Re: [OT] joining the "elite" team

[Andre Hedrick]

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
> 
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