13 Nov
2010
13 Nov
'10
12:28 a.m.
On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 21:58 +0000, Chris Cannam wrote:
On the odd occasion I have been turned down by an employer, I've tended
to think "Oh well, their loss" and move on. No point making yourself
look foolish, hammering at the same door.
I would only go back to software development professionally if I was
absolutely desparate, and First Bus weren't hiring drivers.
Gordon MM0YEQ
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Patrick Shirkey
<pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com> wrote:
Actually, I turned them down - but I'm not really allowed to talk about
it ;-)
On Fri, November 12, 2010 1:55 am, Chris Cannam
wrote:
I would be very surprised to learn he had ever applied there.
I like Google because they annoy Gordon, and that means more
entertainment for us.
All this anger. I suspect they rejected him at some point. I think actually his is the sort of complaint Google
should be making
a note of -- it's clearly made up of a number of small irritations
that just happen to cross most of the spectrum of things he might use
their services for.
It's not that everyone else necessarily agrees with him, but that one
person's irritations might be things that grow to be everyone's
irritations over time, and might become things that a competitor can
take advantage of -- just as Google originally took advantage of the
overdeveloped search interfaces everyone else used to provide.
... and which they have overdeveloped their way right back round to.
Me, I've
been rejected three times by Google. I'm getting used to it now.
It is perhaps an unbalanced world in which anyone feels they have to
apply more than once to the same employer.