Recruiters; Technology ups and downs

[jbailey]

Dear Recruiters,

While I appreciate being contacted with interesting opportunities (at the moment I'm not looking. It's a lovely cross between being happy in my current job and hoping for a particularly uneventful 12 months on the home front), emailing me from noreply@saic.com is just going to make me mock you. It's at moments like these that I with I could channel Matthew Garrett. When I try, I just sound like Overfiend from the good old days ;)

The family went up to the City today with some friends of ours and I had the most amazing thing: I walked into an Apple store, and the greater at the front solved my iPhone problem. The phone decided a week or so ago that there was always a headset plugged in. The greeter pulled up a clever tool that looks like an 1/8th inch to 1/4inch adapter with tiny holes milled in it for blowing air in. Seems they have this problem often. Being with 3 kids and two families, I couldn't reliably book a time to see someone at the Genius Bar, but he just blasted it out and it worked wonderfully.

Of course, I came home to plug it in and have discovered that the cord to connect to the charger appears to have corroded and won't charge the phone now. So, AppleEmployees++, AppleHardware--. I now will make the distinction.

Next technology FixIt: Convince my Bluetooth headset and Bluetooth stereo to go into pairing mode again. Both seem to have decided they won't do this anymore.

Comments

[baloo-ursidae.livejournal.com]

Wait, they actually emailed you asking for you to apply for a job, with a noreply address? With that kind of stupidity, you have to wonder if they were born stupid or if they had to practice it.

[jbailey.livejournal.com]

I lay money on it being a well practiced skill.

Either that or it's a very subtle joke on the part of their IT department. A hint for the rest of us ;)

"Here, use noreply. That way.. umm... just use noreply." =)

[baloo-ursidae.livejournal.com]

So, either incredably inept or a nefarious attempt at long-term job security? Or is it a subtle warning about the working conditions?

[genarobizzarro.livejournal.com]

Of course I wouldn’t have bet on it having bishops either, so I’m fallible. BC: Actually, I found the blimp in today’s edition kind of diverting.

[curtmcreynolds.livejournal.com]

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[giuseppefridig.livejournal.com]

Why do they have influence in the world if they are stupid. They have lots of guns and they use them.

Odd

[xtina1970.livejournal.com]

You know, it's funny.. my LG has done the same thing.. headset is always "on" .. but its not - because I broke it... methinks a trip to a Telus store would NOT give same said greeter results (thus proving yet again that Telus is not 'all that', and I certainly haven't seen any bag of chips. Bummer on the corrosion. thats nasty. No chance you'll just upgrade to the new version to see if its better?

OH of course you heard, but I just heard the other day, we'll finally get the iPhone here. Seems Rogers to have bent... lets see what the rate plan is.

Re: Odd

[jbailey.livejournal.com]

Let me know, but I'm sure the words "Dry Sodomy" will be appropriate. *sigh*

[kimwhitten.livejournal.com]

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[bobbielaurentz.livejournal.com]

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[nevilleknotts.livejournal.com]

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[zaitcev.livejournal.com]

The retail box of a Moto headset I bought for my daughter prominently features an _unbelievably_ smug dude (it has to be seen to appreciate it fully). His facial expression is saying: "I have paired my Moto headset to my Jabra on my iPod, and you ARE TOO DUMB to do it". Pairing that thing takes quite a bit of effort, and it tends to lose pairing.