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I, as is my wont, applied for a job yesterday. The company are willing to pay the kind of money I'm looking for and are after someone who knows a product I wrote.
Apparently I'm not the type of person they're looking for...
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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They have obviously had to use it... 
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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I'm going to move away from Griff's side of the room so I don't get caught in the coming hellstorm.
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Chicken!
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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Thanks! It's the industry standard in fuped UI's for gumby traders.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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I see. So what they are after someone who knows it, but not enough to notice the insider trading... 
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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Reminds me of a conversation I had yesterday.
I know a fellow who wrote the current system that we use to monitor contracts.
Well the system is being replaced (political reasons, his is actually a better solution) and he was told his new job would be to admininister user permissions. So they told him this in a 8 man meeting that he'd move from writing UIs to using UIs. He told them he would NOT be doing that. They all looked at him like he was crazy. 
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What they did not tell you is that they were looking for someone who knows the product for the only reason to migrate everything to another tool, because the one they currently use sucks on many levels.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Thanks on so many levels.
Actually they're migrating TO it.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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Seriously, this sucks. Maybe they found someone cheaper.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: The company are willing to pay the kind of money I'm looking for
That's great! Getting paid in Kazakhstani Tenge or Tunisian Dinar can be a burden.
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We were working on a government contract a few years ago, which had just started off. I was looking for contract staff and an agency offered me people who had 5 years experience on the project that had just kicked off. I suspect they've hired one of those people.
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The product would be around 15 yo now. I spent seven years on it and was a senior dev object rhetorically UI ubril last year.
No sense at all. But these knock backs really pease me orf.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: Apparently I'm not the type of person they're looking for...
Your were the person they were looking for, you just weren't their type...
What? Were they looking for a date?  Proof the hiring departments aren't the right people to be conducting the interviews.
I feel for you my friend. Good luck in your future interviews.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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That makes no sense.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
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I doubt you'd want to work for a bunch of douchebags anyway.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I think English is lacking a word here: to describe the feeling that something makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, but also doesn't cause the least surprise. Sort of the opposite of shock.
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I suggest you modify your cv. Search and replace Gin and Tonic with Tea and Biscuits, for example.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: Apparently I'm not the type of person they're looking for...
Did you ask "what kind they're looking for?"
I've been told that I got "too much experience". I didn't even dare mention where I got it.
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