Seems counter-productive to argue with prospective employer over a point like this. To use a sports world cliche "It is what it is." Just like this damned snow on the ground on April 17 in Minneapolis is what it is. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
-----Original Message----- From: "johnny smith" <ka...@krovatka.su> Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 17:19:14 To: <users@openoffice.apache.org> Reply-To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Any thoughts on Tutor.com's policy of "MS Word only"? On Thu, 17 Apr 2014 17:09:17 -0000, Jeffrey Deutsch <jdeutsch.aspl...@gmail.com> wrote: > My question is: What are your (collective) thoughts on this specific > direction? For example, is it technically necessary, or not? Does Tutor.com > strictly enforce it? Do you know of similar sites which don't insist on it? it depends on what for they want you to have ms office. >> Jeffrey Deutsch wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I'm thinking of applying for an online tutoring position at Tutor.com. >>> However, they require that tutors (and applicants, for the mock tutoring >>> session) have Microsoft Word (2007 or later) itself -- they specifically >>> say that OpenOffice is not acceptable. I'd rather not spend $110 just to >>> get MS Word (or $140 for MS Office, or $10/month or $100/year to rent MS >>> Office) for this specific job, when OpenOffice/LibreOffice has worked just >>> fine for me for the past decade. ------------------------------------------- List Conduct Guidelines: http://openoffice.apache.org/list-conduct.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
