Norman, Please read the last line of my posting. The MS-Word part was really meant as a joke. :) -- Mark At 09:09 PM 1/25/00 -0600, you wrote: > >> If any of you are interested, feel free to respond to this email >> with a copy of your resume in MS-Word 97 format. > > I'm up late tonight at work. I'm a bit tired and grumpy and you >just hit on one of my pet peeves. So now I'm going to rant. (but only >briefly - I have real work to do) > > Why in the world would you require a linux person to submit a >document in a microsoft proprietary document format requiring the use >and ownership of a certain microsoft proprietary operating system. As >a linux person myself, I don't have a microsoft cripled machine and >neither does a good portion of the more dedicated and knowledgable >linux people on the list. > > Do you really want to alienate the top candidates right away? Don't >you think they are all laughing saying "HaHaHa! Microsoft Word? >Yeah, right - next company!" > > I've seen several companies do this and it just bugs me. Requiring >documents to be in any proprietary non-open format is not the sign of >a company able to make intelligent decisions about technolgy. >Requiring them for people who are likely to have a natural aversion to >the that proprietary format and the proprietary system which is >required to run it is just plain dumb. > > Ok - back to work... :) > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Send administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Send administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
