Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265136AbTFMFkM (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jun 2003 01:40:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265151AbTFMFkM (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jun 2003 01:40:12 -0400 Received: from astound-64-85-224-253.ca.astound.net ([64.85.224.253]:5636 "EHLO master.linux-ide.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265136AbTFMFkH (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jun 2003 01:40:07 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 22:53:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Andre Hedrick To: Alfie John cc: jobs@interlogic.com.au, vox@lists.lugod.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ajug@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [OT] joining the "elite" team In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3003 Lines: 72 Alfie, Did you not get hired, and your arse is a weee bit on the chapped side? grep -in hotmail /etc/mail/access 534:hotmail.com REJECT I am a weee bit chapped because "hotmail.com" did not get rejected! Have a good'ay Cheer, Andre Hedrick LAD Storage Consulting Group On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Alfie John wrote: > Hello, > > I write to you in response to an add I saw at seek.com.au, "OBJECT ORIENTED > PROGRAMMER -MELBOURNE RECENT GRADUATE" - > http://it.seek.com.au/users/viewdetails.asp?Action=jobsearch&JobListAction=ViewOneAd&JobSearch=true&AdID=2731247 > > I find this add highly arrogant and highly contradictive. > > You start with "seeking for ...FIRST CLASS HONOURS", however your add is > basically searching for a top class, 313373 computer geek. As history shows, > even hacker's hackers like RMS and Linus had not-so "first class" grades > while in high school AND at uni because they were too busy with selfish > delites such as churning through kernel code. > > The next contradictive statement is "She or he must have an INTRINSIC > understanding of computing". But later you provide insight to your company > with "The applications are an amalgam of complex business processes, > maximisation of resources, and require considerable mathematical acumen." In > other words, you need MS Excel shitkickers with knowledge in business > management with contemporary management skills and not elite coders with > sk1llZ. Also, I don't really understand why "indepth knowledge of OOP" is > going to help me with optimizing functions with spreadsheets. > > "The company only employs THE BEST AND BRIGHTEST"; followed by "It is very > sophisticated." and the even more arrogant "An average person will be unable > to keep up with the high intellectual horsepower generated by the members of > this elite team.". This tells the reader that you MUST have the worlds best > coders under your organization and yet you are "GROWING AND PROFITABLE". > > I must go now with my pittyful programming skills which are no where near > the "EXCEPTIONALLY GOOD" skills that your company is looking for, but I > smile just to know that this email is going to be forwarded to programmers > around the world with a link to your add to show just what an "elite team" > you really are! > > int 20h; > Alfie John > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get mobile Hotmail. Go to http://ninemsn.com.au/mobilecentral/signup.asp > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/