Hee hee… some time back I looked into a job with Google. Recently they contacted me. Now I am not job-hunting this week but it never hurts to see what the market is up to, right? I mean maybe someone will want to dump truckloads of cash and stock options in my driveway , right… you never know. So I asked the very innocent question: do you have my resume? As you can see the results (redacted so no one gets in trouble, but very real nonetheless) are funny. The summary:
- Me: want my resume?
- Them: yes
- Me: here is the Google Doc version
- Them: um… can you send it in Word?
Now that cracks me up.
June 5
Hi Paul,
Can you send in word format?
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Thanks,
XyzOn 6/4/07, Paul Steckler <paul@bricin.net> wrote:
> Sure, http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dcb7xbp4_13cqskcj is
> the URL for the Google Doc version. Let me know if you would prefer an
> alternate format.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
>
>
> On 6/4/07, Xyz <xyz@google.com> wrote:
> >
> > No, I don’t. Please send to me if you have one onhand.![]()
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Xyz
> >
> > On 6/4/07, Paul Steckler <paul@bricin.net> wrote:
> > > Sounds good. Do you have a copy of my resume?
> > >
> > >
June 11th, 2007 at 10:00 pm
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June 13th, 2007 at 9:48 am
Yeah, it kind of emphasizes the stranglehold Microsoft has (or could have) on information when closed formats are a de-facto standard.
I would have offered a PDF as a counter offer in the format negotiations.