[Phoenix-pm] job opening

[Metz, Bobby W, WCS]

OK, I'll bite.  How "do" you pay the rent?  Hopefully it doesn't involve
any trips to Mill Ave.  ;-)

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From: phoenix-pm-bounces at mail.pm.org
[mailto:phoenix-pm-bounces at mail.pm.org]On Behalf Of Scott Walters
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 11:38 AM
To: Brock
Cc: phoenix-pm at pm.org
Subject: Re: [Phoenix-pm] job opening


If it's anything like ccbill.com, the first person to interview will
post a full account of what transpired ;)

I might apply, but ya know, I'm so cynical at this stage of my life, 
the only real purpose I see to my attending events such as "work"
and "interviews" is to critique the inaness of it all by saying mean
things.
I guess that makes me a consultant. 

Who was it that said "Since clients don't know what they need it's
surprising
that they know exactly when they need it"?

Every worthwhile programming task was completed in the 1970's. The
switched
phone network was finished, airlines has their reservation systems
running,
Eliza was chatting up humans, humans were navigated to the moon and
back...
since then we've just been doing the same things on different scales for
different clients with any hope of code reuse yanked away by tech trends
and "IP", whereby the moon landing navigation sold to your competitor
or father isn't good enough for you, and your father or competitor's
moon landing software is too good for you. God damn humans.

Seriously, I'm so badly traumitized by past employment I don't think
I could work in the tech sector again. It's my lot to sit at home and
eat ramen and write CPAN modules, sometimes pausing to guess where
rent might come from.

-scott

On  0, Brock <awwaiid at thelackthereof.org> wrote:
> On 2004.10.05.08.19, David A. Sinck wrote:
> | The work will be helping to improve and customize what we already
have
> | in place as part of a team.
> | 
> | Further/deeper details available upon submitting a sufficient
> | interesting resume.  :-)  
> 
> Ooo... mysterious. But not really appreciated. You wouldn't like it if
> we submitted resumes which were practically blank, and add
> "Further/deeper details available during interview", eh?
> 
> OK, perhaps I'm being a bit unfair... but I think you get the point. I
> feel as if you are toying with us rather than providing us with a
> serious professional opprotunity. On the other hand, this seems to be
a
> pretty common practice. Being common doesn't make it Right though.
> 
> --Brock
> 
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