Google looking for new recruitment agent

[Malcolm McLean]

Must have high standards of professional integrity and understanding of
Internet culture. You will be a dynamic and pro-active individual with a
passion for total quality customer service, a self-starter but able to work
in the fast-moving and polyvalent team environment that is Google groups.

 

[Joe Estock]

Must have high standards of professional integrity and understanding of
Internet culture.

As in not spamming newsgroups with advertisements?

You will be a dynamic and pro-active individual with a
passion for total quality customer service, a self-starter but able to
work in the fast-moving and polyvalent team environment that is Google
groups.

Ah, that explains it. Google groups. Welcome to the (void).


*plonk*

 

[Mark McIntyre]

As in not spamming newsgroups with advertisements?


Ah, that explains it. Google groups. Welcome to the (void).

*plonk*

Apparently you missed the joke.

--
Mark McIntyre

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it."
--Brian Kernighan

 

[Ian Collins]

As in not spamming newsgroups with advertisements?


Ah, that explains it. Google groups. Welcome to the (void).


*plonk*

Ever heard of a piss take?

 

[Default User]

As in not spamming newsgroups with advertisements?


Ah, that explains it. Google groups. Welcome to the (void).


*plonk*

Wow. Wooooosh!




Brian

 

[Joe Estock]

Apparently you missed the joke.

It would appear so and after a quick scrub of the group I noticed
Malcolm is a frequent poster. It's been a long day and I just read the
"Google looking for Great Engineers" thread before this one, hence the
"hair trigger".

I suppose an *unplonk* is in order?

 

[Joe Estock]

Ian Collins wrote:

[snip]

Ever heard of a piss take?

Apparently not, but I have now.

 

[Richard Heathfield]

Joe Estock said:

It would appear [that Joe missed the fact that Malcolm's article was
parody] and after a quick scrub of the group I noticed
Malcolm is a frequent poster. It's been a long day and I just read the
"Google looking for Great Engineers" thread before this one, hence the
"hair trigger".

I suppose an *unplonk* is in order?

That depends on whether you want to read his articles in the future (if
you did indeed plonk the guy - so many plonkmsgs nowadays seem to mean
something quite different, i.e. "I think you're a plonker" rather than
"so long, sucker, my killfile just burped").

What you do owe him, however, is an apology.

 

[Joe Estock]

Joe Estock said:

It would appear [that Joe missed the fact that Malcolm's article was
parody] and after a quick scrub of the group I noticed
Malcolm is a frequent poster. It's been a long day and I just read the
"Google looking for Great Engineers" thread before this one, hence the
"hair trigger".

I suppose an *unplonk* is in order?

That depends on whether you want to read his articles in the future

Of course I do. After scrubbing the previous articles I see that he is
not only a frequent poster but also a quality poster.

(if you did indeed plonk the guy - so many plonkmsgs nowadays seem to mean
something quite different, i.e. "I think you're a plonker" rather than
"so long, sucker, my killfile just burped").

What you do owe him, however, is an apology.

That, indeed, was the intent of my reply although at first glance it
does not appear obvious. I had placed him in my killfile (or
thunderbird's equivalent of it) however after another glance at the
original article decided against it. My "I suppose an *unplonk* is in
order?" was meant as a rhetorical question to convey an indirect
apology. That being said, Malcolm, I apologize for erroneously judging
your post.

 

[Malcolm McLean]

Joe Estock said:

It would appear [that Joe missed the fact that Malcolm's article was
parody] and after a quick scrub of the group I noticed
Malcolm is a frequent poster. It's been a long day and I just read the
"Google looking for Great Engineers" thread before this one, hence the
"hair trigger".

I suppose an *unplonk* is in order?

That depends on whether you want to read his articles in the future

Of course I do. After scrubbing the previous articles I see that he is not
only a frequent poster but also a quality poster.

(if you did indeed plonk the guy - so many plonkmsgs nowadays seem to
mean something quite different, i.e. "I think you're a plonker" rather
than "so long, sucker, my killfile just burped").

What you do owe him, however, is an apology.

That, indeed, was the intent of my reply although at first glance it does
not appear obvious. I had placed him in my killfile (or thunderbird's
equivalent of it) however after another glance at the original article
decided against it. My "I suppose an *unplonk* is in order?" was meant as
a rhetorical question to convey an indirect apology. That being said,
Malcolm, I apologize for erroneously judging your post.

I was happy.
If it really fooled one or two people then that shows it was pitched about
right. Fool no-one and it's too crude, fool everyone and you might as well
place a real spam, fool one or two and you've got it.
Anyway, welcome to clc.

 

[Charles Richmond]

[snip...] [snip...] [snip...]

I was happy.
If it really fooled one or two people then that shows it was pitched
about right. Fool no-one and it's too crude, fool everyone and you might
as well place a real spam, fool one or two and you've got it.
Anyway, welcome to clc.

One could include a "smiley" at the end for the benefit
of the humor impaired. After all, there are professions
where the humor impaired do quite well, like undertaker
or government tax agent--so these folks are necessary. ;-)

 

[madhulika.baranwal]

Hi, Joe

I am dealing into IT Recruitment by last 7 months & want to join your
group. Kindly reply me back

Regards-
Madhulika
Binary Semantics