What planet are these people on?

[zbear20]

I'm looking to hire someone at work, and usually go through temp agencies to try people out first, but they people they send over have been, for the most part, crap. One of them even thought "New England" was a State. Friday afternoon I posted a help wanted ad on CraigsList, and at this point I now have 150 resumes to go through. I've gone through

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[sftekbear]

Craigslist is a lot of "kissing frogs to get to the prince" when using it to recruit. I get tons of resumes for people that don't even come close to meeting the job requirements.

Still, spending time sifting through pointless resumes is better than paying a temp agency $$$ to send you crap people.

Nothing's more depressing to me than trying to hire someone.

[allanh]

Have I ever told you of my five question "test" for network engineers? It's a test with a 90%+ fail rate. Here are the questions:

Without rebooting or taking down this system, tell me:
1. What operating system is it running, and what's the patch level?
2. How much memory does this machine have?
3. How large of a hard disk does this machine have?
4. What's the name of this machine?
5. What's the IP address of this machine?

90% fail rate. I shit you not. Doesn't matter whether they're in front of a NetWare, Windows, or Linux server. (I place them in front of a server with the OS they claim to be most experienced in working with.)

There are some bonus questions for the 10% that get all of the above correct, and they are:

6. What DNS server(s) does this machine look to for name resolution?
7. What's the default gateway of this machine?
8. What's the subnet mask of this machine?

You may be saying to yourself right now, "JesusFUCK, these are questions ANY competent PC or Mac user could answer.."

Evidently not ANY user.

[progbear]

Sounds like some people are really desperate.

[zbear20]

So someone would have to be desperate to work for me? LOL

[progbear]

Ha ha, no! I meant desperate for work in general.

That’s not counting the idiots who thought New England was a state! D’oh!

[zbear20]

She actually asked me what was the capital of New England. I told her New London, then she found out that was in Connecticut and I had to confess that perhaps there wasn't a State of New England after all.

[cop4cbt]

Do I need a passport for Hawaii?

[zbear20]

It's a job that will pay less than $20.00 an hour, and the work is so specialized that headhunting won't be practical or cost effective. What I need to do is find someone with common sense, intelligence and internet surfing skills and train them. The person who had been doing it had worked for me for the last six or seven years, coming back during the summer while he was off getting his degree for four of those years. There's no place for the person to move up, so, as much as I didn't want to lose him, I encouraged him to find someplace where he had that growth opportunity

[zbear20]

I did, he had been looking for just the right thing for a couple of months. His last day was last Friday, he starts his new job today.