Submitted by tifu_celery t3_102do1p in tifu
My friend has a bad habit of not double checking or revising his work. Earlier in 2022 he asked me to look at his resume as he was looking to apply for new jobs. I said sure. Let's say his name was Tom Henderson. I edited the name to be: Tom "The Celery Man" Henderson. I also added a bullet point to each of his positions in job experience that said "Crunching & Munching that Celery."
Why did I do this? I did this as a joke, assuming he'd see it and remove the silly edits. When I gave him feedback on the resume I asked him if he would be sure to make some revisions before sending it out. He said sure.
Well, he didn't. Not only that, but he never noticed the edits.
It turns out since April 2022 he has been sending out resumes with "The Celery Man" on the resume. He has good experience and has been frustrated all year how he got like no interviews. He actually had one initial call with a recruiter and was perplexed when the recruiter guy called him "Celery Man", he had no idea what it meant but just went along with it. Never got a 2nd interview.
Finally, before New Years he had a legit interview. They also made a "Celery Man" joke, which astounded him, and he asked why they made this reference. They told him it was all over his resume. He was mortified. He even told them he had no idea this was on there, but in doing so it basically came out that he had never looked at his resume. He thinks this is the reason he didn't get the job.
In any case, I had to confess to him I was the one who did this, but it had never been my intention that he would actually send it to jobs. I thought he'd have noticed it right away.
Well, he is quite mad at me. He said I've "made him the jackass to all of the NYC tech scene" and that I "went beyond all acceptable lines of pranking". I think he is overreacting a bit, I mean it is just a silly prank really and how in the world does somebody not notice this for almost an entire year on their own resume?
I am worried it might cost me this friendship though so I am hoping to find a way to make it up to him.
TL;DR - I edited the resume of my friend to name him "The Celery Man" as a bizarre moniker, but he never noticed and sent it out to employers, making him seem weird.