Re: How to convert plain ASCII text file to RTF?
From: jpd (read_the_sig_at_do.not.spam.it.invalid)
Date: 12/30/04
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Date: 30 Dec 2004 20:18:38 GMT
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On 2004-12-30, tinyurl.com/uh3t <rem642b@Yahoo.Com> wrote:
>> From: Harald Eilertsen <no_spam@127.0.0.1>
>> but why don't you just paste the file into the body of the email?
>
> I did that several months ago. Then I checked back yesterday to find
> out if he's found me a job yet, and he said he doesn't have my resume
> in his database, so I need to send it again.
Time to find yourself a new employment-finder. If he'd been any good
he'd've nagged you for not having given him a CV yet, weeks ago.
> So I did again. Then I
> called him right back and he said he knows the problem: The database
> there (Manpower) doesn't allow any formats except MS-Word and RTF.
Real Quality Software[tm] that shop uses then. Industry Standard and all
that. Thanks for their name, though. Always good to know who one should
avoid.
> So I
> need to convert my resume into either of those formats before he can
> put it in their database so they could then see if they have any job
> available for me.
I like the RTF hack thingy elsewhere mentioned in this thread. :-)
Perfect for coercing droids and excuses-for-software into accepting the
data without actually having to change it much. If I hadn't heard about
it I might've gone ahead and renamed the file from .txt to .doc, on
the premises that if the icon says it's .doc it must be .doc. And see
the database barf. Or ``reformatting'' it for $printer or whatever the
dialogue popup says. Fsck, now I'm even faintly curious to know what
it'd do.
>> I'm sure he accepts plain text email, won't he?
>
> Only for eyeballing, not for putting into their resume database.
Cut'n'paste already too difficult for that warm body, then. Too busy
to even tell you what their corporate policy(?) is. I could go on.
>> Then if he absolutely wants it in doc or rtf format, let him have the
>> hassle of the conversion.
>
> Expecting the droids at Manpower, or *any* employment agency, to bend
> over backwards for an unemployed person seeking a job, doesn't sound
> like a good idea.
True. Then again, they _might_ have mentioned they run under
limitations. There's a thing to be said for if not bending over any way,
at least not lie or withhold information to the vic^Wcustomer. They do
get paid^W^W^Wpart of your salary for getting you a job, after all.
(Coincidentally, such is also a good way for a bank to get me to
blacklist them. ``we can't be bothered with such details'' is NOT an
acceptable answer if those details cost me money. Even if it's ``only''
just over a hundred euros.)
-- j p d (at) d s b (dot) t u d e l f t (dot) n l .
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