Back To The Grind

Liar, liar pants on fire... never be overly liberal with the truth on your cv.

So long farewell, auf weidersehen adieu.... that's what we should be singing to the summer weather, as today its most definitely packed its bags and gone elsewhere. There isn't even a hint of summer in the air, its raining big style.

Which leaves me with no choice but to take the car to work rather than cycle. I mean, its one thing taking the bike to work and it rains after you arrive (there isn't much you can do if you just get caught in it) but it's a whole different kettle of fish if you make a conscious effort to cycle 3 miles in the rain. I'm afraid I didn't see any advantage in doing that and so drove into work instead.

It seems the new bod that we hired at work has resigned already (after an astonishing 5 day career with us) because he doesn't feel he's up to the job. I'll give him credit for admitting so rather than struggling and ultimately causing more work than he is able to complete, but perhaps he should look into modifying his CV a bit to be a more accurate portrayal of his abilities.

It's a common theme that really, I've seen so many front end web developers CV's which have turned out to be farsicle... I found that the only way to find out if you had a good developer on your hands was to issue a test, a standard design done in photoshop which they then had to turn in HTML under timed conditions. If they managed that (and their code didn't look obviously generated by a WYSIWYG editor) then they'd get an interview and a second test done at the office. It certainly weeded out the crap from the not so crap, and gave you a good idea of those who genuinely could code HTML with just notepad, which in a commercial environment is a must.

Population boom - 79,000 residents and growing in my Sim City (click for a bigger image)

Anyway, work went really quick as I had plenty to do, including rewriting a website we'd inherited from someone else who'd done a pretty piss poor job of it. So before I know it its past my clocking off time and I decide to head home. I'd already worked my lunch break as I need to leave early on Friday, but it was only after I'd done this I find out that in fact they'd like to work tomorrow instead of Friday to get this website completed. Which suits me just fine :)

Back home and Phil doesn't get home till late, so I occupy myself with some more Sim City and doing tea, though I do have to plate Phil's up for later when the poor sausage finally arrives through the door gone 7pm.

Posted by Abi on the June 15, 2005 9:55 PM