Your job evaluates to false or do you mean VB6?



  •  I got an email from a recruiter with the subject lin:

    Need:Vb.Ne<wbr>t and not .net

     

    Description:

    VB.NET developer to modify AJAX based website.  Work as part of a development team 
    in an agile development environment based on Scrum.

    Required:

    •5+yrs .NET Experience -  (will be no C# Development) 
    VB.NET in last project required 
    •Experience with AJAX required 
    •5+yrs Experience developing applications using MS SQL Server, T-SQL and Stored Procedures 
    •3+yrs Experience doing rich internet development using JavaScript, AJAX and XML 
    •Excellent oral and written communications skills 
    •Excels in a agile team based environment 

     

    I think this is the same company that keeps sending me job descriptions for a company I worked for in the past.  My resume obviously has high keyword match rates, but they apparently don't bother actually reading the resume.  These guys apparently do the spray-and-pray method of recruiting: search Monster/Dice for anyone with matching keywords, skip screening the resume and send them the job description.

     

    Given some of the conversations I've had with recruiters, they probably wouldn't understand what they're reading even if they did read the resume.  These guys probably just submit any warm body with a matching resume as prospects, which probably explains why recruiters are so skittish about submitting people to companies. 

     

     

     

     



  • I wanted to reply something extremely funny but when I used the "Quote" button the textbox got filled with such a long and nasty Word-generated html content that it ruined the momentum. Next time please remember to notepad any content coming from Word or Outlook.



  • Hmm, I want to see..

    @ooblek said:

    <br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">

    heh



  •  It was a test.  You both failed.

     



  • I still can't believe I found this inside the HTML code of the first post:

    <br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;" />

    Thus, I say that ooblek is TRWTF.

  • Discourse touched me in a no-no place

    @ooblek said:

    VB.NET in last project required 
    Interesting requirement....



  • @Husky said:

    I still can't believe I found this inside the HTML code of the first post:

    <br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;" />

    Thus, I say that ooblek is TRWTF.

    yeah, this qualifies as:

    • HTM-hell
    • ouch-TML
    • HT-lame-L
    • nas-TML
    • etc.

    BURN IT! BURN IT!



  • Holy crap!!
    \

    @ooblek said:

    </p><p>&nbsp;I got an email from a recruiter with the subject lin: </p><h1 class="ha" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;margin:12px 1px 9px 0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 8px;background-image:inherit;background-repeat:inherit;background-attachment:inherit;background-clip:inherit;background-origin:inherit;background-size:inherit;border-right:inherit;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span id=":ui" class="hP" style="padding-right:10px;">Need:Vb.Net and not .net</span></h1><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;float:none;">Description:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><a href="http://vb.net/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">VB.NET</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;float:none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>developer to modify AJAX based website.&nbsp; Work as part of a development team<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;float:none;">in an agile development environment based on Scrum.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;float:none;">Required:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;float:none;">•5+yrs .NET Experience -&nbsp; (will be no C# Development)<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;float:none;">•</span><a href="http://vb.net/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">VB.NET</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;float:none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>in last project required<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;float:none;">•Experience with AJAX required<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;float:none;">•5+yrs Experience developing applications using MS SQL Server, T-SQL and Stored Procedures<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;float:none;">•3+yrs Experience doing rich internet development using JavaScript, AJAX and XML<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;float:none;">•Excellent oral and written communications skills<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;float:none;">•Excels in a agile team based environment<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I think this is the same company that keeps sending me job descriptions for a company I worked for in the past.&nbsp; My resume obviously has high keyword match rates, but they apparently don't bother actually reading the resume.&nbsp; These guys apparently do the spray-and-pray method of recruiting: search Monster/Dice for anyone with matching keywords, skip screening the resume and send them the job description.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Given some of the conversations I've had with recruiters, they probably wouldn't understand what they're reading even if they did read the resume.&nbsp; These guys probably just submit any warm body with a matching resume as prospects, which probably explains why recruiters are so skittish about submitting people to companies.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>



  • @Speakerphone Dude said:

    I wanted to reply something extremely funny

    Trust me, there was no danger of that happening.



  • @Zylon said:

    @Speakerphone Dude said:

    I wanted to reply something extremely funny

    Trust me, there was no danger of that happening.

    there you go, 9 more stars then you can claim it from your mom upstairs

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  • @ooblek said:

     I got an email from a recruiter with the subject lin:

    Need:Vb.Net and not .net

     

    Description:

    VB.NET developer to modify AJAX based website.  Work as part of a development team 
    in an agile development environment based on Scrum.

    Required:

    •5+yrs .NET Experience -  (will be no C# Development) 
    VB.NET in last project required 
    •Experience with AJAX required 
    •5+yrs Experience developing applications using MS SQL Server, T-SQL and Stored Procedures 
    •3+yrs Experience doing rich internet development using JavaScript, AJAX and XML 
    •Excellent oral and written communications skills 
    •Excels in a agile team based environment 

     

    I think this is the same company that keeps sending me job descriptions for a company I worked for in the past.  My resume obviously has high keyword match rates, but they apparently don't bother actually reading the resume.  These guys apparently do the spray-and-pray method of recruiting: search Monster/Dice for anyone with matching keywords, skip screening the resume and send them the job description.

     

    Given some of the conversations I've had with recruiters, they probably wouldn't understand what they're reading even if they did read the resume.  These guys probably just submit any warm body with a matching resume as prospects, which probably explains why recruiters are so skittish about submitting people to companies. 

     

     

    I appear to have stumbled into 4chan.  That is TRWTF.  My mistake.

     

     



  • @ooblek said:

    I appear to have stumbled into 4chan.  That is TRWTF.  My mistake.

    Don't worry, you can have one too, I made this one easier to print and cut:



  • No C#? Maybe they want someone who's going to survive the codebase without erupting in a mass of "TRWTF is Visual Basic" every few days?



  • @Speakerphone Dude said:

    @ooblek said:

    I appear to have stumbled into 4chan.  That is TRWTF.  My mistake.

    Don't worry, you can have one too, I made this one easier to print and cut:

     

    I have to say that this one is actually funny.

     



  • TIC (Truth In Code) : @ooblek said:

    normal;orphans

    ...refering to VB people, I guess ?



  • @Xyro said:

    Hmm, I want to see..

    @ooblek said:

    <br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">

    heh
     

     

    I remember those from the days I was trying to write a PHP script to clean it up to something sane!

    ...

    FUCK, now my day is ruined, thank you very much.


  • Trolleybus Mechanic

    @Speakerphone Dude said:

    @ooblek said:

    I appear to have stumbled into 4chan.  That is TRWTF.  My mistake.

    Don't worry, you can have one too, I made this one easier to print and cut:

     

    I tried to punch out a star, and broke my monitor. You owe me a new monitor, and since I'm complaining, a second star.

    =(

     



  • @Lorne Kates said:

    @Speakerphone Dude said:

    @ooblek said:

    I appear to have stumbled into 4chan.  That is TRWTF.  My mistake.

    Don't worry, you can have one too, I made this one easier to print and cut:

     

    I tried to punch out a star, and broke my monitor. You owe me a new monitor, and since I'm complaining, a second star.

    =(

     

     

    punch again and shut up to prevent breaking it even more

     



  • @SEMI-HYBRID code said:

    @Lorne Kates said:
    @Speakerphone Dude said:
    @ooblek said:
    I appear to have stumbled into 4chan.  That is TRWTF.  My mistake.
    Don't worry, you can have one too, I made this one easier to print and cut:

     I tried to punch out a star, and broke my monitor. You owe me a new monitor, and since I'm complaining, a second star.

    =(

     punch again and shut up to prevent breaking it even more
    I am surprised blakeyrat does not have one, just imagine how many free hugs he could have had by now.

    I also am seriously tempted to add that picture to my signature.



  • @Speakerphone Dude said:

    BURN IT! BURN IT!
    You can't burn oobleck, don't you remember the book? The only way to get it to go away is for the OP to apologize. Except... in this case, oobleck is the OP... and now I'm totally lost on what to do.

    Panic?


  • BINNED

    @dhromed said:

     

    I have to say that this one is actually funny.

     

    I agree. It somehow smells of blakeyrat, too.

     



  • @Anketam said:

    I am surprised blakeyrat does not have one, just imagine how many free hugs he could have had by now.
    He would fill up a couple of those every week.



  • @ooblek said:

    •3+yrs Experience doing rich internet development using JavaScript, AJAX and XML

    And who wants to bet the application is all Webforms and none of the developers could write a line of JS to save their lives?



  • @El_Heffe said:

    @Anketam said:
    I am surprised blakeyrat does not have one, just imagine how many free hugs he could have had by now.
    He would fill up a couple of those every week.

    Yes, but who'd want to hug him so often?

    I also suspect that would make him complain, hence further shortening interval to the next required hug.



  • @MiffTheFox said:

    And who wants to bet the application is all Webforms and a requirement for this new position is to debug and fix the underlying code because none of the developers could write a line of JS to save their lives?
     

    FTFY...


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