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Totally agree, this bullshit makes me want to scream. People do the same thing with emails. Have a Hotmail account? People assume you're a Luddite even though,
by nxc18 8y ago
Totally agree, this bullshit makes me want to scream. People do the same thing with emails. Have a Hotmail account? People assume you're a Luddite even though, in 2018, Hotmail is basically office 365 Outlook, which is actually just as good, if not much better than Gmail.
A lot of 2004 attitudes persist long after they have any relevance or predictive power.
- danieltillett 8y agoWhile I don't disagree that most of HR is cargo cult bullshit, the hotmail signal is real. Having worked in customer support hotmail users really are as dumb as a box of hammers [0]. 0. The usual exceptions for anything human.
- asdfman123 8y agoTo avoid this I just use my @aol.com address when applying for technical positions.
- user5994461 8y agoIf I may ask. Is AOL an internet provider in the US? Is it still alive and common? I only remember it as the chat application before hotmail and MSN messenger. It's even more ancient and abandoned. Not a good signal.
- asdfman123 8y agoI'm being sarcastic. The joke is that it would be the worst possible signal to send out. AOL was an internet provider that mostly died out in the mid-2000s. Back then, "true nerds" scoffed at it -- it was for grandmas and total noobs. So if you got an AOL email address (which you still can actually do, turns out), it not only is a relic of ancient technology, but it's a signal that you're a technology noob in like the 90s. I just am amused at the idea of sending a resume to a trendy tech company with an AOL email address. They'd either laugh or flip out.
- tln 8y agoA keystroke saved is a keystroke earned! And passwords as your username? Genius ;)