work today after the 4 day weekend and as expected it was a struggle, but only 3 more days to get through till we hit the weekend. my dull headache has returned after subsiding for a few days. too much lawyer and accountant shit to deal with outside work with regards to my late fathers taxes and estate. the govt manage to turn personal sadness into stress and anger by through the seemingly calculated use of utter stupidity.
in other news, CV's have started turning up at work for new infrastructure architects. me and the other contractor were taking a look through them. personally i would pity anyone coming into an interview with him who had written something on their CV that they actually did do, because he would catch you out. anyway, someone had sent a cv and i could hear him groaning whilst reading it, because the guy had written he was an expert in 'cloud computing'. its a generic term that means nothing really and is often used by bullshitters and non-technical people.
it reminded me of this where i said someone got a job at a massive US internet company which i wont name directly but it could be one from google, yahoo, facebook, twitter or microsoft, and they had written they were an expert in "computers" and the "internet". i showed him the guys profile and he was shocked that someone who spoke in those terms managed to get a job at a serious tech firm. it felt slightly vindicated in my own views about it. fuck me, i am no techie genius but if someone wrote they understood "the internet from the wires up to the app", and i interviewed them, they might be on the receiving end of some specific questions about the make up of TCP packets and maybe a few questions on configuring OSPF on a juniper router. i might even throw in a question about the physical cabling order of pins in an RJ45 connector. if you mention wires, i will give you wires. you cant be writing shit like on your resume and not expect to be quizzed about it.
i have been looking at my CV and whilst its not the most impressive thing out there, i can back every word of it up. hopefully i will get asked to interview and not embarrass myself over the next few weeks and months.
this is funny.
in other news, CV's have started turning up at work for new infrastructure architects. me and the other contractor were taking a look through them. personally i would pity anyone coming into an interview with him who had written something on their CV that they actually did do, because he would catch you out. anyway, someone had sent a cv and i could hear him groaning whilst reading it, because the guy had written he was an expert in 'cloud computing'. its a generic term that means nothing really and is often used by bullshitters and non-technical people.
it reminded me of this where i said someone got a job at a massive US internet company which i wont name directly but it could be one from google, yahoo, facebook, twitter or microsoft, and they had written they were an expert in "computers" and the "internet". i showed him the guys profile and he was shocked that someone who spoke in those terms managed to get a job at a serious tech firm. it felt slightly vindicated in my own views about it. fuck me, i am no techie genius but if someone wrote they understood "the internet from the wires up to the app", and i interviewed them, they might be on the receiving end of some specific questions about the make up of TCP packets and maybe a few questions on configuring OSPF on a juniper router. i might even throw in a question about the physical cabling order of pins in an RJ45 connector. if you mention wires, i will give you wires. you cant be writing shit like on your resume and not expect to be quizzed about it.
i have been looking at my CV and whilst its not the most impressive thing out there, i can back every word of it up. hopefully i will get asked to interview and not embarrass myself over the next few weeks and months.
this is funny.
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