Re: Mountains to big to climb

No sir point well taken.  I offered to go with Notepad and a web browser and
some modifiable code on a floppy disk they countered with .......  NO

Bring your graphic program and Frontpage or equivalent and any other tools
and our people will load it onto one of our machines for you.  No net
access, no portfolio.

If I did a powerpoint presentation would they want me to give them MSOffice.

I know what you are saying but this was bring a laptop for a demo or pound
sand.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Captain F.M. O'Lary" <ctfuzzy(at)canopy.net>
To: "Bryan Bateman" <batemanb(at)home.com>; <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 5:34 PM
Subject: Re: Mountains to big to climb


> Bryan,
>
> I often face this. It's never a problem. All you need is notepad or the
> equivalent . . . IF (obviously) you are the person they are looking for.
>
> See my point?
>
> I apologize for not phrasing it more "delicately", but that never was my
> strong suit.
>
> HTH,
> Fuzzy
>
> At 11:15 AM 10/20/00 +0100, Bryan Bateman wrote:
> >I am in the process of looking for gainful employment.
> >
> >As a requirement for the interview process I was asked to bring my own
> >laptop with all my development software on it OR supply them with the
> >software so that their IT department could install it.
> >
> >I do not own nor can I afford a laptop at this time.
> >
> >I do not know how many of you out there support your own computer(s), but
I
> >have my tools strung across multiple machines and multiple OS's with
> >databases, web servers, perl, php, jsp, asp etc.  I asked if I could use
a
> >browser during the demonstration to point to my home or production
> >environments?  NO
> >
> >I asked if I could bring printouts?  NO
> >
> >They wanted to see me create a web page while they watched.
> >
> >Is this normal for a job interview?
> >
> __________________________________________________________________
> Captain F.M. O'Lary
> webmaster(at)canopy.net
> If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin'
> somebody else's dog around.
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