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  • G glennPattonWork3

    Probably missed it but the Shield that's an MVP, isn't it? Or have you been that all along?

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    I've been an MVP since 2011 ((Status page)[^] - but the sheild indicates Protector, it's a diamond for MVP. If you hover the mouse over the symbol it labels it. (And I've been a Protector for ... oooo ... couple of years, I think?) :laugh:

    Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

    "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
    "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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    • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

      Self employed? "Someone who employs himself"? :laugh:

      Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

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      Lost User
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      Perhaps something like a privateer :-)

      The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
      This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
      "I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.

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      • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

        I've been an MVP since 2011 ((Status page)[^] - but the sheild indicates Protector, it's a diamond for MVP. If you hover the mouse over the symbol it labels it. (And I've been a Protector for ... oooo ... couple of years, I think?) :laugh:

        Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

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        Slacker007
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        OriginalGriff wrote:

        I've been a Protector for ... oooo ... couple of years

        Griff, you're my hero. :-O

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        • L Lost User

          Perhaps something like a privateer :-)

          The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
          This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
          "I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.

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          Nagy Vilmos
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          We be pirates!

          veni bibi saltavi

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          • G glennPattonWork3

            Hi All, I was interested to know if anyone else has had a slightly strange Email from Total Jobs. It read like a recruiter was just trying to finish my details I have pasted it below.

            Quote:

            Dear Mr Glenn Patton, You have received this letter because you posted your CV on TotalJobs.com. Our company is searching and attracting the best employees for the most interesting positions in most popular industries. We've found a new job opportunity you may be interested in. After reviewing your resume, we can offer you a job corresponding to your qualification. The Employeer interested in your resume and would like to ask you a few questions. 1. Would you like to work at home through the Internet? 2. Do have free time now from 9 AM to 3 PM to work? 3. Your daily routine plan, for example: "7 AM I wake up, 9 AM I eat breakfast, 12 PM - I go to sleep" 4. Do you prefer to work part-time or full-time? Before you can change your life, you must first change your thinking. If you are interested in working at home and you answer these questions, the company will e-mail you detailed job offer description and you can get the job. King regards, Roger Damon Recruitment Coordinator VMC Recruitment via Totaljobs.com Job Request ID: 96751467

            also there was 'something' attached that my email client blocked. Odd right I tried to send it to Total Jobs and have heard nothing. I am getting paranoid. Cue Black Sabbath :~

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            glennPattonBackInThePUB wrote:

            I am getting paranoid. Cue Black Sabbath :~

            Well, the recruiter obviously needs help, and can't find their brain! :-D


            "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

            "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined" - Homer

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            • G glennPattonWork3

              Hi All, I was interested to know if anyone else has had a slightly strange Email from Total Jobs. It read like a recruiter was just trying to finish my details I have pasted it below.

              Quote:

              Dear Mr Glenn Patton, You have received this letter because you posted your CV on TotalJobs.com. Our company is searching and attracting the best employees for the most interesting positions in most popular industries. We've found a new job opportunity you may be interested in. After reviewing your resume, we can offer you a job corresponding to your qualification. The Employeer interested in your resume and would like to ask you a few questions. 1. Would you like to work at home through the Internet? 2. Do have free time now from 9 AM to 3 PM to work? 3. Your daily routine plan, for example: "7 AM I wake up, 9 AM I eat breakfast, 12 PM - I go to sleep" 4. Do you prefer to work part-time or full-time? Before you can change your life, you must first change your thinking. If you are interested in working at home and you answer these questions, the company will e-mail you detailed job offer description and you can get the job. King regards, Roger Damon Recruitment Coordinator VMC Recruitment via Totaljobs.com Job Request ID: 96751467

              also there was 'something' attached that my email client blocked. Odd right I tried to send it to Total Jobs and have heard nothing. I am getting paranoid. Cue Black Sabbath :~

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              Camilo Reyes
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              glennPattonBackInThePUB wrote:

              King regards,

              Well, I didn't know I was dealing with royalty

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              • C Camilo Reyes

                glennPattonBackInThePUB wrote:

                King regards,

                Well, I didn't know I was dealing with royalty

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                peterkmx
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                #15

                Oh I just wanted to ask : from which king ???

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                • N Nagy Vilmos

                  We be pirates!

                  veni bibi saltavi

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                  OriginalGriff
                  wrote on last edited by
                  #16

                  Speak for yersel, matey! Oi be a Corsair!

                  Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

                  "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
                  "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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                  • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                    Speak for yersel, matey! Oi be a Corsair!

                    Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

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                    Nagy Vilmos
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                    #17

                    OriginalGriff wrote:

                    Corsair

                    Not too good when it's :baaaa!:

                    veni bibi saltavi

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                    • S Slacker007

                      OriginalGriff wrote:

                      I've been a Protector for ... oooo ... couple of years

                      Griff, you're my hero. :-O

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                      OriginalGriff
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                      That's not a good sign - you're a bad guy, remember? :laugh:

                      Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

                      "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
                      "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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                      • P peterkmx

                        Oh I just wanted to ask : from which king ???

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                        OriginalGriff
                        wrote on last edited by
                        #19

                        King Roger, obviously.

                        Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

                        "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
                        "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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                        • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                          King Roger, obviously.

                          Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

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                          glennPattonWork3
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                          King Roger, so many obscene jokes :wtf:

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                          • C chriselst

                            Clearly spam. Dodgy attachment, crap English, odd questions, stupid empowering tagline. Delete it, then delete it again.

                            Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

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                            ttennebb
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                            Until the hammer goes "CLICK!"

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                            • G glennPattonWork3

                              Hi All, I was interested to know if anyone else has had a slightly strange Email from Total Jobs. It read like a recruiter was just trying to finish my details I have pasted it below.

                              Quote:

                              Dear Mr Glenn Patton, You have received this letter because you posted your CV on TotalJobs.com. Our company is searching and attracting the best employees for the most interesting positions in most popular industries. We've found a new job opportunity you may be interested in. After reviewing your resume, we can offer you a job corresponding to your qualification. The Employeer interested in your resume and would like to ask you a few questions. 1. Would you like to work at home through the Internet? 2. Do have free time now from 9 AM to 3 PM to work? 3. Your daily routine plan, for example: "7 AM I wake up, 9 AM I eat breakfast, 12 PM - I go to sleep" 4. Do you prefer to work part-time or full-time? Before you can change your life, you must first change your thinking. If you are interested in working at home and you answer these questions, the company will e-mail you detailed job offer description and you can get the job. King regards, Roger Damon Recruitment Coordinator VMC Recruitment via Totaljobs.com Job Request ID: 96751467

                              also there was 'something' attached that my email client blocked. Odd right I tried to send it to Total Jobs and have heard nothing. I am getting paranoid. Cue Black Sabbath :~

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                              Roger165
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                              I get a couple a week telling facebook, google, etc. has a job for me over 100K. I feel so lucky to have been picked from all the programmers in world.

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                              • G glennPattonWork3

                                Hi All, I was interested to know if anyone else has had a slightly strange Email from Total Jobs. It read like a recruiter was just trying to finish my details I have pasted it below.

                                Quote:

                                Dear Mr Glenn Patton, You have received this letter because you posted your CV on TotalJobs.com. Our company is searching and attracting the best employees for the most interesting positions in most popular industries. We've found a new job opportunity you may be interested in. After reviewing your resume, we can offer you a job corresponding to your qualification. The Employeer interested in your resume and would like to ask you a few questions. 1. Would you like to work at home through the Internet? 2. Do have free time now from 9 AM to 3 PM to work? 3. Your daily routine plan, for example: "7 AM I wake up, 9 AM I eat breakfast, 12 PM - I go to sleep" 4. Do you prefer to work part-time or full-time? Before you can change your life, you must first change your thinking. If you are interested in working at home and you answer these questions, the company will e-mail you detailed job offer description and you can get the job. King regards, Roger Damon Recruitment Coordinator VMC Recruitment via Totaljobs.com Job Request ID: 96751467

                                also there was 'something' attached that my email client blocked. Odd right I tried to send it to Total Jobs and have heard nothing. I am getting paranoid. Cue Black Sabbath :~

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                                SeattleC
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                                I once made the mistake of posting my resume on, um, glassdoor I think it was. All of a sudden I got an absolute flood of weird spam job offers. A bunch were to sell insurance. Some were MLM type scams. A few were "package forwarding" jobs. These are jobs where you agree to receive packages and then forward them to a third party. The job sounds very official with a job description and meaningless little category codes and such. I think what happens is you pay your own money to re-post packages that will turn out to have been purchased with bogus credit cards. Depending on the scam they either pay you with a "cashier's check" that turns out to be bogus (but you don't find this out for two weeks), or they simply promise to pay you bi-weekly and then don't. When the police come knocking, there you are holding a big empty bag, and the destination you mailed to was a Mailboxes Etc. Posting your resume someplace means you're looking for work, and thus possibly desparate and susceptable to such a scheme. Did the ad mention software at any time, or was it a little vague and general?

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                                  I once made the mistake of posting my resume on, um, glassdoor I think it was. All of a sudden I got an absolute flood of weird spam job offers. A bunch were to sell insurance. Some were MLM type scams. A few were "package forwarding" jobs. These are jobs where you agree to receive packages and then forward them to a third party. The job sounds very official with a job description and meaningless little category codes and such. I think what happens is you pay your own money to re-post packages that will turn out to have been purchased with bogus credit cards. Depending on the scam they either pay you with a "cashier's check" that turns out to be bogus (but you don't find this out for two weeks), or they simply promise to pay you bi-weekly and then don't. When the police come knocking, there you are holding a big empty bag, and the destination you mailed to was a Mailboxes Etc. Posting your resume someplace means you're looking for work, and thus possibly desparate and susceptable to such a scheme. Did the ad mention software at any time, or was it a little vague and general?

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                                  glennPattonWork3
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                                  As far as I can tell I didn't apply for anything, I just registered on the Total Jobs site...:confused:

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                                  • G glennPattonWork3

                                    Hi All, I was interested to know if anyone else has had a slightly strange Email from Total Jobs. It read like a recruiter was just trying to finish my details I have pasted it below.

                                    Quote:

                                    Dear Mr Glenn Patton, You have received this letter because you posted your CV on TotalJobs.com. Our company is searching and attracting the best employees for the most interesting positions in most popular industries. We've found a new job opportunity you may be interested in. After reviewing your resume, we can offer you a job corresponding to your qualification. The Employeer interested in your resume and would like to ask you a few questions. 1. Would you like to work at home through the Internet? 2. Do have free time now from 9 AM to 3 PM to work? 3. Your daily routine plan, for example: "7 AM I wake up, 9 AM I eat breakfast, 12 PM - I go to sleep" 4. Do you prefer to work part-time or full-time? Before you can change your life, you must first change your thinking. If you are interested in working at home and you answer these questions, the company will e-mail you detailed job offer description and you can get the job. King regards, Roger Damon Recruitment Coordinator VMC Recruitment via Totaljobs.com Job Request ID: 96751467

                                    also there was 'something' attached that my email client blocked. Odd right I tried to send it to Total Jobs and have heard nothing. I am getting paranoid. Cue Black Sabbath :~

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                                    jsc42
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                                    I had this a few weeks ago. I, too, sent it to TotalJobs and got no response. I've just checked - I no longer have any copies as I had deleted it as phishing.

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                                    • J jsc42

                                      I had this a few weeks ago. I, too, sent it to TotalJobs and got no response. I've just checked - I no longer have any copies as I had deleted it as phishing.

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                                      glennPattonWork3
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                                      Yup! my copy too. Nice to know It wasn't just me!! :)

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