[Gllug] We can put an end to Word attachments

[Dan Kolb]

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On Tuesday 15 Jan 2002 16:38 pm, tet at accucard.com wrote:
> >I'm sorry. I couldn't read your email in plain text. Please resend as
> >a Word attachment.
>
> Just to dash any hopes you might have had for the human race in
> general... while this may have been intended as humour, I have
> actually encounted that in the real world (with a recruitment
> agency, as it happens). Oddly enough, they didn't get another
> copy of my CV, and I didn't use them again...

Feel free to name and shame. As one of my friends is fond of saying, "there 
just aren't enough bullets in the world".

What do you think an agency would do if you created a dvi version of your CV 
(say from LaTeX source), rename it to .doc, send it to them, and when they 
say they can't read it, tell them you're obviously using a different version 
of Word that's incompatible, and that they should upgrade/downgrade or accept 
in PDF/plain text/RTF?

Dan
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