Most. Incomprehensible. Recruiter. EVAR.

[unixronin]

I swear I'm not exaggerating this:

Recruiter:  "I'm calling from combobblegibber."
Me:  "Excuse me?"
Recruiter: "Combobblegibber."
Me:  "...I'm sorry, I'm having a lot of trouble understanding you.  What's your company?"
Recruiter:  "Combobblegibber unglebooglerathrasmixomatic."
Me:  "Uh ....."
Recruiter:  "We're looking for odlopper."
Me:  "You're looking for what?"
Recruiter:  "Odlopper."
Me:  "Uh....."
Recruiter:  "Pull.  Apple odlopper.  We want apple odlopper."
Me:  "OH!  You want a Perl developer?"
Recruiter:  "Yes.  Apple odlopper."

I was getting maybe three words in ten.  I think we managed to agree that he would send me email, but it might have been an agreement to wage total war on Madagascar.  I'm not entirely certain.

Oh well, I wasn't that attached to Madagascar anyway ......

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Edit:  If you read this while it was a garbled mess of invalid markup, don't blame me, Semagic did it.  I have absolutely no fucking clue what it thought it was doing.  I want my LogJam back now, please.

Comments

[elegantelbow.livejournal.com]

Combobblegibber unglebooglerathrasmixomatic

*boggle*

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

That is the closest I can come to rendering what he said. It was complete and utter gibberish. I couldn't even retain enough of it to mentally "replay" it and try to make some kind of sense out of it.

[elegantelbow.livejournal.com]

Was it because the person calling had a strong accent?

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

His accent could have wrestled Arnie to the ground and stuffed his feet up his nose, with one hand tied behind its back.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, what in nineteen purple hallucinatory hells did Semagic DO to this .....

[elegantelbow.livejournal.com]

I don't know. It's pretty bad. It is, in fact, "irreparable".

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Fixed now.

[jilara.livejournal.com]

I hear that one of the latest functions to be outsourced to strange and foreign-accented lands is recruiting. (Someone I know was recently called by a recruiter based in India, so this is not entirely rumor.) This might be an example.

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

Latest? You mean it hasn't been going on for the past two years?

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

Apple odlopper

I am gasping with laughter, here.


Oh my god, what in nineteen purple hallucinatory hells did Semagic DO to this .....

I am laughing so hard my lower back is spasming, here.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Trust me on this .... you didn't see the garbage Semagic generated and passed off as valid HTML. It looked fine in preview mode ... I have no idea what happened between preview and actually uploading. It had actually taken bits of the marked-up content and swapped them around, seemingly at random.

[ilcylic.livejournal.com]

Well, I happen to be a very highly experienced apple odlopper, so if it's not something that you need, forward that note for the destruction of Madagascar to me. :)

-Ogre

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

But are you willing to work for combobblegibber .... something?

[ilcylic.livejournal.com]

I might well be, at that.

-Ogre

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

"Combobblegibber" turns out to translate to "Compuwizards USA". The email he eventually followed up with came from cmagic.net or something like that, which doesn't even have a site there, just a placeholder exhorting the site owner to, like, upload something fer crissakes.

Unfortunately, the mail message exists in a sort of quantum superposition of deleted and not right now, because though I deleted it, I don't remember whether I got to update the mailbox before my wireless started flapping up and down every couple of minutes, and by the time it was done babcom.com was offline for the night.

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

You could have called me and I would have reconnected. I was sort of expecting you to call, not sure why though. Just this quantum thingy hanging in the air saying you might call.

So the two (same guy) wrong number calls at 0216 really didn't wake me up as I hadn't gotten any sleep yet.