GIP!

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redeem147 was good enough to create a Polaris icon, which I promptly filched as soon as I saw it on gurudata's LJ. *grin*

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Maybe it's just me, but if you're having a telephone conversation with someone, and you're cut off accidentally, and you haven't given the other person your name/number, wouldn't the correct thing to do be to call the person back immediately? I had a call around 4 from a recruiter, and we got two minutes into the conversation when the phone went dead. I was on my way out the door when the phone rang - I actually had my coat, toque, scarf and boots on, and could have just let the phone ring, but I didn't. In fact, I sat by the phone for another five minutes or so in case they called back, but they didn't. Nor did they try my cell phone. Argh.

I'm hoping that they didn't just decide that I was unqualified for the position (it was a PL/1 job, and I haven't actually programmed in PL/1 since August 1987) and hung up on me. Considering that I was in the middle of a sentence, that would have been extremely rude.

I checked the company's website, but they didn't have any PL/1 listings up, so I couldn't even get the person's name and number that way. And yes, I know I could have called *69 to get their number and call them back, but *69 doesn't seem to work too well when the call originated from an extension.

I had another call earlier from another recruiter, but he was leaving the office early today and so I missed him. In his message, he said that he was poking around my website and "wasted ten minutes" (his words) reading all about me. I wonder if he read anything here. I don't generally make a habit of friends-locking posts unless there's something ultra-personal that I don't want to share with the whole world, and that happens fairly seldom. (After all, according to aprilsnark I am the "Queen of TMI." ;) )