Error'd Bites
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Also known as the Contador Correlation ID:
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eBay wants to make sure that you won't find out how to delete a draft:
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We all know: P@ssw0rds are hard....
The password you entered is not valid
Please note that the password must respect the following rules:It must contain between 6 and 32 characters. Use only characters from the following set: ! # $ % & ( ) * + , - . / 0123456789 : ; < = > ? @ ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ [ \ ] _ ` abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz { | } ~
It must contain at least 1 letter(s) (ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz).
It must contain at least 1 numeric character(s) (0123456789).
It must not contain more than 2 identical consecutive characters (AAA, iiii, $$$$$ ...).
It must not contain your user name.
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And meanwhile I start wondering if I really want to apply for that job...
The file cannot be attached. It exceeds the allocated limit of 1024 kilobytes.
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@BernieTheBernie That's what you get for writing up your fancy PDF in Impact
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@Applied-Mediocrity Oh, I was trying to send them
War and Peace
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This job application did terribly fail:
Well, if they enforce application by web form (no email address given where I could send my crap to, and their contact form is for sales purposes only), I come to the belief that they likely won't be my ideal employer anyway.
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Maybe it's a clever screening filter. That way, they only get applications from candidates who are competent enough to find a workaround, and motivated enough to do so.
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@BernieTheBernie said in Error'd Bites:
I come to the belief that they likely won't be my ideal employer anyway.
: Why aren't we getting any applicants? We really need to redesign that application page!
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@dcon said in Error'd Bites:
@BernieTheBernie said in Error'd Bites:
I come to the belief that they likely won't be my ideal employer anyway.
: Why aren't we getting any applicants? We really need to redesign that application page!
Why aren't we getting any applicants?
The application page isn't working.
Quick, hire some applicants to redesign it.
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@dcon said in Error'd Bites:
: Why aren't we getting any applicants?
We really need to redesign that application page!Nobody wants to work anymore!
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@dcon said in Error'd Bites:
: Why aren't we getting any applicants? We really need to redesign that application page!
It could be years, if ever, before the PHB realizes the page is the problem.
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@dcon said in Error'd Bites:
@BernieTheBernie said in Error'd Bites:
I come to the belief that they likely won't be my ideal employer anyway.
: Why aren't we getting any applicants?
I know! We're offering too much. Nobody is taking us serious.
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@PleegWat said in Error'd Bites:
: Why aren't we getting any applicants?
I know! We're offering too much. Nobody is taking us serious.
I overheard a manager say that they didn't post what the position would pay because they would get too many applications.
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@Zerosquare said in Error'd Bites:
only get applications from candidates who are competent enough to find a workaround
Their postal address can be found on their website.
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@BernieTheBernie said in Error'd Bites:
@Zerosquare said in Error'd Bites:
only get applications from candidates who are competent enough to find a workaround
Their postal address can be found on their website.When can you start?
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@Applied-Mediocrity prevented me from sending the application to the .
Because printers are
And afterwards, I would have to transport that to the .
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@BernieTheBernie said in Error'd Bites:
@Applied-Mediocrity prevented me from sending the application to the .
Because printers are
And afterwards, I would have to transport that to the .
I applied for a programming job some years back that specified mailing in the application and gave no other means to apply. So I did. They sent their response by certified mail, signature required, which meant that I had to make a special trip to the post office, according to the ambiguous instructions on the postal notice.
As you no doubt guessed by now, it was a rejection letter.
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@jinpa Well, there are other oddities which happened to me in the past.
So I sent my application to a company by email. Weeks later I received a thick letter from them.
The contract? How could that be? Never was invited to an interview...
Turns out: they printed the email, and now sent their print-out back to me. Because they must not keep that any longer.
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@BernieTheBernie said in Error'd Bites:
@jinpa Well, there are other oddities which happened to me in the past.
So I sent my application to a company by email. Weeks later I received a thick letter from them.
The contract? How could that be? Never was invited to an interview...
Turns out: they printed the email, and now sent their print-out back to me. Because they must not keep that any longer.That's how you know some people will never move out of the 20th century.
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@BernieTheBernie said in Error'd Bites:
@jinpa Well, there are other oddities which happened to me in the past.
So I sent my application to a company by email. Weeks later I received a thick letter from them.
The contract? How could that be? Never was invited to an interview...
Turns out: they printed the email, and now sent their print-out back to me. Because they must not keep that any longer.I can scarcely fathom the confusion of ideas that would lead to them doing that. Was this before most people had email?
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@jinpa there are (still) people who think that email works the same way as regular mail and that you have to send it back so you don’t have it any more.
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@Arantor said in Error'd Bites:
that you have to send it back so you don’t have it any more.
In a different case, that happened, too.
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@jinpa said in Error'd Bites:
@BernieTheBernie said in Error'd Bites:
@Applied-Mediocrity prevented me from sending the application to the .
Because printers are
And afterwards, I would have to transport that to the .
I applied for a programming job some years back that specified mailing in the application and gave no other means to apply. So I did. They sent their response by certified mail, signature required, which meant that I had to make a special trip to the post office, according to the ambiguous instructions on the postal notice.
As you no doubt guessed by now, it was a rejection letter.
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I once got a rejection letter written in Comic Sans.
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@BernieTheBernie said in Error'd Bites:
Because they must not keep that any longer.
"I received your package. Did you want me to sign something? I'm confused... Here's my resume again in case something went wrong."
As a forward of your sent email, so it's even longer. How many layers down can we go...
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@Zerosquare said in Error'd Bites:
I once got a rejection letter written in Comic Sans.
At least you can claim the privilege of having applied to WTDWTF.
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Status: Ah, yes, totally reasonable notification text...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Error'd Bites:
totally reasonable notification text...
Considering the recipient, such malfunctions are not unexpected.
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@Tsaukpaetra And what are the odds it's an Apple/Android issue...
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@jinpa said in Error'd Bites:
I can scarcely fathom the confusion of ideas
I can help you with this, it will harm you with everything else.
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@dcon said in Error'd Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra And what are the odds it's an Apple/Android issue...
It's the Windows 10 "UWP" app, so that would be "hilarious".
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@BernieTheBernie
Someone went to a GDPR seminar but fell asleep after the first half hour?
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@BernieTheBernie Couldn't have been that fast or he wouldn't have known he isn't supposed to keep the mail.
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Another company which does not want me to apply for a job.
They have a "Friendly Captcha" which never copes with verifying that I am human.
Edit:
just have that thingy hanging around there for some further 10 minutes, and it comes to the conclusions that I am human.What an inhumane treatment of my valuable time!
(I read TDWTF on a different machine meanwhile, so...)
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*looks up this "Friendly" Captcha*
Based on the underlying mechanisms of the blockchain,
Okay, that explains it. A two-fer of idiocy.
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@BernieTheBernie said in Error'd Bites:
just have that thingy hanging around there for some further 10 minutes, and it comes to the conclusions that I am human.
What an inhumane treatment of my valuable time!The actual test is whether you have the patience to wait or not. If you do, that must mean you’re human because a bot would likely be programmed to time out its attempt long before.
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@BernieTheBernie said in Error'd Bites:
What an inhumane treatment of my valuable time!
This is a test to see if you're a good fit for the job.
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@jinpa and I succeeded, obviously, by my Great Virtue of Slacking at TDWTF.
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@BernieTheBernie said in Error'd Bites:
@jinpa and I succeeded, obviously, by my Great Virtue of Slacking at TDWTF.
We don't slack here! We know how to ... um ... efficiently manage our time!
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@dcon doing what's important.
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@Benjamin-Hall does "important" also include "the needful"?
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When you write the job description page, please make sure that the link to the job application actually works...
Bernie did then a copy/paste of the address, and violà, that worked.
Let's wait and see how many applications they'll receive.
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Initech WTF Co sent a rejection email to Bernie. In order to make sure that Bernie cannot reach them by email, they use a special mail address:
invalidemail.com
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Reminds me ofnoreply.com
. Someone could register that domain, add a catch-all email address, and voilà, ...
someone in CA, US with everything else beingREDACTED FOR PRIVACY
according to a whois query did so.
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DATEV is doing great.
Thanks to my employer no more sending my income statement printed on paper, I have to login on a page of DATEV, and sit there and wait. And wait. And wait.
BecausePlease note that sending the smsTAN can take up to 3 minutes.
TFA
== The Fucking Authentication?
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@BernieTheBernie They only have 1 9600 baud modem into the system. Ok, maybe 2.
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@dcon So, after some time, I clicked "Send new smsTAN". After some additional waiting time, I just closed the fucking page. 10 s later, the messages arrived on my phone. THX DATEV.