I have a long disused workopolis account, last touched around 2001. I’ve been trying to get it updated for the last hour or so, and failing miserably. They pretty much insist that you use their amazing ResumeExpert system, which pulls the keywords out, and lets you pop up on employer and recruiter searches. I decide [...]
All text taken directly from online Christian fundamentalist forums. From “Fundies Say The Darndest Things” http://www.fstdt.net
Select bits of a job posting that I will not likely be applying for. Maybe marketing shouldn’t be allowed to speak with HR. This is a description of a Systems Analyst as best I can tell, as written by someone who thinks that the more syllables you throw at a sentence, the better, so verbize [...]
Today started out great; it’s not every day I get to harass a politician in person. Candidate for office Ted Larsen was walking the halls of our apartment building, sliding election propaganda under the doors of residents. There’s no election declared, but he’s out and about lying to people face to face for a change. [...]
Man, wouldn’t that have been great if they’d made Matrix II and maybe even Matrix III? Those would have really kicked some serious ass. If we really believe it, we can shape reality. There were no sequels. There were no sequels. There were no sequels… Full sized, readable version at http://xkcd.com/566/
What really terrifies me is that this little mocumentary plays like half of the corporate video pitches I saw pre-dotcom-bust… Slate Magazine produced a mocumentrary about Flutter a new nanoblogging system that shortens everything to 26 characters, the length of the English alphabet. — as found at Laughing Squid
Two problems on this latest position I’m applying to would seem to indicate an apparent lack of care or attention to detail on behalf of the HR and recruiters. Advertising for skills that can’t exist unless you stretch the definitions… Unless there’s some new developments at Microsoft, they don’t make MS SQL for Linux. Build, [...]
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