Are people really this stupid?
Things have been a bit hectic around these parts lately, so I apologize for the lack of fresh content every day. Don't forget to check out my posts on Gearlive.com and the I4U Network. I am spending most of my time blogging over there lately.
So back to the point here. I get these feeds from Simply Hired coming into my RSS News Aggregator, just to see what's happening out there and what people are looking for in my field. I happened to stumble across this job posting and I just had to ask, are people really this stupid? Just look at the job description:
DAVIS / FAIRFIELD Apple Expert: MUST BE NEARBY Reply to: job-132969328@craigslist.org Date: 2006-02-11, 11:32AM PST
Work Part or Full Time. Word for Apple OS X Needed. Ongoing technical support is part time. Days and or evenings according to your schedule. If you prefer full time, most of your days will be researching diverse electronic products online, and communicating with engineers plus manufacturers of conusmer related electronics.YOU MUST BE IN OR WEST OF DAVIS.
Sample Issues Needing Your Help:
1) State of windows. When a document is opened in word, he would like it to be placed in a certain location every time and the window to be maximized. Upon reopening, the files often ignore the size it was last saved in.
2) Default Zoom. When a document is opened, he would like the zoom to always be 125%.
3) When pasting from Word to Apple's Mail program, formatting is not always as expected.
4) When using file save as to make a change in the name of the document, the newly created file rarely will go into the correct folder.
Please email me if you can solve these problems. Thank You.
Now did you catch that? Am I really reading this? The level of stupidity when it comes to people posting jobs these days is astounding. The best ones are those that want the skill-set of 3 high-level professional people and also want you to be the manager and end up offering $30,000 a year to do it. A perfect example of this practice can be found here. The interesting question there is WHO (if anyone) actually responds to these ads. Stupidity seems to be taking over the world, and most of the idiots appear to be in management. Go figure. For those of you managers with a brain and some common sense, I applaud you. Consider yourselves a rare breed.
