Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?

["H.S." <hs.samix@gmail.com>]

Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 09:06:49AM +0000, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> > On 22 Feb at 5:08 "H.S." <hs.samix@gmail.com> wrote in message
> > <[🔎] fpllbr$qtt$1@ger.gmane.org>
> > > And then there are the employers who think the only word processor in the
> > > world is MS Office and that every human being with a computer has it.
> > > Further, they have this unwritten 'law' that all documents must be sent in
> > > 'doc' format. I know a few who are totally lost if they are sent a PDF
> > > document and reply back to send the document in doc format since the one I
> > > sent "was not opened by their computer". And these people have a job!
> > [snip]
> >
> > But would you want to work for such a company?
>
> If I have to keep buying computers that will run the latest microsoft,
> then keep buying the latest microsoft so that I can write doc files, who
> can afford such a job?  
>
> Its cheaper to write PDFs and ps on my 486 with LaTex.
>
> :)

Now, I understand that the human resources people usually want a 
document whose text they can put in their database which is searchable. 
But what pisses me off is they demand the applicants to send a MS Word 
document. Now, why in the world can't they just extract the text from a 
PDF document, may I ask? What other factor in the world can they hope to 
get from a Word document? The answer appears to be that they are on the 
other side of the table. They are not desperately looking for a job and 
have no incentive to do any such work -- they just want to make their 
own life easier. Not to mention that it reflects on their knowledge of 
the tools they are supposed to know how to use on a daily basis.

Oh, and I can bet most of human resources people, heck, even management 
people, have never ever heard of Latex has a document preparation system.


> Doug.