[geeks] MS good?!?

[Ryn]

I have also found the large coporations revolve around MS for desktop,
calendaring and office applications. Could you imagine training your entire
staff on Star Office? I would love to see someone go into a large shop and
convert desktop folks away from MS Office. That would not be a pleasant
expereience dealing with the backlash.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 4:30 PM
Subject: Re: [geeks] MS good?!?


> On July 8, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> > > Heck, even the local UN*X jobs want the resume in DOC format. How obtuse
> > > is that?!
> >
> > 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?
>
>   It certainly limits your potential employers.  But if it's Word
> documents that you're refusing to send, well, it weeds out the idiots
> that you likely don't want to work with anyway.
>
>   Note that, however, big-company HR departments will employ
> Windows-using idiots whether your potential new job is cool or
> not...but I speak from the standpoint of someone who now avoids
> big-company jobs like the plague.
>
>         -Dave
>
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