Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265475AbTFMSbO (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jun 2003 14:31:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265476AbTFMSbO (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jun 2003 14:31:14 -0400 Received: from ms-smtp-03.nyroc.rr.com ([24.92.226.153]:28868 "EHLO ms-smtp-03.nyroc.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265475AbTFMSbI (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jun 2003 14:31:08 -0400 Message-ID: <3EEA1BD7.9030706@maine.rr.com> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 14:45:43 -0400 From: "David B. Stevens" Organization: Penguin Preservation Society User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alfie John CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [OT] joining the "elite" team References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3087 Lines: 72 Typical HR wonk speak. The clue less ones at work, nothing here for you, move along now ;) Cheers 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/ > -- _o)(o_ one fine day in the middle of the night (o_ . -./\\//\.- two dead men got up to fight //\.-' |/~\| _\_UU_/_ back to back they faced each other U_/_ |_ /o:__ """""""""" drew their swords & shot each other!""""""""(_/\_/ - 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/