What the fuck, this job application wants shit like our previous employer's specific address, phone number, and /supervisor's name?/

We don't know that crap!! And might not even provide it if we did!

Oh fuck off!!!!

If you're gonna be like THAT, we might as well just not apply.

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@frost yeah. These things are tailored at people who have all that information easily at their fingertips - and walking away rather than digging for everything buys you more time to look for other jobs. If they don't require it, great!

@Leucrotta What's extra annoying is they pulled all this shit at the END, basically a paper form in HTML format /after/ making us fill out a more conventional process that didn't have all this nonsense.

@frost Aggravating stuff it'd be useful to tuck in your head about job hunting, so you get less frustrated when you run into it;

1) there will be online applications which promptly make you re-enter EVERY BIT OF INFORMATION you already put on your resume

2) as you've discovered, there are online applications which will require information there's really no way to necessarily remember

3) occasionally things will be legit BROKEN, and you won't be able to get your stuff to go through.

@Leucrotta also, everyone says to shoot high, but applying to stuff with "X years of experience in Foo required" feels like a good way to get instantly tossed in the bin – is it worth applying to those anyway?

@frost Touchy feely. Remember the people who come up with the job listings can be hiring managers (so they really just want to get back to their actual job) or HR people (who don't have the technical expertise). So "X years of experience in Foo" might reflect that, or be an attempt to weed out folks whose experience is reading Foo For Dummies and will go "this is more than I can do."

I'd say apply for SOME of them, not all, especially if there's other stuff which you know you can do.

@Leucrotta I bet we should apply to IT type stuff, moreso than accounting and whatnot. Because we do have extensive experience with Mac and Linux (...not so much with Windows which will probably handicap us a bit, considering how ubiquitous it is).

@Leucrotta With all the jokes we've been seeing about "little do new software devs know they'll just be setting button corners forever" and stuff... I bet we could handle a programming job too!

It'd be full time of course, as would IT.

I dunno.

@frost I think you should. I bet people would really like you for various desktop support positions.

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