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I've just received a CV from a candidate who lists his interests as: reading, writing, cycling, football, fishing and badger growling. For some reason I felt that member(s) of ILE may be able to enlighten me on this one. Any clues?

― julia, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I hope RickyT has told his employers he's already sending his CV elsewhere.

Although, FISHING?!

― Sarah, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Is it similar to roaring beaver? Rrroooar.

I think it is actually badger watching, but is an odd term and one which much googling cannot elucidate. Though it does throw up lots of slash fiction in which badgers end up growling through fair means or foul....

― Pete, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Get back to work, Julia ;-)

A poor man's weasel fighting if you ask me. You can growl a badger in about a second. Just kick its face off.

― Will McKenzie, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Will, this IS work - you know what these creatives are like & we don't want to send weird people up for jobs!

― julia, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Maybe its just a typo and he just likes growing/rearing them?

Maybe he's just trying to be 'quirky'. And, knowing the creatives I work with, a wierd person would be a positive boon on some jobs...

― Will McKenzie, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Maybe he's put it in as a test, seeing as an awful lot of CV scanners don't bother to read the bit about your leisure interests (at least until the interview, when they do a token 'let's talk about you' bit).

― Madchen, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Why not arrange a badger to be delivered to the interview and eavesdrop to find out what he does with it? (And Julia - make sure you're not taking part, but schedule the interview with the *right* boss...)

― Will McKenzie, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I wouldn't inflict that on the poor badger! But I'd love to see our arsey receptionist's face when a courier delivers a badger :)

― julia, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have a feeling that one would need to use a Caesarean Section if one were to deliver a badger. Even with its snuffly nose.

― Pete, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Arrange for Ricky T to be delivered instead. You'd be up for that, wouldn't you Ricky?

― Will McKenzie, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Not if he's ever met our receptionist, he wouldn't!

― julia, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh, PETER! That was not just unfunny, it was the opposite of funny. I can feel all humour ebbing freely from my soul...

― Will McKenzie, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm sorry to disappoint everyone but I have absolutely no idea what badger growling is. And I have never been fishing in my life and have no intention of ever doing so.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Now I really am disappointed!

― julia, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I thought the delivering badger thing was very funny not to mention astute Pete. First time for everything, me thinking, and you being funny.

― Ronan, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

is there a service you can get to deliver badgers ?

― anthony, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ooo! Ooo! I found something!

It's smutty!

From alt.british.comedy usenet archives: looky-looky

The question now is, what sort of depraved nutter puts this on a resume?

― Martin Swope, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Fantastic - he'll be perfect for a job in advertising then!

― julia, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

For the female clients, perhaps. And you see, it's an interest and not a skill -- and we have no idea if the person is bearded. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I want you all to know that I have completely lost all composure. I'm supposed to be singing in a concert tonight and instead of Berlioz's Requiem, I'm going to be thinking of people who put their favorite sexual acts on their resumes. See, this is why I haven't found a job yet...

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bloody Hell!

The other question is: will Ricky T have to change his nickname?

― Will McKenzie, Friday, 12 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

three years pass...

did you actually HIRE this badger-growler?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 19 November 2004 05:32 (twenty-one years ago)

When I first read the title I thought BG must be a village in Kent.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Friday, 19 November 2004 08:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Again I have lost all composure.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 19 November 2004 21:04 (twenty-one years ago)

GROWLAH

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 19 November 2004 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

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