[geeks] MS good?!?

[Kris Kirby]

On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> I tend to refuse to send a resume to someone in a format that I don't
> use.  Perhaps that limits my potential employers, but if I don't have
> Word here in the house, how the hell am I going to make a Word doc?
> Why would a *UNIX* admin use Windows?  I have fun explaining that one.
> Word isn't everywhere?  Gasp!  And what the hell is "eye-rix" and
> "solairis" anyway?

Boy, cuss at me again, and we'z gonna have words....

> What I have found though, is that the software these brainless HR doodz use
> imports Word docs and sticks them into a database with keyword search
> capability.  That way, none of them actualy have to *read* your resume.
> Apparently, this software doesn't support any other format...

*fume*. That takes the thinking out of the job. Pathetic. Especially since
most of my background information is in my cover letter...

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