KEY POINTS:
Quotes from real resumes and cover letters published in Fortune magazine: "I have lurnt Word Perfect 6.0 computor and spreasheet progroms."
"Wholly responsible for two (2) failed financial institutions."
"It's best for employers that I not work with people."
"Let's meet, so you can 'ooh' and 'aah' over my experience."
"I have an excellent track record, although I am not a horse."
"My goal is to be a meteorologist. But since I possess no training in meteorology, I suppose I should try stock brokerage."
"The company made me a scapegoat, just like my three previous employers."
"References: none. I've left a path of destruction behind me."
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A reader recently bought a blow-up double bed from K-Mart. "On one side it states: "NOT FOR USE IN WATER" (and instructions in 12 different languages). On the reverse side is a photo of a couple in their swimsuits reclining on one floating on water ...
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From the vast amount of correspondence received on the subject, preserving is alive and well in New Zealand. However Marjorie Symonds from Preserving Products says there is a problem in Auckland this season. "Progressive Distribution, which supplies Foodtown, Countdown and Woolworths stores, has stocks sitting in its warehouse but is not distributing it to its stores and through feedback from customers the store managers are telling them they no longer stock the product. This is incorrect; they hope to get stock back on the shelves in due course. However Foodstuffs (Pak'n Save, New World and 4 Square ) have plenty of stock and it is available from most of their outlets throughout the North Island."
