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Article #624288Re: Computers, anyone?
From: Andrew Swallow
Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2018 17:36
Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2018 17:36
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On 01/07/2018 15:51, J. Clarke wrote: > On Sun, 1 Jul 2018 03:17:19 -0500, Charles Richmond > <nume...@aquaporin4.com> wrote: > >> On 6/30/2018 9:41 PM, Gene Wirchenko wrote: >>> >>> [snip...] [snip...] [snip...] >>> >>> They could not even handle job applications. Their Website >>> complained that I had not filled in a required field. I looked again, >>> even checked the code: the field in question was not there! >>> >> >> Damn you, Gene Wirchenko, for *not* filling out the omitted fields!!! ;-) > > Online job applications, I am convinced, are a test of determination. > They want people whose desire to work for them is sufficient to induce > them to figure out how to work around all the deficiencies in the > application. > Possible. An alternative explanation is that computer programmers are machine people where as the personal departments are full of people people who act like salesmen. The combination does not mix.
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