[Gllug] Recruit scum

[Formi]

On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Andrew Halliwell wrote:

> And verily, didst Tethys announce to the hordes:
> > Yep, been there, done that: "You've sent me a plain text CV, I can't edit
> > that. Can you resend in Word?". No, I'm not making this up...
>
> When I was job hunting after university, I sent a plain text file to some
> recruitment scum, along with a letter explaining I didn't have a means to
> produce doc files.
>
> They replied saying "please send as a doc file", to which I replied asking
> "Why ask me to send as a doc file rather than a universally readable .txt
> file? I explained in my initial letter I didn't have a means of producing
> doc files."
>
> To which they replied accusing me of being "rude" and said they were striking
> me from their books.
>

 Being so f*ing politicaly correct in this UK we live, and using the EU
 human rights convention, I wonder if you would be able to take them
 to court on the grounds of "political??" or some other "kind" of
 discrimanation.

 Knowing lawyers can be as bad as recruitment personal I would enjoy
 whatching the "fight", ie "legal battle".

 Formi
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