Re: Letters of Reccomendation -Reply

[Sara Kimball <skimball@uts.cc.utexas.edu>]

I may still be enveloped in early morning fog, but I didn't hear the NPR
broadcast and I still don't get the letters of rec problem.  Someone wrote
a letter and the recommendee turned out to be a sexual harasser?

Sara Kimball

On Tue, 4 Feb 1997, User JWERCHAN wrote:

> hi folks,
> i get a really sick gnawing feeling in my gut when i read about this 
> letter stuff.  damned if we do; damned if we don't.  gosh, maybe there 
> should be more standardized testing for job applicants, and standardized 
> resume formats.  ooh! maybe this: sue mothers and fathers of those 
> disappointing workers for raising kids that turned out to be dirtbags.  
>     
> sounds like abuse of the legal system. the faintest visibility of deep 
> pockets on the horizon makes individual responsibility meaningless.
>  
> james werchan
> osu lima
>