Anyone job-seeking for a sysadmin position?

[Tyler Aviss]

Any employee with 2 years experience then would be completely invaluable?
Why? Well, anyone who can develop a time machine to get the needed
experience would obviously be a kickass programmer :-)

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Tyler Aviss <tjaviss-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> The greatest ones though, are requirements that want you to have
>> impossible experience or skill levels. I remember seeing a bunch of
>> job ads that specifically asked for 3-4 years of .NET experience when
>> .NET had only been around for about 1-2 years (and discounted previous
>> experience in the actual languages such as VB, VC++, etc). Of course
>> the flip-side to this is when somebody claims more experience than is
>> possible as well, though there are some fringe cases (those that were
>> part of the public Beta before software was actually released, etc).
>
> My favorite one was back in 1989, seeing solicitations for programmers
> with 2 years experience with NeXTstep.  This was only shortly after
> announcement of the release of the first cubes.  The platform hadn't
> been available for 6 months; how could someone have 2 years experience
> with it?  And it had a very well known (at the time) set of publicity
> surrounding its release; it would take a very particular sort fo
> ignorance to simultaneously:
> a) Be aware of it in the first place, but
> b) Not be aware that it had only existed a few months.
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