Laugh OTD

[figmo]

This morning a recruiter called to ask me if I was available for a contract. I of course said "yes."

"Do you have Oracle database experience?"

"I think so." (I worked at Oracle for three years.)

"Do you know what 'SQL' [pronounced "see-quel") is?"

"Of course! Structured Query Language."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes."

"I ask because we sent two candidates to the client, and neither of them knew what it was. When the interviewer asked what 'SQL' stands for, the candidate asked, 'Can you spell that?'"

Comments

[ravan.livejournal.com]

That's like me having to teach and reteach finance executives how to do basic stuff in Excel. It's the major software tool of their main field, and yet I know how to use it more thoroughly than they do. The people I was retraining on a monthly basis made at least twice what I did.

I taught myself how to use Excel and Word, BTW, and used them extensively in my prior career doing data analysis and reporting on environmental test data.