I totally agree and have suggested to people on the CF-Jobs list that their behavior there will be gauged by any perspective employer.
At 11:32 AM 5/3/02, you wrote: >I would hire from cf-community before I would from cf-jobs, and I will >freely admit to excluding people from consideration based on their behavior >on mailing lists. One person is a highly skilled, very qualified >candidate, but I won't interview him because I don't think I could stand >his bitching and moaning all the time. > >At 09:51 PM 5/2/02, you wrote: >>No, you aren't being anal. I was just reading this as well. Unbelievable. >>As has been mentioned before on that list, an HR person isn't going to touch >>you if you come across as a trouble maker. The last thing a company wants >>is someone who likes to engage in "office politics". I like how one of them >>"ends" the conversation by basicly insulting all of the job seakers on the >>list .. *sigh* >> >>I'm sure some HR people could look at cf-community and think "omg", but at >>least here, the discussions are all within context and don't indicate >>deficiencies in professional work ethics/attitudes. >> >>Hey, if they want to knock themselves out of the job market, all the better >>for the rest of us :) >> >>Todd >> >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Jon Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 9:14 PM >>Subject: cf-jobs >> >> >> > Ok, maybe I'm being a bit anal, so I thought I'd vent here :) >> > I follow the cf-jobs list, in the past it was because I just wanted to >>keep >> > up on the jobs, and if a decent job came along I may want to jump at it, >>but >> > recently more because I know we are going to be hiring. Anyway, there is a >> > lot of cross-talk on the list and Mr. Dinowitz created a list of chatting >> > about cf jobs, the thing is, some of the talk just really seems totally >> > off-base, critical comments about another person's resume seems insulting >>to >> > me. I sent a message to the list last week asking people not to post the >> > stuff...you should have seen some of the flames I got :) Yet the chatter >> > continues... >> > >> > Am I being a bit too anal about this? I don't mind a little flamewar now >>and >> > then, but cf-jobs just seems to be the last place for one. I can imagine >> > what an unsuspecting HR person, or recruiter thinks when they see this >> > stuff. >> > >> > jon >> >> > ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
