On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
On Saturday 30 March 2002 09:43 am, Tim Prince wrote:
On Saturday 30 March 2002 03:18, wolfi wrote: When I was out of work recently, I made certain that my resume displayed correctly both on Word 97 and on WordPerfect linux. Even one of the linux shops to which I applied rejected it, on the grounds that they detected that it had been on a non-Microsoft word processor. Those must be the same people who started Lindows.
I'm curious -- why would anyone (other than a Microsoft employee) care if a document has been on a non-MS processor as long as it prints and edits correctly?
If someone rejected my resume because it had been prepared using a non-windows word processor, I would say "Thank you for not wasting my time. You're obviously not someone I want to work with." Actually, I feel strongly enough about standards compiance on the internet, that I wouldn't even submit my resume to a company that requests it in any proprietary format. Rick Green