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Re: Indian Headhunters - WTF ???!!!

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 15:55:07 -0700
Message-ID: <1150757711.179952@bubbleator.drizzle.com>


joel garry wrote:
> DA Morgan wrote:

>> meathammer wrote:
>>> (this is regarding US market)
>>>
>>> Ok, just WTF is going on ??????? somebody pls tell me !
>>>
>>> Where do all of these Indian headhunters come from all of a sudden ?
>>>
>>> I started looking recently after < 3 years and like 95% of the contacts
>>> I been getting via Monster are from Indians and most of them I spoke
>>> with have that heavy accent, and many of them just plain can not talk.
>>>
>>> It's so drastically different from my past experience it seems rather
>>> weird.
>> And this relates to Oracle how?

>
> One can assume from the group posted it relates to Oracle, finding a
> job, discussion.
>
>> And why is the national, cultural, ethnic, or other background of the
>> headhunter an issue?

>
> If all of a sudden the process of finding a job becomes more difficult
> due to a large proportion of bogus usage of Monster by people with
> certain backgrounds, that is a legitimate issue. It is especially
> relevant if a small number of idiots make the largest proportion of
> responses, unfairly making all members of a group look bad, wouldn't
> you agree? Personally, I would like to figure out a way to educate
> these idiots and improve the process, and I don't mean that
> sarcastically. Somewhat like in a newsgroup, there is a lot of
> monkey-see, monkey-do among these folk, and simply ignoring such a
> dynamic does not extinguish it.
>
> jg
> --
> @home.com is bogus.
> "You taught us how to do it."
> http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060617/news_1b17ethics.html

I am fully appreciative of the points you raise but I notice that you did so without the ethnic connotation which was what I objected to.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace x with u to respond)
Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
www.psoug.org
Received on Mon Jun 19 2006 - 17:55:07 CDT

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