Well, it’s not been a good week and Wednesday was particularly bad! So I’ve been delayed with the Griffon work for a couple of days.
Interviews – who needs them ?
At the moment I’m rather, well very, short of money and I have been looking for work, so when I saw a posting on a UK website looking for a developer in, well let’s say, language A, and “experience in B an advantage” and they were developing a “C” package and I can tick all of those boxes, I sent off my CV, and I received an invitation to to an interview. Now, there was nothing in my CV to suggest that I had a great depth of experience in A nor B, just a couple of years, but I do know the C application very well; however it became apparent very quickly in the interview that they weren’t looking for someone like me and the person they wanted would have had much more experience than I have (and what it says in my CV) but, apparently, they wanted to see me because of the combination – “not many people with that in their CV”, I was “top of their list of fifty CVs, the first we’ve seen”. All very well, but really there was no way they would have employed me based on the type of person they said they were looking for. They did mention just how far I have travelled, more than once – and that’s what really irritated me, they did realise just how long the journey took and how inconvenient it was. And so for the apparent sake of “just having to meet me” they had me travel nearly 400 miles in really bad weather, wasting a day of my time (left at 9.30, back at 19.25), no apologies, no “compensation” just a couple of handshakes and a “thank you”… A right bunch of pillocks, is what comes to mind – well a lot stronger, actually. So I am very annoyed…
NetBeans and the Griffon plugin
I briefly mentioned this in the previous posting but I’d only heard that there was a new version that day and hadn’t had much opportunity to have a look at it. I’ll be getting back to it now, but so far it looks absolutely fine. I noticed that the plugin (the previous version, actually) did get a lot of use at JavaOne including in a few demos. Certainly I’ll be using it my work now.
