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Armed and Dangerous » Microsoft tries to recruit me
by Rattle at 10:07 pm EDT, Sep 10, 2005 |
On the day *I* go to work for Microsoft, faint oinking sounds will be
heard from far overhead, the moon will not merely turn blue but
develop polkadots, and hell will freeze over so solid the brimstone
will go superconductive.
ESR got an email from a Microsoft recruiter who was told by a Microsoft research team that he be would be a good candidate for employment. The recruiter neglected to do any background research on Eric before sending out the email. Something tells me that the research team didn't like the recruiter much and wanted to see something funny happen. It did.. As expected, Eric's response was nice, but in a way with teeth. Read Eric's response and have a good laugh. |
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RE: Armed and Dangerous » Microsoft tries to recruit me
by Lost at 1:03 am EDT, Sep 11, 2005 |
Rattle wrote: On the day *I* go to work for Microsoft, faint oinking sounds will be
heard from far overhead, the moon will not merely turn blue but
develop polkadots, and hell will freeze over so solid the brimstone
will go superconductive.
ESR got an email from a Microsoft recruiter who was told by a Microsoft research team that he be would be a good candidate for employment. The recruiter neglected to do any background research on Eric before sending out the email. Something tells me that the research team didn't like the recruiter much and wanted to see something funny happen. It did.. As expected, Eric's response was nice, but in a way with teeth. Read Eric's response and have a good laugh.
Slashdot reports that the recruiter's email address indicates that he is an outside contractor. A nice joke, though :) |
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Armed and Dangerous » Microsoft tries to recruit me
by SeriouslyUGuys at 8:22 am EDT, Sep 9, 2005 |
I’d thank you for your offer of employment at Microsoft, except that it indicates that either you or your research team (or both) couldn’t get a clue if it were pounded into you with baseball bats. What were you going to do with the rest of your afternoon, offer jobs to Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds? Or were you going to stick to something easier, like talking Pope Benedict into presiding at a Satanist orgy?
Apparently Eric S. Raymond got a job solicitation from Microsoft. I think the circumstances are funnier than his reply, but whatever. |
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