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[katyism.livejournal.com]

Someone mailed a cover letter and resume (if you could call it that) to our general helpdesk email address. The proper address to send resumes is ALL OVER THE JOB DESCRIPTION PAGE. Strike one.

Here's the text of the cover letter. I won't pain you by including the resume.

To whom it may concern,

I saw your add on the buliten board for jobs. I am forwarding my reume to
you for your review. Please look this over and hire me for any type of work
you have available. I live in Columbus, Indiana, but I drive to Indianapolis
all the time for school and various other reasons. Driving to Indianapolis
is not an inconvenice for me at all.

Thank you for your consideration
Dana Lastname

Uh... she obviously spell checked her resume (which has a list of every auto repair tool she has ever touched, and all her assembly and machining jobs nicely laid out, but NO computer experience) but didn't bother to spell check the cover letter email. Strike two! and a half!

So the consultant here on email duty asked the supervisor how to handle this. Advised we reply back, saying "please submit your information to the hiring email address, which is something@iu.edu." So we sent back that tidbit to this potential applicant.

The applicant immediately replied, with the following:

Hello,

This email address something@iuedu ou sent me is incomplete. Is there a .com .net or a .org
at the end?

Thank you
Dana

Strike THREE. You're fucking OUT. No job for you.

Comments

[linguafranca.livejournal.com]

NO TECH JOB FOR YOU!

[axessdenyd.livejournal.com]

Wait, what was strike 2? The entire body of the letter, or just the person's name?

[katyism.livejournal.com]

strike 2 is now referring to her lack of spell check... i edited the post.

[axessdenyd.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes. That was needed.

[residentgeek.livejournal.com]

How much you want to bet that HR hires her for a tech job anyway?

[katyism.livejournal.com]

Absolutely nothing. She might could get hired at the physical plant or the motor pool or the group that fixes campus vehicles maybe. But she won't get hired into the IT department.

[cirobi.livejournal.com]

the address is incomplete. that's a good one. apparently the edu ending isn't famous enough for that clueless moron.

[xdownfornowx.livejournal.com]

... or its interesting that she, herself has never had an e-mail addy that ended in ".edu". That should say something about skill level.

[cirobi.livejournal.com]

haha, so true. skill or general world awareness. .edu isn't all that obscure even for someone who hasn't at least been to a community college. most high schools these days have some sort of lame site put together by their best young geeks =p

[xdownfornowx.livejournal.com]

I'm also thinking that she has never been to a college web site to check out info about a school. poor girl.

[cirobi.livejournal.com]

yea, quite a shame. it's still something of a shock too since there are plenty of adds on TV for .edus. i guess even that form of stimulus is a waste on her. =p

[katyism.livejournal.com]

What's more interesting is she purposely sent her original message to an @iu.edu just fine, but she's complaining that an @indiana.edu address is incomplete.

[xdownfornowx.livejournal.com]

she must have clicked a link on the school's site... probably what caused her confusion in the first palce. I would also like to add "Worst cover letter, ever!"

[katyism.livejournal.com]

yeah. might as well have written:

helo ok plz hire me thx!!11!!1

[axessdenyd.livejournal.com]

Yeah, because colleges are all about teaching tech skills.

[indigo-max.livejournal.com]

which has a list of every auto repair tool she has ever touched, and all her assembly and machining jobs nicely laid out, but NO computer experience

I've got a buffoon that works here in the evenings that has a resume that reminds of that. He has a list of EVERY piece of hardware and EVERY piece of software that he has even looked at. Course this is a guy that hard booted a UNIX system one night when all I asked him to do was power cycle a tape library unit. I keep wondering if I should put him in the direction of someone who knows how to write a resume just so he can find another job and get him out of our hair.

Max...
P,S. I know your pain since I work for a .edu too.

boobs

[xdownfornowx.livejournal.com]

it amazes me that someone who knows about repair tools does not know the existance of other TDLs. how is that possible? you should call her for a phone interview just for a laugh to see what, if anything, this girl knows. But, in her advantage, she is a female trying to get into IT. Please, women of this community don't kill me (because we all know that you are TRUE techs that know what the fuck you are talking about), but boobs can get you far in IT with no brains. My classic example of this is a friend of mine who I love dearly but couldn't tech her way out of a wet paper bag. She had so much trouble installing XP that she gave up and used the ME recovery disks that came with her PC because she couldn't get XP to boot. 3 weeks later this same girl got hired as a co-op for cisco and made more money as an intern than most of us do now (including me). I was appalled that this could happen. But i thought about it and it makes sence, she is a knock-out, and geeks sometimes hire eye candy in the hopes of training them into productive employees. During my harsh job search I sometimes wished I had long blonde hair and boobs in place of my intern expieience as I'm sure it would have made the job search easier. maybe you could e-mail her back... Subject: n00dz plz!

Re: boobs

[cirobi.livejournal.com]

don't worry, as a female in the tech field i'm quite familiar with the "OMGTITS!" factor that tends to happen and completely understand the frustration. i mean... i'd be pissed off if some other nitwit with tits bested me for a position when i know more.

when i started school at the university i'm currently a part-timer at... i joined an anime and gaming org and immediately every single freshman guy in the group went ga-ga over the fact that there was a female openly admiting to being an anime/computer geek. -_- not to mention the fact that i was 22 at the time and they were barely legal. i have to laugh at it because it's a rather amusing reaction.

Re: boobs

[xdownfornowx.livejournal.com]

wow sounds like where I went to school... www.rit.EDU

Its a very tech orientated school as the T in in RIT would point out. The ratio used to be 5:1 guy:girl. I hear its getting better these days, although I have no proof. It was a bit of an odd expierience for me at first. I love tech stuff and nerdy things in general. But I restarted my degree 6 years after high school. The between was filled with excess of substances, you know the sex, drugs, and rock and roll lifestyle. At 23 I got bit my web bug and realized that was where I wanted to be, somewhere with computers. So I started everything all over. At 24 I was in the dorms with 18 year old nerds. It was quite the culture shock. I got over as I was into the same stuff, but I had the inconvience of being some what socialized. I was used to the environment hws.edu where the girlies where a plenty and good times never stopped. So you can see my shock by being surronded by 12000 nerds scoping out 2400 girls. Every day I would walk the quad and see some poor girl surrounded by 10 dildos trying to mac them. Lets say that the women of RIT got a new attitude about guys there... kinda harsh. Then you throw me in, a 24 year old ex-party animal in the mix and I thought I was on a bad trip. So I feel your pain by being a girl into tech and other things that normally only interests comic book guys. Be strong, keep your back to the wall, and carry a shiv. You should get a really tite t-shirt with tITties across the front.

Re: boobs

[cirobi.livejournal.com]

hehe. i'm currently a part timer at Drexel U in Philly but i work at UPenn across the street. got my BS at a tiny lib arts school in the middle of bumblefuck PA (aka Selinsgrove). for my undergrade women in IT was the norm. i think there were more female CS majors than male CS majors. Drexel has more men to women but i forget the exact ratio. normal everyday life isn't so bad, hell, living in the frosh dorm wasn't tooooo horrible either. one of my best friends and my roommate is now a sophomore. the anime group was a huge laugh though but i wound up and still am dating on of the guys from it. we both left the group because the group itself became pointless.

it's nice to know there are more like me out there. i'm something of an anomaly at the moment =p that t-shirt sounds amusing. =D

Re: boobs

[katyism.livejournal.com]

all our female techs (including me) are dumpy, older, and with unspecial boobs. i think we got the jobs mostly because we were qualified. not lashing out at you, but just saying i'm glad that's the way it is. i can't stand working with people who get paid the same or more as me who don't know what the fuck they're doing.

[pixeltwist.livejournal.com]

They probably thought they were 'smart' emailing you back about the .edu thing... hoping you would realize just how awesome they are at the computer and hiring them right away to help with the internets!

[kalidor.livejournal.com]

Oye. I realise you were being sarcastic ... but .. that sentance ... it hurts! @.@x;

[pixeltwist.livejournal.com]

Haha, yes.