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To be honest, I actually originally misread the sentence as "out-of-control family reasons", missing the "my" - and the sentence is not as bad as I thought (or
by bornhuetter 14y ago
To be honest, I actually originally misread the sentence as "out-of-control family reasons", missing the "my" - and the sentence is not as bad as I thought (or to put it another way, not necessarily bad at all).
However, there is a huge difference between "lying", and choosing good phrasing (or even omitting unnecessary information), and your comment strikes me as very naive.
- pretoriusB 14y agoI'd rather hire the guy NOT omitting "unnecessary information". And I would understand it too if a guy had to quit working for me due to "out-of-control family reasons". Let's be honest: everybody would do it if they had to. Imagine your child being heavily sick or something. Would you continue working on some project when you are needed thousand of miles (or lots of hours) elsewhere? As for the people that would mind those kinds of things, I wouldn't want them hiring me either. For one, they could have made my life hell afterwards with lawyers and claims...