# Wanna know why you can't get a job, moron? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 24, 2006, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-know-why-you-cant-get-a-job-moron/349747 "2006-03-24T18:14:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-know-why-you-cant-get-a-job-moron/349747/101 "2006-04-01T06:08:24Z")
> [@iamthewalrus(:3=](#): > > .pdfs are not guaranteed to preserve formatting. Cite? ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-know-why-you-cant-get-a-job-moron/349747/102 "2006-04-01T09:43:46Z")
> [@InvisibleWombat](#): > > I’m not deaf, and my captioning (or subtitling, depending on what I’m watching) is on all the time. The sound is on all the time, too. Why wouldn’t it be? You don’t have to turn off the sound to turn on the captions, you know. > > :rolleyes: Overgeneralize much? Seriously. What the fuck are you so bitter about? If you need subtitles for a show, have at it. If you enjoy watching a seperate show than what is presented in the closed captioning, more power to you. Your dig on **ivylass** is chickenshit, and proof that you just want to argue with anyone about anything. CC text is woefully inadequate. Any argument about that is bullshit and you should aspire to type the text to prove all of us wrong. :rolleyes: Shove those eyeballs up your ass. In case you’re reading this in CC: asdlgkhao[sidgh ao ---
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-know-why-you-cant-get-a-job-moron/349747/103 "2006-04-01T10:12:08Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > For a professional application, the e-mail address should be first.lastname@\>\>\>.com or something very similar- it’s not clever and catchy as “Luck-be-a-Larry2night” or some leet translation of Homer, but it’s easy to remember and doesn’t make you come across as somebody too stupid or too non-chalant to care about how s/he presents him/herself. Which is exactly why as soon as I got my first gmail invitation, I tried registering [firstname.lastname@gmail.com](mailto:firstname.lastname@gmail.com). Unfortunately, as I have a very common last name, it was taken. I did get [firstname.middleinitial.lastname@gmail.com](mailto:firstname.middleinitial.lastname@gmail.com). At five letters-dot-one letter-dot-five letters, for only thirteen characters total (not counting “@gmail.com”), it isn’t too unweildy, though folks with longer names might not be so lucky. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-know-why-you-cant-get-a-job-moron/349747/104 "2006-04-01T13:21:15Z")
> [@psychonaut](#): > > Cite? I have nothing official to cite, but we used to convert legal docs from Word to .pdf files when we e-mailed them as an attachment. Every now and then, just often enough to make us crazy, the .pdf conversion would throw off the formatting just enough so that the pagination would change. Signature blocks would end up split across two pages, etc. Nowadays, we use a scanner to “convert” a document to a .pdf file, and this issue is a thing of the past. ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-know-why-you-cant-get-a-job-moron/349747/105 "2006-04-01T14:09:30Z")
> [@teela brown](#): > > I have nothing official to cite, but we used to convert legal docs from Word to .pdf files when we e-mailed them as an attachment. Every now and then, just often enough to make us crazy, the .pdf conversion would throw off the formatting just enough so that the pagination would change. Signature blocks would end up split across two pages, etc. Nowadays, we use a scanner to “convert” a document to a .pdf file, and this issue is a thing of the past. This is Microsoft Word’s problem, or possibly that of whatever program you used to convert from Word to PDF, not an inherent flaw in the PDF format. Once the PDF has been produced, it is a “definitive” version that will print out the same anywhere (provided you use the same paper size). ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-know-why-you-cant-get-a-job-moron/349747/106 "2006-04-01T16:08:59Z")
> [@duffer](#): > > Seriously. What the fuck are you so bitter about? (snip) Your dig on **ivylass** is chickenshit (snip) Any argument about that is bullshit (snip) Shove those eyeballs up your ass. You think _I’m_ looking for an argument? What set you off? The purpose of the SDMB is to fight ignorance. When _ivylass_ used the word wrong, I told her what the right word was. I explained how CC works, which is much more informative than your ignorant out-of-control ranting. Closed captioning was created to allow deaf people to benefit from television. It does that. I also know it has problems, which I’m happy to point out. You, however, see only the problems, not the benefits, and you seem anxious to attack anyone who knows anything about CC for no reason whatsoever. Perhaps you should listen to some soothing non-captioned music and calm down before your next post. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-know-why-you-cant-get-a-job-moron/349747.md?page=5)