Subj : Re: How much should I charge for fixed-price software contract?
To   : comp.programming,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.lisp
From : Tim X
Date : Mon Aug 15 2005 08:31 pm

Robert, Robert, Robert,

This time you have just made my day - rolling around here laughing so
much I'm in danger of choking. It is now confirmed - my suspicions
werer correct, you are definitely a very sad person who has absolutely
no ability to take any responsibility for your own situation. 

In this lovely last rant of yours, you attack someone for suggesting
that you do some *really* basic html to set foreground and background
colour to give your pages a better DEFAULT look and you immediately
attack them as if its their fault you have no money. Moaning that
your too poor to have easy access to a gui browser which would allow
you to see what it would look like and lots of other excuses. I wold
have thought that even you would be able to imagine what it would look
like as long as you did something pretty normal, like, maybe just
white background with black text - I'm sure you would have seen that
somewhere before. It is also wonderful how you blame the user for not
setting decent defaults in their browser to cover up for your
inability to set reasonable colours in your pages - the good old
attack being the best defence strategy - your probably best off
sticking to the tried and true tactics.  

Then your post gets even better!!!!

Robert Mass, the guy who has not been able to even get an interview
for a programming job in 15 years because a resume critic. This part
of your post is priceless and gets even funnier when you compare the
resumes with the one referenced by your victim - this truely was a
blast. While I could certainly see ways phlip could improve his
resume, yours are not even close to been what I could call a
resume. You then proceed to slice and dice for paragraphs, effectively
showing why you have no clue and rather than take on some advice and
actively improve your situation, you will just hit out attacking
anyone for criticising what you do - I can see why you would be such a
great asset in any team!

Oh, and just in case there is a chance you can accept criticism, I
would recommend you take a copy of your resume to one of those
recruting agencies and ask them for some suggestions on how you could
improve it. From your earlier posts and definitely confirmed by this
most recent one, you have absolutely no clue on how to put together a
resume. If your lucky enough to get a compassionate staff person who
takes you seriously and doesn't fall into fits of laughter while
reading what you give them, you may actually learn something. I'm sure
you will not believe this recruitment professional and will disagree
with any advice he/she may give, but I would just suggest you sit and
listen and maybe just try out doing it their way. After all, they are
exactly the types of people who will be looking at your resume when
you apply for jobs - or of course you can just fight against it as
they are all so wrong and be the rebel you dream of. I'm really sure
that one day, somewhere, somehow you will find that one other
enlightened individual who will get where your coming from and not
only give you a job, but make you a senior principal analyst
programmer team leader boss!

Tim (still laughing loudly and heading to the kitchen for a glass of
water)


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Tim Cross
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