And Tom Rettig was great guy. TRO was the best framework at the time!



>>I agree. I don't think anyone would want a job when they were not the preferred candidate and/or they were hired for any reason other than they were chosen as the desired candidate.
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>I have a story that's not about discrimination, but more along the lines of not being the initial "desired candidate" ... I was obviously second choice. Back in the late 90's when I was doing contract work, I interviewed for a FoxPro job (wasn't VFP, it was FoxPro 2.5 or 2.6 for Windows) with a company in Santa Rosa, CA. The interview went well, but I didn't get the job. Less than a month later, the guy who interviewed me called me back and asked if I still wanted the job. Well, duh! yeah, of course. It turns out that the guy they hired instead of me decided he couldn't handle the job because he didn't understand math. This was a manufacturing company and the FoxPro app was mainly a reporting app, but based a lot of it's data on mathematical models. The thing is, it was an app that had already been designed quite nicely (using Tom Rettig's TRO framework) and was already implemented ... they just needed someone to maintain it and to create new reports for them. There was never really any reason to need to understand the math ... the engineers would state what formulas they needed, so I don't know why the guy thought he needed to know math. However, since I had a degree in math, maybe I wasn't flustered by mathematical formulas, I don't know.
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>Anyway, it turned out being the best and longest-lasting contract job I ever had ... I worked for them for several years. They loved me and I really enjoyed working for them.
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>~~Bonnie