[TriLUG] Not Linux: Anyone else feeling the pain?

Robert Dale robdale at gmail.com
Fri Nov 21 11:40:15 EST 2008


On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> On Friday 21 November 2008 09:44:05 am Robert Dale wrote:
>> Wouldn't it be expected that the jobs list would have few subscribers?
>>  A jobs list is transient.  Employed people wouldn't normally
>> subscribe to such a list.  Unemployed people would be subscribed only
>> while remaining unemployed; they wouldn't continue to be subscribed
>> once they were employed.
>
> An employed person never knows when an even better job will pop up. And you
> just stated another benefit of putting it in the main list -- if you were
> employed and on the jobs list, your employer would find out you're "looking"
> (as if we're not always looking).

BTW, I'm not arguing for or against a jobs list. I'm arguing that the
incorrect quantifier was used to determine that the list wasn't being
used.

-- 
Robert Dale



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