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[alt.folklore.computers] Re: Do Old Programmers Die, Fade Away, or...?
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From: [email protected] (Tom Watson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Do Old Programmers Die, Fade Away, or...?
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 15:39:48 -0800
Organization: The 3DO Corporation
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>, Greg Limes
<[email protected]> writes:
> >
> >[email protected] (Hugh J.E. Davies) writes:
> >|
> >| In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] writes:
> >|
> >| >Don't the people who are hiring know that experience on one
> >| >kind of system is a plus for working on another kind of system?
> >|
> >| No.
> >
> >Some of us do.
>
> You're unusual. The papers are full of jobs specifying products down to
> the version number? "Wanted; Programmer, must have experience of
> Googolplex V2.45 Release 5".
>
Then the HR bozos usually include the "requirement" of "at least 5 years
experience in..." and the software package they refer to has only been on
the market for one, or two years. Makes real sense.
Ad copy:
Wanted: Person with 5 or more years experience in all of the following:
Sea/Sea Plus Plus, Pearl, Eunichs. Assembler programmers need not apply.
The last sentence is in reference to a "flame fest" in another newsgroup.
Please don't continue it here :-).
Maybe we should have an archive of "bad ads" we have all seen. Sometimes
they are really funny. Probably not "Headlines (Tonight Show)" material,
but close!!
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Tom Watson
[email protected] (Home: [email protected])
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