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February 15th, 2005

unixronin: Galen the technomage, from Babylon 5: Crusade (Default)
Tuesday, February 15th, 2005 11:58 am

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 ......


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.

unixronin: Galen the technomage, from Babylon 5: Crusade (Default)
Tuesday, February 15th, 2005 12:59 pm
Our government has gone barking mad (not to mention totally forgetting its responsibility to those who volunteered to fight and, if necessary, die to defend it).