Wacky job offer
Not a technical problem thread: someone reposted a UK job advert seeking an "Informix 9.21 Product Specialist" in the West Midlands (telecoms, level 0 archive tooling, network analysis), joking that nobody remembers 9.21. Replies mocked the listing's £1-per-day salary field, noted some customers really are still running 9.21, and speculated about which telecoms firm it was. One poster asked what the requirement for knowledge "on tape" meant; no explanation was given and no resolution is recorded.
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(Nothing to do with me, guv!) An Informix 9.21 Product Specialist is urgently required in the West Midlands. The Informix 9.21 Product Specialist will be responsible for: *Resolving alarm generation problems *Developing tools to enable level 0 archives to be taken from the customer network and loaded onto a blank platform so understanding of network issues can be gained. *Analysing the data and passing issues to the appropriate teams to be resolved The successful candidate will have: *An excellent knowledge of Informix 9.21 (ideally "on tape") *A background in telecoms *A working knowledge of developing tools *The ability to analyse network problems http://www.gisajob.com/show_job.cgi?j=5123354 (Kinell, does anyone even remember 9.21 any more? :o) -- Bye now, Obnoxio http://obotheclown.blogspot.com/
Obnoxio The Clown wrote: > (Nothing to do with me, guv!) > > An Informix 9.21 Product Specialist is urgently required in the West > Midlands. > > The Informix 9.21 Product Specialist will be responsible for: > *Resolving alarm generation problems > *Developing tools to enable level 0 archives to be taken from the customer > network and loaded onto a blank platform so understanding of network > issues can be gained. > *Analysing the data and passing issues to the appropriate teams to be > resolved > > The successful candidate will have: > *An excellent knowledge of Informix 9.21 (ideally "on tape") > *A background in telecoms > *A working knowledge of developing tools > *The ability to analyse network problems > You missed this bit: salary : '1 per day -- Ian Hotmail is for spammers. Real mail address is igoddard at nildram co uk
----- Original Message ----- From: "Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@serendipita.com> Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix To: <informix-list@iiug.org> Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2008 9:30 AM Subject: Wacky job offer >> (Nothing to do with me, guv!) >> An Informix 9.21 Product Specialist is urgently required in the West >> Midlands. http://www.gisajob.com/show_job.cgi?j=5123354 >> (Kinell, does anyone even remember 9.21 any more? :o) You'd be surprised. I have several customers still on 9.21 - one of them very much in the news recently. I see from the advert that the job pays up to '1 per day. Bring it On!
Ian Goddard wrote: > Obnoxio The Clown wrote: > >> (Nothing to do with me, guv!) >> >> An Informix 9.21 Product Specialist is urgently required in the West >> Midlands. >> >> The Informix 9.21 Product Specialist will be responsible for: >> *Resolving alarm generation problems >> *Developing tools to enable level 0 archives to be taken from the customer >> network and loaded onto a blank platform so understanding of network >> issues can be gained. >> *Analysing the data and passing issues to the appropriate teams to be >> resolved >> >> The successful candidate will have: >> *An excellent knowledge of Informix 9.21 (ideally "on tape") >> *A background in telecoms >> *A working knowledge of developing tools >> *The ability to analyse network problems >> >> > > You missed this bit: > > salary : £1 per day > > Well, they did say that "market rates" was a benefit. But if it is who I think it is, I wouldn't be surprised to see them trying to get away with £1 a day. :o) -- Cheers, Obnoxio the Clown http://obotheclown.blogspot.com
Obnoxio The Clown wrote: > Ian Goddard wrote: >> Obnoxio The Clown wrote: >> >>> (Nothing to do with me, guv!) >>> >>> An Informix 9.21 Product Specialist is urgently required in the West >>> Midlands. >>> >>> The Informix 9.21 Product Specialist will be responsible for: >>> *Resolving alarm generation problems >>> *Developing tools to enable level 0 archives to be taken from the >>> customer >>> network and loaded onto a blank platform so understanding of network >>> issues can be gained. >>> *Analysing the data and passing issues to the appropriate teams to be >>> resolved >>> >>> The successful candidate will have: >>> *An excellent knowledge of Informix 9.21 (ideally "on tape") >>> *A background in telecoms >>> *A working knowledge of developing tools >>> *The ability to analyse network problems >>> >>> >> >> You missed this bit: >> >> salary : '1 per day >> >> > > Well, they did say that "market rates" was a benefit. But if it is who I > think it is, I wouldn't be surprised to see them trying to get away with > '1 a day. :o) > Telecoms? West Midlands? I wonder if we're both thinking of the same place. -- Ian Hotmail is for spammers. Real mail address is igoddard at nildram co uk
Language problem maybe? I dont understand what > *An excellent knowledge of Informix 9.21 (ideally "on tape") means. My (limited) knowledge is still located in my brain as far as I know... no tape backup.... Curious.... Dirk -- -- -- Dipl.-Math. Dirk Gunsth'vel -- -professional services- -- -- Dirk Gunsth'vel IT Systemanalyse - GunCon -- Hammer Str. 13 -- D-48153 Muenster -- phone: +49 (0) 251 28446- 0 -- fax: +49 (0) 251 28446-55 -- web: http://www.GunCon.de -- email: info@GunCon.de -- UStId: DE 189527667 -- -- 'One now understands why some animals eat their young.' -- (Andrew in 'Bicentennial Man' 1999) "Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@serendipita.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:mailman.111.1223800222.874.informix-list@iiug.org... (Nothing to do with me, guv!) An Informix 9.21 Product Specialist is urgently required in the West Midlands. The Informix 9.21 Product Specialist will be responsible for: *Resolving alarm generation problems *Developing tools to enable level 0 archives to be taken from the customer network and loaded onto a blank platform so understanding of network issues can be gained. *Analysing the data and passing issues to the appropriate teams to be resolved The successful candidate will have: *An excellent knowledge of Informix 9.21 (ideally "on tape") *A background in telecoms *A working knowledge of developing tools *The ability to analyse network problems http://www.gisajob.com/show_job.cgi?j=5123354 (Kinell, does anyone even remember 9.21 any more? :o) -- Bye now, Obnoxio http://obotheclown.blogspot.com/