Re: Available consultant Vijay for Unix System Admin with sun Solories Expireance.

On 4 Jul 2008, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.unix.admin, in article
<slrng6s68l.umv.read_the_sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, jpd wrote:

Moe Trin <ibuprofin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

We've had some presentations where clues about what needs to be
included, and what not were shown to all employees.

IOW, ``luser ed.'' -- still a dirty word to the salesmen and, for that
matter, the lusers themselves. Hit'em hard and never ever admit you're
attempting to educate them.

One presentation started off with the guy asking "don't answer this out
loud, but how many of you think these [presentations] are a waste of
your time?" You could see at least half the crowd silently agreeing
with that. He then continued by explaining that "you want to create
mails that the recipient isn't going to feel is a waste of time. You
do this by"... and then went through a list of typical mistakes,
starting with the 'Subject:', opening abstract, details known to be
needed (but not the entire contents of your hard disk), and so on.
As he was an outside conslutant. he didn't seem to worry about
stepping on high-ranking toes, or kicking sacred pigs. It was one
of the better presentations, and actually improved the average quality
of the boring emails we were getting at the time.

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[New Large Aircraft fire-fighting]

It would seem so. Of course, it's entirely too easy to forget that new
materials too do have a .cn part to their properties.

But a lot of this isn't all that new. Carbon composites have been used
on military aircraft for several years now, and fiberglass has been in
use for decades - including whole aircraft made of that material.

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Related to an earlier episode; the recruiters I asked to remove my
details after another few weeks of deafening silence saw fit to follow
up with about a pageful of superfluous blather about how they compared
my details with their database and whatnot in addition to the last two
lines affirming that they'd ``complied with my wish''. Perhaps they
were hoping I'd come running back to them, but I'd already asked them
to give me reason why I shouldn't walk away, to which no answer -- as
noted previously.

As they haven't done anything useful, that's good news.

Poked another recruiter guy, but he seems to have trouble recalling me
at all (quoth ``NO CV attached though matey ;-)))'' -- he already has
that and answers to a *long* list of questions), so poked again with a
``but what jobs do you have, really?''. I think he's going to go out as
well.

I know that most pimps are powdered plastic dog poop, but are all of
them in town that bad? What have you found about temp agencies?

It's a tiring game, though. Soon I'll be lawnmowing in the snow.

I suppose that's better if you like fresh air, but I spent 3 hours
this morning (today is a holiday) cleaning up the yard after some
thunderstorms passed through some parts of the valley. We didn't
get any rain (last rain was six weeks ago, and before that in mid
February) but we got some lightning (luckily no fires here) and lots
of strong winds. Somehow, I prefer being indoors, though the +44C
temperatures outside could be a factor.

Old guy
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