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For anyone who watches the food network (like me), it would seem that Robert Irvine of 'Dinner Impossible' fame has been canned for exaggerating his resume. Turns out he didn't really help to bake Charles and Di's wedding cake (they are also hinting that he wasn't entirely honest about his training either).
I read in one of my cooking comms here on LJ the reaction, and it seems to be almost entirely composed of "OMGZ How dare he???!!!! WTFBBQ!!11!!" One person went so far as to ask who hasn't "fluffed" their resume once in a while to get a job that they really wanted and was roasted by those who have never EVAR lied once in their whole lives and clearly are all saint material (perhaps the next big religious war will be about who gets to be the Patron Saint of Cooks and Kitchens).
Now, for me, I think that it was pretty stupid to take a risk like that when your new job is going to put you in the public eye (where all specks of dirt are put under an electron microscope). But, really, part of me is wondering, if he was good at his job, then why the hell do you care now?
This situation draws a lot of parallels for me to the Pagan community past and present. People will scream about credentials and toss those who fudge the line on the bonfire ... and yet, many of the people in our history, who have done the exact same things, are forgiven because they did a good job. They proved that the value of such credentials are a relative thing.
Many have shown that you don't always need to be initiated by a witch with a line back to New Forest to find yourself as part of that line ... that it is experience and talent that make a witch more than the names you can drop at parties. These people from our past are still revered as Pagan leader and elders and all their past problems are magically forgiven, or out shadowed by their overall accomplishments.
Someone who shall remain nameless just now, used to compare the craft to cooking quite a lot. And I think it is a good comparison. And it makes me wonder why people are freaking out. He turned out to be a good chef.
I am not really sure where I am going with this, but it definitely gives me some food for thought (and an insight into a would-be article I have lying about).
--Phae
I read in one of my cooking comms here on LJ the reaction, and it seems to be almost entirely composed of "OMGZ How dare he???!!!! WTFBBQ!!11!!" One person went so far as to ask who hasn't "fluffed" their resume once in a while to get a job that they really wanted and was roasted by those who have never EVAR lied once in their whole lives and clearly are all saint material (perhaps the next big religious war will be about who gets to be the Patron Saint of Cooks and Kitchens).
Now, for me, I think that it was pretty stupid to take a risk like that when your new job is going to put you in the public eye (where all specks of dirt are put under an electron microscope). But, really, part of me is wondering, if he was good at his job, then why the hell do you care now?
This situation draws a lot of parallels for me to the Pagan community past and present. People will scream about credentials and toss those who fudge the line on the bonfire ... and yet, many of the people in our history, who have done the exact same things, are forgiven because they did a good job. They proved that the value of such credentials are a relative thing.
Many have shown that you don't always need to be initiated by a witch with a line back to New Forest to find yourself as part of that line ... that it is experience and talent that make a witch more than the names you can drop at parties. These people from our past are still revered as Pagan leader and elders and all their past problems are magically forgiven, or out shadowed by their overall accomplishments.
Someone who shall remain nameless just now, used to compare the craft to cooking quite a lot. And I think it is a good comparison. And it makes me wonder why people are freaking out. He turned out to be a good chef.
I am not really sure where I am going with this, but it definitely gives me some food for thought (and an insight into a would-be article I have lying about).
--Phae
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