Back to the bit mines

Electric Cloud has an open-plan office, and my desk is right next to the CTO. He finds it amusing to hear me talk to headhunters when they call:

Recruiter: “I understand you have a background in Windows API work.”
Me: “I also have a background in wanting to messily slaughter the entire Windows kernel team for creating really bad APIs.”

I find that most headhunters tend to just ignore the outrageous statements rather than attempting to parse them for content. Last week I got a recruiting attempt to work at Microsoft, and sent my usual explanation of why their management practices create an environment in which I wouldn’t wish to work, and the response was a complete non sequitur: that they were working from an out-of-date résumé.

Microsoft Windows Hatred Status

DISDAIN

Windows-related tasks are under control.

Not quite Machiavelli’s “The Little Prince”...

The artist Claudia Hart has created A Child’s Machiavelli: a Primer on Power. It’s out of print, but you can download the PDF.

Now I just need someone to write James and the Giant Clockwork Orange.