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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,misc.jobs.offered
Subject: Re: AMIGA C Programmer Needed, RELOCATION NOT REQUIRED
Message-ID: <10356@well.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jan 89 07:18:35 GMT
References: <4049@hubcap.UUCP> <10730@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
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In article <10730@watdragon.waterloo.edu> mwjones@lotus.waterloo.edu () writes:
>In article <4049@hubcap.UUCP> mjackso@hubcap.UUCP (Michael W Jackson) writes:
>[An add from a company looking for an Amiga Programmer]
>
>First, I'd like to know why they are posting this article to comp.sys.amiga.
>I don't see the work "jobs" in the newsgroup title anywhere.  [ ... ]

	It was in the Newsgroups: line.  It was posted to both
comp.sys.amiga and misc.jobs.offered simultaneously (just like this message
(only this message has followups directed to c.s.a only)).

>So in other words, if you didn't own an Amiga 1000 with Dos 1.0 forget it.
> [ ... ]
>And if you didn't work for Commodore writing the new Dos, they're not
>interested.
> [ ... ]
>And of course they're too cheap to lend you a compiler or cover your long 
>distance charges.
>
	Hey.  Be nice.  Here's a company who wants to enter the Amiga market.
Let me repeat that.  A company that *wants to enter* the Amiga market.  How
many of those do you see?

	And you're going to scare him off with sarcasm?  Half of those
requirements were written by a Mindless Perso#ne#l (I still don't know how
to spell it, but the pattern should match) Droid.  It is not unusual to ask
for two years experience of applicants.  For the Amiga, it really ought to
be a requirement.  I've been doing this for about three years, and I still
don't have all the Amiga Merit Badges.

	As for asking that you have your own machine, that is a wee bit
suspect, but you could always view it as the employer trying to discover who
*really* uses the machine, as opposed to some generic C or ASM programmer
who likes walking all over the OS.

>Do you really want to work for an organization like this?  I sure wouldn't.
>
	Do what you like, guy.  I'm happy we've got someone new in town.
Let's hope they pan out to be good guys.

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