{"id":970,"date":"2014-03-24T22:45:49","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T02:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/control-h.org\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=970"},"modified":"2014-03-24T22:45:49","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T02:45:49","slug":"headdesk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2014\/03\/24\/headdesk\/","title":{"rendered":"Headdesk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lmgtfy.com\/?q=headdesk\" target=\"new\">LMGTFY<\/a> for those of you who don&#8217;t know&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I said snidely this morning that for some, your LinkedIn connections are the second most important factor in determining your competence (after the number of store-bought Minesweeper certification initials following your name).<\/p>\n<p>This evening I got a message from a recruiter saying that based on my LinkedIn profile, I&#8217;d be a perfect match for an open position she&#8217;s trying to fill.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the position?<br \/>\n1.  It&#8217;s a four-to-six month contract, and;<br \/>\n2.  It&#8217;s in Saudi Arabia, and;<br \/>\n3.  It&#8217;s a <b><u>JANITOR<\/u><\/B> job.<\/p>\n<p>What.  The.  Actual.  Fuck?<\/p>\n<p>I asked Barbie, as obsequiously as possible, to let me know what in my profile made me a fit for her slot.  <font=\"small\">So I don&#8217;t show up like that in any other search<\/font>.  Perhaps there&#8217;s some disjointed phrase I could use to make people think i&#8217;m an empty-suit no-talent suck up.  <\/p>\n<p>But I really don&#8217;t look that sharp in a tie.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, I&#8217;ll keep busy messing with my embedded Linux stuff to replace the wheezing PCs I have, and lower my electric bills.<\/p>\n<p>*sigh*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LMGTFY for those of you who don&#8217;t know&#8230;&#8230; I said snidely this morning that for some, your LinkedIn connections are the second most important factor in determining your competence (after the number of store-bought Minesweeper certification initials following your name). This evening I got a message from a recruiter saying that based on my LinkedIn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}