text | un: rjlupin

[xxxxx]

A few of us have been talking and we're already tired of being broke, so we're wondering what everyone hopes to do here job-wise, what you did before, and how you go about explaining it to the locals if they want to know about your previous floor-sweeping or shelf-stocking experience before allowing you to sweep any floors or stock any shelves. Especially if your job back home was a little more complicated than that.

And have any of them asked any of you for references? Do they actually check them?

Does anybody have any experience with making up false references wholecloth? Can we begin acting as one another’s references?--which is a terribly trust based suggestion, we realise, and so the following question,

Should we design a character test for the sake of honest false reference corroboration? (‘We’ is the general ‘we’ not the ‘we’ asking these questions.) Is there anyone here who is not a reliable hard worker that the rest of us should be sure not to refer for anything?

Before anyone feels the need to point out that unreliable lazy workers will lie: yes, thank you, please see similar discussions following the questions about murder.

[ For the record, this is the product of a phone and its tiny keyboard being passed around among several different curious people. Remus just drew the short straw, because there is no justice in any world, and has to post it. Also, threadjacking super encouraged if you feel the urge. ]

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meanwhile, back on the roof

[barreling]

[ Wynonna's phone pings. ]

Aww, you took out my best lines. "Complicated?" What, were you afraid this would turn into another murder post? Because just for the record, killing demons does not count as murder.

[xxxxx]

[ Remus is too tired, sore, tipsy, and secretive to start any Well, As A Dark Creature wizard justice debates. Besides, most of the demons he knows are basically animals. He tips his phone at her instead. ]

That's a debate you can start under your own name.

[barreling]

[ Wynonna scoffs at this. She is never too tipsy for that. Probably. Certainly not yet. ]

Where's the debate? They're literally already dead. Boom, I win.

text | un: BishopRunout

[poolhall_killer]

My line of work back home was more complicated than anything listed here. Referrals relied on word-of-mouth, but even those were kept under the table.

I don't believe falsifying credentials and reliability is the way, but I understand why it would be considered, given our situation.

text | un: wynonna

[barreling]

so you're just going to put assassin on your resume and hope for the best? let me know how that works out

text

[poolhall_killer]

[He's a bit confused by the different username answering him, but he continues the conversation anyway.]

Former assassin, thank you.

Besides, I've never been a good liar.

text | un: scarlet

[yourhatred]

Has anyone considered starting their own business?

[xxxxx]

I haven't, but I can't speak for anyone else. Have you?

[yourhatred]

I have not. I can't say I'm much of an entrepreneur, but I'm sure there are those among us who are.

text, un: cptapex

[stabilis]

Bounty hunting. Kind of, but much cooler. And I happen to have a real live and very reliable reference for it, so you're on your own for the rest of your questions.

[ .... maybe. ]

Isn't a character test to find liars more like the opposite of a character test?

text, un: wynonna

[barreling]

Way to gloat about your reference, is your world the one without sharing = caring?

and maybe but we are looking for character, just not good character. but not totally bad either. like medium character.

text | un: l.rallik

[insurgent]

[ using a different network ID for this conversation for... obvious reasons... ]

i have experience

[ how informative. ]

text | un: s.black

[doggo]

Congratulations on your experience
Have anything useful to contribute?

[songofdeneir]

I can remember and recreate anything I have read and have been paid to do so in my youth, which is the closest thing I can claim to a job.

I had spent my life as a priest and scholar, but in a world far less technologically advanced than this. Perhaps those of us from similar backgrounds should work together in that regard? There should be reason such a number of us are so behind in our understanding of what is considered basic concepts.

text | un: wynonna

[barreling]

you should tell them you were all in a cult

un: beaker

[webdesigned]

new planet, new rules, i think
like ... these people may not need resumes, or hire in the way we are used to, yk?

un: s.black

[doggo]

A gullible planet, then

( text) FROM: °˖✧♔KING JJ♔✧˖°

[underwhelms]

remus!!
it's the hottie who's body you shared for a bit
i'm not that great at lying but i just talk up what i can do
doesn't seem to be working too much
but i think those places just didn't need help

(text)

[xxxxx]

Hello, JJ.

[ Merlin's tangly beard, look what you've done. ]

Finding vacancies is always half the work.
What is it you're telling them you can do, exactly?

un: flashgordon

[godwins]

I faked my age, once. To enlist.

I think the effort you put into lying speaks to the dedication you got for the job, personally.

un: s.black

[doggo]

Soldier?

Suppose that lie comes with a different sort of effort
Not difficult to fake your age, but enough at the other end

text; saber

[estimable]

There is no need for falsehoods if you're truly capable of performing the tasks requested of them. Merely show them your skills and they will tell you if you are suited for their request or not.

[look. someone is just honorable.]

un: wynonna

[barreling]

have you ever actually applied for a job before?

un: blacksquadron

[xwings]

there's a whole bunch of people here i don't know from my world but already trust enough to vouch for

un: wynonna

[barreling]

I don't suppose you're looking to invest in real estate, are you? like maybe a bridge or a real nice canyon or something?