Letters of RecomemDamnation
I found it. Amidst the rapidly resolving rummaged clutter of the basement, it was one piece of paper. But that one piece of paper – what secrets it holds. I’ve tried to remember some over the years and probably succeeded. I was surprised to see there are 6. Here’s the background:
During my career as a Corporate Guy, I had many occasions to hire people to help me. I didn’t exactly enjoy the experience, but I was quick to recognize that if I hired a hard-working person, I could be doing something else. This is one of the hidden secrets of Company Living. If you can get others to do your job, it’s a good thing. Think of it as the Tom Sawyer approach to Management.
No one is perfect and the hiring process occasionally fails, and a hard-working person turns happiness sucking vampire and must be mercilessly fired ASAP. The latter action is always hampered by jackals in Human Resources whose Rules & Procedures slow all progress to a near stand-still.
You do the “Hire/Fire” routine a bunch of times and you develop a healthy respect for the process of finding good people. They are not hard to spot. You keep in touch and look for opportunities to move them along either in your own group or some other area. Conversely, the “not so good” people need to be encouraged to move alone also. In their case, hopefully to competitor companies.
Finally, we get to the meat of this Blog:
These six seemingly innocent sentences successfully cloak the truth with clever bromides of verbal legerdemain.
I love them
How to Write a Recommendation Letter That You Don’t Really Mean (examples)
- (to describe a person who is extremely lazy) “In my opinion, you will be very fortunate to get this person to work for you.”
- (to describe a person who is totally inept) “I most enthusiastically recommend this candidate with no qualifications whatsoever” or “When you give this candidate a project, you can just forget about it.”
- (to describe an ex-employee who had trouble getting along with others) “I am pleased to say that this candidate is a former colleague of mine.”
- (to describe a person who is so unproductive that the job would be better off unfilled) “I can assure you that no person would be better for the job.”
- To describe a job applicant who is not worth further consideration) “ I would urge you to waste no time in making this candidate an offer of employment.”
- (to describe a person with lackluster credentials) “All in all, I cannot say enough good things about this candidate or recommend him too highly
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