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It looks like I have been living in a bubble. For the last ten years I have been working at a company and not been exposed to the toxicity of the job market. A couple of weeks ago was bored and decided to update my resume on Monster.
What followed was a job spam from companies, which without exception were small offices in Canada with huge development operations in India, one of them contacted me directly from California.
My faith in the future of our industry is disappearing.
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Well California is basically Canadia with sunshine and fewer moose, right?
You're lucky you get mostly the same country - I don't! 
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OriginalGriff wrote: fewer moose
Meese? 
One goose, two geese! 
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Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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One house, two hice? 
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one spouse, two spice?
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Ah don't lean on me man, cause you can't afford the ticket
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That could actually make sense... 
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Except in this case it's often spelled "divorce"
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Moses
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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N_tro_P wrote: I have heard some preach against it, but there is usually no logic to their argument
I deleted my linkedin account because I was getting too many unsolicited job specs.
The logic:
I don't need a constant barrage of speculative e-mail from "recruitors (sic) for recruitment firms and for actual companies". If I need work, I will tell them.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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N_tro_P wrote: I am of the philosophy that having your mind open to other opportunities is just a good idea. Doesn't matter how good your job or team is, as an opportunity is just that and you do not have to take it.
Jeeze, you've really fallen for the hype.
These people want to make money out of you, that's all. Never think that they have any other motive.
Buy a big bag of salt, and use it with liberal pinches.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I have absolutely no need to "network" with strangers.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Bad Hombre wrote: My faith in the future of our industry is disappearing.
I don't think it should. But you should question your faith in Monster (and almost every other job board).
FWIW, the only way I've found a job in my 30 year career is through word of mouth and a trusted set of 3 headhunters. I've yet to find a job I haven't loved. I admit I may be in the minority.
/ravi
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I don't know, the last time when I looked for a job it was ten years ago, I got a call from Marc Zuckerberg to work in facebook, he was still in Toronto at that time I guess.
This time it's all indian recruiters for outsourcing companies, not a good change IMHO. I guess I will just stop updating my resume.
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... that is actually a picture taken with their phone will be shot  
Software Zen: delete this;
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..starts dragging his screen to the photo-copier..
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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You bastard .
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When asked to fax something, I usually email a scan of the document and a second scan that's a high res photo of my broken fax machine from 15 years ago.
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You know quick setup can fax like a printer - then you 'accidentally' set number of copies to 999.
Then email them saying 'I've faxed it to you, but I think something's maybe wrong with my fax coz it took a long time to send, please let me know if it didn't come through or I will just try again in 10 minutes.' (i.e. already covered the 'apology' in advance, plus an excuse to send it another 999 times if they don't reply.)
Sin tack ear lol
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One place I worked my friend Matt faxed a photocopy of the floppy disk holding his weekly status report.
They were not amused.
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Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Well at least it's better than "it gave me some error message with some technical sounding stuff which I didn't think would mean anything to anyone."
On that basis, I'd argue for life imprisonment over execution.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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Seeing that I'm a computer programmer and thus "work with computers", I am of course the first line support for the wife whenever she tries to use her computer without me to hold her hand.
So no matter where in the house I am at any given moment, she will yell out "Aaaaaah, I got an error!".
I will then have to run to her side and ask: "Well, what was the error?"
Standard answer: "I don't know, I didn't read the error message. I closed it as fast as possible!"
So I know exactly what you mean! I have tried educating her in the fine art of reading the error messages and solving the problems described, but
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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