift yourself up by your own bootstraps. That would be like trying to lift yourself up by pulling real hard on your belt.

I’d say they’re dummies for yelling it so much, but the sad truth is that they actually do want it to be impossible for working class people and below to actually work their way up through merit

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u/squigglesthecat Aug 29 '24

Meritocracy is a lie they tell themselves to feel like they earned their place, and one they tell peasants to keep them working hard.

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u/One_Of_Noahs_Whales Aug 29 '24

trying to lift yourself up by pulling real hard on your belt.

Well my voice went up a couple of octaves at least...

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u/BZLuck Aug 29 '24

It's the same as the "He's just a bad apple..." to justify the actions of corrupt murderous police officers.

They always forget the, "...spoils the bunch." part.

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u/ellasaurusrex Aug 29 '24

They are fine with them as long as they "know their place" and don't ask for things like a fair wage, parental leave, and actual respect.

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u/Klutzy-Medium9224 Aug 29 '24

I without a doubt know I could never be a bartender. That job looks frickin hard, and I have worked jobs that some would consider hard on their own. But the coordination and multitasking and socializing of bartending? Wowsa.

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u/Z3400 Aug 29 '24

I wonder if either of them had shitty managers who talked down to them. I mean, maybe they were genuinely bad at their jobs, I have no idea, but it just seems funny to think someone, somewhere, is thinking "wow, that former employee who I once told would never be management material is now running for president"

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u/medicmatt Aug 29 '24

Clearly didn’t do escort work to meet Ted Cruz. Sad.

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u/YoudoVodou Aug 29 '24

The outcry directed at people that have worked 'normal' jobs before running for and holding political offices is hilarious

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u/charlie2135 Aug 29 '24

It's almost as if, "They pulled themselves up by their bootstraps instead of Daddy's money!" How unAmerican!

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u/nelsonalgrencametome Aug 29 '24

The people who will think this is actually a big deal have probably never written a resume.

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u/GlitteringBobcat999 Aug 29 '24

I miss the days when everyone understood how out of touch Mitt Romney was when he related his "common man" struggle of having to sell $400k in stock just to get through college. He actually thought that was a real relatable working man's story.

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u/I_Frothingslosh Aug 29 '24

And yet, it was the 47% comment that cost him the election, not this, because the 47% one cost him the boomers and up.

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u/TuringT Aug 29 '24

Yeah, I've stopped putting my college dishwasher job on my resume after serving as CEO. Scandal.

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u/Cheefnuggs Aug 29 '24

Typically, the most recent 3 jobs in my experience.

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u/Wilvinc Aug 29 '24

I think they just don't realize that us "normies" will skip fast food restaurants on our resume. That is paper application information, not resume information.

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u/Avent Aug 29 '24 edited Aug 29 '24

Exactly. It's the kind of job that answers "What have you been doing in these gaps?" Not the kind of job that takes up valuable real estate on your resume.

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u/SilentDis Aug 29 '24

Oh, wait... this is part of that mythical 'permanent record' they all crow about all the time, isn't it? Like... that job will follow you for life somehow.

I could understand listing McDonald's if you moved up to one of the managerial roles before jumping to other work. Not shift manager even, but store/co-store manager? Sure. That's skills that'll translate elsewhere.

Lifting a burger when the machine goes beep doesn't really translate elsewhere. No one gives a shit.

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u/AnalogKid-001 Aug 29 '24

Right. Not all of my jobs are on my resume either. Résumé is not a legal document. It’s an advertising piece.

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u/Child_of_the_Hamster Aug 29 '24

Exactly. In high school we were taught to tailor your resume to the job you’re applying for. It’s just common sense. A hiring manager at the DOJ doesn’t give a fuck that you worked at Mickey D’s. Plus you don’t want your resume to be 10 pages long because no one wants to read all that.

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u/ExperimentX_Agent10 Aug 29 '24

Right, plus it's recommended only to list the last 5-7 years and relevant work experience for the job you're applying to.

Typically folks are going to remove something like McDonald's off their resume ASAP. Especially because society still looks down upon those who work there (esp places like McDonald's and Walmart).

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u/coffeeandcoffeeand Aug 29 '24

I don't have my time at Subway on my resume from college. Can't image why I don't list that these days.

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u/HalfSoul30 Aug 29 '24

Yep. I worked in a factory for 7 weeks, and it was only listed on my resume for the job I got after. I taken it off for the next 2 jobs after that.

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u/Hay_Fever_at_3_AM Aug 29 '24

These fuckin people have never had a single job that wasn't a nepo hire

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u/BuzzIsMe Aug 29 '24

Have had multiple employers say it's one of the biggest green flags they see on a resume. If you spend years at a McDonald's you know how to work as part of a massive team going through chaos on the hourly.

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u/GilpinMTBQ Aug 29 '24 edited Aug 29 '24

Wait.... they think not listing a high school summer job on a post-college resume is a scandal?

I worked for Bellevue Kennels Dog Boarding and Grooming... do they think I would put that on my resume when applying to Raytheon?

Edit: Can I just say that I love that this comment has prompted so many stories about the little jobs people have had during their lives?

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u/surfdad67 Aug 29 '24

Right? I work for the FAA, but that 3 month stint as a dishwasher at Dennys when I was 15 sure as shit is not in my resume

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u/InfiniteRaccoons Aug 29 '24

Anyone who thinks this is an issue has never worked at a professional job. I work at a Fortune 500. I definitely don't have my high school WalMart job on my resume. You only put professionally relevant experience on a professional resume.

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u/-o-DildoGaggins-o- Aug 29 '24

This is what I was just about to ask. I thought that’s how it goes — only putting relevant experience that pertains to the job you’re applying for.

Also… Who lists their teenage summer job on a resume, anyway, unless they’re applying for their very next job? That just sounds so stupid to me.

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u/zflora Aug 29 '24

Sometimes even relevant (but less) xp has to be omitted because of resume length. In some industry after 10 years, writing a 2 pages resume is the most challenging thing in recruitment.

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u/GilpinMTBQ Aug 29 '24

I walked out halfway through my first shift at JP Licks Ice Cream... As far as I'm concerned I never worked there.

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u/UngusChungus94 Aug 29 '24

Which reminds me, it’s probably time to take my college internship off my resume since I’m almost 30 now.

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u/tree-molester Aug 29 '24

I don’t know, I mean have you seen the weaponized robotic dogs they are putting out into combat these days. Think you should reconsider that omission.

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u/Haikubaiku Aug 29 '24

Do… Do robots need grooming? Have I been neglecting my Roomba?

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u/tree-molester Aug 29 '24

According to the constant notifications that I get, my Roomba needs more attention than my dogs.

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u/GilpinMTBQ Aug 29 '24

I haven't seen my Roomba in weeks.  At this point I'm convinced it took off on a crosscountry Homeward Bound style trip to reunite itself with my brother in St. Louis.

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u/Toasterdosnttoast Aug 29 '24

Cleaning up Americas filth along the way. God speed little Roomba!

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u/brijazz012 Aug 29 '24

It will be beaten to death in Philly, like that hitchhiking robot. RIP, little fella

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u/Toasterdosnttoast Aug 29 '24

RIP hitchhiker bot

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u/marrissa_ Aug 29 '24

That would make a cute short film😭😭

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u/ElectriHolstein Aug 29 '24

🤣🤣🤣🤪 I snort laughed at my desk, and my coworkers looked at me like I was crazy!

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u/lookaway123 Aug 29 '24

I'd watch that movie lol.

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u/toady23 Aug 29 '24

OMG This^

This right here

That Roomba is one needy bitch!!!

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u/Plastic-Conflict7999 Aug 29 '24

You havent been grooming your robot??!! That's robot abuse

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u/Katz3njamm3r Aug 29 '24

I mean, mine literally came with a hairbrush to clean the rollers with so yeah I suppose they do lol

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u/recyclar13 Aug 29 '24

This. this is what I came looking for. I partially dismantle mine to clean it. that kitty litter gets EVERYwhere inside.

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u/anaserre Aug 29 '24

Not sure Roomba is made to pick up large quantities of kitty litter 😬

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u/Chemical_Actuary_190 Aug 29 '24

You should walk it daily and make sure it has fresh dust bunnies to eat.

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u/Apprehensive-Care20z Aug 29 '24

You have failed to Groomba your Roomba.

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u/SecBalloonDoggies Aug 29 '24

Obviously, you're trying to hide the fact you were a groomer!

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u/GilpinMTBQ Aug 29 '24

"And I told him if you don't train him another Terrier attack is imminent!"

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u/gloomdwellerX Aug 29 '24

Something something Tim Walz took his dog to a pride parade!

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u/thesexytech Aug 29 '24

Not only that his dog was wearing "gay" clothes! I laughed so hard I jumped on Amazon and bought my dog a rainbow bandana so she could have"gay" clothes too . . .

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u/McMcusername Aug 29 '24 edited Aug 29 '24

When you’re that famous They just let you pet them

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u/Alternative_Year_340 Aug 29 '24

This is the biggest scandal since Obama wore a tan suit

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u/level27jennybro Aug 29 '24

How could anybody forget about Tan Suit-gate. What a shocking moment for this country.

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u/dismayhurta Aug 29 '24

It was the Jan 6th of his presidency

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u/hoonyosrs Aug 29 '24

I can't help but just read their critique as classism. It's like they view service jobs as a form of leprosy, a stain on you forever. Remember the whole "AOC WAS A BARTENDER!!!" thing? It's like being an actual working class American legitimately makes you a lesser, in their eyes. It's hard not to see it as outdated Caste system bullshit.

Makes sense, because they're the same people that bitch about minimum wage, while screeching "no one wants to work anymore!" AND simultaneously mistreating service staff. Truly wonderful people.

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u/KingOfTheCouch13 Aug 29 '24

Your guy is a convicted felon, has bankrupted multiple companies, and is accused of raping a 12yo girl.

Oh yeah? Well Kamala never worked at McDonalds!

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u/LOERMaster 'MURICA Aug 29 '24

Let’s not forget that Orangitang’s Mini-Me told Harris to go to hell when her campaign called out Trump on using Arlington for his personal photo op.

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u/ExperimentX_Agent10 Aug 29 '24

They're claiming she lied. That she's pretending she worked at McDonald's, when she didn't, to be more favorable to voters 🙄

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u/GilpinMTBQ Aug 29 '24

As if their fucking guy doesn't lie every time he opens his fucking mouth...

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u/ExperimentX_Agent10 Aug 29 '24

Exactly. It's all projection

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u/dismayhurta Aug 29 '24

They legit have nothing.

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u/Mcboatface3sghost Aug 29 '24

I was a bartender in college, that was 30 years ago, and I tell EVERYONE about it, including you. (Also it’s not my resume and hasn’t been for 28 years).

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u/octowussy Aug 29 '24

You don't understand. She also didn't write a chapter about it in any of her books! This is obviously a scandal of unparalleled proportions.

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u/Coca-colonization Aug 29 '24

The summer I was 15, I babysat for my cousin’s kids while she worked from home. I think the tenure review board will be really impressed.

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u/thepottsy Aug 29 '24

Well, to be fair, some of them can’t even list High School on their resumes.

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u/GeographyJones Aug 29 '24

Traffic cop: Do you know why I'm here?

Motorist: You flunked out of high school?

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u/Adventurous_Goat_227 Aug 29 '24

Trump didn't list his experience going to the Epstein island so.

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u/RedPandaReturns Aug 29 '24

childcare experience

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u/simpletonclass Aug 29 '24

Babysitting 😩

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u/Timeformayo Aug 29 '24

Putting kids in bed even when they really, really didn’t want to.

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u/IQBoosterShot Aug 29 '24

That is the darkest kind of humor. Savage.

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u/Martin2989 'MURICA Aug 29 '24

Take my angry upvote!

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u/RabidWalrus Aug 29 '24

*childscare

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u/Salcha_00 Aug 29 '24

Imagine not highlighting your fast food job when seeking permanent professional work in line with your education.

Unless you are applying for another fast food job, it would be irrelevant and weird to include.

They are REALLY grasping for straws here.

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u/Oxygenius_ Aug 29 '24

This just in: “Kamala is a normal American, republicans are incensed”

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u/ballmermurland Aug 29 '24

I'd include it if I was applying for McDonalds Corporate. Otherwise, hell naw.

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u/rc1024 Aug 29 '24

Conservatives are only just realising that a resume isn't exhaustive?

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u/ImMrBunny Aug 29 '24

They somehow see having a previous job as a bad thing . Look how they call AOC "just a waitress"

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u/detourne Aug 29 '24

In Canada, Justin Trudeau gets ragged on so much for his previous positions as a drama teacher and a boxer, meanwhile the politician usually whining about it, PP, has literally never had a real job in his life beyond politician.

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u/nooneknowswerealldog Aug 29 '24

I've got friends who teach drama. I've seen them wrangle a classroom full of high school kids all hopped up on hormones, each trying to emote "Look at me!" in their own weird way.

I've also watched the House of Commons live feed on CPAC. The similarities are uncanny.

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u/Child_of_the_Hamster Aug 29 '24

They call it “political theater” for a reason lol. If anything, being a drama teacher seems like relevant experience.

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u/Beltaine421 Aug 29 '24

He normally taught math and French. He just subbed for a drama teacher on maternity leave once.

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u/ImMrBunny Aug 29 '24

Yet PP is just as much of a theater kid as Justin

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u/Bl1tzerX Aug 29 '24

I think he likes drama a little more than Justin

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u/Caca74houete Aug 29 '24

Bobby Newport has never had a real job... in his life

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u/sloppybuttmustard Aug 29 '24

That’s funny considering they constantly brand themselves as the champions of the working class, then shit on people who had working class jobs before they made it into politics

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u/possibly_oblivious Aug 29 '24

"omg look at this loser who has to work to stay alive, poor people suck"

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u/b-monster666 Aug 29 '24

It's rabid billionaires who were handed everything they got and have no clue that some people (read: 99% of the population) start off at the bottom rung and have to work their way up.

AOC was a waitress and Kamala served burgers? Great! That makes them more relatable to the average person since they have a memory of what it's like to struggle to get by. Rather than daddy giving them $10m and saying, "Go play in the diamond mines. Here's your whip."

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u/voppp Aug 29 '24

I imagine most of them would scoff at "Curriculum Vitae" and call it liberal "wokeness"

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u/sharksnrec Aug 29 '24

To be fair, most of them have nothing to put on than resume other than their job at McDonald’s, so they can’t fathom that someone would leave something like that off.

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u/drjojoro Aug 29 '24

They said keep it on one page and my font is already at size 3 but I just got a new job. Reddit, does this have to be my last job?

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u/ReputedLlama Aug 29 '24 edited Aug 29 '24

I worked at McDonald’s for 7 months. You better believe I dropped it from my resume as fast as I could. Edit:grammar

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u/bluerose1197 Aug 29 '24

I worked at a Dairy Queen for about 5 months. Was not on my resume when applying for a college job.

I also did 6 months with Americore Vista but never put it on a resume because my experience was so bad and didn't want to talk about it during interviews.

And resumes traditionally only go back 10 years for work history.

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u/PGSylphir Aug 29 '24

If you went 6mths or more I would be interested in you as a hire tbh. Shows you have the patience of a saint. I wouldn't last a month.

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u/EvilUnic0rn Aug 29 '24

One of my summer jobs was handing out flyers for some "ghost sightseeing tour" in costume. I always left it out of my resume, because I don't work in tourism or something and it wasn't relevant for any other job. I'm not ashamed of the job, it was honestly really fun, but it's just not relevant.....

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u/Pycharming Aug 29 '24

I have a whole ass degree and some internships I leave off my resume because I changed careers early on. Some of the work is even slightly relevant and some people insist “omg why leave that out?!?! it makes you stand out!” But without fail every interviewer will spend the entire time asking me about my field work, nothing about the experience relevant to the job I’m applying to, and then I get the rejection email stating they went with a candidate with more technical skills. And sadly in my industry being perceived as 5 or so years younger can be very beneficial.

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u/Meaxis Aug 29 '24

If they're trying to shame her for working at McDonald's, I just respect her more. I'm not from the US but I'm in shit financially, I'd love to have a president that knew what it was to work a shitty job and not a rich billionaire

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u/MrIntegration Aug 29 '24

This was my thought exactly. Wish it was higher up.

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u/BooneSalvo2 Aug 29 '24

Same. Makes me like her MORE

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u/NotThatValleyGirl Aug 29 '24

Right? At least 6 months of minimum wage grunt work should be a requirement for holding any political office.

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u/holdmysugar Aug 29 '24

I respect her more also. I have a pretty good life today, Master's degree and decent income, and one job I'm proudest of is having worked at McDonald's for a year and a half during high school. I taught my kids they are never "above" any kind of work at a legitimate job.

People who would use this to discredit lack character. They don't get it. You start where you have to start in life; you finish strong.

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u/Kind_Man_0 Aug 29 '24

If I listed every job I ever had on a resume, it would be so long that they wouldn't even look at it. Better practice is to list jobs that have relevancy to what you're applying for.

If I was applying to be an attorney, I'm not listing my 6 month tenure at a fast food chain from when I was 20 years old.

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u/jessi428 Aug 29 '24

I folded clothes at the Gap for two months in the summer of 2002. It’s not still on my resume

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u/Ppleater Aug 29 '24

Yeah one of the things I've been told by people who give professional resume advice is to keep it to one page unless it's for a really high end job that requires a lot of experience, and then you can maybe extend it to 2 pages if you're confident that including all that experience will help you. Most recruiters want to be able to look through every resume quickly and easily and not worry about flipping through multiple pages for each person. If they want more information that wasn't included they can always ask in an interview, but what they're looking for at the start is the equivalent of an advertisement for you as an employee, and pretty much everyone hates long wordy advertisements.

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u/FlashRx Aug 29 '24

I took my bag boy job at Publix off my CV when I graduated college...

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u/angels_10000 Aug 29 '24

Now you can't be President.

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u/Granadafan Aug 29 '24

Conservatives hate this one trick!

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u/surfdad67 Aug 29 '24

This is a Florida kid rite of passage, my first “legitimate” job was a bagger at Publix

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u/DoeCommaJohn Aug 29 '24

This just shows how out of touch these trust fund kids are. I worked at Dairy Queen and Five Guys in high school, but now that I have real experience in my field, no employer will care about my time in fast food, so I don’t put those on my resume. Of course, Republicans who have never had to work a day in their lives wouldn’t know that

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u/MrWilsonWalluby Aug 29 '24

In todays day, these piece of shit HR reps and recruiters might actually see you listing them as “working low income jobs in past might be a sign of financial turmoil, or unstable home situation, might potentially be inconsistent employee” and throw out your application.

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u/Val_Hallen Aug 29 '24

Hell, I've been at my current job for 14 years now. Nobody cares about ANY job I had before this one. Why even bring up a job I did over a decade ago?

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u/Ersistek15101 Aug 29 '24

I have worked at McD's for 3 years. Guess what's not on my resume..

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u/KGreen100 Aug 29 '24

Stolen valor!!!

jk.

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u/Common_Dealer_7541 Aug 29 '24

I laughed. +1

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u/DurnchMcGurnicuddy Aug 29 '24

You'd think the photographs of her in uniform and at work would be enough to convince people.

Sigh 😕

At least they haven't attacked anyone for petting multiple dogs at a dog park......wait.....

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u/Kingofthewho5 Aug 29 '24

Can you give a link to that photo? I haven’t seen it.

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u/The_Mother_ Aug 29 '24 edited Aug 29 '24

Walz is the one who was petting a dog.

Edit: here you go. https://www.reddit.com/r/Kamala/s/EwYVIII8S5

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u/toady23 Aug 29 '24

Damn it!!!

As a dog lover, I NOW HAVE TO VOTE FOR THIS GUY!!!

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u/miregalpanic Aug 29 '24

Didn't someone pretty publicly mention it at the DNC? What do they think is the shady part or anything here?

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u/Ok_Cauliflower_3007 Aug 29 '24

They’re suggesting she lied about working there to be ‘relatable’ but clearly didn’t because why else wouldn’t it be front and Center when you’re applying for law school/legal jobs. Like the DA’s office are going to say ok this one candidate was top at Harvard law, passed the bar on the first try, has exceptional recommendations, but this other person worked at McDonald’s so clearly they’re the superior attorney….

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u/miregalpanic Aug 29 '24

Ah, that is their angle. I see.

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u/--StinkyPinky-- Aug 29 '24

The problem for Harris is that she's too relatable.

If these ding dongs make it seem like she's NOT relatable, they think this is a net positive for Trump.

They never understand optics.....how it doesn't make your Trump look better and it makes you look like you're absolutely out of touch with the real world.

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u/dedguy21 'MURICA Aug 29 '24

Right... Welp guessing they never took the LSAT, or applied for any job where McDonald's experience would be irrelevant to the position 🤷

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u/iBeenie Aug 29 '24

They're desperately searching for any dirt on Harris they can find.... And this is the best that they could do

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u/livinthedreamoflife Aug 29 '24

Anyone check her closet for a tan suit?

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u/Mcboatface3sghost Aug 29 '24

She wore it the night she accepted her nomination at the DNC, master troll move.

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u/iwantedthisusername Aug 29 '24

I worked at best buy. I have not put that on my resume since before college. I'm a machine learning engineer. It hasn't been relevant in a long time.

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u/LawfulAwfulOffal Aug 29 '24

Just wait. They’re going to say that as a prosecutor, she went too easy on the Hamburglar.

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u/drewmana Aug 29 '24

So….she’s actually more experienced than she lets on? That’s their new problem with her?

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u/SolidusKal Aug 29 '24

Your CV should be tailored to the job you are interviewing. how is having a summer job at McDs relevant to running the country?

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u/slambamo Aug 29 '24

This is a big deal, but Donald Trump refusing to release his tax returns for 8+ years is perfectly fine. These people are dumb as dirt.

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u/SilentDis Aug 29 '24

I worked at McDonald's as a teenager. I then moved on to working at Culver's. After that, I moved into tech support.

I never listed McDonald's or Culver's anywhere, either.

Why would I list working at McDonald's as I exited food service entirely?

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u/TehWildMan_ 'Verified Premoum Aug 29 '24

Anyone who has ever applied for a job knows that one of the biggest rules of writing a resume is that you should never include minimally relevant experience if doing so would crowd out relevant information.

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u/TitleVisual6666 Aug 29 '24 edited Aug 29 '24

Yeah exactly. People for some reason think a resume should be “everything you’ve ever done, the longer the better”, when it’s a document you make to appeal to the place you’re applying to.

I think I’ve had three jobs I’ve never put on any resume, and my latest one I left out a managerial position because I had other experience that was more relevant to the job I applied for.

E: mad trumpers be downvotin’

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u/hinanska0211 Aug 29 '24

Oh, honestly. I had all kinds of jobs in high school and while I was working on my undergraduate degree. The only ones I included on my professional resume were the ones that pertained in some way to the job I was applying for. Nobody would put a fast food job on a professional resume, as anyone who has ever put together a professional job application would know.

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u/NedCarlton Aug 29 '24

They just think she’s behind cancelling the “super size me”, they love some burgers and fries.

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u/No_Party5870 Aug 29 '24

Now imagine if she said she was in a near helicopter crash with someone and it never happened. Or if she said big guys with tears in their eyes came up and said I was the greatest ever.

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u/KsubiSam Aug 29 '24

I’m honestly more concerned about the double apostrophe s on “Harris’s”.

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u/misagale Aug 29 '24

I worked at Arby’s and Golden Corral in high school. I’ve never once mentioned it in any bio, resume, or to any prospective employer. These Magas are really reaching. I wonder if JD Vance includes “couch f****r” on his resume?

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u/paladindan Aug 29 '24

Well, shit, who do I vote for now?

The convicted felon who was a frequent flyer on Epstein’s pedo express, or the person who might have lied about working at McDonald’s for a couple months?!

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u/ICareBoutManBearPig Aug 29 '24

She definitely worked there. No one puts McDonalds cashier on their resume. You just omit that because there is a stigma against fast food workers because our country sucks.

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u/Internal_Second_8207 Aug 29 '24

Wait, McDonald’s experience would have helped me get my job in AI?

What other cuckservative advice am I missing? Is the reason I’m not currently a billionaire is because I pay taxes?

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u/tauregh Aug 29 '24

Wait a minute, what resume didn’t show it that they requested with a FOIA request? What job was she applying for 30 years ago that would have even retained her resume? What employer even keeps a resume 30 years?

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u/queenweasley Aug 30 '24

There are jobs I’ve had that I don’t put on a resume because they are no longer relevant

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u/trogdor1234 Aug 29 '24

LOL, this is hilarious. These people are such losers they put their fast food jobs on their resume?

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u/LeviathanLX Aug 29 '24

I worked at the UPS Store for my first summer job as a teen. It's not on my resume because I'm now an attorney who has done other things and absolutely no one gives a shit that I once spent a summer working at the UPS Store, just like absolutely no one gives a shit that an attorney, DA, AG, senator, and VP worked at McDonald's.

If anything, it makes her more relatable to the average voter, so the idea that she's hiding it is ridiculous.