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You say that but if one looks at your example at face value then you would be surprised how often things like that do happen. I had one supplier threaten to can

by laumars 10y ago

You say that but if one looks at your example at face value then you would be surprised how often things like that do happen. I had one supplier threaten to cancel business relations with us if we didn't send through customer details (related to the product they were supplying) on an excel spreadsheet via email. It took quite some negotiation to agree a secure compromise. That's just the most recent example but I've had to deal with countless insane demands from suppliers like this over the course of my career. In several cases being borerline to saying "if you don't want our business then there's plenty of other suppliers that do". However by far the most annoying one I've had, and one that used to be common place 5 years ago in the UK, was recruitment agencies refusing to accept CVs in PDF form. They would accept a Microsoft Word document or RTF. Some even accepted plain text files. But a PDF was point blank refused even in tech-agencies. This used to be a real pain for myself, a Linux developer and administrator who didn't run Windows so couldnt guarantee what OpenOffice would spit out when exporting to .DOC. I ended up having to use a spare work machine and thankfully had a very forgiving boss.

gbuk2013 10y ago
It's been nearly 10 years since I've had to deal with recruiters but I remember asking about DOC requirement and basically it was because they edited my CV before passing it onto the client (particularly to cut out any personal information so that the client could not contact me directly). RTF was easy enough the generate though, so it wasn't a big deal for me.
tomjen3 10y ago
When they insist on a doc document it is because they want to edit it, which means they are about to screw you over.
- laumars 10y ago
  I guessed that much myself to be honest :). However it has always been trivially easy to copy and paste content from a PDF so their restriction didn't make much sense to me even with that point in mind. And with the added issue that every tech recruiter I approached enforcing the same policy, it made it impossible to shop around for recruitment agencies that would honour my CV. Thankfully I've not had the same issues when job hunting again recently. At least not thus far.

by laumars 10y ago

gbuk2013 10y ago

It's been nearly 10 years since I've had to deal with recruiters but I remember asking about DOC requirement and basically it was because they edited my CV before passing it onto the client (particularly to cut out any personal information so that the client could not contact me directly). RTF was easy enough the generate though, so it wasn't a big deal for me.

tomjen3 10y ago

When they insist on a doc document it is because they want to edit it, which means they are about to screw you over.

laumars 10y ago
I guessed that much myself to be honest :). However it has always been trivially easy to copy and paste content from a PDF so their restriction didn't make much sense to me even with that point in mind. And with the added issue that every tech recruiter I approached enforcing the same policy, it made it impossible to shop around for recruitment agencies that would honour my CV. Thankfully I've not had the same issues when job hunting again recently. At least not thus far.