If you fit the requirements and are interested, then send me your profile preferably in plaintext (but .doc and .odt are welcome as
well).
i find it HIGHLY OFFENSIVE that you are encouraging the use of a .doc
file
format in a GNU/Linux mailing list. Even if your mail is tagged as commercial.
Some people don't have the luxury of being able to enforce that their resume will always be sent using open formats. The kind of people whose resumes will be sent in through recruitment agencies.
Live with it. You don't have to like it, it just happens to be a fact of life.
If we sit and ``Live with it" nothing will ever change. If we want a better society, we HAVE to make it very clear what is NOT the way to go. Call me a naive idealist if you want, but if i see something that i don't agree with i'll make it a point to say it.
It may be a ``fact of life" now, but if we don't do anything to change it, it will remain so. Not opposing something that is evil is not the same as supporting evil, but it indirectly contributes to evil persisting.
Take a simple case,
You have company and advertize for jobs, you INSIST on ODT or any open standard for accepting resumes. Then come what may people(including placement agencies) WILL use that format to send a resume to you. Who know's in the process they ``might" just have a moment of clarity in which they'll realize that there's more that just what's followed.
And that is the 1st step.
Regards,
- vihan
Sometime Today, VP cobbled together some glyphs to say:
You have company and advertize for jobs, you INSIST on ODT or any open standard for accepting resumes. Then come what may people(including placement agencies) WILL use that format to send a resume to you. Who know's
No they won't. I've done this in the past, and I've received resumes in .doc format, and I've written back telling the candidate that their application wasn't considered because I couldn't read their resume.
for the record, I actually cannot read .doc or .ppt files because OoO on my FreeBSD 4.11 box causes a kernel panic everytime I start it up. I use gnumeric to open .xls files, which is fine because spreadsheets are cool.
for the record, I actually cannot read .doc or .ppt files because OoO on my FreeBSD 4.11 box causes a kernel panic everytime I start it up.>
My OoO on PC-BSD does open .doc but appears too bad, I just use Google docs which did a better job for me.
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