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Dec

2008

Out of the Dark Ages, Part 1

"Oh, yeah, and... here's my card. Send me a fax". A fax? wait a second there... A fax? You mean, that old machine..where you insert the page (or fear, more than one), dial a number, wait for the call to go through (hopefully it's automatic so no one will answer, sparing you the pain of having to say: "I am trying to send a fax, could you please press the "OK" button or just hang the phone so I can dial the number again?"), then wait for the confirmation message to come in, then perhaps, just to be on the safe side, you call and ask: "did you receive my fax"?....Is that what you are talking about?

Oh, no, man, please...that is old, that is older than Rolling Stones and you can't pay me enough to do that; yes, it is a bold statement, and no, I am not sorry about that.
We're in 2008, get a god-damn email address and start living out of the dark ages, will ya?

And by the way, didn't the ad say "proficient in the use of blah blah blah software, internet and email?" well then....what happened to your email, dear?

Two Countries (that I know of; my apologies to those I forgot to mention) and its workers (mainly company men, CEO, presidents and all sort of internal parasites) still dwell in using the dear, old, beloved and useless Fax: Italy (shame on us, we're still grounded in the Roman Empire) and Canada (shame on them, big time, they're often portrayed as a modern country).

This happens everywhere, post offices, government offices, other public offices, but mostly, in the labour market.

Employers, they LOVE receiving your fax. So the ad often goes " ultra-super-duper-mega-expert of this and that"... and then..."please submit your resume by fax to"...By fax?

What a waste of time, money and paper. And you should be the "progressive company" offering a "progressive position" to a "modern, competitive candidate".
No, there ain't nothing modern about Fax. It's some 30 years old technology. Expensive, slow, not efficent, outdated, not reliable.

That's what it is.
Might as well send you an harald on a white horse, trumpet, fanfare ...please, please please.

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