On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 05:35:14PM +0000, Tony Bowden wrote: > On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 01:10:28PM +0000, Struan Donald wrote: > > > 6 or more years in the "internet industry"?? > > well amazon started hiring in '94 so it's certainly possible. > > improbable but not impossible :) > Definitely not impossible, as I've been beneficially employed by the > Internet since '95, but it's just quite am impressive thing to > require...
Likewise. Not that I consider it impressive. I'm rather embarrassed by the shite I did in 1995. > I really can't see any reason at all why it would be a requirement. Maybe their geeks require cynical colleagues and couldn't get that past manglement, so decided that you would *have* to be a cynical git if you had that much experience. > In fact if you posted any job ad like that in Northern Ireland you'd be > a prime case for an investigation by the Fair Employment Comission as it > would seem obviously tailored to a specific candidate, as you couldn't > reasonably expect anyone else to meet the criteria... I take it that a valid defence would be to prove that it was not possible for *anyone* to have those skills ... -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david America delenda est
