Opening Day 2011 Baseball is back
Posted By Kathleen David on March 31, 2011
For some but not all. Braves are playing today but the rest of my teams are playing tomorrow. It’s all good. We have baseball again.
I learned at an early age that you don’t lying on your curriculum vitae. I carried that through out my work history.
While I was at Yale we talked about what you could and couldn’t put on your resume and how much trouble it can get you into if you do add information that is not accurate. My advisor told us about an actor who seem to have a very good resume and lots of experience. She was running the casting call and looked at the actor’s resume. She noticed that he had listed a show off Broadway that had gotten good notices. Now funny thing, she was the stage manger of that show from workshop to off Broadway run and she had never heard or seen this guy. She told the director before the guy came in about this. Now she has a pretty generic name that has been used for both genders. The director talked to the actor about his credits and asked him about this particular show. The director asked how it was to work with the stage manager. The actor said, “Oh, he was great to work with.” At that point my advisor introduced herself to the young man and strongly suggested that he go home and rewrite his resume only with things he had done.
There are a number of things I have worked on that are not on my stage management or tech resume because they were for a couple of days as a job in. I didn’t stage manage the show so I don’t put it down. Even the tech stuff I only list stuff that I can pull out a playbill and show my name in the credits of the show.
I have never sat down and written out what I have had published until the other day. I had more than I thought and Peter reminded me of a couple that we worked on together that I had totally forgotten about. It’s a nice little list and I hope to expand it. I don’t put down anthologies that I wrote for that I wasn’t published in even though I was invited to submit, yes there are some that do that.
Claiming to have done something or knowing someone without actually doing so is a major no-no and with the Internet it is so much easier to find out what is truth, what is stretched truth, and what is a fabrication. Also many of these industries are rather small when broken down. Most of the professionals either know each other or know of each other especially if you are throwing out names that mean something outside of the industry.
We are told that Honesty is the best Policy when we were young. I think that needs hold when we are adults as well. I guess we did learn a lot of what we needed to know in kindergarten.
I am grateful for honest people.
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