# Resumes stating that you are "Impactful" WTF? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 8, 2005, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resumes-stating-that-you-are-impactful-wtf/293501 "2005-03-08T04:41:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resumes-stating-that-you-are-impactful-wtf/293501/21 "2005-03-08T22:16:25Z")
> [@Chairman Pow](#): > > One of the more memorable applicants was a woman who described herself as “impactful.” Careful, she may look at it as businesspeak for “brutally violent”. As in, _“Give me a fucking job, or I’ll get impactful on your face”_. Ya never know. ---
**Author:** ![look\_ninjas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@look\_ninjas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/look_ninjas)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2005, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resumes-stating-that-you-are-impactful-wtf/293501/22 "2005-03-09T01:53:45Z")
Every so often, the deli next to my store offers a soup that the menu claims has an “impactful” broth. Perhaps the person applying for the job is tasty and satisfying, like the soup? (I feel I should add that, as my mother is a nurse, I associate the word “impact” with horrible, horrible things. So I have never tried the “impactful” soup, lest I find myself… well… “impacted.” Ugh.) ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2005, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resumes-stating-that-you-are-impactful-wtf/293501/23 "2005-03-09T02:40:28Z")
> [@ratatoskK](#): > > I read this thread early this morning and thought I had never heard “impactful” from anyone, and then later in the morning I had a meeting, and the chair said it!!! :eek: Later, I said “I am”, but no one heard at all, [not even the chair…](http://www.popculturemadness.com/Music/Lyrics/IAmISaid.html)😃 ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2005, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resumes-stating-that-you-are-impactful-wtf/293501/24 "2005-03-09T02:46:33Z")
Perhaps it means the applicant is skilled at office machine repair using percussive maintenance, which to the uninitiated appears to be nothing more than whacking the piss out of the copier. ---
**Author:** ![NillyWilly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3da27b/32.png) [@NillyWilly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NillyWilly)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2005, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resumes-stating-that-you-are-impactful-wtf/293501/25 "2005-03-09T11:13:58Z")
> [@stpauler](#): > > It obviously means that she’s very pro-active when she’s officing. Verbing weirds language! ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2005, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resumes-stating-that-you-are-impactful-wtf/293501/26 "2005-03-09T13:46:10Z")
Fat and clumsy. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2005, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resumes-stating-that-you-are-impactful-wtf/293501/27 "2005-03-09T15:15:53Z")
“Impactful” people may be sought after by the outfit that makes crash test dummies. (…and how does one test a crash test dummy, anyway?) ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2005, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resumes-stating-that-you-are-impactful-wtf/293501/28 "2005-03-09T15:48:05Z")
Next time you have a bellyache, consider the possibility that you’re suffering from an impacted fart. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resumes-stating-that-you-are-impactful-wtf/293501.md?page=1)