I am sure most people can relate to this, but I find it amazing that I can hear a song I haven’t heard in a long time and I am instantly transported back to another time and can remember the year it came out and often a specific event that is tied to it. The other day I heard the song ‘I Melt With You’ by Modern English and instantly I was taken back to 1983 and the movie ‘Valley Girl’. It is an 80’s classic!! Nicolas Cage is Randy the punk rock badass and he falls for Julie the preppy girl from the Valley. It was the beginning of a new way of dressing and speaking and it was ‘fer sure, totally, awesome’!! That way of speaking has always been associated with that movie and the 80’s and it did fade away, but like everything else, it came back. I always say if you kept some stuff from the 80s don’t get rid of it now because it will come back in style! Obviously the same thing can be said for ‘Valley Speak’!! Flash forward 25 years.
By the time I am finished hiring I have had it with reading resumes. I receive about 1000 every winter and am pretty good about going over each one of them, for a while. I will admit that by the middle of March the resumes I get are printed and filed without me even glancing at them. With the exception of a couple of jobs that are open here and there I am finished my hiring long before the end of the month. As a result in order for me to not go slowly crazy I have to change my outgoing voicemail to say something similar to this.....
“You have reached Sandy Cornell. I am sorry I am not available to take your call right now. If you are calling regarding employment please note that I have finished all of my hiring for the upcoming season. If you are calling for any other reason, please feel free to leave me a message and I will get back to you as soon as possible. Thanks for calling and have a great day” BEEEEEEEPPP In order for you to fully grasp this, it is important that you inhale deeply and try to read this quickly only stopping to breathe when you are turning blue. This is a message that was left for me last week.
“Hi Sandy, this is like Brittany! I know your voicemail said that like you are finished hiring but I was wondering if like you were still hiring (the voice goes up here)? My like 2 best friends Whitney and like Buffy like worked in Muskoka last summer and they said it was like WICKED!! I like, want to spend like the summer up there partying because I think it would be like TOTALLY AWESOME to work like away from the city (you can almost see the ‘hang loose’ sign she just made as she said this). So I am like at school right now in like my math class but you can like call me on my Blackberry because like my teacher totally won’t mind if I like leave class and like take your call. I like want to work with like kids because I like want to spend the summer like in the sun working like on my tan before I like go to university and by the way like I won’t be able to stay right until like Labour Day because I will like need at least like a week off before I like go to school, to say like goodbye to my BFFs. OK I totally can’t wait to like talk to you so like call me back super sooooon!!”
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