-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/22/08 14:15, H.S. wrote: > 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 >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>> 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.
They use Word because Word is on their PC. Did you really have to ask that? > 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. Are you crazy? They think that latex is the stuff you make dish- washing gloves out of. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "(Women are) like compilers. They take simple statements and make them into big productions." Pitr Dubovitch -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHvzCFS9HxQb37XmcRAndoAJ9pDJD1GSvT208YTZQM7CnfVcHrxQCfaWtg 1p3z2CRfqtqawgU7Ly6DS+M= =0x56 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
