To fully recreate the experience, though, I'd need to leave Jessica another comment approximately every seven minutes, saying, "It's still blank! Did you know everything is still blank?!?!"

It's blank! Everything's blank! Did you know everything is blank?!?!?!

Great question!

Yeah, that's why I tried to repeatedly point out that my experience is staffing industry specific. We have to play by a stricter set of rules than HR/hiring managers due to the nature of our business.

Dont get me wrong—I think staffing companies can be an utterly invaluable bridge to employment. We help a ton of people find great permanent jobs, and help a ton more with beefing up their skills, padding their resumes, and boosting their incomes. A staffing company just should never be the only tool in a job seekers…

I didn't say we looked down our noses at them. In fact, I specifically said that we didn't. But when people list out their parenting tasks as job responsibilities on a resume, it looks stupid, end of story.

My jibes are sharp enough to cut through soup.

Trust me, god still hates pea soup even if it's kosher.

When you have pea soup cancer, you'll be sorry.

I mean, it's not like I'm actively wishing you'll be killed by a monster formed when lightning strikes a particularly glutinous and nasty bowl of pea soup, but I maybe wouldn't cry if it happened.

WRONG. Your fondness for pea soup speaks to a genetic and moral deficiency at the core of your being.

First off, you'd be shocked about those 80% of resumes—shocked, and in a state of despair for America and its education system. The vast, and I mean vast majority of resumes are atrocious—full of misspellings and grammatical errors, missing important contact data, sent to the wrong people, burdened with inappropriate…

And they all involve pea soup.

I hope someone shoves you in a barrel of pea soup and rolls you down a hill, and you die dizzy and choking in it.

STOP TALKING ABOUT PEA SOUP.

You should be ashamed of yourself. You make me sick.

You're lucky I didn't dismiss you.

Honestly, that was very clever of her. Even though my official position is that falsifying resumes is a no-no, I can't say I blame anyone who does something like that. And we do see things like that on resumes fairly often; they're pretty easy to spot. We don't hold it against them, though. At least they're…

I think it's fine to leave it on your resume, just as a set of dates and a notation that that's what you were doing, like "2000 - 2010, stay at home parent." Ideally, there will be volunteer activities that can be inserted into that space, but if not, it's certainly good to acknowledge why there's a gap in your…

I think you might be broken inside. I mean, as a human being.