--- albanread at mac.com wrote:
> Surely actual  jobs in smalltalk any spelling are
> very few and far 
> between and Daniel would be better by
> far concentrating on something more commercial (VB,
> C++, Java) perhaps 
> someone could advise Daniel on what realistic job
> would provide the best 
> background for a smalltalk person.
> I mean those of you who hire people are looking for
> something.
> No one is Born with smalltalk experience (perhaps
> they are?)
> The underlying problem may be that no one on this
> list is in a position 
> to hire anyone.
> It was a bit naff though. No one enjoys being out of
> work and people are 
> losing their jobs every day.
> Anyone could be in the same position if the global
> economy does not 
> recover.
     ^^^^ Bravo on last point!!!! One thing I will try
to do when I get job is secretly (because have too
much power) is hound HR department (political 
komissars) to become more computer literate. With the
economy now in US, it is becoming a very serious 
problem that HR people are total idiots. They simply
cannot read a resume spelled correctly or not!! Every
company is being hurt by this. I worked at Microsoft/
Hotmail for 1.5 years. Periodically, HR woman 
would come down to Mountain View from Redmond and
we would have some "seminar" on interviewing. It
is exactly like political study sessions in good
old days in USSR. Contentless and run by idiots!

Vasili
> 
> On Wednesday, August 8, 2001, at 11:58  pm, Aaron
> wrote:
> 
> > On Wednesday, August 8, 2001, at 06:22 PM, Phil
> Weichert wrote:
> >
> >> I think Daniel Joyce submitted a sincere request
> for help and 
> >> suggestions on
> >> finding employment.  Ned Konz made a tactless,
> thoughtless, and 
> >> tasteless
> >> comment: "Step 1: Learn to spell Smalltalk
> correctly."   The "t's" 
> >> have been
> >> further amplified by the following discussion on
> the correct spelling 
> >> of
> >> Smalltalk. This is a major waste of bandwidth and
> subscribers time. A 
> >> lot of
> >> people must really have a lot of time to waste.
> >>   How to spell sMALLtALK does not contribute
> anything to Daniel 
> >> request for
> >> suggestions on finding employment.
> >
> > It may not mean Daniel isn't a competent designer
> and coder, but it may 
> > look bad when applying for jobs.  Spelling it
> wrong would give the 
> > recruiter or whoever else is doing the
> interviewing a bad impression, 
> > an impression that alludes to the fact that maybe
> you don't know much 
> > Smalltalk, if you can't even get the spelling
> correct.
> >
> > Again, it says nothing definitive about a person's
> actual skill and 
> > expertise, but it shows the person has been around
> long enough for him 
> > to be corrected by the rest of the Smalltalk
> community, which spells it 
> > in the "correct" way.
> >
> > Likewise, if I were interviewing someone who
> walked in and greeted me 
> > as Aaron Reichert, I would most likely think him
> somewhat of a dolt 
> > that he couldn't get the spelling of my name
> right.
> >
> > At the same time, if we're not talking jobs, who
> cares? :)  The 
> > business world means business, even if it's
> trivial things.
> >
> > Aaron
> >
> >
> 


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