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[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. ]

Comments

[estimable]

Do you truly need to lie to become a merchant? Or perhaps a swordsman? Farming, too, need not show your skills others would oppose of. Even if they had, this is not a world like our own. Magic is used freely and thusly. I have not seen a single person burned at the stake.

This post has shown a willfulness to lie from the start. Everyone must start from the beginning. It is as simple as that. You cannot expect a king to call such claims here and rule all refugees, can you not? Then, simply, you cannot expect your own skills to weight within this society until proven.

[xxxxx]

I'm not overly concerned about magic. I'm concerned about telling people that mysterious beings living in the moon saved me from another world.

Where I'm from, I've had people want a reference before they would let me sweep a floor. It wasn't about skill. It was about knowing who they were letting inside the front door.

[ Especially when you look like a half-starved homeless man, we can't all be cute blonde girls, jeez. ]

welcome to texting from a few feet away

[doggo]

But Remus, didn't you read

It's simple

welcome to a confused look before shrugging and rolling with it

[xxxxx]

Oh, you're right. It says so right there.

If someone needs me to demonstrate skills in reading comprehension for a job, I suppose I'm in trouble.

(Vuᴥ●V) wink!

[doggo]

It's unfortunate. I'll cross it off your list of skills.

Then again, a man who admits to his mistakes is a man you want working for you.

hello from several other feet away

[barreling]

The only reason any boss wants somebody like that around is so they can blame their own mistakes on him

hi

[doggo]

Is that the voice of experience speaking

[writing...]

[barreling]

of course not i've never made a mistake in my life

[doggo]

[Sirius looks over at Wynonna, sceptical of this statement she has just put in writing. For the record, though, he includes:]

Better include that on your CV

[barreling]

so what jobs have you gotten?