Resume Spamming Redux

wiredog writes "Remember this story about the guy who spammed his resume? Well, now the Washington Post is reporting that resume spamming is a trend. Enough of a trend to have generated a backlash!" Amusing fallout from an amusing story, and hopefully a lesson for others too.

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Resume spamming

[jd]

Spam is spam is spam. It reduces the effectiveness of communication, and obstructs quality dialog.

Spammers should be deported to Afghanistan, where they can share the nation's one surviving 300 baud modem, in their efforts to tell the world how to get rich quick.

If an alledged techie spams, I'd automatically assume that they were incompetent techs, simply because:

• They were incapable of finding out sufficient information to target correctly and efficiently
  
• Spamming is a known evil to techie types
  
• Spamming is illegal in some parts of the world
  
• They obviously don't believe they can win a job by their own merits
  
• Nobody wants to hire a liability and a fool
  

So people think jobs are hard to get, these days. I can remember, in England, when unemployment in some parts of the country was as high as 20%. It was about this time that Norman Tebbit (Crud Puppy's evil twin) made his infamous "get on yer bike" remarks.

So? So, why whinge at a pathetic 5.5%? It's barely noticable! Be grateful it's not four times as severe.

One thing I will say with techs - we CAN work our trade, without the benefit of a large-scale industry to support us. You can write perfectly good code, or design the ultimate in microprocessors with nothing more than a pencil and some paper.

The code, if it really is any good, can become a marketable product with nothing more than a 386SX and a CD burner. It might take a while, but it can be done.

The chip design can be loaded into any FPGA device, tested and sold to any company that produces chips on a commercial scale, or any University with the tools to press chips for their own use.

Steelworkers need some hefty equiptment to be able to do anything. Programmers need a brain and an idea.

Personally, I think it would be great if companies refused to hire technical workers who could not show their competency at core skills (design, implementation, testing and caving in to PHB's). A resume, really, is nothing more than bragging rights for something that everyone else has already forgotten. It would be better if such things were allowed to die.

Computing is both an art and a science. It is not a work of fiction.

Try again

[drew_kime]

He was congratulating the guy who got the fp, dumberass.