Another rant

[Mich the Tester]

Agent phones having recieved my CV for a testco role. CV shows >10 yrs experience in testing and test management plus ISEB Practitioner. 'Yes but do you have experience with User acceptance testing, System tests, Integration tests? Do you have experience with ISEB? Have you worked on Prince 2 projects?'

Erm, yes, that's the kind of thing Test Managers do for a living.

Agents, would you phone a carpenter and ask him whether he's ever used a fuqqing saw? Or when you book your car in for servicing do you ask whether the lead mechanic knows what a fuqqing spanner is?

Honestly, why do I have to spend my days talking to people with the intelligence of dangleberries?

[oracleslave]

Honestly, why do I have to spend my days talking to people with the intelligence of dangleberries?

Well I am a bit slow but am sure there some clever folk on cuk

[EternalOptimist]

Well I am a bit slow but am sure there some clever folk on cuk

Yep speak to SasGuru. He's the smartest bloke on here.

[Spacecadet]

Yep speak to SasGuru. He's the smartest bloke on here.

Knows statistics and everything

[Incognito]

Yep speak to SasGuru. He's the smartarse on here.

fixed that for you

[EternalOptimist]

fixed that for you

thats hardly fair Dave.
He was on here telling us about some book he read that was written by some bloke. It sounded brainy.

[oracleslave]

Yep speak to SasGuru. He's the smartest bloke on here.

We need to get Sas a figjam t-shirt for the cuk secret santa.

[BoredBloke]

Agent phones having recieved my CV for a testco role. CV shows >10 yrs experience in testing and test management plus ISEB Practitioner. 'Yes but do you have experience with User acceptance testing, System tests, Integration tests? Do you have experience with ISEB? Have you worked on Prince 2 projects?'

Erm, yes, that's the kind of thing Test Managers do for a living.

Agents, would you phone a carpenter and ask him whether he's ever used a fuqqing saw? Or when you book your car in for servicing do you ask whether the lead mechanic knows what a fuqqing spanner is?

Honestly, why do I have to spend my days talking to people with the intelligence of dangleberries?

Look at it another way. Imagine it's worls war 2 and these are the questions they ask you to ensure you are one of the good guys. You know like

'Name a good white basketball player'

'there are no good white basketball players'

top secret circa 198X

[TheFaQQer]

'Name a good white basketball player'

Woody Harelson in White Men Can't Jump

[NotAllThere]

.... 'Yes but do you have experience with User acceptance testing, System tests, Integration tests?...

Another encounter with an agent who hasn't the faintest clue, and cares less, what any of those terms actually mean.