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[froodle]

So I rang up this morning and I have my grave-digging job interview on Friday. Was talking to Johnny about the difficulty I'm having trying to decide what to wear - the usual interview dress/suit jacket/high heels, or something practical that says I can get down and dirty and dig holes to put bodies in with the best of them. His advice was "Whatever you do, don't wear that dress you've got with the zombies on." My response? "Which one?"

Yes, this will be the perfect job for me. Ten quid an hour and all the revenants I can raise.

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[prepare4trouble.livejournal.com]

I can't help wondering what you are going to wear. Did you make a decision? Enquiring minds want to know!

[froodle]

In the end, I went with a black knee-length Bettie Page dress and a pair of black and grey heels - no zombies in sight. Of course, the plainest coat I own is covered in ribbons and heart-shaped pockets and has a corset back, but it IS at least black-on-black!

[prepare4trouble.livejournal.com]

I suppose the zombies might not have been the best choice, but at least they would have known you had a sense of humour about it. Not sure if that's a good thing though(!)

Also possibly not good, the joke about the responsibility of the job and how you'd have a lot of people under you...

Any response from them yet?

[froodle]

Plus showing up in a zombie dress just SCREAMS "I want to work here so I can raise my own undead army and laugh as they devour the brains of the living". I think it'd best to be a little more subtle.

Plus, the gravedigger giving me the interview/tour had a chainsaw in his workshop, so it's possible that he's had problems with people raising the dead before and he might not think it was that funny. Apparently he "lost" his assistant back in November - he wasn't more specific than that, ominously!

Yeah, I got through to the second round (fifty three people applied, can you believe it? You wouldn't think it'd be so popular!) and now I have to get interviewed by the parish commisioners. PArt of the job involves standing around at the funerals looking appropriately grave (SORRY!), so I guess they want to check out candidates'... sadness faking skills, or something.

[prepare4trouble.livejournal.com]

If they have problems with the dead coming to life and eating assistant gravediggers, that's really something they should specifically say rather than just hinting at. And provide zombie slaying lessons. Maybe they wait till they offer you the job.

Yeah, best save the zombie dress for after they hire you...

[froodle]

Ooooh, maybe Round Two of the interview is actually a cage-match between the applicant and a zombie. I can see how you would want an assistant whose zombie-slayage skills were up to snuff if the walking dead are a recurring issue.

Probably they do background checks to make sure you haven't been to Haiti in the past too.

I'll bust it out for my first funeral. It's sure to be a hit with all the weepy old church-going ladies.