Sorry to hi-jack this thread, but John just brought up something
that’s been bugging me a lot on this list, and I didn’t want Paul (who
started the conversation with a rather innocent job posting) to think
I am picking on him…I’ve noticed this mostly goes for agencies with
full-time positions, and doesn’t seem quite as bad when people post
freelance gigs, but…
PLEASE, can whoever is writing the job posting take a second and write
something about the company that is doing the hiring? It is really
dodgy not to at least post the name and URL for the company, rather
than making us look at the email address (if one was included) for the
domain name and figure it out from there. It makes me think SO much
less of a company that asks Midori or anyone else to take up our inbox
space with a job posting, but can’t even bother to properly identify
themselves.
Thank you!
Christin Roman
347.404.1874
http://ihaterobots.com
On Sep 14, 2009, at 5:33 PM, John Heartfield wrote:
>
> Veronique:
>
> Yes, it’s true I no longer do code in AS2 except when I have to work
> on my own client’s legacy code. And I shudder when I do. How many of
> us have had to go back and replace the errant “x” with “_x” when
> testing AS2 code we just knocked out?
>
> When some of them do upgrades, I’ll offer to rewrite the existing
> code I wrote to AS3 for nothing.
>
> Everyone:
>
> While I think it wonderful everyone posts jobs and freelance work on
> the list may I suggest the following should be included:
>
> 1. Whether the work is onsite or offsite
> 2. The location of onsite work
> 3. The HR reference number of the job if one exists (one usually does)
> 4. The full name and title of the person to be contacted
> 5. The exact title of the posted job
> 6. A suggested subject line for a response (so the person receiving
> the response knows it’s coming our list). For example:
>
> James Doe, ITP Alumni: Information Architect
>
> And finally:
>
> Also, as much as I’d love to work on Spring Street again (Spring
> above Lafayette being one of my favorite areas of the city), I’d
> have to add $ 100.00 per hour onto my hourly rate if I could
> honestly claim that I could:
>
> “Able to work quickly with no mistakes”
>
> Geez, I’d have to be Microsoft to do that!!
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