Re: Doubts about the HR departments that require knowledge of technology that does not exist.

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From: maus
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2017 15:19

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On 2017-12-28, Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net> wrote:
> On 28 Dec 2017 00:26:21 GMT
> Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:
>
>> On 2017-12-27, Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net> wrote:
>> 
>> > On Wed, 27 Dec 2017 07:19:23 -0800 (PST)
>> > ninjap...@gmail.com wrote:
>> >
>> >> Is it not very strange an HR department to require knowledge of
>> >> technology that does not exist?
>> >
>> > 	Don't be too sure of that.
>> 
>> Is it time to bring out those stories of HR departments who wanted
>> programmers with five years of Windows 95 experience in 1997?
>
> 	I meant don't be too sure the technology doesn't exist just because
> it sounds like it shouldn't.
>

Some of that stuff would have been out on test fro a while before..

<funny story> 
Dell was hiring furiously in Limerick. A relative of a friend ws due to
be released from a mental hospital in easy stages. had been 'in' for a
while. During the day, the Mental hosptal got a phone call, to see if
Mr. X had worked in the records department, and was told 'yes', so the
man got the job.
</funny story>

-- 
greymaus.ireland.ie
Just_Another_Grumpy_Old_Man

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