Eric Raymond gets invited to Microsoft

[Dark Mind]

Patiently awaiting a reply :hihi:.

[Dark Mind]

Out of curiousity...

 

Exactly which did you send... My "Edited Version" or your "Alpha Version"?

 

In other words, post 10 or 5 :hihi:?

[Dark Mind]

Here is the version I sent... in it's entirety... :lol:

 

Dear Mike,

Eric Raymond referred me to you, he has alerted me to your kind and generous disposition and I was wondering if I might be able to take advantage of it. I have been seeking some way to earn a legal source of income while barely performing any measurable amount of work, I thought Microsoft would be just the place for me to go and thanks to Eric I hear that you are desperate to get any employee willing to show up. Although I barely meet even those qualifications I’d gladly see if I could work Microsoft into my busy schedule. This letter is becoming tortuously tedious to compose as incorrectly spelled words continue to highlight and, against my better judgment, I continue to delete profanities. I would just like to briefly sum up the qualifications I believe you would be interested in before the cocaine kicks in and I forget where I am again. I swear unnecessarily, I have a past history of intense violence, I am a compulsive stalker, I don’t drink anything under 70 proof, I am an inefficient worker and unable to productively organize anything, I poorly budget my time, I am easily distracted by all things shiny when I’m high... I forget what I’m like when I’m not high... and sober..., I suffer random and extreme bouts of depression, I have an addictive personality, I don’t get along with most types of people, I forgot my middle name a couple years ago and have since replaced it with the initial “S.” for Smirnoff, my favorite color is rainbow, I can’t remember where I live and I’m using the computer of someone who failed to pay up for my services a couple weeks ago, I can’t read anything with big words as the letters tend to shift and move before my eyes, I refuse to use phones since the government listens to my calls, memories of my childhood cause me to suffer severe episodes of seizures, I often entertain thoughts of suicide, I possess not an ounce of common sense, and I tend to ramble on. My positive qualifications would be: I have an expansive vocabulary and am able to bring forth a plethora of sophisticated diction at my sole discretion... although I often times find it difficult to read what I have just written due to reasons I believe I stated above, my IQ was 178 when I was in High School though I fear it has sharply dropped in the 3 ½ years since I dropped out, and I work best when paid.

 

I eagerly await your reply and I sincerely hope I am able to remember your name and the fact that I sent you an E-mail. I would like either a negative or an affirmative reply, affirmative is preferred.

 

Thanks for your time & consideration,

Mr. Baldwin

Too much? :hihi:

[Dark Mind]

Still no reply...

[Buffy]

This one sure has made the rounds in the last week! From Cringely's column in Infoworld this morning:

Open sores: When a Microsoft recruiter sent a “let’s get to know each other” e-mail to open source gadfly Eric S. Raymond, he got the electronic equivalent of the finger in reply. Here’s the fun part: the recruiter invited Raymond to schedule an interview using Appointmentquest.com, which prides itself on being “ a 100 percent pure Microsoft® product-free environment.” Maybe Microsoft really is committed to open source after all.

Click to get to the link to Appointmentquest, and also read the hilarious guesses at what Intel's VIIV means...

 

Cheers,

Buffy

[Dark Mind]

VIIV: I think their last "guess" is probably the correct one :hihi:.

 

I still haven't heard back from Mike, how 'bout you Turtle?

[Dark Mind]

Sorry alex and everyone else... It's beginning to look like Turtle and I won't be getting those jobs after all ;).

[Dark Mind]

You should have taken the offer, talked to the guy, and then come back and tell us whether you got the job. *That* would be a great article! :-) Anyway, thanks for a good laugh, I needed it today.

This was alex's comment on the article.

 

nkt also posted a comment :D. I'll leave it for everyone to find on their own, though :D.

 

PS

I REALLY don't think I'm getting a reply :). How 'bout you Turtle?

[Turtle]

PS

I REALLY don't think I'm getting a reply :D. How 'bout you Turtle?

____Nada. Our letters of application may not have even made it past the spam blocker; at least it never pinged back as an invalid address. :D Of course a follow up letter is often in good style. ;) :D As I recall, the only exageration I included was that I like walks on the beach. :)

[Dark Mind]

;)

 

Fortunately for me, I don't believe I made a single exaggeration :). Other than the fact that I never dropped out of High School, and I didn't leave school three years ago... and that little bit about me having a 17-whatever IQ, and me using a comp from someone "who failed to pay", and a couple of other minor things like that :D.