I am back at work. Also, it's snowing. Neither of these is auspicious.

Sophia, the only thing I would say is that it's possible the process is not as obvious from the outside as it is to you on the inside. But I wouldn't have any compunction about tossing those folks based on the irritation factor, given that you seem to have enough choices from among those who did figure it out.

Brenda- I had that thought, but in order to get to the job board they have to pass through a page that says the following:

How to Find a Job

You must be registered as a full-time student to apply for a job.

Look at the on-line Job Board to review open positions.

Complete a student employment application and submit it to your potential employer via email.

Follow up with the employer. Contact department to verify they received your application. Ask if you can schedule an interview.

My experience has been that people treat pages like that like terms of service. If it were me, I'd send them a link to the application.

On the other hand, maybe it's efficient to sift out the people that don't read all the steps before you need to engage with them directly.

My experience has been that people treat pages like that like terms of service.

People do seem to Not Read Directions.

My sister is hiring a new staff member and she said that of the stack of resumes that they got, which was about five inches tall, they found four people she wanted to interview. Nearly everyone else didn't have the qualifications described, clearly, in the announcement. And this is not even a job that requires a college degree.

(Or, knowing my sister, had typos or misspellings in the cover letter or resume, which for her is generally sufficient to toss a resume: she's a hardass on spelling/grammar.)

I'm back at work, and it's dreary grey and foggy here. But hey, no further canine accidents last night! Although the Pony did wake up at 1 AM, moaning, and I had to persuade him to come sleep on the comfy dog bed in my room. This is going to be a lot of work...

Apparently het is becoming more popular in slash. I've just been informed.

Some days I wish I could avoid getting into these discussions. But apparently I'm not able.

Apparently het is becoming more popular in slash.

IN slash or THAN slash?

Good Lord. We all came in to work to an e-mail telling us one of our co-workers was having "open heart surgery" today and would be off for a month afterward.

Half the office is annoyed we were told through an e-mail, because they think it's impersonal. (My feeling is, if you go around and tell everyone in person, it's going to take forever. If you call a meeting to announce it, that's a bit overdramatic. I'm fine with the e-mail.)

The other half of the office is annoyed that the e-mail was ridiculously vague. There is no medical procedure actually named "open heart surgery." That's just a descriptor for many, many different heart surgeries, some of which are comparatively minor, and some of which are a big damn deal. "Open heart surgery" tells us nothing other than the fact that it's something heart-related. A little information is no one's friend. Don't do that to medical editors.

Turns out it's an aortic valve replacement and a single bypass of a completely blocked artery. So, fairly major. The surgery was expected to be about 9 hours. Dang.

IN slash or THAN slash?

In. It's someone explaining why slash fans would so like a Radcliffe/Watson sex tape. Because of all the slash in it.

And even "than" would be an argument I couldn't resist getting into.

Okay, I need to go to the police station. Apparently I can't amend the report over the phone.