Interesting Story

Throughout most my mortgage career I have been in a management position. This is something and I have ran into in the past and I think Art has experienced it a time or 2. An ad is placed in the paper for a job position opening and the fax machine starts ringing. I have probably read 200 resumes in my tender and there is 1 thing that has always stayed true. Call the cell phone that is listed on the resume. If you are trying to weed through possible hires you can eliminate about half of them after calling the cell phone listed. Why you ask? Lets take Darnell Jones not the real name but you get the point. When the phone rings and you get his answering machine it starts out with a heavy rap music beats followed by a couple profane words and then he comes on, "Yo, you reached Daaanell drop me a line and I hit you back late." Ok, so this guy is an idiot. He is applying for a job which requires a level of professionalism and he acts like hes in high school. I admit I had those messages in high school. I can see him in a mortgage closing saying, "Yo John, sign that paper right there trust me this loan is off the hook!" "You be savin so much cheddar(money) that you can ice(create a nice look) out that whip(car) you got in yo driveway." This would be funny yet a tragedy as I see John Q. Borrower realizing how big of a mistake he just made. If you are guilty of doing this also, take your head out of your ass and realize that if you want to be taken seriously, you need to take yourself seriously. Or just keep doing that your doing and you can be a "Executive (Fast food) Service Co-ordinater" for the rest of your life!