Pascal's wager.. almost :)
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 7:25 PM, <valdis.kletni...@vt.edu> wrote: > On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 15:07:51 -0700, goe...@anime.net said: > >> This is what baffles me. People keep putting stuff on their resume that >> they simply don't know anything about. TCP/IP expert, yet they don't know >> SYN/SYNACK/ACK or subnetting. HTTP expert but they don't know what a 200 >> response is. > > The Friday afternoon cynic in me says it's because it's a move with positive > paybacks. There's 3 basic possibilities: > > 1) You send the puffed resume to a company with clue, it gets recognized > as puffed, and you don't get the job. Zero loss, you weren't going to get > that job anyhow. > > 2) You send a boring unpuffed resume to a company sans clue. They recognize > it > as boring because there's only 3 buzzwords on 2 pages, and you don't get the > job. Loss. > > 3) You send a puffed resume, and the guy doing the hiring doesn't know what > the 3-packet mating call of the Internet is *either*. Win. >