My First Reference Letter to Royal Caribbean

Royal Caribbean requires several "professional" references in order to get hired. I made the mistake of assuming certain people would fall in line with this "professionalism."

With that said, here's the response Maritza, a smart-ass co-worker whom I listed as a reference, took the time to write for me.

1. Position held: Staff writer for the Highlander Weekly Newspaper

2. Dates of employment: March 2007-July 2008

3.Daniel Fritz pretty much sucked the entire time he was employed by
the San Gabriel Newspaper Group. He showed up about two hours late
everyday. If he was to get any kind of award, it would be for the
laziest person in the office (inside and outside of the editorial
department). His hours were spent throwing yellow Starbursts at me
and sending this candy company angry e-mails, demanding that they
recall their lemon-flavored Starburst. And although he couldn't even
finish his stories by our Friday deadline, he did make sure to have
plenty of blog posts for his personal Website on Multiply, titled
Daniel's Place: Almost as fun as Darfur! But other than his profane
use of language, inappropriate commentary and extreme temper tantrums
every time something hit his car on the freeway, he's an all-around
OK guy. I guess.

4. Daniel's main responsibilities were to cover three cities: La
Puente, Covina and West Covina. Most weeks, we were lucky if he
didn't forget to put in a photo assignment for an art with lines for
his covers. In short, he just really sucks.

Ratings: (Based on a scale of 1 being below average, and 3 being excellent)

1.Reliability: 1

2.Organization: 2 (he just this rating for the sheer fact that his
desk was clean most of the time)

3.Time Management: 0. Don't even get me started here.

4.Attendance: 1 We all usually get in by 10 a.m. We were happy if
Daniel got in by 11:30 a.m. Then he would take a two hour lunch at
Carl's Jr. then spend the rest of his days looking up pick up lines
on the internet. He pretty much used up all his sick days in the
first two months of the year.

I guess I'll be sticking around after all.