[Gllug] We can put an end to Word attachments

[Pete Ryland]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 02:02:29 -0000, jim at lateral.net wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I agree with everything you say and Mr Stallmans esssay but it is extremely
> difficult to put into practice.  I have within the last half hour send a CV
> in to an agency who insisted that the CV be sent in word format only and
> this was for a Unix/Open Source position, I wrote it in Open Office.

Again it comes back to the agent. :)  The employer would probably prefer a
normal format, but the agent is the one who needs the word-format doc - they
tell me that their systems are set up to file the CVs in their database only
in word format.

The other day I got an interview confirmation which was the only thing that
had the address of the place I had to go to and, yes, the agent decided that
instead of just mailing me the details, it would look more formal if he was
to create a word document in the form of a snail-mail letter with the
interview confirmation:

pdr at reggie:~$ ls -al LETTER0.*
-rw-------    1 pdr      pdr         21504 Jan 11 19:02 LETTER0.DOC
-rw-r--r--    1 pdr      pdr           516 Jan 11 20:34 LETTER0.txt

Some 4167% the size of the equivalent text file.

Pete

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