Re: It will be a landslide for Bush
From: Steve D. Perkins (dontwritesteve_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/22/04
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Date: 22 Jul 2004 16:52:35 GMT
"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
<lanwench@heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com> wrote in
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> Why are you posting this to Windows newsgroups?
I agree that crossposted flamebait is pretty bush-league as far as
troll tactics go, but since the Microsoft guys are wandering in... ehh,
what the hell. WHAT IS WITH MICROSOFT GUYS AND THEIR ABBREVIATIONS?!?
Everytime I see one of them posting on a Usenet group or web-based board
anywhere, they ALWAYS a signature at the bottom like like "John Doe -
[MCSE/MSCD/MCDBA/MCT/MCNUGGET/MCFISH/MCHAPPYMEAL/etc]".
Guys... putting all that on your RESUME is one thing. However, in
GENERAL CONVERSATION it's only appropriate to associate titles in your
name if you have a Ph.D. or medical doctarate degrees (or are perhaps a
British knight). Even MBA's have the sense to realize they would look
like crass idiots inserting that abbreviation into normal emails.
I remember back when I was in college as a CS major, before I
decided on what type of work I wanted to do or what platform I wanted to
do it on. Over the course of my 3rd year in school, I set out get the
full MCSE (a certification for Microsoft system/network administrators).
At the time I had only used Windows 95 and 98, I had NEVER SEEN WINDOWS
NT IN MY LIFE... but I passed the NT test easily after reading an
"ExamCram" book and visiting some "braindump" websites STARTING ONLY ONE
WEEK BEFORE I WENT TO TAKE THE TEST.
These certs aren't college degrees, they aren't anything that really
PROVES experience or expertise with anything. All they mean is that you
cram well for standarized tests, and that you're dumb enough to keep
forking over $150 per test for certifications that "expire" every year or
two and have to be retaken. It seems like employers have started
figuring this out as well over the past few years and lost faith/interest
in them... I list my Java and IBM certifications on my resume, but they
seldom come up in interviews and it's been almost 4 years since the last
time a recruiter wanted to verify that I wasn't lying about them.
It's really JUST the Microsoft guys who go ga-ga over their
abbreviations, too. I've never seen anybody with Java or IBM
certifications worked into email and Usenet posting signatures. What's
up with you guys?
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