I'm wondering if this is standard industry practice, and how productive it is:

I took a call yesterday where someone said, basically: "Bear with me, ita [lastname] of [The Company You Work For}. I got your name and I'm wondering if you're the right person to talk to. I represent a very sharp .NET developer with excellent C# skills and....are you interested in hiring him?"

I blanked out a bit and said "No, I'm not the right person."

"Well, could you tell me who is?"

"No."

"Can you tell me if these are the right skills for your organisation?"

"No."

"Well..."

And then I hung up on her without feeling much guilt, because that's an incredibly pushy cold call, and totally wrongly targeted.

For you guys in IT--is this normal? Has anyone ever done this to or for you? Has it worked? Do you think it would? Is it worth it?

I was just nothing but pissed, but maybe if I were hiring it would be useful? I can't even tell.

I worked too hard this morning. I've sent out more emails today than I have maybe in a slow week. And some of them were the same email more than once, to my management, and then I sent someone to go find them (they're at the office in the midwest) and ask them to read it and come back and tell me the answer. I'll close your freaking loop.

HER NAME IS NOT EVEN AMERICAN!!!!

HER NAME IS NOT EVEN AMERICAN!!!!

This is what I'm saying. Have some sense, people!

It's all very scandalous, really.

But Steve King was convinced three weeks ago that what happens in America is that men kidnap teenage girls, rape them, make them pregnant, and then make them get abortions.

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Dude needs to pick a story.

Or, you know, shut up.

Here's a recipe that may be of interest to some people here: Gluten-free Vegan Chocolate Zucchini Bread.

Really interesting piece on "Psychiatry's Legitimacy Crisis" - which gives an excellent historical overview of the problems in psychiatric diagnosis, specious claims to science, amorphous culturally derived standards and the politics (and economics) of the DSM.

The real world effect of the new DSM coming out in 2013 will certainly affect things like education funding and insurance coverage for children diagnosed as being on the autistic spectrum.

Here's a recipe that may be of interest to some people here:

Are you trying to taunt me with an empty link while I'm hungry?!

Sorry -- I fucked up the quote marks, and can't fix it. ita!! Can you help me? I'm sorry I don't know anything about IT recruiting.

OMG, you broke the board. NATTER IS BROKEN.