[Gllug] How do they manage it? (IT recruitment agencies)

[Stig Brautaset]

* Xander D Harkness <xander at harkness.co.uk> spake thus:
> I also got a letter from my accountant today, he screwed up and sent me 
> a word doc with some lovely logos, and unfilled data fields.  The email 
> was in excess of 500kb and had no message.  I took a screen shot of it 
> and sent a jpg back which was a quarter a size of his original message ;-)
> 
> I was wondering what most people do to tackle this kind of stupidity?

heh, not exactly the same, but pretty similar. My C++-"professor" posted
exercises on the web for us to do every week -- in M$ word doc-format.
The document consisted of a simple numerated list with <= 5 questions,
so I emailed him and asked if he could post it in html instead, pointing
out that some people did not have the latest version of word. I got a
rather rude mail back saying that "all the machines at uni have the
software required installed" (which was a lie) and that he could not be
asked to change to html, since noone else had complained.

I got a few of my friends to complain also, so he ended up changing it.
But, it pissed me off because it was such a silly thing to do -- M$
Word can save files in html, and it wasn't like the documents lost any
formatting features.

Regards, Stig

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