Joe Barefoot wrote:
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Hello World
As some one who spent a several months out of work last year I am
wondering just what this guy did wrong? Perhaps he was a little
foolish and his prose was a tad bit contrite, but he did flag
the subject as out-of-topic [OT]. Maybe he should used a
different call sign [JOB] or something else for example.
A little of over a month ago his post would have been
up-lifting for me, a sign of the green shoots of recovery
even if the role was US of A.
I am wondering what is funny or comical about being out of work
or being forcibly placed out of work these day?
Nothing, unless you were formerly employed as a technical recruiter in silicon valley. Then the irony is just too much for me and I bubble over with mirth.
In case you hadn't noticed, they were just giving the guy a little hell for recruiting on a user-list for open-source software. I assume you feel smugly morally superior to them in labeling his post "..a little foolish.." and "..a tad bit contrite..", rather than just issuing a similar flippant response?
I have always been a developer. Recruitment is flipping hard and I have been on
both sides of the fence. I have been programming at my desk, when
suddenly my former manager comes over and says, "we got to interview
a candidate now, I need your opinion and feedback, he's just away."
That sort of thing spontaneous recruitment, and that was back in
the dotcom bubbling days. Naivety and stupidity is even more
prevalent now. People with write 4 1/2 years Java on their CV
and then they cant tell me what is the different between
a `Vector' and `Hashtable'. So what you expect a foolish and tad bit
contrite recruiter to come up with as suitable candidates?
It just appears to me that althought they were pulling the apex
recruiter's leg, it could be interpreted that they are unsympathetic
to people who are staring depressing hard at the their very last
month of money left before the house gets repossessed by the
mortgage company and law courts.
( Yep points should be given to coming to the source of Struts)
I just wanted to bring balance to this. The ying and the yang,
you know what I mean?
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