EOW-Job Offer!

Imagine my surprise when I got this email late last week. It starts off with:

My name is Akash and I'm a recruiter at Axelon Services, our records show that you are a professional with experience in Assembler III. I have an opening for a contract position with one of our clients in Colorado Springs, CO that may be a fit for you.

Wowza! Experience with an assembler? It’s been years since I even wrote any code in assembly language, I’d even say a good couple of decades. In fact it was when everything was being written for 32-bit and I needed to write some Delphi functions in assembly language that needed the extra speed. Coding for 64-bit? I’d be a bit lost. Mind you, ditto for 32-bit these days! Thinking about it, it’s been a long while since I put anything referring to “Assembly language” in my résumé. I wonder how old their “records” are.

It continues:

Job description:
Assembler III
Colorado Springs, CO
6 Months
Pay rate: $20/hr.
2nd Shift 2:00 pm to 10:30 pm if overtime is required, end time would be 12:30 am.

A somewhat cheap pay I must say, and coding afternoons and evenings? Bleugh. And then…

Will be using standard size forklifts, no experience needed
Perform repetitive mechanical assembly involving sensitive or precise dexterous movements to maintain pace and quality of assembly work.

Ah ha! It’s not programming, it’s assembling stuff in a physical sense. Stuff that will need use of a forklift, no less!

I think I’ll pass.

Playing: Yello – Oh Yeah. A fun song from nearly 40 years ago, one that was featured in the movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.

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