“Oh, since you’re here,” my supervisor said, “Could I ask you something about your resume? Actually, I’ve been meaning to ask you this since we first hired you.”
At this point, naturally, my head exploded. What could it be? Does one of my professional references secretly hate me?
Oh no! She must have figured out that I put down one teaching job for “summer 2016” but I was really only teaching for 8 weeks, not from June 1 to August 31, so now I’ll have to explain the gaps on my resume. No! I also wrote that I kept state-compliant attendance records for my ESL classes, but really more than one supervisor has had to remind me to submit the attendance. I’m about to get fired. And what if I committed a crime and then forgot about it? Definitely fired.
“Yeah, I googled you before we hired you, I just never had time to ask about it. Did you really work on some Nancy Drew games?”
“Oh, yeah. That was me.”
“I loved those games!”
That is pretty funny, and probably a relief that’s what she wanted to ask about. I always wonder what people will see if they Google me. Thanks for visiting “My Favorites of 2022” post! 🙂