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   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 25 Oct 2024 02:25:37 -0400, Paul wrote:   
      
   > If I did that today, the teenager watching TikTok vids on his phone   
   > would look up and say "what is solder?".   
      
   *Ahem* ... that particular example could be due to how you were   
   pronouncing it ...   
      
   ... you know, “sole-der” versus “saw-der” ...   
      
   > Consider a conversation I had with an HR person once, over a beer.   
   > we were joking about something, and she tells me "when the resumes come   
   > in, if a tech worker has been out of work for a year, I just throw out   
   > their resume". She didn't read the resume, to find out what skills she   
   > is throwing away. That gives you some idea, of the opinion of HR to the   
   > state of the tech workers.   
      
   HR have long been infamous for howlers like demanding 3 years’ experience   
   in a technology that only came out the previous year ...   
      
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