On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 00:05 +0300, Diego Iastrubni wrote: > On יום ראשון 15 אוגוסט 2010 23:28:44 Omer Zak wrote: > > Some of those companies (both placement and project subcontract work > > outfits) look for a Linux software developer AND expect you to E-mail > > them a MS-Word .doc file. > > The problem is that 1224% of the chick reading those emails are complete > ignorant about technology. IF they don't see the (W) icon on their Outlook, > they do not know what to do with it. PDF is many time out of the question as > well, never even tested TXT. [... snipped ...] > The problem is that the first line of defence between you and a potential > job, > are those lame secretaries, and dumb CEOs.
Actually, I want to avoid dumb CEOs. Lame secretaries are a different story, however. It is not their job to understand the difference between PDF and RTF. -- Delay is the deadliest form of denial. C. Northcote Parkinson My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which I may be affiliated in any way. WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il