Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 09:06:49AM +0000, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
On 22 Feb at 5:08 "H.S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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And then there are the employers who think the only word processor in the
world is MS Office and that every human being with a computer has it.
Further, they have this unwritten 'law' that all documents must be sent in
'doc' format. I know a few who are totally lost if they are sent a PDF
document and reply back to send the document in doc format since the one I
sent "was not opened by their computer". And these people have a job!
[snip]
But would you want to work for such a company?
If I have to keep buying computers that will run the latest microsoft,
then keep buying the latest microsoft so that I can write doc files, who
can afford such a job?
Its cheaper to write PDFs and ps on my 486 with LaTex.
:)
Now, I understand that the human resources people usually want a
document whose text they can put in their database which is searchable.
But what pisses me off is they demand the applicants to send a MS Word
document. Now, why in the world can't they just extract the text from a
PDF document, may I ask? What other factor in the world can they hope to
get from a Word document? The answer appears to be that they are on the
other side of the table. They are not desperately looking for a job and
have no incentive to do any such work -- they just want to make their
own life easier. Not to mention that it reflects on their knowledge of
the tools they are supposed to know how to use on a daily basis.
Oh, and I can bet most of human resources people, heck, even management
people, have never ever heard of Latex has a document preparation system.
Doug.
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