On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, enterfornone wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 05:06:17AM +1100, Rick Welykochy wrote:
> > Paul Cameron wrote:
> >
> > > Look, I've seen this before. If you want to be employable, than you
> > > need to have the skills. Not knowing basics documentation stuff
> > > like Word is surefire way to get passed up. Anyhow theres my advice.
> >
> > Troll child :-(
>
> I think some of you zealots need to get out of this dreamworld. Linux is
> not yet a significant player on the desktop. Most people do need Work skills
> to be employable.
>
> Besides, countering every anti-linux arguement with "troll" is very childish,
> I think Godwin's law needs to be updated to include troll along with nazi.
I'm one of the zealots, and I like my dreamworld. After uni, I got every
job I applied for, and took an offer of 65K, which I'm guessing is well
above average. In no interview did any employer ask if I knew Word, and
a couple of the employers I spoke to were quite impressed by the breadth
of my experience with Linux. Linux is a "Work" skill, and I'd be quite
interested to hear you explain why it is not. In fact, comparing jobs
where the employer is mainly interested in Word skills with jobs where
the employer is mainly interested in Linux skills could lead one to the
conclusion that spending time learning Word instead of Linux is a good
way to end up with a duller, lower paid job.
As for whether this guy was trolling, it's fairly obvious he was. He was
complaining about linux on a linux list, he was pushing a product from a
company that would love to crush linux, again on a linux list, and he
was demanding that we would all need "basics documentation stuff" in
order not to get passed up. For anyone too slow to get my point, the
obvious question that follows is "does 'basics documentation stuff',
whatever that may be, include basic literacy and grammar?" It would seem
most employers would only value Word skills along with skills like the
ability to make well-formed sentences.
If someone told me they wanted to herd all <insert hated racial or
social group here> into concentration camps, I would label them as a
nazi. Likewise, when I see someone actually in the act of trolling, I
don't have any problem identifying them as a troll. This guy is a troll.
cheers,
Martin
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