RE: Mountains to big to climb

Fuzzy:

You are too funny.  I fell off of the chair lauhging with your DELICATE
response.

I prefer a howitzer right between the eyes.

Walter

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hwg-basics(at)hwg.org [mailto:owner-hwg-basics(at)hwg.org]On
Behalf Of Captain F.M. O'Lary
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 12:34 PM
To: Bryan Bateman; hwg-basics(at)hwg.org
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?
>
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