Tell It Like It Is

Today, P sent me a CV and cover letter application to her firm from a post-graduate student. She sent it [saw this and though of you] because the grad used that most horrid of platitudes -- innovative solutions -- in the letter.

And beyond the use of this pointless phrase, the rest of the letter was rendered near-illegible by its dense use of other such double-talk. How not to get a job -- offer your blessed innovative solutions and creative ideas and transpose your committment and ability at the union bar to the internship. (I'm being mean, I know..)

Anyway, I'm not immune to receipt of illiterate bollox in my own line of work and have just received this balderdash from an IT supplier's PR agency as a draft quote attibuted to one of my execs.

"Our customers rely on us to be ahead of the game so that they too stay one step ahead of the competition and can grab the bull by its horns."

Fair play. At the end of the day and when all's said and done, we are afterall, dedicated to enhancing the perfomance of.. ehem, matadors..

;-)