Spin

I really don't see how it's being arrogant to think that a recruitment is like any other transaction, and both parties should respect each other.

Or that a company that fails to do so has fallen in my esteem.

Or for that matter, to have a strong distaste for the obvious lack of honesty and reality in the schmoozing that seems so important to the job search.

As I get along in life, I realise that I really am a terribly honest and straightforward guy. Most of the time, I mean what I say, and say what I mean. Very much a cliche, but pretty true for me. There are times when I say that I lie a lot, but that is a more fundamental issue. For the immediate, and for what I am at the moment, honesty works.

Except that it apparently doesn't.

I don't want to spin things. I don't want to pretend to be anything. I don't want to pad and exaggerate and lie.